I love your notes on the storytelling conventions you used! I didn't click on the work because I don't know Clone Wars but hmm. I just recently read a collection of Russian fairy tales and it was a delight to pick up repeated patterns - it makes me realise that there is a distinct disadvantage to getting one's fairy tale and folklore base from the Andrew Lang colour-themed collections, as I did, as those present a mix of sources and traditions in each volume.
I also pinch hit for fandom5k without signing up! And came to the opposite conclusion: it's a super good thing I didn't sign up. Which I knew anyway, but corroborating evidence is good, I suppose. I can simultaneously say that I liked my recipient's prompts and take on canon and had fun with the ideas in the story AND that the story ate me, adding its own distinct levels of stress to April and May. I would not have wanted to be randomly assigned a prompt; I would only have succeeded with a prompt I had time to consider and then deliberately choose. Also, weirdly, in exchanges that are tough for me, not getting a gift can feel almost freeing, because it means that at the works reveals point my role is DONE.
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Date: 2017-05-26 09:28 am (UTC)I also pinch hit for fandom5k without signing up! And came to the opposite conclusion: it's a super good thing I didn't sign up. Which I knew anyway, but corroborating evidence is good, I suppose. I can simultaneously say that I liked my recipient's prompts and take on canon and had fun with the ideas in the story AND that the story ate me, adding its own distinct levels of stress to April and May. I would not have wanted to be randomly assigned a prompt; I would only have succeeded with a prompt I had time to consider and then deliberately choose. Also, weirdly, in exchanges that are tough for me, not getting a gift can feel almost freeing, because it means that at the works reveals point my role is DONE.