It's always coalest before the dawn

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Posting deadline: 18th December at 9am UTC - may be the 17th in your time zone
Story reveal: 25th December
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Re: A vs B

[(Anonymous)]

Clearly a trick question because I liked my own letter best this Yuletide.

Re: A vs B

[(Anonymous)]

ODAO, give me the prompt and i'll decide if I like it or not.

Re: A vs B

[(Anonymous)]

I don't like my letter best, but I always like my prompts best.

Re: Assignments Continued

[(Anonymous)]

I matched on what I considered my worst case scenario of visible letters (which was posted too late for me to edit my sign up around). The recip seems nice enough and there's nothing egregiously wrong with it (and I'm sure that I'll find that I Matrix-dodged a few bullets once sign ups are public), it's just a bad match for me. I'm working on ideas and will do my best for them, but I just feel bad that the treats I have planned will almost inevitably be longer and more enthusiastic endeavours.

Re: A vs B

[(Anonymous)]

Anonfail on coal OR not get a comment from your recip

Re: Assignments Continued

[(Anonymous)]

No letter, very short 'Hi I like this relationship and these characters write me something bye'

And I'm so happy! I'm free and there's no pressure, I can write what I like for the fandom(which is generally fluffy gen anyway). I'll do my best for this requester, sometimes brevity is the best.

Requests are out!!!!

[(Anonymous)]

... and in the app!

Re: Coll Poll

[(Anonymous)]

If there’s any screening or freezing of anything in this post I’ll go make make a new account and the next post myself. I won’t touch a thing in it. I get that people don’t like certain topics but it’s not _coal to pick and choose which to stop. We have had heated and nasty arguments here, and god it’s obnoxious, but that’s what this place is for. I don’t come here for modding.

Re: Requests are out!!!!

[(Anonymous)]

Aw, but no text file yet... That's what I always use. Hopefully it'll be added soon!

[(Anonymous)]

Can we just agree to disagree and then talk about actual important on-topic stuff
Please

Bullets Dodged

[(Anonymous)]

Requests lurking in the summary that you're really glad you weren't matched to.

[(Anonymous)]

!!!!! thank you mod for making the post links clickable. this mobile nonny is grateful

Re: Requests are out!!!!

[(Anonymous)]

All requests are not in the app :(

Re: Requests are out!!!!

[(Anonymous)]

If something is missing, please let the mods know! It's very hard to check otherwise.

Re: Requests are out!!!!

[(Anonymous)]

Man, I was really hoping to see more Viren/Harrow requests for the Dragon Prince. I really thought more people would ship them.

And I was excited about seeing the enchanted forest chronicles prompts since there were so many offers for them in the sign-up summary, but two of them don't even have any prompts :(

[(Anonymous)]

They said they were ending work, not starting it.

Re: A vs B

[(Anonymous)]

probably anon-fail. It's not a big deal in a few posts i'll be forgotten unless I was in the middle some spectacular wank - in which case i will be remembered forever.

Re: Requests are out!!!!

[(Anonymous)]

Every fandom I've searched for has only had the letters. I know there should be other requests there based on the sign-up summary.

Re: Bullets Dodged

[(Anonymous)]

There are canons that I'm overflowing with plotbunnies for. And then there are a couple canons where I really, really need something to go off of for what my recip wants. The request for a canon in the latter category did not have something to go off of.

Re: A vs B

[(Anonymous)]

all else equal, long comment

positive long comment vs positive short comment? yesss praise me more

negative long comment vs negative short comment? yess make yourself look absolutely fucking batshit rude lol

Re: A vs B

[(Anonymous)]

detailed prompt. i almost never use specific prompts no matter how detailed, but i can break it down into general stuff you like from there

my kingdom for a likes list though lol

Re: Requests are out!!!!

[(Anonymous)]

Examples?

Re: Coll Poll

[(Anonymous)]

If you don't like what you're seeing on flatview, you can always switch to viewing _coal a different way.

Re: A vs B

[(Anonymous)]

my prompt. nobody else is requesting any of my character combos this year

Re: A vs B

[(Anonymous)]

depends on which account i'm anonfailing with, tbh