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One Wank After Another

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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'No (specific character) bashing' but in fandoms that you would not expect to ever need that in. Like "No Tinky-Winky bashing" in Teletubbies or some such. You know something must have happened there.

a couple of years ago i saw "no prince andrew bashing" and i wonder how that person's doing these days

Today in particular, ohmygod.

Presumably why CYRT posted it!

https://mkrobinson.dreamwidth.org/43740.html
https://archiveofourown.org/users/aduchessandaprince/works?fandom_id=1075390

writing fic about him as of 2 days ago.

That's fucking bonkers. I'm usually such a chase your bliss person, but wow not like that.

Bookmarking to check in on them in a week.

I mean if they got this far, is their fave being stripped of his royal titles going to do anything for their view of him?

I hope they're choking on the news today, ha.

I don't care what they feel, I even feel slightly sorry for them if they're going through it, I'd just like them to stop treating this guy like their teddy bear.

> If my username looks familiar to you it is probably due to my prior writings in the HP fandom. I have orphaned these works & will no longer be writing in that canon. I apologise to those whom that disappoints, but I cannot abide by death of the author in the case of JKR

But Andrew RPF is fine???

Oh, that brings back memories. That was the wank that kept on giving that Yuletide, starting with that epic coal thread in October and culminating on twitter right after reveals. Nice to see neither the recipient nor the author learned a damn thing from that one.

I don't think the author particularly cared if people thought she was out of pocket and tbh, if her objection was "I don't want to write fic for someone who stans a sex offender" she's probably doing fine

DC

That's a perfectly good stance, except from what I remember, the author DID write for them.

Yeah she grumbled about it a bit but didn't want to default (and hadn't matched on that fandom), but a significant amount of coal thought that even grumbling about it was egregiously terrible

I mean I do think "complain publicly about your recip and write them a gift anyway" is about the worst possible set of actions to choose in that circumstance.

Ayrt

I don't know about any grumbling. Grumbling and then writing your assignment is fine. In this case, the author posted a long grandstanding Twitter rant after the exchange was over and done. If you feel so strongly about the recipient's character that you post a dozen tweets to distance yourself from them, then you need to put on money where your mouth is and default.

Fandom in general is so intensely weird about what people are ~allowed~ to say on their own twitters/tumblrs etc. She was talking to her friends, the thread only ended up on here because someone keyword searched twitter for "yuletide" hoping to find drama.

People are "allowed" to say whatever they want.

But social media (unless it's locked) is not a messenger where you talk to friends. It's not a place where you share private thoughts and have them remain private. It's public. You're shouting it out into the world. Anyone can see it, and the people who do see it might not be your originally intended audience and their reaction might not be "aww, sorry you had a bad time writing for that jerk" but "well, if you feel that way, you should have defaulted, this is kinda shitty".

If you don't want that reaction*, then you should message your friends and rant about it, or put that rant on a friends only DW post.

* And in this case, people didn't even reply to their Twitter post! They just mocked them on an anon meme.

maybe i'm just too autistic to understand why anyone cared what she thought. even on the very off chance her recipient saw it, if her recipient doesn't think she herself is a bad person then why would she care if the author did.