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So you felt the need to go completely ODAO on my request, to the point of not even including any of my likes. Okay, cool. That's your prerogative. But there was no way you could have missed that I was hoping for shipfic between the two women I requested, so why did you feel the need to hook one of them up with a male character she didn't actually have any connection with in canon? A character I not only didn't request, but didn't even mention a single time in my request (because, guess what, I don't like him). You didn't even tag the ship so I was forewarned, it just came as an ugly surprise. Why, seriously?

I have a treat, thank goodness, which saved my Yuletide. But right now it's difficult to decide whether to try and make both comments be somewhat equal or not.

After years in fandom it shouldn't surprise me any more when people do this, yet somehow it still does! Ugh on your behalf, coalie. I vote don't bother feigning enthusiasm when they didn't even try to write what you asked for.

Shit like this is why I have an unrequested (non-canonical) ships DNW, even though it's a picky one that people complain about a lot. I'm so sorry your main gift sucked, coalie. I'd honestly be tempted not to comment at all and then reject it a month later down the line.

+1000

Did you get a fic with the character you requested?

Did the author include anything you DNW?

You are complaining about dumb shit. Oh, no, you requested f/f and your author didn't feel it, so you got het instead. Poor baby.

DA

You're right. It's the author's right to do it. I'd refuse this lump of coal within two seconds without regret however.

+1 and a fist pump to the sky

+1.

Seriously? ODAO het for an f/f or m/m request is like the go-to example of "probably spite fic".

Just go gen that someone can hardcore squint and read as pre-femslash instead, who the fuck wants het for a f/f request.

There's a difference between going ODAO and writing the opposite of the recipient's likes. If there's an id mismatch on my recip's requested ships, I'd write them friendship gen, not a completely unrequested pairing, and especially not an unrequested het pairing when they requested f/f.

Exactly. In the same way that if someone's request is totally het, I wouldn't take one of their characters and write them in an m/m or f/f relationship. People would think that was wanky as hell (and it would be), so they should think the same when one of the characters in a same-sex request is slapped into an unrequested het pairing.

Asshole move.

I hate to agree, but, I agree. Make your ship preferences plain and DNW no unrequested ships. At worst you'll get gen with your preferred characters, which is way better than one of them being in a relationship with a character you dislike.

Make your ship preferences plain and DNW no unrequested ships. At worst you'll get gen with your preferred characters, which is way better than one of them being in a relationship with a character you dislike.

+1000000000

But they *did* make their ship preferences clear, and they also didn't even mention that other character. The DNW about unrequested ships wasn't there, it seems, but who can blame them with all the wank it always gets?

Defending this and trying to blame it on the recip really isn't a good look.

8/10 Good topic, good coming out of the gate belligerently. You should get a fine wank from this.

Sorry you recognise your own bad behaviour, coalie. Next time don't give someone the no homo shit they very clearly don't want. You'd have been fine with the gen if you "weren't feeling" the ship, but tossing in your own fave pairing makes you the asshole here.

You're either trolling or you're a complete braindead moron who has done something equally shitty to your own recip once and trying to pin the blame on them. Either way, you suck.

I definitely wouldn't try to make the comments equal. You got one gift from an author who took the time to make a gift for you, and one fic from an author who tossed your name on some random het for their preferred pairing.

+1 all the way

Writing a friendship fic that could be f/f if you squinted is ODAO. Writting a different pairing, and a het pairing to boot, is spitefic. I'd reject that fic at the speed of light.

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