The Coalies & Other Stories

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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!

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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 think way too many people take YT way too seriously.

I also find the mods’ hairsplitting about fandoms and eligibility really fucking irritating. I requested an RPF fandom one year that contained a well-known group of people as the characters and used the term that has been in the cultural lexicon for decades to refer to this group. There is a central group and then a couple of satellite groups, but all are considered part of this group.

AnyWay, one mod (I think it was Jenn) spent DAYS arguing with me over who she thought was eligible to be included to be included in the RPF group. Like, fucking hell, maybe listen to the people in the fucking fandom who actually know what they’re talking about, rather than doing 30 seconds of reading on Wikipedia and then assuming you’re the expert?! Jesus. But she was so obstinate about it, I just gave up. I’d had a shit year and just wanted to enjoy some fanfic. I didn’t have the energy to argue about it.

We’re not curing cancer here, everyone. We’re writing and reading fanfic. Fuck!

Re: Unpopular Yuletide Opinions

[(Anonymous)]

I agree that the Yuletide mods take things WAY too seriously. And I suppose a certain amount of strictness is necessary in an exchange that big if you actually want to keep it a small fandom exchange, but they overdo it by far. The hairsplitting about RPF, the convoluted evidence posts for fandoms that were accepted repeatedly year after year (and yet every year you have to post the same damn explanation that yes, your sub-fandom is still separate from this related fandom, for the exact same reasons I told you last year), the occasional pettiness about rejecting things ... It's all so unnecessarily complicated and absolutely nobody benefits from it, except, I guess, the mods who get off on complicated rules lawyering.

Re: Unpopular Yuletide Opinions

[(Anonymous)]

ITA with every single point you make, coalie. *loud applause*

I'd love to know if it's all of the mod team, or just part of it, who "get off on [Yuletide's] complicated rules lawyering" (as you have so beautifully put it).

Re: Unpopular Yuletide Opinions

[(Anonymous)]

Omg +1 million on everything you said, Coalie!

I’ve had a similar experience with the mods over both an RPF fandom and a manga fandom. It was so painful, and should have been incredibly simple.

Re: Unpopular Yuletide Opinions

[(Anonymous)]

People take everything around Christmas way too seriously. This is how we get histrionics about how getting badfic in YT "ruined my Christmas!!" Yeah, well, you don't live in a Hallmark movie, dial back your expectations.