Re: Disappointments

(Anonymous) 2019-12-26 02:26 pm (UTC)(link)
You can refuse a gift for any reason. Maybe the title reminds you of your ex, or maybe the author is your ex. Maybe the author gave you a brand new DNW. Maybe you think it's spitefic. The reasons don't matter and are none of anyone else's business. Personally, I keep the badly-written gifts and show them to my friends when they visit, and we perform dramatic readings in my living room. But I'm mean that way.

Re: Disappointments

(Anonymous) 2019-12-26 02:36 pm (UTC)(link)
+1 on the "refusing for any reason is fine"

Personally, I still say thank you if the story appears to be written in good faith. But I reread my gifts a lot, I'm on my gifts page all the time, and I don't want to sort through bad gifts every day. (I don't get a lot of bad gifts, so this discussion is fairly theoretical. I refused maybe three fics over a decade.)