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This is Yuletide, everybody make a scene

I am the sock with the tear-away face

Low-effort with your gift and gone without a trace

I am the "who" when you call, "Who does an exchange without acknowledging their gift?"
I am the wanker blowing through your fics comments
I am the coalie dragging your letter at night
Filling your exchange to the brim with fright!

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Nominations: Tuesday 22 September to Thursday 1 October

Sign-ups: Friday 16 October to Monday 26 October

Assignments out: between 26 & 28 October

Default deadline: Friday 11 December

Assignment Deadline: Friday 18 December

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Sorting machine where you can see where common opt kinks rank for you. Copy your top 10 and discuss.

This is super interesting! My top ten were:

1 Noncon
1 Pre-Teen & Younger Underage
1 Child Sexual Abuse
1 Infidelity (OTP A/B with A cheating on B with C)
1 Breakup of Requested Pairing
1 Graphic Violence
7 Under-16 Underage
8 Animal Abuse
8 Incest
8 Under-18 Underage

1 Infidelity (OTP A/B with A cheating on B with C)
2 Requested Character(s) Death
3 Breakup of Requested Pairing
4 Body Shaming
5 Infertility
6 Miscarriage or abortion
7 Pre-Teen & Younger Underage
8 Cannibalism
9 Scat
10 Watersports

My personal baggage, let me show you it! Didn't expect those linked DNWs to push trans headcanons out of the top 10.

Eating Disorders
Noncon
Terminal Illness
Under-16 Underage
Pre-Teen & Younger Underage
Vore
Gore
Raceplay
Child Sexual Abuse
Breakup of Requested Pairing
Inversion of Requested Trope
Thoughts of Suicide
Attempted Suicide
Infertility

1 Breakup of Requested Pairing
1 Miscarriage or abortion
3 Requested Character(s) Death
3 Pre-Teen & Younger Underage
5 Noncon
5 Raceplay
5 Child Sexual Abuse
5 Body Shaming
9 Infidelity (OTP A/B with A cheating on B with C)
10 Scat

Owner of that tumblr here.

Coal, if you can think of more opt-ins, I’d be happy to add them.

Now that I know how to make sorters I’m kind of obsessed, so if anyone wants a ranking for anything else (wanky behavior? good egg traits?) let me know and I’ll make on in 10 minutes flat lol

It was really interesting going through the sorting process as I tried to weigh which I actually thought were worse (although I was pretty bad at deciding--I had a lot of equally ranked items).

Drug/Alcohol Abuse
Snuff (one part of the pairing kills the other)
Mental Illnesses (other than suicide/eating disorders)
Slavery

AUs, maybe? Mundane/setting change/canon divergence as variants.
Background ships and past relationships
Holiday/religion mentions?

Bless you tumblr owner! This thing is a godsend!

Maybe split the incest up? Cross-generational incest Versus sibling incest.

1 Animal Abuse
1 Under-16 Underage
1 Pre-Teen & Younger Underage
4 Scat
4 Watersports
6 Cannibalism
7 Miscarriage or abortion
8 Ageplay
8 Daddy/Mommy kink
8 Ass to Mouth/Ass to Vaginal

Huh, I'm sort of surprised by some of this, especially all the age-related stuff. I didn't think I had hard preferences on that.

Scat
Feeding/Inflation
Eating Disorders
Any Character Death
Requested Character(s) Death
Cannibalism
Gore
Child Sexual Abuse
Ageplay
Infidelity (OTP A/B with A cheating on C to be with B)
Infidelity (OTP A/B with A cheating on B with C)

First time I did it as if I were the writer and it was a lot of equally awful, but I redid as if I were receiving a fic and now it pretty much jives with my DNWs. (Although I DNW watersports and a/b/o because I'm very picky about reading them and it's just easier.)

1 Miscarriage or abortion
2 Infertility
3 Noncon
4 Scat
5 Cannibalism
6 Requested Character(s) Death
7 Pre-Teen & Younger Underage
7 Child Sexual Abuse
9 Animal Abuse
9 Vore

Most of these are definitely things that would ruin my day to get in an exchange, but some of them aren't really personal squicks, just things that I think have the potential for awfulness. Writing anything about infertility or pregnancy loss without explicit recip request just seems like a minefield to me.

1 Child Sexual Abuse
2 Pre-Teen & Younger Underage
3 Ageplay
4 Scat
4 Watersports
6 Cannibalism
7 Feeding/Inflation
8 Vore
9 Noncon
10 Requested Character(s) Death

One of these is a actually a kink of mine, but the list also contains most of my squicks so over all I'm not very surprised by the results.

I'm not sure how Feeding/Inflation ended up ranked so high--I mostly find it somewhere between "boring" and "squicky". Probably because of its matchups.

1 Scat
1 Feeding/Inflation
1 Animal Abuse
1 Ass to Mouth/Ass to Vaginal
5 Child Sexual Abuse
6 Pre-Teen & Younger Underage
7 Raceplay
8 Crossovers
9 Dubcon that leads to consent
10 Vore
11 Atypical Prose (poetry, CYOA, etc)
12 2nd POV
13 Watersports

(I view CSA and preteen and younger underage as the same thing, so my eleventh NOPE is 14 Eating Disorders which I have no triggered! objection to, but which I would in fact not be happy to receive. )

Off-topic, but I see these sorters everywhere with credit to who wrote the code but I never see anywhere to actually get the code to use if I want to make a sorter. Is there a Github that's just not being linked, or what?

Scat
Gore
Raceplay
Child Sexual Abuse
Ageplay
Infidelity (OTP A/B with A cheating on B to be with C)
Atypical Prose (poetry, CYOA, etc)
1st POV
Requested Character Death
Crossovers

I'm surprised 1st POV isn't higher on my list.

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