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Offseason #6
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Why is everything being screened on fail meme
Some dipshit had a mental break about Harry Potter and has been spamming 24/7 for the last month
i wanna squee about my candy hearts gift but thanks to that fucking troll on ffa the screening is putting a damper on the whole event. phooey.
Squee anyway and it'll be a nice little burst of enthusiasm when it gets unscreened.
I'm glad you got a cool gift!
I'm glad you got a cool gift!
Brag or bewail here.
Mine was really bad but in a hilariously karmic way. I gave something very similarly pseudo-dewclawsy to someone else a couple years ago without thinking it through, and I'd now like to apologize to them in spirit.
Courtesy of FA: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/CandyHeartsExchange2025/works/62905720
But omg, wow! That guy! Words couldn’t begin to grasp! What unparalleled shoulder blades! His butt! His Dreitagebart!
But omg, wow! That guy! Words couldn’t begin to grasp! What unparalleled shoulder blades! His butt! His Dreitagebart!
Asking here because I don't particularly want to set iff JKR wank, but I just ran across a fic with authors notes claiming Blaise Zabini's name is an example of JKR being racist because Zabini is Zabaione and that is a dessert and food names are racist for black people and Blaise means lisping, is this an actual thing I'm missing because I'm not familiar with the stereotypes being invoked or is it rubbish .
So I did CH. The main story I wrote got a 'meh' comment. It literally read that way. And the treat I wrote wasn't even commented on by the recipient even though they commented on their other treat. I obviously can't write and shouldn't subject people to my "gifts".
it's been less than one day you nervous nelly
I'm disappointed by this Scholomance fic:
https://archiveofourown.org/collections/CandyHeartsExchange2025/works/62265677
Like... nothing happens. This person did not have many ideas.
https://archiveofourown.org/collections/CandyHeartsExchange2025/works/62265677
Like... nothing happens. This person did not have many ideas.
I love a good ficlet where nothing happens, but that was pretty spare even for me. When there's no events, there has to be atmosphere and feelings!
once again wrote for a non commenter. all these new people need to clue up and realise that exchanges aren't JUST about writing they're also about the gift(s) you receive.
if you're gonna describe the kind of fic you like as fucky-wucky then i hope someone uses exactly those words in fic written for you.
because jeez. cringe.
because jeez. cringe.
I loled at the bad sexy writing here:
https://archiveofourown.org/collections/CandyHeartsExchange2025/works/63123946
Their hands meandered down their backs, arms, legs, squeezing and grabbing at soft flesh.
https://archiveofourown.org/collections/CandyHeartsExchange2025/works/63123946
Their hands meandered down their backs, arms, legs, squeezing and grabbing at soft flesh.
I wouldn’t call that remarkably bad. It could be a lot better and it ends right on penetration, but at least there’s a sense of character.
I want to but I only remember bits and pieces of some FF games' lores, since I haven't played in so long.
nah im doing the pants down exchange
Personally I want some kind of exchange or fest around forcefem/forcemasc but maybe that's too niche a kink.
nah i would be down for that
Reading through the fffx collection, my petty thought is that I am tempted to make a list of "needed a beta". Though I would also want to exclude anything written for a late pinch hit unless it was dire.
Luckily there are some very good works too so the better option is just to backclick proactively and look at those ones instead.
But, Coal, how do you have five months to write something and turn up something so shoddy?
https://archiveofourown.org/collections/fffx2024/fandoms
Luckily there are some very good works too so the better option is just to backclick proactively and look at those ones instead.
But, Coal, how do you have five months to write something and turn up something so shoddy?
https://archiveofourown.org/collections/fffx2024/fandoms
Some people write how they write and that's the end of it. It's not going to matter if you give them 5 days or 5 months, the quality will be the same.
This gift sucks ass and I don't want to comment on it.
You’ll risk being “known” as a non commenter if a potential treat writer clicks through your gifts and sees that you didn’t comment. Just write a single line like, “oh, this was lovely! Thank you for sharing”.
There's nothing wrong with wanting your kink so badly that you don't care about the fandom but it's just so fundamentally different from how I approach fandom that it is hard for me to understand the appeal. I mean, I get it intellectually but emotionally, not even kind of.
Now I wonder if the coalie above ranting about terrible commenters wrote the fic for the other coalie above who said their gift sucked. Wouldn’t that be hilarious.
Has anyone ever been in a situation where their fic bombed during the Yuletide or other exchange period but got more attention later?
I've got a few old yuletide fics for really obscure stuff that got next to nothing when they were first posted, but every now and then they get a few kudos and comments when new canon comes out, or when people get nostalgic about old canons. Long term some of them have done better than fics which were yuletide popular when they were first posted
Having the opposite problem of coalie above and struggling to comment because my gift is too rtmi that I feel embarrassed squealing over it.
tell them you love how fucky-wucky your fic is
I don't understand what makes a fandom multifandom exchange popular. Sometimes it's a fandom that is very popular outside of exchanges, sometimes super popular fandoms are not to be found. I know the answer is that something is exchange popular if lots of people who do exchanges are into that fandom, but why those particular fandoms? All I know is that I'm really not in sync with the collective fandom id of multifandom exchanges, with the exception of yuletide, and I can't quite figure out why. I would like to be able to do more exchanges but literally nobody asks for fandoms I'm into in a lot of exchanges with cool premises. Maybe if I had a better idea of what tended to resonate with the multifandom crowd, I could find the fandoms at the intersection of something I like and something they like and do more of them.
I let go of writing anything I actually care about outside of Yuletide and just picked up a couple of the very frequently requested fandoms. I write duty fic for those to get fic for what I'm interested in.
I do nnnoooot understand the popularity of Hazbin Hotel in the exchange scene (or period tbh)
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