Thank you, eiko_lotus for writing this supercute fantasy Sakumiya for me! <3 <3 <3 I really love your ideas with the youkais and again, that Sakumiya kiss just made my heart melt *___* THANK YOU! *hugs* <3
Thank you, nino_mod for bearing with us for another year and please don't feel sorry for anything! Organizing an exchange is not an easy task and RL happens so it's understandable that not always everything goes according to plan. It was nonetheless an amazing exchange with great stories and as always, I really enjoyed being part of it so thank you for making it happen again! I hope, there will be lots of exchanges following, as I'm alredy looking forward to the next one! ^^
Thank you to my writing buddies/betas for all of their support, I'm nothing without you.
Thank you to all the other fabulous writers for all of your gorgeous stories! I still have a few on my reading list that I will check out when time allows.
And of course, thank you to all those awesome people who commented on all of the stories, I always love to see the support in the community during this event. Every comment is appreciated and I'll try to properly respond on the comments to my story asap!
About the exchange and dreamwidth, I have to admit that I feel much much saver here on dreamwidth than on livejournal!
Tbh, after they changed so much with the policy, I even became scared to share my fanfictions there. I did not only "move" my stuff to dreamwidth (and AO3), but I even started deleting my crossposted fanfictions from livejournal and will continue to do so until everything is gone there from my journal. And if I am completely honest, I would even feel better, if ninoexchange would not post complete mirrors of our stories on livejournal any longer in the future, but only link to the stories here on dreamwidth. Maybe I'm a little paranoid but... better safe than sorry? ^^"
I do not think that AO3 is exchange-friendly... which might be because I on the one hand have no idea if something similar to this community would work there, as it's set up completely different from a community-styled website but is in first place something where writers post their own stuff, and on the other hand, exactly because of the afore mentioned would feel a bit strange with our stories being posted there twice, as we still all love to crosspost our exchange stories somewhere sooner or later, might it be private journals or private AO3 accounts (also I did not see any exchanges there yet so I guess it just would feel strange too). Also I think that people on AO3 are not that likely to comment, as 1st there are still a lot of users who don't have an account there and 2nd there is the "Kudo" function, which makes it very "quick and easy" for someone to leave a sign of appreciation, which is nice, but let's be honest, it also makes people lazy sometimes XD. I think it would be better not to move something like an exchange to AO3.
I think, dreamwidth is easy to access for everyone, lj and dw users and as the community is open, it shouldn't be a problem. People even can comment anonymously if they prefer. Maybe fandom lost a few people during the "big move" from lj to dw... but I wonder if those people are even on lj any longer of just vanished completely. Dw is not as big yet as lj but I think fandom here will grow too.
Thus, trying to summarize my thoughts... my answer onto the question what I would wish for the future of the Ninoexchange is that I would definitely prefer to stay on here dreamwidth, NOT go back to lj and also not to crosspost complete stories there but only post links in the future maybe (I think it would also save you a lot of time as you don't have to cut long stories into so many pieces. I am really grateful that you took this task upon yourself so far as it was making our work much easier, but I know how troublesome this can be.) On dreamwidth postings can be longer than on lj, which is - in my opinion - another big advantage compared to lj =)
This is just my opinion, but maybe, others see it similar than I do. No matter how you decide, I hope that I will still be able to join this event in the future! ^^
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Thank you,
Thank you,
Thank you to my writing buddies/betas for all of their support, I'm nothing without you.
Thank you to all the other fabulous writers for all of your gorgeous stories! I still have a few on my reading list that I will check out when time allows.
And of course, thank you to all those awesome people who commented on all of the stories, I always love to see the support in the community during this event. Every comment is appreciated and I'll try to properly respond on the comments to my story asap!
About the exchange and dreamwidth, I have to admit that I feel much much saver here on dreamwidth than on livejournal!
Tbh, after they changed so much with the policy, I even became scared to share my fanfictions there. I did not only "move" my stuff to dreamwidth (and AO3), but I even started deleting my crossposted fanfictions from livejournal and will continue to do so until everything is gone there from my journal. And if I am completely honest, I would even feel better, if ninoexchange would not post complete mirrors of our stories on livejournal any longer in the future, but only link to the stories here on dreamwidth. Maybe I'm a little paranoid but... better safe than sorry? ^^"
I do not think that AO3 is exchange-friendly... which might be because I on the one hand have no idea if something similar to this community would work there, as it's set up completely different from a community-styled website but is in first place something where writers post their own stuff, and on the other hand, exactly because of the afore mentioned would feel a bit strange with our stories being posted there twice, as we still all love to crosspost our exchange stories somewhere sooner or later, might it be private journals or private AO3 accounts (also I did not see any exchanges there yet so I guess it just would feel strange too).
Also I think that people on AO3 are not that likely to comment, as 1st there are still a lot of users who don't have an account there and 2nd there is the "Kudo" function, which makes it very "quick and easy" for someone to leave a sign of appreciation, which is nice, but let's be honest, it also makes people lazy sometimes XD. I think it would be better not to move something like an exchange to AO3.
I think, dreamwidth is easy to access for everyone, lj and dw users and as the community is open, it shouldn't be a problem. People even can comment anonymously if they prefer. Maybe fandom lost a few people during the "big move" from lj to dw... but I wonder if those people are even on lj any longer of just vanished completely. Dw is not as big yet as lj but I think fandom here will grow too.
Thus, trying to summarize my thoughts... my answer onto the question what I would wish for the future of the Ninoexchange is that I would definitely prefer to stay on here dreamwidth, NOT go back to lj and also not to crosspost complete stories there but only post links in the future maybe (I think it would also save you a lot of time as you don't have to cut long stories into so many pieces. I am really grateful that you took this task upon yourself so far as it was making our work much easier, but I know how troublesome this can be.) On dreamwidth postings can be longer than on lj, which is - in my opinion - another big advantage compared to lj =)
This is just my opinion, but maybe, others see it similar than I do. No matter how you decide, I hope that I will still be able to join this event in the future! ^^
Again, thanks for everything! :D <3