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Re: Letter 3T1L - The Locked Tomb Series

[(Anonymous)]

lunabee34
🚩 No AO3 username
☑️ Carte blanche

lunabee34, the absolutely fearless chad, really said, "here's a blank cheque, buy yourself something nice."

The explainer paragraph on what write the story of your heart means seems unnecessary to me, but I get that some people really need the clarification or else they stress about it.

This is either a very good or very bad letter depending on what kind of Yuletide participant you are. I think it's cool, but I know that I wouldn't write the fic of my heart, I'd write the tropiest thing imaginable for the biggest pairing, 'cuz if I can't get the validation buzz out of writing the perfect customized gift then I'm gonna go fishing for big numbers.

alzatrask
🚩 No AO3 username
☑️ No chat, all prompts

The lack of likes/dislikes makes this a bookmark-to-treat kind of letter. I get the vibe that they have relatively no baggage so you can write them anything and they'll be happy about it.

I can see why they went for individual fandom DNWs in a lean letter like this but shit like "I can't think of any specific DNWs for these 3" then asking in a roundabout way for no underage -- it's so strange to me. That's a specific DNW, just say you DNW it.

Some formatting tags are broken (br /), but it doesn't affect anything. Pretty good for a newbie.

vvitchsdesire/Marenke
🚩 wildly Inconsistent capitalization
☑️ AO3 name
☑️ Clear OR outs

I was gonna give them props for writing prompts for every possible character combo, even if their prompts are phrased in somewhat irritating ways, and then I got to the Plantagenet Dynasty section. jfc. Tell me you don't give a shit about a fandom, without telling me you don't give a shit. "anything does."

I'll be real with you, I'm really not a fan of this !!!! style of letter, but I don't want to Scrooge on someone's excitement. I do think they got the important stuff right.

Also, please, if one of your fandoms is an obscure Tumblr post or 5MF then there's no excuse not to link to it in your letter. Links are free.

celaenos
🚩 No AO3 username
🚩 more wildly Inconsistent capitalization
☑️ Enthusiastic
??? "Caveat: I like Christmas!!"

I'm not gonna go after all the typos here because I feel like celaenos loaded up on six cases of extra festive nog before dictating this letter into an uncalibrated text app. That's the only way I can accept this frustrating combo of nicely formatted bullet-points and the stream-of-consciousness walls of text.

The Moon section is the strongest for me, it's fun, hype, with specific ideas that are open to creative interpretation. On the flipside, I simply ain't reading that Picnic and Hanging Rock section until it learns how to paragraph.

celaenos is happy to provide a lot of information, happy to be stalked across social, happy to tell you everything they love, but I just don't think any of that is very useful. Some ruthless editing and really refining what they want would go a long way.

Re: Letter 3T1L - The Locked Tomb Series

[(Anonymous)]

I'm loving your reviews, coalie!

Re: Letter 3T1L - The Locked Tomb Series

[(Anonymous)]

Cheers! I'm just putting my judgmental nature to good use.