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SA: I don't know why I put it like that. I mean, the perception that my posts are so stupid that I'm actually trolling is my secret fear.

(Which is only strengthened when I start a thread with "Yeah, or maybe..." when that doesn't actually make any sense. Sigh.)

The original comment was inflammatory but I like the responses, so this thread can stay for people want to talk about the interesting ways that this prompt could work:

http://daredevilkink.dreamwidth.org/6237.html?thread=10838877#cmt10838877

uhmmm I don't know if this is relevant but, what I experienced is that I was doing one of those "minifills-thing" where you also talk with the op and then another anon makes a comment but also suggest another develpment with another character and reading that I couldn't go on, like it stopped the flow of ideas and I saw that also the op didn't answer anymore

...maybe it just depends of the content of the comment?

If it helps any, I thought your Halloween post was fine. *shrug* :)

I think it is coincidental. It makes me worry too but in retrospect it's always just that I happened to post when things were slowing down already, or my comment was fine but didn't really contribute or have anything people could actively reply to. Plus people drop conversations for no reason all the time. Not because you're annoying or uninteresting, maybe they're just out of things to say. Or they have other stuff to do and need to leave the meme.

And it's the most useless advice ever but, for the real life situations, the less I care then the less it happens, so it must either be self-perceptual or something about my social anxiety/awkwardness level. For both, the only way I can fix that is to fix my social anxiety, so I try to focus on that.

AYRT: So you're saying that I may actually be killing a conversation I was enjoying by joining in. Great. That makes me feel sooo much better.

(Although I don't particularly remember commenting in a situation like this. So it probably wasn't actually me who killed your minifill-type inspirational conversation with an OP. I hope.)

Yeah, that's what I figure. I just wanted reassurance that other people feel that way, too. So thanks!

no, just wanted to say that it's a possibility, I think you should not care so much about it - as in terms of "it's my fault this thread died." it happens.

(I don't know, but don't worry, it's not like I hate the person who made that comment :) )

probably that was not a reply you were looking for, sorry xD

OP: Oh no, you stopped the thread! It shall now die in flames and ashes. And it will be YOUR FAULT!

...which is the only appropriate ending for this ridiculous a conversation, so, y'know. Whatever. And your reply was fine.

Yes this.

Although Mahoney is an Irish name, so that may be what OP was referring to?

I don't think it would be rude to mention where your inspiration came from, as long as you're mostly filling what your recipient wants. I can't imagine being offended by that.

If it was on an old prompt post, or one of the freeze posts, then people tend to move on from those quickly. Halloween is over, anon. Post 7 is over. Prompt freeze is over.

Head to prompt post 8 if you want to talk with people.

lol, I think we all need to reveal what our disastrous mis-matched prompts were when this is all said and done.

To answer your question... I think it will depend on how much of the "inspiration" prompt you end up using. If it's like 50/50 then by all means, link it as the 2nd prompt that makes up your fill (I've seen people incorporate as many as 4 prompts into one fill). BUT, since it's meant to be a gift exchange, make sure the prompt you were given is the dominant prompt and you stay as true to it as you can. :-)

I understand it is, but like... I live in an area that has a lot of people with Scottish and Irish last names, and while it's obvious that at some point our ancestors came from Ireland or Scotland, only about 10% of the population would self-identify as such. (Co-incidentally, most of us are Roman Catholic too, go figure.)

Also, there's a whole different type of history for the last names of African Americans, y'know? Couple generations back somebody on his father's side of the family was probably owned by someone with the last name Mahoney.

tl;dr Just because someone's surname denotes a certain culture/nationality does not automatically mean said person identifies with that culture/nationality, etc etc etc. :-)

Don't discount the possibility that Brett's parents are an interracial couple. Or that he was adopted.

In fact, now I'm picturing Brett's dad as a super-stereotypical Irish-Catholic cop and imagining what his relationship to his parents might be like, and the potential Brett backstories in those possibilities are making me super intrigued.

I don't know why people seem to limit themselves to headcanons based solely on last names or character appearances. It's so much fun to stretch the limits of things and go a more interesting way than what's right in front of you... lots of people have last names that don't mesh with what you would expect or backgrounds you would never have predicted.

<3

I frequently joke about him smelling lie pheromones.

I'm participating in the x-mas gift exchange myself, and I can obviously only speak for myself, but if I received something that would fill *my* prompt as well as something for someone else on the kinkmeme, I'd be all for that. The more love, the better. Sharing is caring, right?

OP: Yeah, it's not like I'm ignoring the actual prompt. It's just, I was trying to figure out, how do I get to it? And the kinkmeme prompt suggested a mechanism that would work quite believably.

My Matt went to St. Joseph's College with a double major in Criminal Justice and Pre-Law.

Actually, I'm pretty sure that Pre-Law isn't an actual field of study, whether at St. Joseph's or anywhere else. Just like "Pre-Med" isn't. There's no college department out there that wants to be known as "Pre-Something Else," which would pretty much be the equivalent of "Something Else Lite," although they may recommend a particular course of study in, say, "Legal Studies" or "Biology" for people looking to go on to a particular type of graduate program. So Matt couldn't have double majored with "Pre-Law" being one of the majors.

(And for all I know, I'm completely wrong, feel free to correct me by saying "Such-And-So University has a Pre-Law Department.")

...Saint Joseph's does have a "Peace and Justice Studies" minor, although it's a subdivision of its "Religious Studies" department?

Short answer: yes. DC is a comic book company in the Marvel universe. Foggy could have totally read Supes or Batman comics.

Long asnwer, also a personal headcanon: I like to think that all the Marvel properties that don't fall under the MCU - so the X-Men, for example - also exist as comic books in the MCU. I find it funny to have MCU characters discuss X-Men or FF. I can see Foggy being all excited for the Deadpool movie.

Foggy and Matt could have also read Captain America comics. It's MCU canon that Steve had comics written about him.

Oooh, headcanons!

I headcanon Matt and Foggy meeting in law school and having no prior contact. Based on Foggy's question about whether Matt knows a good place to get a coffee on the Columbia campus AND then saying that he does, I headcanon him as doing an undergrad at Columbia. (I have a whole notebook of notes about the undergrad adventures of Matt and Foggy, no joke.) I headcanon Foggy as having taken Human Rights. Oh, and definitely psychology for those science modules.

As for Matt - I think he did undergrad at NYU. The Public Policy major, because that fits well with his views overall.

A frequent exchange participant here: use all the inspiration. As long as you fill the main prompt it's okay. At the end of the day, YOU are the author. You write the fic. The prompt is there to guide you, not constrict you.

This exchange only allowed for one prompt, sadly, but usually there are more, so that the author can choose which one to fill. And people borrow elements from those other prompts. Sometimes - if all the prompts are revealed as part of treats segment - they even incorporate elements of other people's prompts.

Or, you know, write those exchange fics as integral parts of their already established fic series.

Whee! Someone who has my headcanon on Matt's undergrad!

(...says the person who pointed out how public policy would fit with his Thurgood Marshall fixation upthread.)

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