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)]

I prefer not to be on the pinch hit list till someone writes kittyfic or I use a sock to pinch hit for myself to get at least something from someone who actually is interested in the canon.

Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

I don't see how this is relevant in a discussion of "there is just no way to get fic for my rare fandoms in exchanges outside of Yuletide".

Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

DC

IMO this is a lot of coalies being a bit too literal-minded and getting hung up on binaries and yes/no divides.

"No way to get fic for this fandom outside of Yuletide", "no good way that produces satisfying results", "no way that doesn't involve extra costs I'd rather not deal with", or "maybe not impossible but only happened once in five years" all mean the same thing here.

Like, if you refuse to see that Yuletide, where PHs spend days at most lingering, has a special appeal to those of us who sometimes spend the entirety of a creation period and the deadline period lingering as an IPH, then this is just you getting hung up on technicalities instead of trying to understand the intended meaning.

Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

cyrt

I think it's perfectly understandable to say "getting fic for my ultra rare canons in non-Yuletide exchanges is stressful because I have to make sure I don't request anything more popular and it means I linger for a long time as a PH".

But it's silly to argue that "I have enough fandoms so rare that there's no point requesting them anywhere outside of Yuletide (I still do, I get nada)" means the same thing. Especially in a thread where people earnestly argue that if no one offers your fandoms in exchanges, you won't go out as an IPH until you add fandoms someone offered, which is a pretty massive failure to understand how exchanges work.

Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

CYRT

But it is (functionally) the same thing in the context the coalie was using it in. Which was about how Yuletide offers a chance to get fic you wouldn't get otherwise (or would have a lot more difficulty getting otherwise). Which it does, even if it's not a guarantee, because it's so big.

Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

I really don't think there's any context where "there's no way to get X" and "it's more difficult to get X" are the same

Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

CYRT

I think it's pretty common? Maybe not if you're very literal, but "I can't do X" is used as a synonym for "Doing X is unreasonably difficult or involves costs I'm unwilling to pay" is used quite often IMO.

Example: saying you can't get fresh strawberries for your cake probably doesn't mean there is no earthly way you could possibly get fresh strawberries anywhere on the planet. It means there are no fresh strawberries sold where you are, or maybe there are but they're ridiculously expensive, or you'd have to drive a very long way to get them. Unreasonable, not impossible.

But we're getting very off-topic here.

Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

That would only be true if gifts weren't guaranteed in other exchanges.

Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

I went out to pinch hit for the first time this year and I'm trying to remember why anyone wants that to happen. I just feel bad that my writer either disliked my requests or is having a bad time irl.

Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

I always thought I would be happy to show up on the pinch hits list - more exposure for my requests and chance for my zero-offers fandoms to get picked up, plus I don't think there's anything wrong with my requests so it would just have to be an unlucky mismatch or issue on the writer's end - and then last year when I actually did I was weirdly irrationally anxious about it and Did Not Like It at all. I was genuinely surprised how much it bugged me because it's not like I judge other people's requests for showing up there no matter how long they linger, but when mine were up there, argh, no, take them away.

Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

I'm trying to remember why anyone wants that to happen

More eyes on your request. Statistically, I've been getting more treats when I went out to PH vs. when I didn't.

I just feel bad that my writer either disliked my requests or is having a bad time irl.

As someone who just defaulted (not in Yuletide but a different exchange), don't. Unless there was something wrong with your request, it's not your fault and I wouldn't want my recip to feel bad. (For me, I defaulted because I had a big id mismatch with the recip. What they liked and what I liked was a venn diagram with almost no overlap, but that's not their fault or mine. It just happens.)

Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

Treats would be nice... actually I'm surprised I went out to PH because I already have one. Do treats only get promoted to gifts if the default is too late to get a PH?