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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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Great apes, to be pedantic, but very cool canons nonetheless!

I always thought that YT was started by some people who wanted a non-Christmas holiday exchange?

Oh man, so many things are totally a thing in furry that aren't technically furries. I've seen plant furrys and dragons and scalies and so many other things that sort of qualify if you take a really broad definition of furry like I do. But it doesn't sound like it's any of the comics I was going to guess. Though I admit a lot of my guesses were more furry-lite like Duncan and Mallory rather then something straight up furry like Katmandu.

There's a specific era of a specific esport that I'd be interested in, but it's not something you can pick up easily and any existing fans will have been (rightly) turned off by the drama of subsequent eras. Still, it was beautiful once.

Yeah, the wankers had two main complaints: it's run by Christians for Christians, which leaves out Jewish people, and also they set one of the deadlines on a major Jewish holiday that year, Christians don't understand how stressful it is to have to be thinking about a fandom exchange on a major holiday! Both of which seem like they would be easily derailed by pointing out basic facts about Yuletide? But somehow it just kept wanking along for ages, and the result was a lot of people wanting to make Yuletide as un-Christmas-y as possible going forward. just in case.

Oh, no, this is a book series, and I 100% promise you that you have never heard of it unless you happened to buy a copy one from this dude at a local community event in the 1990s, or know someone who did. This was before print-on-demand or online sellers, I'm pretty sure he got them printed at a local printer's and only ever sold them that way, and wasn't even part of any indie author community. There are literally four google results for it, one of them is that local used bookstore's catalog, one of them is my legalname booktracking account, and the other two are spam sites that scraped the bookstore.

Definitely really exists though, even if I did buy it from the back of a truck at a flea market in [not East Germany] I should re-read except I lost track of my copy of book 1 at some point.

dc Well it could be one of my fandoms but (runs to double-check) I said in my request that I hadn't read the sequel and didn't want stuff from it, so it's not me, whew!

This is actually the third time I've either requested or matched on an old favorite canon for Yuletide only to belatedly discover there was new canon I hadn't even known about, it happens more than you'd expect.

What is a government/military/intelligence secret that could still relevant decades later?

Cosigned. I'm in this for the challenge of doing my best with a story I wouldn't have had the inspiration to write otherwise, and to enjoy someone else's solid effort to write to my stated preferences. I'm all set to appreciate my gift for its own merits rather than fuss about how it might be done differently.

Oh Blorbo, where art thou?

Who gave the order to assassinate X

Whether the choice to do [risky and controversial thing] was based off real intelligence or was a political choice

The supposed death or extradition of a spy (actually they're alive! Actually they did die!)

Whether the government/an important agency knew how risky something was before they approved it, especially if they claimed they couldn't have known

I confess, once I went through their back catalog I was surprised we’ve both been in fandom so many years and never crossed over because our tastes and styles are not dissimilar! (I’m the coalie who was hoping maybe I’d become friends with my recipient after the exchange, as has happened before.)

TOP SECRET! A [minority] helped win this war, better cover it up so it doesn't look bad. TOP SECRET EDIT DECADES LATER! Uhhh now we have to DOUBLE cover it up because it looks super bad that we once thought that looked bad.

Embarrasing speculative weapons research like the Gay Bomb.

MEMO: so we lost the nukes.

A L I E N S

Oh, Japan!

“Intelligence” that was used to justify a covert op or political declaration or sway opinion was actually faked

Gay Bomb is what happen when my dick shoot

Depending on how many decades a whole lot of stuff could still be super relevant - like a lot of military technology and locations haven't changed significantly over even the last fifty years; a lot of military aircraft and ships are many decades old and they still don't want details of their schematics and construction widely known. Same with locations of bunkers and radars and things.

There might also be all kinds of old secrets that are actually our allies' secrets shared with us, that might embarrass us and hurt the alliance if they got leaked even if they aren't really super relevant anymore.

Any sort of crime committed by the country, there are probably plenty of them and could be a whole range of things, from actively participating in genocide on one end of the scale to corruptly giving a certain company a supply contract on the other.

Any sort of event that was done as a secret operation by the country that they have been denying was them (could be an assassination or a "terrorist" attack or just an agent being high up in another country's government or even, like, economic or election manipulation.)

Something that might reflect badly on someone who is still high-up in the government (or is still held up as a hero by a political party in power) - this could something even as simple as classified parts of somebody's military record that might not really give away any national secrets, but might be enough to lose them an election.

Relatedly, something that might endanger somebody if it was widely known - somebody who gave secret testimony decades ago that put someone really dangerous in jail, for example. That's kind of a different class of government secrets but could still be bad.

Family member or journalist wants to look into a person or group famous for heroism. Discovers that the heroism celebration was to cover up a deeply unfortunate operation of some kind.

sounds more like a confetti cannon

This is almost exactly the plot to the movie The Debt!

IIIII am a man of constant blorbo

oops haha, well I guess it's a classic for a reason. Part of the whole trope family the other coalie (you?) alluded to by talking about other kinds of cover-ups that eventually make something worse.

Oh god, unrelated to OPs request, but this:

they still don't want details of their schematics and construction widely known

reminds me of the massive security leaks that have happened over the past few years all because military dudes get mad each other on the War Thunder game forums and then post all their secret documentation to flex about knowing The Most™ about tanks. Gamers will commit treason to win internet arguments!

Well, they'll find out eventually once the anon period is over, so don't stress about it. I can guarantee you they've seen worse.

Aliens. All the stuff we reverse engineered off the Roswell saucer.

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