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: Worst Yuletide wanker of all time

[(Anonymous)]

"I don't see how or why someone would need to "casually slip a miscarriage discussion into fic." Unless it's a canonical miscarriage, in which case it seems like a really complex situation."

I can't imagine it would be that hard to not mention almost anything thing in any canon no matter how important it is to the source. So the writer did a really shitty thing by mentioning this.

Re: Worst Yuletide wanker of all time

[(Anonymous)]

nc

IF the canon's whole everything revolved around this hypothetical miscarriage, I could see it being a case of one person wanting something radically different from fic than another person, but that's a huge and unlikely if.

Most canon miscarriages don't happen in a vacuum and it would be so easy to not even bring it up.

Re: Worst Yuletide wanker of all time

[(Anonymous)]

Right. Even if the thing revolved around a miscarriage, there's a way. Plenty of ways.

Like a request for Rosemary's Baby with a DNW of "please don't even mention the pregnancy or the baby" would not that be hard to do, and the baby is even in the canon title. And I'm betting the canon in question didn't have miscarriage as huge a plot point as RB did the baby.

I continue to fume on behalf of this recip.

Re: Worst Yuletide wanker of all time

[(Anonymous)]

I can think of one, and only one, canon where it could be difficult to write present-day fic without mentioning it. But I think anyone struggling with that as an issue would probably have noped out of reading the last book and have explicitly spelt out how they wanted that handled.