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Re: Skirting DNWs

[(Anonymous)]

It's not super common, but I think it generally falls into four categories:

The most common cases of DNW skirting seem to be a bad case of author and recipient matchup. As in, recipient is a hardcore Yuletider with a long letter and a long list of DNWs, and the author is a very casual Yuletider who skims the recipient's letter once and posts the fic they wrote in one sitting without a beta or a double-check as soon as they finish. Not malicious, but definitely careless on the author's behalf.

The second is where the author obviously had a specific fic idea in mind when they offered that fandom and they'll be damned if they're going to change it up because of an unexpected DNW, so they rewrite it just enough to skirt the DNW.

The third is the most baffling, the "this doesn't technically hit a DNW but what on Earth made you think this would be a good gift for that recipient" sort that sometimes seems like spitefic. For example, if someone DNWs pregnancy and their gift centers around a character recovering in the hospital and bonding with their newborn immediately after giving birth.

And then there's the fourth, the just plain obnoxious category of people who see the DNW list as a challenge to test their writing chops and see if they can write something outside of that recipient's wheelhouse that they end up liking anyway.

Re: Skirting DNWs

[(Anonymous)]

I think there's another common case: The recipient's DNWs are adjacent to what they ask for. For example "DNW: graphic violence" and them asking for canon-typical adventures in a canon where the canon-typical adventures feature graphic violence.

Re: Skirting DNWs

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I see this in letters a lot. I've been lucky enough never to get assigned to a recip who did it, and I don't know what I'd do if I got one – 1000 words of bland introspection, I guess?

But this is how you run into the ForceGhostGate scenario, where an author trying hard to fulfill a prompt slams headfirst into the DNW.

Re: Skirting DNWs

[(Anonymous)]

That DNW is only adjacent to the request if the writer's an idiot. Write an adventure like in canon, skim lightly over the violence rather than wallowing in gore. It's incredibly easy.

Re: Skirting DNWs

[(Anonymous)]

Eh, not so much. Especially since how much violence counts as graphic or disturbing is subjective.

It also does not track for other instances.