Deliver Us From Coalptcha

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PM me if there's transphobia (or racism or homophobia etc) and I'll deal with it.

Nominations: 12th to 21st September
Sign-ups: 10th to 21st October
Assignments go out: Between 22nd and 25th October
Madness opens and prompts are visible: After assignments
Posting deadline: 18th December at 9am UTC - may be the 17th in your time zone
Story reveal: 25th December
Author reveal: 1st January

Ao3 collection: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/yuletide2018
Letters LJ: https://yuletide.livejournal.com/1315417.html
Letters DW: https://yuletide.dreamwidth.org/139157.html
Tagset/letters app: https://tagset2018.firebaseapp.com/

Latest regular view: https://yuletide-coal.dreamwidth.org/10641.html?page=1000
Latest flat view: https://yuletide-coal.dreamwidth.org/10641.html?view=flat&page=1000

Comments

Re: Awwww....

[(Anonymous)]

I could have sworn I saw Oh My Girl's 'Closer' MV with a request on the summary, but it is not there now. Maybe I was imagining it? I thought it would be a really fun one to write...

Re: Yuletide is slowly dying

[(Anonymous)]

You are one weird motherfucker, you know that?

Re: Yuletide is slowly dying

[(Anonymous)]

OH NO, ONLY 1500+ participants! /o\ Two more years and it will be down to 5, three of which will be socks!

Re: Yuletide is slowly dying

[(Anonymous)]

at this rate there will be no one left by 2057!!

Re: Yuletide is slowly dying

[(Anonymous)]

Pfft my 78 year old ass will be there.

My dentist and I can write for each other I guess.

Re: Yuletide is slowly dying

[(Anonymous)]

*does the math* I’ll be 64 and if climate changed hasn’t killed us yet, I’ll be there. Do you think Yuletide will be cancelled during WWIII like the Olympics did that one time, or will it power through?

I bet SKYNET will have some cool prompts.

Re: Discord-ent Thread

[(Anonymous)]

Morbane Today at 6:06 AM
[matching generated; several people have no possible recipients; assignments will not go out sooner than at least a day]

Re: Yuletide is slowly dying

[(Anonymous)]

I feel like we'll need some kind of distraction during WWIII. Bring on the fluffy soldier-coming-home AUs.

Re: Discord-ent Thread

[(Anonymous)]

oh boy oh boy oh boy

Re: Awwww....

[(Anonymous)]

I just noticed someone is requesting character A in one of my fandoms with thise OD: "A/anyone but B. I want A/C the most." Look, I get that this is reasonable, but you know what would be even better? If you requested A AND C, so I had any way of avoiding matching to you. It would make both of us happier.

/coalie whose favorite character is B, and who ships A/B

Re: Yuletide is slowly dying

[(Anonymous)]

Yuletide didn't just die...

IT WAS MURDERED!!

likecommentandsubscribe to my insufferable video essay series dissecting my absolutely baseless assertions!

Re: Yuletide is slowly dying

[(Anonymous)]

DA

we all gonna be out here on holo_coal wanking about the insensitive jerk who nominated World War 3 (anthropomorphic) and how jetpack cyber hockey rpf ain't rare.

Re: Discord-ent Thread

[(Anonymous)]

Hmm, one of those could be me - there were very few letters for the fandoms I offered, so I don’t know if anyone is requesting the combinations of characters I’m happy to write...

Re: Yuletide is slowly dying

[(Anonymous)]

Millennials claim another victim!

Re: Yuletide is slowly dying

[(Anonymous)]

I'll be 76 and still be requesting the same fandoms-of-one I've been requesting for years.

Stats before matching

[(Anonymous)]

So before assignments go out, how do your numbers look?

I have 18 possible writers in 2 fandoms and 11 possible recips in 3 fandoms.

Obviously there may be bucket offers I can’t see, and some of those recips may be asking for characters I didn’t offer...

Re: Yuletide is slowly dying

[(Anonymous)]

So still over 3 times the size of Chocolate Box, the next biggest multi-fandom exchange. Oh no. How terrible. Truly the end times are here.

Re: Stats before matching

[(Anonymous)]

2 possible writers in 2 fandoms, 1 possible recip in 1 fandom.

Re: Stats before matching

[(Anonymous)]

As a recip, 5 potential authors in 3 fandoms. (Could be as few as two if some of those offers overlap, or if people offered only some of the characters I requested.)

As an author, 86 potential recips based on the signup summary. It's definitely below that, though -- I'm only offering some characters in a couple larger fandoms, and letters indicate I'll be matchable on only some requests in those fandoms.

Re: Letter questions

[(Anonymous)]

+1

The 'here's what it is' general summaries is stuff I can find on the fandom by a quick online search, if I'm otherwise intrigued.

Re: Stats before matching

[(Anonymous)]

14 possible writers in 4 fandoms (even my tiniest ones got offers <3), 19 possible recips in 4 fandoms.

Re: Stats before matching

[(Anonymous)]

Did you game for the 1 recip or did it just work out like that?

Re: Stats before matching

[(Anonymous)]

I have 30 possible writers in 4 fandoms and 29 possible recips in 5 fandoms.

Re: Stats before matching

[(Anonymous)]

8 possible writers in 3 fandoms (no visible offers for my 4th fandom, sad but unsurprising) and 9 possible recipients in 5 fandoms.

I have no idea which fandoms I'm going to be matched to and I'm excited!

Re: Stats before matching

[(Anonymous)]

It just worked out like that. I had another match an hour earlier and then it vanished :/