Tangent but I was the coalie asking why you can't ask for Any characters and then put in a DNW for exactly one of them - on the basis that your author has to offer two so you still have an overlap on the character remaining.
Anyway this thread has opened my eyes to why you shouldn't do that. Maybe coalie can still write the remaining character and I hope they come up with an idea they like, but I hadn't taken other prompts and id mismatches into account. Maybe it would universally be fine for people to DNW one character out of any IF there was a low risk of other clashing preferences, but when you also might see the remaining character a different way... No, I get it now.
Re: To Default or not to Default?
Tangent but I was the coalie asking why you can't ask for Any characters and then put in a DNW for exactly one of them - on the basis that your author has to offer two so you still have an overlap on the character remaining.
https://coaltide.dreamwidth.org/8021.html?thread=16409429#cmt16409429
Anyway this thread has opened my eyes to why you shouldn't do that. Maybe coalie can still write the remaining character and I hope they come up with an idea they like, but I hadn't taken other prompts and id mismatches into account. Maybe it would universally be fine for people to DNW one character out of any IF there was a low risk of other clashing preferences, but when you also might see the remaining character a different way... No, I get it now.