Reveals 2016: The "No One Wants Your Feelings, Mod" Edition

[nino-mod.livejournal.com]

I've been feeling a Certain Way this entire run so I want to say briefly (uh, reveals under the cut if you want to skip my feelings): thank you for being here. My absolute favorite thing about being the mod is getting to know people, whether that's in the e-mails I trade with writers, or in comments people leave on the fic they love, or in passing when someone on my Twitter list mentions how excited they are or how much fun they're having.

I feel like this year was the hardest yet, on a personal level for many (your mod included, for a number of reasons, and I'm sorry if my being so scattered made for a less-than-excellent experience for you; thank you again for your patience and understanding), but also because, as I heard more than ever this year, the pressure on writers is high because the standard for fic in this exchange is top-notch -- and it's all your fault. Thank you to all of the writers who made it out and pushed through rough times to contribute to another round of fantastic fic (whether it was your first or your sixth or your celebrated return after time away), and to all of the readers and lurkers who get just as worked up about the exchange as those who produce/receive fic for it. Honestly, this exchange is everything it is because you all get so excited and make it so special, so despite life being what it is for all of us, thank you for letting the Ninomiya Exchange be a part of it.

Of course, I owe some folks the usual writerly thank yous: to my beta help, lysanderpuck and shardaunei (the latter who, yet again, offered to beta a huge amount of fic without even signing up for the exchange; next year all of the fic will be co-dedicated to her), and to my pinch hitters: no one, because you all are effing amazing and you all delivered fantastically.

... anyway, sorry about that. Feelings done; thanks for reading if you did. Now onto the real stuff:

Recipient	Writer	Fic
64907	lover_youshould	Shadows in Slow Motion
airairo	kleif_asu	Where We Belong
akhikaru	silver_crystall	Always on my mind
an_jung	ltgmars	Sakebe yo, Go! Go!
arashikuro	cupcake4mafia	Troubleshooting
astrangerenters	kanu_x	Memories of The Void
auburn_witch	clipsie	A Tame Life
calerine	katsutamu	Sunless Eyes, Look Up
clipsie	lotus	the team that plays together, slays together
cupcake4mafia	airairo	Catch
cutselvage	littlealex	The Peanut Gallery
gomushroom	64907	if the seas catch fire
gurajiorasu	silverdoll14	Logic
ica_90	negai3104	‘Til After Death Do Us Part
inaudible_d	koi_choshi	Fire in the Rain
jade_lil	phrenk	Should You Choose to Accept It
kanu_x	inaudible_d	Flirtatious
katsutamu	akhikaru	Transition
kirasebi	an_jung	With You
kleif_asu	natsunonamae	Or We Could Blossom
koi_choshi	murrponchan	how to care for your aiba masaki.
littlealex	ica_90	(Virtual) Reality
lotus	auburn_witch	In cups of coffee (I measure you)
lover_youshould	kirasebi	Even if the world ends today, we’ll find each other
ltgmars	arashikuro	“Nino, We Like You!”
lysanderpuck	gurajiorasu	Bang, Baby, Bang!
murrponchan	piggywhale	The Most Difficult Thing of Being BFF
natsunonamae	sky_fish7	You owe me 2.400 Yen and a Kiss
negai3104	calerine	O-Hanami (お花見, or Cherry Blossom Viewing)
nicefinalbeam	wendyjoly	Possibly maybe
phrenk	jade_lil	At Sea For You (Sail away with me)
piggywhale	lysanderpuck	vanishing stardust
silver_crystall	gomushroom	Tadaima for Okaeri
silverdoll14	nicefinalbeam	Random Acts of Furniture
sky_fish7	cutselvage	The Language of Flowers
wendyjoly	astrangerenters	I Would Become A Constellation (To Be Next To You)

I accidentally assigned a writer/recipient pair to each other, which was the result of a whole lot of messiness in the assignment phase. jade_lil and phrenk, I'm sorry for not being able to give you a more exciting reveals announcement. I hope you still had fun. <3


That's all, folks! Hope to see you around next year, in whatever capacity you choose to be here. :3.

Comments

[calerine.livejournal.com]

aaaaaah thank you mod for being so patient always!!! you are a SUPERSTAR. I had so much fun and feelings during this run and I just rly felt the sense of community around fandom again which was wonderful. also thank you to my writer katsutamu for such a wonderful fic *A* I really enjoyed it!! ♥♥♥

[katsutamu.livejournal.com]

It was a pleasure! ^.^

[negai3104.livejournal.com]

This was such a lovely exchange <3 A lot of great fics! Thanks for running it, Nino Mod :D

And a huuuuuugeeee thank you to calerine!! It was such a beautiful fic <3

[calerine.livejournal.com]

it was a pleasure writing for you!

[natsunonamae.livejournal.com]

You were a gem all throughout this exchange, nino_mod! I definitely felt that it was a harder process for me this year, for personal reasons as you already mentioned, but you made dealing with that easier! Thanks for the patience all throughout.

All that said, congrats on another awesome year of NinoEx! Even though it was tougher for you, do know that you're doing this fandom good. Really felt the community come alive again for this exchange. Congrats to all the writers this year too! ♥

Thanks to sky_fish7 for my fic, I really enjoyed it!!! So glad to get a fic from someone I wrote for last year. /warm fuzzies :D

/gets off to consume all the amazing fic I have yet to read

[sky-fish7.livejournal.com]

You're very welcome my dear and I'm so so happy that you enjoyed the story! I have to admit when I first saw that I got assigned to you I got really nervous because I remember the story you wrote for me last year so perfeclty and I still love it so much that I got scared if I might ever be able to create something worthy to "give back" to you. However, I wanted this fic to become as good as possible for you and so the situation motivated me even more. I'm so relieved it turned out well and that you enjoyed it! ^^ May I hug you? X//D

[koi-choshi.livejournal.com]

Congratulations, mods for this year's exchange!!! You made me feel at ease because I was actually beyond intimidated when I saw the participants.

Thanks to my lovely writer murrponchan for giving me that lovely fic!!! I loved it.

To my beta, I'm not really sure who you are but thanks for teaching me how to fix my story and what to do in the future. Thanks so much!

I want to special mention my recipient inaudible_d for that live commentary. You made me cry. ^o^

[inaudible-d.livejournal.com]

XDDDD Thanks to YOU for that beautiful story! I looooove it so much! I'm sorry I didn't leave something more coherent in the comment box XDDDDD

[koi-choshi.livejournal.com]

Nahh it's fine, I love the way you commented (I just had to reread to match your commentary with the part). So glad you enjoyed because I wasn't sure how to please you XD

[shardaunei.livejournal.com]

Wow! No pinch-hitters?! Good job, everyone. I'm glad you guys persevered.
Yes, this exchange seems intimidating to people. You have no idea how many times I've asked peeps to join since this started. haha. I'm glad they tried this year even though I didn't get to. So proud. *tears*
Okay, enough dramatics.
Great job, Mod-chan. It was a great beta'ing for you. I had the opportunity to read first those fics and it's great finally knowing who wrote them. (Yes, I myself didn't know who wrote those fics, except for ica_90's.)
See you guys on the next exchange.

[jade-lil.livejournal.com]

oh.

oh.

ahahah. that was surprising but not at all bad! Dear Mod, don't worry about it! To phrenk, I guess this is a first LOL. Thank you for the wonderful fic you wrote for me! I love it.

[satoyan]

Oh man, that's amazing. :D Thank you for your lovely fic!! I'm so grateful and pleased. <3 (And thank you to nino-mod, and, um, more apologies for my many delays. <3)

[gomushroom.livejournal.com]

Another great June, nino_mod! This year has been particularly hard for me, so you are being the best as usual is truly ♥! Thank you for everything, as always! (I still have lots of amazing fics to enjoy, and will do so soon!)

[piggywhale.livejournal.com]

This is my first time in this exchange and I was one of those who felt pressure from the overall quality of the fics here. But nino_mod certainly made the experience here super fun. It has been friendly, relaxing and comfortable participating in this exchange. Dear mod even kindly put up with my delays and inefficiency, for which I am forever grateful. Thank you so much again for everything. Also, our dearest betas, thank you so muh for helping with my story in such a very short time. You have been such a great help. Thank you.

In addition, I will not be able to thank lysanderpuck enough for the wonderful story you wrote for me. It is so amazing and I really really love it. The best thing about the reveal is that it let me know there are more of your works out there that I know I would certainly enjoy. I guess I am on with more reading to do now :D

Lastly, for every writers that participated in the exchange this year. Thank you for all the wonderful stories. I enjoy every story I read so far thoroughly and there are more that I haven't got a chance to gone through yet. And I am looking forward to every one of them. <3<3

[lysanderpuck.livejournal.com]

yay I'm so glad you liked it!!! I was like "man I'm the only person that goes into an exchange that celebrates Nino and makes him sad" lmao
It was a pleasure :)

just checked my lj and it doesn't say anything about my fanfic if you couldn't find it...taykash is my fic journal but i think my ao3 (same name) is updated more often.

[piggywhale.livejournal.com]

I was really happy you wrote a sad fic. And when I said I love it, I really wasn't just being polite. I meant it. I was and still am so very happy about the story. Now that you mentioned it is probably the only real sad fic (the others had happy endings as far as I could tell), I feel very special. :D Ha ha ha. It is all because of you. Thank you, again.

Actually, I did try to look for you up on AO3 earlier too. Sorry for being such a stalker. Hehee. Thanks for helping me find your fics. You are such a dear <3

[inaudible-d.livejournal.com]

Thanks to YOU, dearest nino_mod for making all of these possible! We all had a hard time but we all had a lot of fun in the end and it wouldn't have been possible without your amazing role on this year's event too! Thank you for always being so dependable through the hardest of times! ❤❤❤

[katsutamu.livejournal.com]

Thanks to you, nino_mod, for doing all the hard work in running this exchange! We had it easy; all we had to do was indulge in our fanciful imaginations and write stuff (sparkly,awesome stuff featuring our favorite five boys, too! What fun!) but you had to deal with all the nitty-gritty organizing and behind-the-scenes communications. So thank you for taking the time to bring the Nino Exchange into our lives and hope your RL perks up too.

akhikaru, thanks for that lovely fic! Infidelity is a topic I wish we could all write more of, and thanks for stepping up to do it! I really enjoyed reading it :) <3333

[akhikaru]

You're welcomeeee!!! ^w^ I'm very happy you liked it~
It's an interesting topic indeed! It's not the easiest to deal with, but I'm glad I wrote it :)
*sends hugs ^^*

[arashikuro.livejournal.com]

cupcake4mafia Thank you so much for the awesome fic you wrote for me! I loved it! <3

[ltgmars.livejournal.com]

Thank you again for the fic! I've said this already, but Nino loving everyone and being loved by everyone is literally everything I live for, and I'm so glad you picked up on it and put it into such a fun group love story. ♥

[arashikuro.livejournal.com]

You're welcome! I'm glad you enjoyed it! <3

[64907]

Thank you for all the hard work this year, nino_mod! And congrats for yet another great run of this amazing exchange!

And huge, huge, huge thank you to lover_youshould for turning sugar daddy Matsumoto to a reality. I knew it was you LOL. Thank you for gracing us with that wonderful gem of a fic, you are amazing and deserve all the virtual hearts. ❤️

[gomushroom.livejournal.com]

OH YOUUUU! OMG OMG OMG ♥! I AM SO VERY BLESSED WITH EXCHANGES THIS YEAR AND YOU ARE THE SOLE REASON OF ALL THE AWESOME. AHHHH! THANK YOU SO SOOOO MUCH FOR THE BEST-EST FIC, YOU ARE A TRUE CHAMPION ♥!

[lysanderpuck.livejournal.com]

u welcome homegirl

gurajiorasu thanks so much for the fic!! I really appreciate how much of my likes you put into it :)

[reveetoile]

Thank you for making my first Exchange so special dear mod. It was wonderful and I am really happy that you were so patient with me :D
It was the best and all my worries about participating one just vanished (more or less XD at least. I will be forever nervous that my recipient won't like the story I'll write for her XD happily that didn't happen this time around)

And thank you so much to an_jung I was really happy reading your story and receiving such a cute one :D

[sky-fish7.livejournal.com]

Dear all, thank yo so so much for making this event awesome like every year! This was my fourth time participating and it's always a pleaseure, the writing process, the reading period and I am definitely not ready yet to let go of this! In fact, I'm still in the middle of reading so many fics because seriously, I'm slow and I definitely didn't have enough spare time for reading at all during this event but I want to read each and every single one of them! I seriously consider to take a week off from work next year around Ninoexchange, I mean it! XDD

Big Big Thanks to nino_mod who pulled this through even with personal troubles (I hope you're doing fine >.<"). It's amazing how you organize this each and every year! I only can imagine how much work it is to make such an event happen! The assignments, the posting, all the things "backstage"... so much work D: I might only be able to talk about myself but I think it's not a bad thing to assign writers to one another, so please don't see it as a miss xD I mean, I would be happy if the one I wrote for also wrote for me! I'm really thankful for the chance that this year I could write for the precious person who wrote for me last year! This exchange is all about giving and taking and I was seriously happy to be able to "give back" this time. <3

I really hope this exchange will keep on for years and that I will have the chance to participate again and again! I said it on another comment already but this exchange is my favorite exchange/writing event of the year and I'm already looking forward to next year! The level of quality of the fics gathering here is just awesome and all of those precious fics might probably never have happened without this exchange, without you mod and without all the participants of course. Because all together we make sparkles and turn them into beautiful stories.

My Biggest Thanks in this of course goes to my lovely writer cutselvage, who gave me such a lovely, awesome, gorgeous, cute, perfect fic! *hugs you and never lets you go* Seriously, I'm so so happy about the story and I'm so so grateful for every single word you wrote and I just love this story so much! I hope I could at least capture a bit of my love for it in my comment on it. I feel like no comment of mine could do justice to my feelings XD So let me just say this one more time: Thank you! <3

[cutselvage.livejournal.com]

you are so very welcome! writing your fic was a joy and a pleasure <3

[akhikaru]

Ahhhh it was fun this year!!!! Thanks to nino_mod and everybody else for another awesome Nino Exchange! :D I haven't been able to read all fics, but so far it's been incredible <3
silver_crystall thanks again for that wonderful fic! :D I reeeally had a great time reading it ^^
Looking forward to the next timee~~~ :D

[silver-crystall.livejournal.com]

I have been on a long trip during summer without much internet, so I only could look in here by now.

I was really relieved upon reading your comment under the story and that you liked it. I had a great time writing it too, so thanks for the prompts^^

[ica-90.livejournal.com]

Thank yo so much mod for this wonderful experience. Glad that you organize this again this year. Thanks to all the writers who had produced all those wonderful fic.

To negai3104, thank you so much foe the fic you had wrote. I am so happy reading it. Thank you for fulfilling the prompt for me.

Hope to see this exchange again next year :)

[an_anna]

Thank you sooo much for ltgmars for make a beautifull fanfic!!!

i love it!!

and thank you too kirasebi for a great prompt..

this exchange is great!
nino_mod, you did a great job! thank you!!!

^^

[cutselvage.livejournal.com]

BLESS U NINOMOD <3 I love this exchange, it's one of my favourite parts of Arashi fandom. so many fabulous fics this year that I still haven't finished reading them all! what a good.

thank you so much for the lovely story, littlealex!! I absolutely adored every word.

[gurajiorasu.livejournal.com]

first of all: thank you, mod, for taking care of us this year too. I had so much fun, both writing and reading, with so many Ninos that make me happy.

and.... I KNEW IT! I guessed that it was you, silverdoll14, and I'm happy I was right! Thanks for the amazing ohmiya fic. Idk why but I was so happy that I got an ohmiya. Thank you! :D