And another one!

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I see my nemesis getting a fic that I love
And I'm like, "Fuck you" 
I guess my 10k letter wasn't enough
I'm like, "Fuck you and fuck morbane, too"
Said, "If I was a long commenter, they woulda gamed for me"
Ha, now ain't that some shit?
(Ain't that some shit?)
And although there's pain in my chest
I still comment it's the best
And runs to coal to shout "Fuck you" 

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Comments

Re: Endings??????

[(Anonymous)]

Reread the first couple paragraphs, the key is usually in there.

Re: Reveals wank prediction

[(Anonymous)]

If it's got fans, it's a fandom. Things like ads and object and concept anthropomorphism aren't canons, and yet they have fans.

Re: Reveals wank prediction

[(Anonymous)]

Those are canons, though. There's pre-existing material that you make transformative work from.

Original work is not transformative.

Re: Reveals wank prediction

[(Anonymous)]

nah they asked why do you care. learn to read.

Re: Reveals wank prediction

[(Anonymous)]

What is your definition of a fandom, then?

Speaking as someone who doesn't ask for, nor offer, Original Works in multi-fandom exchanges, I just have to accept that they are here to stay. Many people care more about tropes and kinks than characters, and many people wouldn't be matchable as gifters or giftees if they didn't ask for original stories. Some are in impossibly rare fandoms, and may not want to linger as pinch hits, and Original Works are a possible way to get at least expies of their blorbos.

Re: Reveals wank prediction

[(Anonymous)]

most so called original works are fandom characters with the serial numbers filed off

Re: Reveals wank prediction

[(Anonymous)]

And I answered, as requested.

Re: Reveals wank prediction

[(Anonymous)]

Anything with an established canon is fine in a fanwork exchange, it doesn't matter whether that's a song, a painting, a movie, a book, a fairy tale, whatever.

I know they're here to stay. The horse is fully out of the barn. It's just annoying that people keep pointing at the horse and insisting it's a duck.

Re: Reveals wank prediction

[(Anonymous)]

original stories have fans though

Re: Reveals wank prediction

[(Anonymous)]

They sure do! But before they're written down, they do not have canons.

Re: Reveals wank prediction

[(Anonymous)]

then complain to exchange mods

Re: Reveals wank prediction

[(Anonymous)]

No.

Re: Reveals wank prediction

[(Anonymous)]

It's a wrangling thing. AO3 is sometimes weird about synning fandom tags to "Original Work" when they're not. You can see some in the "Tags with the same meaning" section:

https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Original%20Work

So, for example, anyone who writes Yuletide fic for the "Humans Are Space Orcs" Tumblr post will show up as OW, even when they're not the original author of the post.

Re: Reveals wank prediction

[(Anonymous)]

you feel so strongly about it so why not

Re: Reveals wank prediction

[(Anonymous)]

"I know they're here to stay. The horse is fully out of the barn."

Re: Reveals wank prediction

[(Anonymous)]

Surely that's up to the mods to decide, not you?

Re: Reveals wank prediction

[(Anonymous)]

wanna bet a lot of original works are about fandoms but with all the character names changed. most of it's all star wars or the mcu

Re: Reveals wank prediction

[(Anonymous)]

then take better care of your horse

[(Anonymous)]

There is a single nonnie who really wants to stir up wank about fishspeakers. Whether that nonnie is in fact fishspeakers themself is up for debate. I lean towards yes.

Re: Reveals wank prediction

[(Anonymous)]

They do this with song fic a lot of the time, too. It's a pain in the ass.

Re: Reveals wank prediction

[(Anonymous)]

Well if you wanted to prove you know nothing about OW, you're doing a great job.

[(Anonymous)]

if someone pinches and hits your butt is your butt a pinch hit then

Re: Reveals wank prediction

[(Anonymous)]

nah its obvious its all just all about the same 2 hot guys doing the same old tropes and same old smut its just stucky with the serial numbers off

[(Anonymous)]

butts

Re: Reveals wank prediction

[(Anonymous)]

One what?