One Wank After Another

[coalcube]

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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Wednesday 17 December: Assignment deadline (9pm UTC)
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Comments

Re: 27 works in the collection

[(Anonymous)]

Damn I’m one of them and I was pretty excited about it (it’s in a fandom I was really excited to receive!) until I read the rest of the comments in this thread :’)

Re: 27 works in the collection

[(Anonymous)]

I finished my canon on the same day sign ups closed and when I got my assignment, they had very clear prompts which were fun to write and didn't require huge amounts of extra research. So it's not always 'bad assignment out the way' or 'had this fic on standby and it vaguely fits', sometimes things just align.

Re: 27 works in the collection

[(Anonymous)]

Plus sometimes it genuinely is 'had this mostly completed fic on standby and it really does 100% fit', especially in the kind of fandoms where nearly all requesters want the same fairly obvious thing, like a fix-it for the main pairing that changes their canon ending.

Re: 27 works in the collection

[(Anonymous)]

Eh, don't trust coalies for anything but the most pessimistic possible interpretations. Just as likely early uploaders are people who matched on exactly what they hoped to write and had a really clear idea for, were assigned a request they'd already begun writing a treat for, or even gamed for a repeat request because they had a half-finished fic underway that they didn't manage to get done last year.

Re: 27 works in the collection

[(Anonymous)]

I'm sure most of the fics that have been posted written so fast because the writer was excited.

(I'm the coalie who mentioned getting a bad assignment out of the way, but this was an exception rather than the rule for me. And unless you requested any and then made it clear that you only want very specific things, it's not you.)

Re: 27 works in the collection

[(Anonymous)]

+1

Also, just because the assignment was bad (or, in my case, simply uninspiring and a clear mismatch of interests) doesn't mean the fic will be bad.

Compare and contrast to assignments I was so hyped about that I nearly defaulted on them because they got out of control.

Re: 27 works in the collection

[(Anonymous)]

You should be excited about it!!!! Coal was literally walking about italics for 40 comments so someone is clearly just cranky and trolling this year

Re: 27 works in the collection

[(Anonymous)]

Agreed, though we are cranky every year.

Re: 27 works in the collection

[(Anonymous)]

True, but italics wank is a new low