Discussion/Off-Topic Post #2

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[(Anonymous)]

As an author, those really detailed, longfic prompts are usually enough to make me back the fuck off and go somewhere else even if I like the prompt. Because it's too detailed and I'll basically be writing someone else's idea with no room for my own if I filled it. And that's not interesting or exciting to me. There's no room to develop anything.

I mean, people can prompt those things sure. But I ain't going to fill it.

[(Anonymous)]

Heh, so I'm guilty of prompting one or two crazy detailed prompts. I swear, usually I'm fairly good at keeping things simple-ish - main prompt is the basic scenario, bonuses are for directions I think would be cool. I've actually gotten a bunch of fills with that formula, for which I am so grateful.

But yeah, once or twice I've posted something absolutely ridiculous - too long, way too detailed, a why-don't-you-just-write-this-yourself kind of thing. I am guilty, I admit it.

But I also never once expected to get a fill for those prompts. Mostly I posted them just to get a headcanon off my brain. I did one recently that basically got chirrups, which I totally expected. I did one a few posts ago that got a shockingly good response. (I think it helped that that one led to a very porny place, lmao.)

I TOTALLY get why someone would back off from filling a prompt that's just too much. But in at least a couple of cases, rest assured that no fill was actually expected, lol.

[(Anonymous)]

SA

That said - even I side-eye some prompts occasionally, especially the ones that detail every character's 'correct' reaction and take 500+ words to detail what HAS to happen, what CANNOT happen, and how the climax of this requested 50 chapter epic should come together. Those are a bit...yeah.

[(Anonymous)]

+1