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 3T1L

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1) I recognize the URL but don't remember why. Woohoo, gorgeous jump links! Straightforward DNWs too. Their ship specific prompts are extensive and truly awesome and I am a fan of their general likes as well. The art likes are pretty good.

Would be very happy to be assigned this person and would be considering them for a treat if we shared any ships/fandoms that I especially liked.

2) The general likes seem kinda random. I enjoy that they talk at length about why they like each ship they requested. However, I'm not sure I would find the structure of their ship-specific "Likes" too terribly helpful as prompts. It's helpful for how they might want the ships to be characterized, but doesn't seem to be the sort of thing that would give me new ideas for a story.

I really like their HP request but their DNW gets too far into sharing their personal opinions and is confusing to me as someone who hasn't watched Fantastic Beasts. If I were someone who had watched and liked Fantastic Beasts I imagine I would be very put off by those DNWs.

Would be okay with being assigned this person, probably wouldn't treat unless we shared a rare ship. Would likely ODAO in either scenario.

3) Very nice structure, easy to read, short enough to be manageable but long enough to give me a nice fleshed out idea of what this person likes. Their DNWs are very straightforward. I love the structure of their fandom intros and prompts (maybe I'm biased because it's similar to how I did my letter, but w/e). I appreciate the objectively phrased prompt-specific DNWs. The OW requests are fun.

Would be very happy to be assigned this person, and would treat!

4) I love their likes list, it would be inspirational to me on its own.

They give too many opinions on their DNWs and WOW there are a lot of them (I hadn't scrolled down all the way). I would never write hurt/comfort or anything remotely related to it for this person because there are just too many minefields there in the DNWs. The 'Established noncanon "out"-ness' DNW and the explanation is just confusing and would make me wonder how the fuck they want me to write any noncanon m/m or f/f relationship they might request... do I need to put in a coming-out scene? Do they not want to see m/m or f/f background relationships? I would stress over that a lot. Besides giving a lot of unnecessary opinions on their DNWs a lot of the opinions are pretty derisively phrased. I don't care if someone DNWs something I typically like; I will be turned off if they follow that DNW with a really derisive explanation (particularly for this one... I kink on characters crying, their mean little tagline for the "sobbing breakdowns" DNW is kinda irritating). They just seem like a demanding jerk from the way they phrase their DNWs.

Their prompts and formatting are super cool but the DNWs would have already turned me off. Would write 300 words of nothing for this person if I were assigned, and would not treat.