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.

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

Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

"You're only allowed to write this character - who is canonically married to a different character, with kids - as an AU version of himself who has only ever been romantically or sexually involved with the other half of my OTP" is very much asking you to write to spec, coalie. Like those are the specs, and putting it in a DNW makes it non-optional.

Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

This is totally bonkers. Just don't mention his spouse or kids. It's literally as simple as that.

Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

Coalie, that's not my personal preference for handling ships either, but it is a really, really common type of request that's how a great many people prefer their ships handled, and something you should definitely be expecting to potentially have to write for any potential pairing you offer in an exchange. And I sympathize if you get this DNW when you've signed up to the '20k of elaborately plotty fic closely tied in to canon events' exchange, but this is Yuletide, where the requirement is simply to make it through 1k words focused on the requested pairing without actively namedropping the existence of their canon spouse.

Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

DC

And, like, they don't even have to write the ship. That's nothing the recip can demand or use DNWs for.

All they have to do is write a scene (or a few scenes, even!) with the requested characters A and B having a canon-typical interaction (which your recip who ships them will probably interpret as UST) and not mention either of their canonical wives or girlfriends.