The Dirty Energy Source

[heavensqueen]

Do you want to make a spreadsheet about spreadsheets?
Do you still need to figure out what two other fandoms you should request beside the only one you really want fic for?
Or are you trolling ALL the letter posts for placeholders, just so you can write those people some nice, dry coal?

We want to know all about it.

Comments

Re: Letters that are perfect except for one small detail

[(Anonymous)]

Okay that's fair; if you genuinely believe all letters read the same, and if other people are the same way, that really does explain their confusion. If everything you read comes across as sounding the same to you, it would be almost impossible to tell the difference from one letter to the other, and that would make it difficult to understand how somebody else can.

Personally, I am now off to read a pile of things that sound bad in lots of different ways ;) Wish me luck!

Re: Letters that are perfect except for one small detail

[(Anonymous)]

lol

Re: Letters that are perfect except for one small detail

[(Anonymous)]

you sound like aja.

Re: Letters that are perfect except for one small detail

[(Anonymous)]

Sweet Summer Coalie, you're not helping your attempts to sound unpretentious by strawmanning that anyone said that everything they read sounds the same to them. Yuletide letters sound similar because they all follow a similar format and often express the same feelings. People in _coal and at FFA are constantly citing examples of boilerplate yuletide language (Thank you for offering one of my rare fandoms! I know I'm going to enjoy whatever you come up with!) and polite comment language (Thank you so much for writing this for me!). Letters are rife with these, that doesn't mean Yuletide is rife with plagiarism.

Above and beyond that detail, perhaps the reason people reacted badly and interpreted your original comment as though you thought you were unique, is because you thought that a person who has similar likes and interests to you must be copying you. People enter Yuletide for a variety of reasons, but one of the main ones is to get a fic in a small fandom tailored to their interests. It would go against this entire notion for a person to steal another person's request. This person is not entering Yuletide for your benefit, they are entering because they want a fic they would enjoy. Just because that seems similar to a fic you like does not mean you are being copied.