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Re: Preference rating game! - Cherry Magic

[(Anonymous)]

Just to be fair to UniqueChimera, Nozomi is canonically ace. Her whole one episode is about her being ace and thus not a love rival. Beyond that, no notes.

Re: Preference rating game! - Cherry Magic

[(Anonymous)]

CYRT

Oooh, okay, then I'd raise that up to a 6/10 then. Canon exploration is a-okay by me; I'd consider that an opt-in for anyone offering or looking to treat.

Re: Preference rating game! - Cherry Magic

[(Anonymous)]

5/10*

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

thanks *chugs*

[(Anonymous)]

stares into the abyss (coaltide) as I wait for my recip to update placeholder letter (no they did not give any OD, even a list of DNWs)

Re: Preference rating game!

[(Anonymous)]

Lore Olympus

https://tagset2021.firebaseapp.com/#/fandom/1307

Re: Yuletide TYWAU

[(Anonymous)]

I'm fairly certain I'm a BEC for someone who I share a lot of small fandoms with and that they didn't sign up for Yuletide specifically because of me

[(Anonymous)]

"I think this exchange works best for non-incest" would be judging/inappropriate in a way a DNW wouldn't.

I've just seen a lot of comments here and on ffa saying "wait, am I doing this wrong?" because the mod said they prefer it one way.

Re: Preference rating game! - Left Hand of Darkness

[(Anonymous)]

I encourage you to write this Gethenian sensitivity reader fic for someone who will appreciate it!

I checked out those 3 letters for you. From my most-to-least likely to treat:

Luzula - Short letter with some interesting cultural and technological world-building prompts that explains some of what she likes about canon. Is open to a narrative or documentation-style fic. This is a great example of what the worldbuilding tag is for, and I've tagged it to potentially treat.

clachnaben - Solid likes and Dislikes section, and explained how a general DNW interacted with LHoD canon. Wrote movingly about why they love this book so much and is crystal clear in wanting a story that digs into Genly/Estraven's relationship. I'm not all that interested in writing that story as a treat, but if I were assigned them I feel like I could write something they'd enjoy.

venndai - I have a DNW concern here - seems like this is the fandom for it! The general 'unrequested focus on m/f or pregnancy' is clarified with a canon-specific DNW about the use of pronouns for Gethenians in general and Estraven in particular. That's interesting but makes me feel like venndai is looking for something very specific in the Genly/Estraven relationship that I don't quite grok. Is it PiV that I should avoid? Does venndai want Genly to experience this as a queer relationship? I just can't tell, and it makes me not want to write for them for fear I'll get it wrong. If I were assigned, I would go for the dark AU prompt and side-step any mention of sex or gender, using neutral pronouns for all Gethenians and he/she for the perverts of the Ekumen.

[(Anonymous)]

Are you really still trying to make wank?

All those frettings were _before_ the mod stepped in and clarified that "ask for whatever you want" means "ask for whatever you want". Other people changed their fandoms out of their own volition and that is what caused confusion, not because of anything the mod said.

Re: Bullets you dodged

[(Anonymous)]

oh yeah...i saw those and it induced a lot of eyerolling.

Re: Your Yuletide sins

[(Anonymous)]

I started timezone wank.

Re: let's play: DNW WTF

[(Anonymous)]

Kitty!!!

https://beinart.org/products/shaun-tan-crossing-limited-edition-print-of-300-48-3x33cm-19x13

(The Crossing is a painting by Shaun Tan with a giant cat and a normal human. Or a normal cat and a tiny human.)

Re: Best (and worst) comments on a Yuletide fic

[(Anonymous)]

The best, or at least most heartwarming, comments I got questioned whether I was the actual author writing fanfic of their own work for Yuletide.

Re: Best (and worst) comments on a Yuletide fic

[(Anonymous)]

Best: Someone telling me that they thought that my work was better than published authors and that if I ever decided to publish it, I should let them know and they will buy a copy.

Worst: Someone telling me that I should face legal liability for writing fanfiction. Sigh.

Re: let's play: DNW WTF

[(Anonymous)]

Ooohhhh I like!!
not sure how the age gap dnw would fit for this or the world building one lol

Re: Best (and worst) comments on a Yuletide fic

[(Anonymous)]

Best was when the author of the original work (hosted online) commented and said that they had a moment where they thought that they had written my story and forgotten it.

Re: Best (and worst) comments on a Yuletide fic

[(Anonymous)]

did you ask them why they were reading fanfiction if they thought you should be sued for writing it?

[(Anonymous)]

this is sad

Re: Preference rating game! Motherland: Fort Salem

[(Anonymous)]

https://tagset2021.firebaseapp.com/#/fandom/2946

Re: requests you were hoping for that didn't materialize

[(Anonymous)]

I was hoping for Little White Horse as well because I adore it but I don't know what I'd write for it without a prompt.

Re: let's play: DNW WTF

[(Anonymous)]

+1

It makes sense in context. The complete DNW is:

"romantic/sexual relationships between anyone under 18 and anyone over 18, romantic/sexual relationships with anyone under 25 and anyone over 35"

So a ship with both people under 18 is fine.

A ship with both people 25 or over is fine.

A ship with both people between 18-34 is fine.

[(Anonymous)]

NA

I think the people who changed their comments inadvertently outed themselves as coalies.

The post is very clear that anything in the tagset is rare game. Nothing mentions factoring in other requesters, all that is said is that you can pick between listing everything you know vs only fandoms of your heart (but not enough to request officially). They brought coal insider knowledge and thought that someone else requesting meant it was off limits. If they hadn't edited their comments with those notes, I doubt anyone is confused or even having this conversation.

According to the mini-challenge mod, the wording on the post is very specific to include everything so my guess is the Yuletide mods explicitly gave the OK for all fandoms or made a condition of their approval for it allow all fandoms. It's really funny that this troll is trying to act like MTYG is out to get them when this post has mods blessing and it seems like MTYG went out of their way to allow in all fandoms or could have decided not to repost if they had a problem with all fandoms being allowed lmfao

Re: Your Yuletide sins

[(Anonymous)]

How?

Re: let's play: DNW WTF

[(Anonymous)]

It makes sense now but man my head hurts reading this.

x < 18 && y < 18 = OK

18 < x < 25 && 18 < y <= 35 = OK

x > 25 && y > 25 = OK

/o\