Offseason #3

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Wank report?

[(Anonymous)]

I had to skip YT this year due to boring IRL stuff, but can you guys help a Coalie out and tell me if I missed any wank or other scandals this year, please?

Re: Wank report?

[(Anonymous)]

It was quiet. If you are bored now, go backread the posts for this year.

Re: Wank report?

[(Anonymous)]

The only one that I think will have any staying power was Winterblumensaat, which was when somebody tried to nominate a bunch of "obscure German fandoms" that nobody could track down in order to guarantee they would match on their fave pairing, but they underestimated fans, who promptly started writing fic for the fake fandoms.

It will probably get at least one actual nom next year.

Re: Wank report?

[(Anonymous)]

It has several fics already and just got a few more from EAD Birthday Bash. I wonder if the Yuletide mods would let it in next year. (Didn't they stop allowing fandoms that don't have an actual canon?)

Re: Wank report?

[(Anonymous)]

I mean we had "rat movies I just made up" this year, so no?

They've always been wildly inconsistent about things like injokes, though, so it's hard to say. If they said no because they won't accept fandoms that could be seen as targeting a specific fan, that's probably fair enough though.

Re: Wank report?

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

The canon for Top 5 Rat Movies I Made Up is a blog post, nonny: https://holapapi.substack.com/p/top-5-rat-movies-i-made-up The rule (afaik) is that there has to be a concrete canon you can point to, even if it's just a Tumblr post or something.

Having said that, by this logic Ghost Soup should still be eligible because it also came from a blog post, soooo... Your reasoning about it being seen as targeting someone is probably a good enough reason to reject it, though.

Re: Wank report?

[(Anonymous)]

Isn't the difference that Ghost Soup was from a post on the yuletide comm, whereas the rat movies and other single post fandoms were made outside of the yuletide community?

Re: Wank report?

[(Anonymous)]

Imaginary German Fandom also came from within the yuletide community.

Re: Wank report?

[(Anonymous)]

I can't really see the mods approving a fandom that was originally created to troll them.

Re: Wank report?

[(Anonymous)]

I mean yeah that's the current stated rule, but like you said, they'll accept certain internet posts and not others, and then they accept fandoms like "chess" and "knitting" too.

Maybe someone should try "Old German novels at a flea market anthropomorphic" if they want it to get in.

Re: Wank report?

[(Anonymous)]

nominate fake fandoms as the fandom, then you can have ghost soupand the nonexistent novels

Re: Wank report?

[(Anonymous)]

Aside from the made up German lit fandoms, my favorite was the poor recipient who was gift multiple gifts of poetry fic that they explicitly stated they didn’t want.

Re: Wank report?

[(Anonymous)]

Multiple gifts of the *same* poem over and over again!