Creators Revealed + Feedback

[embraidery]

 Creators are revealed at the collection! Thanks again, everyone. This has gone so smoothly! 

Now, for next year’s round: I’d love to hear feedback on the tagging system. Is it necessary at all? Did it make sense? Is there a different way you might prefer?

Thank you all, and I hope to see you in 2026!

Comments

[zabbers]

I both thought it was nice to be able to specify romantic vs. sexual unrequitedness and had some trouble keeping track of what it was I was or wasn't requesting when I used subsets of them. I know that's not super helpful! For creating, it was useful to help narrow down or guide where to go with the unship.

I think as a requestor I mainly tripped myself up over whether something like "Unrequited Romantic" meant "A has romantic feelings for B, which are not returned" or "A has romantic and sexual feelings for B, but the romantic feelings are not returned". The way I used them was...depending on the ship, but then I was worried my optional details or DNWs would cause a problem for a creator who had intended on the opposite of what I used it for?

And then when I used more than one option, I think I should actually just have written down all the combinations of things that were possible, or written down what I didn't want to be possible... I don't even know if my explanation makes sense, but maybe it gives some sense of my experience with the tags.

[artemisdart]

I appreciated being able to differentiate between unrequited romantic feelings, unrequited sexual feelings, or both. I always asked for all three, but I could see that some other people might want one or two, but not the other(s).

The tagging was much simpler for this exchange than it was for Hurt/Comfort, so I appreciated that!

[sodomhipped]

I had a great time participating in this exchange. Thank you for running it!

As for the tagging system, I thought it was intuitive. The X for X style was really easy to understand. I also liked the option of specifying romantic, sexual, or both feelings as unrequited. It made me think about what I wanted out of each ship (although I think I used "any tag" across the board).

Can't wait for next year!