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

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.

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.

Dear author- I love this ship to bits. I was ridiculously excited to get fic for it, and fully prepared to lower my expectations if necessary. And having read this fic (skimmed over half of it, to be honest), it looks like the expectations should have been lower. It's coal, author. I'm sorry for both of us.

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

Sorry, recip ;_; I tried?

I'm sorry for the coal that a neural network could probably have done better. It technically hits all the points in your letter so maybe you'll like it anyway?

Dear Author,

I want to be your best friend. I want to marry you. I want to follow you around with hearts in my eyes and have long conversations about your favorite books. I am so grateful you wrote this for me, I never thought I'd get it. It's a stunning story and I adore you and everything you choose to be.

I promise I'll be less weird in my comment. Coal, I'm not even finished the fic and I've lost my mind.

Love,
A Coalie Who Is Crying From Joy and Possibly Also Bailey's.

Ahhh, shit, definitely bailey's.... imma repost this in the right thread now....

Dear Author,

I want to be your best friend. I want to marry you. I want to follow you around with hearts in my eyes and have long conversations about your favorite books. I am so grateful you wrote this for me, I never thought I'd get it. It's a stunning story and I adore you and everything you choose to be.

I promise I'll be less weird in my comment. Coal, I'm not even finished the fic and I've lost my mind.

Love,
A Coalie Who Is Crying From Joy and Possibly Also Bailey's.

TELL US MORE

Recip - someone treating you had a similar idea to me, and I hope you enjoy both fics! I'm going to enjoy that mine is just a little bit better.

Author - you hit it out of the park, I already love this.

coalie ilu and i hope you and your author have a wonderful life together

Dear Author,

You appear to have consistently replaced one character's name with the name of her dead mom. I should probably be irritated, but honestly, I just kind of want to read that AU now.

xox,
Your Recip

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

Let your freak flag fly, friendo

Same hat, coalie. (Except I didn't skim it, I read every word of it. Some of it were excellent, or would have been, if the author had actually spent some time to build a proper story around them.)

I'm sorry, coalie, I don't mean to stress you out. If you didn't devote half the fic to a totally random, unrelated conversation with an OC, you are not my author.

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' ;)

It's for an unwrangled novel and you can be sure I will be gushing about it in this thread later, when it won't out me as the coalie that got hammered on coffee and Irish cream while finishing the edits to her Yuletide fic.

Recip #1: Bye forever!

Recip #2: Sorry I couldn’t make the porn work

Assigned author: Sorry our ids didn’t mesh, hope you had an alright time anyway.

Treaters: 😍😍😍😍😍

Dear Author: That was awesome and mind-bending almost to the point of being nauseating and how the FUCK do you write like that?

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

As long as your requested characters, not really.

Add Outsider POVs to your DNWs.

as long as it has*

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