Offseason #1

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Use this post for any exchanges running from January onwards into the first quarter of the year. Try to keep final Yuletide thoughts in the last coal post of 2019 for ease of conversation.

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Re: Reusing letter content

[(Anonymous)]

Don't do it if someone has already written the prompt. Freshen up the prompt, or at least include a disclaimer like "I got fic for this last year and loved it so much I want more!" Nothing burns like writing a fic and seeing the recip use the exact same prompt next year.

Re: Reusing letter content

[(Anonymous)]

there's nothing wrong with freshening up prompts, but no, that sort of disclaimer isn't necessary. if you feel burned by the idea that someone could enjoy multiple takes on the same concept (yes i will always enjoy my ship getting sex pollened at a pumpkin patch and rubbing caramel apples all over their bodies), that's something you can process on your own without letter writers having to add disclaimers

Re: Reusing letter content

[(Anonymous)]

+1

I’ve read hundreds of fics based on the prompt “Steve finds Bucky post-TWS. They slowly figure out their requited romantic feelings while Bucky relearns how to be himself, and then they get together.” And most of them have felt different and fresh. Hell, I’ve read dozens of takes on more specific ideas, such as “Steve or Bucky is some sort of sea creature or other mythological thing who rescues or helps the other” or “Bucky is unexpectedly the one who is better at living modern life, and helps Steve get on board, and then they kiss”. Again, all different executions and I love them all.

Why shouldn’t I similarly want to read more than one take on a prompt for a tiny ship? If you can’t understand that, that’s a you problem. No disclaimer needed.

Re: Reusing letter content

[(Anonymous)]

+1

At this point I do have a blanket disclaimer mostly because I want to assure people who have written for me before that yes, please, they should do that again, but I think this is really silly.

If anything, a GOOD response to a prompt often leaves me wanting *more.* I recently got a fic for a ship that I requested kind of on a whim, and the fic was so great it made me realize I'm way more into the ship than I thought I was, so now I'm requesting it as often as possible.