Delay? Deny? Depose

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

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[(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.

Re: Wank

[(Anonymous)]

Congrats! The yuletide equivalent of biting down on the little plastic baby in the king cake!

Re: Methods of approach

[(Anonymous)]

* Go through alphabetically opening fandoms in new tabs until it feels like I have Too Many Tabs.
* Then actually look at all the fandoms I've opened and open any relevant fics, so I end up with an even worse case of Too Many Tabs.
* Then sort all the fics I have open into order by wordcount, and start reading with the shortest first.
* Keep reading until I've cleared a reasonable chunk of the tabs and the fics I have left are all long enough that I'd rather save them for later.
* Repeat.

Re: Methods of approach

[(Anonymous)]

It me. (I'm on H now.)

Re: Placeholder Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Okay. Most of us would love a surprise second longer comment.

Re: waiting on a miracle

[(Anonymous)]

...where is your fandom in the alphabet? Maybe people just didn't scroll that far yet.

Re: Methods of approach

[(Anonymous)]

I go through letter by letter. For each, open up all fandoms of interest, then all fics of interest, then read them in no particular order. Rinse, repeat.

[(Anonymous)]

A DNW like that sounds fine with the caveat that, as other coalies mentioned, a lot of creators would err on the side of not writing anything sexy at all rather than guessing at what the recip might consider to be fade to black.

Re: Methods of approach

[(Anonymous)]

I do it very similarly, except I usually read in order of date rather than length.

Re: Placeholder Comments

[(Anonymous)]

+1

That's exactly it. And as a disorganised person myself I can relate a lot.

Re: Anti-Rec Stuff

[(Anonymous)]

i checked the recip's prompts and they did explicitly say they'd like a fantasy au, so it probably is a good faith gift tbh

[(Anonymous)]

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

Re: Methods of approach

[(Anonymous)]

i usually first open all the fics in the fandom(s) i received because i try to always leave kudos/comments on those at very least. then i go through the whole archive and open every fandom that looks interesting, then through each fandom page to open individual fics.

[(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)]

Someone's trying too hard to win Yuletide this year.

[(Anonymous)]

This feels like one of those fics that could either be amazingly done or not so much... I guess I will report back.

[(Anonymous)]

That'd be a total anti-gift for me, but okay, be smug I guess.

Re: waiting on a miracle

[(Anonymous)]

Trust me, that's a whole lot better than being early in the alphabet and having one or zero hits, especially when people are saying they've opened a bunch of tabs for everything they want to read.

[(Anonymous)]

You are my favorite coalie.

Re: Describe your gift!

[(Anonymous)]

Like someone gifted me a copy of a book I already love but highlighting all their favorite passages and adding little snarky comments throughout.

Re: And They're Out

[(Anonymous)]

my fic is only okay - i think they missed out on characterisation of, uh, the main character. good on the surface! but reeeeeally missing some depths.

[(Anonymous)]

This. Sometimes fade to black feels right for a story and if I'd rather just write gen if that's my alternative.

Re: And They're Out

[(Anonymous)]

OMG that's what that weird text is called! I have wondered for years. Thanks, coalie.

[(Anonymous)]

^ Elisabeth Sparkle