Thank you for running Trick or Treat this year! I had a great time. It felt like a real return to form. Last year I think everyone was a bit wrung out - the number of people left treatless at the end was super high. This year brought back that energy, excitement, and community-oriented feeling that really makes Trick or Treat what it is to me.
I enjoyed the community challenge and I think it pushed me to create more! I liked that it was simple but ambitious. I'd look forward to another one like it next year.
I think adding relationship matching made it easier to ask for what I really wanted. My signup was 90% characters, with only one ship, because I was interested in a broad variety of stories about the single characters I asked for but really only wanted shipfic for the ship I asked for. And I got exactly what I wanted! So from that perspective it was a success. I also found it made it easier to find people to treat, not harder. I wrote a mix of gen and shipfic, and some of that shipfic was for single-character requests. But I feel like generally the addition of ship-matching made it easier to find out exactly what people wanted and give it to them. So I hope ship matching is part of ToT next year as well!
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Date: 2021-11-08 01:14 am (UTC)I enjoyed the community challenge and I think it pushed me to create more! I liked that it was simple but ambitious. I'd look forward to another one like it next year.
I think adding relationship matching made it easier to ask for what I really wanted. My signup was 90% characters, with only one ship, because I was interested in a broad variety of stories about the single characters I asked for but really only wanted shipfic for the ship I asked for. And I got exactly what I wanted! So from that perspective it was a success. I also found it made it easier to find people to treat, not harder. I wrote a mix of gen and shipfic, and some of that shipfic was for single-character requests. But I feel like generally the addition of ship-matching made it easier to find out exactly what people wanted and give it to them. So I hope ship matching is part of ToT next year as well!