And another one!

[coalcube]

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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Re: Yuletide anxieties

[(Anonymous)]

My recipient is a really excellent author who’s written the best few stories in this tiny fandom, and I have read through much of their back catalog and we are just not the same type of writer. They’re the kind of person I would have been intimidated by in the early 2000s for writing “cool slash” with an aesthetic I can’t match because I am not cool, and I’m starting to feel anxious that even with all my research and attempts to get into the right vibe for writing this pairing, it’ll fall flat. I’m not worried they’ll be rude or anything, just feeling bummed that I don’t think I can produce something that will be exciting for this particular person to receive.

Re: Yuletide anxieties

[(Anonymous)]

I think regardless of whether the recip likes it, doing research and putting so much thought into a fic to make it the best it can be is a really cool thing. That’s valuable on its own! I hope that you feel proud of your own effort when its finished, either way <3

Re: Yuletide anxieties

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you <3

Re: Yuletide anxieties

[(Anonymous)]

I'll just be full of myself and pretend that this is me. If you think my stories in this tiny fandom are the best and putting in research we're probably one some kind of wavelength. I also asked for this fandom in yuletide because it is so tiny and I'm happy to receive anything at all that's tailored to my interests.

Re: Yuletide anxieties

[(Anonymous)]

Well I hope it pays off for both of us! <3

Re: Yuletide anxieties

[(Anonymous)]

Coalie, they will already be aware that they write stories that are aesthetically different than most people in the fandom write, and if they cared they wouldn't have requested it in Yuletide. Especially if they've written a significant fraction of all the fic ever in this fandom, they will just be super excited to get one that wasn't written by them for once.

(Honestly there've been tiny fandoms where I got comments like "your fic for this is so good I am too intimidated to write in this fandom!" and now all I desperately want is more worse fic for the fandom so people are less intimidated so I have more fic to read!!!)

Re: Yuletide anxieties

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, in truth I thought it would be fine at first because I’ve also been The One Good Author in a tiny fandom and I know how lonely and boring that can be, plus some of their aesthetic requests in the letter were very much my jam. I’m just looking at it now realizing we’re kind of on different branches of that, so I just…have to hope they like the weirder and less cool one.

Or sex? I am thinking about just writing a stand-alone sex scene as a warmup/fallback.

Re: Yuletide anxieties

[(Anonymous)]

I always write arty fics where I carefully curate every word and for the last few Yuletides I have received tropey shippy bullshit from the same author and I could not be happier with it. Praying to get them again absolutely chef's kiss.

Just because someone writes A* meaningful fic, that doesn't mean they don't want your stuck-in-a-cabin!

Re: Yuletide anxieties

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, it’s worse than that because I also write arty, carefully-curated fics (especially for Yuletide) but this person writes…not necessarily better ones, but slightly different ones in a way I know I can’t quite mimic? Starting to think I really would be better off writing tropey stuck in a cabin pwp!

Re: Yuletide anxieties

[(Anonymous)]

I'll chime in to say I'm an artsy-fic person who would be delighted to receive artsy fic, especially if it doesn't match my style, because that's fic I can't write myself! Just write what you're comfortable with and I think it'll be great.

Re: Yuletide anxieties

[(Anonymous)]

+1 It's not that I don't like other arty styles. I don't write those styles because I can't.

Re: Yuletide anxieties

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly this increasingly sounds like a meet-cute where the two of you have been secretly admiring each other's work and each thinking yours isn't worthy even though it's exactly what they wish they could write and can't.

Re: Yuletide anxieties

[(Anonymous)]

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.)

Re: Yuletide anxieties

[(Anonymous)]

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.