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Any blatant coal out there? Who should we feel bad for? Some quick and enterprising coalies might know their fandoms and be able to squeeze out something nice but short before the Madness collection closes in about 7 hours.

Could this be a year with no blatant coal?

All the wank here sure seems to be about each other's comments. No disasters in the collection worth rubbernecking at, so coalies end up manufacturing their own to fill the void.

https://archiveofourown.org/collections/yuletide2019/works/21838897 Badly written Exorcist fic. Badfic coal?

One of the Strange & Norrell fics is apparently sweet but tone-deaf in that it jokes about Stephen being a servant in the fairy kingdom when the whole point is that he was sent there to be free of white supremacy? Inadvertent/bad taste in the mouth coal?

That's all the wank I've seen this far.

Oh. Aww. Second person, that page of Tumblr tags, and OOC characterization and dialogue. Bonus unrequested daddy kink pops up at the end.

The recip was gracious and sweet, and they've got a non-recip comment which is more than a lot of people have. Something for everybody, I guess.

I've read this story despite the eye-searing formatting, and what's bad about it is bad, BUT it started out perfectly fine, and I think at that point the author actually cared about conveying some emotion and angst. It's frustrating to watch it go off the rails when it didn't have to.

There are a few lines of shitty dialogue that are so OOC I think the writer has a tin ear for it, but aside from that and the slip into second person, it could have been solidly . . . okay. Nobody would have brought it up on coal.

That A/N at the top about Tomas being confused and it made them confused so the story turned out sloppy, that's what irritates far more than the story, and more than the story the sloppiness is something worth bitching about. There are so many mistakes and oddities, and they couldn't even take the time to format it properly. If they'd taken just a little more care with it (and had somebody read it who knows the fandom and would have scratched out Tomas' lines like "can I blow you" and "is that a challenge daddy?" that seemed to come out of fucking nowhere, like a daddy fic punched this one and left DNA behind), it would have been a story like so many others in Yuletide and not stood out for bad reasons at all.

I think they dashed it off, called it done, and made the A/N as an excuse not to have to do better.

I dunno...I thought some of the things mentioned have been blatant coal, like the het fic for a f/f request. It's still early too.

CYRT will concede that, yeah, there's no excuse for that one.

/based on meme-osmosed details, has not read the fic

I hope the person who got a part 2 in a series where part 1 wasn't even written gets something nice. Apparently that was their only gift. Though there's no link to the story, so maybe it was alright in the end?

I tried, but was never able to figure out who this was for.

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