Mod contact post

[bbcmusketeerskink]

Hey everyone, here's a mod contact post.

You can use it to talk to me, ask me things, let me know when you want something deleted and if there's arguments going on on the meme.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

And my point is that most people won't do it, because a) the odds of a prompt being filled by someone who wishes to write the characters as genderfluid is pretty low, and b) most reasonable people would not consider having someone take the time to write a fill inspired by their prompt to be a cause for upset, just because the fill ended up being not to their taste.

The polite response to receiving a fill is always, "Thanks, Author!Anon! That's a really interesting take on the prompt" or some variation thereof.

Only the people who are extremely bothered by the idea of genderfluidity would expend the effort to exclude it from their prompt, and I sincerely hope that there aren't too many such people on the meme.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not 'bothered' by it, but my only kink is for m/m I don't read het or gender changed fic.

Do I have to specify that in every prompt? I don't want to come across as being anti in anyway. They just don't do anything for me.

[(Anonymous)]

Then maybe you should actually specify that you only want slash pairings. It's not that hard to add "only male slash, please" in your prompts and that way you are not offending anyone, just saying what you want.

[(Anonymous)]

da

I would argue that's implicit in the pairing or moresome request already, and shouldn't need restating.

If it were a character like Grendel in Black Butler, trans would be the default, but for the Musketeers it isn't.

Just ask.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm still a bit muddled by this. Since the characters are male, isn't it more likely that if I wanted them gender switched, I would specifically ask for that?

If I ask for Ninon/Constance for example, do I need to specify f/f?

I can see how a prompt would need to specify gen, slash or transgender, but as genderswitch seems like a bigger shift away from what you actually see in front of you, I think an author would be best to check first.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm worried that came out sounding harsh or something.

I'm just... confused.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think you sound harsh, I think your question is basically the point a lot of us have been trying to make.

Athos/d'Artagnan is understood as m/m unless otherwise specified, same as Constance/Flea is understood as f/f. And lots of prompts exist for genderswap, but when it's not a genderswap prompt, it would be good to ask first.