ficinabox Reveals!

• Works in the collection: 787
• Works I commented on: 70
• Works I made: 7

I collected these stats yesterday, but I won't update them because they are more numerically pleasing this way :) Unfortunately, I didn't meet my commenting goal of 10% during the two-week anon period, but holy cow did people create a lot of things!!

Not sure what magic causes it, but I always have an amazing time with this exchange. There were a lot of great things to check out - most especially the wonderful gifts I received. Exchange collections are marvelous things in that way: this assortment of works that we each painstakingly tailored to a different recipient, so that so many people can look at it thinking their gifts were clearly the best things in the collection, and all be simultaneously correct. I managed to get my rec list in right at the end!

One of my favorite parts of FIAB is swaps, where you can trade away pieces of your initial assignment. I love being able to write for many different people, especially the knowledge that they'll also be receiving many (or at least plural) gifts. It makes me feel better if mine misses the mark for some reason. That being said, I went a little overboard, and swapped my original 10k assignment for 6 mini-assignments of 1-2k each. There's a lot of overhead in writing a gift, and obviously each time you try to target a certain wordcount, you'll go over a little, which is how I wound up writing 19k words in total.

The other unique aspect of FIAB is that you're encouraged to create for a variety of different mediums besides the traditional fic and art (if the recipient opted in to it). It's a bit ironic, considering the exchange is one of the few to actually have "fic" in the name :). I usually stick to only fic, but this time I decided to try my hand at Reddit posts and making a few other skins. I'm not totally sure how I feel about it. Creating them was fun, and made me feel like I was getting into the FIAB spirit more, but I still feel more confident with plain prose. 

Details of my works behind the cut!

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