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Re: coal lyrics project

[(Anonymous)]

The idea is that of it works we can patch together the whole song.

In a recs post.

Re: Pretend I’m Writing For You

[(Anonymous)]

YES! I deliberately limited the number of fandoms I requested this year to ensure I'd be equally thrilled by any/all of them.

Re: dear coal advice column 2

[(Anonymous)]

+1 WWII and WWII adjacent canon is totally fine. It's things like glorification of Nazis that will be problematic. Or Holocaust denial.

Re: Yuletide history

[(Anonymous)]

Anthony Bourdain goes to Narnia is one of my favorite ever yuletide stories. It's probably one of my favorite fanfics as well. What a great story.

Re: Pretend I’m Writing For You

[(Anonymous)]

+1 Do what makes you happy while writing it coalie!

Re: Yuletide history

[(Anonymous)]

When you put it like this though, it kind of sounds like sock accounts aren't all that bad, if everyone is having fun doing what they like, either writing fic or writing a bunch of letters/doing that maintenance work I guess

Re: Yuletide history

[(Anonymous)]

How do the mods not notice something like this, especially when most of the fandoms of the defaults/PHs end up coinciding?

Re: coal lyrics project

[(Anonymous)]

????

Re: coal lyrics project

[(Anonymous)]

do it!!!!

Re: Pretend I’m Writing For You

[(Anonymous)]

Pretend you wrote in your letter, "[ A ] can definitely happen but I'm just as happy with [ B ]."

I'm just as happy writing both, so... it's A, right? A is the thing you want more. Yes?

/neurotic coalie

Re: Pretend I’m Writing For You

[(Anonymous)]

I genuinely mean either and you should write what you want!

For me if I was choosing as a writer I would check to see if they'd prompted more for A or B, or if there was an enthusiasm difference in the prompts.

Re: Pretend I’m Writing For You

[(Anonymous)]

If it's me, A is a thing I really want and don't think I have a chance in hell if getting if I don't specifically ask. But I know it's a weird thing to ask for, so I don't want you to feel bad if you don't write it, and I would also love B, it's just not as exciting.

Re: Yuletide history

[(Anonymous)]

Well, i mean, they did

Re: Pretend I’m Writing For You

[(Anonymous)]

If I wrote that, I would genuinely mean both. But if you coalie are really just as happy writing both, I'd go with A since it seems like you think that that's what they really want, and so it'll just be less stress for you during the writing period

Re: Pretend I’m Writing For You

[(Anonymous)]

+1

Re: Pretend I’m Writing For You

[(Anonymous)]

Sc or possibly I really want B, but I know a lot of people just take A as basic fanon, so I want to make it clear that by asking for B I'm not trying to exclude to your fanon, which I also like.

So basically, either?

Re: Pretend I’m Writing For You

[(Anonymous)]

We only matched on 1 fandom but since we matched, I watched one of your other canons that I've been meaning to watch anyway and I'm excited about it. I haven't written anything for that new fandom yet though (obviously) but have written a decent amount in the other fandom and am more confident about my abilities there. I have ideas for both fandoms and intend to write you two fics. The old fandom fic will almost certainly be longer. Which fic would you prefer to be your main gift fic and which one would you prefer to be the treat?

Re: Pretend I’m Writing For You

[(Anonymous)]

SC
*ideas based on your prompts

Re: Yuletide history

[(Anonymous)]

My potentially hot take is that I don't think socks are all that bad. This person is overkill but as someone who likes writing treats to people's id, as long as they have a letter and leave decent comments? I don't mind if they're hacking the system to get a lot of gift if they're allowing authors the chance to create for fandoms they love. I would rather a sock army than a bunch of participants who hate letters/prompts and also don't care about their own gift and only sign up because they need a deadline to finish their own ideas.

I don't remember the details of this sock army but I think they didn't comment (which makes them a trash recip in my book) and that's where I enter the ban them camp. If they had actually been a good egg recip or (and this is what most socks do) turned in gifts for at least half of those accounts, I wouldn't have any judgement for them.

Re: Yuletide history

[(Anonymous)]

They didn't.

Someone on coal realized one of the socks linked to the wrong letter and the wank blew up here. Because the mods go here, they realized they had been duped and then yanked all the PHs and banned the person.

Re: Yuletide history

[(Anonymous)]

From what I hear, the sock army was around for several years so they didn't notice it at first, even though it seems kind of obvious if they're defaulting in succession like that. But I guess hindsight is 20/20

Hot take time: are socks bad?

[(Anonymous)]

^^^

Re: Pretend I’m Writing For You

[(Anonymous)]

Literally could not care less.

Re: NaNoWriMo

[(Anonymous)]

Nice! Good for you coalie!

Re: Hot take time: are socks bad?

[(Anonymous)]

no, but only if they are well-behaved!