Jingle Horse With a Coal Cart

[heavensqueen]

We know what you do this Christmas!

Tihs posst nowz whith moar typos!

Writing Post: http://yuletide-coal.dreamwidth.org/1652.html

Comments

Pinch hits here, pinch hits there, pinch hits pinch hits everywhere

[(Anonymous)]

Snagged any?

Re: Pinch hits here, pinch hits there, pinch hits pinch hits everywhere

[(Anonymous)]

Absolutely zero of them interest me.

The danger of requesting any

[(Anonymous)]

my gift is both tagged with chromatic and ms clause...
thanks for picking this off the ph list to get some easy 'brownie' points, dear sjw author.
I fear this yt will suck even more for me than two years ago.

Re: The danger of requesting any

[(Anonymous)]

Could be worse. They could've tagged it "Bechdel test pass" or even just "Bechdel test" like I saw in one fandom.

If I wanted to I get easy SJ points for my fic but the use of those tags squicks me because I've seen the mentality behind it.

mfw

[(Anonymous)]

> 2nd batch of 10 coming through now

ok

> 205 still outstanding

holy shit

Re: mfw

[(Anonymous)]

That's request #205 still outstanding, not 205 pinchits.

Fandoms you're looking forward to read!

[(Anonymous)]

http://archiveofourown.org/collections/yuletide2014/fandoms

\o/

Re: Fandoms you're looking forward to read!

[(Anonymous)]

All the Saga stories!

Incoming coal

[(Anonymous)]

Oh coal. Someone I know missed the deadline, but I encouraged them to post their story anyway as a treat. And oh. my. god. I am so glad they missed the deadline. I love them, they're a dear friend, but this story is so hilariously bad. It's 100% guaranteed to end up on _coal once stories go live.

If you go out on the PH list today and wake up on Christmas morning to not only a (hopefully fabulous) gift but also a WTF lump of coal, I'm so sorry. It was written out of love, not malice, and it's unlikely to hit any of your DNWs, but oh man. I will do my best to dissuade her from signing up next year, I promise. Last year was acceptable, if not great, but this year... wow.

Re: Incoming coal

[(Anonymous)]

Every treat is written out of love, coalie. It's cool. We'll know your friend has a big heart even if we all think it's a terrible story.

Someone Write These Prompts - Game

[(Anonymous)]

Now that our assignments are posted and we can see what fandoms have fills, let's keep playing!

Re: Someone Write These Prompts - Game

[(Anonymous)]

I really want to read these. May write them myself if I have time after my PH.

DaisyNinjaGirl
Emma - Jane Austen

Jane Fairfax

I'd love a story about Jane Fairfax. She's a very quiet person raised in the shadow of a lot of big personalities - Emma finds being compared to her very trying; Jane must find being compared to Emma an equal ordeal, especially as they're both gentlewomen of the same age and thus expected to be friends. What's the story like from her point of view? She takes up with a man, Frank, who's very like Emma on the surface - a lot of flash and facile ability, but not a lot of depth, so I'm interested in what is it about Frank that attracts her. What are the things about Jane that Frank likes, and more importantly respects? Does she ever train him out of trying things it on (on her at least), or is that part of his appeal?


withthepilot
Neighbors (2014)

Teddy Sanders, Mac Radner, Kelly Radner

What if instead of becoming an Abercrombie & Fitch guy, Teddy struck up some kind of arrangement with Mac and Kelly, wherein he became their live-in manny? Kind of only fair, since his life is ruined and he needs a new place to live. Plus, it turns out he’s really good with kids. Plus, those abs.



footnoterphone
Elementary (TV)

Sherlock Holmes (Elementary), Joan Watson (Elementary)

Anything that explores Joan and Sherlock's relationship is great, but I'm particularly into the idea that a few years on, Joan's moved out of the brownstone and back in again, and their partnership is great, but she starts to feel like she might want to practice medicine again, full time. Sherlock tries and tries and almost implodes from trying to be supportive, even though he misses her so much.

why is Sailor Moon fandom in the Theater category?

[(Anonymous)]

Is it an AO3 quirk, or a crossover?

Re: why is Sailor Moon fandom in the Theater category?

[(Anonymous)]

There's a Sailor Moon stage musical

[(Anonymous)]

BULLSHIT THIS ASSIGNMENT HAS BEEN DEFAULTED ON IT IS 5:30 FUCKING PM ON 12/20 YOU FUCKING FUCKS.

[(Anonymous)]

Ah, but it is 10:30pm UTC.

Sitting on my hands

[(Anonymous)]

Trying to keep myself from shaking my gift. It's helped by the fact that I can't remember how to do it, but I keep going to google how to and having to slap myself.

Distract me with tales of Yuletide? Encourage me to go edit my fic? Please, anything?

Re: Sitting on my hands

[(Anonymous)]

Re-read _coal posts from years gone by!

Editing woes

[(Anonymous)]

I swear posting this made errors appear in it.

Re: Editing woes

[(Anonymous)]

For some reason there is a 2000wd difference between my doc file and whatever is on the archive and it's worrying me that I might be missing a chunk of text somewhere. The format went crazy as well and I'm not sure what's causing it.

Also now I'm finding a billiong typo errors that both I and my missed. FML.

*adding entire paragraphs because I have the time to, might as well*

[(Anonymous)]

Cranky ALL CAPS OF RAEG nonnie is still cranky. 12/20 was bullshit enough- the middle of a weekend? five days before reveals?- but 6 PM UTC? 1 PM my time? Are you fucking shitting me?

[(Anonymous)]

And yet plenty of us made it on time. They announced the time so many times, with links to translate it to your time.

You can still post your story as a treat and participate next year, yes?

Treat/Pinch Hit Brainstorming

[(Anonymous)]

Need help with something in your fic? Ask here, and let coalies help!

Re: Treat/Pinch Hit Brainstorming

[(Anonymous)]

I love these threads. Thanks for putting one up, coalie. <3

Tagging "advice" on the admin com

[(Anonymous)]

In which we are encouraged to use tumblr-style tags:

Characters, pairings, fandom, etc., all can be useful, but so can many other things. This is why people add chatty tumblr-style tags, such as "Tony Stark has Daddy Issues." That tag tells you a lot about the story that may not be evident from the summary. You can add any tag like that you want, that will help people get a feel for your story.

Re: Tagging "advice" on the com

[(Anonymous)]

Coalie failed because it's not the admin com and promises to write pron to make up for it. :/

On the pinch hit list again -_-

[(Anonymous)]

Third year in a row I've ended up on the pinch hit list immediately after the deadline.

It's not the end of the world (I'm more interested in giving than receiving at Yuletide!) but it still makes me kind-of sad. I can't be really easy to write for - I have virtually no fandom presence - so I guess it's just my prompts sucking ass or similar.

To be fair, I've had brilliant (and dreadful!) fic out of the pinch hit list - it's more of a "what am I doing wrong????" type whine than anything else.

Anyone else repeatedly end up defaulted on?

Re: On the pinch hit list again -_-

[(Anonymous)]

It genuinely does help to add one five-minute fandom: something like a song, or a video, or a webcomic (not Homestuck!) that a pinch-hitter can come up to speed on fast. You can come up with lots of funny or hot or dramatic premises that are based on songs or videos.

No more PHs for a couple of hours, maybe they won't get all of the last 60 out tonight....

[(Anonymous)]

Considering that the deadline was 6pm their time, there's little reason to wait until tomorrow to put them all out. When the deadline was 10pm Elyn's time, she pushed all the defaults out afterward, as far as I remember.

If they don't get them all out tonight, they're only shortening the already woefully short time pinch hitters have to write for these people.

Re: No more PHs for a couple of hours, maybe they won't get all of the last 60 out tonight....

[(Anonymous)]

I understand that they're tired but the pinch hit writers could really use ever hour that's left.

Tell me I'm just being stupid

[(Anonymous)]

I'm starting to worry about the fic I wrote. Not because of the story itself, but rather the fandom I matched on. It was listed last on my recipients signup/letter, despite not being alphabetically last. Also, she said it was a "total guilty pleasure" which... doesn't seem to bode well, especially when compared to her other requests that she seems to genuinely love.

I tried checking out her other fandoms because I was feeling this way right from the beginning, but none of them clicked with me. I figured I'd try to do the best of the situation, and I did, but now that I've posted a rather long fic I'm starting to worry. What if she really did just throw it in there because she needed a third fandom, and will be actively disappointed? Or, worse, annoyed that the fic is so long?

Re: Tell me I'm just being stupid

[(Anonymous)]

I wouldn't be worried. If she called it a guilty pleasure, it's possible that she likes it just as much or even more than the other fandoms but is afraid to show it because it's something she's slightly ashamed of.

Dear Person I Treated Earlier

[(Anonymous)]

I see you don't have a main gift, though it's too early to tell whether the mods will send you out to pinch hit anyway. I am busy writing you a second full-length fic so you don't get shorted. Sorry about that! I hope someone else is writing you yet another Treat.

♥
coalie

Re: Dear Person I Treated Earlier

[(Anonymous)]

and my heart grew three sizes.

Placeholder B&

[(Anonymous)]

Did anyone get caught?

Re: Placeholder B&

[(Anonymous)]

Are you asking for some on _coal to announce they have been?

Because I can't see the mods announcing it unless it were another NovaMist.

the_rck: female?

[(Anonymous)]

05:33 the_rck - My husband got into a fight with someone on Facebook about whether or not Die Hard is a Christmas movie.
05:34 the_rck - My husband says yes.

Someone in here was wondering. Don't want to assume heteronormative, hence the ?

Re: the_rck: female?

[(Anonymous)]

this feels weird. if someone is that interested, surely they can jump into chat and ask?

Whose fic is probably coal?

[(Anonymous)]

It's my first year of Yuletide, I'm a decent-but-not-great writer, and I got someone who botched their Any request. I am pretty sure I have written my poor recipient coal.

Re: Whose fic is probably coal?

[(Anonymous)]

I know this pinch hit I've been working on is currently coal. The beta may have managed to compress some parts of it into something shinier, but I'm too chickenshit to open their comments until tomorrow...

patterns in your YT writing this year

[(Anonymous)]

Are all your treats femslash? Do they all have foot fetish in them? Tell _coal about it.

Re: patterns in your YT writing this year

[(Anonymous)]

They're all for the same fandom. Fandom left unnamed for obvious reasons.

[(Anonymous)]

Man where are those pinch hits, I want to go to sleep.

[(Anonymous)]

Right? It's been 3 hours already.

I got a gift!

[(Anonymous)]

I got a gift just before the deadline! I was feeling kind of down because I hadn't gotten anything yet but someone came through for me ^_^ I did some minor present-shaking so I know that whatever it is, it's not the shipfic of my heart, but there are plenty of cool other things that it could be!

I had two fics now I only have one

[(Anonymous)]

:(

Come back, second fic! I was enjoying being greedy.

Re: I had two fics now I only have one

[(Anonymous)]

I had a treat tagged for two recipients, took one off to make sure they got another story, and then put them back on after reading this.

Merry Christmas, _Coal

[(Anonymous)]

I like being able to search comments, especially on coms. Especially on anon coms. Turns out a month of paid time only costs $3.

The search link is in the com profile.

Re: Merry Christmas, _Coal

[(Anonymous)]

BLESS YOU COALIE.

/has been missing a search function here like woah