Delay? Deny? Depose

[coalcube]

Delay the collection opening with picklefic.
Deny by clicking the reject button on low-effort drawerfic.
Depose of CEOs.
 

Main Collection Opens: December 25 (9am UTC)  

Madness Opens: December 26 (9am UTC)  

Author reveals: January 1 (9am UTC)

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Pinch Hitter Prompts

[(Anonymous)]

Fandoms requested by pinch hitters

2024 Paris Olympics Opening and Closing Ceremonies
Akkadian Empire RPF
Band Sinister - K. J. Charles
Bedwyn Saga - Mary Balogh
Beetlejuice (Beetlejuice Movies)
Boston Public Library Statues
Boyfriend Material - Alexis Hall
Brave (2012)
A Charm of Magpies Series - K. J. Charles
The Chronicles of Chrestomanci - Diana Wynne Jones
A Civil Contract - Georgette Heyer
Cyclone Series - Courtney Milan
Death and Taxes (Video Game)
The Decameron (TV 2024)
Enchanted Forest Chronicles - Patricia Wrede
England Series - K. J. Charles
The Expanse Series - James S.A. Corey
The Faculty (1998)
The Goblin Emperor - Katherine Addison
Gothic (1986)
Hero x Villain Series - dannyphantom.exe (Web Series)
響け! ユーフォニアム | Hibike! Euphonium
光が死んだ夏 | Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu | The Summer Hikaru Died (Manga)
Ib (Video Game)
Idylls of the Queen - Phyllis Ann Karr
InCryptid - Seanan McGuire
Invisible Inc. (Video Game)
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke
Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne | Phantom-Thief Jeanne
Kushiel's Legacy - Jacqueline Carey
Lilywhite Boys Series - K. J. Charles
Lord Peter Wimsey - Dorothy L. Sayers
The Lost Boys (1987)
Much Ado About Nothing - Shakespeare
NieR: Automata
NieR Gestalt | NieR Replicant | NieR
Paradise Killer (Video Game)
无双 - 梦溪石 | Peerless - Mèng Xī Shí
Perry Mason (TV 2020)
Persuasion - Jane Austen
Plants vs Zombies
Ready or Not (2019)
Rimworld (Video Game)
Rivers of London
Road House (1989)
Satanic Panic (2019)
Slay The Princess (Visual Novel)
Star Wars: The Acolyte (TV)
Still Wakes The Deep (Video Game)
The Sting (1973)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Tactical Breach Wizards (Video Game)
ただいまおかえり | Tadaima Okaeri | Welcome Home (Manga)
千秋 - 梦溪石 | Thousand Autumns - Mèng Xī Shí
ツルネ 風舞高校弓道部 | Tsurune: Kazemai Koukou Kyuudoubu (Anime)
Turner Series - Courtney Milan
Twelfth Night - Shakespeare
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl
The Victorian Way (Web Series)
Wayward Children - Seanan McGuire
Withnail (Withnail & I)
X-Men '97 (Cartoon 2024)
イエスかノーか半分か | Yes ka No ka Hanbun ka | Yes No or Maybe? (Light Novel Series)

Who has gifts and who doesn't

No gift yet:
fried_extracrispy_trenchcoat
galaxyofroses
redsnake05
Skylark
tinystreetlamp

Has at least one gift:
Acorn_Squash
Bottomfeeder
PaperBagGhost
StarCityRebels
shoshanna_mio
tigrrmilk
tucuxi

Re: Pinch Hitter Prompts

[(Anonymous)]

Here's the prompts post:

https://yuletide-admin.dreamwidth.org/120399.html

3 hours - who's still editing?

[(Anonymous)]

me... but i might be done.

Re: 3 hours - who's still editing?

[(Anonymous)]

I'm still writing. This treat just will not end!

Any final guesses for total yuletide fics?

[(Anonymous)]

Currently at 1745 with 1 hour and 10 minutes to go.

Re: Any final guesses for total yuletide fics?

[(Anonymous)]

c'mon 1750! I just want a nice round number lol

[(Anonymous)]

almost butt time

[(Anonymous)]

butt butt

[(Anonymous)]

Almost 100 works are only visible if you are logged in. Is that usual?

[(Anonymous)]

All visible for me, you just had to let it cook.

Last Minute Woes

[(Anonymous)]

I managed to finish a treat at the last minute but struggled so hard to post it to the collection that the deadline passed before I could. I know there's still madness, but.

Re: Last Minute Woes

[(Anonymous)]

I'm sorry, coalie

And They're Out

[(Anonymous)]

How did you do?!

Re: And They're Out

[(Anonymous)]

Someone else wrote a much better version of the exact same premise of my fic but tbh I'm just glad I get to read it! It's very good. Two cakes and all that.

As for my own gifts: I think I won Yuletide :)

Describe your gift!

[(Anonymous)]

For example: a new bike, a generic scented candle, $5.35 left on a gift card for a store you don't shop at, an ugly sweater knitted by Aunt Agnes....

Re: Describe your gift!

[(Anonymous)]

An old bike that someone has done really good detailing on, but only on the frame, and left the bald tires on the wheels.

Wank

[(Anonymous)]

Where's the wank?

Re: Wank

[(Anonymous)]

The wank must flow.

[(Anonymous)]

"Being Eaten Feels Good For Cakes" "(don't ask how that works it just does)"

freeform tags are fun actually

[(Anonymous)]

Is this the cannibal omegaverse thing? Surprised to see that in YT.

[(Anonymous)]

Ahhhh you tease!!! A fade to black!!! Something else I have to add to my DNWs.

[(Anonymous)]

You can't force people to write smut for you, coalie.

Placeholder Comments

[(Anonymous)]

How do we feel about them? Personally I despise them because the majority of my recipients who have done this never come back. I guess it’s more polite than outright rejecting? Or ignoring? D;

Re: Placeholder Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Don't say you're coming back if there is a chance you won't be; I'd rather a short comment and a surprise long comment later than a surprise no follow up. But otherwise, I think they're fine. Having said that, I am also in the "Thank you for writing!" is a complete and positive comment and indicative of nothing camp, and I know some coalies freak the fuck out over comments like that.

Rec Stuff

[(Anonymous)]

Anything good?

Re: Rec Stuff

[(Anonymous)]

The Eastern Promises fic, I love EP smut.

Anti-Rec Stuff

[(Anonymous)]

Anything bad?

Re: Anti-Rec Stuff

[(Anonymous)]

The Zelda/Columbo crossover appears incredibly earnest but the result is, while not strictly bad, sadly disappointing.

[(Anonymous)]

To my author: I'm giving you the Yuletide gift I give every year by not reading my fic for the first few hours of the exchange. Is that three different typos you fixed after the collection opened? I didn't see them. Is that a once-missing sentence that has now mysteriously reappeared? News to me! Did the total wordcount on this gift change since notifications went out? I guess I'll never know why!

You're welcome.

[(Anonymous)]

I really hope I wrote for you because I very clearly did a really bad job at editing this.

[(Anonymous)]

enjoy yuletide you judgmental assholes

[(Anonymous)]

But I heard him exclaim as he drove out of sight...

Recs

[(Anonymous)]

Rec stuff here

waiting on a miracle

[(Anonymous)]

My fic I wrote has three views and no kudos or comments. Maybe I should have defaulted...

Re: waiting on a miracle

[(Anonymous)]

is it relatively long? if so it might take readers time to read the entire thing before kudosing and commenting :)

[(Anonymous)]

/deep sigh

Someone wrote in the fandom of my heart, but it's for the new canon Sue and it's full of run-on sentences. I'm going to go sit in the corner and be sad.

[(Anonymous)]

^ Elisabeth Sparkle

Methods of approach

[(Anonymous)]

do you have a specific way of approaching the whole collection or do you just dive right in and start reading immediately.

Re: Methods of approach

[(Anonymous)]

Open tabs for all rtmi fandoms, go through fandom tabs to open all rtmi fic. Read all rtmi fic, gift for me last.
Fulfill family obligations.

Re-read gift, comment.

[(Anonymous)]

"The world is changed. I feel it in the crema. I feel it in the grounds. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, for none now live who remember it. It began with the forging of the Great Beans. Three were given to the Dutch Bros; immortal, wisest and chipperest of all baristas. Seven to the Tim Hortons, great brewers and bakers of the northern snows. And nine, nine beans were gifted to the race of Coffee People, who above all else, desire caffeine-buzz. For within these beans was bound the strength and will to govern each race. But they were all of them deceived, for another bean was made. In the land of Puget, in the fires of Mount Tahoma, the Dark Lord Starbuck forged, in secret, a master bean to control all others. And into this bean he poured his cruelty, his Pumpkin Spice, and his will to dominate the coffee trade. One bean to rule them all."

I'm not clicking on that without some nog.

[(Anonymous)]

I want it to be good, but I'm scared to read it and discover it is not

[(Anonymous)]

I didn't expect it so early but I already got happy recip comments on half the fics I wrote.

They're all for unpopular-even-for-Yuletide fandoms so I expect precisely zero of them to end up on anyone else's radar or get shared in rec lists, but I'm very happy with myself for now!

[(Anonymous)]

Atlas Shrugged??????

[(Anonymous)]

The recip's request is very funny, I recommend reading it!

[(Anonymous)]

fuck me i just found a fandom i REALLY want to request in and now i have to wait THREE HUNDRED SIXTY FIVE DAYS for it

[(Anonymous)]

Candy Hearts nom are open for two more days.

Comment timing

[(Anonymous)]

If the only good comment you're going to get this year is your recip comment, would you rather have:

-a short but enthusiastic one within an hour of the collection opening
-a medium-length but thoughtful and specific one in the evening of the first day
-a very long amazing one on the 31st

Re: Comment timing

[(Anonymous)]

I’d hold out for amazing