assignments and requests and offers and suchlike
So, I received my CB assignment and...we matched on one thing.
One thing that I can write with ease and comfort, and could quite probably put way more than the minimum 300 words into.
However, that one thing stuck out from all the other things that my CB recip had chosen in her sign-up. It was basically the scarlet poppy in a field of daisies. So I've mailed the organiser to check that the recip actually chose it and didn't make a slip of the mouse when they selected the pairings.
Still waiting; must remember to mail them again tonight to follow up.
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Things that have been bothering me in the last year of exchanges:
In other news, has it become common to require people to fill all the requests in an assignment they're given? I had someone do this in the Pacific Rim Secret Santa, and I just got a query from someone who was concerned that they'd been assigned two fanart requests and one fanfic request when they'd offered fanfic only.
You are given multiple requests, you only have to fill one.
Also, OPTIONAL PAIRINGS ARE OPTIONAL. This cannot be said often enough in general exchanges.
Finally, can we stop reading Dear Author letters as passive-aggressive? Please? They're not rules, as such, as said the crew of the Black Pearl in Pirates of the Carribean; They're more...guidelines. It would be nice we didn't treat the requests in them like someone is going to FIRE ZE MISSILES if we aren't precisely on point with that story, and assume the worst of people who are saying, "If you can do this, it would be nice," in a non-threatening, non-assumptive manner.
One thing that I can write with ease and comfort, and could quite probably put way more than the minimum 300 words into.
However, that one thing stuck out from all the other things that my CB recip had chosen in her sign-up. It was basically the scarlet poppy in a field of daisies. So I've mailed the organiser to check that the recip actually chose it and didn't make a slip of the mouse when they selected the pairings.
Still waiting; must remember to mail them again tonight to follow up.
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Things that have been bothering me in the last year of exchanges:
In other news, has it become common to require people to fill all the requests in an assignment they're given? I had someone do this in the Pacific Rim Secret Santa, and I just got a query from someone who was concerned that they'd been assigned two fanart requests and one fanfic request when they'd offered fanfic only.
You are given multiple requests, you only have to fill one.
Also, OPTIONAL PAIRINGS ARE OPTIONAL. This cannot be said often enough in general exchanges.
Finally, can we stop reading Dear Author letters as passive-aggressive? Please? They're not rules, as such, as said the crew of the Black Pearl in Pirates of the Carribean; They're more...guidelines. It would be nice we didn't treat the requests in them like someone is going to FIRE ZE MISSILES if we aren't precisely on point with that story, and assume the worst of people who are saying, "If you can do this, it would be nice," in a non-threatening, non-assumptive manner.