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Re: Your Yuletide So Far

[(Anonymous)]

Cyrt

Thanks! You're right, I only skimmed the fic but can't see any obvious problems when compared with the letter. I don't know the fandom though so it's possible it's hugely OOC and I just can't tell!

It's got a bit more to the comment than TFWFM and given that they only use short comments anyway it could be that they were just feeling down when they commented. It's hard to be 100% sure but I certainly wouldn't be thrilled to get this comment. I'm happy for the writer that they got a really great comment underneath though!

Re: Your Yuletide So Far

[(Anonymous)]

NC I have the book in my to-read pile and I just flipped through it for voice. I’m not detecting any problems whatsoever? Idk the recipient’s other comments are barely more tepid than this one.

Re: Your Yuletide So Far

[(Anonymous)]

CYRT - I do know the fandom, and I would have been happy to get this! The characters are IC, the smut is brief but nice, and there are touches of worldbuilding (an item from both the recip's likes and mine.) That's part of why I linked it - it's a well-meant, perfectly good fic with a recip who clearly wasn't feeling it for whatever reason.

I mean, for a much more gracious response to a much worse fic:
https://archiveofourown.org/collections/yuletide2019/works/21810610

Re: Your Yuletide So Far

[(Anonymous)]

neither recip had to comment at all. policing who went above and beyond on a subjective thing like fic quality is very CoN.

we have had two wanks this year over technically perfect but not what you want = coal vs technically mediocre/bad but has the soul of everything you love = coal. just because you think one is better than the other doesn’t mean the recips did.

besides they said thanks. take people at their word and move on.

Re: Your Yuletide So Far

[(Anonymous)]

CYRT - The CIRT was interested in examples. I linked some. I'm not policing anything, but as neurotic as people here can be about only writing for good commenters, noting the caliber of the comments seems perfectly reasonable to me.

Re: Your Yuletide So Far

[(Anonymous)]

+1, perfectly reasonable

Re: Your Yuletide So Far

[(Anonymous)]

they asked for a “thank you for writing for me” comment, which neither of these comments is. the short one is perfectly fine/average and not what the op/subsequent coalie were asking for at all. it seems like you just wanted an excuse to shame a recip that didn’t puff up a fic like another completely different person did.

good commenter threads dont go “yeah x is great, especially when compared to [link to short comment]”.

Re: Your Yuletide So Far

[(Anonymous)]

There was an entire second link here, coalie. Did you check it? The second fic has another comment that may not be literally "thank you for writing for me" but is likewise short and sounds very "it's the thought that counts." That was the gracious comment I was talking about. I couldn't have been as sweet as kultiras if I got a fic like the Pantene fic.