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Four IPHs left

[(Anonymous)]

Two involve single movies, one has a short book, one's recent video games.

Is the PH list failing in its power?

Re: Four IPHs left

[(Anonymous)]

Personally I've always followed the PH list by RSS feed rather than email, but it turns out Google Groups have quietly stopped supporting RSS feeds, so I wouldn't have even known there were messages if I hadn't been keeping up with coal and gone to manually check when they were mentioned here.

Re: Four IPHs left

[(Anonymous)]

Same! I don't have a Gmail aaccount so the RSS was really handy - now I've simply subscribed with my Hotmail address so I won't miss any PHs.

Re: Four IPHs left

[(Anonymous)]

idk how many pinch hits and how long did it take in the past 5 years

Re: Four IPHs left

[(Anonymous)]

I think this is a high number of initial PHs, but not extraordinarily high. It's certainly the first time it's taken over 24 hours for the IPHs to be claimed.

Re: Four IPHs left

[(Anonymous)]

I wonder how many people who missed the NYR cut off take pinch hits to get themselves unbanned.

Re: Four IPHs left

[(Anonymous)]

not many

Re: Four IPHs left

[(Anonymous)]

I don’t think banned participants can take pinch hits, actually?

Re: Four IPHs left

[(Anonymous)]

I'm really only surprised about #11, since Vampyr seemed to have at least a few active fandom writers. #21 has that perfect storm of a non-English TV show and a sports RPF that's fairly obscure with the short book being the 3rd installment in a series. #23 is all non-English, and has a DNW of hot takes about the Balkan conflict, so that's not an easy PH pick-up. #35 isn't the most obscure of video games, but they're not fandom darlings either (yeah, Yakuza spin-off but there's no Kiryuu or Majima to ship). So maybe 11 and 35 would have gone by now last year, but 21 and 23 were going to linger in any year.

Re: Four IPHs left

[(Anonymous)]

the way you phrased this sounded like they /had/ a bunch of hot takes about the Balkan conflict, but it's the opposite - they DNW hot takes on it, which I take to mean they don't want soapboxing or issuefic. isn't that fine?

Re: Four IPHs left

[(Anonymous)]

The movie in #23 is additionally not easy to find. I looked it up to see if I could watch it online, but I couldn't find anywhere I could.

Re: Four IPHs left

[(Anonymous)]

#11 is requesting four characters from Vampyr, all of which would be difficult for me to put together in a single short fic. The couple of prompts they give leave me the impression they might not know this means all four of them have to be included in their gift.

Re: Four IPHs left

[(Anonymous)]

There's also at least two other fairly large multifandom exchanges currently in or just out of a pinch hits phase; I know several of the stalwart pinch hitters I know have just taken non-YT pinch hits.

Re: Four IPHs left

[(Anonymous)]

ToT is finishing up pinch hits, isn't it? And FIAB.

Re: Four IPHs left

[(Anonymous)]

Sending an email whose subject line contains the phrase, "Coming up to the play-offs pinch-offs" was not a quality strategy, unless they wanted people to think the outstanding IPHs are turds.

Re: Four IPHs left

[(Anonymous)]

Aw, I thought it was like the finals of a competition to be the rarest.

Re: Four IPHs left

[(Anonymous)]

i just want the IPHs to be claimed already so i can SEE THE PROMPTS! someone else requested for my tiny fandom and their letter isn't on the app already and i need to know where their brain's at so I can treat them for all I'm worth

Re: Four IPHs left

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah this

THREE IPHs left!!

[(Anonymous)]

the final countdown begins

Re: THREE IPHs left!!

[(Anonymous)]

Where do you see it down to three? The Google group still has it listed as four ...?

Re: Four IPHs left

[(Anonymous)]

#35 is all video games and nothing else. If you don't do VG you aren't picking that one up.

#21 is pretty specialized RPF, a mid-90s MG book series they've only read one of, and a 2015 French show they haven't seen all the way through. A lot of people don't like to write for recips who haven't finished a canon.

#23 has good descriptions of the canons and even some links to find them, but the letter is really intimidating. If you wanted to include some dialogue or phrases or hey write the whole fic in any dialect of what used to be called Serbo-Croatian, I’m here for that with bells on!....No way would I pick that up, I couldn't write them anything close to what they wanted.

Re: Four IPHs left

[(Anonymous)]

I do do video games and #35 is impressively hardcore.

one game is 10 years old and has to be played on an emulator with a fan translation patch.

one game, Judgement, is more accessible, (unless you don't have a ps4) but howlongtobeat clocks it as 42-95 hours, not exactly a quick pick up.

and the last game is motherfucking SHENMUE! Which if you don't know, Shenmue is a classic that achieves its legendary immersion through legendary tedium. you can find playthroughs and cutscene compilations online but you'll probably just end up watching the rant reviews.

Re: Four IPHs left

[(Anonymous)]

The book seems to have only been published in the UK, too. I looked it up because it seemed like something I could read and throw up a minimal fill in an afternoon, but there are only three copies in any libraries in the entire US (and given which libraries, I doubt I could even get it via OCLC. The Amazon and Abe copies all ship from the UK and given givens I wouldn't count on them arriving in time. In theory there's an ebook but I can't find anyone selling it. There are UK pinch hitters but that really reduces the pool.

Re: Four IPHs left

[(Anonymous)]

Has someone ever languished in pinch hits? Like literally nobody wanted to write a story for them, so the mods ended up having to write one themselves /frantically consume a canon?

Re: Four IPHs left

[(Anonymous)]

I feel like they should just release all the requests. At this point, not publishing all the requests isn't going to do anything except encourage people who are not familiar with the canon to take the lingering IPHs just to hurry up the requests reveals and that's no good for anyone. I'm sure some one will pick up the IPHs later down the line