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the new Journal and such

[anonymous]

Hi you alls! This is dried cranberry anon and I really want to move all of that discussion away from there and onto here because we really entered into discussion of epic doom

Re: the new Journal and such

[anonymous]

About categories, I think we'd at least have to split up the het and the yaoi since there's been repeated complaints over the fact that people request yaoi. But I think we should put yaoi and yuri in the same categories. If you like one kind of gay, I think you should be open minded enough to at least tolerate the other

Re: the new Journal and such

[anonymous]

I'm okay with this, I'm not sure about dividing the shipper categories, and I'm not sure how the yuri fans will feel about it being in with yaoi since it is less popular and would be hard to find among the yaoi prompts (though that means more categories still) but I would be personally okay with this and I am happy it is dividing things by explicitness and gender preference rather than individual kink, as I object strongly to the latter

Re: the new Journal and such

[anonymous]

"One more - how about a crack/ecchi category for general insanity and naughtiness that maybe doesn't feature actual sex or pair?"

What exactly would go in this category? When I hear ecchi, I think of dirty old men (Brooke?) or teenage boys obsessing over panties and boobs (Chopper obeessing over Robin's boobs?). And crack... out of character?

A kind of request

[anonymous]

When you make a request and say "Do whatever you want with it!" or something similar, without naming any pairings or required characters, chances are that people will not instantly think of your favorite pairing, since you never mentioned it. So if someone asks how you would feel if they took it in the direction of a pairing that you don't like (and since we're anon, they have no way of knowing which pairings you hate), don't act all offended over the fact that they even thought the thought of writing that pairing. And please, please don't answer in a manner that implies that you think the anon is stupid for coming up with the idea. I have seen this happen and I didn't like it. There are polite ways to say that you're not a fan of a pairing and would rather not read it, you know.

Re: A kind of request

[anonymous]

Different anon would like to add that asking for a crossover with out informing people you want a crossover is just plain silly as no, not EVERYONE EVER is in your fandoms. And making a passive agressive request for bashing fic is just plain rude.

Re: A kind of request

[anonymous]

Word on the crossover thing. I remember a crossover request a while back that made it clear that it was a crossover and mentioned the name of both the manga they wanted One Piece crossed with and the manga-ka who created it. That's a good way to handle crossover requests, I think. Then the people who know the other show/manga/whatever can fill the request if they want to and those who don't have the chance to check it out, at least.

Re: A kind of request

[anonymous]

Agree on the passive aggressive bashing fic. That's just childish, and I wish people could just go write things like that themselves. I simply don't request the characters I don't like. Don't ask me to write hateful things about characters I like, please.

be positive?

[anonymous]

Can I make a request/suggestion for framing prompts in more positive terms? Just to make this more about what we want to see and less about what we don't? To actually name the characters we'd prefer rather than rule out the characters we really really really don't want, and then if we are open to other suggestions we can say so and decline (politely) if people offer something different and it's not to our taste?

It's just that it gets downright depressing to constantly see people rule out your otp or your favourite, and when there's only one person who actually writes a particular pair it kinda stings. Even if it could just be the fact the requester doesn't like that character or pairing.

Also, naming the characters preferred and maybe throwing a few wildcard options in there might actually better spark inspiration than leaving something vague. Yes?

I'd really love to see more positive and less negative and I hope people understand where I'm coming from here. Thanks for reading.

Re: be positive?

[anonymous]

I wrote a long reply to this, but you know... just never mind. People get butthurt no matter what we do, and I really don't want to risk someone writing one of the few pairings I really hate, so I think I'll just give up requesting. So much damn butthurt everywhere.

Re: be positive?

[anonymous]

Excuse me? I thought this would be a... I hate to use the word positive again, since you seem to have taken it badly, but I didn't see how it could upset anyone.

Just... yeah, there's so much emphasis on what characters people dislike, y'know? I wondered if there might be a different way.

I don't understand how it risks people writing something you hate if you say you want four pairings you know you like and if anyone has ideas for something else they should ask. Or just pick three or four pairings that would be cool and don't give any other options.

Re: be positive?

[anonymous]

I got butthurt myself, because I just made a request where I mentioned the two characters I really didn't want to see used. I thought it was an effective way of telling people that while I would prefer a certain character, I'm still okay with anyone as long as it's not one of those two for that particular request. Being told that you're Spreading the Hate is even less fun than hearing that someone don't want to read about my favorite character.

Mpreg

[anonymous]

Should people warn about mpreg in the topic or before the request itself if they want it? It is pretty squicky. What do you think?

Re: Mpreg

[anonymous]

If they request in the new safe meme then they should. If they request here, I don't think they should.

Re: Mpreg

[anonymous]

No warning in the topic name or anything so people can avoid it completely?

Re: Mpreg

[anonymous]

There's a safe meme?

Man, I'm done with this.

No more Zoro requests?

[anonymous]

How many people on this meme want people to stop requesting Zoro?

Re: No more Zoro requests?

[anonymous]

That seems kind of strange. I mean, "Zoro" is not a story plot. It is also not a squick, unless you were perhaps molested by algae as a child. (No offense meant to anyone molested by algae as a child. I sympathize with your plight.)

There's an awful lot that can be done with any given character. Why rule it out?

Re: No more Zoro requests?

[anonymous]

I can't answer this as mostly I'm going 'what the fucking HELL'.

Seriously. What the fuck? mind explaining what you mean by this question?

Re: No more Zoro requests?

[anonymous]

(OP) Zoro requests seem to get complained about pretty often compared to most other character requests. I wanted to know if there's actually anyone here who'd actually raise their hand and say "I don't want to see any more Zoro requests". He's a popular character, and someone once mentioned that what they like about this meme is that things, pairings and characters that don't get written often get requested here. I want to know how people feel about Zoro requests because of these issues.