eeep

[ratcreature]

I made the last minute decision to sign up for secret_mutant after all. So now I'm committed to two exchanges. *gulp*

But I got my assignment for yuletart where you could pick prompts, and while I didn't get my favorite for a match, I think it is very doable and I have an idea how draw the prompt (my first two preferences weren't the first preferences the recipients wanted to get, whereas the one I got assigned was the first the recipient wanted, so I get why I was matched there).

And if I successfully manage to make these two pieces, my art output this year won't be quite so abysmal.

I am a bit worried about secret_mutant because it is a mixed exchange, and in these the problem is always that many just don't think about art when prompting or giving extra info in exchange letters. I mean, I browsed the couple of letters people have already posted (I still need to post mine, I only just signed up), and three of the four only have sentences how they look forward to what people *write* or start with thanks for *writing* something, so if I got matched to someone like that, it would make me feel somewhat neurotic, that they'll just resent that they got matched with someone for art rather than getting a story and will not be happy with my gift no matter what.

Comments

[parhelion]

I can't claim this would be true of everyone, but I tend not to consider art when requesting because it's above and beyond what I think to ask for rather than because it's less than what I ask for and so a disappointment.

I'd be over the moon to receive art in one of my pet fandoms, and I'd wager that's true of at least some of the folks who only mention story details. They may not want to build up their hopes in vain or might not think they could get something so pleasing and rare.

[ratcreature]

Well, that may be, but last year this exchange wasn't hosted on AO3 and it had in the signup the yes/no option "I am okay with getting art instead of fic" and many people answered that with that they wanted only fic. So it's not only in my imagination that some might not be thrilled with art.