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[(Anonymous)]

shitposting > politics. every damn time.

[(Anonymous)]

?

[(Anonymous)]

what do youse guys think about the new rule in kink lucky dip and femslash kink where you have to add fandoms if you linger or you're not guaranteed a gift?

[(Anonymous)]

Did they make the rule change for kink lucky dip before or after sign ups closed? Because that influences my thoughts about it for that specific exchange. Femslash kink is still in sign ups, so it's more of a knowing that will be a problem going into it. Also, do they define lingering somewhere? I didn't see it on quick skim.

I kind of get the idea of the rule, because there isn't an unlimited number of pinch hitters and there's been such an expansion in exchanges it that can be quite difficult to get enough pinch hitters for everybody, but I'm not sure this is the right way to approach this problem. I'm not a mod so I don't really have a good idea to deal with this problem.

Speaking as a pinch hitter, I have pinch hit for one of the people who is currently lingering on a lot of different pinch hit lists, and I don't really want to write anything more for that person, even though I could, because it was pretty obvious from their comment that they didn't like what I wrote. So that might be influencing my feelings more negatively than I think is probably warranted right now, so maybe take my comment with a grain of salt.

[(Anonymous)]

less politics moar butts

[(Anonymous)]

shut the fuck up

[(Anonymous)]

boots boots boots boots fucky fucky fucky fucky

wankiest mods

[(Anonymous)]

whose exchanges are best avoided?

Re: wankiest mods

[(Anonymous)]

that shouldnabee person has got to top the list

[(Anonymous)]

SHUT THE FUCK UP

[(Anonymous)]

no you donkey breath

[(Anonymous)]

A much better way to deal with lingering pinch hits that are happening specifically because of niche taste would just be to require safety fandoms from the jump in more exchanges. If I don't know any of the fandoms of a pinch hit, and they're all obscure enough that I can't easily figure out the vibe of the canon enough to know if it'll work for me from checking a wiki page or something, I'm so much more likely to try a new canon that I know will be short to see if I can pinch hit. I'm not always able to figure out if I'll like the canon enough to write something for it from a request alone.

I'm still not satisfied with that solution, since it punishes people who have niche taste and only like expansive canons, but it would be more likely to help the problem than the current thing of just making people add more canons of any type.

[(Anonymous)]

+0.5

it's not the ideal solution, but it works better than whatever they're doing over at femslash_kink. i'm someone with rather niche tastes and i could easily toss in a song or poem as a safety fandom or even ask for original works with the kind of weird things i like if i absolutely had to. though i am a bit sick of getting ow all the time, tbh.

if what these mods really want is for us weirdos not to sign up, they need to say with their whole chest that they don't want us, that only certain types of ships and fandoms are wanted, that they don't want old people or non-humans or problematic characters or whatever. at least i'd know whose exchanges to avoid.

but the thing is, even if they made their exchanges juggernauts-only, they'd still get lingering pinch hits. there's more than one wanker who signs up with popular fandoms and they end up lingering because nobody wants to write for that asshole.

[(Anonymous)]

im worried s4s ain't never gonna reveal.

[(Anonymous)]

It hasn't even delayed once. Chug a whole bag of chill pills.

[(Anonymous)]

no black people are in bfe

[(Anonymous)]

Don't you ever get tired of being irritating

[(Anonymous)]

fandom should put its money where its mouth is and stop giving fannish adulation to the likes of rowling and mcu and other mainstream problematic assholes. there are plenty of independent queer creatives who put out real queer content we should be fanning and ficcing for instead of stanning right-wing fuckheads.

[(Anonymous)]

thanks but I'll eat my vegetables where I want to and not where you want me to

[(Anonymous)]

I wish failmeme would ban VPNs like the other meme. It would make the meme a much better place.

[(Anonymous)]

whats wrong with vpns? stops the fash tracking ppl.

[(Anonymous)]

is that last ph on s4s wanky or something? their fandoms don't seem all that niche.

[(Anonymous)]

I've never heard any wank about them. Their Pokemon requests are for small/obscure parts of a large sprawling franchise, and I don't know how popular their other requests (Metal Fight Beyblade | Beyblade Metal Saga, Teen Titans (Animated Series), Power Rangers Time Force) are.

^this does not mean their requests are in any way bad, it's meant to be a neutral analysis of the fact that, yeah, Pokemon is huge, but not all parts of it are equally brimming with creators

I would guess Teen Titans will be their eventual fill.

BRUH

[(Anonymous)]

BRUHHHHH

Re: BRUH

[(Anonymous)]

bra

[(Anonymous)]

What is wrong with the mod glassesofjustice? I keep asking but nobody answers yet they all keep saying they're a terrible mod. So what are the deets?

[(Anonymous)]

Isn’t it to do with the new rule they added for lingering PHs? Which was pretty wanky?

[(Anonymous)]

ffs why wank about treats. either write them or don't. or just focus on your assignment, whatever.

[(Anonymous)]

how many other coalies have received kittyfic? from the OG or not

[(Anonymous)]

I've gotten plenty who outright admitted that they hadn't consumed canon, in discords, identifiably on meme, or just straight in the author's notes.

Don't give pinch hits or extensions to notallbees

[(Anonymous)]

Current drama
https://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/683303.html?thread=4232758311#cmt4232758311

Past dramas
https://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/579014.html?thread=3535062982#cmt3535062982

https://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/566396.html?thread=3452266364#cmt345

Re: Don't give pinch hits or extensions to notallbees

[(Anonymous)]

jeez, what a clown.

[(Anonymous)]

this rejection is edging me and it is not consensual

[(Anonymous)]

wtf?

s4s

[(Anonymous)]

who got butt smutt

Re: s4s

[(Anonymous)]

my gift stinks like butt does that count

[(Anonymous)]

i wish there was a smut 5k exchange. i prefer longfic.

[(Anonymous)]

fandom5k doesn't guarantee it, but you can request ships, include Smut and Romance in your tags, and talk about your smut likes. The odds are better for getting a properly smutty 5k fic using that method than for smut 4 smut, if size really matters to you (har har).

SHIT

[(Anonymous)]

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very. shitty. shit.

Re: SHIT

[(Anonymous)]

What happened?

who do you think is wankier?

[(Anonymous)]

authors or artists?

in bfe, seems to be authors. perhaps artists are more wanky in namespace.

Re: who do you think is wankier?

[(Anonymous)]

There are more authors so the author wank is so much louder it makes it hard to guess who's wankier per capita

what sorts of DNWs are we talking about??

[(Anonymous)]

I am begging people who "game away" from people who "DNW tropes and ships I like" to explain what they mean because taken at face value it seems so bizarre to me.

Like, someone on ffa claiming they game away from anyone who DNWs omegaverse because they just couldn't be compatible with that recipient.

Help me understand how that makes sense.

Or gaming away from people who DNW their OTPs. Like IDK you match on Frodo/Sam and someone DNWs Legolas/Gimli. Who cares?? Why does that make a mismatch?

The only way it would make sense to me is if you're really focused on making friends in exchanges and you want to talk to people who share all your OTPs and you're looking ahead to all the conversations you won't be able to have about Legolas/Gimli but let's be real this is a long shot in exchanges anyway.

Re: what sorts of DNWs are we talking about??

[(Anonymous)]

think about the most annoyingly fixated otper you know who gets overinvested in characters. the kinniest kinnie. the alter-collecter who gets upset if you say something about a character that their alter wouldn't do.

now imagine them in exchanges, offended that you don't like this thing that is so central to their existence. They won't write for someone who rejects the core of their being, and by jove they'll make sure everyone knows about it

[(Anonymous)]

bfe can go eat a bag of dicks. it's not a recip's job to reassure, coddle and egoboo an author.

the author owes recip a fic. the recip owes author a polite and timely comment. end of.

[(Anonymous)]

remember it's holding their hand for a 100 word fic. oh noes, what if I don't delight them with my 100 words because I can't possibly write a ship for them. ok then you write them 100 words of gen and get the fuck over yourself.

[(Anonymous)]

i want to game away from your butt

[(Anonymous)]

butts stink, i don't blame you