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This round of WDLF, the eighth, expanded to We Divine Like Fen: Morphogenetic Fields. This is the third round I've participated in, and all of them have pushed me in really worthwhile ways, even though there's usually a "team effort" angle to the whole thing that tweaks my typical "I WORK ALOOOONE" attitude.

The way this round worked was that people signed up listing their DNWs and optionally including links to their AO3 bookmarks, works, and/or social media accounts. Assignees used these to psychically divine what kind of work their recipient wanted.

There were 100 signups and 140 works in 105 fandoms.

Authors were revealed when the collection received 600+ comments. That took 9 days.

I was assigned two recips. I added a new fandom to my works — Our Flag Means Death. I also wrote an original story.

I received an original story that was both just what I wanted but also unlike anything I've received before!

What I wrote:
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This year is the first I've participated in We Die Like Fen, an exchange that has a reputation for being...chaotic? I think this is the fifth time it has run.

This year there were almost 650 works posted. I thought the works were quite high quality overall.

The way it worked this year was that there were four rounds of signing up and posting, each with different requirements. The first round had a 500 word minimum (or equivalent), and the fourth round had a minimum of four works of 500 words each. Signups had different requirements for each round, too.

The exchange culture encouraged signing up with wacky, iddy freeform tags and specifying "Any Fandom", "Any fandom I've ever requested," and similar for the fandoms. I really like this (although going through all the tags took FOREVER).

I wasn't able to participate in all the rounds because of my meat suit containment failure, but I participated in the last two rounds and wrote almost 9K words in all.

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