#victuurigiftexchange

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Does anyone know what’s going on with Victuuri Gift Exchange?

Six days ago, they said there would be a deadline extension with fics revealed on December 30th, but it’s been crickets since then. I’ve sent an ask and nobody has answered, and I know other people have asked and not gotten an answer.

I know it’s just one person running it, and that always creates the danger that someone is going to end up being too busy/something bad happens and they don’t have internet access/et cetera, so does anyone know what’s going on and if we can do anything to help out?

And any advice as to what to do if you have a fic sitting unreleased and you can’t get any communication as to when or if it’s going to be released at any reasonable point in the future?

[sterlynwrites]

Re-work and Refocus

Hello to those who have just started following me, and hello to those who have been here since the beginning of time. I wanted to first thank you for sticking around and also for being interested in my writing. I know I don’t produce quickly at all, but I can promise that I have been working on things. 

Thus, the idea for this post came to light. I wanted to let you all know I am not dead, just merely changing the way I write so that it’s more enjoyable for everyone and puts less pressure on trying to keep up with things. What this means is any multi-chaptered stories I write will be posted only after they are 90% - 100% complete. 

This is so there is a guarantee that the story is finished, because I myself hate when a great story isn’t finished and sits there and just fades out. I don’t want this to happen with my work (Connections on Ice is enough pressure for that).

So, this is a post for me to keep up with things and also for you all to kind of have an idea of what I’m working on: 

Projects: 

Big Bang On Ice - Participating as a writer. This is a long commitment so you won’t see this Fic and the corresponding art until February, I think? 

Yuletide Gift Fic Exchange 2017 - This is something I have participated in for the last two years. This will not be YOI but I hope you guys enjoy whatever comes from it. 

Victuri Gift Exchange - This looks like it’s going to be a lot of fun so I am looking forward to doing something with this when the assignments come out. 

Fics I’m Currently Working On: 

BBOI Fic - I can’t give anymore information out on this right now, just know the project will probably end up being around the length of “To Melt the Snow and Mend a Heart.” I hope you look forward to it! 

Connections on Ice - So I know a lot of you guys are probably wondering what the heck is going on with Connections on Ice. Well, the simple answer is that it’s going through heavy revisions. This may just be to the grammar and flow, or I might end up doing it over completely. As most of you who found that story know I started it WAY before episode 10, which was a game changer. 

I thought I could keep going, but the more and more I worked on things and other stories, the more and more I realized that really, this story needs some cleaning up and TLC. I did it mostly without a beta and I want to clean up the chapters and refocus on things. So my beta and I are looking at the chapters and I’m going to start tweaking things. I’ll put the updates for that on here as it progresses. Once we catch up to where it is now, then I will continue on with the plot. 

Special Halloween Surprise - Yeah, I’m working quietly on this. Not many people know what it’s going to look like, but it will be YOI and it will hopefully be creepy. It will go up, predictably on October 31st if I am lucky. 

Vampire Yuuri Fic - A while back when my page was relatively new I was given some requests by some people. So this is one I need to fulfill (did you think I forgot, I promise I didn’t!) and so I had a poll and people voted on Vampire Yuuri. This will come at some point, but it is working. I promise @littleladykokomos

Voltron Legendary Defender - I have a Shiro and Lance story I’ve been wanting to write for a while, and I figure it would break up all the YOI that I’ve been doing, so this has some plotting going on.

Phichit / Yuuri Fic - This one is a War fic with Memory Loss, lots of UST and several other things thrown into the mix. It be more clear once I’ve gotten into it a little bit more. 

To Melt the Snow and Mend a Heart 2 (No Working Title) - This is going to be part two that was started in the Reversebang. It’s a fantasy AU that I didn’t want to let go of quite yet. 

There are others, but I figure these will serve as good teasers right now as the other stories are still in the running for being BBOI fics. 

[shysweetthing]

Here is all the information I have on Victuri Gift Exchange

So this is everything I’ve been able to determine:

1) People have submitted works between 12/25 and 12/30.

(a) The number of works contained in the collection has not changed since 12/25 (my personal observation) — it has been stuck at 34 since then.

(b) We know people have submitted since 12/25 (someone has commented at 12/30).

2) This means that nobody is approving works into the collection.

3) The only posts by the mod explicitly say that the collection will be revealed on 12/30. It is now definitely not 12/30.

4) Nobody’s answering asks or emails.

5) There has been no activity since 12/25.

At this point, my personal course of action is this:

1) I’m going to send one (polite!) ask to the moderator, and a simultaneous email, saying that people are worried and if they are capable of offering a response, to please do so.

2) If I don’t get a response, I’m going to pull my work from the collection tonight and post it. I’m still going to gift it to my giftee, so happy new year to them, I hope they (and everyone else) likes it!

3) In a couple of days, if there has still been no action from the moderator, I suggest that a couple of us get together and collectively divide the list of participants from the FAQ page listed on AO3, and contact them one-by-one and suggest that they pull their works from the collection and post them individually, as the mod appears to be unable to do so.

My only suggestion to others at this point is to be polite to the mod in all asks/emails/communications. I know this situation is frustrating for all, but we don’t know what happened to them. They obviously put in a LOT of work just to exchange names/find pinch hitters/keep track of what was going on up until the 25th. Being a moderator for one of these jobs is thankless work—nobody says anything about you if things function well, but if something goes wrong, everyone blames you. So even if we decide to withdraw, let’s not badmouth someone who has put in a lot of work and is almost certainly dealing with a tough time.