Dead Dog Post

[zvi]

There is a tradition in conventions to have a "Dead Dog" panel at the end of a con, where you let the con moderators know what went right and what went wrong with the convention. I'm going to try that with this challenge, so it can run better next year.

I don't have many specific questions, just in general I'd like to know:

-- did I do something that made it easier for you to participate?
-- did I do something that made it harder for you to participate?
-- what really cool thing did I not do that you wish I had?

Specifically, I did wonder if people would like

a) to open the stories up to relationships with greater than three people? Please think about this not just from the perspective of how great it would be that you can now request your OT4 as part of 3 Ships, but also how you're going to react when you get that OT9 assignment in the fandom you offered just so you had three offers.

b) to collect, as a challenge community, recommendations for threesome stories that have been posted outside of 3 Ships?

c) to make available a list of unassigned prompts that people could pick up and write, and, if they finished by the deadline, include as part of 3 Ships?

If you don't feel like commenting publicly, feel free to pm me or e-mail me.

Comments

[amadi]

A big yes on having the unfilled prompts made available. It'd be great to have that impetus to write more. I think having the unfilled prompts even after the exchange deadline, for future writing (gifting via AO3 and with header notes, etc.) would be great too, maybe there could even be an open post here where people could post through several weeks after the exchange to say "I filled Janedoe's prompt..." with a link?

I'm ambivalent trending toward the negative on OT4s+ just because threesomes and three ships seem such a natural match. I have a strong sense that it's diluting the specialty that makes this exchange different from the other sesa exchanges. As a writer, I also think you lose some of the particular dynamic of three when you expand the number. It's not something I really have a desire to explore, or really to read, either. If it were implemented, I'd be highly appreciative of the system coneyislandbaby described, with the required threesome, and other partners being optional additions that a writer could include but wouldn't be penalized for not making a part of the primary relationship.

Thanks again for a great exchange, Zvi.