The Coal Game

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We're scrolling
And watching coalies make errors
The most pathetical errors!
We're watching experienced coalies
Who stayed up all night tracking a source in its original Latin
Up, writin'
And writin' bad!

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Re: This or That: Coal

[(Anonymous)]

No, I mean really: that's not possible for me.

So ... Have you never encountered a new thing you didn't know you liked until you found it?

Re: This or That: Coal

[(Anonymous)]

CYRT

With fic? Not in a decade or so, no. I've been reading fic for so long that if a trope exists, I already have some kind of opinion about, so it's either in my likes or DNWs. If it's something where my opinion varies and I'm particular about how I like it, I generally DNW the broad theme rather than say 'if you write A/B/O, please only do it that way and not this way'.

Re: This or That: Coal

[(Anonymous)]

Huh. I'm glad I haven't run into the wall of "no more things I did not know I liked until I found them".

I hope I never do.

Re: This or That: Coal

[(Anonymous)]

Hard agree. That sounds terrible.

Re: This or That: Coal

[(Anonymous)]

CYRT

I suppose it depends on the kind of person you are? I'm really glad that I reached the stage where I figured out exactly what I like and what I don't like. For me that makes it easier to find things I like, because I know exactly what I look for. I wish it was as easy with everything as it is with fic.

Re: This or That: Coal

[(Anonymous)]

What if a new trope is invented? Like hanahaki. Do you update your likes/DNWs list all the time?

Re: This or That: Coal

[(Anonymous)]

CYRT

I do update my likes/DNW list occasionally, though that's rarely about new things and more about clarifying phrasing.

I think that most tropes that are "newly invented" fall under umbrellas that already exist, and which I would already like or DNW. In this particular case, I didn't need to change my details to include hanahaki specifically because it runs against several of my more general DNWs.

Re: This or That: Coal

[(Anonymous)]

NCYRT

To me this question seems beside the point. It would be hard for someone to write me a fic that didn't contain ANY of my likes, but it could easily ALSO contain new things I didn't know I liked before.

The confusion here for me is that in my signups, I try to make sure people know that I like a variety of things, sometimes including every possible version of a thing. For example, I might list "drabbles, ficlets, vignettes, fics near the minimum word count, and longfic" all as likes, because I don't want my writer or any possible treaters to hesitate about gifting me any of those things. If I list all of those as "likes," it's just about impossible for my writer to go full ODAO. But besides hitting my "like" for vignettes (or whatever), they could also include lots of other stuff that I didn't ask for but would enjoy.