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The Coal Game

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And watching coalies make errors
The most pathetical errors!
We're watching experienced coalies
Who stayed up all night tracking a source in its original Latin
Up, writin'
And writin' bad!

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I'm sure there are some who do it with secret sock puppets.

Those are the only creators I respect. Operating under your own name is self-promotion at best and wanting to have the top/BNF status in your own fandom at worst. This is for fans to have fun together, interacting as a “pro” is such a bad look.

Agreed. If they want, just write short stories on a Patreon or something, don't sign up for exchanges and offer/request your own fandom. Also imagine getting assigned the author of your fandom? Talk about stress and high stakes. I'd probably default out of stress.

I'd be jazzed to be assigned to the creators of my fandom tbqh

DC Yeah TBH I think a lot of casual participants wouldn't think about it as much as coalies are.

I agree that coal overthinks a lot, but if it was known that your recipient was the author of the canon? I think that might be the one thing normal YTers might actually freak out about

Jazzed anon

Yeah I think that's a reasonable assumption. Just one that would be wrong about me /sincere

Yhl doesn't do fandom under his pro name, you have to be plugged in to fandom to know who etothey is, but it's also not even a little bit a secret. So I wouldn't say it's self-promo-y. But the other stuff applies

His AO3 account links the pseuds together. He definitely isn't trying to hide who he is. He's a great recip though. I've written for him before and would gladly do so again.

"yhlee" is one of his AO3 names.

https://archiveofourown.org/users/etothey/pseuds/yhlee

yhlee is his pro writing journal and he links that AO3 account there all the time as a writer and a recip.

https://yhlee.dreamwidth.org/3934771.html

Dear Doodler,

I'm etothey on AO3. Thank you for doodling for me, and I look forward to whatever you come up with!

FIAB https://yhlee.dreamwidth.org/3932403.html
ToT https://yhlee.dreamwidth.org/3927706.html
YT https://yhlee.dreamwidth.org/tag/fandom:+yuletide

Based on the AO3 app, he's never requested his own fandom, at least. The fact that he participates in exchanges and requests other fandoms doesn't seem weird to me, but I can see how his writing treats about his own book canon could be awkward for the recips.

I don't know any of his writing (pro or otherwise), but I've seen him around in comments on AO3/DW since before I knew he was a pro author, and he seems cool.

Oh hey I've had him a drink swap recip before! (He was a great recip)

Which...is actually knowledge that just moved Ninefox Gambit up in my to read pile. (I've been deep in nonfiction land for years and only picked up fiction again this year.)

DC

He was a great bookswap sender too!

that's different to me though bc they're just interacting as another fan. If they're acting with a sock, the things coalie above mentioned aren't going to happen, and it's less self-promo-y

I don't do it under a sock (since it's my main fandom account), but my credited name and my account name are different, and that's enough for only one person ever to have figured it out.

That's what I would do.

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