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

Re: Well, you sound like a bundle of issues that I'm glad I don't have

[(Anonymous)]

They don't seem crazy to me, just someone who got their Yuletide ruined in an awful way last year and in a fit of emotion & bad judgment vented too much in this year's letter. Grief combined with getting unrequested cancer fic can easily push someone to act less calm and rational about it.

Re: Well, you sound like a bundle of issues that I'm glad I don't have

[(Anonymous)]

+1, I don't think there's anything wrong with the venting in the beginning of the letter and I don't think they're a shitty person at all. But I did lol at that long list of DNWs and then "I like things too! (lists four very generic things)"

I hope they get a feel-good fic out of their Yuletide to make up for last year.

Re: Well, you sound like a bundle of issues that I'm glad I don't have

[(Anonymous)]

Admittedly projecting like an Imax, but I wonder if their letter is the result of sucking it up last year, saying 'thanks for writing for me', going to mods and getting a shitty response OR choosing not to go to mods, and coming back to Yuletide and thinking "fuck it, I did not get closure on this and I'm still really mad."

I think the letter could be toned down, but if that happened to me, I know I'd still be mad, and I don't know how gracious I'd be.

Re: Well, you sound like a bundle of issues that I'm glad I don't have

[(Anonymous)]

Hard same. If I were in their position, and if I'd had a shit year on top of it, I'd most likely want to over-explain it and come off as frustrated or over emotional in my letter. I've done that plenty of times in non-YT situations! It happens. We're human.