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That may well be true, but it's sending a pretty ambiguous signal to anyone casually glancing over the tags... which is going to be most onlookers, because most people are not into reading Desert Peach fic.

There are some things that are better kept as fandom in-jokes and not broadcast to the wider community, even at the cost of not reccing your Yuletide gift on anonmemes.

Is tagging a fic really broadcasting? I usually tag based on the assumption people who are interested in my fic are familiar with the canon.

DC
Whoever mentioned the fic on FFA specifically said to read the tags, and didn't mention the fandom, so.

Yeah? Are we blaming the writer or the recipient reccing the gift?

Coalie Who Said "Broadcasting"

I for one am blaming Aquatics*.

The writer did a perfectly honorable thing, writing a fic for a recip in a nice fandom which the recip obviously enjoyed and tagging it (in context) appropriately. Aquatics then decided to rec it in a disingenuous way guaranteed to piss people off and to expose the fic and its tagging to hostile scrutiny.

I don't care what fandoms they like, but I do care about them being a dick, and that was a dick move.

* Or the anti-Aquatics troll, but frankly I don't think they're creative enough to do such a convincing impersonation.

SC

* niche fandom! Niche fandom!

Of all the typos I could make...

*imps scamper for the shadows, giggling maniacally*

Honestly it's what I deserve for perpetuating this dumb wank.

DC

Or, they tried to carefully rec a very niche fic in a very niche fandom with very few potential readers to someone who sounded potentially interested without mentioning the fandom, since mentioning the fandom in the BFE thread tends to result in massive wank, no matter the context.

Given the long, squeeful comment and obvious dedication to the topic spanning many 100 words threads on FFA, I don't think they would be interested in causing trouble for a potential writer.

Was it dumb? Probably. Will they do it again? Probably not. Was it malicious? Given the involvement in the extremely tiny and niche fandom, I'd say no.

(It might still be the troll, though, since it's been stated several times that nonnies have a crappy Aquatics-dar.)

Was it dumb? Probably. Will they do it again? Probably not.

It’s the same way they bring up Desert Peach every time.

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To ayrt they're trying to rec the fic without bringing down fire on the author's head; to the rest of us, who have seen this play out a dozen times, they have this idea that if they only hype up the kinks enough to people who are otherwise squicked by Nazis, we'll just HAVE to get over it and sign on to Rommel Was A Sweetie with them.

NA There is a third option though coalie.

When you realize it’s DP, you can click out as if it was any other fandom you hate. If they are self trolling (which I don’t believe but whatever, it doesn’t matter) then what they want is engagement and people sticking up for them, right? So if you don’t get into a fight with them, nobody will jump in. A lot of us could care less that they hype their weird fandom a lot or rec their gifts, we are tired of people using any random comment they drop as a chance to blow up a thread until the FFA mods freeze/all other talk on coal dies because it’s just this boring bullshit again. That is why people jump in to shut (general) *you* down but it is crickets on her original rec.

If everything is a false flag operation, let aquatics post her shit and be met with crickets. Then she can reply to herself too until it gets boring after 5 minutes. We all know there isn’t one aquatics anti/troll because you keep this shit up for days and weeks unless you get frozen. Learn not to engage. It’s been a year and nobody new has gotten into this fandom. Nobody will. You aren’t doing great justice or helping out us Jewish people that want nothing to do with Nazi shit by bringing up Nazis in every damn thread because you’re more obsessed with aquatics and their gifts than you are with your own u____u

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(It might still be the troll, though, since it's been stated several times that nonnies have a crappy Aquatics-dar.)

It's been stated. Where?

I'm blaming the mods of every exchange who allow this "tee hee it's not REALLY Nazis except it is" bullshit. Including the YT ones. Seeing a Nazi fandom come up again and again in requests and pinch hits is grotesque.

"tee hee it's not REALLY Nazis except it is"

What does this even mean? Is the characters not being evil and rapey the problem?

It's them conquering Africa for Hitler that's the problem.

Ma’am, it’s still Nazis in a Nazi setting. Even if the comic sounded even half well done, being fannish about Schindler’s List (good Nazi! fight the power!) or Life Is Beautiful (fake Nazid! tonally different!) would probably still get you a heavy side-eye.

You know, the slippery slope is supposed to be a fallacy, but you're making an excellent case for it. You'd side-eye someone for being fannish about Life is Beautiful? Fucking really?

If I had to choose between a seasick crocodile and someone who just needs to have a real genocide in their canons...

I legit don't get it. It's not like fandom has any shortage of people being fannish about canons with evil Nazis. How is a canon about some Nazi who smuggles kids from a concentration camp worse?

DC

There's a difference between giving someone the side-eye and calling someone a Nazi sympathizer for being fannish about canons that deal with Nazis in any capacity, though. If people stuck to side-eyeing this person I wouldn't blame them. The comic sounds side-eyeable. It's the way people continuously call this person a Nazi, a Nazi sympathizer, and a Nazi fetishist for liking media about Wehrmacht soldiers working against the Nazis from within that makes this whole thing feel ridiculously over-the-top to me.

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Guess that means we should ban Hogan's Heroes and Inglourious Basterds too.

And Allo Allo!

Even pretending you don't know about the many, many people who talk about using tags to search for kinks or in fandoms they don't regularly read, this is so disingenuous.

No one is going to search for a weird idiosyncratic tag like that one, though. That's a tumblr-style commentary tag, not an indexing tag.

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