I did my yuletide sign up!

[brideoffrankenstein]

I should be working and I'm not BUT i did do my yuletide sign up. ahhh?? agghh. I've offered for a Certain BBC Comedy Show Who Will Go Unnamed, and I kept being like "should I say any or specify?? I don't wanna not write for [show] just because I didn't include certain characters but also I'm not super into the major ships and I wanted to avoid getting stuck with 'em......

Also I feel a bit ridiculous bc I put a bucket offer on and the faq says this is Advanced Mode but to be fair to me all those fandoms apart from two had just 1-2 nominated characters so that doesn't seem too bad?

Oh, one thing: are we actually allowed to say what we're offering on our journals or is that Frowned Upon?

Comments

[shadaras]

(thoughts on exchange culture from my just-woke-up brain!)

Generally speaking, people don't talk about what they're offering? This is mostly because it runs the risk of breaking anonymity if someone happens across you mentioning that you're offering X fandom, especially if there's only one or two other people who offer it. Not talking about what you offer helps add a screen of plausible deniability, at least.

(I've had various conversations with folk about like "Yeah I tend to request and offer the same things" or "I like mixing it up so that I don't request/offer the same things", and when you do exchanges a lot people end up with a pretty solid sense of "Oh, Y is almost certainly offering Z, I know they do that all the time.")

Also, congrats on signing up for Yuletide! :D

[brideoffrankenstein]

That's kinda what I thought, I just wanted to check just in case! I keep obsessively refreshing pages and scrolling through people's letters because i'm a mess and I'm hyperfocusing....I also added two fandoms into my offer that I didn't realise were in the taglist and it works out that I'm basically offering for thirteen bloody things....i am truly the worst haha.

[shadaras]

Not the worst! So long as it's fun for you then you're doing it right! :)

There is not a chance in hell that I'll get around to actively looking at letters etc until near the end of sign-ups, because I know myself and that for me doing one focused sweep is a lot more fun than keeping up with it as signups are ongoing.