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Yuletide Discord for Hippos & Exchanges After Dark Discords for Namespace
Yuletide Discord for Hippos & Exchanges After Dark Discords for Namespace
Franzeska. Marina, too, but her lore is old and hard to explain ("as a Russian immigrant to Israel I totally had it harder than a Black immigrant to the US" is super racist but happened awhile ago, etc).
The one who anonfailed racist trolling last post
I think a lot of the other exchanges have shared participants and a lot of mod overlap, and have over time developed a kind of general exchange culture which relies on people either being on ffa or the bfe discord to pick up all those unwritten rules. But I don't think Yuletide is necessarily a part of that specific exchange culture and it's irritating when people try to impose those norms onto yuletide.
No, they don't need to interact but the fic does need to be focused on the relationship, I would expect less focus on the two characters if I request three characters, not really.
It's definitely not and predates that other culture, which makes it even more annoying IMO. I've been doing Yuletide for longer than FFA has existed, I'm confident I'm not doing it wrong.
IDK, I feel like "references to underage orgasms in the title are gross" is a silly complaint about an underage exchange.
Right? This discussion is surreal.
Right? This discussion is surreal.
You understand that people seeing the name and people participating in the exchange are not the same groups, surely.
if you write under the minimum, jail. if you write over the minimum, also jail. under write, over write. you join the exchange and you don't write a fic, believe it or not, jail, right away. we have the best writers in the world. because of jail.
someone who thinks fandom = activism and social justice and makes moral judgements about how others' fandoms and blorbos are problematic but their own are fine - usually, their own blorbos are just as problematic.
not everyone is a ficcer, dumbass. exchanges that allow art exist too.
For examples of ways that people have been doing Yuletide “wrong” since it began, in your own all-wise, superlative opinion.
/this is obviously a silly thread
/this is obviously a silly thread
People who don’t comment.
Also one year (2017-2019? Idk) before the additional tags, I had to send a question to my recipient because I thought she was prompting for just some of her characters to appear, but I wasn’t sure. In her next year’s letter she was all “oops, I didn’t realize I was asking for all of them”. She’d been doing Yuletide since well before it was on AO3.
Also one year (2017-2019? Idk) before the additional tags, I had to send a question to my recipient because I thought she was prompting for just some of her characters to appear, but I wasn’t sure. In her next year’s letter she was all “oops, I didn’t realize I was asking for all of them”. She’d been doing Yuletide since well before it was on AO3.
CYRT
I guess, but the kind of minimal sign-ups I see so often in Yuletide are kind of neither here nor there, you know? They're the worst of both worlds. They're not prompts on prompt memes, where you can just do whatever to your heart's fancy, and they're not the highly-detailed requests from many non-Yuletide exchanges where you can lean into tailoring a gift to the recipient and feel good about that.
My last YT assignment had too few optional details to be useful, but just enough to tell me the idea I felt most inspired to write for that fandom and that set of characters ("Any") wasn't what my recipient wanted. I still could have gone ODAO, but I would have felt like an ass.
I guess, but the kind of minimal sign-ups I see so often in Yuletide are kind of neither here nor there, you know? They're the worst of both worlds. They're not prompts on prompt memes, where you can just do whatever to your heart's fancy, and they're not the highly-detailed requests from many non-Yuletide exchanges where you can lean into tailoring a gift to the recipient and feel good about that.
My last YT assignment had too few optional details to be useful, but just enough to tell me the idea I felt most inspired to write for that fandom and that set of characters ("Any") wasn't what my recipient wanted. I still could have gone ODAO, but I would have felt like an ass.
CYRT
I am also not a fan of freeform exchanges.
I would not mind empty sign-ups if I actually knew for sure that an empty sign-up meant the recipient was cool with whatever, rather than them having implicit assumptions about what kind of gift someone might write to them and then (potentially) being bitterly surprised. Like for example, I love writing whump, but I wouldn't write graphic whump for an empty or minimal sign-up, especially one that sounds like they've lowkey forgotten whump or darkfic exists.
I am also not a fan of freeform exchanges.
I would not mind empty sign-ups if I actually knew for sure that an empty sign-up meant the recipient was cool with whatever, rather than them having implicit assumptions about what kind of gift someone might write to them and then (potentially) being bitterly surprised. Like for example, I love writing whump, but I wouldn't write graphic whump for an empty or minimal sign-up, especially one that sounds like they've lowkey forgotten whump or darkfic exists.
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