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2021

Don't Stop Coal Now!

Tonight I'm gonna have myself a real coal time
I feel alive
And the exchange I'll turn it inside out, yeah
I'm floating around in agony
So, (don't stop me now)
(Don't stop me)
'Cause I'm having a coal time, having a coal time~

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The “to my recipient - I enjoyed writing this” sounds fine? I feel like it can be a confidence booster to say that hey, your prompts were run!

The polyvangelism is weird tho.

DC Ehhhhhh. Depends on what the work was.

If it was closely sticking to the recip's prompts and they had requested polyvangelism (or whatever), it's totally fine. But given that "I hope you enjoyed writing this" as a comment is the kiss of death from a recip who hated their gift, "I enjoyed writing this" could come across as pretty pass-agg in a situation where the author ignored all the prompts/likes/ships/etc. and wrote what they wanted to instead.

Dear god.

+1 keeeeey-RISTE

What?? That’s a kiss of death? I feel like if someone said something along the lines of “I hope you enjoyed writing this as much as I enjoyed reading this”—-is that still kiss of death? Idk I think it’s kind of nice that the recipient would think of the writer? Idk? Idk I guess if the comment is JUST “I hope you enjoyed writing this” then yeah maybe but I don’t think it’s any good to cause paranoia for every phrase that could easily be interpreted in bad faith.

SC

The number of IDKs in this just reflects my level of bafflement, which is high.

DC it’s always felt weird to me to use “recipient” instead of, y’know, the recipient’s name, but I’ve seen it often enough that I guess it’s a thing?

IDK, I feel like it's when you address your friend as "Dear friend," instead of using their name. Sometimes using the relationship noun instead of the name just feels right.

I don't like it when people use my name. It's already there in the 'For'! It feels like those people who, talking to you directly in person, keep using your name.

DA

I don't think that's a bad thing, neither in person nor on the fic.

It's a bit awkward to include the recip's name if they want to refuse the gift. More polite to just address them as "dear recipient" so they can back away gracefully if needed.

DC - That was always my feeling about it. What if the recip doesn't actually like it? And using their name also makes it sound like I know them and we're friends, which feels a little weird to me when we don't actually know each other at all.

I don't think there's anything *wrong* with using someone's name (some of my writers have addressed me by name, and I didn't mind at all), but doing it feels weird to me, so I prefer "recipient."

DA

I understand that in theory, but I still vastly prefer being addressed by my name rather than having the creator say "dear recip/recipient". If I reject the gift, they can always edit the note.

All this isn't really an issue to me, since I forgo the salutations and the rest is taken care of with person pronouns. Loved your prompt, hope you have a happy Yuletide, that sort of thing.

+1

This is how I do it, too.

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