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The Coalies Are Back In Town

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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I'm impressed that they've seemed to put some forethought into it since their AO3 account is over a year old.

Weirdly, maybe the Nur die Sonne is an Alain Delon thing - he starred in both Purple Noon (German Title: Nur die Sonne war Zeuge) and an episode of Fabio Montale called "Solea".

Meanwhile, Winterblumensaat seems to be a portmanteau of "Winter blumensaat," which translates to "Winter blooming seeds," and has one result: a prompt on a German poetry message board post from 3/21. The requested character names are likely misspelled (and soccer players if you add/subtract a letter).

So yeah, I'm pretty impressed (and was bored enough to go Googling).

Compound noun, not a portmanteau. I'm also pretty impressed, though. It's probably not as easy as it seems to come up with something that gets you zero results.

I doubt they put that much thought in, or they'd've started scattering evidence around earlier than this month. They probably just had the unused AO3 account sitting around. Honestly, they would probably have been better off just, like, creating a fake Goodreads entry and then leaving it alone. (You probably could get something past the mods if you put a little thought into it? Make up something self-pubbed in the 1980s or early 1990s that you created a tiny amount of internet trail for, just enough to not need an evidence post. Anyone with an account can add a fake book to Goodreads and LibraryThing and it wouldn't be that hard to also add it to Amazon. Or better yet find something like that which already exists as, like, one Goodreads review, and one Amazon copy for $50.)

Yeah. Like, you could create a fake TV Tropes page for the fandom. Print off a mockup from a print-on-demand service and take a bad photo of the back cover blurb to show the mods the character names. Have your sock comment to your main months in advance all, "Hey, are you the same Username from the deleted Nur die Sonne Yahoo group? OMG we should totally nominated it for Yuletide!" This is relatively low-effort fandom faking.

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Honestly, thinking on it, it might actually be easier to create a legitimate five-minute fandom and brazen it out on the evidence post that yes, you really are desperate for fic about some random Tumblr post or badly-drawn comic your sock posted a few months ago. Though I suppose then you run a small risk that someone else might actually offer and write it.

cyrt Yeah, before the "evidence" was offered my first guess if it was legit was actually that it was some piece of local public art or something by the Maria Moser who does painting and sculpture, and that the other one was maybe music? It could have been something composed for an amateur group the nominator performs in and they may not even have realized how obscure it was.

But both of those run the risk that somebody would be willing to offer them as a five-minute fandom, and if the point really is to force a match with your third fandom, that would make it useless. (In fact, if they do get in this year I kind of suspect they will get coalie/ffa offers anyway. And possibly a whole new set of noms next year...)

You'd have to pick something that seemed both plausible and way too much trouble for anyone to track down, so a book series may be the best bet.

(This whole strategy would be much more workable if the goal was to pad your *offers*.)

(dc) I mean, it's possible this is to pad their offers instead? Signups haven't opened yet, so we don't actually know they're going to request it.
...they probably will, though.

Based on what ffa dug up, it really looks like this is a person who's obsessed with one specific character and has gamed exchanges for her before. But I'm sure they were also planning to pad offers.

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I feel like if you're padding offers it would make more sense to have three fake fandoms to provide absolute certainty. (I dunno, maybe I'm wrong, but my gut says 'rabidly monofannish about one fandom and one fandom only' feels more likely to me than someone willing to write two but going to lengths this elaborate to avoid adding more, unless the two are related fandoms. Just has 'laser-focused on one thing and completely unwilling to be flexible or just opt out of participating' vibes to me.) Of course, I guess there could always be a third fake fandom that looked convincing enough to slip through the net without the mods querying it...

And now that I think about it, if you're unmatchable based on your offers, don't you have to add more to participate in the exchange?

Yeah. Either that, or bow out. I think generally speaking, a lot of people who might be monofannish on the reading side would still be able to crank out something for another fandom they know if that meant they'd get their fix.

Yeah, but you only need one matchable fandom, and most people can manage that in Yuletide one way or another. Four matchable fandoms is harder. (If this is the person it probably is, their fandom isn't incredibly rare, just their fave character is, so they might even be able to match on that one as long as most of their offers were also fake.)

Five minute fandom is asking for someone to offer it. Obscure out of print German book is a great choice, there's just no need to invent one instead of choosing some actual ones. As it is they're now running high chances of someone writing for their fake fandom (I'm certainly considering treating for it)

Both titles are so pretentious and LitFicc-y that you should totally write a nonlinear plot in 2nd person POV with magical realism and an ambiguous ending.

Most importantly, use either the sun or the winter flower seeds (depending on which one you write for) as metaphors, but leave it up to the reader to decide what the metaphor stands for.

I'd (mostly) unironically offer Winterblumensaat if Siwwwwwa or whoever actually requested it. It's a pretty title and all 55 words they wrote for it give you a surprising amount to work with for an original fiction piece.

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