Trick or Treat Exchange
Sep. 15th, 2017 08:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lydamorehouseI just found out that AO3 has a Trick or Treat Fic Exchange.
Every year I participate in one way or another in Yuletide, which is an annual fan fic gift exchange that was, according to Fanlore, started in 2003. I've only been doing it for, maybe two or three years, being, as always a latecomer to fandom.
I often forget to sign-up on time, so the past couple of years I've enjoyed being what they call a "pinch hitter." Yuletide is very strict about gifts. If you're supposed to be getting one, they do NOT want you to wake up on Christmas morning with an empty in-box. But, life happens. Sometimes someone who promised a fic literally gets in a car accident or finals week crushes them. So, there's a hoard of volunteers, myself included, who take up the slack. A gifter is supposed to default by a certain day and the pinch hit lists start showing up in my in-box. But, batches come all the way up to the night before. It's kind of an amazing process. I also use the pinch hit list to write what are called "treats" where you can just go ahead an write something to someone's request as an extra. I have done this in the past for very weird fandoms, like the person who really, really wanted a Munchkin Cthulu fic (although that may actually have been assigned).
Point is, I love pinch hitting. I often write fic fast enough that getting an assignment for 2,000+ words the night before is no big deal.
The Trick or Treat Exchange also looks fun. The requirement is tiny, 300 word minimum? The other thing that seems to be fun about the Trick or Treat Exchange is that, unlike Yuletide, there is no popularity restriction. (Yuletide focuses on fandoms that have less than 1000 works of fic posted on Archive of Our Own.) So, for instance, I saw that Bleach was listed for the Trick or Treat Exchange (thanks to me, Bleach has WAY TOO MANY fics otherwise... and, I'm kidding, of course. It wasn't just me, I'm sure Bleach had over a thousand fics years and years before I joined.). The point is, for the Trick or Treat Exchange, I could potentially ask for or write a Bleach fic.
So I am tempted. The exchange i currently open and I am considering. I'll have to read the rules carefully to see if it's something I'm really up for.
I'm pretty sure the fans of my never ending fic soap opera would be furious to find me off writing treats for other people, when they've been so patiently waiting for an update.
Anyway.
Happy Friday everyone.
Every year I participate in one way or another in Yuletide, which is an annual fan fic gift exchange that was, according to Fanlore, started in 2003. I've only been doing it for, maybe two or three years, being, as always a latecomer to fandom.
I often forget to sign-up on time, so the past couple of years I've enjoyed being what they call a "pinch hitter." Yuletide is very strict about gifts. If you're supposed to be getting one, they do NOT want you to wake up on Christmas morning with an empty in-box. But, life happens. Sometimes someone who promised a fic literally gets in a car accident or finals week crushes them. So, there's a hoard of volunteers, myself included, who take up the slack. A gifter is supposed to default by a certain day and the pinch hit lists start showing up in my in-box. But, batches come all the way up to the night before. It's kind of an amazing process. I also use the pinch hit list to write what are called "treats" where you can just go ahead an write something to someone's request as an extra. I have done this in the past for very weird fandoms, like the person who really, really wanted a Munchkin Cthulu fic (although that may actually have been assigned).
Point is, I love pinch hitting. I often write fic fast enough that getting an assignment for 2,000+ words the night before is no big deal.
The Trick or Treat Exchange also looks fun. The requirement is tiny, 300 word minimum? The other thing that seems to be fun about the Trick or Treat Exchange is that, unlike Yuletide, there is no popularity restriction. (Yuletide focuses on fandoms that have less than 1000 works of fic posted on Archive of Our Own.) So, for instance, I saw that Bleach was listed for the Trick or Treat Exchange (thanks to me, Bleach has WAY TOO MANY fics otherwise... and, I'm kidding, of course. It wasn't just me, I'm sure Bleach had over a thousand fics years and years before I joined.). The point is, for the Trick or Treat Exchange, I could potentially ask for or write a Bleach fic.
So I am tempted. The exchange i currently open and I am considering. I'll have to read the rules carefully to see if it's something I'm really up for.
I'm pretty sure the fans of my never ending fic soap opera would be furious to find me off writing treats for other people, when they've been so patiently waiting for an update.
Anyway.
Happy Friday everyone.