It was the Coal of Times

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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)

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Comments

Tenderfoot Tuesday

[(Anonymous)]

Seriously, though, what’s a hippo?

Re: Tenderfoot Tuesday

[(Anonymous)]

someone who acts as go-between when you're trying to find a beta reader without giving away your name and who you're writing for

Re: Tenderfoot Tuesday

[(Anonymous)]

To clarify: if you want to find a beta for an exchange fic, you PM a hippo (person with the 'hippo' role, name in red) on the Yuletide discord with the details: fandom, story length, rating, any warnings or issues, and the recipient name (so the recip won't end up offering). The hippo will 'dance', i.e. get the attention of the Yuletide channel, and ask for volunteers to PM them. Then the hippo will hook you up.

If nobody volunteers there's a hippo-want-ads channel which people are reminded periodically to check.

There is also a beta spreadsheet which knepveu puts together (info is on the Yuletide collection and DW/LJ comms) which I have personally found to be a better resource for finding beta readers.

Re: Tenderfoot Tuesday

[(Anonymous)]

On the other hand, I'm wondering, what's a tenderfoot?

(Probably not a hobbit nickname for humans.)

Re: Tenderfoot Tuesday

[(Anonymous)]

Old-fashioned slang for "n00b" basically. Dates back to dude ranches in the US west.