Offseason #1

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Use this post for any exchanges running from January onwards into the first quarter of the year. Try to keep final Yuletide thoughts in the last coal post of 2019 for ease of conversation.

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Re: Chocolate Box - Letter Discussion

[(Anonymous)]

Thoughts? Early favorites? Early annoyances?

Re: Chocolate Box - Letter Discussion

[(Anonymous)]

Early annoyances: everyone who's requesting my fandom but not my ships.

Re: Chocolate Box - Letter Discussion

[(Anonymous)]

Worse annoyances: people who are requesting my ships wrong, who I can't game away from because then I can't offer my ships.

Re: Chocolate Box - Letter Discussion

[(Anonymous)]

No requests for fanart in any of my fandoms so far. :(

Re: Chocolate Box - Letter Discussion

[(Anonymous)]

I'll be requesting fanart! I just won't get to my signup until the weekend.

Re: Chocolate Box - Letter Discussion

[(Anonymous)]

I'm working on my signup!

Re: Chocolate Box - Letter Discussion

[(Anonymous)]

Chances of my random crossover ship getting attention if I don't write a letter?

Re: Chocolate Box - Letter Discussion

[(Anonymous)]

Very low, unless someone is specifically keeping an eye on that crossover ship.

To be fair, your chances are probably still low with a letter.

Re: Chocolate Box - Letter Discussion

[(Anonymous)]

0. Write a letter.

Re: Chocolate Box - Letter Discussion

[(Anonymous)]

Low. I’ve gotten into and written crossover ships based on great letters that give a good sales pitch for why they would be good together, and leave a bunch of prompts to give me ideas. But without that, I’m going to skim past it.

With crossovers, there are too many unknowns for me to feel confident that I will write something you like unless you tell me in detail how you like it.

Re: Chocolate Box - Letter Discussion

[(Anonymous)]

If you include some intriguing prompts in your signup, I could see you still getting treats, esp. if there's an app this round.

Without prompts, I think it's unlikely.

Re: Chocolate Box - Letter Discussion

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not writing a letter for my wacky crossover ship, but I'm 99% likely to be an initial PH, so I figure that will give the ship enough exposure.

Re: Chocolate Box - Letter Discussion

[(Anonymous)]

Only one person has signed up for the adorable new pairing I'm excited about ... and they only want heavy angst and mandatory unhappy endings. I'm probably going to have to drop the offer. I can't even think of a suitable scenario for the characters that I could pull off without it smacking of obvious parody.

Re: Chocolate Box - Letter Discussion

[(Anonymous)]

Two different people are requesting my cracky crossover pairing!

Re: Chocolate Box - Letter Discussion

[(Anonymous)]

corpsebrigadier's letter is terrific. Sadly we don't share any fandoms and I don't think I could do their original prompts justice.

Re: Chocolate Box - Letter Discussion

[(Anonymous)]

+1

Our fannish ids seem to be identical so I’m really wishing I could drag them into some of my fandoms, though!

Re: Chocolate Box - Letter Discussion

[(Anonymous)]

I'm madly in love with that second original prompt, but I don't think I could do it justice either.

Re: Chocolate Box - Letter Discussion

[(Anonymous)]

I don't see anyone by that name either signed up or on the app.

Re: Chocolate Box - Letter Discussion

[(Anonymous)]

Corpsebrigadier, you might want to clarify your DNWs. You want ghost-possession sex where women are being controlled by male ghosts but DNW dubcon/noncon where a woman is the victim. Like, cool prompt bro but that's a conflict I would not risk dealing with as it stands.

Re: Chocolate Box - Letter Discussion

[(Anonymous)]

Was excited to look at the Prodigal Son requests, but it turns out that three of the four current requests primarily want incest. Which is very much not my jam. And the remaining one doesn't inspire me at all.

Hopefully more will come, but atm I might have to rethink offering it.

Re: Chocolate Box - Letter Discussion

[(Anonymous)]

Lunarium annoys me personally because their "give me all the trans fic!!!!!" Voltron requests mean that I can never offer those ships in any exchange they participate, and they sign up to basically everything.

Yes, they can request that and I'm not stopping them.

Yes, it annoys me and I'm complaining on coal about it.

Re: Chocolate Box - Letter Discussion

[(Anonymous)]

Letter or signup? For each fandom I have about 300-400 words of prompts alone, which makes for about three paragraphs and then a DNW list. Too long or fine since it's all open?

Re: Chocolate Box - Letter Discussion

[(Anonymous)]

Not a letter but a sign-up:

"No preferences, except for [ship that wasn't nominated]. If you need more info, come ask me on Tumblr!"

...well, no, that's not how that works.

Re: Chocolate Box - Letter Discussion

[(Anonymous)]

I wanted to get my letter done before sign ups close for once, but I have no ideas for prompts for the thing I want the most :(

Oh well, a barebones letter is better than no letter? Maybe?

Re: Chocolate Box - Letter Discussion

[(Anonymous)]

I’m glad someone else claimed DownToTheSea from the PH list. I like several of their fandoms, but “DNW anything but agender asexual characters, preferably sex-repulsed” is an instant no for me. It’s not even like I would have written anything to contradict that, especially since they don’t want smut. The rest of their letter is kind of A Lot too. I can see why their writer defaulted.