Reveals 2017: We made it, somehow!

[nino_mod]

I was looking at the reveals post from last year in which I bored you all with my woes about how hard a season it was, and today-me just was like "oh self, little did you realize". But, well, what started last year ended this year, so if nothing else, I won't have the same worries next year. XD.

Anyway, I feel like I'm constantly thanking you and apologizing to you for being awesome despite my being the worst, but here we are again: Thank you, and I'm sorry. Y'all are great, from the writers to the readers to the general cheerleaders, and I hope you had a good time despite everything.

Of course, the usual thank yous go out to my beta crew, and especially to our pinch hitters during what was a rough year for everyone: lover_youshould (perpetual pinch hitting star of NinoEx), and airairo and calerine (who both came to the rescue despite being very busy and not even signing up for the exchange this year). How's a mod supposed to face humanity when she's got friends like these!

Anyway, I know what you're all here for.

Recipient	Writer	Fic
64907	pierrot	Unfinished Rhapsodies at the End of the World
an_jung	nino1711azuki	Protecting You, Not Me
astrangerenters	silver_crystall	The Bachelor
berrybuttboy	negai3104	Halcyon Days
clipsie	airairo	Double Edged
cutselvage	kirasebi	Different kinds of stories
eiko_lotus	ltgmars	Radio Magic
gomushroom	silverdoll14	Lily
ica_90	an_jung	Love Without Love
kirasebi	ica_90	There'll Be Sunshine After Rain
koi_choshi	64907	Lightning Strike
lilly0	clipsie	Coffee Milk
littlealex	murrponchan	in the heights.
lover_youshould	yoru_no_hikaru	Wicked Little Witcher Vs. Gorgeous Green Goods
ltgmars	berrybuttboy	When nothing goes right, Go left
murrponchan	rainbow_teatime	My Android Soulmate
negai3104	lover_youshould	Kimi no Superhero
nicefinalbeam	yun_miyake	The Dearest
nino1711azuki	shardaunei	Switch On!
phrenk	gomushroom	Lotus
pierrot	sky_fish7	Celebrity Crush
piggywhale	yukitsubute	The binary code man
rainbow_teatime	phrenk	Close for Comfort
shardaunei	lilly0	Velvet Rose
silver_crystall	piggywhale	Possibly Maybe
silverdoll14	astrangerenters	Bloodline
sky_fish7	eiko_lotus	人間じゃない（？）
tempesteru	koi_choshi	Suggestio Falsi
yoru_no_hikaru	nicefinalbeam	Chasing Forever Romance
yukitsubute	calerine	A Lifetime of Clichés
yun_miyake	lover_youshould	According to Plan

In addition, this year was our first year on the nicer, friendlier DW (with full mirrors on LJ). How did you like it? Should we stay here, go back to LJ, move to AO3, something else entirely? With the Rapidly Changing Internet comes many, many growing pains, but I want to keep this community as accessible as possible. Any thoughts on this front would be greatly appreciated! :3.

That's all, folks. Until next year!

Comments

[nicefinalbeam]

DW is a little sneaky because it allows for way more in a single entry, so sometimes I didn't know what I was about to get into! Some epic fics in smaller packages ;D But aside from that aspect, I enjoyed DW. I actually liked reading in the layout style rather than the default style before you changed it? The font was nice and big and clear, but I'd be curious what others thought.

As always - thanks so much, Mod! It was wonderful to get to read all these incredible stories. Ninoex always brings out the best. And I know you had some really hard things going on, thanks for the dedication ♥

[sky_fish7]

Ah, do you mean how it looks like when you click the cut-line of a posting and then it opens on a nice good readably page with bigger font (compared to how it looks when you click the title and open a new tab)? I mostly read on my cell phone so that's what I experienced and what I'm talking about, but probably it's different from person to person and device to device (I'm not too familiar with layouts on dw yet though so I have no idea if it appears as the same for everyone or not XD).

Anyway, I really liked the bigger font version too, so if we are talking about the same right now, I agree with you! ^^

Also, I personally liked that the postings are longer here on dw compared to lj. Everything is neater and more compact.

[nicefinalbeam]

If I click the cut or open in new tab right now it's the same default dreamwidth layout with the gray background and red accents. But maybe for the first day or two of the exchange it opened in the layout from the journal, with a white background a bigger black font. So if that's what you mean - yeah, I liked that look. But other people it might have hurt their eyes? Not sure!

True it's more clean to have most fics be just one post :)