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" 

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Re: Pinch hits #41-48

[(Anonymous)]

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

Re: Pinch hits #41-48

[(Anonymous)]

A bit, yeah.

Re: Pinch hits #41-48

[(Anonymous)]

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

Re: Pinch hits #41-48

[(Anonymous)]

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.)

Re: Pinch hits #41-48

[(Anonymous)]

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.

Re: Pinch hits #41-48

[(Anonymous)]

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

Re: Pinch hits #41-48

[(Anonymous)]

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