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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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Stupid question for you coal: if I wrote two fics for one person, is it okay to indicate that in the notes, or does that kind of break anonymity?

[(Anonymous)]

I would absolutely not do that. Let the reveals be the reveals!

[(Anonymous)]

posted (though it needs a couple edits) but having no letter, no likes or dislikes, and a completely blank ao3 profile for my recip sure did suck a lot of fun out of the process. :/

[(Anonymous)]

smells sock-like to me. I hope they leave you a nice comment, Coalie, that's the least they could do.

I defaulted

[(Anonymous)]

:(

Still gonna write the fic eventually and gift it when it’s done, but feeling pretty crap about defaulting, especially this late in the game.

Re: I defaulted

[(Anonymous)]

Life happens, coalie, and definitely wiser to have defaulted now than keep struggling right up to the deadline and then still miss it anyway.

Yuletide dreams

[(Anonymous)]

I dreamed someone went out to ph with a request for Anderssen's little mermaid and the mods had to clarify "dont pick it up if youre only going to write for the disney movie or another adaptation." I thought about claiming it but i was like...i need to finish my current PH first.

Anybody else's subconscious prompting for them?

Re: Yuletide dreams

[(Anonymous)]

I wrote a start of romance road trip for two minor characters, and then when I went back to triple check the DNWs, I found that while they had asked for each of those things, they had done so in completely separate prompts and, in the romance case, for a completely different fandom. I'll maybe throw it in Yuletide Madness for them anyway, because they don't seem actively against shipping the two minor characters, they asked separately for road trip fic, and they seem open to romance generally, but wtf, brain? Everything in one letter is not one giant prompt!

ao3 news posts?

[(Anonymous)]

wtf is going on with the israel/palestine wank all over the most recent ao3 news posts

Re: ao3 news posts?

[(Anonymous)]

in the post or in the comments?

[(Anonymous)]

!!!SEVENTEEN HOURS LEFT!!!

[(Anonymous)]

!!!FOURTEEN HOURS LEFT!!!

Yulechat hippo ads

[(Anonymous)]

A place to stick lingering beta requests. Yulechat server invite:
https://discord.gg/PexRqsk9n5

Re: Yulechat hippo ads

[(Anonymous)]

Putting these here because some have been lingering for a while. To help with any of them, reach out to anyone on Yulechat with the hippo role, and they can connect you with the author.

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LF a characterization beta for a 1500-word Castlevania Nocturne fic

Author is in need of help with a ~2k, G rated Nancy Drew (TV 2019) fic. They're looking for someone with canon knowledge of season 4 who can help with fact checking and characterization, as well as general SPAG

LF a characterization beta for a 3k Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun (aka Monthly Girls Nozaki-kun) fic. They're looking for characterization, tone, and flow.

LF a beta for a 1k The Baby Sitters Club (novels) fic. Author would like help with SPAG, flow/pacing, if everyone is in-character, and if the fic should be rated G or T.

LF voice/canon check for 1.8k とんでもスキルで異世界放浪メシ | Tondemo Skill de Isekai Hourou Meshi (Manga) gen fic

Author needs help with a gen fic for Earth's Children - Jean M. Auel. The expected length is 3.5k or less. They're looking for someone who can check SPaG and adherence to canon.

Wonderful nonny seeks "is this fic working?" check for a 2k NCIS: Hawai'i fic.
Canon knowledge is preferred.

Author needs help with a ~4.5k Pillars of Eternity E-rated fic with a non-con warning. They're looking for someone who can check vibes and pacing. Canon knowledge is not necessary

Author is looking for help with figuring out tags and rating for a smutty ~2.5k Rivers of London fic. They're particularly worried about how to properly convey the smut/worldbuilding ratio. Canon knowledge preferred but not essential

[(Anonymous)]

whos getting butts this yuletide fic season

[(Anonymous)]

there are butts in my fic so at least one person

[(Anonymous)]

I don't mind if you write me gen, but if you no homo my ship I will find you and kick your badficcer ass!

Watching the numbers climb...

[(Anonymous)]

800 works, 600 fandoms, a little under 14 hours to deadline. There were 1389 signups, so plenty still outstanding at this point.

Re: Watching the numbers climb...

[(Anonymous)]

Ignoring Unspecified Fandom (15), the top three fandoms right now are:

Star Trek: Lower Decks (Cartoon) (7)
Final Fantasy XVI (6)
One Piece (Live Action TV 2023) (5) = The Queen's Thief - Megan Whalen Turner (5)

[(Anonymous)]

I want to format the recipient's name in the end note. How is that formatted with the nifty AO3 thing?

Why would you want to do that? You're already on AO3. You can just link to them, and also, their name appears at the top already?

[(Anonymous)]

Ugh yeah, any time I see someone with the recip's name in the notes my only thought is how awkward it will be for the recip if they hate it and want to reject.

Longfics

[(Anonymous)]

So far we've got 32 fics over 10,000 words, 4 fics over 20,000 words, and only 2 fics longer than 30,000 words

I wonder how those numbers are gonna change as we get closer to deadline (and how many longfic treats we'll get before reveals next week)

Re: Longfics

[(Anonymous)]

2 hours later and we've got a 50,000 word fic!

Argh, my characters got too horny!

[(Anonymous)]

I wanted to have a solid sfw bus pass today and add the smut scene later. But my characters started making out and rubbing dicks and it just felt wrong to stop there. So I just had to keep going.
Now that they completed their business maybe they'll leave me alone. I need to write a short ending and polish this thing!

Re: Argh, my characters got too horny!

[(Anonymous)]

sounds like those dicks are already well polished :D? :D?

Rabbit?

[(Anonymous)]

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Re: Rabbit?

[(Anonymous)]

bunny bunny bunny whoops

[(Anonymous)]

defalalalalalalalault
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OH SHIT

[(Anonymous)]

I think my mom is doing Yuletide. FML.

Re: OH SHIT

[(Anonymous)]

What's wrong with that?

WHAT LOOKS GOOD

[(Anonymous)]

IN THE COLLECTION

Re: WHAT LOOKS GOOD

[(Anonymous)]

“Mystery Work” looks pretty intriguing!

[(Anonymous)]

WHERE THE FUCK IS MY GIFT FFS

[(Anonymous)]

Torn between replying "there's still 7 hours, calm down" and "mood" because my gift isn't in yet either

[(Anonymous)]

Go suck a big fat egg, FFA.

[(Anonymous)]

what now

[(Anonymous)]

my butt has a gift

[(Anonymous)]

*pats your good little butt*

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not getting porn for Yuletide and I'm sad about it.

[(Anonymous)]

me neither, let's smutlessly commiserate!

Me: *writes something for Fandom A* Me later: Oh cool someone wrote for Fandom A!

[(Anonymous)]

Earlier today I posted a treat that has to go in Madness because it’s less than 1K words

And just now I was looking through the lists of fandoms and I was looking at Yuletide Madness and was like "oh someone wrote for (fandom), cool!" And clicked it to see what the rating is and stuff and I saw the fic I wrote (I was logged in) and was like "oh right. The one I wrote for that fandom. That I posted today. How did I forget"

Re: Me: *writes something for Fandom A* Me later: Oh cool someone wrote for Fandom A!

[(Anonymous)]

Are you me, coalie? I am always doing shit like that!

I put it down to being overwhelmed by holiday stress at the moment.

[(Anonymous)]

I posted! If my recip is here, you have your gift!

Now, where's mine?

[(Anonymous)]

ah fuck me, going by tags I'm 75% sure my gift is from a wanker

[(Anonymous)]

who, flipflop diva? trust me you don't want a gift from her

[(Anonymous)]

Put up a reasonable bus pass that’s going to get doubled in length and hopefully cross to E this week. Bonus, because there’s another fic in the fandom the recipient shouldn’t be able to tell their gift grew in length even if they shake very thoroughly right now. (I’m actually fine with what I have at the moment but I have much better ideas and the juices are finally flowing so I think it’ll come out well by next week.)

Also I peeked and though it’s not for me (I already know what fandom I got) someone wrote for a fandom/pairing I asked for which means the other person with a similar but way better letter got it, so it’s like double the presents for me!

[(Anonymous)]

I'm in the same boat, my fic as posted is fine, but I reckon I'll be adding at least of couple of thousand words of porn.