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The Coal Game

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The most pathetical errors!
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Who stayed up all night tracking a source in its original Latin
Up, writin'
And writin' bad!

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b_o, a perennial classic:

https://beatrice-otter.dreamwidth.org/425057.html

Only thoughtful worldbuilding allowed!

what's the history with b_o? I'm a newbie on the discord and she seems pretty active/helpful?

DC My interactions with her have been mostly positive, but she tends to be a little...opinionated.

She's very pushy and opinionated.

She also (infamously) once wrote a story for a recip who had requested m/m, and Beatrice wrote m/canon wife, with the wife running over the other half of the m/m ship with a car.

Woah. I missed this entirely. I'm going to assume it was rejected. Did the recipient get an EPH?

No, that was one where the mods (notably morbane but she wasn't an officially mod then) sided with b_o (as they always do with wanky authors) and chastised the recip.

how the fuck did that not get an EPH? and they CHASTISED the recip? what did the recip say

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See extensive discussion last post: https://coaltide.dreamwidth.org/4554.html?thread=8468426#cmt8468426

And even when she's being helpful she does it in such a lecture-like tone that I (and others) find annoying and patronizing.

Oh and there was that one time on Discord when she said it was basically OK to delete your fic. And the mods were like O_o

why did she say it was okay to delete your fic??

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Last I checked she was literally a preacher as her dayjob. And she clearly doesn't know how to turn it off when dealing with people outside of church.

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Road Kill!! - a Yuletide classic! /s

someone link the fic please

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And she is a hippo, so if you block her, you'll be blocking a lot of hippo requests. And if you use a different hippo for your own request, but you have to wait until later for someone to answer, they may go to her and you'll miss the info. It's a whole mess.

She has no concept of how conversational turn-taking works, although I guess most people on the yuletide discord are the same.

conversational turn-taking?

dc

Summarized as "there are times when other people get to talk and this is fine."

"The most important thing for me in a fic is that the characters are well-written and recognizably themselves."

I don't know what to do with this, if I were her author, I'd be STRESSED

"Stressed" isn't the word that came to my mind.

I could do that easily, but seeing it phrased that way makes me want to not do it.

Yup. I have to game away from a fandom I love in every exchange she's in, because in no way do I want her for either a writer or recip, especially since we ship different pairings. I don't want her to road kill my fave!

For those playing the letter bingo: "If nothing else, if the rest of this letter is too much or my kinks just don't fit yours, just concentrate on writing a story with everyone in character and good spelling and grammar and I will almost certainly love what you come up with."

"Good writers only, please."

All true, but I was assigned to write for b_o one year, found her letter included all the info I needed, and she left a fantastic comment, so I don’t game away from her.

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