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Coal All The Way

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Tell us!

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*

Very happy for you, coalie!!!

I'm like 95% sure my recip complained about my fic and called it coal in an earlier thread, so I'm going to pretend this comment is about my fic in an attempt to soothe myself. I'm glad you got such a lovely fic, coalie.

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Totally outs me in this thread, don't even care. Ready this fucking thing and rejoice.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/21813619

It's not gotten many hits or comments, so I guess not many have seen "The Ritual." But for my requests/prompts and my ideas about the characters and story, it's god damn perfection.

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I got a super long gift that seems to be everything I've ever wanted!

Sadly, I've been too busy and haven't had time to even read it yet, let alone comment. Wait for me, author! I'll show you all my love!

I know my recip won't comment on this but a couple of other people did!

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My gifts look amazing (too busy with Christmas to really read yet, but a quick skim + tags suggest all are well written and to my interests), and I've already gotten comments on both fics I wrote. Not from recips, yet, but the comments both happened to compliment the parts of each fic I was most concerned about, so at least I now feel like they aren't objective trash.

By being the first person in the archive to write a pairing my recipient has asked for multiple times in exchanges.

I have the shameful problem of being too exhausted from reading and composing a comment for the beautiful, very long, pornographic fic for my OT3 in an never-before-written-for fandom to get to the task of reading and commenting on the other very long (and seemingly pornographic and hopefully just as beautiful) fic for my rarest rarepair. I may have to just post placeholders by the end of the day, but I write long comments and I really really want these authors to know the entire force of my insane enthusiasm right now.

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I got two gifts I loved, I'm happy with the fic I wrote and it's doing well, and my recip also seems happy! I'm just full of warm fuzzy feelings for yuletide this year.

I wrote a loooong fic and the recip left me a wonderful series of per-chapter comments telling me what they loved about it. I'm so delighted! And relieved!

Pre-reveals I did some mild shaking and saw there was a fic in one of my fandoms that was tagged super RTMI, and THAT IS MY FIC. It's longfic for a ship I love based around my absolute number one favourite trope!!! With great characterisation! And worldbuilding! And actual friendship with the canon love interest who I also love!

Was I mildly disappointed when I realised I almost certainly wasn't getting treats? Sure. Is there room in my heart for disappointment when it's filled with so much squee? NOPE THERE IS NOT, ONLY JOY EXISTS HERE :D

I got multiple gifts, and they are excellent. Each of my recipients has already left a comment. Life is good!

i have a fic i enjoyed and my treat recip wrote a huge, gushing comment for me! i also have three comments on my assigned fic, none from the recip yet but i'm not worried about it bc there are a thousand other things they could be swamped with today.

i'm super pleased!

My longfic gift is great and it's getting a two-parter comment!

One of my stories has an amazing ratio and lots of comments. It's not the one I'd have picked out as a winner, but I'll take it!

I got a gorgeous gift AND a treat in the same beloved teeny fandom that previously had no fic, and my recip loved what I wrote them! <3

I felt a little disappointed that I didn't manage to write any treats this year, but then I got two excellent gifts and my recip loved my fic so everything is golden and I totally won.

MY RECIP WHO IS A SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT IN THE CANON THAT I JUST RANDOMLY PICKED UP AND WAS TERRIFIED OF WRITING SAID I NAILED MY FIC

SCREAMS

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I received ~15k words of absolutely amazing ensemble fic that fits canon perfectly, sells the ship with gusto, and gives all my faves a chance to shine.

I wrote ~15k words of complicated, plotty canon-tone politics and canon ship and the recipient just left me the kind of long, flaily, quote-y comment we all dream of.

There are a combined half-dozen fics in two of my favorite fandoms that aren't for me but that I am desperately eager to read and a lot more in other fandoms that I haven't even had a chance to check out yet.

And I got a gorgeous art treat!

(Now if I can just get my kid off my computer so I can go back to reading and commenting... can't exactly give ~15k the comment it deserves from your phone, you know?)

My gift was a disappointment but I unexpectedly found a story that made me almost as happy as if it had been a gift for me. It's not even the kind of story or ship I'd usually read but, coalies, it was so good!!! I spent a couple of hours today glued to my screen reading it and it essentially saved this Yuletide for me.

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My assigned recip just left me the most AMAZING multi-part comment, holy fuck. ;-; BEST YULETIDE EVER

I loved this fic so much it took me ... a significant amount of time to write a comment. I have rarely used up all the comment box space but did here and had to break it up. This week was really hard, but this fic was so good.

I also got good fic for a canon I didn't think anyone would end up writing for and that was a delight.

I received a lovely fix-it fic that featured one of the ships of my heart.

I managed to finish editing my fic by xmas eve and I am so proud of myself. It really looked like it wasnt going to happen.

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