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Two Important Points

Dec 01, 2006 18:29

There are two main points to today's post, so I'll break this up into two sections appropriately:

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I. NO CHRISTMAS EXCHANGE

Yes, you read that right. The major Christmas bleach_exchange will not be happening. It's been a month since Halloween, and we're still missing at least 2 gifts, one from somebody who was overdue but said they ( Read more... )

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Comments 31

esotaria December 1 2006, 23:39:01 UTC

This may be a little heavy-handed for your taste, but maybe requiring that the requests include at least one quasi-conventional pairing? Like, if you're going to request Mayuri/Kuukaku and Kenpachi/Unohana, have your third request be something simple like Ishida/Orihime?

Or maybe open up the Valentine's exchange to include hate as well? XD;; Mayuri/Ishida -- the ANTI-Valentine!!

And I'm all for trying out new stuff. Go for it!

glass_houses December 2 2006, 01:20:15 UTC

I don't think one should have to limit themselves to any conventional pairings (what if they don't like any?), and how could one classify a pairing as "conventional" anyway?

esotaria December 2 2006, 01:25:02 UTC

Good point? XD;;; Although honestly, I consider Grimmjow/Ulquiorra conventional, so.... >.>;;;

keikain December 2 2006, 02:00:21 UTC

*laughs* <3 <3

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emlan December 2 2006, 00:09:37 UTC

RE 3, I haven't seen this in action on the other comms but it seems like feelings might be hurt if someone request something that no one has interest in picking (while everyone fight over those with the normal popular pairings or whatever) It just seem smoother to have a mod pair people up by random. I might be reading it wrong tho.

pyrefly December 2 2006, 01:49:13 UTC

There's still a mod involved in the process, though -- most likely what would happen is, everyone would be submitting their top 3 picks (either for which person's gift they want to make, or for the person they want to request a gift from, depending on which of the two approaches) to me, and then I'll fiddle with it and try to make it work to where everyone ends up with one of their picks. I know that most likely there will probably be 1 or 2 cases where we can't match a perfect pair, and I have an idea in mind for a "flex team" of sorts, but in most cases, it should be doable. The pro about these approaches is that people are more involved in their assignments, so that in the one case, the participants can't complain that they got an assignment they can't handle (because they picked it themselves); and in the other case, the participants can't complain (at least as much) that their gift totally wasn't what they intended with their request, because they picked their santa, knowing what that person was willing to write and what they are ( ... )

alorarose December 7 2006, 21:13:50 UTC

yea, I'm late in reading this..wasn't home, XD

anyhow. I don't entirely like the idea of picking the santa. A lot of people, me included, aren't that much into fandom where we know the abilities of everyone. Unless the people would be posting samples of their stuff? I dunno...

I like the moderated picking your top three assignments though.

pyrefly December 7 2006, 22:10:33 UTC

I just explained that in some of the other comments. The picking process is entirely anonymous. You won't know the abilities of your santa, only which pairings they will/won't write.

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pyrefly December 2 2006, 02:38:27 UTC

Yeah. Up until a few days ago I was actually still thinking that I'd find a way to make it work, but. I'd rather pour all our efforts into one big exchange and have it nice and organized, than to rush into Christmas and then probably wind up half-assing the V-day one, too. Not to mention that if we do have a big exchange with all the graphics people involved and everything and pimp it out hardcore, I bet we'll easily have 100 sign-ups, if not a lot more, in which case we HAVE to be extremely well-prepared.

My thoughts on the anti v-day are hereAs for the images in graphics, I know that there are people who are capable of doing that really well, but I'm honestly hesitant to trust that everyone will be capable of being that creative. I know there were a few icon-makers last year who just took basic screencaps and added basic text and a border and that was it ( ... )

pyrefly December 2 2006, 02:38:37 UTC

I don't mean to say that the romance theme must be totally restrictive. Last year we did have some requests where people said that they'd like some degree of antagonism in their pairing (hey, I'm a big fan of fucked up relationships and hate-sex myself), or, conversely, that they were fine with more platonic love stuff, and I think that that's fine. But I don't think it's feasible to make specific restrictions about what kind of pairings you can/can't request, or only a certain number of each, or whatever.

I don't mean to throw every other idea out the window, but I think that if we're going to do this and do it on a large scale, we should either restrict ourselves to one main theme, or just leave it wide-open and allow everything from gen to romance to hate, etc., for the sake of keeping things reasonable for the participants and for keeping our sanity as mods.

shalomdebbie December 2 2006, 00:32:14 UTC

I have to say, the anti-valentine featuring rivals, bizarre couplings, or downright antagonism (Mayuri and Ishida--LOL)is a marvelous, winning idea.

I recently went through all of the Halloween submissions and found that, for a good half or so, the recipient had not left a comment thanking their secret ghoul/santa/person for their gift.

That makes me very sad.

pyrefly December 2 2006, 02:01:55 UTC

I have to say, the anti-valentine featuring rivals, bizarre couplings, or downright antagonism (Mayuri and Ishida--LOL)is a marvelous, winning idea.

I agree, but see my thoughts here.

That makes me very sad.

Me too. ;_;

I'm always very tempted to go to those posts and shower them with love, but I feel like, as mod, I don't want to risk being thought of as displaying favoritism. D: I just don't understand what makes it so hard for people to just say "thanks".

glass_houses December 2 2006, 01:21:20 UTC

I'm disappointed in humanity. I was looking forward to participating again this year, since last year. ;-;

pyrefly December 2 2006, 01:42:39 UTC

Trust me, I did everything I could to make it work, but I'm not willing to risk another situation where we have gifts that are 6 months overdue, and it's just not feasible to give people only 2-4 weeks to get their gifts in.

If we do continue all of this next year, though, I'm pretty sure there won't be a Halloween exchange, so we'll be able to start the Christmas process pretty early and be a lot more organized.