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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

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https://groups.google.com/g/yt-ph?label=unclaimed

That's a shame, one of the initial pinch hits is out again.

Lol I guess someone did pick it up just so we'd get requests then

It's possible, but it seems just as likely to me that a dozen other things happened. Like, they picked it up based on having played part of one of the VNs, and when they went to review canon they realized they'd misremembered something and couldn't make it work. Or they picked it up based on a promo post and hated it. Or their life got torpedoed in the last couple of weeks. And so on.

+1

Also, it wasn't one of the last PHs to be picked up, so it makes less sense in my opinion.

I feel sorry for them; they're a great recip. Unfortunately their current canons are not for me.

Yeah, a lot of the time I'd tend to assume quickly returned pinch hits are people who think they have access to a canon to write something and then when they go to actually do canon review realise they got rid of it in a clearout, it was pulled by the platform they were going to get it from or whatever.

You know it!

Promo posts for #45:

Wonderful Everyday | SubaHiki
https://fffx.dreamwidth.org/18154.html?thread=241898#cmt241898
^2021 post

Echo VN
https://yuletide.dreamwidth.org/303660.html?thread=4606252#cmt4606252

Promo post for WITCH comics (by someone who isn't the recipient, so different focus in requests, but possibly still useful):

https://yuletide.dreamwidth.org/303660.html?thread=4526892#cmt4526892

It looks like all of Geneshaft is on YouTube?
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmWSpSS_VIZq1dL0gEp7P4pJTA91dluU5

I mean, if it's your thing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneshaft

Also promo post for Elfquest from last year:

https://yuletide.dreamwidth.org/281559.html?thread=3856343#cmt3856343

Is it just me or are PHs being picked up a lot slower this year?

A bit, yeah.

For the 2 that are lingering now... I get it.

I think it's been like this for the last couple of years or more, actually. Somebody dug up the numbers for the initial batches of pinch hits on FFA and this year wasn't overlong by recent standards. (46 hours to claim 40 pinch hits this year vs 36 hours to claim 34 last year and 55 hours to claim 38 in 2021.) Yuletide pinch hits still go way faster than most but the days of them all immediately disappearing before you can dive in to try to claim one are probably further in the past than it feels like.

(Honestly, I partly blame the switch to Google Groups, which probably saw some general attrition of the number of people following the list, especially since Google makes you jump through slightly more hoops than Yahoo did, requiring an account instead of just an email address and not having a functioning RSS feed any more. So in some cases people may just be taking more time to even find out there are pinch hits up.)

I'm a recent Yuletide participant (my first was in 2020) and I didn't notice any difference. What I did notice is that every year when a few PHs linger for a couple of days, there's always someone panicking. But they all get picked up pretty quickly anyway.

This time there's a FIAB deadline going on, so I can see why they're a little slower. The FIAB PH I picked up is due today, so I'm not picking up anything else for now.

FIAB = Fic in a box, for anyone else that didn't know.

This, and I also blame the BFE thread over on FFA for all the handwringing about lingering.

Echo is such a great VN. It's so amazing. If i finish my assignment and the request is still out there, I'll pick it up.

If the PH is still lingering in even two days, I’d be concerned. Yuletide’s pinch hitters normally pick things up faster than that.

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