Coalie in Post-DeadlineLand

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Coalie was beginning to get very tired of waiting for their gift to be posted, and of having nothing to shake: once or twice they had peeped into the tags of the fic their dentist had been gifted, but it had no characters or freeforms on it, "and what is the use of a fic," thought Coalie, "without ships or tags?"

 

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Re: Ask Coal

[(Anonymous)]

CYRT

They specifically asked for both A/C and B/C. It's just not clear how they want it handled if you want to write both ships, except that they don't want poly.

I agree on no infidelity if they don't specifically request it. Do you think it would skirt uncomfortably close to either infidelity or poly if there was past B/C (in their misspent youth, say), and current A/C, and A found out about the past relationship? Would it be okay if A didn't find out? Would it be okay if A found out, but treated it as any other past romance?

Re: Ask Coal

[(Anonymous)]

DC My guess is that they asked for both A/C and B/C because they assumed that their author would write whichever one they preferred, not because they wanted both in the same work. (This would be my guess in general, but for someone with a poly DNW, it goes double.)

I would not put this in. It seems like a really big risk to take for not much payoff.

Re: Ask Coal

[(Anonymous)]

I would say that if they requested both ships (and didn't DNW things like "ships ending" or whatever) that having past B/C from before the A/C started is fine (I hope so, because I'm doing something similar in my fic) as long as you didn't play it hard as A treating it like infidelity or like a precursor to poly.