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Too many letters to go through on a lunch break, so I'm just doing the first 5:

WOULD TREAT (in order of enthusiasm):

blindmadness: Interesting prompts, lots of possible shippy constellations. Some of the letter formatting choices are not ideal for me personally, but that's really all I have to criticize.

addandsubtract: Interesting prompts, lots of possible shippy constellations. Some of the DNWs seem a bit restrictive for this canon, would have preferred a bit more clarification on how to handle them, but overall they are fine.

bosamishipper: Interesting character constellation that should be rewarded. Points subtracted for Gdoc letter.

WOULD NOT TREAT:

acernor: I appreciate that they offer options for backstory that could be interesting to write. I would appreciate getting more details though on what ships they are open to for the different characters. Would have wanted more clarification for how to handle the "DNW: MCD."
Biggest wtf moment though: "did whichever twin was left alive ever adapt to no longer being a twin?" made me do a double take - I can't tell if I'm not reading this correctly, or whether they really (a) can't keep the twins apart and/or (b) missed the fact that neither of them is alive at the end (unless undead = alive?)
Either way, this made back back away.

brandnewsoul:
Did not put their DNWs in the sign-up, only in the letter.
Also: They requested specific characters, but all their prompts are essentially worldbuilding prompts for scenarios that make it more or less impossible to include the requested characters. Not going to try and thread that needle.

(b) missed the fact that neither of them is alive at the end (unless undead = alive?)

That seems like a fairly reasonable assumption to make? I know little about Sinners other than vampires are involved but is that your beef with the DNW: MCD thing? I'm pretty sure MCD in fic is supposed to mean "dead and also gone permanently, for realsies". Characters becoming undead in an undead canon isn't really the same, because MCD is more than just the sheer technicality of dying.

DC

They also say "the whole cast is dead except for Sammie" then they talk about one of the twins being alive. It's one of those situations where probably what they want is clear in their head and not burdensome to depict, but they're vague enough in their phrasing I'd personally ask about it if assigned to them.

Like, okay, probably fine to leave everyone in the same respective live/dead/undead states as at the end of the movie, but how much can I have one twin dwell on the other's death and grieve it if addressing that prompt? Probably it's fine, but too much angst there feels like it might trip the same things as prompted the MCD DNW.

ayrt

I think people have different levels of tolerance of how much dead is too much dead for them, and the AO3 Archive Warning is just defined as "The content contains the death of a major character." Even if it seems obvious, I always appreciate an extra clarification.

But my issue with the DNW is not even the "undead/vampire" thing, it's that they "DNW: major character death (canon-typical is fine)," which in the context of Sinners is a bit of a minefield because "canon-typical" levels of character death for Sinners is "basically everyone dies." Taking them by their word, that would mean you can, in fact, write about major character death with very few limitations. But I suspect that's not necessarily what they have in mind, and I don't want to read tea leaves to figure out what this means for them, exactly, in regard to their requested characters.

Yeah I might actually treat some of the Minecraft people if they didn't mostly DNW character death without specifying whether that includes game-mechanics-death with instant respawn or only permanent death.

They probably mean permanent death but for a treat I don't care enough to ask, there's other stuff I can treat.

"did whichever twin was left alive ever adapt to no longer being a twin?"

That makes it sound to me like they offered one or more AU options where the deaths were reversed or changed up somehow. But I looked at the signup and there was nothing like that. Yeah, that's baffling.

I also can’t remember off the top of my head the name of the twin who’s around at the end of the movie BUT if I were requesting it for Yuletide I would have, you know, looked it up.

MORE LIKELY TO TREAT:

addandsubtract/blindmadness - great prompts, lots to work with, both okay with incest

inlovewithnight - i love the idea of vampire hunter lisa and maybe coming across stack and mary as an adult.

peppermint_shamrock - not bad! some of the same thoughts i've had. i'd prefer a little more detail though.

luna/orzammar - i like all of these prompts and the focus on annie and the chows.

brandnewsoul - i wouldn't do a podcast transcript, but a ghost story/urban legend look at the events of the movie could be interesting

LESS LIKELY TO TREAT:

ladybug_21 - i like a lot of the prompts and there's a lot to work with. however, while i am also not very into remmick as a central focus requesting any was not the right move here if they aren't okay with it. also there's no pearline prompts.

ordinaryfruitpunch - i like the prompt about the choctaw and the irish and sammie's music summoning spirits. the rest of the prompts are fine but not very inspiring to me.

tangentti - not bad prompts at all but i'm not very interested in remmick on his own.

nasimwrites - close to write anything.

panickyintheuk - how do you write post-canon smoke/annie? like in the afterlife? i like the rest of the request okay.

acernor - the dnw doesn't bother me, but same wtf as the other coalie at "did whichever twin was left alive ever adapt to no longer being a twin." to me it reads as if they don't know the difference between smoke and stack.

magicwonderdreamfantasy - i like both characters but i think we have an id mismatch.

WOULD NOT TREAT AT ALL:

thewreckofapoet - they mixed up annie and mary and seem to think annie and stack are together at the end.

kormantic - they spend most of their request asking for a leverage crossover. not much to work with here.

lurrel - wip letter, just likes and dnws.

ourdarkspirits - placeholder letter.

boasamishipper/digitalmeowmix - i don't like gdocs letters.

Lots of prompts and details, easy to work with, I could write for all of these, in the order that I would like to:

OrdinaryFruitPunch
Ladybug_21
acernor
orzammar
nasimwrites
Peppermint_Shamrock

One or two prompts I could write, again in the order I would like to write them:
tangentti
blindmadness
inlovewithnight
kormantic
Luna
magicwonderdreamfantasy
panickyintheuk

Not enough in the sign up to make check out the letter if there was one:
addandsubtract
boasamishipper
brandnewsoul
DigitalMeowMix
lurrel
ourdarkspirits
thewreckofapoet

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