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

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, I thought it had already happened. Well, maybe it won't this year! Chin up!

Re: Mini-Challenges

[(Anonymous)]

Right, there are some fandoms that lend themselves so well to the format!

Re: Mini-Challenges

[(Anonymous)]

Rooting for you, coalie! This happens to me too, though. I get all fired up about cool fandoms and requests...and yet.

[(Anonymous)]

Nayrt

Tbh if people want to game away from OP, then OP should just let that happen.
Like, at least you know you’re somewhat culling down the chances of matching to a writer who’s not keen on you.

Re: Writers : Recipients

[(Anonymous)]

21:9

[(Anonymous)]

It's weird to me that sign-ups are so slow when the nominations numbers were so similar. I doubt we'll get very far over 1000 sign-ups.

[(Anonymous)]

You're new, aren't you? Don't worry. There's always a last day rush.

[(Anonymous)]

Not this shit again.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh man you scared me for a second! We still have four more days, that's practically next year.

Everybody who didn't sign up in the first rush is procrastinating and won't be ready until at least Thursday.

[(Anonymous)]

No, I was looking at last year's post, when there were 587 sign-ups with still a week to go, and that was after the sign-ups were mysteriously paused for a few hours after they first opened. We're just over 650 and there's only 4 days to go.

[(Anonymous)]

Mate, all YOU WILL KNOW is that you aren't the main character and you aren't entitled to someone's time or attention and that they're actually astute as fuck for getting a clean read on your weird vibes and refocusing their offers elsewhere.

Like, for real, I get that putting yourself out there and feeling self-consciousness and anxious about it is like being in a shitty Rumpelstiltskin AU where you're cursed to spend all day spinning stress out of NOTHING, but the all that's happened is that you just dodged a potentially crappy fic from someone who doesn't want to write for you. Pretty good Bad End!

[(Anonymous)]

Dude, sometimes I unoffer fandoms because I see the letter and the prompts are good but I know no way in hell I could write those prompts the way they deserve to be written, and so I go elsewhere and hope they get the writer of their dreams.

Re: Swaps!

[(Anonymous)]

yes, there is: the box at the end where it says "message to the mods" or whatever. You could even email the swap mods mail at yuleswaps(at)gmail.com and ask if you can sign up.

[(Anonymous)]

2020 was an outlier in a lot of ways though.

[(Anonymous)]

Sure, but why should it be an outlier in this specific way?

!!!!

[(Anonymous)]

So cute ☺️

[(Anonymous)]

ncyrt

So, you're new.

Lots happens in the last couple days.

Re: Kinks that are opt in/opt out

[(Anonymous)]

I dnw unrequested kinks, and I don't give a damn if that makes you game away from me. In fact, if you're so keen on writing things I didn't request in that area, it's probably better for both of us if you do. (I do have a smut likes list in addition to my general likes, so it's not as if I'd leave potential authors guessing, and the list isn't so short that I'd railroad anyone.)

Re: Canon Recs - historical Asia

[(Anonymous)]

Pretty much every character I cared about died. (There is one exception, but he was never going to die because history is a spoiler.)

Of course, it was sold to me as a big gay tragedy, so I knew what I was getting.

Re: Things you request every Yuletide

[(Anonymous)]

Ancient dead fandoms. Obscure book fandoms of one. Ancient, dead, and obscure tv series.

Re: Writers : Recipients

[(Anonymous)]

Writers: 0, Recips: 1

[(Anonymous)]

lol we will. The last day the number ticks up every couple of minutes.

[(Anonymous)]

RUDE . . . but fair. /procrastinator

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah. I haven't signed up yet, so it didn't affect the actual sign up summary, but I already took one offer off my list for the exact reason.

[(Anonymous)]

I also sometimes swap out what's in my bucket offer based on letters; maybe they saw your letter and loved it and were like whew it's safe to offer any after all! And stuck it in the bucket.