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Re: Gimme all the Fics!

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

And just think about how much more D/C there would have been if those people hadn't run off and created their own challenge instead of participating in the one that was already happening?

Re: Gimme all the Fics!

[(Anonymous)]

da

To be fair, some or many of the participants may have been unaware springfling existed. I write D/C and I didn't know summerlovin existed until it started posting; it's possible to just miss challenges, even if you're in the target demographic.

Summerlovin's origins are annoying, but not every participant is responsible for or even aware of what went down.

Re: Gimme all the Fics!

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

Yes, but then how did those people know the new challenge existed? It would have been just as easy to advertise springfling and for the mods to be like "hey, flist, lets go bring more D/C to this challenge!" instead of being like "everybody hates Cas!" and starting their own. The main gist is that this challenge was started because a few people thought their ship was being slighted. No one is blaming the unwitting authors that might have participated in said challenge without knowing the wanky origins

Re: Gimme all the Fics!

[(Anonymous)]

na

I was struck by how many stories there were in the new challenge. The FD listing seemed to go on and on. It seems likely that if the mods had taken the approved course of action and started some sort of campaign to encourage D/C writers to sign up then there would indeed have been more D/C in springfling than there was, however it also seems likely that there are overall more stories in existence now than in that scenario. Sure, I think they were a little silly to decide they were ~unwelcome~, but, uh, all sorts of shippers have been known to decide that on very little basis, and I don't think it's something worth maintaining seething resentment over.