What I had meant by that statement is that many may find a birthday recipient's requests whimsical or weird, and may even find it absurd for anyone to write those requests. I wanted to clear this up, because as you can already very well see, there are other questions to be answered.
I misunderstood. I thought you were talking about not criticising the fanfics being writtin in your second sentence.
I should have been clearer here. I'm not against the idea of writing fic for specific people. It can be wonderful. Other people have pointed out that there are a lot of kinks to be worked out to make sure that one requester gets at least one fic.
I wanted to inform you that some people like to keep their RL identity separate from their fandom identity. For me, that's also not stating my birth date. So yeah, this kind of birthday gift thing isn't for me.
Since the comments here are open, I thought I'd let you know. I'm sure there are other people who won't participate for the same reason.
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Date: 2009-06-15 05:50 pm (UTC)I misunderstood. I thought you were talking about not criticising the fanfics being writtin in your second sentence.
I should have been clearer here. I'm not against the idea of writing fic for specific people. It can be wonderful. Other people have pointed out that there are a lot of kinks to be worked out to make sure that one requester gets at least one fic.
I wanted to inform you that some people like to keep their RL identity separate from their fandom identity. For me, that's also not stating my birth date. So yeah, this kind of birthday gift thing isn't for me.
Since the comments here are open, I thought I'd let you know. I'm sure there are other people who won't participate for the same reason.
Anyway, I wish you the best of luck.