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It was the Coal of Times

It was the best of assignments, it was the worst of assignments, it was the age of gaming your offers, it was the age of forgetting to remove that one fandom from your offers, it was the epoch of treat writing, it was the epoch of apocapinch-hits, it was the season of fics of your dreams, it was the season of explicit DNW spitefic, it was the spring of hope that the anon in the comment above is writing for you, it was the winter of ars_belli is your author.

Prompts revealed and Madness opens: Approx 9 November
Default deadline: 11 December, 9am UTC
Assignment deadline: 18 December, 9am UTC
Main Collection Reveals: 25 December (time tba)

Yuletide Discord for Hippos. Google Group for PHs. Fail_fandom wiki for wank history.
 

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That feeling...

(Anonymous) 2019-11-05 01:18 pm (UTC)(link)
When your recip is a very good writer and the intimidation creeps up on you...

Re: That feeling...

(Anonymous) 2019-11-05 01:22 pm (UTC)(link)
I’m having the same feeling. I matched with someone who has written a hundreds of fics and has like 200 gift fics on their ao3 and I already know I’m not going to live up to that

Re: That feeling...

(Anonymous) 2019-11-05 01:33 pm (UTC)(link)
That doesn't necessarily say anything about the quality of their writing.

I have almost 300 fics in my profiles, and lots of gifts, but only because I've had the same fandom identity since the dinosaurs went extinct. It shouldn't be intimidating (unless 'oh man, they're ANCIENT' is intimidating to you, I guess :D).

Re: That feeling...

(Anonymous) 2019-11-05 01:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, same. I always thought this was a bit silly when other people talked about it before. Was not prepared for the intensity of my, "No, no, I can't write for them, I'm nobody!" when I saw my recip's name this morning.

Re: That feeling...

(Anonymous) 2019-11-05 05:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, exactly this. This is the first year I've matched to someone I know and it's quietly terrifying.

(On the plus side, their prompt is AWESOME and pretty much exactly what I was hoping for when I offered those characters to begin with.)

Re: That feeling...

(Anonymous) 2019-11-05 01:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah this. Not a lot of fic but one of them won Yuletide. At least, our ids match?

Re: That feeling...

(Anonymous) 2019-11-05 02:02 pm (UTC)(link)
People who are good writers also like getting gifts for Yuletide!

Would it help to go look through their comments on some of their earlier gifts? I find that sometimes helps me. Seeing someone leave an enthusiastic comment on something with bad SPAG or whatever because it's about the ship/character/fandom they love always reminds me that we're here for stories about things we love. Your gift doesn't have to be perfect. It just has to be about the things they love.

Re: That feeling...

(Anonymous) 2019-11-05 03:10 pm (UTC)(link)
My recip is an amazing writer and wrote me something I loved last year. Which is why when I saw their letter I offered the fandom we had in common - I didn't game for it - but now I have to live up to my vague ideas of "something so awesome to properly reward them for that great gift!"

Re: That feeling...

(Anonymous) 2019-11-05 04:17 pm (UTC)(link)
I had this one year, when my recip was a close friend, but on the other hand that friend is the best fic writer I know so it was also intimidating, lol.
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