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Coal ruins exchanges around me - spitey spitey fic y'all. 

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[(Anonymous)]

Fair enough, I concede the point. But your definition seems to be that as long as you write something that seems like the kind of thing the recip might like, it's not ODAO, and that's pretty useless too.

[(Anonymous)]

I dreamed last night that coalcube was going through and reposting every deleted anonfail, with the original username and text included. Thanks Coalie who keeps a spreadsheet of anonfails, you're in my anxiety nightmares now.

[(Anonymous)]

*shudders*

Re: coal lyrics project

[(Anonymous)]

5!!

Re: Yuletide history

[(Anonymous)]

Wank:
- Gay-bashing dragons
- Untherius dewclaws
- Beatrice_Otter's "ship ran over by an ambulance" fic
- The Gwen Stacy wank
- That time the person anonfailed on coal while suicide-baiting themselves

More generally:
- The year mods wanted all noms to be nominated by TWO people in order to go into the tagset. This got rolled back before noms even started.
- The year mods treated FPF characters like they treat RPF characters now (ie a character couldn't appear in a rare fandom if that same character tag had too many fics in a popular fandom, for example Clint Barton in the Hawkeye comic)
- The time some rando walked in off the street with improved matching code and Yuletide matching times went from days to hours
- Yuletide was a rare ship exchange its first year
- Yuletide was started by Jewish people who wanted something fun on Christmas
- The entire AO3 exchange apparatus was largely motivated by Yuletide

Not exhaustive, obviously.

[(Anonymous)]

Prayer to the yuletide gods that this year someone writes a Margaery Kempe social media fic but this time it's her Tumblr/other fan blogs and includes her Yuletide signup please please I'm begging you.

[(Anonymous)]

coalcube at work

Next time someone complains about there being no wank I can¹ do this.

¹ I'm too lazy to ever do this.

Re: coal lyrics project

[(Anonymous)]

5!

Re: coal lyrics project

[(Anonymous)]

5. Definitely 5.

Re: coal lyrics project

[(Anonymous)]

5 is the obvious answer, c'mon guys

Re: coal lyrics project

[(Anonymous)]

+1

Re: Yuletide history

[(Anonymous)]

I have been around for a while but I didn't know that it was a rare ship exchange!

Re: Yuletide history

[(Anonymous)]

The time some rando walked in off the street with improved matching code and Yuletide matching times went from days to hours

rofl at the way this is phrased

Re: coal lyrics project

[(Anonymous)]

But please make sure it has the proper inflections.

Re: Yuletide history

[(Anonymous)]

Additional wank: ars_belli and their nazi love

Not wank, but still infamous (notorious? just famous? idk): the bdsm care bear fic

[(Anonymous)]

Why would you miss this incredible opportunity to write cute puppy incest vore?

Re: Yuletide history

[(Anonymous)]

I'd add:
- Shayheyred's deathfic
- kittydesade
- Origin of dentist, bears, hippos, (did socks start in YT?)
- Ghost Soup

[(Anonymous)]

Mostly because their fandom-specific prompt gives me the impression they don't actually want puppy incest vore, sadly.

Re: let's play: DNW WTF

[(Anonymous)]

My suggestion, since the canon is dystopian political stuff: write the shippy dark fic with 2 of the 3 characters (or all 3!) in one universe in a relationship, but concentrate in the plot, which involves destroying the other universe.

Re: coal lyrics project

[(Anonymous)]

I don’t want it if it doesn’t have the proper inflections

Re: let's play: DNW WTF

[(Anonymous)]

I would write fic for the alternative Earth canon, and profusely thank my alternative Earth beta for their assistance in the author notes.

Re: let's play: DNW WTF

[(Anonymous)]

Write the pairing as plain vanilla smut, then have that character awaken from a dream or nightmare.

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly, I feel like Life Day fic generally is an opt-out, but basing something specifically on the Star Wars Holiday Special is an opt-in – can't assume your recip is enough of a masochist to have watched that.

Re: Yuletide history

[(Anonymous)]

where is the lie, coalie

[(Anonymous)]

Mainstream chocolate does, to the point that I thought I hated chocolate as a kid. It makes you feel ill and has a vomit aftertaste.

But there are plenty of chocolatiers who make amazing chocolate, thank god! So "bad American chocolate" just means the biggest names