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

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bunny calling

I use the 'ao3 tweak formatting' script which is at https://greasyfork.org/en/users/36620 and can do lots of stuff - remove line breaks, insert line breaks, change *word* to word and other things. So useful!

Don't use the Holocaust as set dressing for the ship to fuck and angst about how sad, traumatized, and broken they are like recessional (aka lalaeitha aka findingfeather aka violent-darts) did.

I couldn't find a link to the story itself but if anyone wants to dredge it up it was one of her Bucky/Steve stories. Maybe she took it down?

https://archiveofourown.org/users/lalaietha/pseuds/Feather

🙏 bless you

🙏 bless you too now with less anonfail

set dressing for the ship to fuck and angst about how sad, traumatized, and broken they are

oh god this gave me flashbacks of that SPN Haiti fic.

yeah, don't do that.

you're welcome! don't miss the one a coalie posted below, it's possibly even more helpful!

Socks aren't as disruptive as people playing "not touching you" with DNWs, but large sock armies are still participating in a way that everyone else has to put in extra effort to deal with. Maybe they're putting work into their prompts, but that's their business. They're still making other people do more work. And tricking them into it rather than the authors just making a choice to treat them.

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I really think there's a difference between one sock and many.

I don't agree with official YT policy not allowing any socks (which it's well known many people don't follow). But having more than 1-2 socks does seem wrong to me.

are you sure?

I think we agree on some aspects. I agree there's a huge difference between having a sock army and having one sock.

The Yuletide policy, eh, it's true that some people sock up and they don't do anything about it. But since it is policy, if you can't even effectively hide your socks, you're failing at the first hurdle and can't be trusted to sign up twice IMHO. So it's more like "sock if you must but you'd better not let us know about it."

Yes, all of this.

If you're going to sock, then you should be able to participate well with all of the accounts you're using. So if one person's running two accounts and they turn in their fic but they don't always remember to complete their letters or rarely manage to comment within the anon period, to me that's socking wrong because their choice to get two fics caused stress for other people.

tbh some people don't even manage good exchange behaviour with one account, so... socks are definitely not for everyone!

Exactly. This is why people get annoyed with sock armies because usually, even one of them would be subpar to deal with. 5 at once that you can't get away from? THE WORST.

You love their requests and you love their writing, so having double the chance to write from them or receive from them, or a chance to see prompts from them in more fandoms in one exchange, would be perfect for you.

Exactly. I think of it as the same sort of thing as getting Al Capone convicted on charges of tax evasion. It wasn't the biggest of his crimes, but it was the one that could be easily proven in court. If your socks are well-behaved, Yuletide mods won't notice (or, if they notice, they won't care, based on anecdotal evidence of, uh, a friend). But if your socks do dodgy stuff that isn't explicitly against the rules otherwise or is hard to prove, they can ban you for socking.

Recip pls let me in :(

Get the mod to shake them?

selden, chantefable, embraidery... so many people!

misura. that treating power multiplied would be awesome!

I think she'd have to magically clone herself to treat more, rather than merely using more accounts. She's already pushing human capacity.

It's "by accident", not "on accident".

Well it still sounds stupid

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