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So, I've got my assignment for the 2015 Daredevil Secret Santa Gift Exchange, and I'm super-excited. (I'm happy it changed from the first one I got, honestly, because I'm not sure I have the writing chops at all but that one was even more intimidating. Speaking of which, my recipient will be happy that I made something custom for him/her, no matter how substandard, right? It's made WITH LOVE, anon. Even though I don't actually know you.)

But this is the first time I've ever done one of these, and to fill in my back story I was considering incorporating something from a completely unrelated kinkmeme prompt. (One of those really general ones.) Would it be ruder to ignore that that was an inspiration for my backstory, or to give a fic to someone and say, "Oh, yeah, and it fills this prompt, too, so it's kind of like you have to share this gift with someone else...", which is kind of what citing that inspirational prompt in the story itself would do? Should I just link it to the secondary inspiration on its thread here on the kinkmeme, or should I post it on the fills page as well, and if I do either of those, should I wait for a while after the original reveal of the fic, or do it right away?

I mean, I know the recipients of the gift exchange are actually sharing their fics with anyone who wants to read them, and it's not like I'd say it was written for anybody but that person, but I'm kind of kerflummoxed on the etiquette issues, here.

Thoughts, opinions, sage advice from gift exchange veterans who have experienced something like this from either end before?

...and any other etiquette advice on gift exchanges, while we're at it? I may not be the only idiot fumbling my way through some of this, after all...

I don't think it would be rude to mention where your inspiration came from, as long as you're mostly filling what your recipient wants. I can't imagine being offended by that.

lol, I think we all need to reveal what our disastrous mis-matched prompts were when this is all said and done.

To answer your question... I think it will depend on how much of the "inspiration" prompt you end up using. If it's like 50/50 then by all means, link it as the 2nd prompt that makes up your fill (I've seen people incorporate as many as 4 prompts into one fill). BUT, since it's meant to be a gift exchange, make sure the prompt you were given is the dominant prompt and you stay as true to it as you can. :-)

Haha, YES. Mismatched indeed. Mine had literally NO common tags with what I offered.

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LOL! Same.

I hope everyone is much happier with their 2nd match.

I'm participating in the x-mas gift exchange myself, and I can obviously only speak for myself, but if I received something that would fill *my* prompt as well as something for someone else on the kinkmeme, I'd be all for that. The more love, the better. Sharing is caring, right?

OP: Yeah, it's not like I'm ignoring the actual prompt. It's just, I was trying to figure out, how do I get to it? And the kinkmeme prompt suggested a mechanism that would work quite believably.

A frequent exchange participant here: use all the inspiration. As long as you fill the main prompt it's okay. At the end of the day, YOU are the author. You write the fic. The prompt is there to guide you, not constrict you.

This exchange only allowed for one prompt, sadly, but usually there are more, so that the author can choose which one to fill. And people borrow elements from those other prompts. Sometimes - if all the prompts are revealed as part of treats segment - they even incorporate elements of other people's prompts.

Or, you know, write those exchange fics as integral parts of their already established fic series.

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