One Wank After Another

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A blank assignment is a funny thing, isn't it? When you have it, you don't appreciate it, and when you miss it, it's gone.

Wednesday 10 December: Default deadline (9pm UTC)
Wednesday 17 December: Assignment deadline (9pm UTC)
Wednesday 24 December: Main collection works reveals (9pm UTC)
Thursday 25 December: Madness collection works reveals (9pm UTC)
Thursday 1 January: Author reveals, end of event (9pm UTC)

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Comments

Re: Can anyone tell which was the assignment and which was the treat?

[(Anonymous)]

I suspect this "stupid policy" helps keep Yuletide able to open on time. There are always a lot of post-deadline PHs, and then later ones drift in as (presumably) those pinch hitters default, or the mods find placeholders, or whatever. Big exchange, rare fandoms, and a hard deadline for when to open mean that mods are going to do whatever they can to make sure everyone who has written a gift has a gift, including counting treats.

Re: Can anyone tell which was the assignment and which was the treat?

[(Anonymous)]

It would be interesting to know how often it really happens. And then it's interesting but unknowable how many pinch hits go out where someone wrote a treat and waited to post it until after the deadline.

I have some sympathy with people to whom that missing gift feels really real because their only gift is marked treat, so "if only" is very tangible, but also idk the whole social contract of pinch hitting rests on the idea that pinch hits are needed. So I think it's fine to not mess with that.