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Re: Trick or Treat

[(Anonymous)]

If you hate listening to people talk about writing, I don't know why you're on a fandom anon meme about writing.

Re: coal lyrics project

[(Anonymous)]

Baby shark

Re: ODAO

[(Anonymous)]

Unrequested ships are opt out

[(Anonymous)]

it definitely attracts some ~characters~

Re: ODAO

[(Anonymous)]

+1

Though I did once see someone write gen for two requested characters that the recip obvs shipped (which is fine) but then the author included the ship that's usually the notp of the people who ship what the recip did. The recip didn't opt out and was nice in the comment but I felt bad for them and thought it was kind of a wanky move.

Re: Assignments have been out for one week

[(Anonymous)]

Letter is still locked :( Just emailed the mods to poke

[(Anonymous)]

OTOH if the a character is known to be like…Margaery Kempe level of Christian? Christmas fic is opt out.

[(Anonymous)]

If you get a long list of good general likes it's basically impossible to go totally odao, you'll probably hit one just by accident, that's a straw man either way.

unless like you're like my recip this year and your general likes are all things like vore, torture, mind break, incest, abuse and mutilation and we matched on a kids' movie about a cute dog where they prompted one specific gen scenario of dogs having cute fun dog adventures, so it's either write your one prompt, go odao, or cute puppy incest vore, nothing in between.

(Luckily I know one of their other fandoms, where the likes are a better tonal match, but never underestimate how badly a signup can go.)

Re: Trick or Treat

[(Anonymous)]

me too, except for the ones by people I'm BEC about and I know to avoid those - so it's all good!

Re: coal lyrics project

[(Anonymous)]

2 or 1

or 5, for maximum coal effect

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

I know there's some controversy what counts as ODAO, exactly, but if you accidentally hit one of their general likes but totally go against the resquests otherwise, that would still essentially be the same as ODAO to me.

I don't think you need to write torture incest vore, but you could still write something in line with the darkfic theme OR something that incorporates elements of the cute gen dog fun adventures prompt (without writing it down to every details) that aims to stay in the spirit of their request. I wouldn't call any of that ODAO. ODAO would be writing fluffy romance shipfic or a murder mystery.

[(Anonymous)]

yikes

[(Anonymous)]

+1
yeah things that don't follow the exact specifications of the letter down to every detail but is still in the spirit of the request, I wouldn't consider those ODAO

Re: coal lyrics project

[(Anonymous)]

Okay, I'll title my Yuletide fic "doo doo doo doo doo doo".

Re: Trick or Treat

[(Anonymous)]

+100000

Someone's being weird and wanky here, and it's not the person who wrote that author's note.

Re: coal lyrics project

[(Anonymous)]

Benefit of this is it only takes like, five people, and we have all the lyrics. (At least for the version I learned at camp in the 80s which is of course the only valid one.)

[(Anonymous)]

it would still be about the requested characters/fandom though

[(Anonymous)]

It sounds like you're defining ODAO as "doesn't match the general tone of the request" which is a good metric for an author who tried or not, but not ODAO! If the story doesn't hit any likes or fill any prompts, it's ODAO even if's a tonal match and the recip loves it (which is why a lot of recips write that they're okay with that in their letter!). If it fills a prompt/hits a like, it's not ODAO even if it's not at all what they want. It might be untherius!fic, but that's a different problem than ODAO.

If op's recip prompted fluffy dog POV about the dogs exploring the cave in the park, and the writer can't do dog POV and has claustrophobia, so they write fluff about the human watching the dogs play in a non-cave-related way, it's still odao. Justified odao, but odao.

If you'd be okay with anything in a certain tone, put that in your likes.

Re: coal lyrics project

[(Anonymous)]

I badly want to vote 3 but I'm going to go with 2 or 4

[(Anonymous)]

Oops this was supposed to be downthread

[(Anonymous)]

I am dying

Re: coal lyrics project

[(Anonymous)]

Yep that was meant to be 7, i bad at typeing

Re: coal lyrics project

[(Anonymous)]

2, if we can also include Pitbull's wtf remix from Aquaman.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

General tone =/= in the spirit of the request.

If it fills a prompt/hits a like, it's not ODAO even if it's not at all what they want.

Absolutely no one in their right mind would say that a gift for a recip who says they want fluffy shipfic written in past tense that's a grimdark gen fic written in past tense is not ODAO because it happens to hit the tense like. If that's the definition you're operating on, then the entire concept of ODAO is useless.

Yuletide history

[(Anonymous)]

Based on recent wank, what would you say is must-know history for Yuletide?