I'm sorry about that person's misunderstanding of the nature of the rare-pair request and match! That's not at all a fair expectation. And it put a burden on you that is kind of ... slimy, in the way it undermines its own supposed reason for existence.
It's extremely lonely in a fandom where there's an absolutely overwhelming non-canonical majority view that you don't happen to share.
>"I don't know if FK fans have such hard-drawn lines in the sand,..."
FK doesn't share a single overwhelming fanon assumption like Teen Wolf and, to a somewhat lesser extent, Highlander do. FK is the polar opposite. No one agrees about anything in FKdom, hardly even baseline canon. :-)
Knighties versus Dark Knighties? Knighties versus Cousins? Natpackers versus Knighties? Unnamed Faction versus Cousins of the Knight? Third-season lovers versus third-season deniers? N&Ners versus everyone else? Ravenettes and Nevermores both treasure Janette! :-)
I can barely imagine a happy outcome from automated matching in FK.
I literally stressed myself sick the one time that I (Knightie; Nick's quest for humanity is right and just) got matched with PJ (Cousin, Dark Knightie, UFer; vampires, including Nick, should drink blood and kill people) in a fest. It was painful. The resulting story in fact drove away from FK someone whom I was then trying to interest in the show (I didn't know he was going to read it! I didn't know he'd found the AO3! I would have explained!). I anticipate that I will immediately default if I'm ever again matched with PJ or another such "dark" fan.
When I say that one FKFicFest prompt slate stars Reese in every request and the next refuses to mention Reese under any circumstances... "Reese" is a placeholder for other characters, pairings and perspectives, but the situation is wholly real, around and around our small circle. There's vanishingly little agreement.
no subject
It's extremely lonely in a fandom where there's an absolutely overwhelming non-canonical majority view that you don't happen to share.
>"I don't know if FK fans have such hard-drawn lines in the sand,..."
FK doesn't share a single overwhelming fanon assumption like Teen Wolf and, to a somewhat lesser extent, Highlander do. FK is the polar opposite. No one agrees about anything in FKdom, hardly even baseline canon. :-)
Knighties versus Dark Knighties? Knighties versus Cousins? Natpackers versus Knighties? Unnamed Faction versus Cousins of the Knight? Third-season lovers versus third-season deniers? N&Ners versus everyone else? Ravenettes and Nevermores both treasure Janette! :-)
I can barely imagine a happy outcome from automated matching in FK.
I literally stressed myself sick the one time that I (Knightie; Nick's quest for humanity is right and just) got matched with PJ (Cousin, Dark Knightie, UFer; vampires, including Nick, should drink blood and kill people) in a fest. It was painful. The resulting story in fact drove away from FK someone whom I was then trying to interest in the show (I didn't know he was going to read it! I didn't know he'd found the AO3! I would have explained!). I anticipate that I will immediately default if I'm ever again matched with PJ or another such "dark" fan.
When I say that one FKFicFest prompt slate stars Reese in every request and the next refuses to mention Reese under any circumstances... "Reese" is a placeholder for other characters, pairings and perspectives, but the situation is wholly real, around and around our small circle. There's vanishingly little agreement.
Yay, hand-matching? ;-)