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Re: Why isn't Yuletide growing?

[(Anonymous)]

I don't want to punish them. But

Like I said: bizarre way to interact with the world!

Re: Why isn't Yuletide growing?

[(Anonymous)]

I'm genuinely not sure what you think is wrong with my comment. Could you elaborate please?

I'm talking about a situation where someone

-signs up with a blank sign-up (or there are situations where minimal details would also be relevant)

-is asking for a canon that has a significant amount of a type of content that is also considered disturbing, difficult, etc

-thinks, erroneously, "no one's going to write me that disturbing content though".

Are we on the same page about that?

Re: Why isn't Yuletide growing?

[(Anonymous)]

Yes. I think your comment where you explain that you're not trying to punish them but it's better if they learn quickly that they need to DNW gore if they don't want it to be bizarre because most fic, period, isn't as gory or violent as canon, and there's no real reason to assume someone wants that just because they haven't explicitly DNW'd it. If you want to write it, that's certainly your prerogative, but you aren't framing it in terms of what you want to write or your attachment to the canon. You're framing it in terms of teaching someone a lesson. That is bizarre.

Re: Why isn't Yuletide growing?

[(Anonymous)]

No. I am not. No one is.

It is fine to write someone canon-typical content. You know the recipient likes the canon.

It is possible that Person A will write canon-typical content for Person B who did not realize that was a possibility. Entirely by accident, Person A may have taught Person B a lesson. They will also have given a gift in good faith. No one is aiming to teach a lesson. It just sometimes happens when one person is wrong and another person does a thing that challenges the wrong assumption.

I said "I guess. With brutal pragmatism, I'll be glad when you write them earnest canon-typical gore and they learn not to do that again." not because I am fantasising about someone's distress and disappointment in their gift and the ascendance of moral superiority, but because people will then be on the same page.

Re: Why isn't Yuletide growing?

[(Anonymous)]

Well, I wouldn't want to get a gift from you, but not out of fear it might be canon typical. You're not very good at communicating your ideas.

Re: Why isn't Yuletide growing?

[(Anonymous)]

All right. I'll work on my prose, and you can work on your understanding of the proper relationship between correlation and causation.

Re: Why isn't Yuletide growing?

[(Anonymous)]

Midwit response.

Re: Why isn't Yuletide growing?

[(Anonymous)]

If you want to write it, that's certainly your prerogative

You aren't talking to the person who was considering writing it.

Re: Why isn't Yuletide growing?

[(Anonymous)]

General you. Oh my god.

Re: Why isn't Yuletide growing?

[(Anonymous)]

The oh my god is entirely mutual.

Oh well. We've already made a solemn pact not to write for each other. So be it!

Re: Why isn't Yuletide growing?

[(Anonymous)]

If you want to write it, that's certainly your prerogative, but you aren't framing it in terms of what you want to write or your attachment to the canon. You're framing it in terms of teaching someone a lesson. That is bizarre.

A person is certainly welcome to switch between general you and specific you at will in a single paragraph with closely related topics, but I myself wouldn't do it and then cry foul when misunderstood.