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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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I checked out the Fanlore entry for the gay-bashing dragon wank a while back to refresh my memory, and the entry is so fucking weird that I checked out the edit history and what do you know, it was mostly written by a Watson.

You're right it is a weird entry, and what's interesting is that it has copies of some of the deleted anonymous comments in full, which weren't posted here or on ffa so only the author would have had a copy.

Oh interesting

NC

This is SO interesting!

Or someone who did screenshots of the comments when they were posted? Unless the author had comment moderation on, those would have been visible to everyone before they were deleted.

But why would one of the Watson's have taken screenshots and saved them for a future fanlore entry if they weren't the writer or friend of the writer At the time the comments were deleted by the author there was no way of knowing that the wank would blow up that spectacularly, or that the fic would need it's own fanlore entry and IIRC they weren't up for very long. There's long been speculation that the writer was a watson, because of their OTT defence of the writer, and attitude towards the recipient.

The writer was not a Watson. They are someone who hasn't participated in Yuletide for a long time now.

Who was it then

LOL this is not convincing.

That's fair. I know it's true, but you have zero reason to believe me. I do feel like if had actually been one of them, the defence would have played out differently. But I'm biased because I know it wasn't them!

Then say who it was.

Was it you?

Coalie, the more you do this the more I think it was them, so you're actually not helping.

Same

Maybe that’s their plan.

Nah

CYRT

I know too little about this specific incident to speculate here, but I so occasionally screenshot comments on stories I come across where it feels like things are getting wanky to preserve them. And I'm sure I'm not to only one doing that

I like drama so much that I'm the person who caught the screencap of fishspeakers anonfailing here and even I have never screenshotted ao3 comments.

Who is fishspeakers

CYRT

There's no need to screenshot things here, you can just track the posts and get it all emailed to you.

I would do that for stories of my own, but not a stranger's, probably not even a friend's.

CYRT

I do it whenever I see something that seems like wank in the making. And I'm in a wanky main fandom, so it's not that rare

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