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

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

please gimme some WANK I am booooooooored

[(Anonymous)]

+1 i believe in u coalies!

[(Anonymous)]

well the current wank seems to be just how creepy untherius is

[(Anonymous)]

Current?

[(Anonymous)]

Ok. Hot take: yuletide is in decline

[(Anonymous)]

Hotter take: so is Untherius.

[(Anonymous)]

idk why anyone still cares about him. some women in fandom still have the ‘must focus on the rare cis males’ in fandom gene i guess

[(Anonymous)]

let's talk about kittyfic instead then

[(Anonymous)]

kittyfic at least tries to guess what your canon is about and use a like or two.

i propose that ‘i refuse to default’!odao fic written because the author hopes that their author is writing them the fic their letter asked for is worse.

there’s an inherent bastard quality where you’re denying someone else a better match because you hope you’re gonna get the fic of your dreams. at least write your 1k of what they asked for and then orphan it.

also theres a special place in exchange hell for people who refuse to default but also wish their author would default rather than giving them ODAO/kittyfic/etc

[(Anonymous)]

people who write odao rather than defaulting but throw a fit if they get odao are fucking hypocrites.

people who write odao because they're doing their best to fill their assignment while assuming their assigned writer is doing the same thing are doing what they're supposed to be doing, all the rules say odao is fine! and expected! yuletide is an odao fest!

like I get people being disappointed but like. fulfilling the requirements of a fic exchange, which are what you signed up for, is not a cardinal sin.

[(Anonymous)]

how many of the ‘im fulfilling the bare minimum and hope my author is too’ recips do you think really exist tho? and how many do you think run here to complain when they get average to subpar fic?

if they really are happy with “anything their author gives them” like odao implies then surely they can do their best to write whatever their assignment asked for. that falls within the “anything” the author might write them that they’re willing to read!

[(Anonymous)]

I'd personally rather get odao from someone who knows the fandom over fic someone wrote from a wikipedia article to one of my prompts/likes

[(Anonymous)]

Probably just because it's annoying he gets to participate after giving people crappy gifts.

[(Anonymous)]

apparently people volunteer for bigot oppa to be assigned to him these days so i wouldn’t worry about it. morbane & co do overtime to ensure he has a safe space just like all the other bad-faith authors rather than banning them, because fuck the rest of us i guess.

[(Anonymous)]

wait people want untherius fic?

[(Anonymous)]

okay bigot oppa is an amazing phrase and I'm stealing that but highkey sideeying the rest of this.

[(Anonymous)]

I bet those are sock accounts

[(Anonymous)]

and that is the problem. He’s a fucking missing stair of yuletide similar to the nazifucker who who turned out to be an actual (neo?)nazi. Except untherius is just a regular bigot, not a nazi.

Bad faith authors? Put them in time out for a year and assign their recip a pinch hit of the apocalypse.

But actual bigots and creepers do not deserve a safe and pleasant community experience. It is OKAY to make them feel uncomfortable and it’s ok to kick them out.

[(Anonymous)]

genuine question: why haven't the mods banned him after like the 2nd/3rd weird ass fic?

[(Anonymous)]

it's yuletide. nothing gets you banned, not even the most obvious spitefic.

[(Anonymous)]

Geek social fallacies? They have said publicly they talked to him so maybe they think they can't ban him unless he does something again that they warned him not to.

[(Anonymous)]

some good b8s here

[(Anonymous)]

well the bar certainly is on the floor then

[(Anonymous)]

I'd say it peaked around 2010-2012 or so.

So what?

[(Anonymous)]

I wonder if Yuletide would get up near its 2010-2012 numbers again if they did another defaulters amnesty like they did in 2013.