^^ I think variety is just something people were missing for a bit on the last post. I don't think anyone really intends it as a slam on the slave AU people, so much as just *sigh* - I guess I'm gonna have to leave for a bit and come back on the next post" or *sigh* - guess I'm not gonna be able to flat meme it for a bit". Especially because even though this meme doesn't require warnings, the common courtesy had been to warn, and because people were also changing titles in addition to removing warnings it was difficult for a while to sort out which were slave AU fills and which weren't when flat meming.
(So for the people above writing the fic saying "What can we really do in this situation?" maybe keeping the original post prompt titles with the fic title underneath in the body and warning in your prompts for rape non/con or clearly stating it's a slavery AU in your prompt headers would help? Again, not complaining and don't have a problem with it at all, but if you do feel there's tension, it could help? I know some of you said you were new to the meme, so you might not have known or realized).
For the record, I do a podcast called The OTPodcast, and in our recent Daredevil ep we did mention the trope for slavefic being popular and speculate as to who's writing and why it was happening in the larger context of the fandom. But I also fully admit in that episode that I was responsible for a lot of those initial prompts, and that even if I wasn't a huge fan of the fics that came out of them I was super impressed with the fact that so many people came out for it and that there were clearly collaborative fills and round robins happening.
And, tbh, I also posted a ton of non-slave AU prompts because the people here are also right that the only real way to attract people to other prompts and conversations is to start them.
So I don't think anyone really is kink-shaming here. I think people just wanted to find a way for the slave AU people to co-exist without feeling like they were all the meme was for a while, and that nobody has a clue how to do that and so people are just getting used to it as a thing.
And I think people were also just confused from the outside by how insular some of the prompts were. Some of what might be making people ask "How many people are there writing it?" is the way that suddenly all the fills were crossing over and integrating with one another, and seemed to have their own in-universe tropes and characters, and even for someone trying to follow those fics it got confusing and a little bit like "What even has this become now?" Like, I suspect it's only a few because of how specific each character was and how the round robins and collaborations were happening, not because I have an issue and want it to only be a few people. It was just interesting to also watch that little sub-community evolve and makes me curious.
TL;DR - Some of the tension here might be because of the way slave AU post headings weren't clear for flat memers, and I don't think anyone is trying to make anyone feel shamed. Keep on keeping on, guys, because what you're doing is actually kind of impressive.
Re: Foggy rapes Matt???
(So for the people above writing the fic saying "What can we really do in this situation?" maybe keeping the original post prompt titles with the fic title underneath in the body and warning in your prompts for rape non/con or clearly stating it's a slavery AU in your prompt headers would help? Again, not complaining and don't have a problem with it at all, but if you do feel there's tension, it could help? I know some of you said you were new to the meme, so you might not have known or realized).
For the record, I do a podcast called The OTPodcast, and in our recent Daredevil ep we did mention the trope for slavefic being popular and speculate as to who's writing and why it was happening in the larger context of the fandom. But I also fully admit in that episode that I was responsible for a lot of those initial prompts, and that even if I wasn't a huge fan of the fics that came out of them I was super impressed with the fact that so many people came out for it and that there were clearly collaborative fills and round robins happening.
And, tbh, I also posted a ton of non-slave AU prompts because the people here are also right that the only real way to attract people to other prompts and conversations is to start them.
So I don't think anyone really is kink-shaming here. I think people just wanted to find a way for the slave AU people to co-exist without feeling like they were all the meme was for a while, and that nobody has a clue how to do that and so people are just getting used to it as a thing.
And I think people were also just confused from the outside by how insular some of the prompts were. Some of what might be making people ask "How many people are there writing it?" is the way that suddenly all the fills were crossing over and integrating with one another, and seemed to have their own in-universe tropes and characters, and even for someone trying to follow those fics it got confusing and a little bit like "What even has this become now?" Like, I suspect it's only a few because of how specific each character was and how the round robins and collaborations were happening, not because I have an issue and want it to only be a few people. It was just interesting to also watch that little sub-community evolve and makes me curious.
TL;DR - Some of the tension here might be because of the way slave AU post headings weren't clear for flat memers, and I don't think anyone is trying to make anyone feel shamed. Keep on keeping on, guys, because what you're doing is actually kind of impressive.