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Jan 25, 2013, 1:55:33 PM1/25/13
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I vaguely recall enjoying a thread like this before.

Name a character, and other anons will reply with the five traits they feel most define the character.
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Subject: Re: Defining a character
Edward Elric, Roy Mustang and Van Hohenheim.

Do specify whether you're talking about the first anime or the manga/Brotherhood, or both.

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Jan 25, 2013, 1:55:49 PM1/25/13
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Oh, I know. I get so much secondhand embarrassment from the tinhatters especially those active on Twitter. Don't want to scare off the cast, they've been so nice interacting with fans. The Josh/Ginny thing I can at least see where came from since they are dating, even if some of the fans get way inappropriate about it. But Robert is married with kids and Jen and Lana both have significant others, so some of the tinhatting concerning them somehow feels even more inappropriate. IMO and all that.
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NA

And Emilie is also married.

(Which I probably wouldn't point out here but people, particularly EdR fans for some reason, keep ignoring that fact.)

(And I kinda ship her/her husband because he was smart enough to marry her and they always seem to look happy together in pictures.)

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Jan 25, 2013, 1:56:36 PM1/25/13
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Yes indeed I do. Although fair warning, I've been on FFA almost from the beginning, so you may have seen a bunch of my recs already.

It'll have to wait about eight hours, though, because now I'm at work. Do you have any specifications? Other characters you enjoy or can't stand? How do you feel about dark, twisted Snape (more dark and twisted than usual, I mean)?
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I'm not a fan of Sirius Black but as long as he isn't lionized (heh Gryffindor) I'm perfectly ok with him being in a fic. Dark and twisted is just fine :)

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Jan 25, 2013, 1:59:23 PM1/25/13
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Fiona Glenanne. I can't explain it. I'm sorry.
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I totally get it

Fiona/Michael - They loooove each other. And blowing things up together. Possibly more the second.

Fiona/Sam - They've got this antagonistic banter where they just snipe at each other constantly and it's adorable.

Fiona/Jesse - Wasn't the attraction pretty much canon at one point? Plus, Jesse is pretty.

Fiona/Madeline - I can't see this in a sexual sense, but I like their friendship, especially when they gang up on Michael.

Fiona/Barry - She just dominates him. It's glorious. (Barry, you know you like it).

Fiona/Nate - er... actually, I hate Nate, so I can't see this one.

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Jan 25, 2013, 2:00:23 PM1/25/13
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Is anyone watching these on meme? What do you think of the current arc? Any theories about where they're going to go with it.

That was hard to watch. I've been ok with Lydia's vids so far, but that made me want to throw up. There's no denying that it's emotional abuse now, and really horrible emotional abuse, too. The part that hit me the most strongly was when he said "Did I just say that for the first time? On camera?" It was so nasty, so patronising and derogatory, managing to seem declarative (I'm willing to say this in front of the whole world) and put down her feelings (Are you surprised? Did you think I wouldn't do it? Are you doubting me?) at the same time. It's completely disgusting.


It also gives me a pretty solid feeling on where this is going to go. I'm assuming now that our famous line "Lydia has run off with Mr. Wickham" will be echoed in the diaries. That is, Lydia will somehow discover what happened with Gigi and will choose Wickham anyway, over her family. It's suitably brutal and crushing, and it's something that Darcy can fix with money - we already know he can fix it, based on what Gigi has told us. And it fits Wickham's motives, which seem to be to take revenge on Lizzy and Darcy in the nastiest way he can.
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I miss the Lydia and Mary shenanigans. I hope Mary gets to be involved in saving Lydia.

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I know this can create a problem if rules have been lax in the past, but even without the Twitter crowing, I don't see any reason why you'd have to let her participate at all. She doesn't really participate in the first place, does she? She just jerks you around to get something for nothing.

She dropped out without contacting you or answering your emails four times? On the exchange I co-mod, we ban people who do that once.
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+1

Don't cater to the assbutt. The other participants don't benefit from their signup and should be the priority here.

If they start wank, you're in the right anyway.

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Hobbits in general for me. I tried reading a fic with Pippin/Faramir the other day and had the hardest squick reaction, it was bizarre.
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... you wouldn't happen to have a link to that fic still, would you? For, uh, scientific curiosity.

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It doesn't have to actually be perfect. I'm talking about those stories that satisfy a particular fandom craving best, for a pairing, character, plot arc, fandom as a whole, whatever. Which are yours? What criteria do they fill/would they have to fill?

Surprisingly recently I found my perfect fic for Taichi/Daisuke from Digimon 02. Currently my craving is for a perfect McCoy/Kirk for Star Trek 2009, but the search continues.
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Fics I dream of reading one day:

One-sided A>B, in which B marries his canon crush, and A swallows his resignation because he knew this would happen, heartbroken but cherishing the one-of-a-kind relationship he does have with B even if it isn't exactly what he wanted. Without B ever having any idea.

A well-written fusionfic between Canons C and D, in which the general storyline of D plays out in the world of C, with the endgame pairing of E/F in which E is torn over F being the reincarnation of G.

Another well-written fusionfic, between Canons C and H, because I/J teeters on the verge of canon anyway and seeing their relationship play out within the worldbuilding of C would be perfect beyond words.

Actually, well-written fusionfics of Canon C and pretty much anything. There do exist a handful of such fusionfics, but most of them are pretty badly written.

More generally, my perfect fic involves either gen or one-sided ships, big plots, dark without being OTT angsty or woobified, long without being gargantuan, with characters being so in-character you'd almost think it was canon.

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Edward Elric, Roy Mustang and Van Hohenheim.

Do specify whether you're talking about the first anime or the manga/Brotherhood, or both.
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Roy

manga/Brotherhood

1. Ambitious - Aiming for the top of the military
2. Loyal - Can anyone doubt his loyalty to his men?
3. Martyr complex - His whole goal is meant as an atonement for Ishbal.
4. Flair - He's got a sense of style and a flair for the dramatic.
5. Powerful - There is a reason he's called the Hero of Ishbal.

Edward

1. Smart - The military wants a loud kid because of his genius, after all.
2. Determined - Never give up on his brother
3. Martyr complex - I think a lot of the FMA good guys are like this. Roy, Riza and Hughes, Scar, Ling and Lan Fan etc. On the other hand, the other characters refuse to let Ed take this road, while claiming its path for themselves.
4. Dork - He's an alchemy geek as much as Winry's an automail one.
5. Loves his brother - It's the core of the series, after all.

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Seals, ponies, and friends are still off pillaging. The velociraptors aren't sure how they ended up being volunteered into babysitting a nest of small flightless birds they're not supposed to eat, but the sparrows are demanding, hungry, and LOUD. Worse, the only things they'll eat are pre-digested worms or pristinely fresh Beluga caviar. Please send help. Urgently. Mary Poppins or Nurse Matilda preferred.

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When do you feel it's appropriate to claim for bingo cards?

1. Claiming the same fill for porn battle and bingo, two bingo cards etc.

2. Kink meme fills reposted and claimed for bingo cards.

3. Random gift fic for someone you like. As in writing something for them, without being in a challenge.

4. Exchange fic. I've never actually seen anyone try to claim say yuletide fic for their bingo cards, but I guess you could (especially after reveals).

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Jan 25, 2013, 2:15:01 PM1/25/13
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It doesn't have to actually be perfect. I'm talking about those stories that satisfy a particular fandom craving best, for a pairing, character, plot arc, fandom as a whole, whatever. Which are yours? What criteria do they fill/would they have to fill?


Surprisingly recently I found my perfect fic for Taichi/Daisuke from Digimon 02. Currently my craving is for a perfect McCoy/Kirk for Star Trek 2009, but the search continues.
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Longfic for my OTP not written by me.

If I'm being more specific...

A fic which sticks pretty close to canon, and which goes back and fills in some of the gaps in their relationship as well as looking forward the their reunion. It would acknowledge the existence of other characters and the larger plot but remain solidly focused on A/B.

Also historical AUs. Not written by me. Which have really good writing and a solid, romantic plot.

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Well, checking all three boxes doesn't mean you have equal interest in all of them. I have some slash and het pairings, but am primarily interested in femslash--so I ticked all the boxes but am still more likely to be talking about my f/f pairings on-meme. There presumably are some people who are like that about m/m or m/f, too.
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DA - yes, I'm another one who checked all three boxes, but am most likely to be discussing M/M on meme. I like het and femslash too, but the particular tropes and character types and relationship dynamics I like the best are generally easiest for me to find in M/M stuff, and most of the fandoms I am most heavily invested in right now are focused on M/M pairings.

I do still talk about and rec the het and femslash fandoms I enjoy here, and am always keeping an eye out for new recs, because I would love to find more M/F or F/F pairings that work for me in the same way as my favorite M/M slash ships! But at the same time, I simply have a lot more M/M ships and fandoms than I do M/F or F/F, so I do inevitably end up talking about slash more often than anything else.

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Ah, I'm guessing you haven't seen the latest Lizzy vid, which has Gigi talking about what happened with her and Wickham.

Gigi explains that Wickham met up with her in college and basically seduced her. They moved in together and she was paying for him and looking after him. She doesn't come out and say it, but there's solid evidence that he emotionally abused her. Then Darcy found out, and got Wickham to go away by holding out a check. Wickham took it and walked right out the door.


There was a lot of speculation along the lines you're thinking, but the show seems to be going in a very different direction. Wickham has been abusing Lydia in her videos, manipulating her and keeping her away from her friends and family. Based on this and the Gigi story, it's a solid bet that Lydia's fall is her choosing Wickham, that Darcy will save the day by paying Wickham off the way he did for Gigi and that Lydia and Wickham will not end up together, because as one of the anons above me said, this Lydia is pretty sympathetic and this Wickham is completely evil and toxic.
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Yeah, just watched yesterday's LBD. Sometimes I forget that this version is constrained by the format (the conceit of public videos, so we don't get any info that Lizzie isn't willing to share with the whole world).

I get that Wickham is a toxic, manipulative, abusive creep in this version just like the original, and the modern context means Darcy needs to get rid of Wickham instead of keep him around. If he just buys Wickham off to leave, though, that's... problematic. It works a bit better with Gigi because they're family and with their relationship, a degree of paternalism makes sense. That may be where they're going with just a rehash of what he did with Gigi, but Lydia is in an abusive relationship and Darcy buying Wickham off isn't going to fix Lydia's problems or emotionally extricate her from the situation. She's just going to blame Darcy, Jane, and Lizzie. Ideally, she should realize on her own that Wickham is toxic, and be in a situation where she's trapped and needs help (money, and a lot of it) to get free of him. Otherwise, Lizzie could just drive out to get her and take her home. It would also better map onto the original plot if she's in a bad way and has the potential to suffer for it for years and generate a lot of gossip in her neighborhood.

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I vaguely recall enjoying a thread like this before.


Name a character, and other anons will reply with the five traits they feel most define the character.
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Two because they go together - Taki Reizen and/or Klaus von Wolfstadt

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Not really. I like Books/Movies!Mycroft but not in a sexual way and BBC!Mycroft is just plain creepy.

Any thinking about sex with BBC!Mycroft makes me long for a shower.
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+1 on BBC Mycroft. The only sex with him I can read is sex that is *intended* to be read as creepy as hell.

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http://doctorwhom54.tumblr.com/

^ This has me thinking fondly about my favorite whumpy episodes and/or moments of whump in otherwise blah episodes (movies/books/etc.).

What are some of yours, nonnies?
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Higurashi/Umineko, because the nice part about a canon that replays the same scenario over and over again in order to solve the mystery is that it can actually kill its characters repeatedly in the cause of whump without it ever feeling cheap.

Specifically, the parts that made me cry in Higurashi were when Shion wishes she'd never been born right before dying at the end of the Meakashi arc, the realization of what had actually happened in the first arc, and the nobly solitary suffering that Rika goes through. In Umineko, when Jessica faces down Ronon, when Jessica faces down Kyrie... huh, come to think of it, all my favorite whump scenes involve Jessica even though she's not one of my favorite characters. I just really like noblish tomboys facing certain death with courage, apparently.

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Yeah, just watched yesterday's LBD. Sometimes I forget that this version is constrained by the format (the conceit of public videos, so we don't get any info that Lizzie isn't willing to share with the whole world).

I get that Wickham is a toxic, manipulative, abusive creep in this version just like the original, and the modern context means Darcy needs to get rid of Wickham instead of keep him around. If he just buys Wickham off to leave, though, that's... problematic. It works a bit better with Gigi because they're family and with their relationship, a degree of paternalism makes sense. That may be where they're going with just a rehash of what he did with Gigi, but Lydia is in an abusive relationship and Darcy buying Wickham off isn't going to fix Lydia's problems or emotionally extricate her from the situation. She's just going to blame Darcy, Jane, and Lizzie. Ideally, she should realize on her own that Wickham is toxic, and be in a situation where she's trapped and needs help (money, and a lot of it) to get free of him. Otherwise, Lizzie could just drive out to get her and take her home. It would also better map onto the original plot if she's in a bad way and has the potential to suffer for it for years and generate a lot of gossip in her neighborhood.
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DA also has the impression that Lydia might have some sort of drug problem too? I got that vibe for some reason. That could be a factor.

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^ This has me thinking fondly about my favorite whumpy episodes and/or moments of whump in otherwise blah episodes (movies/books/etc.).

What are some of yours, nonnies?
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Original Trek episode "The Empath." Which I'm pretty sure was written by someone who went on to a long career in h/c fanfic. Seriously.

Star Trek: Voyager episodes "The Chute" and "Coda" for Kim/Paris and J/C respectively.

Babylon 5: "Comes the Inquisitor" for John and Delenn, especially Delenn. "Gray 17 Is Missing" for Marcus. Basically the end of season for for everyone, but especially Michael, John and Susan. "And the Sky Was Full of Stars" for Jeff. "Survivors" which wasn't very good, but had some very nice Michael whump.

Most of the first season of Starsky & Hutch. And the second season. And okay so the entire show?

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And Emilie is also married.

(Which I probably wouldn't point out here but people, particularly EdR fans for some reason, keep ignoring that fact.)

(And I kinda ship her/her husband because he was smart enough to marry her and they always seem to look happy together in pictures.)
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Oh, she is? Didn't know that. Good for her!

Marriages to other people never seem to stop tinhats much, it seems.

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NA - l o l it will never fail to amuse me how much bitter scott fans will complain about the amount of stiles fic there is out there. and i say this as someone who is also a scott fan.
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AYRT I will write him with Scott too! I do not discriminate!

But yeah I can't even laugh at it because I wind up feeling like these people want me to be their fic-writing bitch instead of writing whatever the fuck I want.

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^ This has me thinking fondly about my favorite whumpy episodes and/or moments of whump in otherwise blah episodes (movies/books/etc.).

What are some of yours, nonnies?
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ADWD.

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I think I've read everything that's on AO3, but I'd be happy to hear your favorites!
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-the story of what the night is thinking by restlesslikeme: http://archiveofourown.org/works/500222

both by victoria_p -
-Inauguration: http://archiveofourown.org/chapters/908294
-The Drop In: http://archiveofourown.org/works/443484

both by hollimichele -
-Run to Ground: http://archiveofourown.org/works/438854
-so shake apart: http://archiveofourown.org/works/443104

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^ This has me thinking fondly about my favorite whumpy episodes and/or moments of whump in otherwise blah episodes (movies/books/etc.).

What are some of yours, nonnies?
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Civil War: The Confession

It's the character doing it to himself and it's emotional whump but god it feels good.

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I have a feeling that the phrase could describe a lot of fandoms. I was talking about Hetalia, though.
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ayrt It could, that's true. Hetalia was the one I had in mind, though. I'm still finding some things to read on the kink meme, but end up skipping over half the fills (characters I'm not interested in or kinks I don't care for) and backbuttoning on many of the ones I do read these days. There's a lot of any two boyfriends, anywhere porn.

I'm trying to use this a motivation to work on my own fills. I may still be one of the idiots, but at least I have some understanding of how relationships work. And I'm doing my best to avoid the circlejerk fanon.

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For characters that you find completely unshippable. Who do you want to strap into a chastity belt, Nonnies?
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Elves. Fucking smugger than thou elves. Let them walk slowly through their magically gorgeous woody heavens where nothing ever happens being content to ponder the miracle of their own beauty. I don't think they need a chastity belts. Their balls atrophied from disuse long ago.

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King Bradley/Wrath from FMA (manga/Brotherhood). Just entertaining the thought that he may have ever had sexual relations with his wife creeps me out.
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Unfortunately for you, nonny, those guys were so into each other.

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ITT: you have a fandom or fandoms where instead of having an OTP or being a complete multishipper you just ship one character with BASICALLY EVERYBODY. You tell the meme which character that is and maybe some of the ships you like with them.
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Rorschach. Sorry everyone. Sorry Alan Moore.

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I've been sighing over irnan's Steve/Peggy time-travel story since she wrote it, because I just want Steve to be HAPPY, DAMMIT: http://archiveofourown.org/works/433715

And Siria just posted some equally great Steve/Peggy with alternate universes and a happy ending: http://archiveofourown.org/works/651734
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Partway through that second one (already read the first), and THANK YOU. :D

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What is the name of this game? I would be okay with giving five money pieces for so many laughs and feels.
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The first part of the game where you are dating the pretty boys who are really flying animals is free. Try the free one first before you spend five money pieces on it, just in case it does not want to play nice on your computer. But if it works, it is a lot more fun than many games that are a lot more money pieces than just five! And the lady who made it all by herself is very very nice to the people who like her game, so I like to see people giving her some money pieces for her hard work and being nice.

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When do you feel it's appropriate to claim for bingo cards?


1. Claiming the same fill for porn battle and bingo, two bingo cards etc.

2. Kink meme fills reposted and claimed for bingo cards.

3. Random gift fic for someone you like. As in writing something for them, without being in a challenge.

4. Exchange fic. I've never actually seen anyone try to claim say yuletide fic for their bingo cards, but I guess you could (especially after reveals).
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1. Totally okay
2. Okay so long as you wrote and posted the fill after you got your card
3. Totally okay
4. Not okay

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^ This has me thinking fondly about my favorite whumpy episodes and/or moments of whump in otherwise blah episodes (movies/books/etc.).

What are some of yours, nonnies?
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Blair from the Sentinel was the most whumpable little professor ever. It's the eyes -- those sad, oh my god, I'm about to be punched in the face, eyes.

The episodes I like best are the one where the Lash one, where he was kidnapped by an identity stealing serial killer and dragged around in chains. And the one where Alex actually succeeds in drowning him in a fountain. But it seemed like he got tied up, kidnapped, drugged, beaten or at least verbally threatened every single episode, so it's hard to pick.

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When do you feel it's appropriate to claim for bingo cards?


1. Claiming the same fill for porn battle and bingo, two bingo cards etc.

2. Kink meme fills reposted and claimed for bingo cards.

3. Random gift fic for someone you like. As in writing something for them, without being in a challenge.

4. Exchange fic. I've never actually seen anyone try to claim say yuletide fic for their bingo cards, but I guess you could (especially after reveals).
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I think fic for bingo cards should be original to the bingo card/prompt. So if the gift fic, porn battle fic, kink meme fill is written based on the bingo prompt that's fine.

I would not find it okay to use the same fill for two bingo cards, two different challenges/exchanges, etc. Or repurposing an older fic.

But maybe some bingo challenges have rules about this.

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You know what i mean - those ships where the majority of people seem to get the dynamics between them COMPLETELY WRONG. usually it's dirtybadwrong pairings being written as cleangoodright but occasionally it's reams of angsty grimdark fic being written for relatively uncomplicated pairings.
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Some Loki/Thor fans. As if Woobie!Loki and Booming!Thor weren't bad enough people need to stop handwaving/ignoring/erasing the incest in this incest ship.

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move me or move right through me, http://archiveofourown.org/works/380987 soulbond, 11k
if the right one came along, http://archiveofourown.org/works/569011 long dating, 13k
his executive assistant, http://archiveofourown.org/works/566060 office au, 17k (locked)

And there was a beautiful long Eberle/Hall/RNH pining fic that is apparently gone and I forgot to save it :( was that one of liketheroad's?
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I didn't know Home Maker, Game Changer was gone! :( I love that fic.

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Elves. Fucking smugger than thou elves. Let them walk slowly through their magically gorgeous woody heavens where nothing ever happens being content to ponder the miracle of their own beauty. I don't think they need a chastity belts. Their balls atrophied from disuse long ago.
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Isn't this like... canon for elves after a certain amount of time, anyway?

ex. Laws and Customs of the Eldar smu.edu/tolkien/online_reader/T-LawsandCustoms.pdf

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Winterfox. For years, I knew nothing about her except that I didn't like her. I was in a tiny fandom with her, and found her abrasive and confrontational. She was quickly booted out of our community for her unpleasantness. Then I googled her years later... and ooohhh boy, I saw the tip of the iceberg.
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Same here. I remember her from LOTR fandom years ago, before she decided she hated Tolkien. She was incredibly rude and smug even then, but some people liked her for calling out bad fanfics. I couldn't stand her attitude. I'm glad my instincts proved right.

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When do you feel it's appropriate to claim for bingo cards?


1. Claiming the same fill for porn battle and bingo, two bingo cards etc.

2. Kink meme fills reposted and claimed for bingo cards.

3. Random gift fic for someone you like. As in writing something for them, without being in a challenge.

4. Exchange fic. I've never actually seen anyone try to claim say yuletide fic for their bingo cards, but I guess you could (especially after reveals).
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Subject: Re: Bingo Claims
1. Okay. I would think that combining two prompts from different cards would count as brownie points, tbh.

2. If they were written after the cards opened it's fine.

3. Also okay. If you're friends I'm assuming you're writing something they'd like and would avoid using any squares that would squick them.

4. No. Even if it fits the square I still would raise an eyebrow at this.

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Is anyone watching these on meme? What do you think of the current arc? Any theories about where they're going to go with it.

That was hard to watch. I've been ok with Lydia's vids so far, but that made me want to throw up. There's no denying that it's emotional abuse now, and really horrible emotional abuse, too. The part that hit me the most strongly was when he said "Did I just say that for the first time? On camera?" It was so nasty, so patronising and derogatory, managing to seem declarative (I'm willing to say this in front of the whole world) and put down her feelings (Are you surprised? Did you think I wouldn't do it? Are you doubting me?) at the same time. It's completely disgusting.


It also gives me a pretty solid feeling on where this is going to go. I'm assuming now that our famous line "Lydia has run off with Mr. Wickham" will be echoed in the diaries. That is, Lydia will somehow discover what happened with Gigi and will choose Wickham anyway, over her family. It's suitably brutal and crushing, and it's something that Darcy can fix with money - we already know he can fix it, based on what Gigi has told us. And it fits Wickham's motives, which seem to be to take revenge on Lizzy and Darcy in the nastiest way he can.
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Oh I just love this series. There was one Lydia vid where I managed to forget what a slimeball George was and I actually found it pretty cute, but since then it's grown more and more uncomfortable, and today I just cringed all the way through. I can't wait to see what sort of situation Lydia will get into.

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I vaguely recall enjoying a thread like this before.


Name a character, and other anons will reply with the five traits they feel most define the character.
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Harry Dresden

OR

Vlad Taltos

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Catelyn or Sansa Stark
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Subject: Re: Defining a character
Catelyn:
--Vindictive/Vengeful (see: her lifelong antipathy toward her husband's bastard, her afterlife devotion to destroying the people who harmed her family)

--Loyal

--Canny, to a point (she knows just how to manipulate situations to get men to do what she wants, can see other people's manipulations, knows what Robb needs to do politically...but all that said, has been blindsided a number of times by people she trusted from childhood)

--Loving/passionate (she and Ned clearly have a love match and a lot of sex, and miss each other when they're apart)

--Values herself highly (not that she's conceited, but that she doesn't give in to Littlefinger just to be loved, she never forgets that she comes from a very noble family, she never doubts her own abilities or virtues)

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So it's out. Who's read it? Any thoughts? I thought it was okay but am unhappy about the bubblegum. I liked those two.
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Subject: Re: Younger Avengers # 1
I really liked it. I want to know what's up with Loki after JiM and Gillen's tumblr made me hopeful that we will get a great story. Probably not as great as JiM but that is hard to top. So he he's openly using his magic, right? I am most intrigued.

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Jackson Whittemore, unless the pairing is my fist/his face.
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Subject: Re: Fandom, uh.... unicycles?
YES. Thank fuck he is gone from the show and Lydia is free of him.

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Daemon from Black Jewels.
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Subject: Re: Defining a character
1) Really like an emotional teenager in many ways when it comes to his relationship with Jaenelle. But it's not that surprising since he had to suppress a lot of his emotions during his life in Terreille.

2) Has a huge value for family- look at the way he surrendered to Dorothea when she threatened Lucivar.

3) Is Anne Bishop's beloved woobie to torture. (Seriously, with maaaybe the exception of Jaenelle, I think he suffered more than anyone in those books).

4) Can actually apologize, which is not something I would have guessed when first reading him. It's just that the things he sees fit to apologize for are not always what someone else thinks he should.

5) Has a detachment from his own body most of the time; it's a weapon, a trap, a killing machine. Look at the way he dresses for Alexandra at first before Jaenelle persuades him to change his clothes.

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He did get away with it though!
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Except for Rorschach left his diary with all of his investigations and evidence pointing at Veidt to a tabloid.

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ITT: you have a fandom or fandoms where instead of having an OTP or being a complete multishipper you just ship one character with BASICALLY EVERYBODY. You tell the meme which character that is and maybe some of the ships you like with them.
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Ralph Lanyon.

Ralph/Laurie (obviously)
Ralph/Andrew (not so obviously)
Ralph/Bunny (canon)
Ralph/Alec (canon)
Ralph/Bim (can't remember whether it's canon)
Ralph/Hazell (if pressed)
Ralph/Anyone historical who happened to be around in the 40s

Yes please.

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What do you love to fight about on the internet? Ship wars? Gun control? When people's meta is based on incorrect assumptions?
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"Anime characters are white".

It's like the perfect intersection of 'wrong about my fandom' and 'SJW being dumb about actual PoC".

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Unfortunately for you, nonny, those guys were so into each other.
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Subject: Re: Fandom, uh.... unicycles?
I don't mean to antagonise the subthread OP or anything, but I love how those two were into each other. That creepy, deep-seated, domestic affection makes for one of my favourite FMA pairings.

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and other questions of that nature
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Character A, who is psychic, Jedi-mind-tricks Character B into thinking B is having (consensual) sex with B's own sister, when really it's all in B's mind and the sister is being 'played by' A.

Do I tag this non-con incest or what?

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So it's out. Who's read it? Any thoughts? I thought it was okay but am unhappy about the bubblegum. I liked those two.
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Subject: Re: Younger Avengers # 1
I liked it, with some reservations. The bit with Kate and Noh-Varr was great, and I loved Miss America and Loki. (Loki's dialogue was pretty cringeworthy, but I get the impression that was the intention. Like he's trying to sound like a young boy and not entirely succeeding.)

Also I loved the two splash pages and the magical talking sausage.

On the other hand, Billy and Teddy's seemed rushed and awkward, like it was just there to set up the emotional arc in as little time as possible. Hopefully things will get better. And I really hope the bubblegum isn't terminal. It would feel kind of cheap.

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ITT: you have a fandom or fandoms where instead of having an OTP or being a complete multishipper you just ship one character with BASICALLY EVERYBODY. You tell the meme which character that is and maybe some of the ships you like with them.
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Subject: Re: Your fandom bicycles
LOST: Richard Alpert.
Richard/Ben, Richard/Juliet, Richard/Miles, Richard/1970s!Eloise Hawking (my favourite tbh), Richard/Isabella

ATLA: Zuko
Zuko/Mai, Zuko/Azula, Zuko/Aang, Zuko/Sokka. I'm cool with everything but Zutara actually.

ASOIAF: Jaime, which is weird considering he's only ever been with one person.
Jaime/Cersei, Jaime/Brienne, Jaime/Catelyn(so much UST), Jaime/Arthur Dayne, Jaime/Loras

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It doesn't have to actually be perfect. I'm talking about those stories that satisfy a particular fandom craving best, for a pairing, character, plot arc, fandom as a whole, whatever. Which are yours? What criteria do they fill/would they have to fill?

Surprisingly recently I found my perfect fic for Taichi/Daisuke from Digimon 02. Currently my craving is for a perfect McCoy/Kirk for Star Trek 2009, but the search continues.
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A link to the Taichi/Daisuke, anon? Needed for science, of course.

Fandom 1: Long, chaptered, funny, featuring the entire cast from the series but mostly about my OTP kicking astronomical amounts of ass and saving the day together, and making out between world saving incidents.

Fandom 2: Similar, except less episodic and with an ongoing mystery/plot to solve.

Fandom 3: Long fic that manages to include both the sense of melancholy and the sense of humor that the canon has, and which gives my OTP for the series time to go from important to each other to actual romantic interest. It's one of those fandoms where most fic just assumes and skips the build up, usually.

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Seals, ponies, and friends are still off pillaging. The velociraptors aren't sure how they ended up being volunteered into babysitting a nest of small flightless birds they're not supposed to eat, but the sparrows are demanding, hungry, and LOUD. Worse, the only things they'll eat are pre-digested worms or pristinely fresh Beluga caviar. Please send help. Urgently. Mary Poppins or Nurse Matilda preferred.

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Are you writing tonight, Nonnie?

Use this thread to share your goals or frustrations or a line of your WIP or whatever writing-type thoughts are on your mind.

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ITT: you have a fandom or fandoms where instead of having an OTP or being a complete multishipper you just ship one character with BASICALLY EVERYBODY. You tell the meme which character that is and maybe some of the ships you like with them.
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Subject: Re: Your fandom bicycles
BBC Sherlock: John Watson and Mycroft are my fandom bicycles.

Teen Wolf: Stiles looks good in everyones bed. Particularly Scotts, but boy what I wouldn't give for a little Boyd/Erica/Issaac on Stiles orgy. Fandom naturally disagrees.

True Blood: Jason practically demands it. From everyone. Too bad True Blood sucks for fic.

FMA: My bicycles there were Roy Mustang and Greed. Roy is just too damn cute and Greed is just so seductively greedy.

Torchwood: Jack naturally. Preferably more than one person at a time. My mind canon had the Torchwood crew drawing lots on who would sex him into a better mood when he was in a funk. But it was one of those odd cases where he was more promiscuous in canon than in fandom. Apparently fanon thought he was monogamous.

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Somebody replied to an anonymous comment left in a LiveJournal post. The comment they replied to was:
This comment makes me wonder if you could enlighten me nonnie - recently on Fanficrants I saw someone describe Tolkein as a 'British Cambridge Professor' and... Someone replied to correct them that he was English, not British. This has been bugging me ever since. (For what it's worth I am a British nonnie and I live in Wales. Was that ffr comment just a random strange person, or has something i am unaware of happened to make llots of people consider it incorrect to describe English people as British?)
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NA I imagine the person on ffrants was probably just wrong (and most probably a non-British Britaboo trying to show off their amazing knowledge of the divisions of the United Kingdom and getting it spectacularly wrong).

But when people I meet abroad say to me "Are you British?" I do sometimes reply "I'm English". Which is not intended to correct them at all, it's a combination of agreeing with them and being more specific. I mean, "Yes, I am British; in fact, I'm English." But I can see in retrospect how someone might interpret that as meaning "No, I'm not British, I'm English". I wonder if wrong!ffranter's misunderstanding springs from that kind of thing?

- Anon who, slightly ironically, is actually half Scottish.

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Are you writing tonight, Nonnie?

Use this thread to share your goals or frustrations or a line of your WIP or whatever writing-type thoughts are on your mind.
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I'm getting into a terrible habit of writing the interesting [cough: porn] parts of my WIPs first and skipping over the plot in between, which leaves me staring at a doc full of porn that I can't post as is but only boring things left to write.

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^ This has me thinking fondly about my favorite whumpy episodes and/or moments of whump in otherwise blah episodes (movies/books/etc.).

What are some of yours, nonnies?
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Tyler on Vampire Diaries experiences a very painful transformation into a werewolf while being chained up and wearing boxers.

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Are you writing tonight, Nonnie?

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I want to just get the first scene of this fic done so I can post SOMETHING, but I keep second-guessing myself about whether I'm doing justice to the characters, and then I go back and reread the (tiny amount of) other fic about these characters and I think "I'll never be able to capture them as well these other writers did" and dammit I just want to write some pretty porn, why does everything have to be hard :(

And then I get sidetracked into worrying about if my AU scenario worldbuilding makes enough sense when the whole premise is just supposed to be an excuse for porn.

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NA: I'm not English, but possibly that was due to Tolkien himself identifying as English rather than British?
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He still is British, though. Lots of English people identify primary as English, but that doesn't mean they're not British. It's not an either/or thing, the terms aren't mutually exclusive, in fact quite the opposite.

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Are you writing tonight, Nonnie?

Use this thread to share your goals or frustrations or a line of your WIP or whatever writing-type thoughts are on your mind.
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Tonight, I am ruthlessly gutting a self-indulgent, meandering, abandoned WIP, and building an outline for something more disciplined using its salvageable pieces. RAR!

I think wine is called for.

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^ This has me thinking fondly about my favorite whumpy episodes and/or moments of whump in otherwise blah episodes (movies/books/etc.).

What are some of yours, nonnies?
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Uriel beating the holy hell out of Castiel in "On the Head of a Pin." Physical AND emotional whump, and the scene is gorgeously shoot. (Especially the lighting when Castiel drops to his knees and looks up at Uriel with blood running down his face. Mmm.) I really think that scene is a big part of why lots of writers enjoy whumping on poor Cas, myself included.

Also SPN, the S5 scene where Cas and Dean fight in the alley. More physical and emotioal whump, what the show is really good at.

(And as a general, non SPN rec, on Once Upon A Time it seems like Hook has gotten his ass kicked at least once an episode. He's currently bruised and handcuffed to a hospital bed, for all nonnies into such things.)

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Seals, ponies, and friends are still off pillaging. The velociraptors aren't sure how they ended up being volunteered into babysitting a nest of small flightless birds they're not supposed to eat, but the sparrows are demanding, hungry, and LOUD. Worse, the only things they'll eat are pre-digested worms or pristinely fresh Beluga caviar. Please send help. Urgently. Mary Poppins or Nurse Matilda preferred.

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Somebody replied to a LiveJournal post in which sunnymodffa (sunnymodffa) said:
Seals, ponies, and friends are still off pillaging. The velociraptors aren't sure how they ended up being volunteered into babysitting a nest of small flightless birds they're not supposed to eat, but the sparrows are demanding, hungry, and LOUD. Worse, the only things they'll eat are pre-digested worms or pristinely fresh Beluga caviar. Please send help. Urgently. Mary Poppins or Nurse Matilda preferred.

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What exactly is it?

(I can't keep up with these young 'uns and their words...)

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What's the great wrong in your fandom that's gone unaddressed? What fix-it fic do you long to see? Or has someone written a story that makes things right, and you want to tell everyone how happy it makes you?
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This Thomas Barrow/Edward Courtenay is currently healing my battered broken heart:

archiveofourown.org/works/505906/

I can't wait for the last chapter to go up!

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Post a fandom, other anons will tell you all their ships for that fandom. Explanations of why you ship your ships optional but encouraged.


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Persona 3/Persona 4?

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I like this game so here is a new place to play it.

Use this box to tell the story from your favorite show, book, game, or another thing you like with only the ten hundred most used words.

Then other people will try to guess what the story is.

http://splasho.com/upgoer5/
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(Sorry if this has already been done)

In this story, first there is a man who's now at the head of his land because he did well in the game of power. He's now a very important man and he likes that. He wants people to keep liking him so he can stay well-known and important. That means he might have to change some thing that don't work too well.

Then there is a second man who is supposed to work for the first man. But he doesn't want anything to change. He thinks things are good enough already and it's stupid to just lead a land in a way that will make people like you. So he only pretends to say yes and do what the first man wants. The second man is very good at saying one thing but pretending to say another. But sometimes the first man still gets the better of him.

Then there is a third man who also works for the first man, but he must sometimes do what the second man wants because the second man has more power than he does. Sometimes he talks a lot and gets told to shut up. I like this man the most.

This story is from a time when in real life a mean lady led that land. She liked the story, but it's a good one anyway.

[I can't believe "win" isn't among the 1,000 words! 'Computer' and 'gun' but not a basic verb like that??]

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AYRT

Yeah, me too : ( on both the hoping the author can come back and the lack of interest in 616 or other comic universes. I guess I didn't expect that THAT many people wouldn't want to embrace the comics. Or that the majority of the fic would be so much unlike the canon--because I LIKE the MCU. I just...can't seem to find much fic for it either.

As a result, my over investment in that fic is....a bit much. But I think I'd have loved it this much even when we had more comics fic updating in general. Her version of Steve "sounds" the most like the character to me, and I really enjoy that.

"Sins of Omission" was way too woobie for me. I stopped reading it, then skipped to the chapters where Steve's back and I liked those, but I still can't get over the woobieTony. I'm hoping the author stays interested in the comicsverse, although they seem angst geared, which isn't to my taste.

*sigh*

On the other hand, I didn't realize Reassembled was still updating, and am three chapters behind, so it's actually very cheering to go and read that fic again. It's got the biggest nostalgia value (converted me way back when, what can I say.) So thank you, nonnie!
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I know what you mean about the MCU fic - there's quite a bit more fic that seems to draw on fandom's enjoyment of the the films rather than the actual media itself. For what it's worth, I've been following and enjoying these MCU fics:

"Freezer Burn" by Domenika Marzione - I feel like it has a strong grasp of the film dynamics, both in terms of character interaction and super-heroics. There's some awesome action scenes and a plot that I find incredibly engaging. The author updates fairly regularly.
http://archiveofourown.org/works/457359/chapters/787198

"The Undone Universe" by Teyke - Three stories so far, two of which are rather long, and more to come. Again I feel that this has a strong sense of the characters from the films, and I find the super-heroics engaging. While "Freezer Burn" is more action orientated, this series tends to be more introspective with its action, and there are certainly emotional lows to be warned for. I guess what I'm trying to say is it's not as much 'fun' but still a good read. There's cross-over with 616 and other comics universes (actual cross-over, not 'borrowed elements cross-over') which has me very hopeful for the next installment.
http://archiveofourown.org/series/29174


I also hope that the author stays interested in comicsverse, because I think that "Sins of Omission" shows a much better grasp of the comics than some of her earlier comicsverse works.


And yay for "Reassembled"! Glad to let you know that it's still going. I have a similar nostalgia value for the fic, though it's very surreal that some of the most comforting elements of that universe, mainly Jan never dying and the return of Wanda, are now present in canon as well :)

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Post a fandom, other anons will tell you all their ships for that fandom. Explanations of why you ship your ships optional but encouraged.


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Can someone explain the shipping wall diagram thing to me without using Homestuck as an example?

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What exactly is it?

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The hurt portion of h/c, especially as layered on gratuitously.

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Somebody replied to a LiveJournal post in which sunnymodffa (sunnymodffa) said:
Seals, ponies, and friends are still off pillaging. The velociraptors aren't sure how they ended up being volunteered into babysitting a nest of small flightless birds they're not supposed to eat, but the sparrows are demanding, hungry, and LOUD. Worse, the only things they'll eat are pre-digested worms or pristinely fresh Beluga caviar. Please send help. Urgently. Mary Poppins or Nurse Matilda preferred.

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http://news.firedoglake.com/2013/01/24/as-union-membership-drops-scabby-is-reconsidered/

There should totes be a long essay full of academese by some white postgrad about how the word "scabby" is ableist against people with skin conditions, with absolutely no discussion of labor issues.

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BBC Sherlock: John Watson and Mycroft are my fandom bicycles.


Teen Wolf: Stiles looks good in everyones bed. Particularly Scotts, but boy what I wouldn't give for a little Boyd/Erica/Issaac on Stiles orgy. Fandom naturally disagrees.

True Blood: Jason practically demands it. From everyone. Too bad True Blood sucks for fic.

FMA: My bicycles there were Roy Mustang and Greed. Roy is just too damn cute and Greed is just so seductively greedy.

Torchwood: Jack naturally. Preferably more than one person at a time. My mind canon had the Torchwood crew drawing lots on who would sex him into a better mood when he was in a funk. But it was one of those odd cases where he was more promiscuous in canon than in fandom. Apparently fanon thought he was monogamous.
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For me, I just see Roy with Hawkeye (She's his "touchstone!" Madame Christmas's girls are all like "where's Elizabeth?" General Grumman is all like "Wanna marry my granddaughter?").

However, I'll ship Hawkeye with everyone, so I really don't know what's with my head.


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What exactly is it?

(I can't keep up with these young 'uns and their words...)
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Beating on a character, either physically of emotionally. Or both!

But mostly physically, let's be honest.

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Who were you vaguely on edge about until you found out way creepy deets?

For me, Cat Valente. The most specific things I could my finger on were her assorted income-generating efforts seemed to be sloppily organized, though certainly nowhere approaching the worst scams, and that she supposedly cared all about social justice issues and yet was really friendly with the shitstain that walks as a man known as theferrett. And, uh, then I followed the links to the Cat Valente on Japan post quotes and, uh, WOW...

Let's just say I still have plans to get around to reading some of her published work, but I ain't never likely to put any money in her pocket for it.
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Well, this isn't fandom related, but this teacher I HATED in high school and was super uncomfortable with ended up being arrested for child pornography!

Also, this guy -- oddly, in the class I took with the very same teacher -- I also hated and freaked me the fuck out. He ended up stabbing his mother a bunch of times.

So, I called those.

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Can someone explain the shipping wall diagram thing to me without using Homestuck as an example?
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Two ways I've seen:

1. You make a chart with all the characters lined up across the top row and down the first column, and then the squares where two characters you ship align you make some sort of mark.

2. You put everybody's names/pictures on an image and draw lines between them indicating ships, sometimes with extra commentary, arrows depicting one-sidedness, sometimes different colors for friendships or familial relationships you like, etc.

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My S/O knows about fandom, but not about the fanfic I wrote years ago. My parents know I've met people from the Internet, but not about fandom. It's all very, "Okay, you have stuff you do which we don't know all the details about, but we won't pry." So far it's been valuable to me to have that privacy and that space, even from my S/O.
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+1 on on privacy being valuable. I'm surprised that keeping fandom to yourself is considered surprising actually.

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Character A, who is psychic, Jedi-mind-tricks Character B into thinking B is having (consensual) sex with B's own sister, when really it's all in B's mind and the sister is being 'played by' A.

Do I tag this non-con incest or what?
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Sounds about right to me. Non-con (since B wouldn't willingly have sex with A) and incest (since B think he's having sex with his sister.)

(btw, now I want to read this.)

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Post a fandom, other anons will tell you all their ships for that fandom. Explanations of why you ship your ships optional but encouraged.


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Mass Effect

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Are you writing tonight, Nonnie?

Use this thread to share your goals or frustrations or a line of your WIP or whatever writing-type thoughts are on your mind.
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I wrote 500 words today already! Which is not a lot, but I'm getting back into long-term writing after a significant dry spell, so, hey, whatever. I'm fretting about whether I should let that be my day's work, or try for more once I get home and maybe risk straining my brain.

I do wish I had at least one writerly friend, though. I usually never share anything when it's in the early stages, but the current project is meant to be something long and plotty, which is new for me, and it'd be so nice to have someone I could pitch it to that would very gently point out any plot holes and bits of stupidity I'm not seeing. I have nightmares about getting 30,000 words into before realizing that something about the setup/world/characters isn't going to work.

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What's happened to you lately in your fandom that makes you sad?
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I have fallen behind with people I follow on LJ, DW and Tumblr, don't have the energy to keep up with canons I like anymore and keeping up with this meme is getting more difficult too. I don't know how to get on top of things again and I'm worried what will happen if I don't.

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Now I'm really wondering who you are, because if you write, I probably read your stuff.
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You probably have. :)

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Well, this isn't fandom related, but this teacher I HATED in high school and was super uncomfortable with ended up being arrested for child pornography!

Also, this guy -- oddly, in the class I took with the very same teacher -- I also hated and freaked me the fuck out. He ended up stabbing his mother a bunch of times.

So, I called those.
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Where are you when the news comes around?

The neighbors and schoolmates always say the weird criminals were "quiet" and it's "so shocking."


"Yes, that guy was creepy and I always thought so!" That would be refreshing to see.

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For characters that you find completely unshippable. Who do you want to strap into a chastity belt, Nonnies?
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Subject: Re: Fandom, uh.... unicycles?
Sephiroth. All I can see him do is non-con mind-fucking and even that wouldn't be for "I'm attracted/attached to you" reasons. Most unpopular opinion ever. :\

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Two ways I've seen:


1. You make a chart with all the characters lined up across the top row and down the first column, and then the squares where two characters you ship align you make some sort of mark.

2. You put everybody's names/pictures on an image and draw lines between them indicating ships, sometimes with extra commentary, arrows depicting one-sidedness, sometimes different colors for friendships or familial relationships you like, etc.
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NA

Here's an example of a relationship diagram (#2 style) for Detective Conan canon

http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/File:Chart_of_relationships.JPG

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BBC Sherlock: John Watson and Mycroft are my fandom bicycles.


Teen Wolf: Stiles looks good in everyones bed. Particularly Scotts, but boy what I wouldn't give for a little Boyd/Erica/Issaac on Stiles orgy. Fandom naturally disagrees.

True Blood: Jason practically demands it. From everyone. Too bad True Blood sucks for fic.

FMA: My bicycles there were Roy Mustang and Greed. Roy is just too damn cute and Greed is just so seductively greedy.

Torchwood: Jack naturally. Preferably more than one person at a time. My mind canon had the Torchwood crew drawing lots on who would sex him into a better mood when he was in a funk. But it was one of those odd cases where he was more promiscuous in canon than in fandom. Apparently fanon thought he was monogamous.
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But it was one of those odd cases where he was more promiscuous in canon than in fandom. Apparently fanon thought he was monogamous.

I thought it was more thinking he was capable of monogamy. Not necessarily that he had to be monogamous, at least for some. I think it was more counter to the idea that just because he liked sex a lot that somehow incapable of monogamy. Although I thought it was the opposite. He seemed get around a lot more in fanon than he ever did in canon.

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Are you writing tonight, Nonnie?

Use this thread to share your goals or frustrations or a line of your WIP or whatever writing-type thoughts are on your mind.
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I love my WIP so fucking much. It's like every part is the good part! Oh idfic, you're so good to me. I never would've guessed I'd enjoy writing Sterek this much.

Aiming to get this chapter done if not today, then tomorrow. I already promised myself I'd post a snippet on Tumblr when I get there, so that'll be my motivation to finish.

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Two ways I've seen:


1. You make a chart with all the characters lined up across the top row and down the first column, and then the squares where two characters you ship align you make some sort of mark.

2. You put everybody's names/pictures on an image and draw lines between them indicating ships, sometimes with extra commentary, arrows depicting one-sidedness, sometimes different colors for friendships or familial relationships you like, etc.
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1. Ooh, like a Pokémon type chart! That sounds like fun--I've made character relationship webs before, but it never occurred to me to make a diagram that way.

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(Sorry if this has already been done)


In this story, first there is a man who's now at the head of his land because he did well in the game of power. He's now a very important man and he likes that. He wants people to keep liking him so he can stay well-known and important. That means he might have to change some thing that don't work too well.

Then there is a second man who is supposed to work for the first man. But he doesn't want anything to change. He thinks things are good enough already and it's stupid to just lead a land in a way that will make people like you. So he only pretends to say yes and do what the first man wants. The second man is very good at saying one thing but pretending to say another. But sometimes the first man still gets the better of him.

Then there is a third man who also works for the first man, but he must sometimes do what the second man wants because the second man has more power than he does. Sometimes he talks a lot and gets told to shut up. I like this man the most.

This story is from a time when in real life a mean lady led that land. She liked the story, but it's a good one anyway.

[I can't believe "win" isn't among the 1,000 words! 'Computer' and 'gun' but not a basic verb like that??]
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Yes Minister!

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BBC Sherlock: John Watson and Mycroft are my fandom bicycles.


Teen Wolf: Stiles looks good in everyones bed. Particularly Scotts, but boy what I wouldn't give for a little Boyd/Erica/Issaac on Stiles orgy. Fandom naturally disagrees.

True Blood: Jason practically demands it. From everyone. Too bad True Blood sucks for fic.

FMA: My bicycles there were Roy Mustang and Greed. Roy is just too damn cute and Greed is just so seductively greedy.

Torchwood: Jack naturally. Preferably more than one person at a time. My mind canon had the Torchwood crew drawing lots on who would sex him into a better mood when he was in a funk. But it was one of those odd cases where he was more promiscuous in canon than in fandom. Apparently fanon thought he was monogamous.
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But it was one of those odd cases where he was more promiscuous in canon than in fandom.

He wasn't, though. Jack was a flirt, sure, but in three seasons of Torchwood, who do we actually know that he slept with? One person, and that was Ianto, who he was in a relationship with. There's a strong canonical case for Jack being far more inclined to monogamy than his talk suggests. If anything, the idea that he can and does bang everything that moves is the fanon. I always felt fandom played him far more promiscuous and poly than he actually seems to be in canon. A lot of it depends on how much you believe his talk, but if you take the talk away, there's not much action.

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But it was one of those odd cases where he was more promiscuous in canon than in fandom. Apparently fanon thought he was monogamous.


I thought it was more thinking he was capable of monogamy. Not necessarily that he had to be monogamous, at least for some. I think it was more counter to the idea that just because he liked sex a lot that somehow incapable of monogamy. Although I thought it was the opposite. He seemed get around a lot more in fanon than he ever did in canon.
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+1 I always found the "Jack is poly!" fanon to be similar to the "Sherlock is asexual!" stuff. Sure, he could be, and it's a valid interpretation, so it's not wrong to portray him as such... but it ain't canon.

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Yes Minister!
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Yes indeed! (Well, Yes Prime Minister really because it was easier to describe, but same diff.)

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What's the great wrong in your fandom that's gone unaddressed? What fix-it fic do you long to see? Or has someone written a story that makes things right, and you want to tell everyone how happy it makes you?
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Belle giving the Beast the final heave-ho.

-> No, Belle, you can't really change him. That's just a fairytale. Go and do something for yourself for once.

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What exactly is it?

(I can't keep up with these young 'uns and their words...)
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Characters you love getting hurt, dealing with it bravely - possibly with a fair amount of "heroic staggering"- and probably with them being comforted by their partner/friends.

It's not exactly a new term though - Daniel Jackson certainly used to get whumped 10 years ago, and I seem to remember Blair Sandburg before that.

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It doesn't have to actually be perfect. I'm talking about those stories that satisfy a particular fandom craving best, for a pairing, character, plot arc, fandom as a whole, whatever. Which are yours? What criteria do they fill/would they have to fill?

Surprisingly recently I found my perfect fic for Taichi/Daisuke from Digimon 02. Currently my craving is for a perfect McCoy/Kirk for Star Trek 2009, but the search continues.
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If I could tell you what it would be like in advance, it wouldn't be my perfect fic. I want the writing to be good enough to linger over and for it to illuminate something I love about the canon or what's implied by the canon, in ways I wouldn't have come up with on my own. But that last part is key: I want the surprise of seeing in ways that I didn't before.

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Yeah, just watched yesterday's LBD. Sometimes I forget that this version is constrained by the format (the conceit of public videos, so we don't get any info that Lizzie isn't willing to share with the whole world).

I get that Wickham is a toxic, manipulative, abusive creep in this version just like the original, and the modern context means Darcy needs to get rid of Wickham instead of keep him around. If he just buys Wickham off to leave, though, that's... problematic. It works a bit better with Gigi because they're family and with their relationship, a degree of paternalism makes sense. That may be where they're going with just a rehash of what he did with Gigi, but Lydia is in an abusive relationship and Darcy buying Wickham off isn't going to fix Lydia's problems or emotionally extricate her from the situation. She's just going to blame Darcy, Jane, and Lizzie. Ideally, she should realize on her own that Wickham is toxic, and be in a situation where she's trapped and needs help (money, and a lot of it) to get free of him. Otherwise, Lizzie could just drive out to get her and take her home. It would also better map onto the original plot if she's in a bad way and has the potential to suffer for it for years and generate a lot of gossip in her neighborhood.
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na

I agree, and the way this story is going I could definitely see Lydia's relationship w/ Wickham getting her in trouble somehow--I only have a vague notion of what this might look like, but--and then Darcy is able to help financially, but Lydia realizes that Wickham is bad news on her own. I don't think what happened with Gigi would work with Lydia, though I guess Darcy could give Lizzie the money and she could be more involved--but I would have trouble aligning that with the characters, given how Lydia reacted to Lizzie's last gift.

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If I could tell you what it would be like in advance, it wouldn't be my perfect fic. I want the writing to be good enough to linger over and for it to illuminate something I love about the canon or what's implied by the canon, in ways I wouldn't have come up with on my own. But that last part is key: I want the surprise of seeing in ways that I didn't before.
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This. I can tell you some stuff I like, but my perfect fanfic is something unexpectedly wonderful, that goes somewhere I didn't think of. If I already thought of it myself, it won't surprise me.

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A schedule and initial nomination discussion posts are up over at . I enjoyed it a lot last year; glad it's happening again.
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I've been busy the last few years when this has run, but might give it a go this time around.

Speaking as someone who's planning to nominate characters with fic in the single digits, I don't think Maria Hill is that rare. I can think of lots of fic about her, and she has 914 works, for god's sake. Not of all of it or even most of it is about her, but honestly. Why bother having criteria at all if you're just going to wave them off.

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It was really hard to watch, yeah. I do think, though, once we come out on the other side of everything Lydia will get a much better deal than she did in the book. Overall she's been portrayed as a much more sympathetic character, and I liked the ways they modified the Charlotte and Mr. Collins storyline, so I'm eager to see how Lydia's ending goes.
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+1 on really liking their modification of the Charlotte/Mr. Collins storyline. It made a lot more sense for a modernization--I'm not sure if they would've been able to make a Charlotte/Collins wedding sympathetic/plausible, but the direction they went with it worked without feeling like they just bypassed that plot/character point.

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Seals, ponies, and friends are still off pillaging. The velociraptors aren't sure how they ended up being volunteered into babysitting a nest of small flightless birds they're not supposed to eat, but the sparrows are demanding, hungry, and LOUD. Worse, the only things they'll eat are pre-digested worms or pristinely fresh Beluga caviar. Please send help. Urgently. Mary Poppins or Nurse Matilda preferred.

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What sad and horrible deeds in your canon would you like to see left as they are, either sometimes or all of the time? Either because they moved you with a perfect tear, took the story somewhere interesting, felt right for the character, or because you just get tired of fic writers constantly fixing it, and wish sometimes they would leave it broken?

For me, it's Quantum Leap. While I don't dislike fix-it fic, the canon ending knocked me out, it's one of my favourite show endings of all time, and I wish there was more fic out there that dealt with the consequences "never came home" issue rather than just pretending it didn't happen.

I also have a real aversion to ASOIAF fic which unkills dead characters, I think because it's the whole story and the universe I love most about ASOIAF rather than any individual character, and bringing characters back to life feels like it messes with whole.

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Persona 3/Persona 4?
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Protagonist/Yosuke
Protagonist/Kou
Chie/Yukiko
Shinjiro/Akihiko
Mitsuru/ALL THE GIRLS EVER. POSSIBLY AT ONCE.

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Is it okay to ban a person from participating in a fic exchange, or is that just asking for trouble/wank?

Context: I mod a small fandom fic exchange. My co-mod started 7 years ago, then asked me to help mod it with her 3 years ago, because she was having trouble getting everything posted and people were complaining. Basically she'd let people keep asking for extensions way beyond the submission and posting date, then delay posting until everything was in. So if the posting date was supposed to April 1st, stories wouldn't be posted until June 15th, because she kept granting extensions. Other participants were upset because they had written and turned in their fics by the deadline, and there were claims of stories being "held hostage." And the majority of the late people would drop out anyway, without any word, so there was always scrambling for pinch-hitters.

So the first round I co-modded with her we had all those problems. After that, we changed the rules for a firm deadline, and made it a rule if people were going to dropout, they just let us know (no explanation necessary, just "Dropping out"), and no extensions. So each round has gone well since then, no problems with endless extensions, pinch-hitters lined up and ready to go if needed, and stories posted by originally announced date. We'd still have a few people who dropped out without contacting us, but we were able to find pinch-hitters, so it went pretty smoothly.

This round, my co-mod has moved on from the fandom and passed the ownership of the comm to me, so I am modding on my own. The problem is that one person, who has dropped out of the last four rounds without letting us know, wants to sign up again, and I ... don't want to deal with it. I know she's going to drop out without a word again, ignore all my emails, and I'll have to find a pinch-hitter. Which, okay, par for the course, but I've seen her crowing on Twitter about how it's great to get a fic every round, without having to write any.

So I am being petty if I say, "no, you can't sign up because you keep dropping out without contacting us" even though that's a rule for the exchange? I'm afraid I might be, I just want other perspectives.
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Ban her ass.

Give her the explanation in private, though. I also wouldn't bring up the Twitter (but definitely take screenshots!) unless she goes all 'but this year I won't drop out!' at which point, tell her that you saw the Twitter.

Then, if she tries to start wank about this, go public. That way you're covered from all angles - you've done what's best for the fest and tried to protect her privacy and not shame her in public even though she doesn't deserve it, and if she does make it public it would backfire on her, not you.

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Uriel beating the holy hell out of Castiel in "On the Head of a Pin." Physical AND emotional whump, and the scene is gorgeously shoot. (Especially the lighting when Castiel drops to his knees and looks up at Uriel with blood running down his face. Mmm.) I really think that scene is a big part of why lots of writers enjoy whumping on poor Cas, myself included.

Also SPN, the S5 scene where Cas and Dean fight in the alley. More physical and emotioal whump, what the show is really good at.

(And as a general, non SPN rec, on Once Upon A Time it seems like Hook has gotten his ass kicked at least once an episode. He's currently bruised and handcuffed to a hospital bed, for all nonnies into such things.)
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Uriel beating the holy hell out of Castiel in "On the Head of a Pin." Physical AND emotional whump, and the scene is gorgeously shoot. (Especially the lighting when Castiel drops to his knees and looks up at Uriel with blood running down his face. Mmm.) I really think that scene is a big part of why lots of writers enjoy whumping on poor Cas, myself included.

I may have gotten breathless with joy during that episode.

Maybe.

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