One Wank After Another

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A blank assignment is a funny thing, isn't it? When you have it, you don't appreciate it, and when you miss it, it's gone.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Just four pinch hits left to be claimed now:

PH #1: The Children Act - Ian McEwan, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong, Wraeththu - Storm Constantine

PH #13: ジュエルペット ハッピネス | Jewelpet Happiness (Anime), うらら迷路帖 | Urara Meirochou (Anime), アイカツ! アイドルカツドウ! | Aikatsu!

PH #22: Psychic Force, ジャイアント・ロボ - 地球が静止する日 | Giant Robo: The Day the Earth Stood Still (Anime), Phantom Brave, Fatal Fury

PH #38: The Philosophers Series - Tom Miller, Bluestone 42 (TV), The Snopes Trilogy - William Faulkner

[(Anonymous)]

#22 belongs to a really nice recipient! I don't know these canons, but I've enjoyed all my interactions with this person via their Yuletide commenting/authoring.

[(Anonymous)]

At what point is it time to suck it up and take the pinch with the canon I know, even if I'm not really sure I could write what the recipient wants?

[(Anonymous)]

Not today. Maybe in a few days.

When you say you're not sure you can write what they want, what sort of difficulty is it?

[(Anonymous)]

The only thing I can think of to write that works for the request and the DNWs is a fairly major undertaking. I'm not sure I could do it justice and I'm not sure they'd like it.

[(Anonymous)]

They've been asking for Psychic Force for over a decade. I hope they get it.

[(Anonymous)]

The Philosophers Series really does sound fun. Though "plucky boy attempts to prove himself in an alt-world profession dominated by women" is something that can be hit or miss for me.

[(Anonymous)]

Two more claimed! Just #13 and #22 still remaining now.

[(Anonymous)]

Now just #13 left! Almost there!

[(Anonymous)]

I wonder what's keeping #13 from getting picked up. I guess all the fandoms are just more obscure than the average Yuletide fandom? Or Yuletide has a smaller pool of pinch hitters familiar with anime fandoms relative to other fandoms?

[(Anonymous)]

Someone at FFA did a breakdown of the canons: https://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/707891.html?thread=4359460403#cmt4359460403

Based on their descriptions, Urara Meirochou seems the most accessible?

[(Anonymous)]

I found Jewelpet Happiness on Youtube - it's missing a few episodes, but it looks like one of their requested characters, Lapis, is only in episodes 33 (brief cameo) and episode 34 (full introduction). I might grab it but so far I haven't found a plot.

They ship Lapis/Sapphie (Sapphie is a main/supporting character who shows up in most/all episodes) but it sounds like they'd be happy with fluff featuring any of the characters. Sango, their third character, apparently shows up in 12 and 39.

[(Anonymous)]

Idk about the whole pool, but I'm a pinch hitter who writes in a lot of anime fandoms. I suspect for this one, it's just general obscurity. I haven't even heard of any of these series before, let alone have enough passing familiarity with them to pick up the pinch hit.

[(Anonymous)]

I know it's completely impractical but I kind of wish that if you are the very last initial pinch hit to be picked up in Yuletide, there could be a special pool of volunteers who try to consume your canons and make you extra things.

[(Anonymous)]

Can you imagine if it was someone like FC9 being the last one to get picked up? I guess that would be an encouragement to take them before that happened: pinch hitting out of sheer spite.

[(Anonymous)]

Of the three, I'm least familiar with Urara but with Aikatsu and Jewelpet they're both kids anime aimed towards the younger set that rely heavily on circulating fansubs (compare to the similar demographic Precure which has become easily accessible thru Crunchyroll). Aikatsu has had recent activity - just had a crossover movie with former rival PriPara - but Jewelpet as a franchise has been almost fully shoved aside by Sanrio and I imagine what's left of the fanbase there is small.

[(Anonymous)]

"Or Yuletide has a smaller pool of pinch hitters familiar with anime fandoms relative to other fandoms?"

For me, I'm just not into recent anime of this sort... So I don't think the problem is anime in general, but more the type?

[(Anonymous)]

Same for me. I could do some of the older stuff but the new stuff mostly passes me by.