Opinions wanted!

[vulgarweed]

Hope my friendslist is the right place. *wink*

This is mostly aimed at people participating in go_exchange but I'm also interested in hearing from anybody who's done any kind of sekrit-santa type anonymous fic/art exchange...

waxbean and I were discussing the way there's always a lot of guessing going on in private and semi-private (and we of course are not eligible to play this game), and we were wondering about hosting a post just for that purpose, right before the Big Reveal, and then we can all laugh about how spot-on or dead-wrong the guesses are.

BUT...is this idea utterly booby-trapped with potential for hurt feelings and wank that I'm missing? Wouldn't be the first time I puttered obliviously past a Red Flag.

What do y'all think?

Comments

[pauraque]

merry_smutmas did that last year, and afaik there were no hurt feelings. Good clean guessing fun for all.

[runcible.livejournal.com]

I like the idea! If it turned into hurt feelings and wank I'd still like it, but such is the nature of the Jinx.

[celandineb.livejournal.com]

Sounds like it would be fun (and there's potential for hurt feelings and wank in anything... don't let that stop you).

I personally am absolutely miserable at guessing identities in these things, so I wouldn't ever participate, but some folks are quite good and enjoy doing it. :-)

[quantum-witch.livejournal.com]

It's all the same to me. I know there are many people who guessed my work instantly ;) And of course if you post a space for guessing, I won't mention that I know which fic was yours, because duuuh. Other than yours and mine, there are probably only three other people whose work I knew right away. Everyone else... I couldn't even begin to guess.