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[the_rck]

Posting my Captive Audience fic involved a bit of unexpected stress-- It posted to the collection and with the correct recipient, but it posted revealed and with my name attached. The folks at AO3 were able to fix it quickly (but only because someone was online right then who could), but they say they have no idea why it happened.

So my recipient must have received a notice that told them the title, fandom, and author of their giftfic a week before the reveals. I feel bad about that getting spoiled for them and then them having to wait a week (unless they got in really, really fast which is not impossible) to read it, but the story isn't quite ready to be revealed yet. If I can't polish it further, it will do, but it's not where I want it to be, and I really am hoping that, after Cordelia leaves for school on Tuesday, I'll be able to relax a bit.

I'm going to work on reading some library books that I want to/need to return tomorrow and see if I can get my head to clear.

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[jedibuttercup]

That happened to me a couple of weeks ago with my Rare Pair fic, and it definitely wasn't ready to be read yet. [It was at the bus fic stage: readable if I'd been hit by a bus and unable to work on it any further, but all the there wasn't there yet, you know? It ended up twice as long by the time the archive was revealed.] Fortunately, the inadvertent reveal doesn't seem to have soured my recip's appreciation any.

[the_rck]

This fic ought to be twice as long as it is. The last bit is me summarizing days because I can't write the 10K or so words that ought to be there. If August hadn't been so awful, I probably would have, but I lost weeks to family things that I wasn't expecting.

I have another exchange fic due at the end of the month that I haven't even started, so I'm probably going to focus on that rather than expanding this one further.

It sounds like fics posting publicly when they're not supposed to is a thing that happens. It might be a good thing for exchange mods to warn participants about (and to offer suggestions for fixing it).