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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Re: would you rather game

[(Anonymous)]

would you rather receive a longfic that goes odao, or a shortfic that is perfectly tailored to your likes and id?

Re: would you rather game

[(Anonymous)]

The short fic

Re: would you rather game

[(Anonymous)]

It depends. The short fic is the safe bet, but the longer one might have surprising new elements I would love. OTOH, it might also have dewclaws, so...the short fic.

Re: would you rather game

[(Anonymous)]

Normally I'd always say the longfic but it's been a fucking century since I got anything good so I'll take the short one.

Re: would you rather game

[(Anonymous)]

Shortfic!

Re: would you rather game

[(Anonymous)]

Normally I'd say "the longer the better" but nothing good will come from an ODAO gift, so the short fic it is.

Re: would you rather game

[(Anonymous)]

Longfic. I like plenty of things that aren't listed in my likes, which are just the things I like the best, not a completely inclusive list. It's also not possible to hit my id perfectly in a shortfic. I love plenty of shortfics, but the only type of fic that actually hits my id is long h/c or whumpfic that really wallows in both the hurt and the comfort. When I'm reading fic outside of exchanges, I gravitate more towards longfic, so that's why I want that.

Re: would you rather game

[(Anonymous)]

Eh, assuming ODAO means I don't really like it I'd rather have less of something good than more of something boring.

Re: would you rather game

[(Anonymous)]

I once got absolutely hosed by someone who to all appearances crafted a fic made out of the actual opposite of each of my likes that managed to somehow still barely skirt every dnw. So fuck people who go ODAO.

Re: would you rather game

[(Anonymous)]

That seems like an unusually shitty situation.

Did they keep doing exchanges? Was it part of a pattern for them?

Re: would you rather game

[(Anonymous)]

Shortfic. It's fine not to use any my specific prompts, but if you can't even hit the vibes of my request, I don't want it, sorry.

Re: would you rather game

[(Anonymous)]

ODAO longfic. I'm very flexible about genre and content with my real priorities being more on things you can't actually prompt for like good character voices, so my optional details are more of a fallback "tropes I'm enough of a sucker for that hopefully I'll still like even a mediocre version" than anything very essential. Plus, similar to the other longfic coalie above, "shortfic" and "perfectly tailored to my id" do not actually go together that well, since the true core of my id is slow-burn gradual relationship development ensemble casefic.

Re: would you rather game

[(Anonymous)]

Probably longfic, assuming it avoids DNWs.

Re: would you rather game

[(Anonymous)]

either's fine with me, tbh. i guess the short fic is probably preferable, just for using my likes, but odao fic doesn't bother me.

Re: would you rather game - broad, bland and easy or narrow, tasty and hard?

[(Anonymous)]

Would you rather match with someone where you can write for every single fandom easily... but the prompts are unexciting, or match prefectly on one fandom... but the prompt will be super hard to write?

Re: would you rather game - broad, bland and easy or narrow, tasty and hard?

[(Anonymous)]

If I ever found a letter where I could write for every single fandom, I'd try so hard to befriend that person. So I want that letter. Show me my Yuletide soulmate!

Re: would you rather game - broad, bland and easy or narrow, tasty and hard?

[(Anonymous)]

Every fandom easily

Re: would you rather game

[(Anonymous)]

Entirely dependant on how much I like their writing. If it's not my thing, my likes in the short story will at least let me know they tried. If I love the way they write, longer is better and IDGAF about tailoring.