Trick or Treat 2021 Welcome and Update

[pumpkinkingmod]

Hello, ghosts and goblins! It's time for another spooky season of Trick or Treat. I'd like to briefly introduce myself as the new Pumpkin King—Hello, I'm the new Pumpkin King! Thank you very much to the previous rulers who have made this event so much fun over the years.

The 2021 rules and FAQ post is here. The schedule remains as usual:

Sept 1 – Nominations Open
Sept 8 – Nominations Close
Sept 11 – Sign-Ups Open
Sept 18 – Sign-Ups Close
October 24 – Assignments Due
October 31 – Gift Reveals
November 7 – Creator Reveals

There is one significant update for the 2021 round of Trick or Treat; I've decided to add relationship nominations and matching as an option. If you love the traditional Trick or Treat character matching set-up, you can continue to nominate, request, and offer characters as usual! Relationship tags will just be an extra option for participants interested in that.

Due to these changes, I won’t be using an eternal tag set this year.

Let me know if you have any questions, and I'm excited for the tricks and treats to come!

Edit: Just a note that I'm slowing down on comment replies here but will get to questions as I can. The above changes are confirmed for the 2021 round. No decisions have been made about the 2022 round.

Comments

[grayswandir]

Just wanted to add a comment to agree with the others -- I really liked that ToT was character-matching, unlike most other exchanges. Last year I did both ToT and Shipoween, and although I enjoyed both a great deal, I had a much harder time finding offers I could make for Shipoween, so I was planning to do only ToT this year. (I'm very happy to write shipfic! I even wrote shipfic for ToT last year, but it was really nice that there was no pressure in it; I could include just as much shippiness as felt appropriate for the story, rather than agonizing over whether my story was technically shippy enough to fulfill a ship-based request. Matching on ships feels like more pressure to me, even if the ship is one that I like and enjoy writing.)

I realize you may already have things planned out, and may not want to change your plan, and that's fine! I just wanted to add my thoughts, in case you're still open to considering changes. I only have time to do a few exchanges each year, and the reason I was planning for ToT to be one of them was because of the matching system.

[pumpkinkingmod]

Thank you for chiming in! I'm keeping the ship options for this year, but the feedback is welcome. I hope you find enough fun matches if you decide to participate this year regardless.