The Coalies & Other Stories

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I will not read them in a Canon-Divergent AU.
I will not read them in Third Point-of-View.
Not in a Crossover! Not in Genfic!
Not in Shipfic! You let me be!

I do not like them in Fanart.
I do not like them even in the Fic of My Heart.
I will not read them in fic of my NOTP.
I do not like them with my OTP.
I do not like them here or there.
I do not like them anywhere!
I do not like my DNWs!

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Re: Unpopular Yuletide Opinions

[(Anonymous)]

I agree with this if you're still planning to write something that doesn't go firmly against what the recip asks for. Even though details are optional, it seems weird to write super opposite from what they said.

I am saying this as I have gotten fic three consecutive years which include the characters I asked for but just as acquaintances, while focusing on my DNW ship. It would have been fine if they wrote gen fic about my requested characters, but I mentioned I didn't want fic focused on a DNW relationship and they wrote that! Three separate people, three separate fandoms!

Generally it would have been fine except in all three situations it was them ignoring my request for an m/m or f/f ship and writing the canon het ship, so it started to feel like a het vs slash thing even though it was probably just coincidental.

Re: Unpopular Yuletide Opinions

[(Anonymous)]

DC I think that would go beyond "skirting the DNWs" though, esp. if the "DNW ship" was actually DNWd.

Are you DNWing "het ships for my requested characters" or the specific ship or anything else along those lines? Because if not, I would definitely consider it. People writing unrequested or DNW'd het for a F/F or M/F request are assholes, and at least if there's a DNW there, you can report them to the mods.

I'm saying this as someone who got an unrequested M/F ship I said I disliked when I was requesting F/F. Technically I hadn't DNW'd the M/F, though, just said I disliked it, so the writer got away with it. It still pisses me off and I now use DNWs in situations like that, where getting the ship would ruin a gift.