The Coalies Are Back In Town

[coalcube]

Friday night they'll be dressed to kill
Down at Coaltide Bar'n'Grill
The receipts will flow and wank will spill
And if the coalies wanna fight, you better let 'em
That jukebox in the corner blastin' out my favorite song
The nights are getting longer, it won't be long
Won't be long 'til Yuletide comes
Now that the coalies are here again

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Comments

Re: Worldbuilding is go!

[(Anonymous)]

Different coalie and I think Worldbuilding + "DNW: fic focusing on an OC" is quite restrictive.

Re: Worldbuilding is go!

[(Anonymous)]

DA but hard disagree. Worldbuilding to me implies canon characters as default, with OCs as an opt-in only option.

Re: Worldbuilding is go!

[(Anonymous)]

+1 I'm very interested in worldbuilding, but not interested in OCs at all. I'd rather get fic that was just narrative description of the world itself with no focus on any characters than fic where the main focus is on an OC.

Re: Worldbuilding is go!

[(Anonymous)]

Enh +.5

I do think worldbuilding should be with canon characters as default, but I don't think OC's are opt-in. They're the other main option to actually have characters in your fic if you're not using canon characters and you don't want to write the "records of grain harvests for the past 5 years and how the wars affected gross output" kinds of worldbuilding. If there's a time period that's only ever referenced in canon that none of the canon characters experienced, or a character that's named, but literally nothing else is known about them, OCs are a good way to write worldbuilding in those situations.

I don't think requesters of worldbuilding should be allowed to direct their writer and ask for "Fic set during this canon time period with my OC, Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way, who's Ravenclaw's descendant and she has a 12in ebony wand with a Thestral heartstring core and this is her outfit," but ODAO is still a thing and they can't even for non world-building requests.

Re: Worldbuilding is go!

[(Anonymous)]

I disagree that they're opt-in - I think requesting "Worldbuilding" switches them to opt-out - but I do think it's a perfectly reasonable thing to opt out of.