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It was my first time participating in Bulletproof, and I don't know why I waited so long! This is an exchange where you match on tropes rather than characters/pairings, and are likely not to even know the canon of the gift you receive. I often read fic for the tropes rather than the characters (and I absolutely do have a bulletproof kink that I scour the Archive for, regardless of fandom), so this setup suited me well.

Even though I missed nominations, my id was well represented in the tagset, and there were no request minimums. (Sign-ups were a breeze!) Also fun is that the exchange encourages treats by generating three assignments for each participant, and offering them up like pinch hits (though only one gift per recipient is guaranteed). Unhampered by my ~~terrible~~ niche taste in fandoms, I was amazed to receive three amazing gifts!

I thought I'd write for one of my rare fandoms and try to lure an unsuspecting soul into it, but I ended up writing two Genshin Impact fics instead. One was some Zhongli/Xiao D/s smut, and the other was a Neuvillette/Wriothesley AU for the same tag I requested. I was shocked by how much attention the latter received from the fandom at large. (To be fair, they are from the latest region, and more mainstream than Zhongli/Xiao was even back in its day.)

Overall a very good experience, and I had fun running around reading everyone else's id afterwards as well. (I managed to leave 19 comments!) Adding this to my slate of favorite exchanges. Only downside is that organization mostly happens on Discord, which is something I can't keep up with for the life of me. Well, here's hoping I'll notice it in time to participate next year too!