The Coalies & Other Stories

[coalcube]

I will not read them in a Canon-Divergent AU.
I will not read them in Third Point-of-View.
Not in a Crossover! Not in Genfic!
Not in Shipfic! You let me be!

I do not like them in Fanart.
I do not like them even in the Fic of My Heart.
I will not read them in fic of my NOTP.
I do not like them with my OTP.
I do not like them here or there.
I do not like them anywhere!
I do not like my DNWs!

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
Collection Opens: Friday 25 December
Author Reveals: Friday 1 January, 2021

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Comments

Re: Unpopular Yuletide Opinions

[(Anonymous)]

I much prefer having requests be hidden until assignments go out.

Partly for the mystery and excitement of seeing what my assignment is and partly because I hate WIP sign-ups.

Re: Unpopular Yuletide Opinions

[(Anonymous)]

+1 I liked it better that way!

Re: Unpopular Yuletide Opinions

[(Anonymous)]

+2

Re: Unpopular Yuletide Opinions

[(Anonymous)]

+3

I don't usually like gambling, but this is one case where I do. Plus it's less stressful for me since I don't feel pressured to watch who signed up for what. (And the WIP sign-ups, of course.)

Re: Unpopular Yuletide Opinions

[(Anonymous)]

+ 0.5

I do like seeing requests early but not having to deal with WIP sign-ups is definitely a plus.

Incomplete sign-ups are the worst, and I never understand what people really get out of it ... like, do they think they are at the hotel pool and if they don't reserve a pool chair at 6 in the morning all the good ones will be gone by the time they finally are ready to swim?

I suppose maybe the idea is to get more eyes early on their sign-ups, and maybe this works for some people? But personally, the moment I see an incomplete sign-up I'm turned off immediately and it's really hard for me to regain any enthusiasm for their sign-up later on, even if I like their fandoms and ships. I just had this happen with a recip in a different exchange - I wouldn't have minded writing for them but staring at their unfinished sign-up for weeks really made me feel less than benevolent towards them by the time they were assigned to me.

Re: Unpopular Yuletide Opinions

[(Anonymous)]

This is nuts. It’s most likely a reminder to themselves to do it, or they work better getting it done in parts. They aren’t trying to personally make your life harder, over invested nonny

Re: Unpopular Yuletide Opinions

[(Anonymous)]

ncyrt

Slightly different, but I have definitely seen people ask when there's still days left to sign up if it's worth bothering to post their letter publicly because ~there are already so many letters posted, how will anyone ever find theirs???

There is a certain amount of cache in signing up early/being one of the first to post letters/etc.

Re: Unpopular Yuletide Opinions

[(Anonymous)]

+4

I wouldn't want every exchange to hide signups, but for Yuletide I like the novelty. I like getting surprised. I think I've only once gotten an assignment whose letter I'd seen before signups closed.

Re: Unpopular Yuletide Opinions

[(Anonymous)]

Me, too. I like that Yuletide has different, weird little differences from other exchanges.

Re: Unpopular Yuletide Opinions

[(Anonymous)]

ME TOO. I hate gaming.