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books/authors, yuletide means christmas!

Because what would be better than Howl's Moving Castle with aliens and blood drinking?
Can thank a mousey at wank_report for this as well. And because I am lazy the write up is copy-pasted with links inserted.

So Untherius has a reputation as being someone you don't want to get fic from at Yuletide--background as to what he does here.

("Shout out to Untherius for the lowest of the low. At least the Gay Dragon fic was recognizably set in Pern.")

("I honestly don't think anyone deserves Untherius as a writer, unless you've maybe committed genocide or something.")

This year, he writes another Howl's Moving Castle fic for abluestocking...one that includes a crossover with two fandoms that the recipient is unfamiliar with, as well as graphic violence (blood drinking, consumption of raw organs).

This after abluestocking politely indicated that she would prefer not to receive a crossover.

People on fail_fandomanon collectively go "oh my God", and it's posted to yuletide_coal as well.

Then, someone who appears to be the recip, based off of their comment, comes forward:

So I got a primary fic that I...can't read?

That sounds funny. It's not in another language or anything. It's just that the author 1) did a crossover with a fandom I have absolutely no familiarity with, 2) wrote my requested character as an OC, and, most importantly, 3) wrote the entire thing around something that is a complete squick for me (and probably a lot of people).

A little further downthread, we have someone defending Untherius, calling other Yuletide writers/recips "entitled". The same anon appears again, and the end result is that someone posts a critique to the work on AO3 and the defender!anon flounces from Yuletide.

And all of this happens before reveals.

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hopsandbarley
2012-12-30 07:06 pm UTC (link)

Well, you could argue that Howl's Moving Castle had aliens, what with those shooting star...things. And it had a sort of reverse of organ eating, what with Howl giving Calcifer his heart and oh dear God, why am I nitpicking this thing? Clearly I'm still not fully awake yet and I need another cup of coffee.

Also, why do people like pairing Care Bears with BDSM? I remember reading a Fan Fiction Friday on Topless Robot that featured Grumpy Bear as the subject of non-consensual BDSM (which horrified me because Grumpy's the only one of those bears I care about)

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	redcoast 2012-12-30 07:37 pm UTC (link)
	... why would anyone write Care Bear porn at all? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	hopsandbarley 2012-12-30 07:40 pm UTC (link)
	Especially since most people can't even keep track of what gender most of them are supposed to be. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	redcoast 2012-12-30 07:44 pm UTC (link)
	They're teddy bears so I'm gonna argue that they are agender. (When I was a kid, I could never tell what gender non-human cartoon characters were supposed to be. I thought that Rabbit and Piglet were female.) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

hopsandbarley
2012-12-30 07:52 pm UTC (link)

But...but then where did those baby Care Bears come from? Do they reproduce by budding or something? For that matter, where did the baby versions of the Care Bears and Care Bear Cousins in the second movie come from? Why did they grow up so fast? I mean, it clearly takes place at least over one summer—

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...WHY DO I KNOW SO MUCH ABOUT THE CARE BEARS MYTHOS? I ONLY WATCHED SOME OF THE DiC EPISODES ON...was it Disney Channel? I can't remember.

BUT SERIOUSLY. WHY? WHY DO I KNOW THIS?

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	redcoast 2012-12-30 09:58 pm UTC (link)
	where did those baby Care Bears come from? Teddy bear factory. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	kookaburra 2012-12-30 08:27 pm UTC (link)
	...Rabbit's not female? I always thought of her/him as such. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	redcoast 2012-12-30 09:56 pm UTC (link)
	If I'm correct, Kanga is the only female denizen of the Hundred Acre Wood. I didn't know that until I realized the stories used male pronouns for Rabbit. Rabbit sounds and behaves exactly like my maternal grandmother, on the other hand. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	lady_ganesh 2013-01-04 05:05 pm UTC (link)
	Rabbi's male, yeah. I tend to think of him as a Tony Randall type. (Reply to this)(Parent)

ekaterinv
2012-12-30 08:33 pm UTC (link)

Do not try look up the "monsters are such wonderful people" Bugs Bunny cartoon by using Google unless you want to need a lifetime supply of brain bleach. (I just wanted to know what the red monster's name was. I learned oh so much more.)

I can see writing Care Bear porn for laughs. Not for actual turn-on though. But there are people who install sex toys into/onto plushies.

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	rosehiptea 2012-12-31 01:06 am UTC (link)
	So... what's the red monster's name? (I never watched much Bugs Bunny because it scared me when I was little.) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	hopsandbarley 2012-12-31 01:52 am UTC (link)
	Gossamer (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	rosehiptea 2012-12-31 04:56 am UTC (link)
	Thank you. That's actually a really pretty name that makes me less scared of it. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	anthologia 2012-12-31 09:43 pm UTC (link)
	If the Care Bear porn is what I'm thinking of, it was definitely written for laughs. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	kannaophelia 2012-12-31 02:15 am UTC (link)
	Because her recipient requested it and she's a nice person who doesn't take optional details as optional. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	redcoast 2012-12-30 07:40 pm UTC (link)
	I remember reading a Fan Fiction Friday on Topless Robot that featured Grumpy Bear as the subject of non-consensual BDSM (which horrified me because Grumpy's the only one of those bears I care about) That's the same story that Untherius read! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	hopsandbarley 2012-12-30 07:53 pm UTC (link)
	Ohhhh, that explains it. I can't believe forgot the name of that fic. Everything else was burned so clearly into my memory... (Reply to this)(Parent)

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