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coalie ([personal profile] coalcube) wrote in [community profile] coaltide2023-10-21 10:01 pm
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And another one!

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


Yuletide Discord for Hippos & Exchanges After Dark Discords for Namespace drama 18+ discussion. Google Group for PHs.



Re: "all yuletide fic is just so bad!"

(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 01:32 am (UTC)(link)
Are these dumb cunts in the room with us right now?

(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 01:33 am (UTC)(link)
They have to ask. Nobody asks the FFArters who Aurae is when they reply with "Hi Aurae."

Re: "all yuletide fic is just so bad!"

(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 01:36 am (UTC)(link)
dude if you believe this you never been to bfe and your better off

Re: "all yuletide fic is just so bad!"

(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 01:37 am (UTC)(link)
if they from ffa yeah

(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 01:37 am (UTC)(link)
i have literally seen someone asking what the story with aurae is, so. disagree

Re: Untherius watch

(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
parent up

Re: "all yuletide fic is just so bad!"

(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 01:40 am (UTC)(link)
let's not import the "all fic from Unrevealed Exchange is bad, I looked at it with my professor X powers and pooped on it ahead of time" troll garbage from there

(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
When I got back into exchange fandom I had to ask what the deal with aurae was because I had blessedly missed those years.

Re: Final works count?

(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
I think it's great. Big fan of the huge amount of gen to read. It's the reason I always try to participate in Yuletide.

Re: "all yuletide fic is just so bad!"

(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe they are dumb, but they are about 40% correct: 40% bad, 30% passable, 20% good, 8% very good and 2% excellent and inspired.

Re: "all yuletide fic is just so bad!"

(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 01:46 am (UTC)(link)
I think it's not quite that bad. But now I'm curious, so I'll rate everything I read in the next couple days and do some stats.

Re: fishspeakers anonfail

(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
A short, cheerful, generic comment is not notably shit.

Re: fishspeakers anonfail

(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
You're a frog graphic enjoyer, aren't you?

Re: "all yuletide fic is just so bad!"

(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
Nah, you're just pulling numbers out of your ass, or mistaking the small slice of what you read as an indicator of the full collection.

Re: fishspeakers anonfail

(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 01:57 am (UTC)(link)
What on earth does that mean?

Re: "all yuletide fic is just so bad!"

(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know where you got your numbers but I still think Yuletide fic is significantly better than all fic in general.

(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
What *is* the deal with Aurae? I vaguely recognize the name but if I was around for it, it didn't stick in the memory. Was that one of the sockpuppeteers?

Re: fishspeakers anonfail

(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
Someone used to gift cheerful, generic frog graphics to everyone in fandomstocking.

Everyone fucking hated them and thought they were total shit. They were the fandom equivalent of your boss handing everyone on your team the same expired cocoa packet stapled through the middle to a piece of paper with generic holiday greetings on it.

So were LK's comments.

Re: "all yuletide fic is just so bad!"

(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
I agree with you coalie. Always surprised by people’s standards in these kinds of discussions - those people must have such an easy time finding fic to read!

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Re: fishspeakers anonfail

(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks for the explanation!

Unwanted generic graphics don't seem remotely analogous to simple thank yous.

(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
Absolutely creepy fandom participant mainly in Star Wars. Frogboiled her exchange participation by graaadually increasing the number of her sock accounts in exchanges (all pretending they had nothing to do with each other of course) while writing DNWs that contradicted her requests and throwing a fit if people couldn't figure out how to thread the needle. Made a weird sick game out of giving people things they didn't think to DNW; I particularly remember she wrote an alpha/alpha original fic with random pet mutilation & death in the first few paragraphs. Wanked up a storm on ffa, constantly playing up the theme of how you couldn't prove it was her.

Extraordinarily prolific: sometimes signed up to exchanges with 8 accounts at a time, and turned in most of her assignments (quality varied).

Mods gradually lost patience with her, especially after someone used R-Stylo, a text analysis tool, to give compelling evidence that several of her socks were the same person. The most glorious blow against her came when she signed up to a round of Rare Male Slash Exchange and the mod matched all of her accounts to write for the same dummy account, which had been added to the participant list at the last second. Notably, that round involved someone wanking anonymously at top volume about how it was such bad modding for a mod to close sign-ups precisely on time.

She reappeared briefly this year under new accounts, as rumor has it, and was kicked out of May the 4th. If she's been active since, she's been stealthy.

Re: fishspeakers anonfail

(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
People don't tend to want recip comments that are so absolutely generic they could apply to any fic in an exchange, either. Like was said before, LK's could, and that's part of why people misremember them as being copy-pasted.

(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
Wow! I think I heard about some of that but not all of it (coal is the only place I get exchange wank) and had her partly mixed up with the socktopus.

(Anonymous) 2023-12-25 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
Wait, was she not the socktopus?