It was the Coal of Times

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It was the best of assignments, it was the worst of assignments, it was the age of gaming your offers, it was the age of forgetting to remove that one fandom from your offers, it was the epoch of treat writing, it was the epoch of apocapinch-hits, it was the season of fics of your dreams, it was the season of explicit DNW spitefic, it was the spring of hope that the anon in the comment above is writing for you, it was the winter of ars_belli is your author.

Prompts revealed and Madness opens: Approx 9 November
Default deadline: 11 December, 9am UTC
Assignment deadline: 18 December, 9am UTC
Main Collection Reveals: 25 December (time tba)

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Boy, the very first PH sure is an anti.

[(Anonymous)]

My favorite part is where they request Birds of Prey fic for the comics but then say they're only familiar with the characters in the upcoming movie.

[(Anonymous)]

Uh, it's totally against the rules to request comics officially but your signup is about the film.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

I was being sarcastic. They're obviously being a dick by doing that.

[(Anonymous)]

I know, I was sort of expressing outrage but I understand it doesn't read like that, oops.

[(Anonymous)]

And they didn't request any characters so could easily have matched with someone who offered just comics characters. I came here specifically to complain about this because I'm so outraged.

[(Anonymous)]

None of the characters they mention were nominated under BoP. Of the characters they actually could have requested only Dinah is in the movie and they never mentions Dinah once.

[(Anonymous)]

They did the same thing with Umbrella Academy. Only the comic books are nominated. And they keep talking about wanting to see more of Dave, especially Jewish!Dave, except Dave isn't actually a character in the comic books, he only appears in the Netflix show. Whether he's meant to be Jewish or not, who knows, but he is an unnominated character in an unnominated (because ineligible) fandom.

[(Anonymous)]

Thank goodness they went out to pinch hit rather than being some poor assigned writer's problem - unless they were an instadefault, I suppose.

[(Anonymous)]

Even then though, hard to write something that will make her happy without yourself breaking YT rules by writing in a fandom that is not eligible. I don't know the other fandom, maybe it is appropriate?

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, Patch is also only on the Netflix show, which is part of a ship they
are requesting.

[(Anonymous)]

Think the mods will do anything about it if they find out? Or is this a “there’s no assigned writer to complain, so they’ll allow it” despite it being unfair to everyone who requested and offer their fandoms?

[(Anonymous)]

I think this will be a case of "optional details are optional"

[(Anonymous)]

And Jewish WhatWe See In The Shadows. Which is fine unless it’s your only prompt.

[(Anonymous)]

aelisheva? What makes you say this? They're requesting quite a few of my canons and I was thinking of picking them up.

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT

Calling Peter B. Parker/Miles pedophilic in their letter was the first clue. It's also hosted on their Tumblr which links to their Before You Follow page that's anti up and down (nO fUjOsHi)

[(Anonymous)]

DA

I couldn't see the link to that page on mobile, so reloaded in desktop view. Thanks.

[(Anonymous)]

But...Peter's 38 and Miles is 13. That is pedophilic.

[(Anonymous)]

It's also a great example of a bad "any" letter.

[(Anonymous)]

Can someone explain for this coal noob what "anti" means?

[(Anonymous)]

The type of person who uses “problematic” aspects of fiction (age gaps, underage, racism, sexism, etc.) and twist it into saying ships are not only not for them, but morally unacceptable for anyone to ship or kink on.

Some people also use it to dismiss anyone who has even the mildest concern or criticism of social issues in fandom.

[(Anonymous)]

SC

I suppose I should emphasize that, for the first paragraph, an anti argument would be, like, 25 Year Old/His Childhood Best Friend’s 31-Year Old Older Brother would be pedophilic incest because of the slight gap and them having grown up around each up, and also racist because why are you ignoring his brown best friend, even though the older brother they’re calling a pedo rapist is also brown. It can be ridiculous to the extreme.

[(Anonymous)]

Link for in depth explanation: https://failfandomanon.fandom.com/wiki/Antis
Anti is short for "anti-shipper." These are people who focus their emotional energy on pairings they hate. Antis assign buzzwords to ships they dislike to get people on their side - for example, Rey/Kylo Ren isn't just not your cup of tea, it's abusive and gaslighting - and them claim that anyone who writes that ship supports those things happening in real life.
Additionally, many believe that fanfics about unhealthy relationships /cause/ unhealthy relationships. Therefore, it is an anti's solemn moral duty to stop people from writing darkfic, including doxxing, harassing, whisper campaigns, and suicide baiting authors, in order to protect their potential readers.

[(Anonymous)]

different coalie

To add, antis also sometimes obsess over non-shipping-related aspects of canons or creators they hate - for example, if you heard about that teenage girl in the Steven Universe fandom a couple years back who was bullied into attempting suicide over fanart, the people doing the bullying were antis who'd started a harassment campaign over her drawing a character too thin.

[(Anonymous)]

PH 19 says they requested any for characters in the expansebut only lists camina and naomi, and wants only fic focused on canon women, but there were several other characters nominated, both men and women, so that's pretty lousy if someone matched on different characters