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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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what do we reckon will cause the next big wanksplosion, coalies?

Hard to say. It's always something that comes out of nowhere, like a clear DNW violation or someone writing something that makes you go, wtf.

If I had to guess a fandom, I feel Murderbot is a good contender, though, because so many of those sign-ups are already simmering with potential. You've got blank ones/placeholders, ones that have DNW lists that feel like that fandom's greatest hits of wank, at least two sign-ups that put the majority of their DNWs in their letters, and the very real possibility that more than a few recipients are hoping to get book canon rather than the show. And if someone writes any kind of smut...

Unpopular opinion but I feel like adaptations that don't really vary from the source at all shouldn't be allowed as "small" fandoms. Murderbot had its day in the Yuletide sun, and now the migratory writers have shown up, let them write fic for the gen pop.

Is this a prediction or do you just want to start the wank now?

I don't know what a migratory writer is, but I do know migration takes a ton of energy, so I'm happy to let them recover and nourish themselves in Murderbot (tv) before they write off to their final winter destination.

I don't know what a migratory writer is

It's the people writing tropey slush about the cis het male human character, HTH!

Oh, you mean the good shit

MB will bring asexy wank (hopefully)

Someone will accuse someone of using AI.

Someone WILL use AI.

Someone will accuse Misura of using AI, because clearly no one can write that many treats in such a short time.

Someone will remember that Yuletide mods promised to post a statement re: nasty, semi-public gossiping about participants like the mod cabal, and haven't posted that statement yet.

But....but....hasn't she been doing that since way before AI even existed??

That's never stopped the witch hunters.

Do you think there’s some sort of Migratory False Accusations of AI fandom that is going to descend on Yuletide this year?

This comment sounds suspiciously like AI.

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Someone will accuse Misura of using AI, because clearly no one can write that many treats in such a short time.

Today I found the thing I will go to war over if anyone fucking dares.

Accusations of AI.

Racist Sinners fic.

Chomsky/Foucault necrophilia AU.

Okay, but the necro AU isn't inherently wanky. Or particularly unexpected.

Expectations may vary. One request did not know about the Chomsky-Foucault part.

I have ABSOLUTELY no idea what this is and my searches have turned up nothing so you WILL have to link me to the actual content, but I am literally so intrigued.

DC

In that case, the problem moght turn out to be an author including a deep, lengthy discussion on inherent power imbalances, the nature of human consciousness, and if it's praxis for a member of a routinely disparaged member of a social class on the ground level to assert dominance over a member of the bourgeois establishment through the means of penetration.

Hot.

What letter is this??

DC

https://tagset2025.web.app/#/fandom/2946

I have no idea how to feel about this (there is a weird desire for me to fill this request and I know nothing about it) but also I think this person might get so many fills and not be prepared.

Or maybe they are prepared and I’m left wondering if it’s possible to recreate this effect with one of my fandoms.

I have given up trying to predict exchange wank since that Little Big Horn Football AU.

wow that was a doozy.

someone will fuck up royally and refer to current events in a fandom that's got nothing to do with current events

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