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Nominations: Monday 18 to Thursday 28 September (Coordination | Evidence Post)
Sign-ups: Friday 13 to Saturday 21 October (NYR | Promo Post)
Assignments Out: Monday 23 October (may be earlier)
Default Deadline: Monday 11 December
Assignment Deadline: Monday 18 December
Main Collection Opens: Monday 25 December
Madness Opens: Tuesday 26 December
Author Reveals: Monday 1 January


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So the sky didn't fall

[(Anonymous)]

So much for coalies claiming the mods wanted to strictly enforce ALL OR NOTHING. You can keep your subsets.

Re: So the sky didn't fall

[(Anonymous)]

The mods are the ones who brought this suggestion up. Are we not to take them at their word that it was an option?

This post

[(Anonymous)]

I appreciate that it was a meme from some show, since I remember seeing it in gif form, but can we please not have misogynistic slurs, even as a joke, in posts? It's really not fun for me to be addressed in this way.

Re: This post

[(Anonymous)]

Bitch, what

Promo Roast

[(Anonymous)]

What looks good to you in the fandom promo post? What looks like a mess? What could be promo'd better? Are any canons being wildly misrepresented?

Have you ever picked up a fandom for Yuletide based on a promo, only for it to be Not As Advertised and you need to vent about it somewhere? Go ahead.

Re: Promo Roast

[(Anonymous)]

Is ROAR an anthology show or does the person promoting it just want fic about an ordinary serial show, but a character who appears in one episode? I can't tell from the description.

[(Anonymous)]

yay new post new butts

Who's already started nomming?

[(Anonymous)]

And who's waiting a while or still deciding what to nom?

Re: Who's already started nomming?

[(Anonymous)]

Waiting because I'm lazy. Before I nominate I need to figure out the passwords to all my socks I haven't used since last Yuletide and then go in and look at what I nominated last time.

Oh! It's that name again

[(Anonymous)]

You never see them around otherwise but at Yuletide you remember the person exists.

Which are they, whether the association is negative or positive?

Re: Oh! It's that name again

[(Anonymous)]

Aunt_zelda. And my reaction is pure *shudder*.

gen outs

[(Anonymous)]

yay or nay?

Re: gen outs

[(Anonymous)]

A classic topic.

I think if you want ships and/or porn you should talk about how much you love your ships and/or porn. Never, never give actual prompts for gen scenarios you don't want. But talk enough about what you like about the characters that a gen writer going ODAO can figure out something that touches on why you like them.

Honestly, smut only-prompts that are just "pegging, facials, watersports" and nothing else aren't a guarantee of good porn either, so you might as well give actual prompts.

Nominations you want

[(Anonymous)]

What are you hoping other will nominate, coalies?

Re: Nominations you want

[(Anonymous)]

Narbonic used to be nommed every year by someone else and I would offer it every year, but it never got matched on by anyone, and I haven't seen in the last couple of years. I miss it!

[(Anonymous)]

how many morbanes we got here y'all

[(Anonymous)]

just one but I surely do think we have one

[(Anonymous)]

I know that there's a nomination coordination station, but if you want your username to stay anon and so does your dentist... is it okay to leave the username blank?

[(Anonymous)]

yes it's fine

[(Anonymous)]

I wonder if I should make a promo post. Do people actually look at those?

Anyone got experience with this? Has it ever helped you get more people into your tiny canons if you made a promo post?

[(Anonymous)]

I look at them, but not necessarily during yuletide. I go back to the promo post randomly through the year when I'm looking for canon recs, and when I like something I offer it the next year 'round if it's still being requested.

[(Anonymous)]

Where is the drama?

The mods arguing about tickybox wording doesn't count even though I want to say FIGHT! FIGHT!

[(Anonymous)]

I'm trying to remember where I know the name GrayCardinal from.

[(Anonymous)]

TFW you go to double-check the character names in your nom and discover there's been a sequel published thirty years after the first book.

(do I drop the nom? do I try to get and read the sequel before noms close? do I pretend sequel to beloved childhood favorite doesn't exist and can't ruin it?)

[(Anonymous)]

do I pretend sequel to beloved childhood favorite doesn't exist and can't ruin it?

I vote this. Just mention in your signup you're not interested in sequel material and perhaps even DNW the sequel in your signup.

Too rare even for Yuletide?

[(Anonymous)]

I know that technically there's no such thing, but do you ever get that irrational fear that some of your canons are so obscure that it'll be super hard to find you an author?

Re: Too rare even for Yuletide?

[(Anonymous)]

Please give me all your obscure canons, coalie!

[(Anonymous)]

can you rec me some cannons about farts pls

[(Anonymous)]

Ones I might offer if you nommed them:

Walter the Farting Dog by William Kotzwinkle. A timeless classic, plus it's on a lot of banned book lists so you are also opposing censorship!

The Lion King - it's at 900+ works this year, may be your last chance at Pumbaa/Timon for Yuletide!

Mystery Men - Cult superhero film, one of the heroes has a farting superpower.

Down Periscope, the submarine combat film of all time, features a plot-relevant fart.

Artemis Fowl. Among a great deal of similar kinds of humor.

The Japanese fairy tale "The Farting Wife". Also one of the world's oldest jokes, from Ancient Sumeria, on a similar theme.

Le Petomaine RPF

And I don't know what your odds are of getting City Watch Discworld into Yuletide under the current 'related fandoms' rules but of course Vimes and Sybil, one of the greatest het pairings of all time, were brought together by the farts that also saved the city.

Sock amnesty

[(Anonymous)]

OK, let's admit it. Who's bringing their dentist or their chiropractor or their hairdresser or whoever along to noms, or even signups?

Re: Sock amnesty

[(Anonymous)]

I use a minimum of 10 accounts to nom every year.

Can we ask for onlyfans fic?

[(Anonymous)]

Or is that rpf or something?

Re: Can we ask for onlyfans fic?

[(Anonymous)]

It would be RPF, yeah, but probably they would say the people involved aren't famous enough and reject it.

[(Anonymous)]

FUCK SHIT HELL DAMN FUCKITTY FUCK FUCK.

I am going to have to drop this fandom because it's one the racist asshole tends to request. FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK.

[(Anonymous)]

If only there were a single, solitary, unique racist in Yuletide.

[(Anonymous)]

this comm has got real boring now, pls go back 2 shitposting

[(Anonymous)]

But someone could feel offended.

Nom Trading

[(Anonymous)]

Anyone have a free slot? Anyone need a free slot? Trade noms here

Re: Nom Trading

[(Anonymous)]

Apparently Farscape is eligible, so if someone has a free slot, could they please nominate that, so I can offer to write it? Chracters in order of preference: Aeryn, Crichton, D'argo, Crais, Scorpius, Braca, Grayza, Zhaan, Pilot, Rygel, Sikozu, Jothee, Noranti, Jool, Staleek, Stark.

old coal

[(Anonymous)]

Do you ever get tempted to go reread coal's greatest hits while waiting for something to happen?

What old coal threads do you rec?

Re: old coal

[(Anonymous)]

all the butt threads

[(Anonymous)]

coal, tell me. do i need an evidence post for a robin hood retelling? its not connected to any other robin hood canon, apart from, you know, being a robin hood retelling. there are some pretty big differences to the usual stuff too.

[(Anonymous)]

I would say yes - to be on the safe side.

Trick or Treat

[(Anonymous)]

Who's participating? Happy with your assignment? Treating maybe?

Or just waiting for Yuletide?

Re: Trick or Treat

[(Anonymous)]

I and my dentist both got the assignments of our dreams and I have never been happier with this exchange.

Rec Me Canons

[(Anonymous)]

Don't have enough fandoms you're excited about this year?

Get some themed recs before nominations end.

Re: Rec Me Canons - wuxia with m/m potential

[(Anonymous)]

I'm looking for wuxia and wuxia-adjacent canons that have strong m/m potential. Typical wuxia bromance is fine. They don't need to be danmei adaptations.

[(Anonymous)]

suck a gay rhinos ass