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FFA nonnies acting like doing some light editing on a fic post reveals is the worst crime you can commit in Yuletide.

If doing a final edit of my 7,000 word fic means the word count jumps up by 100 or so words that don't change the scene or plot, I don't think anyone is going to lose their minds. Except FFA where everything has to be absolutely perfect when you post!

That thread is so wild.

You know they never notice either because no fics get linked and exposed. A purely hypothetical opinion that they are frothing over for dozens of comments...

People absolutely do notice that shit, though? There are examples in that thread of people being like "yeah, my gift changed after I read it the first time."

Many years ago I got a yuletide fic that was meant to be a crossover. (No issue there, as I'd mentioned being good with crossovers.) Problem was that the story made no sense at all and basically sucked. I just filed it away as a miss, and never looked at it again.

Until earlier this yuletide season when there was a discussion of the worst fic you'd ever gotten. I went back to see if it really was as bad as I remembered. Surprise, it was an entirely different story. It was still tagged as a crossover, but the crossover elements were gone. I have no idea when the author swapped it out. Sadly, the story really wasn't any better.

Oh coalies. Just look around. Didn't you see the ludicrous thread about whether or not to go to a mod about a fic you liked that only had a little about one of the required characters? All memes are ridiculous.

Right now, each of the meme is complaining about each other, in a revealing circle-jerk that just shows the significant overlap. We're all annoying, we're all neurotic, we all need to touch grass.

I have grass to touch lemme just roll one up for the meme

cyrt

Oh god, I wish I could actually share that with you. Family would be easier if high, tipsy isn't the same.

If I could send you the chill vibes digitally, I would. Happy Hanukkah!

There were several people who mentioned fics that were still being revised throughout the day and I would like to know which ones they are

That whole thread started with people saying they were adding whole scenes, and continued with people saying things like "correcting typos is okay, but your fic should not be substantively changing once it goes live." I feel like you read maybe like two comments in that thread.

Yeah the thread was pretty clearly in the context of major edits. No one cares about typo fixes but there were apparently several fics that multiplied in size after reveals.

Which ones

The nonnies who were saying they did major edits after reveals or that their gifts had major changes after reveals. They didn't grace us with specific links, but both sides were very clear on the "multiple scenes being added" thing. Even if they were all full of shit, that's still the hypothetical that the thread was about. Not typo fixes.

With so many layers of your brother's smegma caked on your colostomy hole, are you really in any position to judge?

Write more fic about incest and smegma pls

God, I'm gonna miss this place when YT wraps up. FFA is so fucking uptight and easily shocked.

Lol this spin.

Yeah, that's one take on the FFA thread. I didn't take away that light editing is bad, but the much bigger changes people are talking about. It's pretty clear that most of the nonnies in the thread think SPAG editing and minor changes like 100 words in a 7,000 word fic is fine.

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