Arthuriana is the one that's knocked me out. What's the point of a rare fandom exchange when your rules are designed to disqualify rare fandoms who only have a presence during your exchange? This ludicrous character restriction aside, the amount-of-fic rule does not make sense in an annual exchange beyond a certain point--if a prompt hits some kind of zeitgeisty need and generates a huge number of fics in a single year, it could knock that fandom out of all future exchanges, whether the totality of the fic is within the last five years, or an archiving of long-dormant activity, or crossover/fusions that have little to do with the actual source. I just do not get this. And if all of it is, as I suspect, to preserve AO3's flawed-from-the-start tagging hierarchy, then it's really not a fest I want to participate in anyway.
Yeah, that's super-bullshit too. So basically, lovers of retellings that only get love during YT should hope that any media retelling fails miserably?
I wonder how a suggestion to exclude fics written *for* Yuletide from the minimum number would go. I know it can be done, and probably simply, but... *hands* Part of me vaguely remembers this being discussed a few years back, and it was shot down with extreme prejudice.
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I wonder how a suggestion to exclude fics written *for* Yuletide from the minimum number would go. I know it can be done, and probably simply, but... *hands* Part of me vaguely remembers this being discussed a few years back, and it was shot down with extreme prejudice.