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

[(Anonymous)]

DC

I'm the nonnie who said above that the tags don't make sense to me, and this is exactly the thing I meant. I don't get how a ship schematic is NOT fanart. It would never in a million years have occurred to me that I need to request that separately. I feel like I have to read a 50 page documentary to make sense of all the categories and what they include and don't include, often they're phrased misleadingly, and sometimes there's no agreement on what they mean, and that just takes the fun out of the exchange for me.

[(Anonymous)]

I feel like I have to read a 50 page documentary to make sense of all the categories and what they include and don't include, often they're phrased misleadingly, and sometimes there's no agreement on what they mean, and that just takes the fun out of the exchange for me.

+1 million

[(Anonymous)]

DC

TBH I have this problem with freeform-based exchanges in general, never mind just for mediums. Too many zillion niche subcategories to comb through that aren't always super clear how they're being defined, and that whole "pick a very specific narrow subset of thing to make first, then come up with an idea that will fit it for this canon and characters" approach is just not the way around I think in terms of creating fanworks.

[(Anonymous)]

C CYRT RT

It works for me with tropes, because the difference between stuff like "Omegaverse - Nesting" and "Omegaverse - Alpha knots alpha to dominate him" is obvious to me and important in terms of what I want. But with the mediums, I just don't understand the differences in many cases, and there's no easy way to find explanations. Maybe that just means FIAB is not for me, at least in terms of its optional mediums.

[(Anonymous)]

CYRT

I think I'm basically too flexible in what I'm willing to read for that kind of trope-led approach, because I'd just want to be like "write whatever variation of omegaverse you think makes most sense for these characters and the specific story you're telling, I care a lot more about vibes than the details of specific subtropes" and I feel like even going through checking off every possible variation as options doesn't really hit the same energy because I know my writer still has to pick one specific one and be bound by it. It just feels very restrictive as both a writer and recipient.

[(Anonymous)]

CYRT

Yeah, that makes sense. I often only prefer specific versions of the trope, so requesting them in non-freeform exchanges is risky, because I can say "if you write omegaverse, please write me alpha/alpha", but the risk of an id mismatch is too big and I might be matched to someone who doesn't enjoy that.

[(Anonymous)]

CYRT

Same here. And every year when someone adds some cool new prompt to the mediums list - because a prompt is basically what it is - it weirdly feels like there are fewer things you can create now, not more.