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Do you want to make a spreadsheet about spreadsheets?
Do you still need to figure out what two other fandoms you should request beside the only one you really want fic for?
Or are you trolling ALL the letter posts for placeholders, just so you can write those people some nice, dry coal?

We want to know all about it.

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Jesus, you *are* a special snowflake.

DA

Explain to me where the special snowflake is coming in? I don't see it. They don't think they see their view of canon as ~unique and true~ or ~the the other person just doesn't understand the characters right~.

NAYRT

They're so hellbent on their M/M otp that they can't take the author at their word for requesting M/M with an OPTIONAL caveat that M/M/F would be nice, or the inclusion of F in some way would be nice. They are letting the mere presence of F in the request sink their ship so hard that they would insist on defaulting rather than just write the fucking M/M the person requested in the first fucking place.

NAYRT

No if it was an optional caveat it would have been presented that way in the wording. They point blank say in their letter that they would like CGF to be involved in any fic, shippy or gen, because they really like CGF.

That's fine and doesn't ruin my ship or make me hate them. I can't think of a way to make that happen. Had they put in any concrete prompts at all, maybe I would have any insight as to what type involvement they had in mind. The lack of that makes me assume that they think of course she'll still be there, and I don't see it that way, so I want them to get the best fic they can give.

I don't think I'm good enough to convince them that M/M is just as good without CGF in the picture. I wouldn't want to force them to think that anyway. Them liking CGF is fine (she's great!) and more power to her for wanting M/M/F to happen.

You're an OAA and I'm going to assume you're a troll as well. I hope you have a very nice rest of your week!

NA

No, it's just that you sound so sanctimonious about it all. That brings out the (so-called) OAA in otherwise reasonable people.

I'm not being morally superior? This is just about writing fic. I think that any fic I wrote for them wouldn't be what they're looking for, since it goes exactly against the optional details they requested.

I'm not going to show up in the comments of the fic they get and be like "Oh, you should be thanking me for defaulting on you! It's all thanks to me that you went on the PH list! Otherwise you would've gotten stuck with me!"

If I powered through and wrote against their one, reasonable, optional detail, coal would be up in arms over how I should have defaulted. Or they'll rake her through the coals for being upset that I ODAO and that she wasn't happy for a fic that didn't go against her DNWs. Why screw either of us over like that?

It's too early in the week for you to be this upset over me doing what's best for both me and a hypothetical recipient. I hope the rest of your week goes great too.

DA

I've found this convo interesting to read, but honestly, I'm still not sure why any fic you write for them "wouldn't be what they're looking for, since it goes exactly against the optional details they requested." Why would you HAVE to write something different than they requested? Have you ever found this inflexibility limiting in exchanges?

Actually, I'd be interested in hearing other people's thoughts on this, too. How close does a prompt have to be to your own interpretation for you to agree to write it? Why is that?

Can someone find this supposed letter so we can look at it ourselves?

Why would you want to bring wank to someone's doorstep or shame them into changing their requests???

Their letter is fine. I'm not going to match with them. We're both going to have great Yuletides and hopefully love the fics we write and enjoy the fics we get even more.

There's no need for a witch hunt. If it wasn't bad enough for me or any of the other people who're requesting/offering the fandom to drop it into the Bad Letters post, there's no reason for you to dredge it up because you have a wank boner.

You keep bringing up this letter and it's your word against this unseen letter. I want to know if you're crazy or not.

JFC, they specifically said there's nothing wrong with the letter, they just can't do it justice themselves!

This idea that it's better to default than give an honest try is so weird to me? I guess it works for Yuletide since there are so many people willing to pinch hit, though, so whatever.

But who cares if I'm crazy or not? I'm not going to have to write this fic so it's a moot point? There's no reason for you to care at all, especially if you don't have a M/M request where you mention liking an OT3.

What do you need to drop this? I made it up. I'm not even participating in Yuletide this year. The fandom I'm talking about doesn't even exist.

There are you happy? I'm crazy! It isn't even a real thing! Look at how I trolled you!

Let it go, holy shit.

(Psst, they keep arguing about it because you keep answering them.)

I'm genuinely worried that they're going to wank on the other person in my fandom when they did nothing wrong. :/ Nobody should be forced to swallow down whatever fic they get because ODAO, especially when their optional details are perfectly fine, it was just a bad match.

DA

Just...stop replying? At this point you're just fueling the fire.

You're overreacting on a letter you made up in a fandom that doesn't exist in an exchange you're not participating in.

Craaaaaaazy.

NA

Can't you trolls go back to LOLMEME.

AYRT

I'm not a troll and I'm only being OAA because of your own attitude. People in here and in FFA are always complaining about how the exacting, pedantic people on here make them worried about writing their own letters and it's genuinely upsetting and frustrating to me that you are insistent on defaulting on someone and sending them out to pinch hits just because they included an optional detail that conflicted with your ship.

I mean, this is something you wrote:

If it was obvious that you really wanted the threesome or if the threesome idea came up in more than one prompt, I'd bail so that you could hopefully get someone willing to write it.

That encapsulates the attitude I'm reacting to here. You, recipient, are allowed to mention a threesome no more than one time in your letter or you're out on the street because nothing I write could ever possibly be enjoyable to you. How dare you mention an optional detail that isn't my exact favored ship in anything other than a long list of options at the end, which my eyes will glaze over anyway.

NA

You are fucking crazy. Wow. Take a step back from exchanges this year.

Did you reply to the right post? This is one of the less crazy things in this thread.

You get a 0/10

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