coaltide | Offseason #5

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Offseason #5

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petty: sign up in the first half of signups

Pettier: sign up in the first half of signups requesting popular canons, CCOF, and the rare canons of the people who sign up every time.

nah, ccof is a scourge and should be banned.

Anything that reduces the post-signup emails, waiting, and signup adjusting for people who didn't make themselves matchable is good with me.

yeah, well if you want your gift rejected or not commented on, then by all means write ccof.

This hasn't been a problem any of the times I have written it.

well lucky you. i wrote it once for someone who said "write me anything" in their signup.

no comment, gift rejected, ghosted.

If you game towards good eggs this will hardly ever happen. That is why I strongly prefer good eggs to be the load bearing participants who can have multiple people signed up to write for them: they will make their gifters happy.

Re: what makes a good egg to you

(Anonymous) - 2024-02-07 20:56 (UTC) - Expand

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I’ve never written CCOF outside of Bulletproof, but in multifandom drabble exchange I got assigned someone who said Any Character for a very large fandom (and in that exchange, Any Character really means ANY in the canon) and I briefly looked at their bookmarks and works to see what they like but ended up taking their word for it that they’ll enjoy anything, wrote something based on their listed vague likes, and got a positive response

Mm, maybe. I wouldn't participate in an exchange where I offered specific fandoms and the mod had a policy that they could match me to someone requesting CCoF.

We’re not on ffa, you don’t always have to take the most extreme position.

yeah they should go the fuck there.

What does "CCOF" stand for, please?

Creator's choice of fandom

There's also CCOPRF which is creator's choice of previously requested fandom

the second one, ok, that's reasonable. the first one i will never get the point of. why would i ask for characters i care nothing about?

Trawling for dynamics that you like in your other fandoms (Creator's Choice of Grumpy/Sunshine, etc) to try to pick up new canons

You like every creator in a given exchange and would be happy to get into any of their ships

You like the theme of the exchange so much you don't care what characters you get your prisoners or underage or hurt/comfort or whatever for

Taking one for the team in Battleship or a landcomm or something similar

still, if i don't like the characters, i'm not reading it.

Ok then don't request it, those are just some reasons why other people do.

NYRT, it depends a lot on the theme of the exchange. Idk if you're aware of Bulletproof but it centers requesting tropes and encourages essentially fandom-blind prompt fills. Trawling through your recip's likes and giving them a fandom they've requested in the past is going the extra mile, but by no means expected from what I've picked up.

There are also many fandoms that are similar enough that they could be substituted for one another if a writer can write for one but not another, or at least they're similar where it counts (the recip's likes). I enjoy [obscure espionage canon] but I've read [blockbuster espionage canon] for some of the same trope beats and character archetypes when things were slow in the obscure fandom (which they always are). Receiving a gift in the latter rather than the former would probably still be fun, even if it didn't have my rarepair blorbos or whatever.

so atg then?

In it mostly because you want an assignment, not super invested in your gift

It should really be CCoC - Creator's Choice of Canon. It's not a fandom unless the recipient has fannish feelings for the canon.

It's a fandom on the creator's end, and since it's creator's choice...

Why do only the recipient's feelings matter?

Also do I get to say, like, Supernatural isn't a fandom because I am not a fan?

because it's, like, the recip's request or something? i dunno i'm not op.

anyway the recip might end up being a fan if they like the canon, but that's a crapshoot. personally i may try ccof one day if i can dnw fandoms i totally hate. i'd like some new fandoms.

and supernatural's more a dumpster fire than a fandom tbh.

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