Coalclaw Adventures

[heavensqueen]

Keep the yulewank spirit alive

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Re: Fic that the writer re-wrote because of DNW

[(Anonymous)]

Per the explanation given by a canon-knowledgeable anon elsewhere:

"If you want the full explanation, all the stars in the sky are now directly tied to certain people with super-powers. When a star falls, it means a Contractor has died. That's literally its only meaning, and on more than one occasion within the show, when a character who is a Contractor is shown in dire straights, we see stars falling to confirm that yes, they did in fact die.

So the character being left in really rough shape and the concluding line about a falling star would by the rules of the show lead me to believe he'd died, above and beyond all the surrounding wank of this fic. If I'd read it clean--that is, knowing nothing about the surrounding issues--that's the impression I'm reasonably sure I would have taken out."

So yeah, "Overhead in the false sky, a star is falling" isn't the removal of the DNW that shayheyred seems to want to convince everyone she did, which makes it even more scuzzy. You did someone's DNW, you were nasty to them about it, and then you did a "rewrite" that didn't actually fix it so that you could try and convince people that you've got some sort of moral superiority here, and then you threw a knife at your really-very-nice recipient post-reveals. Way to be a fucking winner.