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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Comments

Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

No one is forcing you to do it in Yuletide either so what the fuck are you on about Willis

Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

Telling the coalie above that it's just not true that no one wants to write their canons. In Yuletide or in any other exchanges! Are you lost?

Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

Parent all the way up to "It might be a grudgingly-written minimum by someone who just wants the exchange to open already, who might or might not have done more than read a summary, and meanwhile everyone is griping behind your back about how the exchange is always delayed and it's always the same few people causing it, but sure, you technically do get a fic that's technically in your fandom! because it's guaranteed by the rules!

...people can see why that's not actually the same as matching with someone in yuletide who actually wants to write for you, right?"

Does that grudgingly-written kittyfic written by wankers sounds like "people want to write this" to you?

Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not denying that the grudgingly-written kittyfic exists, because it totally does. But that's definitely the exception and not the rule. Most pinch hitters take their PHs seriously as any assignment, IME, and I know I'm not the only one who thinks this!

Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

O...kay, well, my point is that nobody is offering my fandoms in Yuletide any more than they are offering them in any other exchange, and I'm just as likely to get kittyfic in either PH scenario, so Yuletide is not a special time when the magic fairy who wants to write for me appears.

Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

DC

I think your odds are still much better in an exchange with 1000+ people than, IDK, WhumpEx.

Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

DC

I've had extremely mixed luck with PHers who picked up my fandom for the PH, ranging from AI fic (yes, really) to "the PHer clearly gave the canon and honest shake but didn't vibe with it and the resulting fic shows it", to "the PHer loved it and now they offer it regularly".

I should say I do an above-average number of so some of my rare fandoms spend a lot of time on the PH list, and my requests get a lot of visibility as a result. So while it kind of paid off for me, I think you also need a lot of tries to get lucky, and most gifts by someone who picked up the canon so the collection could open already might be well-meaning, but very much not what people are hoping to get when they sign up requesting that fandom in an exchange where it might already be known. Of course, you're never guaranteed good fic, but I really wouldn't tout "just be stubborn and linger on the PH list a long" as an actually viable way to get fic by someone who is enthusiastic to write what you're requesting.