I probably shouldn't, but I will.

Let me give you a scenario: in my office, when someone wants to order out for lunch, they usually don't involve the entire office, because that's fifteen people who, quite frankly, can never make up their minds. So they go to a handful of people whom they know share their same tastes in food and ask them if they want to order. Now instead of having fifteen people and their indecisive food orders to mess with, there are only, say, three. No hassels with paying, no bitching over ordering from the wrong Chinese place. It's simple. And easy. Yes, someone else in the office might discover later that these three people ordered lunch without them and sadface over it, but so what? They can order lunch with them the next day. Or not. The point is, everything in the end was simple and people were happy.

*waves* Hi. I was in a small Secret Santa fic exchange with some friends recently. It was fun, it was simple, and we were happy. We weren't trying to be elist snobs by any means. No, I'm not one of the mods, and no, I didn't have any say over who participated, but I do know that some fucking amazing fic came out of the whole thing and I got to know some people whom I'd never met before and probably wouldn't have otherwise.

And that's all that should really matter! Good fic was produced and friendships were formed. Isn't this the point of fandom in general? I hate that people seem to think there's something nefarious afoot just because it took place in a locked community. We're not trying out to exclude anyone! If that were the case, none of the fic written for this exchange would've been posted publicly, and I would be running around bragging about how adellyna wrote 22,000 words of Pete/Patrick underage porn that NONE OF YOU WILL BE ABLE TO READ EVAR HAHAHA *EV0L LAUGH*. But that did not happen, and Mandi's porn is available for the masses to love and cherish, because, dude, sixteen-year-old grumpy imperfect Patrick NEEDS to be shared, okay?

We're not out to exclude people; it's just that sometimes ordering lunch with whole office can be a lot of freaking stress.

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O___O

I'M NOT EVEN REALLY SURE HOW TO HANDLE THIS.

Ummm, on an unrelated note, the sequel to National Treasure is ridonk but fun, and oh my god, the guy who plays Riley needs to DO ME KNOW, PLZ.