This is Yuletide, everybody make a scene

[coalcube]

I am the sock with the tear-away face

Low-effort with your gift and gone without a trace

I am the "who" when you call, "Who does an exchange without acknowledging their gift?"
I am the wanker blowing through your fics comments
I am the coalie dragging your letter at night
Filling your exchange to the brim with fright!

This is Coaltide!

Nominations: Tuesday 22 September to Thursday 1 October

Sign-ups: Friday 16 October to Monday 26 October

Assignments out: between 26 & 28 October

Default deadline: Friday 11 December

Assignment Deadline: Friday 18 December

Yuletide Discord for Hippos. Google Group for PHs. F_F wiki for history.

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TAGSET

[(Anonymous)]

https://archiveofourown.org/tag_sets/4795

!!!!!

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[(Anonymous)]

EXCITEMENT!!!!

Re: TAGSET

[(Anonymous)]

UGH

Someone messed up my character noms and now I can't request any >:(

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[(Anonymous)]

On the other hand, sign of interest in your fandom?

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[(Anonymous)]

Same.

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[(Anonymous)]

Same. And more than one person too! Zero reports for the spreadsheet.

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[(Anonymous)]

My socks & I never do the spreadsheet because I don’t want people to suspect I come to memes, but I do lurk it towards the end of noms so I can do last minute additions to fandoms I forgot about.

Re: TAGSET

[(Anonymous)]

Well, that one Coalie's LGBT Monarchs RPF definitely got rejected - and not renamed - though all three of the dudes are there under different RPF fandoms. Might be worth a challenge of the 'why are my characters spread out over these other fandoms? And why is Anne missing?' sort.

Otherwise, Swallows and Amazons is an odd lot this year. And Brian is missing from The Breakfast Club...

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[(Anonymous)]

(that coalie)

After how much work it took for that one person to get Catherine of Valois put back in their Plantagenets nom, I'm not even gonna TRY to argue that my gay monarchs should be together. They aren't even close to being contemporaneous, lmao.

Next time I will make an evidence post and ask the mods if there's any category name/framing that would be acceptable to get them together. But ultimately I may just nom them for different exchanges that aren't as strict.

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[(Anonymous)]

cyrt

I mainly think a challenge would be worthwhile because I suspect they rejected it while basically thinking 'everybody should know that this wouldn't get accepted after last year' and imo that's some bullshit thinking on their part! If they can keep querying about which of the fucking seven dwarves some nominator wants instead of all of them, they can work from the assumption that somebody nominating under a not obviously banned RPF fandom name is doing so in good faith and ask if there's an alternate fandom name/some more acceptable way of expressing the way the characters are linked! Like, the tagset may be vast, and a shit-ton of work to compile, but if the characters are obviously eligible in their own right they shouldn't get tossed out of hand. Not everybody does Yuletide every year and/or follows every wrinkle of every rules discussion avidly, and that shouldn't be a barrier to entry!

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[(Anonymous)]

NC, and, it didn't take a lot of work? The mods made a decision (based on two different people, at least, apparently, nominating things under "Plantagenet RPF" in different centuries), the Catherine nominator complained, the mods agreed to rearrange their categories. And if the nominator had made an evidence post in the first place this might have been completely bypassed.

The lesson I take from this (and my own similar experience this year) is to make evidence posts for my weird RPF groupings so as to hopefully avoid even this much work (which was really not much).

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[(Anonymous)]

Brian is missing from The Breakfast Club

LOL, really?

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[(Anonymous)]

Yep! The other four (i.e. the canon het*) are there, but not poor Brian. Not that people wanting Bender/Brian couldn't get around that by just requesting Bender and saying in optional details - after giving some solo prompts for Bender - that also they ship him with Brian if their writer is so inclined.

*I could be wrong and this could be somebody who wants Andrew/Bender and Allison/Claire, but 'wants canon het' is what it looks like without additional info!

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[(Anonymous)]

The Woman in White wasn't nommed :( I really wanted to treat for that.

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[(Anonymous)]

EXCITEMENT!

But also, jfc, why is the tagset always such an inconsistent mess? Is it just that Jenn can't help herself and has to edit tags where she thinks she knows best when she really doesn't?

As if the Deadly Seriousness some of the mods seem to apply to the nominations and eligibility isn't bad enough.

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[(Anonymous)]

Huh? Why Jenn?

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[(Anonymous)]

Pretty sure someone's got a grudge against her, since OTT IT Skills coalie also had shit to say about Jenn in this specific regard.

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[(Anonymous)]

Like AO3's regular tags a shining beacon of order and consistency.

Between that, 1700+ accounts submitting nominations, and idk how many tag mods each doing their own process, inconsistency seems pretty expected imo.

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[(Anonymous)]

late to the party, but: Crazy Rich Asians is in without Rachel, wtf.

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[(Anonymous)]

This is why people should never assume someone else is going to nominate the main character.

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[(Anonymous)]

Haha, I got too shy to nominate my niche (but still very much public figures!) RPF pairing, flash forward to now, and there's a Youtuber with under 2,000 followers in here. I'm pretty sure about half of the sorority girls at my alma mater are similarly "famous."

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[(Anonymous)]

Looking at all the RPF noms, I'm sad I wasn't the weird fan who nommed a nobody person. It would have been extremely weird if I had nominated RPF for an LPer and one of the guys he's co-oped with for the past 8 years, but damn it I really want fic about them. (and I mean, he has 90k+ followers, that's kind of sizable...)

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[(Anonymous)]

I see Podsa fandom snuck in a few non-famous wives in again, too. The things I would nominate if the rules were fake, actually!

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[(Anonymous)]

I am now confused as to why the Archive's TOS would be inherently considered anthropomorfic? It's a written document, just like many other things nominated for Yuletide, and I can 100% see prompting for it just like you would for, like, oh, anything else involving implied characters/scenarios. Honestly, the anthropomorfic option sounds more boring to me!

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[(Anonymous)]

What are the characters?