coaltide | Merry Crisis

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2022

Merry Crisis

On the 7^th night of Hanukkah my vindictive author gave to me....

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i claim this post in the name of poop

(*˘︶˘*).｡.:*♡

The ship of coal was badly pooped. A wave of wank broke over the stern of the post, causing it to capsize.

Thanks for all the links, coalcube!

Talk about it ITT.

https://archiveofourown.org/collections/yuletidemadness2022/profile

Coalie from last post's thread hadn't realized there was a new post starting, lol. Still working on a few things, and I'm hoping I can finish one or two of them before the collection reveals! ~~PRAY FOR ME~~

Go, nonnie, write those words!

every year I love my fic and every year it is like pulling teeth to say so. how is commenting so hard why am I so bad at receiving presents

This year I'm so tired that I'm giving myself a lot more hours after my initial "AHHHHH" comment.

My Author: Here, I have lovingly crafted a story that is everything you desire, even though you are weird and putting all your likes in will alienate the other potential readers. It took weeks. Merry Christmas.

Me: T H A N K

urgh yes I have reached the point where I feel guilty not having done it so I'm about to sit down with an extra tab open to pull all the things I liked in a reread, but, like, why can't they just telepathically know this? why must I put it together in a way that doesn't accidentally sound sarcastic or ungrateful

I have two gifts and I like them both!

...so of course it's time for me to obsess over whether one or the other of the comments I wrote sounds less enthusiastic and therefore my authors might think I only like one of the gifts and not the other.

What's good? What's bad?

I got one fic that was absolutely delightful in every way, one fic that was. fine. and one fic that I think they put a lot more work into tailoring exactly for me that's fun but a bit awkwardly written. I have no idea how to comment on all three fairly.

I liked both of the interactive fiction fics in the collection this year.

Exactly this. My gifts deserve long and thoughtful comments, and I want to go back and reread them carefully and pull out all the things I loved, and I want to do it soon so my authors aren't kept waiting and wondering if I liked what they wrote. But writing even one good comment takes me ages, nevermind writing multiple comments that all express my enthusiasm equally!

Pull quotes. Do three to four pull quotes for each and none of them will notice the difference.

You don't have to pretend to like all gifts equally, coalie.

If you figure it out, please share! I'm in the same boat: one fic that was good and fine, and a treat that was exactly what I've always from this fandom and more.

I have read 4 fics this year: two of them wank fics from last post, which were very bad. One gift for me, which was very good. And one fic in an old fandom of mine, which was very good.

I should read more, probably.

bad is getting a new post when the wank was getting good

Make a wank recap to start us off again and consolidate all the good bits into one spot

Looks like I have to eat my hat because the mods did something about high school racism after all

Oh?

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Anyone writing for the Madness collection?

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