And another one!

[coalcube]

I see my nemesis getting a fic that I love
And I'm like, "Fuck you" 
I guess my 10k letter wasn't enough
I'm like, "Fuck you and fuck morbane, too"
Said, "If I was a long commenter, they woulda gamed for me"
Ha, now ain't that some shit?
(Ain't that some shit?)
And although there's pain in my chest
I still comment it's the best
And runs to coal to shout "Fuck you" 

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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the fic of your dreams

[(Anonymous)]

hey coalie, I want to know about the fic of your dreams. yes, you! go on, please tell me about what you really really want this Yuletide.

Re: the fic of your dreams

[(Anonymous)]

I want unhinged, possessive, so-wrong-it's-right villain/protagonist.

I requested that for two out of three of my fandoms, so the odds are good I'll be matched for it; we'll see if someone actually writes it for me >.>

[(Anonymous)]

get your fresh butts

[(Anonymous)]

butts butts

[(Anonymous)]

As a mirror to the thread above, what are you dreaming about writing?

[(Anonymous)]

Unhealthy coping mechanisms to deal with high-stress environments, decadent food porn, and fucking in the walk-in.

[(Anonymous)]

I um... I don't think the person requesting Ex Machina remembers the second half of the movie? Going by their request and the general likes/DNWs... Should someone tell them??

[(Anonymous)]

Where are you seeing there letter? I don't see it in the app. Am I blind? Or maybe they haven't finished it yet?

[(Anonymous)]

From the promo post:

What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: Fanfic.

LOL

Assignments

[(Anonymous)]

I'm so excited to receive my assignment. I don't know why, I just want it NOW! Anyone else glued to their emails?

Re: Assignments

[(Anonymous)]

No. It won't show up until likely the middle of my night at the earliest, and then I won't be able to do anything about it until next weekend, so I've decided to just pretend yuletide isn't happening until Friday.

[(Anonymous)]

gee i wonder which fandom this person wants most

https://www.tumblr.com/myrsinemezzo/731756000513867776/dear-yuletide-writer-2023?source=share

[(Anonymous)]

Me skimming over this: I don’t see what the problem is, there’s two fandoms with roughly equal coverage…… oh.

[(Anonymous)]

Are we there yet?

[(Anonymous)]

:(

[(Anonymous)]

When people say "I DNW (insert character(s) here)" do they generally mean "I don't want this character being mentioned at all" or "I don't want this character showing up in my story"? A late-posted letter in one of the canons I offered has this restriction - and while I could avoid having the character in question show up in the story, it would be near-impossible to avoid mentioning them at all given that they interact with both characters in canon.

[(Anonymous)]

I would err on the side of never mentioning them, frankly!

it would be near-impossible to avoid mentioning them at all given that they interact with both characters in canon

Just...don't bring up those interactions? Have the requested characters off somewhere in a place where the DNW-character is not located? If the DNW-character represents something of un-ignorable canon significance, refer to the name of the entity/corporation/thingy that they represent, rather than the character themselves? Just don't ever have the requested characters thinking about the DNW-character in any way?

I mean, I interact with my parents all the time, but one could easily write a story about me in which they never appeared or were mentioned, and the reader could just fill in the blanks and infer that I did not spring fully formed from the forehead of Zeus.

Letter with poll

[(Anonymous)]

https://www.tumblr.com/spiritintheteapot/731805893486903296/yuletide-letter-2023

Just found this. Thoughts?

Re: Letter with poll

[(Anonymous)]

Oh man, a full-body shudder from me.

4 people have already voted!

[(Anonymous)]

mods please send out assignments and pinch hits already and save coal from our own interminable stupid conversations

(or at least someone find some entertainingly batshit letter wank or something)

[(Anonymous)]

Coalie streak on the floor from rolling round in impatience.

I want my assignment now. I haven't signed up in like five years, cater to me.

Fandoms you had to drop

[(Anonymous)]

As we wait for assignments, are there any fandoms you wanted, but had to drop for reasons? Any regrets about that?

Re: Fandoms you had to drop

[(Anonymous)]

I was on the fence about two much-loved canons that are both on the cusp of ineligibility for Yuletide, even under the new eligibility rules.

I ended up dropping both from my requests because a bunch of other people requested them, and I wanted to give sign-up priority to other wanted fandoms that nobody else was requesting but many other people were offering.

No regrets!

[(Anonymous)]

I've decided that I can absolutely cope with an "Any Characters" request, or a sign-up with zero optional details. Either would be a challenge, since I like assignments with defined prompts and preferences, but I can deal.

Just please, not both at the same time.

[(Anonymous)]

Anyone who asks for any characters and gives zero details literally wants anything. Therefore, they must also want a fic where all the characters sit together in a blank white room on folding chairs and discuss Friedrich Engels unfinished 1883 work, Dialektik der Natur, which attempted to apply Marx's idea of dialectical materialism to the natural world, while one of them, and only one, is holding a cup of coffee.

[(Anonymous)]

shocked by the conversation in the discord about how people view their treats and their original gift the same way and so it's fine to not label a treat because the recip should like both the same. I always comment on my assigned gift first, and make sure I gas it up more than anything else (obv not if it were coal, but like if all gifts are equal). I know we can all look at this differently, but it feels disrespectful to me to treat a treat like a main course when your real main course writer is right there seeing it.

[(Anonymous)]

This is why I really dislike the idea of treats.

press the button

[(Anonymous)]

d o it

Re: press the button

[(Anonymous)]

We need assignments

[(Anonymous)]

the way I keep opening and closing discord to see if there's anything in yuletide discord/ead 💀💀💀

[(Anonymous)]

the way I keep opening and closing discord to see if there's anything in yuletide discord/ead 💀💀💀

[(Anonymous)]

No assignment? :(

Assignments!!!

[(Anonymous)]

Ack

Re: Assignments!!!

[(Anonymous)]

My recip is the one person who writes amazing fic in this teeny fandom and I'm so intimidated

Assignments!

[(Anonymous)]

Got mine and it's for the fic I already started sketching out!

Assignments!

[(Anonymous)]

Assignments!

Re: Assignments!

[(Anonymous)]

The good: I know and enjoy all of the fandoms my recip requested!

The bad: the requests are two lines of "I love this fandom, I'd like to see the characters doing something, but it doesn't matter what," plus a dose of asking for characters that were not included in the request or tagset.

I guess I'm gonna go full ODAO and write whatever the fuck I want...?

[(Anonymous)]

If I got the same recip as I got last year, on the same small-even-for-yt fandom, is it OK if I write on that fandom? Like would it make me look weird post author reveals?

[(Anonymous)]

it feels like you're both in it for the same thing. more fic in that fandom.

[(Anonymous)]

assignment has two characters and no prompts, likes, or dnws

so

that's great

[(Anonymous)]

trade you; mine has one character 1 (one) very specific prompt based on a wild headcanon that I do not share

[(Anonymous)]

assigned butts

[(Anonymous)]

are you happy abutt it