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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Comments

Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

Nah. Not wanting the A plot of the canon you're requesting is a Yuletide staple.

Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

So is requesting Any when you really just want one blorbo, but that doesn't mean it's a good thing.

Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

Wtf?! They're at all not comparable.

Fanfic is all about saying "fuck canon!" so why on earth should not wanting anything about the A plot of the canon be wrong?!

Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

DA

There are canons where demanding your author avoid the canon's main plot IS unreasonable, but mostly it isn't. I'm on your side.

Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

At the end of the day, it amounts to an id mismatch between people who write fanfic because they love a canon vs. people who write fanfic because they hate a canon and want to fix it. Both are perfectly fine, but it's miserable when they get matched to one another in an exchange.

Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

DC

Really weird to imagine that this binary exists on a person-by-person basis rather than a canon-by-canon basis. Or that it exists as a binary at all, TBH.

The A plot of my favorite fandom's canon is okay, just okay, and most fic is pre-canon, post-canon, or interstitial rather than directly about the A plot. But DNWing the A plot and demanding the writer only write missing scenes or pre- or post-canon fic would still be weird.

Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

IDK, if I love a canon, I just tend not to want fic for it. So it's definitely a binary for me and I'm firmly on one side

Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

NC

I always assumed it was person-by-person. I only want fic if I loved the canon and can't get enough of it. The canon may not be perfect, but I'm never interested in fix-it fic. I just want *more*. If my attitude is "fuck canon" then I don't want fic.

Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

CYRT

Whereas I have fandoms where my creativity is motivated by liking the canon but wanting to see it explored more (especially if it's good but a bit shallow) and fandoms where my creativity is motivated by spite, or even just hating the way canon did an element.

IDK how common that is, though.

Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

I would say that's much more common.

Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

DC

For me, a problem also tends to come in regards to moving away from the base canon. I'm great matching to someone who's into canon divergence, even if they DNW all other AUs, because that gives me a little bit of flexibility. I have and will write canon-based fic for recipients, but if someone makes it a point that they hate any type of divergence, no matter how small, it's a solid indicator for me that we're not going to be a good match.

Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

DC

Because you cannot assume some rando randomly assigned to you in an exchange of 1200 people feels the same way about canon you do?

Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, that's exactly the point. Maybe you love the canon you request or offer, but you can't assume that your recip or writer will feel the same way.