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Coal ruins exchanges around me - spitey spitey fic y'all. 

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[(Anonymous)]

speak for yourself go pinch hit for a rabbit butt

Re: Rabbit?

[(Anonymous)]

1400 fluffy-butt pinch hit buns sitting on the wall...

[(Anonymous)]

maybe the rabbit will pick you up

Re: let's play: DNW WTF

[(Anonymous)]

DA I am all for compensating people for labor, but this isn't about profit or not profit. We are all here doing this as a labor of love. I would hazard that a significant amount of people who do yuletide do not have the ability to pay for readers/editors/anything for their fic. Your argument essentially says that if you don't have money to pay someone, you shouldn't be writing fanfiction. That feels like a very weird take in a fandom space.

Re: let's play: DNW WTF

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

I actually agree that the DNW is stupid and unenforceable

What I should have said is that an alternative to asking a strangers of a different ethnic background to do work for free is to put the call out for a paid bigotry-picking/sensitivity reading gig on one of the discords. (Not AO3 itself, where it's against the rules.)

If someone volunteers and declines payment that's on them

Re: Placeholders

[(Anonymous)]

Asap, imo. Try and give yourself as much writing time as possible, or time to decide if you want to default or ODAO.

Re: Rabbit?

[(Anonymous)]

Pinch that cottontail!

Re: Placeholders

[(Anonymous)]

30th October.

Re: Placeholders

[(Anonymous)]

I usually give a grace period of a week.

[(Anonymous)]

yes please

Who got an early start?

[(Anonymous)]

And might have an early finish for their assignment?

Planning treats, or planning to just take it easy, or do another exchange?

Re: let's play: DNW WTF

[(Anonymous)]

This. I've done sensitivity reading for people and I see it as another type of beta work. I've never paid for beta work or been paid for it. It's all labor of love and part of being a community.

Re: let's play: DNW WTF

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah I went for pithiness over clarity.

What I should have said is that an alternative to asking a strangers of a different ethnic background to do work for free is to put the call out for a paid bigotry-picking/sensitivity reading gig on one of the discords. (Not AO3 itself, where it's against the rules.)

Not as a requirement but as an alternative option to the uncomfortable situation of asking marginalized strangers to perform free labor related to their marginalization.

I'm gonna leave it at this because I'm already acting pretty wanky and I don't want to end up spending my evening being stressed and wanky

Re: let's play: DNW WTF

[(Anonymous)]

"Pay for the privilege of writing fanfic."

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, it's a pretty no-brainer carrot and stick.

Re: let's play: DNW WTF

[(Anonymous)]

+1

Re: Placeholders

[(Anonymous)]

One week

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know what the penalty is but it still says you're not allowed to delete in the rules.

You are not allowed to delete your story or remove it from the collection once it has been uploaded. The mods may grant exceptions on a case by case basis upon request.

[(Anonymous)]

Now only missing:

#11 Warframe, Vampyr (Video Game), Training Day (2001)
#17 Dance of the Vampires (Broadway 02/03) - S/I/K, Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em (TV), Condorman (1981)
#20 Avatars -Sutherland, Inspector Wilkins Series -Anderson, The Little Lady
Agency Series -Browne
#21 Love. In Cyberia - Chloë Rayban, Ski Jumping RPF, Cassandre (TV)
#23 Jutro će promeniti sve |Morning Changes Everything, Oficir s ružom |Officer wRose, Бeсa ǀ Besa
#24 Champions Comics, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol6 Comics, Miles Morales: Spider-Man Comics 2018
#35 JUDGE EYES | Judgment VG, Black Panther: Like a Dragon New Chapter VG, Shenmue VG

Re: Who got an early start?

[(Anonymous)]

I've started kicking around plot ideas and I have a title, but no actual words, yet.

Re: Who's insta-defaulting?

[(Anonymous)]

Bad advice, and yet...

Re: Placeholders

[(Anonymous)]

30th October, it's on the assignments admin post. (I too am counting the days.)

Re: Who's insta-defaulting?

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly that's probably not even bad advice, I've seen lots of fic like that by trans headcanon people. As long as you don't actively torpedo the headcanon you'd be fine.

Re: Who got an early start?

[(Anonymous)]

I did! Now I just have to flesh out some of the scenes and do some historical research but the main body of the fic is there. I knew as soon as the requests were revealed I was going to get hopelessly distracted by treats so decided to work on my assignment as much as possible before then.

The road to coal is paved with good intentions...

[(Anonymous)]

So coalies, how many fics do you intend to write? And how many do you realistically think you'll finish by the deadline?