coaltide | C.R.E.A.M

Entry tags:

2021

C.R.E.A.M

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

Sign-ups: Fri 15 Oct to Sat 23 Oct (~~Countdown~~)
Assignments out by: Mon 25 Oct
Default deadline: Sat 11 Dec
Assignment deadline: Sat 18 Dec
Reveals: Sat 25 Dec

Mini-Challenges:
Yuleporn | Make the Yuletide Gay | Jewltide | Three Turtle Doves
YuleBuilding | Two for One | Crueltide | Yuletunes | Yule Be First
YuleSwaps | IF | Wrapping Paper | Yumadrin | MultiLingYule
....and a Partridge in a Pear Tree!

Yuletide Discord for Hippos & Exchanges After Dark Discords for Namespace ~~drama~~ 18+ discussion. Google Group for PHs.

yuletide |

yuletide_admin | Writing Post
2021 Collection | 2021 App (bonus) | Letter Post

Flat / Recent | Top-Level (Last) | FAQ | Search

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only | Expand All

Looks like #35 got claimed now? So only one to go!

Yay! Go pinch-hitters!

!!!

Yup! Just the no hot takes on the Balkans one left

I have written for the requester of #23 in other exchanges! They are a delightful person who leaves great comments and isn't nearly as scary to write for as those DNWs make them sound!

They seem like a perfectly fine recipient from their letter tbh. I’m assuming that the Balkans thing has a very specific story behind it lol

I mean I suspect it's just an oddly-phrased "no issuefic" tbh.

They also deserve a better Yuletide than the one they got in 2018, when their author uploaded an incomplete fic that was clearly supposed to be a Great Epic:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/16754230

It is long, but it stopped at 3/5 chapters in April 2019 and hasn't been updated since.

Damn. When did the rule that fics had to be complete start?

Pretty much forever?

I suspect what happened is that the author marked it complete at first, and the first chapter was long and detailed enough that mods didn't catch it on checking.

newbie here. How/what do the mods check?

They make sure the fic is marked 1/1 (or however many chapters) and not #/? and that the ending of the fic is a complete sentence and not copypasta or [insert scene] or a sentence fragment.

Re: two IPHs left

(Anonymous) - 2021-10-27 14:42 (UTC) - Expand

Re: two IPHs left

(Anonymous) - 2021-10-27 15:03 (UTC) - Expand

that it's complete and over 1,000 words and has your fandom in it.

I think depending on how much capacity they have, year to year, they also check that all the characters appear, that it isn't a placeholder non-story disguised as a story and actually ends, and that it doesn't violate any obvious DNWs.

Basically just that everyone has a story that is 1000 words or more, is actually a story and not just copy-pasted wikipedia or the word "pickle" repeated 1000 times, isn't one of the opt-in-only formats, and isn't obviously incomplete or full of stuff like "~~write next scene here~~" or beta readers' notes.

They're pretty loose about about "incomplete" though, as long as you don't mark it 1/? or leave in obvious placeholder text or put in an author note apologizing for not finishing they aren't going to make a ruling over whether that was a satisfying ending or not.

If there's a blatant DNW violation or wrong-characters kind of thing, they might catch it, but I don't think they check that very hard, that's the kind of thing that's more likely to go out as an EPH after the collection opens. Recip in this case could probably have put in for an EPH because once you read the story it's obvious from the author's not that it's incomplete, but they must have decided it wasn't worth making waves.

Re: two IPHs left

(Anonymous) - 2021-10-27 03:23 (UTC) - Expand

Re: two IPHs left

(Anonymous) - 2021-10-27 03:28 (UTC) - Expand

Re: two IPHs left

(Anonymous) - 2021-10-27 03:28 (UTC) - Expand

Re: two IPHs left

(Anonymous) - 2021-10-27 05:13 (UTC) - Expand

Re: two IPHs left

(Anonymous) - 2021-10-27 16:31 (UTC) - Expand

Well before that.

And I don't see another gift for them that year, so they must have let their writer get away with it.

"This is such an interesting and promising premise....I really wish I knew how the story turns out, and how all the tags and the details mentioned in the author's note fit into it."

Like I said, leaves great comments!

Thank you, poor recip, for the timestamp of how wtf that would have been on Dec 30.

Pretty sure that got talked about on coal at the time, because I was boggled by it.

SA. Yup. https://yuletide-coal.dreamwidth.org/11512.html?thread=39871736#cmt39871736

"Like all great stories . . . "

Man, my author's note starts as arrogant as that, we're already off on the wrong foot. It really amazes me how many people, in their summaries and authors notes, tell you how great their stories are. These must be the same people who, if they submit professionally, put the terms of their masterpiece and requested pay and circulation in their cover letters that are in purple script on orange paper with a carefully pressed wax insignia holding the letter closed.

Haha, I saw a letter that recced the author's own fic! XD

"If you want to see the kind of stuff I like, check out the stories I've written"

ngl I wish I had that much confidence in myself

Nayrt
How is that a self rec? It just tells you they write a lot of self indulgent fic.

YEP, I saw that one too and was tempted to link it into the Letter Bingo thread

My assignment has something like that in their letter! Self-promotion knows no bounds!

it seems like it’s more the obscurity of their canons/language barriers than the dnws that’s the bigger factor in their lingering

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only | Expand All