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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Comments

Re: nomination with no character

[(Anonymous)]

It might depend on the fandom? The faq's say DNWs have to be reasonable and you can't use optional details to demand a specific story. So if Harry Potter were nominated without characters and you DNW Harry, ok, there's a ton of other characters and the world to write fic about. But a 5-min fandom like Botticelli's The Birth of Venus is nominated w/o characters and you DNW Venus, that'd be more unreasonable in my mind.

But I'm not a mod, so idk.

[(Anonymous)]

Why would someone bother with this when you can just sock up?

Re: Why and How You Participate In Yuletide

[(Anonymous)]

Tangent but I wish it were more acceptable to have a paid pinch hitter or two in the back pocket for exchanges.

Re: Wank Predictions

[(Anonymous)]

It's definitely not wanky to DNW covid, or any illness for that matter. If you've been negatively affected by an illness (even if you haven't had it yourself) it's very reasonable to not want to engage with something about that it. Especially when the thing in question is a piece of fiction for entertainment purposes, and double-especially when said piece of fiction is a gift for you.

Re: Wank Predictions

[(Anonymous)]

I wouldn't mind getting a fic semi-influenced by COVID. One of my canons was released before 2020, but pandemics (and vaccines...and conspiracy theories...) are literally part of the plot.

Re: Wank Predictions

[(Anonymous)]

I suspect we'll get at least one covid fic where the letter mentioned it as an option, the writer wanted to write it, and nobody wanked about it at all.

Re: Why and How You Participate In Yuletide

[(Anonymous)]

I had someone who really like my fic cold-call me via a comment asking if I took commissions. I gave them my email and we hashed it out off AO3. I gave them my rate, they paid when I was done and it’s currently posted on AO3 with them as the gift recip without issue.

If you linked in your a/n a twitter that had a kofi, that probably the most common way. You could get around AO3s sketchiness around it if you mentioned in the notes of your fic that you’re happy to do commissions for charity donations and then once you start negotiating in private you inform them you do general ideas/suggestions for donations and will write to spec for a true commission, so the patron can choose.

Re: Letter Bingo

[(Anonymous)]

...secret coalie handshake?

Swaps

[(Anonymous)]

Anyone else excited for swaps?
(mmmmmmmmmm candy)

Re: Swaps

[(Anonymous)]

Meeeeeeeeee

Re: Letter Bingo

[(Anonymous)]

not ayrt but usually mentioning dentists or sliding in a reference to literal coal that is meant to be a wink at the comm

Re: Swaps

[(Anonymous)]

I've never done one before, but I think I'd like to do the book swap this year.

Re: Letter Bingo

[(Anonymous)]

👋🤝🤜🤛🤙🤙🔪🔪🔪🎅

Re: Swaps

[(Anonymous)]

not gonna lie, half the reason i'm signing up is so i can do swaps

[(Anonymous)]

Update: Another nominator has responded and "The Elder" is in as well! *\o/*

Re: Letter Bingo

[(Anonymous)]

dc sliding?

[(Anonymous)]

They're the same fandom. There are nine episodes. There is no fic. I don't know why the mods decided this canon has to be broken up into individual episodes to qualify. Every aspect is far below the YT minimums in every way. They are basically telling people you can and should make three Star Wars requests for the same series for your whole Yuletide signup.

[(Anonymous)]

It's an anthology series though- one episode has no obvious relation to any other. It's how they deal with anthologies. Different seasons of American Horror story are judged as individual fandoms. The Paris je t'aime movie gets in all the time, but usually it's just as the short The Marais even though the whole movie would be eligible.

[(Anonymous)]

+1

See also: Black Mirror, The Twilight Zone, and the new Marvel What If...? show.

[(Anonymous)]

I wouldn't be annoyed since someone else's nominations have nothing to do with me and I doubt they did it to get around the rules.

Though I'd rather the mods just pick the episode that was entered first and approve that if the nominators don't get back to them, rather than trashing the nomination entirely

Re: Canon Recs - books?

[(Anonymous)]

Seconding the rec for the Saint of Steel books (titled Paladin's Grace and Paladin's Strength) – very fun!

[(Anonymous)]

The mods probably have a suspicion its a sock nomination pool (same formatting, nobody was nominated twice despite 5+ people nomming) and are annoyed by it.

Re: Letter Bingo

[(Anonymous)]

"sliding in a reference to actual coal", I think is how it parses? Like coal the rock.

Though I did match on a letter that requested sliding one year... New code word?

Re: Letter Bingo

[(Anonymous)]

Yes like a prompt that says “what would Amy do if she got coal in her stocking?” or having a reference in your general section that is like “I love noncon; one man’s coal is another man’s diamond!” or “AUs in this fandom would unfortunately be a lump of coal for me”.

Plausible deniability, but nobody who doesn’t know about coal probably wouldn’t think to include the reference and those who are coalies but don’t want to be known of as one would actively avoid it. So the people who do include those references have a 90% chance of being a coalie signaling to other coalies they’re kin.

Re: Letter Bingo

[(Anonymous)]

cyrt OH, I see now!