As the coalie a bit upthread hoping they were framed, I'm going to mildly disagree with you. The recipient wouldn't be the first to do this, but you do bear responsibility if you complain about your experience in a way that is identifiable on ffa, especially if you have been doing exchanges for years. You do not get to say "Oh, I had no idea nonnies would try to figure out which person this description applies to!" Complaining is not a right. Silence is free. Discretion is possible.
The art is more or less okay (some of the works are much better than others), but I think it was a massive mistake for the artist to give their recip 9k of it. Especially knowing the best they could do was fandom-blind. You do that as a PHer with mediocre-at-best skills who doesn't know the fandom, you know damn well you're setting up your recip for a potentially very disappointing experience.
No, I don't think this is right. The pinch hit was first posted on September 18 and never had more than 1k claimed until the very end of the exchange. They added new fandoms on Nov 4 and it was finally claimed on the Nov 13 post. So the artist didn't leap on it at once - they claimed it after giving other exchange participants every possible opportunity to step up as well.
I'm not seeing "didn't give a shit and bit off more than they could chew" here. I'm seeing "talked themself into stepping up when no one else was stepping up and bit off more than they could chew."
Corinthian enjoying the pleasure of the (offscreen) Lucien
Like, are you kidding me with this?
I agree, I got nothing. This would be cute as an in-joke between friends and an extra bonus, but, uh, no, that is not a good fill. He's... lying down. If it wasn't described, I wouldn't even know he was in a library. I assume that the artist was running out of ideas, or thought they could do more with this than they did, or thought the humor of it would outweigh the obvious problem.
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As the coalie a bit upthread hoping they were framed, I'm going to mildly disagree with you. The recipient wouldn't be the first to do this, but you do bear responsibility if you complain about your experience in a way that is identifiable on ffa, especially if you have been doing exchanges for years. You do not get to say "Oh, I had no idea nonnies would try to figure out which person this description applies to!" Complaining is not a right. Silence is free. Discretion is possible.
The art is more or less okay (some of the works are much better than others), but I think it was a massive mistake for the artist to give their recip 9k of it. Especially knowing the best they could do was fandom-blind. You do that as a PHer with mediocre-at-best skills who doesn't know the fandom, you know damn well you're setting up your recip for a potentially very disappointing experience.
No, I don't think this is right. The pinch hit was first posted on September 18 and never had more than 1k claimed until the very end of the exchange. They added new fandoms on Nov 4 and it was finally claimed on the Nov 13 post. So the artist didn't leap on it at once - they claimed it after giving other exchange participants every possible opportunity to step up as well.
I'm not seeing "didn't give a shit and bit off more than they could chew" here. I'm seeing "talked themself into stepping up when no one else was stepping up and bit off more than they could chew."
Corinthian enjoying the pleasure of the (offscreen) Lucien
Like, are you kidding me with this?
I agree, I got nothing. This would be cute as an in-joke between friends and an extra bonus, but, uh, no, that is not a good fill. He's... lying down. If it wasn't described, I wouldn't even know he was in a library. I assume that the artist was running out of ideas, or thought they could do more with this than they did, or thought the humor of it would outweigh the obvious problem.