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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: Venting

[(Anonymous)]

SC

To clarify point 1 a little more, because I feel like the way I conflated prompts and rarepairs might be confusing. The point I'm making is:

1. Prompts: If you have a watersports necrophilia prompt alongside five other less niche prompts, it's cool to just keep asking for that forever.

2. Small ships: If one of your three requests is always the tiniest rarepair of your heart that no one ever fills, but your other requests are big enough that a fair amount of the time you match or get picked up quickly when you're a PH -- again, totally fine, no need to worry at all about just requesting the rarepair from now until forever. Lots of people do this.

For instance, my request often look like: MCU, Star Wars, tiny fandom of my heart. Most of the time my gifts are MCU or Star Wars, but recently I've gotten several for the tiny fandom, which just goes to show sticking it out and asking again and again is worth it!

Re: Venting

[(Anonymous)]

DC +1 to your last two paragraphs. That's been my method (with more medium-size fandoms than MCU and Star Wars).

I know I could "guarantee" a gift for one of my rarest fandoms by just asking for them, but I personally am not comfortable with that method. I'm out there promoting the rare fandom(s) and trying to write great prompts to bring people in, but if nobody's into it, I've got other fandoms I also love that people can create for instead. When people do write my super-rare fandoms (and they do!), I know it's because they're genuinely into them.

Re: Venting

[(Anonymous)]

CYRT

with more medium-size fandoms than MCU and Star Wars
Yes! I should probably clarify to OP that this is obviously fine, too -- MCU and Star Wars are literally just the other fandoms I happen to be in (apparently my tastes run megapopular or tiny, lol). You don't need any megafandoms if you aren't into them.

Re: Venting

[(Anonymous)]

DA

I know I could "guarantee" a gift for one of my rarest fandoms by just asking for them, but I personally am not comfortable with that method.

I always do that, because I know I would be disappointed with a gift in my bigger fandoms. I tried it a couple of times, and I realized the method wasn't working for me because I was so much more critical of those gifts than gifts in my rarest fandoms. I'd rather be a frequent IPH and receive gifts that make me happy than to mentally be "oh wow, this is so much worse than the average fandom output" about my large fandom gifts.

Re: Venting

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you so much! This helps me to separate out the circumstances. I have rare ships in medium-to-large fandoms and can shift some of the focus of my prompts around for those from event to event. My first exchange did freeform matching, but since I didn’t have any history going in it wouldn’t surprise me if some authors who might like to write (unfilled thing) wouldn’t risk their niche thing efforts on an unknown quantity re: feedback or recip behavior.