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Dear Author/Dear Recip

[(Anonymous)]

What would you say, if you could be totally honest?

Re: Dear Author/Dear Recip

[(Anonymous)]

Recip # 1 - Girl, I don’t know what to tell you except next time add DNWs.

Recip # 2 - I see you’ve gotten other gifts but mine seems the most fun and well-thought out. I know you can’t say it’s your favorite but really it should be.

New Fandoms Boost

[(Anonymous)]

If you see a work in a fandom that isn't listed on the fandoms page, say the fandom here and link the work to make it easier for coalies to find it.

Re: New Fandoms Boost

[(Anonymous)]

Reposting here, because of the new post happening right after I posted earlier: three fics in The Author of the Acacia Seeds - Ursula K. LeGuin, which doesn't appear to be wrangled yet.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/21832744
https://archiveofourown.org/works/21811357
https://archiveofourown.org/works/21951952

[(Anonymous)]

Given how long it took me to get my full letter up after the assignments went out, my writer did a really impressive job!

Comment Clinic

[(Anonymous)]

Afraid that your comment will be taken the wrong way? Angsting over how to craft the perfect comment, either to express your deeply held squee or to obey the Cult of Nice without wasting too much energy on the coal you just opened?

Post in this thread and let us commiserate / 'help' ;)

Re: Comment Clinic

[(Anonymous)]

How to comment when you want to be known as an amazing commenter but you didn't really like the fic and know you might get matched with that author again?

Is this coal?

[(Anonymous)]

...if your gift fic is written from the POV of a non-requested, non-eligible character?

Re: Is this coal?

[(Anonymous)]

As long as your requested characters, not really.

Add Outsider POVs to your DNWs.

Recs

[(Anonymous)]

Discover any diamonds yet?

Re: Recs

[(Anonymous)]

Someone wrote a firelizard clutch hatching like it was a dragon Hatching with canon characters and everything and it was the best day ever: https://archiveofourown.org/works/21895954

[(Anonymous)]

my treat recipient left me such a nice comment i am bawling. i don't have the brains to comment yet, but my fic is so good, and for the fandom i did NOT expect to get gifted in.

yuletide is good.

Disappointments

[(Anonymous)]

Read a fic you thought you were going to like, and it didn't live up to your expectations? Complain here!

Re: Disappointments

[(Anonymous)]

I was REALLY excited for this one fic and then it was "lol mental illness" time, and this crazy coalie's feelings were hurt. (At least it wasn't my gift.)

Petty complaints/annoyances

[(Anonymous)]

Get it off your chest.

Re: Petty complaints/annoyances

[(Anonymous)]

Dear author of the Frontier Wolf fic,

You've confused "summary" with "author's note". Please cut the last three paragraphs and put them where they belong.

Sincerely,
A coalie who's wondering whether I should take this as a warning sign and just skip the fic

Help with a treat

[(Anonymous)]

Should I:

1) Finish this treat (even if it sucks)?
2) Sleep, then finish this treat (even if it sucks)?
3) Admit it sucks and not post a crappy treat?
4) Travel back in time a week and not spend so much time on _coal?
5) Get off _coal now and write?
6) Other? ...

Re: Help with a treat

[(Anonymous)]

Sleep now, make other decisions later.

How did you win Yuletide?

[(Anonymous)]

Tell us!

Re: How did you win Yuletide?

[(Anonymous)]

I hope my author isn't an impatient one who's been fretting since the reveal (was 3am my time) waiting for me to reply, because I've just read my gift, and I'm so absolutely fucking blown away by it they're going to have to wait a little bit longer to get my comment. I have to reread it slowly a couple more times just for the joy of it and to let everything sink in, then write my comment carefully to be sure they know how much I love what they did. It's a thing of fucking beauty, coalies, and when I'm done I'm going to rec it here and not even care that it outs me. *wipes eyes with dishtowel*

Three Truths, One Lie

[(Anonymous)]

Post links to three fics you didn't write or receive and one you did, and coal will give their honest opinions of them.

Re: Three Truths, One Lie

[(Anonymous)]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/21849004

https://archiveofourown.org/works/21902821

https://archiveofourown.org/works/21845146

[(Anonymous)]

I couldn't get this treat done in time for the main collection. Does Madness get enough eyes to make it worth it to try and finish it in time for that, or should I take my time and post it outside the exchange whenever it's perfect?

[(Anonymous)]

My feedback experience from Madness is the same as the main collection, so I'd say go for it.

Recs

[(Anonymous)]

What do you like?

Re: Recs - Fics to Get You Into a Canon

[(Anonymous)]

What fics are a great teaser to get people into the canon?

Advice needed

[(Anonymous)]

Last night in a last-minute panic I uploaded the wrong version of a very last-minute treat. I had a first draft, and a draft where I'd fixed the mixed-up names, fleshed out a couple of parts, and formatted properly. That's not the one that got posted.

But right after posting, I always scan to be sure. And in a frustrated double panic, I fixed the errors I saw in that draft, not even realizing what I'd done (I'd had a little wine, ngl), and fixed the misnaming and formatting.

This morning, a quick scan made it obvious what had happened, so I replaced that mess with the final version I had (which still had a few errors I fixed after upload, tbh).

It's obscure and was unwrangled overnight, and has only a couple of hits.

Would you just leave it and not worry about it, maybe anon message the recip to say if you read that early or have the tab open, please refresh the page and try to forget the early bungle, or would you yank it and post it to Madness instead?

The recip hasn't commented on any of their stories yet, and I'm hoping with all my heart they have been to busy to even scan it. Don't drink and upload, kids.

Re: Advice needed

[(Anonymous)]

If it's easy to do I'd shoot a quick message to the recip, but I wouldn't stress about it too much.

Linking to a user on AO3

[(Anonymous)]

How do you achieve the link that has the AO3 logo next to the name when linking in notes? I can do a regular html link, but would prefer to do that kind and am clueless. Thanks!

Re: Linking to a user on AO3

[(Anonymous)]

<user name=Username site=ao3>

Just an FYI

[(Anonymous)]

There's some badly wrangled stories in both Original and Object that aren't getting much love. I'd question the quality of the stories, but the lack of hits make me think that it's just a case of no one looking there.

Re: Just an FYI

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know what either of those things are. Are they fandoms? Do you want to link us, or?

[(Anonymous)]

“Cappuccino… espresso… latte…” slurred another of the swimmers.

“An’ a box o’ Timbits to go…” added a third.

HAS TIMMIES STARTED SELLING ESPRESSO?

[(Anonymous)]

LOL RONG MEME.

Wank Bank

[(Anonymous)]

There are no post-reveal pinch hits, I see. I guess there's no DNW wank or placeholders that slipped through the cracks yet.

What's out there simmering under the surface, coalies? Run across anything that seems headed for trouble?

DISH

Re: Wank Bank

[(Anonymous)]

DISH?

[(Anonymous)]

Is it a faux pas to write a fic and include in an endnote that you're hoping to write more? Isn't that basically admitting that your fic is unfinished?

[(Anonymous)]

It's a faux-pas if you're like, "I plan to write a more fleshed out version of this later!" or anything that implies the author only got this version because you ran out of time.

It's probably okay if you just talk about wanting to turn this into a series building on the premise if it's some kind of AU or if you're hoping to write a sequel or something.

[(Anonymous)]

butts are revealed!

[(Anonymous)]

pats your butt

All of the issuefic

[(Anonymous)]

My favourite paragraph thus far:

"Mufasa can’t hide from the injustice that is woven tightly through the America that they live in, that oppresses his brothers and sisters, that will strangle the bright light of the next generation if it grows unchecked. His people deserve better. His son deserves better."

Re: All of the issuefic

[(Anonymous)]

Is this... is this a Lion King fic?

Contact mods or no?

[(Anonymous)]

So I'm a bit torn, coalies. On the one hand, I enjoy my fic--it's for a fandom I've been asking for for years now, and while it's short, the characterization is aces, and it doesn't hit any DNWs. My trouble is that it's only about one character, while I requested TWO characters.
The fic is almost entirely about Character A, while Character B barely has a walk-on cameo--they don't even have any dialogue!

So, does anyone have any idea how strict the current mods are in the interpretation of the "the fic has to involve all the characters your recip asked for" portion of the rules? I'm a little reluctant to complain about a fic I otherwise enjoyed--I know the mods work hard, and will probably be prioritizing other things--but I admit that I'm a bit miffed that this fic doesn't really meet what I think of as the spirit of the rules.

Re: Contact mods or no?

[(Anonymous)]

Oh my god you're so whiny. You liked the fic, so enjoy it.

Disappearing fic

[(Anonymous)]

I had two gifts in the main Yuletide collection last night when I went to bed before the archive opened, and I shook the presents and was super excited for both, and then when I woke up only one of them was in the archive, lmao.

idk what happened but if you got worried about me liking it or something TRUST ME, AUTHOR, I WILL! if you can, come back! post it in madness! it would be the only fic for this pairing, this yuletide, and I'd love to read it!

Re: Disappearing fic

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe they felt it needed more work and it will turn up in Madness or as a NYR.

[(Anonymous)]

If you post a chaptered work, does each new chapter count as a separate hit? Mostly just looking for an excuse as to why my hits : kudos ratio is so messed up.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, unless the person from the same IP clicks on the new chapter without someone else having clicked on it first.