Hetalia kink meme ([personal profile] hetalia_kink) wrote2010-08-26 10:32 pm

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Self-explanatory. Here you can talk with other anons about fills, prompts, past connections, anything related to the kink meme!

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Re: OP

(Anonymous) 2014-10-23 08:32 pm (UTC)(link)
I guess, but to be honest, I'm not on the kink meme to be creative or inspirational. Most of my requests and fills circle around the 2-3 kinks and characters that I especially like and I'd be pretty annoyed if someone told me I should stop doing what I enjoy so that other people can have more variety.

(Anonymous) 2014-10-23 08:32 pm (UTC)(link)
I have absolutely no idea where you got that interpretation from but no, I don't want omegaverse banned.

And yes, the meme does have 26 parts. However, some indexes haven't been updated in a long time, making it harder to find characters to write for; I like to write for the Nordics and Austria and while the Nordics index updates regularly, the Austria one has gone without an update since Part 16. And while some people have the time and energy to trawl through 26 parts, I for one do not. Likewise, a lot of those prompts are for porn or involve sex in some way; for someone like me, being sex repulsed, that makes it all the more frustrating.

And I have prompted stuff that isn't omegaverse, quite a bit of it. Only two of those prompts have been filled. In terms of filling stuff myself, I haven't found anything that I can fill in a few parts rather than doing a long multi part fill.

Re: OP

(Anonymous) 2014-10-23 08:38 pm (UTC)(link)
I mean, if it's the same kink and characters, why do you need to post multiple requests? Posting nearly the same requests doesn't equal pushing the meme along.

Re: OP

(Anonymous) 2014-10-23 08:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Please tell me it's not USUK

Re: OP

(Anonymous) 2014-10-23 08:46 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not one of those anons who're spamming multiple prompts every page if that's what you're implying. I post maybe five prompts per part, but yeah, they're mostly similar kinks with the same characters. Because that's what I like! And clearly other people like them as well because I've had about half of them filled, and I would say that's definitely pushing the meme along.

And even then, the kink meme is not a democracy where everyone is guaranteed to get what they like. We aren't trying to meet a quota of X number of unique prompts/fills in every part. It's super frustrating if your (general you) prompts and fills go ignored, but if lots of people love omegaverse, BDSM, threesomes or whatever, that's where the attention is going to be.

(Anonymous) 2014-10-24 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
LOL I might actually come back and write prompts from the kink meme if I didn't have to wade through pages and pages of Omega Arthurs and stuff.

But it's not my thing, so.

(Anonymous) 2014-10-24 10:12 am (UTC)(link)
I just took a look at the past ten pages of part 26 and while omegaverse is clearly the most popular specific premise, it hardly dominates the meme. There's plenty of other stuff, so nobody has to wade through pages upon pages of anything. And the omegaverse prompts aren't all identical.

(Anonymous) 2014-10-24 11:31 am (UTC)(link)
But a lot of them are very similar. Does it dominate? Probably not but hell if it doesn't feel like every other request is for that AU and hell if it doesn't feel like the only stories that get feedback are omegaverse.

(Anonymous) 2014-11-07 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
Sounds exciting. I'm down for it. :)

(Anonymous) 2014-11-07 05:12 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm so fed up with the incorrect formatting requests that I just don't care anymore. I'll stare at it, I'll feel annoyed, but I no longer have the energy to type a response to the OP or give them a correct example of their prompt, especially when doing so often results in an on-thread debate of whether formatting matters.

(Anonymous) 2014-11-07 07:46 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm with you. I mean, it's their job to make sure they follow the rules, not anyone else's. More often, if I do offer corrections, I'll just say, "You're not allowed to do X thing" and not bother giving them a correct example.

I think the worst example was where the same person dumped a load of requests and not one of them was correctly formatted. Thank God they were deleted.

Re: Request dumping: is it bad?

(Anonymous) 2014-11-08 05:02 pm (UTC)(link)
I made six requests in this part of the meme, not on page 45 though. I am working to fill an equal number of prompts left by others and should have them ready by next weekend.

I have made less than 15 requests in the history of the meme but when I do request I tend to do so all at once given how quickly this meme tends to go.

Is there an agreed upon limit of requests between freezes?

I always assumed that as long as you took the time to do an equal or greater number of quality fills to as many prompts as you request that everything would just balance out given how fast this me me goes although I have not been around for the last few months so maybe I am wrong?

Not everyone is a writer and not everyone who writes leaves a prompt. I would not want to look down upon those who just request but at the same time you need people to fill to keep the meme going.

(Anonymous) 2014-11-08 05:22 pm (UTC)(link)
We do not have an omegaverse request problem we have an omegaverse writer deficiency.

I had never heard of omegaverse outside of this fandom and have no idea how to write it properly.

It would be nice if there was a writer workshop for it because the only way to resolve a request surplus is by an even greater writer surplus.

(Anonymous) 2014-11-08 06:10 pm (UTC)(link)
"Writer workshop"? Really?

Omegaverse is just your standard mpreg fanfic using outdated and incorrect wolf pack dynamic terms, with a dose of heterosexism and some yaoi stereotypes as old as time itself.

+1

(Anonymous) 2014-11-08 06:24 pm (UTC)(link)
I like some of the interesting ones where characters question the dynamic, or the ones where omegas and betas have their own strengths acknowledged, but overall it just isn't my thing.

No workshop is going to teach me to like something. It's my own goddamn choice.

Re: +1

(Anonymous) 2014-11-10 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
Not all writers stick to writing what they like. It is a good writing practice to try something new every now and then, that is all I am saying.

What is wrong with the suggestion of a writing workshop to sharpen writing skills of the interested? Beats complaining about the requests of others and might clear some prompts and make some other fans happy. I mean that is part of what this meme is for right? Goodwill toward your fellow fans.

Re: +1

(Anonymous) 2014-11-10 10:19 am (UTC)(link)
Why should one AU get a workshop and others don't? Why should an AU that uses tropes that have been in fandom for years get help and people writing historial AUs not get one? Why don't people who write full fantasy AUs get one to help with Worldbuilding? Why should writers of one AU get special treatment while others just have to work over time to hone their skills?

It's the sense of entitlement really. You want a workshop? Set it up somewhere else.

Re: +1

(Anonymous) 2014-11-10 07:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Sense of entitlement? Wow. Also, I never said it had to be done, or done here or only for one thing so don't go putting words in my mouth. Sense of entitlement? Talk about projecting...

Re: +1

(Anonymous) 2014-11-10 08:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Projecting? I'm not the one suggesting a writer's workshop for one AU, which comes off as pretty damn entitled. It's like saying, "This AU is so important we need to teach people how to write it so we can have more!"

Was it your intention? No and I'm sorry if that hurt you. But if people want to do Omegaverse, they're gonna have to learn to write it the way other people learn how to write their AUs: practice.

And my dislike for Omegaverse comes from reasons much bigger than just there's a lot of it so don't you go accusing me "projecting" OK?

Best America whump fics?

(Anonymous) 2014-11-12 04:06 pm (UTC)(link)
So what are your most well written favorite America whump fic recs?

Hello kink meme. Let's have a game

(Anonymous) 2014-11-17 06:49 pm (UTC)(link)
I've been pretty busy-bizz lately and haven't really had time to go through the current part/past parts to find some prompts to sink my teeth into.

So I thought I'd appeal to the masses (???) and ask for you guys to suggest some prompts. If anyone's interested, I'll be lurking around on the discussion post until about Friday and then, if anyone has any prompt suggestions, I'll knuckle down and try and get some filled.

I'm a major Nordics whore so if anyone has any Nordic prompts they want to see filled, I'll be more than happy to do so

Re: Hello kink meme. Let's have a game

(Anonymous) 2014-11-18 04:03 am (UTC)(link)
Heeey anon here's some Nordic mostly Norway prompts, with a few others, but if you have certain characters/pairs you like, I most likely know some prompts to link you too. Also I tried to stick to general ones since I wasn't sure if you had stuff you didn't like writing/triggers/anything like that. Regardless, hope you find something you like in all this!

http://hetalia-kink.dreamwidth.org/84399.html?thread=511881135#cmt511881135
http://hetalia-kink.dreamwidth.org/84399.html?thread=511897519#cmt511897519
http://hetalia-kink.dreamwidth.org/84399.html?thread=512186287#cmt512186287
http://hetalia-kink.dreamwidth.org/84399.html?thread=511704495#cmt511704495
http://hetalia-kink.dreamwidth.org/84399.html?thread=511671727#cmt511671727
http://hetalia-kink.dreamwidth.org/84399.html?thread=511660463#cmt511660463
http://hetalia-kink.dreamwidth.org/84399.html?thread=511650991#cmt511650991
http://hetalia-kink.dreamwidth.org/84399.html?thread=511267247#cmt511267247
http://hetalia-kink.dreamwidth.org/82590.html?thread=510702494#cmt510702494
http://hetalia-kink.dreamwidth.org/82590.html?thread=510357918#cmt510357918
http://hetalia-kink.dreamwidth.org/82590.html?thread=509685150#cmt509685150
http://hetalia-kink.dreamwidth.org/82590.html?thread=509147294#cmt509147294
http://hetalia-kink.dreamwidth.org/82590.html?thread=508777886#cmt508777886
http://hetalia-kink.dreamwidth.org/82590.html?thread=508774814#cmt508774814
http://hetalia-kink.dreamwidth.org/82590.html?thread=509148830#cmt509148830
http://hetalia-kink.dreamwidth.org/84399.html?thread=511656367#cmt511656367
http://hetalia-kink.dreamwidth.org/84399.html?thread=511674031#cmt511674031
http://hetalia-kink.dreamwidth.org/84399.html?thread=512256175#cmt512256175

setting multiple stories in the same au?

(Anonymous) 2014-11-23 07:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Anyone here ever done this? The stories in planning don't connect with each other outside of small references but i thought it'll be fun to do world building but from other characters point of veiw. Can't make up my mind if it sounds like a good idea or a stupid idea.

(Anonymous) 2014-11-23 07:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Late reply but I love this idea! Hope it'll happen.