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.

Wednesday 10 December: Default deadline (9pm UTC)
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Comments

Re: The DNW that made you want to know the backstory

[(Anonymous)]

+1

Yeah, to me, there's a difference between chatting with your friends in private DMs or discord and saying, fuck, I almost defaulted because of this assignment, and announcing on twitter that omg, you can't wait to show them your recipient's requests, they're so embarrassing for requesting corgis and can you believe what city they're from, and then finishing it off by saying "Anyway i have maintained my eighteen years yuletide streak and that is all that matters but Yuletide is on thin ice." (BTW, they're still doing Yuletide to this day and started wank this year for the mods moving the deadline 12 hours earlier). I mean, clearly writing a Babysitters Club story for their recipient was so morally reprehensible to them that they wanted to have nothing to do with it, except for that whole part where they happily linked to said story on their twitter.

Re: The DNW that made you want to know the backstory

[(Anonymous)]

and announcing on twitter

Look, whether you think it's stupid or not, a lot of people don't think of twitter, or DW, or Tumblr, or even their anon meme comments, as "announcing" stuff. That's just not how most people deal with it.

Re: The DNW that made you want to know the backstory

[(Anonymous)]

DC

If you post something on a public platform (especially one where antagonistic engagement is encouraged) and don't realize that it's public and will be read a lot of people you don't know, you're either not mature enough to be on social media, too old to understand social media or dumb as a rock.

The fact that this applies to "a lot of people" doesn't change that. Many people are stupid, yes. That's an explanation, not an excuse.

Re: The DNW that made you want to know the backstory

[(Anonymous)]

DC

+1, but tbh idc if someone writing RPF about a notorious and extremely powerful pedophile got dragged on Twitter. "Fiction isn't reality" has its limits unless you run with the worst of the anti-anti crowd.

Re: The DNW that made you want to know the backstory

[(Anonymous)]

CYRT

Okay, but you do have to see there's a difference between an anonymous fandom message board that the majority of people online have never heard of and a social media platform that numbers hundreds of millions of users. If the author was just doing the standard bitching anon on coal and/or meme - well, shit that's why we're all here, isn't it. However, the fact that the author went onto twitter to not only publicly bash their recipient, but also felt the need to link the recip's fandom name on it and mention what city they're from is beyond the pale. I mean, they still have those tweets up and were tweeting about this person as recently as several hours ago (also posting about being on coal, so hey there, glad to see you haven't learned a damn thing!)

Re: The DNW that made you want to know the backstory

[(Anonymous)]

I wasn't around last year, can I get links for details?

Re: The DNW that made you want to know the backstory

[(Anonymous)]

DC

It's duckgirlie on Twitter

Re: The DNW that made you want to know the backstory

[(Anonymous)]

dc

Saying stuff under your name about another person, on public social media, is rude these days whether it's your fandom pseud on Twitter or your real name on FB. I assume people trying to argue it's not just don't like/aren't on Twitter and don't think it "counts," but it's been a big fandom space for over a decade and it's not like she was just venting in private. She can do this if she wants to, no one is stopping her, but it's still going to be rude just like it would be in real life.

That said, we were mutuals years ago and she often complained about Yuletide stuff so she probably didn't see this as any different.

Re: The DNW that made you want to know the backstory

[(Anonymous)]

They're also mocking other prompts from this year, imagine if you got stuck writing for someone who was posting shit about you.

Re: The DNW that made you want to know the backstory

[(Anonymous)]

DC

imagine if you got stuck writing for someone who was posting shit about you

I mean, that would seem like a sweet karma situation.....

Re: The DNW that made you want to know the backstory

[(Anonymous)]

IDGI. If this person posted shit about me, and then I got stuck writing for them, how is that karma? Seems like I got the shitty end of the stick both times.

Re: The DNW that made you want to know the backstory

[(Anonymous)]

CYRT

Clearly, you're a much less spiteful person than me, lol.

I meant if someone talked shit about me where I could see it, and then I got assigned to write for them, the gift they'd receive would be the gift they deserve.

Re: The DNW that made you want to know the backstory

[(Anonymous)]

DC

Two very different coalies in this conversation, lol.

Oh, that would suck for me if I were assigned to them.
Kind, not spiteful, would be sad if they ended up in this situation.

Oh, that would suck for them if I were assigned to them.
Spiteful, delightful, rooting for them to end up in this situation.

Personally, I'm the latter. They'd get the gift that they deserved.