Do we think that people are waiting on #46 to update their placeholder before claiming them? Because the Smiling Friends cartoon seems relatively easy to pick up, even if the others seem like longer and more complex canons.
imho yuletide should be fun and this sounds like hell... for your own peace I'd say default. I you should tell the mods about the any characters/DNW characters situation because that's honestly not fair. Otherwise, I'm sorry... I hope yuletide goes a bit better for you
It's impossible, so no. Sometimes it has taken a while. People are generally pretty amazing at hunting down canons and consuming them in this exact scenario, though.
My take on specifying characters is that it works better if you specify for every fandom with more than two or three characters, in that if you offer 8 fandoms with specified characters and 1 with any and there's nine characters in that any, you'll get assigned the one. Or at least I always do.
Lol, so terribly sorry you had to see something you find annoying on *checks notes* an anon comm dedicated to a fanfictiction exchange, a notable annoying-free zone.
"Smiling Friends follows the employees of a small company dedicated to bringing happiness to a bizarre yet colorful world. The company consists of cynical Charlie and star employee Pim, each tasked with out-calls to cheer people up. There's also meticulous Allan who keeps things in order, mysterious Glep, and the unpredictable billionaire Boss who founded the company."
Links (Not all seem to have the second season) Adult Swim: https://www.adultswim.com/videos/smiling-friends Channel 4: https://www.channel4.com/programmes/smiling-friends Prime Video: https://www.primevideo.com/detail/Smiling-Friends/0T15POCS24RUOZC6022B90VQF9 Apple TV: https://tv.apple.com/us/show/smiling-friends/umc.cmc.qf772cmp3lg33iym2b834ab5 Hulu: https://www.hulu.com/series/smiling-friends-8df2bc91-af81-4ed4-afa3-0858ac6c05da
For last Yuletide I had the funny idea to make the fic an exact round number wordcount, and now every time I’ve reread it and noticed a minor line edit I wanted to make (word choice and grammar fixes and whatnot), I’ve had to figure out where to add/delete the corresponding number of words to keep it at the same total. Suffering for my hubris
Point it out to the mods. They may or may not be able to match you to someone else or tell you to just write a treat if your recipient DNWs the characters you matched on.
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