fic exchanges - whiny question
Nov. 22nd, 2005 10:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wook77OK, I've locked this down to flist because I'm really going to seem a like a whiny baby.
I signed up for the holiday fic exchange at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
hp_fan_fics. Here is what I said:
What you want: Art preferably but I'll take a fic as well. I'd prefer H/D or Neville/Harry as the couple. Err, Something holiday-ish as the theme. Fluff is ok but not necessary. Just not something depressing and dark. It can have angst but I'd like a happy ending.
What you can do: I may not be able to draw but I can write. I'm willing to write slash of H/D, Harry/Lucius, Harry/Neville, Sirius/Remus, Regulus/Severus or Femmeslash of Ginny/Luna. I'm sorry to limit it to those pairings but I'm unfamiliar with other characters and don't want to ruin the gift. I'm ok with anything ranging from non-con/dubious con through to BDSM, Fluff and mpreg.
What you can't do: I won't write the traditional squicks (chan, goldenshowers, bestiality, etc). Also, I'm pants at drawing.
Anything you don't want in the gift you receive? please none of the traditional squicks, please no non-con or dubious con. It's a holiday gift and I'd like it to be semi-holiday related.
Are you willing to create a back-up gift if needed? Sure, just let me know.
This is what I received:
What I want: I would love a femslash fic involving menstrual blood and a Slytherin girl. Any rating, which means it can be low as G or as high as NC-17. Preferably with a Gryffindor female, but I am not picky. If that squicks people too much, I'd like either a mind-f*** (not sure if you can swear on this board yet)with Snape and Harry, or hate-sex with James/Snape.
Again any rating goes. And even if you don't want hate-sex with James/Snape, I would love to see some sort of emnity toward each other.
Harry/Neville would be appreciated, but I'm a little about picky it. I would like Neville coming out into his own power, and not being so portrayed as the weaker of the two.
Or anything with Trelawney. I love the old bat.
I don't mind newbie writers as I am a newbie myself.
More character interaction the better.
What I can do: I can write fic of up to 2000-4000 words. I can do art, but it is not as good as my writing and I have scanner issues so it might be a little rocky there. Would prefer not to write anything too racy as I have only attempted to write porn once, and it ended up horribly. Most slash and femslash pairings accepted. Het is okay too. I like to draw parallels between characters for anyone who likes that sort of thing. I believe my skills are in character dialogue and tone of the story.
I will not write Older man/Younger female fic. Also out Harry/Ginny, any pairing with Slughorn, anything with Sirius Black, and Harry/Draco. I will not do BDSM or scat. Chan is fine, except for the formerly mentioned olderman/younger female. I will not attempt to do Dumbledore/anyone. Lupin/Harry is out too. That seems to me to be a huge breach of trust. I will not write necrophilia either.
What I don't Want: Scat, golden showers, BDSM, all sex fic (I want some char interaction)or any of the pairings I won't write.
Backup Gift?: No. I think I will be rushed already even with one fic.
~~**~~
Hmmm, it doesn't seem a very good fit to me. Out of everything the person requested, the only thing that fits is this other person's picky "Neville/Harry". Hmmm.
Am I a baby for thinking that this fic exchange doesn't seem like a good fit? How the fuck am I supposed to write a femmeslash with menstrual blood (um, eugh)? I guess I was not specific enough on the "traditional squicks" definition. Just the thought of having to write for this has now stressed me out to the point that I don't want a frikken thing to do with this.
I emailed the moderator about the poor match and was basically told too bad so sad.
I'm going to write a story but I'm sure this person is going to hate it as none of her pairings other than a picky one fits. The pairing that I personally feel I excel at is on her "don't write" list.
Sorry to rant. I seriously feel like a whiny baby being upset about this but I'm so upset I could cry. Talk about over-reactions - I want to pull out and say forget it.
Feel free to tell me that I'm being a whiny baby because I feel like I am for being so upset about this.
Ok, /rant and whiny baby-ness.
Solutions - I will simply not volunteer for a fic exchange run by the same person. I will write a Neville/Harry fic and not get upset when she doesn't like it. Mature reactions, which is what I need.
Again, apologies for being a baby and putting this crap on your flist. I just wanted the thoughts out there.
EDIT: Just heard back from the moderator who apologized for the 'tude. Basically, I was the only one willing to write ANY of the requests so that's why I got it. The mod was quite nice about the explanation the second response. So, I shall write the Harry/Neville and if she doesn't like it, too bad so sad for her *smirk*.
EDIT 2: Heard back from the moderator again... I am now writing a Remus/Sirius comedy instead. There was someone actually willing to write menstrual blood femmeslash. Say it with me - EWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
I signed up for the holiday fic exchange at
hp_fan_fics. Here is what I said:What you want: Art preferably but I'll take a fic as well. I'd prefer H/D or Neville/Harry as the couple. Err, Something holiday-ish as the theme. Fluff is ok but not necessary. Just not something depressing and dark. It can have angst but I'd like a happy ending.
What you can do: I may not be able to draw but I can write. I'm willing to write slash of H/D, Harry/Lucius, Harry/Neville, Sirius/Remus, Regulus/Severus or Femmeslash of Ginny/Luna. I'm sorry to limit it to those pairings but I'm unfamiliar with other characters and don't want to ruin the gift. I'm ok with anything ranging from non-con/dubious con through to BDSM, Fluff and mpreg.
What you can't do: I won't write the traditional squicks (chan, goldenshowers, bestiality, etc). Also, I'm pants at drawing.
Anything you don't want in the gift you receive? please none of the traditional squicks, please no non-con or dubious con. It's a holiday gift and I'd like it to be semi-holiday related.
Are you willing to create a back-up gift if needed? Sure, just let me know.
This is what I received:
What I want: I would love a femslash fic involving menstrual blood and a Slytherin girl. Any rating, which means it can be low as G or as high as NC-17. Preferably with a Gryffindor female, but I am not picky. If that squicks people too much, I'd like either a mind-f*** (not sure if you can swear on this board yet)with Snape and Harry, or hate-sex with James/Snape.
Again any rating goes. And even if you don't want hate-sex with James/Snape, I would love to see some sort of emnity toward each other.
Harry/Neville would be appreciated, but I'm a little about picky it. I would like Neville coming out into his own power, and not being so portrayed as the weaker of the two.
Or anything with Trelawney. I love the old bat.
I don't mind newbie writers as I am a newbie myself.
More character interaction the better.
What I can do: I can write fic of up to 2000-4000 words. I can do art, but it is not as good as my writing and I have scanner issues so it might be a little rocky there. Would prefer not to write anything too racy as I have only attempted to write porn once, and it ended up horribly. Most slash and femslash pairings accepted. Het is okay too. I like to draw parallels between characters for anyone who likes that sort of thing. I believe my skills are in character dialogue and tone of the story.
I will not write Older man/Younger female fic. Also out Harry/Ginny, any pairing with Slughorn, anything with Sirius Black, and Harry/Draco. I will not do BDSM or scat. Chan is fine, except for the formerly mentioned olderman/younger female. I will not attempt to do Dumbledore/anyone. Lupin/Harry is out too. That seems to me to be a huge breach of trust. I will not write necrophilia either.
What I don't Want: Scat, golden showers, BDSM, all sex fic (I want some char interaction)or any of the pairings I won't write.
Backup Gift?: No. I think I will be rushed already even with one fic.
~~**~~
Hmmm, it doesn't seem a very good fit to me. Out of everything the person requested, the only thing that fits is this other person's picky "Neville/Harry". Hmmm.
Am I a baby for thinking that this fic exchange doesn't seem like a good fit? How the fuck am I supposed to write a femmeslash with menstrual blood (um, eugh)? I guess I was not specific enough on the "traditional squicks" definition. Just the thought of having to write for this has now stressed me out to the point that I don't want a frikken thing to do with this.
I emailed the moderator about the poor match and was basically told too bad so sad.
I'm going to write a story but I'm sure this person is going to hate it as none of her pairings other than a picky one fits. The pairing that I personally feel I excel at is on her "don't write" list.
Sorry to rant. I seriously feel like a whiny baby being upset about this but I'm so upset I could cry. Talk about over-reactions - I want to pull out and say forget it.
Feel free to tell me that I'm being a whiny baby because I feel like I am for being so upset about this.
Ok, /rant and whiny baby-ness.
Solutions - I will simply not volunteer for a fic exchange run by the same person. I will write a Neville/Harry fic and not get upset when she doesn't like it. Mature reactions, which is what I need.
Again, apologies for being a baby and putting this crap on your flist. I just wanted the thoughts out there.
EDIT: Just heard back from the moderator who apologized for the 'tude. Basically, I was the only one willing to write ANY of the requests so that's why I got it. The mod was quite nice about the explanation the second response. So, I shall write the Harry/Neville and if she doesn't like it, too bad so sad for her *smirk*.
EDIT 2: Heard back from the moderator again... I am now writing a Remus/Sirius comedy instead. There was someone actually willing to write menstrual blood femmeslash. Say it with me - EWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
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Date: 2005-11-22 10:07 pm (UTC)it's taken me quite a bit to type my response because I'm laughing so hard my fingers keep hitting the wrong buttons.
Ok, not re-reading, will not re-read so I can comment on the rest of it.
Yeah, I'm sure it's hard, especially if people drop out and someone else has to write a fic... which is why I didn't want to drop out. I'd stick someone else with the "female issue" holiday fic. *giggles*
I don't think that the person you get is the one who writes for you. (shudders... god I hope not... man that was catty)
PS HI back! I'm glad the job is going well... haven't had a chance to comment to you. BTW... how are you with programming HTML in an email? I want to start doing a newsletter for my business and have it look pretty and professional and could use a tutorial. I could pay you in fic?
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Date: 2005-11-23 12:15 am (UTC)Go ahead, write it! I dare you. I double-dog dare you!
Glad I could amuse, at any rate. :D
Female issues holiday fic!!! *cracks up*
Ahem.
Was that catty? I don't blame you for hoping it's not her who writes for you. I mean, look at what she said! Geez.
It's okay, you don't need to comment on my entries... I feel perfectly fine and not at all unloved when no one comments... *sobs*
:P
Um, I'm not like an HTML guru or anything, but I know enough to probably be able to help. I don't have scads of time, but... I think we can come to an arrangement. *rubs hands together, plots what fic to ask for*
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Date: 2005-11-23 04:09 pm (UTC)It's tempting to write a crack!fic, it really is. If I need a giggle, I'll be writing it... no worries, I'll credit YOU for the idea... share the
blamewealth and all that.I went and read some of her fics and was like, yeah, um, ew. So hopefully not.
I'll comment from here on out, I promise... I was just trying to write a few of the prompts (have you seen how much I've written lately? sheesh, you leave and I get a bunch written :P)
Squee!!! on the help! I'll take any help I can get, let me tell you.
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Date: 2005-11-23 08:14 pm (UTC)I have seen how much you've written! I still haven't read much of it yet... *pouts* Stop being so prolific and give me a chance to catch up, here!
Are you saying that when I'm around, your productivity declines? Hmm. I knew I was distracting, but I had no idea I was that distracting. :P
Feel free to email me with HTML questions or whatever, and I will do my best to not accidentally ignore them, like I do with so much of my email. *rolls eyes at self*