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coalie ([personal profile] coalcube) wrote in [community profile] yuletide_coal2018-10-22 02:16 pm
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It's always coalest before the dawn

Posting deadline: 18th December at 9am UTC - may be the 17th in your time zone
Story reveal: 25th December
Author reveal: 1st January

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Re: A vs B

(Anonymous) 2018-10-23 04:58 am (UTC)(link)
Shit author (writes you a fic that just stops short of what would get you an emergency PH, opposite of how you see the characters, plot you don’t care about, barely uses your characters) who everyone either ignores fucked you or takes their side if there is wank over their fic OR shit recip (type of sign up you hate, sees the fandom opposite to you, leaves you no comments or a mean comment even if you tried your best to write them something good) who everyone either ignores is an awful recip or takes their side if there is wank over your fic

Re: A vs B

(Anonymous) 2018-10-23 05:01 am (UTC)(link)
Shit recip. I write 1000 words of decent-enough-that-it-won't-attract-attention ODAO and orphan it. I can control how many extra treats I write to make up for a shitty recip, I can't control whether or not I get a treat to make up for my shit writer.

Re: A vs B

(Anonymous) 2018-10-23 07:13 am (UTC)(link)
+1

Re: A vs B

(Anonymous) 2018-10-23 05:03 am (UTC)(link)
Gimmie the author. I usually get treats so even with that going down I should have something good to read, and I wouldn’t wank publically so the wank wouldn’t come from me. If they made a write up about how much they hated writing for me, I would bite my tongue and keep hope that next year any lingering wank attached to me would wear off because I didn’t retaliate.

A bad recip like that could really tarnish your rep. That, on top of the hours I would have wasted trying to make the fucker happy, would make me endlessly bitter until the sun exploded. Besides, the mods on their side could result in me getting banmed and fuck if I am doing a NYR after all that.

Re: A vs B

(Anonymous) 2018-10-23 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
The latter. I'd just default and write an NYR.

Re: A vs B

(Anonymous) 2018-10-23 05:58 am (UTC)(link)
Shit author, definitely. It might make reveals less enjoyable than they should be, but a bad recip ruins the whole writing period for me and makes me feel less excited about an exchange as a whole.

Re: A vs B

(Anonymous) 2018-10-23 07:25 am (UTC)(link)
Shit recip. If a recip's sign up is blank/letter is awful I usually ODAO easily anyway, and if they don't comment I don't particularly care. Them leaving a mean comment would be the worst part, but I'd hope that at least some people noticed the recip's being pissy.

I also feel like it'd be easier for me to get away with anonymously wanking about the recip on ffa/coal tbh. I'd only wank about the mean comment part, and I feel like the comment section's public enough that I could pretend to be a concerned yuletide citizen that noticed a recip being shit.

If I got a shit author like that, my grievances would sound like they're more open to interpretation. I'd still bring it up on coal/ffa but vaguely, without actually saying who the author was, so it'd be venting instead of wanking.

Re: A vs B

(Anonymous) 2018-10-23 07:39 am (UTC)(link)
lol coalie you’re bad at this! there is no weasling out of what will happen. the moment you bring it up on ffa/coal, people will take their side even if you make yourself out to be the most sympathic by vagueposting. it’s right there in the scenario.

Re: A vs B

(Anonymous) 2018-10-23 07:49 am (UTC)(link)
Shit recip. I can deal with no comments or wank, but I'm doing exchanges for the gift fic, so a shit author can and will ruin Yuletide for me.

Re: A vs B

(Anonymous) 2018-10-23 02:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Been there, so shit recip. The fic itself was well-received and got several comments, so the thing that'll be attached to my name will be nice
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