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

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Re: Four IPHs left

[(Anonymous)]

I feel sorry for any of the lingering PH recipsbif they’re reading all this.

Re: Four IPHs left

[(Anonymous)]

no one is saying it's their fault? it's just a frustrating situation all around

Re: Four IPHs left

[(Anonymous)]

+1

It's a shitty modding choice, not the IPH recips' fault.

Re: Four IPHs left

[(Anonymous)]

+1

Re: Four IPHs left

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

I don't even think it's a shitty modding choice, I get why they're doing it. Still frustrated that we can't see the requests and sad for the IPHs lingering. So I'm wanking on coal.

Re: Four IPHs left

[(Anonymous)]

Just because you personally don't like a thing doesn't make it shitty modding.

Re: Four IPHs left

[(Anonymous)]

What's frustrating is coalies acting like this choice to reveal all requests when the IPHs are picked up is some completely new, arbitrary, unreasonable thing.

I'd rather have the requests going out feel like a party everyone's invited to.

It makes me glad so many ao3 exchanges hold to the standard that they don't open until everyone has a gift. Don't leave people behind! It does work as a motivating factor.

Re: Four IPHs left

[(Anonymous)]

We know it's not new. Just arbitrary and unreasonable.

Re: Four IPHs left

[(Anonymous)]

Those are two completely different things. I'm extremely strongly team "collection opens when everyone has a gift" to the point that I wouldn't do an exchange that operates differently. I'm also (clearly somewhat less strongly) on team "release all requests immediately".

Re: Four IPHs left

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly they probably already feel like shit because no one wants to write for them

Re: Four IPHs left

[(Anonymous)]

You're so lovely, I hope you're my writer. /s

Re: Four IPHs left

[(Anonymous)]

Huh? "Nobody feels they can write their prompts" != "Nobody wants to write for them"

Re: Four IPHs left

[(Anonymous)]

+1 nobody with time/energy to write a PH has (enough) knowledge of your requested canons ≠ no one wants to write for them

Re: Four IPHs left

[(Anonymous)]

It does feel a bit like

Coal: "yuletide is for your smallest rarest fandoms!"

Also coal:"no, not like that!"

Somehow ALSO coal: mad scramble to find and share questionably legal sources for the rare canons

Re: Four IPHs left

[(Anonymous)]

No, it's

coal: "YT is for rare fandoms"

also coal: "Yeah, we've seen those and have no familiarity with them. What about the requests for other rare fandoms we might actually know?"

also coal: "Okay, I could probably pick that up. I'll check it out when I get home from work." (11, 21, and at least one other that I don't know the number for appear to have been claimed by coalies)

also coal: "If anyone is trying to crack those IPHs no one knows, here are some sources"

Re: Four IPHs left

[(Anonymous)]

"I'll read it when I get home from work" coalie is still at work (and should have resisted the temptation to get on coal) and did not claim it! So either another coalie did or someone else found the source.

(I'll probably still read canon though now that I've got it, it's still adorable.)

Re: Four IPHs left

[(Anonymous)]

yeah we're pretty awesome

Re: Four IPHs left

[(Anonymous)]

Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)

I concentrate toward them that are nigh, I wait on the door-slab.