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

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Comments

Re: Later Letters

[(Anonymous)]

because they are a fake.

Re: Matching Game

[(Anonymous)]

that's the part you think is important?

Re: Matching Game

[(Anonymous)]

it's too late, do not advise this

Re: Letter 3T1L

[(Anonymous)]

no, we need to wait until all requests are revealed

Re: Letter 3T1L

[(Anonymous)]

because we already have a thread so let's wait

Re: Matching Game

[(Anonymous)]

What did he say this year?

[(Anonymous)]

maybe 2 people

Re: Matching Game

[(Anonymous)]

no socks or dentists here, my dude.

Re: Matching Game

[(Anonymous)]

You have to remember that of of the unmatchables, they go through and see if they can double assign before reaching out.

You're conflating two things.
1. Unmatchables are people for whom there are no possible recipients in the entire set of requests. These people will be the same no matter how you run matching and must be contacted to either change their offers or drop out.

2. Double assigning means assigning two authors to the same recipient, which is the flip side of someone being an IPH - they have no writer, so someone else gets two in order to make the numbers even out. Mods don't "try to" do this; they HAVE to in order to send out assignments. AO3 literally won't let them send out assignments until everyone has a recipient.

Re: Later Letters

[(Anonymous)]

Wow wow wow

Reading this letter was an experience. I am definitely tempted to treat for it even though it is wildly out of my wheelhouse! This is a letter I can only aspire to in terms of how thoroughly it sold me on it (for people who prefer long letters. for people who like letters short, uh, this isn't it)

https://magpiemountains.dreamwidth.org/1505.html

[(Anonymous)]

I was going to do that today, but then I realised the deadline to do my taxes was looming and I forced myself to be a responsible person and shelf the fic writing until next week.

Re: Later Letters

[(Anonymous)]

I like short letters, but I really like the structure here which makes it feel much shorter than it is and also makes it easy to skip the parts that aren't relevant.

Re: Matching Game

[(Anonymous)]

They're the reason I never offer the Harley Quinn cartoon in exchanges. Because NOPE.

[(Anonymous)]

i'm confused by MultiLingYule, is the main gift allowed to be not in english if the recip opts in?

[(Anonymous)]

Only if they put it in their signup. Otherwise it has to be a madness treat.

[(Anonymous)]

predict time assignments go out

[(Anonymous)]

5 minutes after I fall asleep while refreshing the page endlessly.

[(Anonymous)]

Whyyyyy are we waaaaiting?

(I mean, for perfectly understandable and logical reasons and we haven't actually been waiting very long. But still, I am impatient.)

Re: Yuletide challenges

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe?

But it's yumadrin has had scope creep and is now The Drabble Challenge

I want N:0 Offers Treats Drop to be specifically targeted to full length treats.

Re: Yuletide challenges

[(Anonymous)]

I think I could ostensibly yeet this into the app as an easter egg filter to show only fandoms with 0 offers /coadie

[(Anonymous)]

ETA: holy shit coalies, you guys are the best. i actually can barely take any more donations because i'm within ~$50 of paypal refusing to let me have any without me linking my wallet information for tax purposes. the apps are set for at least 1.66 YEARS of hosting costs even after i give myself a generous treat! THANK YOU ALL!!!! ;__________;

Re: Yuletide challenges

[(Anonymous)]

And this is one of the many reasons why you're a star, coadie!

[(Anonymous)]

You're very welcome! Thanks for providing such a useful tool (and being a hoopy frood to boot).

Shooting yourself in the foot

[(Anonymous)]

What examples have you seen of this in letters?

[(Anonymous)]

WE LOVE YOU COADIE.