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Default deadline: December 11 (9am UTC)
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Yuletide Discord for Hippos & Exchanges After Dark Discords for Namespace
Yuletide Discord for Hippos & Exchanges After Dark Discords for Namespace
Re: Why isn't Yuletide growing?
(Anonymous) 2024-10-28 08:23 pm (UTC)(link)If it helps, think of a blank signup as the same as one that just says "surprise me". Surprise them.
Blank signup people are certifying that getting a yt present they don't like won't ruin anything for them. You can't fuck it up.
Re: Why isn't Yuletide growing?
(Anonymous) 2024-10-28 08:31 pm (UTC)(link)Blank signup people are certifying that getting a yt present they don't like won't ruin anything for them. You can't fuck it up.
I mean, I obviously can fuck it up. What you're actually trying to say is that it won't be my fault if I fuck it up.
And that's true, but that doesn't make it the kind of gift-giving experience I welcome.
Re: Why isn't Yuletide growing?
(Anonymous) 2024-10-28 09:23 pm (UTC)(link)(I mean. Within basic Yuletide rules, obviously. If you write them spite poetry or recent war criminal RPF or picklefic you will have fucked up. But that would be true regardless of the signup.)
Most people probably would be disinclined to write someone necro with golden showers for a blank signup, but that's about the writers' own feelings, and honestly if I had a blank signup with a pairing where that was IC I'd do it. I don't think I've literally ever seen a case of a recip complaining that they had a blank signup and didn't like what they got. Usually they really are people who are happy to spin the wheel. The people who get upset about it are writers who would never dream of posting a blank singup.
(You've probably got a higher risk of no comment with a blank signup but that's true regardless of if they like the fic.)
IDK: are there any people in this thread who have done blank signups? Did you have limits on what you would have been willing to get? Did you like what you got?
I did it one year when my spare cycles were at a low ebb in October and got utter blandness, which is realistically the biggest risk of a blank signup; I would honestly have preferred weird niche kink or major character death whump or something.
Re: Why isn't Yuletide growing?
(Anonymous) 2024-10-28 09:26 pm (UTC)(link)DC here: I was curious about that too so I started a new thread for it here:
https://coaltide.dreamwidth.org/8335.html?thread=18162575#cmt18162575
Re: Why isn't Yuletide growing?
(Anonymous) 2024-10-28 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)Nah, what I'm saying is you can't fuck up writing them a fic they requested, because they have explicitly requested "whatever you want to write".
(I mean. Within basic Yuletide rules, obviously. If you write them spite poetry or recent war criminal RPF or picklefic you will have fucked up. But that would be true regardless of the signup.)
See, my own hesitation here is that a blank sign-up can be any of:
-person who genuinely means "surprise me"
-person who signed up last minute and wishes they had put details in
-person who's a sock and dgaf
-person who's new and doesn't even consider the range of things they might be opting into
and I don't want to make that last person miserable.
Re: Why isn't Yuletide growing?
(Anonymous) 2024-10-28 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)Re: Why isn't Yuletide growing?
(Anonymous) 2024-10-28 09:36 pm (UTC)(link)Exactly. So in practice, I don't tend to take a blank sign-up as true enthusiastic permission to write anything.
But overall I'm happy with the situation. I don't find this the burden "what's too much??" some people seem to.
Re: Why isn't Yuletide growing?
(Anonymous) 2024-10-28 09:46 pm (UTC)(link)