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Mod Cabal

[(Anonymous)]

You know, I always thought that if there were ever a dedicated mod discord server, it would probably be for, I don't know, discussing modding issues? I didn't think it would be a space where a mod can share concerns about a recip requesting an EPH, then invite the 100+ members to read the fic and weigh in if it warrants an EPH. And when the community ultimately decides that no, it does not warrant an EPH, that they would then go on to call the recip a liar, read though their gift and comment history, and speculate on what their damage is.

Did y'all learn nothing from the MFD debacle? I swear the spirit of Ashling still haunts that place.

Re: Mod Cabal

[(Anonymous)]

Is there more info on any of this?

smut smut smut smuttery smut

[(Anonymous)]

Coalies, I want to write you smut! What fandoms should I bone up on now to get ready for you!?

Re: smut smut smut smuttery smut

[(Anonymous)]

I feel like odds are good for some smutty requests for Sinners. Also, as stated in the evidence post, this is going to be the last year for Yuletide eligibility for Call Me By Your Name.

No kitten!holmes

[(Anonymous)]

https://yuletide.dreamwidth.org/349432.html?thread=5603320#cmt5603320

(tbh I have a dog in this fight: I think it is ridiculous he called the thing kitten!holmes in the first place. You are not the first or only person to imagine Sherlock as a kitten, author!)

Re: No kitten!holmes

[(Anonymous)]

i thought that was a fawn who didn't know where his peeper was?

[(Anonymous)]

oooh nominate some butts canons please

[(Anonymous)]

This year of Yuletide already seems vaguely cursed from the get go. With my crystal ball I predict intense wank ahead

[(Anonymous)]

How so? It seems normal to me.

[(Anonymous)]

is the nominations coordination sheet down for anyone else or is it just me

[(Anonymous)]

Working fine for me.

[(Anonymous)]

hurr hurr fawn peepers

[(Anonymous)]

that ceased being funny about a decade or so ago. next.

[(Anonymous)]

y'all only write fan fiction cos ya can't get boyfriends

[(Anonymous)]

This is true. My husband doesn't like it when I have a boyfriend.

weirdest thing you've seen requested for yuletide

[(Anonymous)]

weirdest fandom? ship? prompt?

[(Anonymous)]

is there idfic in yuletide?

[(Anonymous)]

yess, your mom wrote it.

[(Anonymous)]

does anyone else poop while writing Yuletide fic

[(Anonymous)]

there's ppl who actually want to talk about yuletide and what do we get? literal fucking shitposts. fml.

Good experiences going to mods about your gift

[(Anonymous)]

Have you had them, and with which mods? Or vague about it if you prefer.

Re: Good experiences going to mods about your gift

[(Anonymous)]

I went to (anonymous) mods about a serious issue with my gift once and was dismissed.

I brought the same issue to (anonymous) mods of a different exchange that the same creator signed up for and had a much better experience. That kind of counts?

[(Anonymous)]

On a similar note to the EPH question:

What kind of conduct do you prefer from mods in direct communication when addressing issues?

Bearing in mind that the mod may sometimes justly side against you rather than with you, how would you prefer that to be communicated?

[(Anonymous)]

The same way I would any complaint email: with evidence that they're paying attention and respect my concerns and feelings.

Like for a marginal DNW violation they decided didn't qualify, I'd want to hear something like, "We're so sorry! We can see why that aspect of your gift was a problem for you. Unfortunately we've reread our guidelines and we don't think it's an actual rule violation that we'd be willing to penalize the writer for, because (understandable reason). We're going to look over our rules before next year to make sure those lines are clear enough."

That said as a customer service worker who has to answer dumbass IT tickets in namespace sometimes, sometimes the customer is actually a POS whose concerns you have 0 respect for. But since this is a silly fandom exchange and not wage labor, you aren't actually obligated to keep them coming back or continue working with them. So I wouldn't break your back trying to fake respect for someone who is obviously in the wrong and you don't even want in your exchange anyway. Like maybe don't cuss them out but if you replied, "We don't give out EPHs just because they didn't name the OC kitten what you put in your prompt, deal with it," or "You DNW'd gen, ship, and porn, so I think your writer did the best they could with what they got", well, the recip would hopefully know better than to do your exchange again so it's win for both of you.

And if you're going to be catty about my email in a 100+ person mod discord that will obviously be leaked, just be catty in your communications to me too.

[(Anonymous)]

AO3 is going to be down for 20 hours for maintenance, overlapping with when nominations are supposed to close. Are the mods going to extend the nomination window for that?

Source: https://www.otwstatus.org/incidents/d0vjvsj3h2kh

[(Anonymous)]

I guess this means I need to get on my nominations. I was going to do them at the end because I'm traveling and doing noms on my phone is miserable.

[(Anonymous)]

I wonder how many people are going to be caught out by the AO3 maintenance window falling over the end of the nomination period.

Ridiculous canons to nominate [a non-serious brat thread]

[(Anonymous)]

Some of the canons that get nominated are really ridiculous. Which nominated canons, in the evidence post or otherwise, have made you go "wut"?

(This is a non-serious thread for bratting about canons that are very silly to nominate for Yuletide. This is not a thread for being judgmental about the content of the canon.)

Re: Ridiculous canons to nominate [a non-serious brat thread]

[(Anonymous)]

That one person nominating their own modern day band AU fic for some random fantasy show

naaaaaah

[(Anonymous)]

shipping sucks actually

Re: naaaaaah

[(Anonymous)]

it can get pretty expensive, yeah

Extra nomination slots

[(Anonymous)]

I have a few extra slots, so let me know if you'd like me to nominate something.

Re: Extra nomination slots

[(Anonymous)]

IF anybody sees this in time, I'm currently feeling minorly baffled because there doesn't seem to be any Jeeves/Jeeves & Wooster in the tagset, and both the stories and the show are still eligible, so it's not that!

Anyway, my top four characters to see included are:

Reginald Jeeves
Bertram "Bertie" Wooster
Madeline Bassett
Honoria Glossop

(but I'm also always interested in any of the aunts, Berties friends, etc, so this is a somewhat hard decision)

Fandom Promo Game

[(Anonymous)]

Inspired by the PH game.

You are forced - coerced!!!! - to consume a canon from the fandom promos post for your request or offer. Which do you choose?

Re: Fandom Promo Game

[(Anonymous)]

This post would have been better with links eh..

Fandom promo DW post:
https://yuletide.dreamwidth.org/349432.html

Spreadsheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Y1k529MXniWR5nM7Qr1iOf5WbRK7OGBJGcXANknaFrQ/edit?gid=0#gid=0

[(Anonymous)]

inspired by an above thread: i would like to write you femslash for yuletide! especially porn! rec me canons to prepare for!

[(Anonymous)]

Mademoiselle de Maupin! Sexy 19th century French novel about a woman who dresses up as a man and then falls in love with both a man and a woman who are already together and love her back separately.

There's a lot of ambiguous transness, but if you choose to take the trans read on Maupin being a guy you can also take the trans read on d'Albert being an egg (which there's plenty of evidence for, like him saying he wants to be a girl ...) and get your f/f that way. (Or you can just write Maupin as cis gnc and Maupin/Rosette as standard f/f.)

Also d'Albert's a furry who fucks Rosette in a fursuit. So there's that.

[(Anonymous)]

and now the super boring bit

[(Anonymous)]

We still have wank to keep us warm

noms closed

[(Anonymous)]

https://yuletide-admin.dreamwidth.org/126400.html

We have 6078 fandom nominations to sort through: that means that at least 1216 people nominated, but probably more. This is lower than our highest ever number of nominations received previously - 6257 - but higher than last year's 5950 nominations.

nom standouts?

[(Anonymous)]

Anyone see any nominations that standout for them? The pleasantly surprised, the hilarious, the wtf?

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-MX3iOfCZbLuLxdfyG4GhZGKY8ApYdAtV7Xf_3kOQ0E/edit?pli=1&gid=0#gid=0

Re: nom standouts?

[(Anonymous)]

There was one that hit me like a brick of inspiration to the forehead. I hope someone requests it, because I want to treat if I can make the concept work.

I was glad to see The Summer War nominated. Ditto Black Doves. Eager to see prompts for The Long Walk (book or movie).

Approved Nominations

[(Anonymous)]

Post them here

Re: Approved Nominations

[(Anonymous)]

✔ The Night of the Solstice - L. J. Smith
Characters
✔ Alys Hodges-Bradley
✔ Claudia Hodges-Bradley
✔ Charles Hodges-Bradley
✔ Janie Hodges-Bradley

[(Anonymous)]

Moderated collections = bad

[(Anonymous)]

Moderated bad = collections