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.

Wednesday 10 December: Default deadline (9pm UTC)
Wednesday 17 December: Assignment deadline (9pm UTC)
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Thursday 1 January: Author reveals, end of event (9pm UTC)

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Comments

Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

If having a barmaid show up for one line in a fic is truly a dealbreaker for you, coalie... well, I shan't say it.

Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

I want them to keep going! Is onscreen vs not the dealbreaker? Is the implied existence of other members of the same species a dealbreaker? How explicit can the reference be? Are their preferences like that when consuming media that is not fic? Have they always preferred these things or did they get some truly awful OC-centric fic that caused them to declare, nevermore!?

Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

The question is: why do you need to write fic where the barmaid appears for a recipient who clearly doesn't care about your barmaid and doesn't want her in the fic.

Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

DC

I don't write barmaids for recipients who clearly don't want them to show up in the fic.

I try to write stories about the requested characters/ships doing things that are interesting to me and that seem to match with my recipient's likes. A lot of the time, that calls for acknowledging or depicting the existence of other characters, because that is very common in fiction generally.

Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

Idk, a lot of the fic I read is just about the main ship or character dynamic with no other characters appearing - and if they are mentioned or turn up as background characters, it's almost always canon characters and not random OCs.

Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

DC

Depends on the genre and canon. If the plot involves the Blorbos getting separated from the rest of the cast and going on the run together, forced to trust each other to survive, then yeah, there will probably be OCs there if there's literally any kind of plot going on at all.

Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

Fair enough. I don't read fics that are that plotty.

Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

This is some grade A bullshit.

Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

Man, nonnie, I wish I could show you my AO3 bookmarks.