Misc announcements

[bridgetmkennitt]

I started my grad program yesterday, so please give me some time to answer emails and comments. I gave a quick lookthrough of fics and didn't find obvious placeholders. Yay! There were a few formatting/no space issues in a few fics I found, and plenty who were tagless (tags aren't mandatory, but highly recommended), but there's still time for that.

If you have a draft in the collection, please post it. Drafts can't be read by anyone but you and they do not count as fulfilling your assignment.

Treats over 1k can be placed in the Not Prime Time 2016 collection while treats under 1k and non-fic works can be placed in the Prime Time Madness 2016 collection.

If you are having some difficulty in coming up with tags for your story, here are some questions that might be helpful.

What kind of story is it? (Fluffy, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Character Study, etc)
Is it an AU? (There are several different type of Alternate Universe canonical tags)
Did you write about a threesome? (Specific types of threesome are canonical tags as well as just the regular Threesome tag)
Did you write porn? (There are plenty of canonical tags for various sexual acts)
What kind of relationship do your characters have with each other? (Friendship, Rivals, Siblings, Developing Relationship, etc)
What do your characters do? (There are plenty of canonical tags for events/situations)

If none of these sound like they could fit your story, there is always the option of refreshing the Random Tags page to see what pops up.

Useful Links
Not Prime Time 2016 (with schedule) | Prime Time Madness 2016
Frequently Asked Questions | AO3 exchange faq for participants | Pinch Hitting faq
2016 tag set
Dear Prime Time Player on LJ | on DW
Requests in a txt file | Requests on AO3
How to upload (and default) (2015 examples)

Comments

[bridgetmkennitt]

Greetings.

I saw your first PM to me yesterday morning, but was unable to respond as I had to go to campus and remained there for 14 hours going to lab and studying. When I returned, I saw your second PM that you didn't "want a dialogue" and you were "blocking everything." As you felt so strongly against me, especially since you thought I "championed an anon who only came into that thread to stir things," and your recipient had defaulted, I felt it best to default your assignment and reject your fic out of the collection. This way you were no longer associated with Not Prime Time, both for your sake and my own. Currently, your fic is still anon and I believe still unrevealed.

I also mentioned your icon once and that was to the anonymous comment saying I didn't care about your icon, in that I don't care what it says or looks like.

Not Prime Time has been my exchange since the beginning, over five years ago. As it is my exchange, I am within my rights to mod as I feel necessary. This includes providing information to participants who may find it useful, which includes suggestions on how to tag. I did the same thing last year. You keep, in both PMs and comments on this post, believing that I am forcing people to tag an excessive amount of tags on their fics, which I haven't. I even expressed my non-mod opinion on that agreeing with you about excessive tags. In your first PM, you wrote "I'm just trying to be genuine, honest, and speak up on a fandom issue I thought was important, because for some of us the spreading tendency to excess tag on AO3 is a definite do-not-want to encourage," and that's fine, but you are reading into my words things I did not say.

I allow anonymous commenting in the comms, and I felt the anonymous comment was a little blunt, so I gently reproached them because the comment wasn't needed.

I was unable to inform you because you had written in your second PM that you were blocking everything, which I assumed included myself from responding to you. I felt rejecting your fic from the collection was the best course of action for the both of us. You still have a gift in the collection, so I do ask that you read and comment on it because your author worked hard and I don't want them to receive backlash because you disagree with how I run my own exchange.

I mentioned in this post that I started my grad program, but today I will be home all day studying and editing my own fics. I won't be home much Sunday onward due to the nature of my grad program course load, if you need a timeframe of my schedule since yesterday I was gone for most of the day when you sent those PMs.

[roseveare]

I don't see how the timeframe comes into it. I was prepared to drop discussion of it all and leave off, but I don't see how rejecting something I'd put so much work into comes across as a good solution whether the recipient defaulted or not. In the second PM I spoke about my effort to ensure the fic would be edited that evening in the archive. If I was putting so much visible effort into ensuring I'd fulfilled my signup, how on Earth does it come across as the right idea to default me? As anything other than an act meant as some kind of reprisal? If you would like to reinstate my assignment, I will agree to deleting the comments about the assignment deletion and the two posts on lj and dw [EDIT: And the AO3 complaint; forgot].

That is the best course of action, that is the one I would prefer, and since I spent time on a fic for my recipient, I would like that fic to go out in the archive to them, please.

I wouldn't dream of ignoring someone who'd put their own effort into writing a fic for me.

More additions, as it seems the initial quick response won't get me the quick resolution I'd hoped: I said that I did not want a dialogue because I felt that it would not help, after reflection - ie, neither of us is going to change our stance, discussing it was pointless, as the reiteration of ideas above proves.

Your comment to the anon holds no trace of chiding to my eyes. You even seemed pleased that they chose to post anonymously.

[bridgetmkennitt]

I posted my schedule so you knew I was at home to see your responses, but unfortunately I was away from the computer getting ready for the day when you both left this comment and two edits, as well as the second comment.

Your fic is still anon and unrevealed, and it still has the recipient's name attached to it, so it would get to your recipient if you didn't want Not Prime Time's name attached to it. If you want your fic back in the collection, I can do so, as long as you are okay that your fic is also associated with Not Prime Time (and indirectly myself) since you feel so strongly against it.

You can keep the comments and posts up. I don't care.

[roseveare]

I completed my assignment and I would like it to go live as a part of the archive. Thank you.

I will remove my posts, and would appreciate if you could delete this thread, if not the one above (I'm happy for that discussion and alterate viewpoint to remain), as I'd like the recipient and my writer not to be associated with fannish unrest. I think that's best.

[bridgetmkennitt]

Three edits now.

[roseveare]

well, I wrote quickly first, so I didn't get all my thughts in there. like I said: hoping for a quick resolution.

[bridgetmkennitt]

Your fic is back in the collection. I just had to approve it out of the rejected tab.

[roseveare]

Thank you. Matter resolved... hopefully?

[roseveare]

I would really like a yes/no answer now because I have to go out in a minute and I'd rather not leave those posts up there if the issue is resolved and I don't need to. Will my fic be reinstated? (If you have to re-assign it to me again, I can re-post, whichever.)