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)]

/that coalie

Phrasing it positively is nice, sure, but "I can't get enough of these two, please spend as much as possible of your story with a laser focus on how they feel about each other and act towards each other" doesn't actually say "I absolutely don't want any OCs in the fic", so I'd be sacrificing clarity here. And I might get a perfectly good faith fic from an author writing me my faves just the way I love them and include OC mentions because I didn't explicitly say that I don't want them, which would suck both for them and for me (and it would be my fault because I wasn't being clear).

Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

CYRT

Sure. Though if we were genuinely workshopping a positive phrasing because you wanted one, we'd obviously want to polish it a bit.

I guess the part that I'm still not getting is: if you direct your author to just absolutely wallow in A reacting to B and B reacting to A, and they make a good faith attempt at it, and there are mentions of OCs existing ... that truly ruins a gift for you?

That's still the part where I'm just - huh.

Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

CYRT

I mean, depending on how much I love the fic otherwise and how big the OC appearance is, I would just copy and paste the fic into word and delete the OC scene, and it would be okay. But it would negatively affect the initial reading experience.

Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

CYRT

And it's specifically OCs not unrequested canon characters? Based on what you said in reaction to the two short examples elsewhere, I got the sense that you aren't nearly as distracted by the appearance of unimportant characters you know. But if an OC shows up, you overanalyze 'am I supposed to care about this character as a character or will they continue as a mechanism'.