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I only managed to write one story this year -- a combination of RL crap and my assignment running away with me and becoming pretty long. But it also happens to be the type of fic that's very different from my usual output on my main account, so I decided to switch it over to my sock.

However, when reveals come, it'll look as if I wrote nothing. And I received several fantastic treats this year, which means I'm now paranoid that the kind people who wrote for me will look at my profile and feel... I don't know, cheated? Like they wasted their time writing for someone who didn't deserve it? I mean, I personally don't feel that way about people who have to default at all, so on some level I realize how silly this is, but alas.

So is this something you do, coalies? Do you check to see what your recips wrote? And if it seems like they contributed nothing, do you get mad and add them to some imaginary never-treat-again list? Tell me I'm being stupid, please!

I do look to see what people wrote, more out of curiosity and in case we share other fandoms. Not to condemn them for defaulting or whatever! Things happen!

I am not really a fan of people swapping stories over to other accounts but I wouldn't add someone to a never-treat list for doing so. That said I suppose I might look next year if I was considering treating two people, and be more tempted to treat someone who got no treats and wrote something than someone who got four treats and didn't write anything. That'd be a fairly unlikely situation though.

Tldr: prob not worth worrying about.

Wouldn’t look; wouldn’t care if I did happen to notice.

The only way you look like an asshole is if you got 20 treats, didn’t comment on them, and didn’t write anything yourself. And even then I’d assume you were dead/ill and not an asshole tbh.

It wouldn't occur to me to check, unless I'd chosen to offer/treat them because I enjoy their writing.

You are, in fact, coming down with a classic case of coal-neuroticism. I prescribe smoking a joint and re-reading a tropey fandom classic.

I sometimes check what my recips wrote, especially if I'm writing for someone whose fic I've read before, just to find out what they might have posted this year.

But if I don't see anything there for this year's collection, there's multiple reasons why that could be the case. And none of those reasons would bother me, including having moved fic to a sock. Defaulting happens! I have a sock myself! As long as you commented on your gifts (or at least the ones that didn't brush up against a DNW/weren't unreadable crap), you're golden, as far as I'm concerned.

So, yeah, you're being stupid! And I mean that in a nice way. :D Don't worry, coalie, you're great, and I'm sure your treat writers are glad to have written for you! ♥

CYRT

Aaaaahhh, thank you, that was exactly what I needed to hear! Thank you to the above coalies as well, your replies were really reassuring ♥

I hope everyone had a great Yuletide, and happy new year to you all! :D

Going to have to do something similar just because I absolutely hated the fic that I wrote, so seeing all of this is a relief, thank you.

I'm probably going to transfer the second story my sock wrote to my main account before reveal (already did the assigned one). There are a handful of stories on it from another year that I didn't want on my main account, but this one, even though it's pretty filthy, is one I'm fine with claiming. Basically, I don't give a fuck what anybody thinks anymore. I'm not likely to sign up with my sock again anytime soon, so it wouldn't matter anyway. And she leaves excellent comments, which is more likely to be what people check for than anything else.

*shrug*

If I checked on a recip and saw they hadn't written anything, my first assumption would be that they defaulted, and I wouldn't find that shameful or anything -- sometimes life or a really unworkable assignment happens. I definitely wouldn't consider them "unworthy" of being written for, if they generally gave prompts I wanted to write!

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