The Coalies Are Back In Town

[coalcube]

Friday night they'll be dressed to kill
Down at Coaltide Bar'n'Grill
The receipts will flow and wank will spill
And if the coalies wanna fight, you better let 'em
That jukebox in the corner blastin' out my favorite song
The nights are getting longer, it won't be long
Won't be long 'til Yuletide comes
Now that the coalies are here again

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Default deadline: Sat 11 Dec
Assignment deadline: Sat 18 Dec
Reveals: Sat 25 Dec

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[(Anonymous)]

I think it's more creepy than anything else.

[(Anonymous)]

CYRT I didn't perceive this as shaming. We're all coalies, after all. And it's not like I actively pretend I don't go here, I'm just not very active in namespace and it doesn't come up.

Re: Is everyone here from FFA?

[(Anonymous)]

... yes???

Re: Is everyone here from FFA?

[(Anonymous)]

+1 I like FFA, but I do think modding has become quite heavy-handed in recent years.

And I'm also beyond annoyed at nonnies who mod-call for mods to "watch this thread". Like, you whiny, wishy-washy, lily-livered crybaby, either properly mod-call something if you think it's mod-call worthy or fuck off. Wtf is this nonsense?

Re: Is everyone here from FFA?

[(Anonymous)]

I kinda get the latter. Sometimes a thread isn't, say, downright transphobic but you can tell the seeds are there.

But yeah, modding's got kinda intense lately. I don't know if there's a new mod who's excited about freezing anything that gets modcalled or what. I still don't get why the classic HP copypasta was frozen the other day (or why nonnies modcalled it when it's been posted a bunch of times?). And other stuff. If they don't at least say "hey, this was started by a known troll, so we're freezing it," then it gets confusing.

Re: Is everyone here from FFA?

[(Anonymous)]

sc

It's also kinda hilarious to me that they killed the stupid "has covid ruined sickfic" thread when they let the dog stuff go on and ON last post. At lest the sickfic one was about fandom!

[(Anonymous)]

Referencing wank doesn't mean they're here though, I'm 100% sure the ones who *are* here share the good stuff in modchat.

//Triple-checks for anonfail

[(Anonymous)]

I definitely anonfailed here once (and am on the list for it) but also there was that year when people were making coal/dentist references in their letters, so we could make a list of coalies to treat, and we compiled a list at that time. So many names could be gathered from that as well.

[(Anonymous)]

+1

[(Anonymous)]

WOW you really did choose violence today. i'm on that list. i wasn't expecting to get called out today but holy fucking shit anon

Re: Damn

[(Anonymous)]

Personally I'm a little puzzled over where the line is drawn to what is and isn't a worldbuilding fic. Two characters sitting in a blank room, talking or having sex, probably not. Unless they're talking specifically about some aspect of their canon setting that hasn't been fleshed out, maybe? Can porn also be worldbuilding, if the canon is about aliens that haven't had their reproductive process detailed in canon yet? I've never used the worldbuilding tag, so I don't know at what point I even would.

If someone requests a fandom that has 2 characters and worldbuilding nominated, but they only request worldbuilding and make no mention of those two characters in their signup or letter, would you still feel comfortable writing a shipfic of those characters even if it was world-heavy? I'm not sure I would, if the omission was very obvious. In which case, I would want to include at least some manner of OCs, if only to describe "normal people going about their day in the setting."

I don't plan on offering worldbuilding for anything until I've seen some letters, that's for sure.

[(Anonymous)]

She's just a piece of shit that doesn't deserve any sympathy. Pretty sure she's still signing up for exchanges using different socks. Seen sign-ups that look real familiar past few years.

Re: Damn

[(Anonymous)]

I'm still debating over whether to waste any of my noms slots on worldbuilding, but I guess I have to decide soon. I do usually have worldbuilding-with-canon-characters requests but as a requester what is the benefit really? Seems like if I want to request just worldbuilding, I can just do my usual Any request + worldbuilding-y prompts. And if I want worldbuilding + character, I can request the character + worldbuilding-y prompts.

I guess it might filter out some of the sort of people who would otherwise write me a generic conversation in an empty room? I have gotten those before. But I'm not convinced the mods would enforce even for that this year. And it might filter in all the people who say they write "worldbuildling" because they just completely suck at characterization, dialogue, plot, and prose (they usually also suck at worldbuilding). And on the other hand it will also filter out a ton of people who could write me a glorious story but are holding off because they're not sure about the new tag.

[(Anonymous)]

I still don't understand why people do this. In return for a huge amount of machination and effort and being widely hated, you get a very short story written to your specifications (more or less) of unpredictable quality. You could get the same thing without all the machination and effort by writing a shitty story yourself in trade. Or you could commission somebody desperate on tumblr for about $5. Also, people give stories away for free, so you could just enjoy those instead.

I mean, some people just have really bad executive function and the inability to learn from experience and legitimately think they will definitely not default this time every time, but at least some of these people have to be doing it strategically.

Do they just get off on the idea of getting a "gift" for "free" by "trickery"? Do they brood over their inflated "gifts" pages like a dragon? Do they have such limited tastes that they can only read exchange stories written specifically for them, so they have to get as many as they can and read them other and over? Idgi

Slot swaps

[(Anonymous)]

Have space to add in nominations? Looking for an extra spot? Post them here.

Re: Slot swaps

[(Anonymous)]

I have two extra slots for anyone looking

Re: Slot swaps

[(Anonymous)]

Is anyone nomming La Brea? It's not on the spreadsheet, but if anyone is nomming I'd prefer not to duplicate characters.

Re: Coal Poll - Gearin' Up

[(Anonymous)]

1) yes, I have absolutely done this before. the first assignment I ever wrote was for someone whose enthusiasm in their request convinced me to get into it and offer it
2) excited! Hope there's wank. And butts
3) someone requests one of my fandoms so I can treat them. I'm probably not signing up formally.

[(Anonymous)]

No offense to good faith participants with the same opinion but really how is it any different from those who sign up with no prompts because they would be happy with “anything!” in the small fandom regardless of the characters and who actively say they like fic close to the minimum rather than longfic? We always have coalies(/nonnies/memers) who crawl out of the woodwork and say ODAO doesn’t bother them. People with bad reps are probably of the same breed.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, now I'm wondering, given the events of the latest episode, if they're still going to stick to the anthology rule for it, since honestly, was anything Marvel does ever going to stay self-contained?

[(Anonymous)]

Nice wankbait.

[(Anonymous)]

Whew, one of those people is me but it's under my sock and not my main fandom name, so yay.

[(Anonymous)]

I don’t understand what you’re saying here.

[(Anonymous)]

Just trying to net a response I think.

[(Anonymous)]

You are describing a person who takes part in a fun hobby group thing, doesn't stress out or get over invested, does the exact minimum, relaxes in their offtime and enjoys themself.

Its a bit odd sure, but I understand their motivation!

That's the exact opposite of someone who invests a whole lot of effort and stress in neither cooperating in the group thing nor enjoying themself.