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coalie ([personal profile] coalcube) wrote in [community profile] coaltide2019-11-05 04:27 am
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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.
 

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

(Anonymous) 2019-11-06 01:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Exactly! This also struck me when looking at their long DNW list.

This reads to me like someone who had a fairly generic DNW list in the past, got unexpected cancer fic, and now is trying to cover every DNW that any crazy writer could think of. That's why their letter focuses more on the DNW than the wants.

I saw this more as "damn, they're trying to protect themselves", not as "man, they're crazy."

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

(Anonymous) 2019-11-06 01:22 pm (UTC)(link)
DA

This is precisely why my DNW list is long too. Back in the day under a different name and in a differnt exchange, I got a fic with a thing I didn't think to DNW because it didn't occur to me that someone would write it unrequested. I'm covering all my bases now.