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Mutual cheer squad

[(Anonymous)]

for coalies with terrifying assignments.

Re: Mutual cheer squad

[(Anonymous)]

My recipient has left detailed, unsolicited, patronizing concrit on my fics in the fandom we share before. It's making it hard to want to write for them.

Re: Mutual cheer squad

[(Anonymous)]

Oh god that sounds awful

Re: Mutual cheer squad

[(Anonymous)]

Gross. I’m so sorry. Can you dash something off and immediately put it in the anon collection?

Re: Mutual cheer squad

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, God, this happened to me once. I knew up front that my chances of pleasing my recip were vanishingly small. I psyched myself into it by divorcing the prompts/DNWs from my recip's identity. My advice to you is to respect their DNWs, consider using one of their prompts, but write the fic for someone else--yourself, someone else you know in the fandom, an unknown person who will stumble across your fic at some point in the future.

It's a gut punch when this sort of thing happens, but it can also be freeing. Good luck.

Re: Mutual cheer squad

[(Anonymous)]

Oh wow, that's a really rough deal. Your writing is better than the way that makes you feel!

Do you have anyone you can talk to in the fandom who can cheer you on specifically?

Re: Mutual cheer squad

[(Anonymous)]

Lol, Renault fandom?

Re: Mutual cheer squad

[(Anonymous)]

Either Renault fandom - or JS&MN - or the Aubreyad.

Re: Mutual cheer squad

[(Anonymous)]

there are two letters in the app for one of my offered fandoms. Mine says "I know a lot of the fanfic does X with this canon, and I like it, but I would like to read the opposite of X this year".

The other one says "I know a lot of the fanfic does the opposite of X with the canon, and I like it, but I would like to read X this year".

I really hope we matched on the correct writers and not backward!

Re: Mutual cheer squad

[(Anonymous)]

Which one is right?

Re: Mutual cheer squad

[(Anonymous)]

They both are? It's not zero-sum.

Re: Mutual cheer squad

[(Anonymous)]

Should have said X and Y, then.

Re: Mutual cheer squad

[(Anonymous)]

Huh? A lot of things being X does not make it impossible for a lot of things to also be not X.

A lot of yuletide participants are on coal. Also, a lot of yuletide participants are not on coal. These are both true statements.

Re: Mutual cheer squad

[(Anonymous)]

No. As an example:

Letter A: I know a lot of fic has Bert bottom, but I would like him to top, please!

Letter B:I know a lot of fic has Bert top, but I would like him to bottom, please!

Both claims can both be true, and if you've ever fought in the top-bottom wars, you also know that one of the people might have vastly overestimated how much top!Bert there is.

Re: Mutual cheer squad

[(Anonymous)]

Bert always struck me as vers actually

Re: Mutual cheer squad

[(Anonymous)]

IDK what that means.

Re: Mutual cheer squad

[(Anonymous)]

bert is a switch

Re: Mutual cheer squad

[(Anonymous)]

anxiety issues check out