#Anyways i love this kinkmeme and i love you anon prompter

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Whoever wrote the Piarles Dick in a box kinkmeme request, please know you are my favourite person on planet earth.

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Re: These really detailed, oddly specific prompts on the kink meme

Alright, so. I know this isn’t my place because I’m not a mod of the kinkmeme, but this is my blog so I’m going to say it anyway. I’m sure anyone in modern fandom is tired of hearing how “the old days” were, but: if you don’t like my opinion, don’t read it.

This isn’t just about the oddly specific prompts. This is also about the repetitive prompts. This is for all the prompts about Ardyn raping Noctis, about Gladio saving an Ignis in distress, about Prompto being abused. This is for all the “+++++++++++++” that everyone seems to like doing. I’m going to be frank, here:

I don’t think you guys know how a good kink meme functions.

And before I go on let me say what this post is NOT about. It’s NOT about shitting on the mods. They’re doing the best they can, because I know this kinkmeme really exploded after the first few months. I’ve never volunteered or run a kinkmeme, and I cant even imagine how hard it is, especially with all the little arguments that break out.

A good kinkmeme doesn’t function well because of the mods, a good kinkmeme functions well because of the community, aka the fandom. There are a few basic rules that most kinkmemes have, right? Lets go over them.

No duplicate prompts.

One prompt per comment.

Don’t kink-shame.

Don’t take over other anon’s requests.

Got it? Okay, cool.

In my experience, kinkmemes that are wonderful places of smut and self indulgence where we can request all of our deepest desires function well because the fandom self-polices itself. And I DON’T mean going on to someone’s prompt that you don’t like and telling them it’s a shit idea. What I DO mean is that YOU should go look through the pinboard or the previous parts of the kinkmeme and see if your idea has already been prompted. Then YOU, as a member of our wonderful community, should put on your big-girl or big-boy or big-person pants and say “Someone has already prompted this. I don’t need to prompt nearly the same idea, I’ll wait for someone to fill that original prompt.”

Now, if you say to yourself “But I want Prompto to be raped THREE times in my prompt, this original prompt only has it happening ONCE!” Okay. Well. I guess it’s a free world and all but I think maybe you should reexamine your priorities a little.

But heck, you know what? I’m not here to kinkshame you. You want Prompto to be gangraped by every damn character in the game? Go right ahead, go right ahead and prompt that and tell the authoranon all about how you want Ravus to fuck his face and Noct to whip him and Gladio to wreck his ass. Go ahead and see what happens.

Odds are, if you prompt something that is wildly specific and has all these specific scenes and little things that you just ~have to have~ because it’s ~your prompt and you’re so original~, it’s not going to be filled. And let me tell you why.

A kinkmeme needs 2 parts of the fandom to function, right? The people that prompt and the people that fill. Obviously people can do both, but I’m just going to refer to them as two groups for right now. I have no idea who you anons are that are requesting all these long, specific prompts that have similar ideas to many prompts before. I don’t know if you’ve ever filled anything or know what it’s like, but let me tell you my perspective.

Kinkmemes are the perfect place to get all your deepest desires turned magically into fanfic, but they’re also a wonderful place to foster your own creativity as a writer and learn to challenge yourself. Seeing a prompt like “Noctis/Prompto, getting hit with confusion” (short, to the point) makes my imagination run wild. Think of all the possibilities! Are Noct and Prom together when it starts, or will they get together during the fic? I could include so many situations, action scenes, conversation, and how will it end? Oh boy I love writing hurt/comfort, so this will be so much fun!

Seeing a prompt like that details every little bit of Noctis and Prompto’s relationship and exactly where they are in the timeline of the game and exactly where and by what monster they get hit with the status effect and how Gladio and Ignis come swooping in to their rescue and everything they do to make Noct and Prom get better and and and—

Do you see my point?

There’s no room for creativity there. There’s no room for having fun writing. Fillers don’t come fill your prompts and deepest desires out of the goodness of their hearts. They fill them because your prompt resonates with them in some way and inspires them. Filling a prompt like the one above would be, frankly, a huge chore. I’d have to keep checking back to see if I’m including every little detail that the prompter wanted and jeez, I can’t even imagine writing like that.

What a funny coincidence that all those super specific prompts on the kinkmeme never get filled? Who woulda thunk.

Giving a writer room to be creative is so important my friends. That’s what I mean when I say I don’t think you understand how kinkmemes work. I guess all those people with the very specific prompts are looking for a super long fic that just pushes all their buttons and sends them into fandom euphoria? I don’t know, I really don’t know what you’re expecting. Again, a filler isn’t going to fill something if they’re not having fun with it (or getting paid).

I know you all want these super long awesome fills, but understand that they are few and far between for a reason. In my opinion, anything over 10k words requires a big time commitment and a lot of planning. And all for a prompt that wasn’t even the writer’s own idea in the first place. It’s a big challenge and test of commitment.

But those super fills can still happen! It’s all luck, luck and knowing how to request a good prompt. Take it from me, who wrote a 50k word fill that was inspired by 2 sentence prompt. (different fandom, not FFXV) It can happen, friends. But you’ve got to give a filler room to be creative and have fun.