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coalie ([personal profile] coalcube) wrote in [community profile] yuletide_coal2018-10-22 02:16 pm

It's always coalest before the dawn

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Re: Bullets Dodged

(Anonymous) 2018-10-23 11:13 pm (UTC)(link)
NA: This bugs me about all of these "I only want this one AU" requests. It puts the author in such a tight spot, because it sounds like going ODAO and writing any canon compliant fic isn't something they want. Especially when it's not clear what about the canon they actually like if all they want is for it to be changed in some major way.

Re: Bullets Dodged

(Anonymous) 2018-10-23 11:20 pm (UTC)(link)
+1

The "AU that's genderswap" is particularly egregious (to me anyway) because someone who asked for A and B presumably wanted them as their canon race/genders. Your only request being "change quite possibly the major reason you offered or ship this thing" is unfair. Save that for a Genderswap Exchange where someone offering the fandom would know that offering two women won't have the writing m/m or vice versa.

It's 1000000% fine to want genderswap and write genderswap and I'm not here to restart that wank. But having it be the only thing you want when almost everyone else wants them as-is is a little D: