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Re: Too rare even for Yuletide?

[(Anonymous)]

As long as it's not *all* of your canons you'll be fine!

Just put in at least one that's matchable, and who knows, maybe someone else will be inspired by your signup to track down and write fic for that obscure paperback you found in an East German flea market.

Re: Too rare even for Yuletide?

[(Anonymous)]

NC

Just put in at least one that's matchable

But surely, this means they will match on this one all the time? Just like if you do a non-rarity-requirements exchange and you ask for 1970s British Comedy, Victorian Children's Book and MCU, you're going to get matched on MCU 99-100% of the time.

Re: Too rare even for Yuletide?

[(Anonymous)]

Sure, I'm not saying you should deliberately put in MCU just in case.

But if you do put in only East German paperbacks, you might be unmatchable, that *is* a risk.

Re: Too rare even for Yuletide?

[(Anonymous)]

CYRT's talking about RARE canons, coalie, not NONEXISTENT.

Re: Too rare even for Yuletide?

[(Anonymous)]

Are you claiming that East German paperbacks don't exist???

Re: Too rare even for Yuletide?

[(Anonymous)]

Well, they don't if they're called Winterblumensaat.

Re: Too rare even for Yuletide?

[(Anonymous)]

Not necessarily.

Yuletide matches hardest-to-match people first. As long as you haven't added several huge-for-yuletide options, you'll have so few potential matches that if even one person shows up for your rarest thing, you might easily match on that.

There's a difference between adding one fandom you're pretty sure someone will offer and adding MCU.

(Of course, if you'd be disappointed in your bigger fandom, don't request it. It's easier to cover people with no offers than people whose offers don't match requests.)

Re: Too rare even for Yuletide?

[(Anonymous)]

This advice must be carefully calibrated to how coalie would feel about getting the matchable thing instead of any of the others. Only they can know. If:dreadful, then only ever ask for what you want.