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Re: ODAO

[(Anonymous)]

I reject your dedicated thread. Who wants to wank about Unrequested Pairings in the ODAO thread with me?

Re: ODAO

[(Anonymous)]

I am unfortunately guilty of this which is why I now only write gen unless the requests are super amazingly 100% explicit about wanting romance. (In sort of my defence, the pairing was canon and they'd requested both of them and all the prompts were about them together, so my fic was as shippy as canon was.)

Re: ODAO

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think there's any reason to feel guilty about that, coalie, unless they said outright they didn't want it. I would have assumed it was fine too.

Re: ODAO

[(Anonymous)]

+1

I don't DNW unrequested ships because I'm fine with them.

Re: ODAO

[(Anonymous)]

OC
fair tbh, this is coal, a lawless land

Re: ODAO

[(Anonymous)]

Nah, I'd rather wank about rabbits.

Re: ODAO

[(Anonymous)]

me too!

bun bun!

Re: ODAO

[(Anonymous)]

Rabbits never wank, which is why they breed like rabbits.

Re: ODAO

[(Anonymous)]

But they move too fast to get hit by spunk!

Re: ODAO

[(Anonymous)]

Unrequested ships are opt out

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: ODAO

[(Anonymous)]

I've had this happen to me twice, both times when I asked for slash in a fandom that has an established het pairing. I assume my writer offered "any characters" because they didn't realize someone might ship the main male lead with a secondary guy, and then couldn't deal and just wrote about their favorite pairing instead. I have stopped requesting fandoms with established het couples bc of this.

Re: ODAO

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah it’s one thing to just write gen if you don’t ship the characters, but it’s another thing to write gen AND then add in an unrequested pairing when it’s made explicit that the author ships something else. Sorry you had that happen to you coalie!

Re: ODAO

[(Anonymous)]

I once asked for Adam/Bob for a canon where Adam/Bob and Adam/Steve are both canon. I emphasised that if they didn't ship it I'd be happy with gen focusing on the two, I got Adam/Steve with Steve lecturing Bob to not interfere in their relationship. These days I DNW Adam/Steve to make sure I don't get that situation again.

Re: ODAO

[(Anonymous)]

ooff that's wanky, sorry coalie