Crossworks 2022 Is Over

[morbane]

Creator names are now revealed at the collection. You're welcome to publicly acknowledge your work, promote it, and post it in additional places (please do NOT remove it from AO3). I also recommend downloading gifts as the internet is not necessarily forever.

I've had a fantastic time in this round of Crossworks. Thanks very much for taking part. I'm especially grateful to pinch hitters.

Does anyone have any feedback? My impression is that while things mostly make sense by the point assignments go out, sign-ups are tricky, especially when trying to figure out how to combine multiple versions of a canon while not prompting a crossover that isn't a crossover (or fusion).

We tried Creator's Choice of Fandom this year and I think that worked okay and would be happy to include it again next year.

Speaking of next year, I hope to see many of you again for future rounds!

Comments

[senmut]

Thank you for hosting!

[morbane]

You're welcome - thank you for playing!

Re: Creator's Choice of Fandom

[casta_y]

First, I think you did a great job of running it, and also the link to (and recommendation to use) the firebase app made it much easier to ensure matchability.

Creator's Choice of Fandom though did not work out how I expected. I had (wrongly) assumed it would act as a discrete matchable entity given that it could be not only requested but offered as well. It did not.
It functions as "any fandom". Which is perfectly fine for requests, I enjoyed what my assigned creator wrote for me even if I didn't know one of the fandoms, but was intimidating when it came to being given my own assignment. In the end my recip was happy, but I had to binge a new fandom to do it. (Bob's Burger's though, so I can't really complain.)

Perhaps next year it could be suggested to only request and not offer Creator's Choice.

Re: Creator's Choice of Fandom

[morbane]

Thanks! And oh no - I am so glad you posted feedback, because actually your initial ideas of how Creator's Choice of Fandom was supposed to work are completely correct - a different thing went wrong (on my part).

You didn't match on Creator's Choice of Fandom. You matched on Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Main Video Game Series) and Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Anime). Which shouldn't have happened, because I advised everyone NOT to combine any two fandoms in a request that wouldn't actually turn into a crossover. (See the last bullet point here under How to combine fandoms.) I checked sign-ups, and reached out where I saw problems, and I completely skated over that one. That was absolutely my bad. I thought I caught them all. Meanwhile, because Creator's Choice of Fandom was new, you reasonably thought that that was the problem - not the two Pokémon canons. Congratulations on rising to the unexpected challenge brilliantly, though I'm really sorry you were put in that position. I should either have asked your recipient to move their canons around, or suggested you pick a different assignment if we caught it after they went out.

(Though if your recipient is reading I hope they also don't feel bad. I keep trying to figure out how to make this rule clearer, or set up the nominations or requests & offers in more intuitive ways. Every year it's confusing for people. They're not the only one to be tripped up. It's just the least worst solution I've found so far that allows flexibility in offers and requests.)

[facethestrange]

I had a wonderful time (and got an absolutely awesome gift), thank you! ♥

[firecat]

Thank you so much!

I enjoyed it! I had a lot more potential matches this year than last.

[stillturningout]

I really enjoyed the fic I got (amazing and stellar and I literally screamed when I got it)

And I was really happy to write CCof as well.

What I would have liked was to be able to request CCOF with the other fandom (so the one I knew) being the focus. I wouldn’t have minded fusion or crossover happening with a fandom I didn’t know as long as the characters I do know were front and center and this wasn’t possible this round.

So I’d like an option to do for example Frozen and CCOF Fusion where the characters from Frozen are the ones being fused. The reason I didn’t pick CCOF was because I personally wasn’t attached to the canons so much that I wanted to see characters from a fandom I didn’t know fused into them.

Also! If in the future we could do something like “Any Animated Disney Movie” or “Any Action TV show” and similar could be cool.

[tarlanx]

Thank you for running this :)