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Whether or not anyone wants to write treats for my fandoms has no bearing on what I request. I request the fandoms I want fic about. I only stop requesting a fandom when I stop wanting it or I find something else I want more.

I almost never have time to write treats, so I also would never take the fact that a treat wasn't written as a sign that nobody noticed or liked a request. Plus, I almost never have time to pick up new canons before signups close, so I won't be able to offer canons I found on the promo post or in a letter unless they get requested again the next year.

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Right? I'm so impressed by OP's assumption that people generally write the treats they want to in a given year. Do they manage that? Legend.

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I definitely don’t write all the treats I mean to, per my last sentence! I was just wondering if people are like “oh god, there’s X again this year asking for that terrible prompt no one wants” (the one I’m thinking of redoing is in a perennial Yuletide fandom), because it always feels like there are a lot of participants who track that stuff much more closely than I do.

I was just wondering if people are like “oh god, there’s X again this year asking for that terrible prompt no one wants”

This is unhealthy. Please just ask for what you want.

I think the only time that would happen if it was something that was already noticed as a terrible prompt the *first* time around.

Like if you ended up on the pinch hits list because your only prompt for every fandom was brother/sister, DNW incest, DNW AUs, and then you did it again the next year, people would probably wank on here about you doing it again. But if a prompt wasn't stand-out terrible the first time around nobody would care, okay prompts don't become terrible with repetition.

(I've definitely seen people whine on coal that the person they try to game away from keeps requesting their favorite fandom every year, but I don't think having a different prompt for the same fandom would satisfy those most of those people, and anyway you shouldn't let picky people whining on coal scare you away from requests you love.)

Yeah, I asked on here because coalies pay way closer attention than I do to this stuff and I wanted to make sure I wasn’t breaking some kind of unwritten etiquette I hadn’t picked up on. I did ask for a rarepair three years running in a different perennial YT fandom, and finally decided if I hadn’t been treated by now no one was into my idea, so I’m trying to avoid that again.

I don't think it's necessarily true that because you don't get treated several years running, you should give up on a prompt - the point of a prompt isn't to get treated, it's to help your assigned writer, and most people don't get any treats most years (even in relatively popular fandoms.) If you think you'd still like the story, you should still put it in hoping for a match.

But a request where all you ask for is a rarepair is going to be a tough prompt anyway. The prompt it hurt me the most to give up on was a rarepair of my heart request where I even gave them a gen out that I'd be happy for any fic about the two requested characters interacting, romantic or not, and two years running I got the most awful stilted things in which the two characters sure had a conversation for sure, the weather's real nice isn't it.

You're definitely not breaking any unwritten etiquette either way! If you want something, it's absolutely fine to keep asking for it, as many years in a row as you still want it; if you want something but are tired of not getting it and feeling bummed about it, and want to switch it out for a new request, that's absolutely fine also.

However, IME, this:

I did ask for a rarepair three years running in a different perennial YT fandom, and finally decided if I hadn’t been treated by now no one was into my idea, so I’m trying to avoid that again

is not a productive approach to take to getting treated or having your rare requests filled. As another coalie mentioned, not that many participants actually get treats in any given round of an exchange, Yuletide included, so relying on receiving a treat to tell you whether people are interested in your requests seems misguided to me? If one of your fandoms is never ever getting offers, I can see where you'd consider dropping it because no one else seems to be into it (though there's no actual reason not to keep asking for it in that case either) - but if you're matching on other fandoms and just not ever receiving a treat in the ones you aren't matching on ... that's p much "experiencing a normal Yuletide", I think.

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Not getting a treat for a particular prompt isn't an indication of people's feelings, it's just the likely statistical outcome.

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