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coalie ([personal profile] coalcube) wrote in [community profile] coaltide2021-10-13 07:35 pm
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(Anonymous) 2021-10-27 03:59 pm (UTC)(link)
All of what the coadie above me said, plus: if you put a treat into the main collection, it can be co-opted into a pinch hit. If you put it into the Madness collection, it can't.

(Anonymous) 2021-10-27 04:02 pm (UTC)(link)
I love that I am becoming a typo xD /coadie who was not the coalie above

(Anonymous) 2021-10-27 04:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, that was one of those "Oh, shit!" typos you see right after you hit the post button...

(Anonymous) 2021-10-27 04:40 pm (UTC)(link)
what are the circumstances it would be co-opted into a pinch hit?

aka what is your advice for deciding whether something should go in the main collection or madness (assuming it does in fact follow the letter, is over 1000 words, etc)

(Anonymous) 2021-10-27 04:45 pm (UTC)(link)
from the mod post:

Is it true my Treat might become someone’s main assignment? Yes, in the following circumstances.

If the person who was officially assigned to your recipient defaults at the December 18 deadline, we may check to see if they have a treat in the archive instead of sending them out to the pinch hit list. That is because of the very high volume of pinch hits late in the Yuletide season.

If we send someone out to pinch hit after the default deadline (December 11) and several days go by without a pinch hitter volunteering to write for them, we may check to see if they have a treat in the archive. (This has not happened before, as far as we know.)

If Person A defaults, and then their assigned writer defaults, we don’t send Person A out to the pinch hit list - their default means they are no longer guaranteed a gift. That means that a treat you write for Person A may be their only gift.

(Anonymous) 2021-10-27 05:03 pm (UTC)(link)
AYRT
thanks, i'm new here (obviously)

(Anonymous) 2021-10-27 05:04 pm (UTC)(link)
you're welcome!
welcome to coal/yuletide!

(Anonymous) 2021-10-27 04:52 pm (UTC)(link)
LOL at the person who keeps asking about the yuletidefairy account! that's the spirit!!

(Anonymous) 2021-10-27 04:57 pm (UTC)(link)
They're still asking? I was surprised to hear you can no longer put Yuletide Fairy stories in Madness, because that used to be a thing, but I don't get the obsession with the Yuletide Fairy. I thought it was fun and harmless, but if it's not done anymore, it's not done anymore.

(Anonymous) 2021-10-27 05:09 pm (UTC)(link)
yuletide fairy???

(Anonymous) 2021-10-27 05:41 pm (UTC)(link)
In days of yore, you could put a fic in the collection without a recip. The gift was for the Yuletide Fairy, and was meant to be a gift to the fandom as a whole. (No idea how this got started--maybe somebody had been writing something for a recip who dropped out???)

IIRC, it used to be that you could even put it in the main collection, although some people frowned on that. Later, it was something you could do only if you put it in the Madness collection. Apparently, it's no longer a thing at all.

Sorry for the vague history, but it's never been anything I followed closely.

(Anonymous) 2021-10-27 06:01 pm (UTC)(link)
around ten years ago there was an account called yuletidefairy who wrote gifts for people, and you could also gift your fic to them - I think? I'm pretty sure I didnt dream this up.

(Anonymous) 2021-10-27 06:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I'm having a vague memory of that.

(Anonymous) 2021-10-27 06:41 pm (UTC)(link)
yes, they wrote one of my favorite fics of all time.

(Anonymous) 2021-10-27 06:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Yep. I even know who the original yuletidefairy was! She liked writing treats but didn't want to tie all of them to her regular fandom pseud.

(Anonymous) 2021-10-27 06:55 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't know who they were but always thought they were a really good egg!

(Anonymous) 2021-10-27 08:03 pm (UTC)(link)
I thought it was also a sock and that account would post for different authors?

(Anonymous) 2021-10-28 11:39 am (UTC)(link)
It was. I wrote treats and swapped authorship to that account a lot.

(Anonymous) 2021-10-27 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't get the need for a 'fairy' account. Gifts can be posted to yuletide non-participants. So just gift the fic to a friend, or if it's some kinky thing your friends don't want to be associated with, set up a sock and gift to the sock.

(Anonymous) 2021-10-27 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
But that wouldn't get them the extra yuletide eyeballs on their fic. It's not about just giving someone a gift, it's a way of maximising their chances of feedback.

(Anonymous) 2021-10-28 02:30 am (UTC)(link)
In yuletide, you can't gift (in the main collection) to yuletide non-participants.

(Anonymous) 2021-10-27 05:45 pm (UTC)(link)
1) Don't put something in the main collection unless it would work as someone's assignment.

2) Don't put something in the main collection if you absolutely, positively want your fic to be a treat instead of a pinch hit.
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