Coal Rivalry

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All the things Coal said, running through my head.

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Comments

Re: Actual Coal (or, what were they thinking)

[(Anonymous)]

A bad gift sucks, but a bad gift that readers other than recip are fawning over is adding insult to injury

Maybe I'm in the minority here, but I don't see why that matters. A bad gift and a bad fic are not necessarily the same thing. Something can be a bad gift for me but still a fic that makes other people happy.

The crux of the matter is whether that happens accidentally and the author tried to give a good gift and failed, or whether the author just plainly didn't give a fuck about making something I could enjoy. At this point, I think it's pretty clear that both Bean and Untherius are in the second category.

Re: Actual Coal (or, what were they thinking)

[(Anonymous)]

CYRT

I was absolutely thinking of the second category too. I don't really notice or care when I receive popular gifts that don't quite land, but there's a certain kind of gift that feels like the author wrote it for their usual audience or their friend or just themselves, and didn't stop to think if it matches the request more than on a technicality. In that case, it's extremely aggravating to see gushing, and all the comments and bookmarks over the EPH fic squeeing about "Omg it's our boy Hiscarion" are a good example of that - or the fic I received that included a bunch of elements I didn't ask for and consider pretty opt-in, and after reveals I felt like the author had just written their usual fare for their followers and treated my request as a glorified prompt. That kind of thing.