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coalie ([personal profile] coalcube) wrote in [community profile] coaltide2024-10-20 09:54 am
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Default deadline: December 11 (9am UTC)  
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Yuletide Discord for Hippos & Exchanges After Dark Discords for Namespace drama 18+ discussion. Google Group for PHs.



Re: Just three pinch hits to go!

(Anonymous) 2024-10-22 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
ok grandma

Re: dumb writing woes

(Anonymous) 2024-10-22 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
Years ago I wrote 4,999 words for a Yuletide fic (after editing) and it's bothered me ever since. I feel you.

Re: Just three pinch hits to go!

(Anonymous) 2024-10-22 01:02 am (UTC)(link)
saying this when in fandom is extremely funny. you're definitely cringe.

Now two to go!

(Anonymous) 2024-10-22 01:03 am (UTC)(link)
Only 31 and 46 left.

Re: dumb writing woes

(Anonymous) 2024-10-22 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
I edit it but make sure the edits have the same amount of words.

Re: dumb writing woes

(Anonymous) 2024-10-22 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
i feel the reverse way tbh

Re: Now two to go!

(Anonymous) 2024-10-22 01:06 am (UTC)(link)
OK so what are the canons? like in terms of length and type

anyone know anything about them or have links?

Re: Just three pinch hits to go!

(Anonymous) 2024-10-22 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
Do we think that people are waiting on #46 to update their placeholder before claiming them? Because the Smiling Friends cartoon seems relatively easy to pick up, even if the others seem like longer and more complex canons.

Re: To Default or not to Default?

(Anonymous) 2024-10-22 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
especially if the recip seems to actually want bland fluff, and by the sound of things, they do.

Re: Just three pinch hits to go!

(Anonymous) 2024-10-22 01:13 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe. What is it?

Re: To Default or not to Default?

(Anonymous) 2024-10-22 01:14 am (UTC)(link)
+1 1k words of bland fluff seems exactly what the recip wants anyway. sure, it's not the 20k fic of their dreams but yuletide has never promised that.

(Anonymous) 2024-10-22 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
just curious... has an IPH ever Not been claimed?

(Anonymous) 2024-10-22 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
Treated myself with a nice edition for canon review

Re: To Default or not to Default?

(Anonymous) 2024-10-22 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
imho yuletide should be fun and this sounds like hell... for your own peace I'd say default. I you should tell the mods about the any characters/DNW characters situation because that's honestly not fair. Otherwise, I'm sorry... I hope yuletide goes a bit better for you

(Anonymous) 2024-10-22 01:27 am (UTC)(link)
It's impossible, so no. Sometimes it has taken a while. People are generally pretty amazing at hunting down canons and consuming them in this exact scenario, though.

(Anonymous) 2024-10-22 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
Of course not. How do you imagine that playing out?

Re: Just three pinch hits to go!

(Anonymous) 2024-10-22 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
cringe for everyone

(Anonymous) 2024-10-22 01:33 am (UTC)(link)
My take on specifying characters is that it works better if you specify for every fandom with more than two or three characters, in that if you offer 8 fandoms with specified characters and 1 with any and there's nine characters in that any, you'll get assigned the one. Or at least I always do.

(Anonymous) 2024-10-22 01:36 am (UTC)(link)
I don't doubt that they're the same person. But if I was a Yuletide mod, I'd probably want something stronger to go on.

Re: Just three pinch hits to go!

(Anonymous) 2024-10-22 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
Brat coalie

Lol, so terribly sorry you had to see something you find annoying on *checks notes* an anon comm dedicated to a fanfictiction exchange, a notable annoying-free zone.

Re: Just three pinch hits to go!

(Anonymous) 2024-10-22 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
"Smiling Friends follows the employees of a small company dedicated to bringing happiness to a bizarre yet colorful world. The company consists of cynical Charlie and star employee Pim, each tasked with out-calls to cheer people up. There's also meticulous Allan who keeps things in order, mysterious Glep, and the unpredictable billionaire Boss who founded the company."

Links (Not all seem to have the second season)
Adult Swim: https://www.adultswim.com/videos/smiling-friends
Channel 4: https://www.channel4.com/programmes/smiling-friends
Prime Video: https://www.primevideo.com/detail/Smiling-Friends/0T15POCS24RUOZC6022B90VQF9
Apple TV: https://tv.apple.com/us/show/smiling-friends/umc.cmc.qf772cmp3lg33iym2b834ab5
Hulu: https://www.hulu.com/series/smiling-friends-8df2bc91-af81-4ed4-afa3-0858ac6c05da

(Anonymous) 2024-10-22 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, the 1987 Yuletide collection remains unrevealed to this very day for that reason.

(Anonymous) 2024-10-22 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
nice!!

(i hope it's for my request <3)

Re: dumb writing woes

(Anonymous) 2024-10-22 01:57 am (UTC)(link)
For last Yuletide I had the funny idea to make the fic an exact round number wordcount, and now every time I’ve reread it and noticed a minor line edit I wanted to make (word choice and grammar fixes and whatnot), I’ve had to figure out where to add/delete the corresponding number of words to keep it at the same total. Suffering for my hubris

Re: To Default or not to Default?

(Anonymous) 2024-10-22 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
Point it out to the mods. They may or may not be able to match you to someone else or tell you to just write a treat if your recipient DNWs the characters you matched on.