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[(Anonymous)]

When looking for recips to treat, if a letter requests two characters whose dynamic you like together but absolutely do not ship romantically, does the letter offering gen prompts but mentioning they ship them make you less likely to treat the gen prompts?

[(Anonymous)]

I'm only interested in writing shipfic so if your prompts are only gen I'm probably not going to write for you, even if you mention shipping them once off handedly. I need some shippy likes or for you to say "I am happy for these prompts to be written platonically or shippy" for me to feel comfortable that you actually want a romance A-plot.

[(Anonymous)]

Not even a little bit. I'm a multishipper who would also love gen about any combination of characters I gave shippy prompts for - seeing someone else who's the same way, even if they happen to be the same way about my NOTP, wouldn't throw me at all, and I'd take them at their word and treat them with gen.

(I would probably be extra careful to make sure there wasn't anything in the treat that might accidentally come across as, like, "look at these characters being PLATONIC together, their relationship is SO PLATONIC, they would never even THINK about fucking each other" - I might not ship it, but I wouldn't want the recip to feel like I was pointedly emphasizing shiplessness because their ship sucks.)

[(Anonymous)]

Nope. I would write the gen fic in such a way that the recipient can project shippiness onto it, if that makes sense. Teasing or joking that could be read as flirting, or caring gestures that could be read as meaning more. Just avoid scenarios where there are declarative statements about how great it is that they would never see the other as a romantic partner or how attracted they are to another party entirely.

[(Anonymous)]

This. If you like their dynamic in canon, write it like that. The gens will read it as gens and the shippers will read it as ship.