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Comments

Re: Need an Opinion, Coal

[(Anonymous)]

DA

Some wankers will always dislike you for something, especially in fandom, where the most harmless things will be construed as 'problematic' in certain circles.

Fantasy sickfic isn't Covid fic, but even IF someone specifically opted in to Covid fic and someone else wrote it for them, I would judge the hell out of anyone who'd judge then for it. It's not up to you to decide how other people are allowed to cope with this hellish year. And I say this as someone who DNWs any kind of illness in their fic because of health anxieties. "Don't like, don't read" doesn't just apply to ships and kinks.

Re: Need an Opinion, Coal

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

I understand. I’m just saying that clearly OP is concerned, and for stuff like this, where a mass event impacts a lot of people negatively, the author will have to deal with more than the recip. Don’t like, don’t read is nice for us to say in theory, but if you care about your reputation or just aren’t interested in rocking the boat, actions have consequences in social situations. Even if it’s quiet judgement and not death threats in the comments, we all decide what our hills are, especially for unprompted tropes.

Re: Need an Opinion, Coal

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Sure, but my point is that the only way to escape judgement is not to post anything publicly, because I guarantee you that someone out there will be judging you for the fandoms, characters, ships, kinks, and tropes you write no matter what. "Will this be something the recip enjoys or is there a chance it will upset them" is a legitimate concern. "Will a random reader judge me for it" isn't, because the answer is always "yes".

Re: Need an Opinion, Coal

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

Again, I understand. I do not agree with the slippery slope of all tropes have some hater. Exchange fandom is KINKTOMATO. Things that result in mass death, especially in a modern context that impacts the community of the exchange, is going to be touchy. It’s why Falling In Love In A Concentration Camp AU is bad, generic Prison AU shipfic is fine. Noncon is fine, specific detailed and announced replication of your own rape or of a famous rape, gonna get blowback. On it goes. Generic sickfic is fine, plaguefic during the plague year, especially if they potentially or explicitly made it similar to COVID, is gonna be a roll of the dice. I get that you think it’s all fair game, but everything isn’t an issue niw and it never has been, and exchange fandom isn’t becoming sensitive or whatever. We’re a community and we have our norms. This is a situation where they may break them in a way that makes their favorite author avoid or their recip reject. If they don’t care, okay.

Re: Need an Opinion, Coal

[(Anonymous)]

You seriously think that fic about a fantasy plague in a non-current canon is the same as or even moderately similar to "specific detailed and announced replication of your own rape or of a famous rape" or a Concentration Camp AU? JFC.

Re: Need an Opinion, Coal

[(Anonymous)]

NA

My recip DNW'd "real world tragedy," but requested a fandom that is extremely pandemic-dependent. They're getting a fic with 2020 as the setting and all that implies, but no specific references to illness or loss.

It was definitely a weird needle to thread, but I had a lot of fun writing the fic.