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escritoireazul) wrote2015-12-28 05:34 pm
escritoireazul) wrote2015-12-28 05:34 pm
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Fandom: Yuletide
Edited 10:25 p.m.
Clarifying a few things.
First, and most important, this is not the recipient's fault at all. All stories written for her came under scrutiny because her assignment was a placeholder at the time the stories were revealed. I don't think she complained about the treat, but even if she did, that's still on me, not her, so no blaming the recipient.
There was never any chance my story would become her main gift, because I made sure she had a story before I posted it, and the second she became aware the assignment story was a placeholder, I removed her as the recipient of the treat so that she would receive another main gift. I encouraged her to discuss the placeholder with the mods. I wrote the treat because I wanted her to have a good Yuletide.
Second, I had already responded to the mods before I posted here, referencing the part of the rules I thought was not clear, and why I had posted where I posted. That's done. I have not attacked the mods, nor am I trying to attack them with this post. If you look back through my Yuletide tag, I talk about Yuletide a lot, and that includes the frustrating parts as well as the joyful parts.
The mods flagging my story does not mean they're going through the archive looking for reasons to reprimand people, and that is not at all what I said or implied.
Third, I have not been banned or made to write a NYR in order to participate next year. That's not what I meant by reprimand, and I'm sorry I wasn't clear about that.
I am frustrated that by writing a treat as a gift for a friend and following the rules as I understood them, I was reprimanded. What's done is done, and I do not regret writing that specific story as a treat for a friend.
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I just got reprimanded for a treat I posted in the main archive that did not strictly comply with the officially requested fandoms and characters, despite the fact that authors have always been told they do not need to strictly follow this, including using all the characters requested, if the recipient makes it clear it is not necessary to do so, which was made clear to me before I wrote the treat. I was very careful to make sure the treat was not the only story the recipient would receive, both before stories were revealed and then after, when there was a problem with the story from the assigned author. Per the email, this is why I am being reprimanded, because it almost became the recipient's only story, which is untrue.
I have participated in Yuletide for 10 years, and I have written every assignment without bothering the mods for anything, even when there was a potential problem with the assignment. In addition, most years I also write pinch hits and numerous treats. I am disappointed and disheartened that something that helped salvage a shitty Yuletide reveals day for a recipient has earned a reprimand.
Fucking Yuletide 2015 has not been a great experience, I have to say, for a variety of reasons, but this takes the cake. I may talk about this more after reveals, when doing so will not out me as the author, because, for some unknown reason, I am still complying with the rules.
Clarifying a few things.
First, and most important, this is not the recipient's fault at all. All stories written for her came under scrutiny because her assignment was a placeholder at the time the stories were revealed. I don't think she complained about the treat, but even if she did, that's still on me, not her, so no blaming the recipient.
There was never any chance my story would become her main gift, because I made sure she had a story before I posted it, and the second she became aware the assignment story was a placeholder, I removed her as the recipient of the treat so that she would receive another main gift. I encouraged her to discuss the placeholder with the mods. I wrote the treat because I wanted her to have a good Yuletide.
Second, I had already responded to the mods before I posted here, referencing the part of the rules I thought was not clear, and why I had posted where I posted. That's done. I have not attacked the mods, nor am I trying to attack them with this post. If you look back through my Yuletide tag, I talk about Yuletide a lot, and that includes the frustrating parts as well as the joyful parts.
The mods flagging my story does not mean they're going through the archive looking for reasons to reprimand people, and that is not at all what I said or implied.
Third, I have not been banned or made to write a NYR in order to participate next year. That's not what I meant by reprimand, and I'm sorry I wasn't clear about that.
I am frustrated that by writing a treat as a gift for a friend and following the rules as I understood them, I was reprimanded. What's done is done, and I do not regret writing that specific story as a treat for a friend.
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I just got reprimanded for a treat I posted in the main archive that did not strictly comply with the officially requested fandoms and characters, despite the fact that authors have always been told they do not need to strictly follow this, including using all the characters requested, if the recipient makes it clear it is not necessary to do so, which was made clear to me before I wrote the treat. I was very careful to make sure the treat was not the only story the recipient would receive, both before stories were revealed and then after, when there was a problem with the story from the assigned author. Per the email, this is why I am being reprimanded, because it almost became the recipient's only story, which is untrue.
I have participated in Yuletide for 10 years, and I have written every assignment without bothering the mods for anything, even when there was a potential problem with the assignment. In addition, most years I also write pinch hits and numerous treats. I am disappointed and disheartened that something that helped salvage a shitty Yuletide reveals day for a recipient has earned a reprimand.
Fucking Yuletide 2015 has not been a great experience, I have to say, for a variety of reasons, but this takes the cake. I may talk about this more after reveals, when doing so will not out me as the author, because, for some unknown reason, I am still complying with the rules.
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