Happy Coaliedays!

[heavensqueen]

I failed to come up with a coal pun on ‘"Peace on Earth, Goodwill toward Men", but perhaps you can help me out coalies!

Comments

Comment Pact

[(Anonymous)]

Come back here and share how many comments you left and if you met your goal!

Re: Comment Pact

[(Anonymous)]

Not sure how much time I'll have but I'm aiming to leave at least 20 thoughtful and enthusiastic comments before author reveals.

About an hour to go...

[(Anonymous)]

I think someone wrote Delphine/Rachel smut for Orphan Black. I am so excite if this is true.

So close, yet so far.

[(Anonymous)]

I just can't stay up another hour.

Re: So close, yet so far.

[(Anonymous)]

Only one of my requested fandoms is showing up on the fandoms page so far, and that's for a thoroughly-tagged fic which has nothing to do with my request. If my writer obscured my fic tags on purpose to escalate the tension, IT'S REALLY BEEN WORKING.

Recs

[(Anonymous)]

Making sure this is on the first page

Re: Recs

[(Anonymous)]

Wow, someone wrote a 36K explicit Steven Universe story with Femslash. It's 7/?, which I'm not sure you're allowed to do however I'm on chapter 2 and so far it's written really well. I think I know who wrote it based on the pretentiousness of the A/N but I can't remember their AO3 name.

http://archiveofourown.org/works/2809064/chapters/6304235

[(Anonymous)]

pieces of dirty earth, ill will towards men?

[(Anonymous)]

That's pretty good, coalie.

!!!

[(Anonymous)]

Naraht: Chat: this is your official one hour warning!
[6:01pm] Naraht: The archive *will* open in an hour!

Aw shit.

Re: !!!

[(Anonymous)]

This feels so weird to a PST coalie, but exciting!

Last minute fretting

[(Anonymous)]

Every single time I reread my assignment I find a new part of it that sucks. My summary is uninspiring and confusing. My fic might be too depressing overall. And my tags possibly make it sound more porny than it actually is.

Aargh! I'm happy that the reveals are happening on time because that's the only way I can stop editing and worrying.

Re: Last minute fretting

[(Anonymous)]

I keep checking my stories to make sure they look all right and I didn't have a copy and paste fail or something.

IT IS DONE

[(Anonymous)]

Last minute treat is finished in less than two hours and posted to the main collection. *\o/*

Also: TPOSE IS IN THE COLLECTION, WHOOT WHOOT. SUCK IT, HATERS.

Re: IT IS DONE

[(Anonymous)]

Woo! I just finished another story to my recipient at the last minute. I really wanted to write them one story for each of their requests, I was lucky enough to match someone who only requested canons I knew and liked, but the season was crazier than expected and two's still good!

Things coalies do that annoy you

[(Anonymous)]

Let the Christmas spirit flow.

Re: Things coalies do that annoy you

[(Anonymous)]

ok chat go back to irc and make this be your new topic

bye felicia!!!

Dear Recipient...

[(Anonymous)]

Please don't like my story the least! You got two treats in the same fandom, and I'm so nervous that mine is going to be the worst. I did my best, I swear.

Re: Dear Recipient...

[(Anonymous)]

+1

My recip had a treat posted in the last hour. I'm pleased they will have double goodness, but I hope my story still works for them

Agggh

[(Anonymous)]

One of my treats isn't showing up in my works in collections list, or under the fandom in the Yuletide collection, but when I go to the recip's gift list, it's there.

Is it going to actually be there when the collection goes live?

Re: Agggh

[(Anonymous)]

You'll know in about five minutes.

F5ing my gift page

[(Anonymous)]

go liiiiiiiiiiive

Re: F5ing my gift page

[(Anonymous)]

the suspenuse

it's killing me

Did you

[(Anonymous)]

set your fic's date to 24 or 25 whichever day it is for you?

Re: Did you

[(Anonymous)]

nope but they're set to mid-december, when i uploaded the last of them, so given how small the fandoms are i feel like that's probably good enough.

[(Anonymous)]

omg trialia why can't you make a single comment without referencing your health status

[(Anonymous)]

chat or comm?

[(Anonymous)]

It's 12:07. This collection is never going to open is it? :/

[(Anonymous)]

I WANT MY STORIES

Any updates from chat

[(Anonymous)]

on whether the collection is still about to open?

Re: Any updates from chat

[(Anonymous)]

I'm wondering that too. Everything seemed to be on track, and now it's more than ten minutes delayed (which is nothing, technically, buuut).

Did you get everything done?

[(Anonymous)]

I wrote 5 stories and just put a final proofread on three. The other two were proofread before, but I hoped to get a last one in because there's always something. I'm giving up now, since it should have already been opened anyway.

Another gift popped up for me in the last little while, and I am so jazzed. I hope to write a couple Madness treats before this time tomorrow!

Re: Did you get everything done?

[(Anonymous)]

All the fics! \o/ My assignment for an awesome recipient, 3 treats, 3 Madness treats, writing at least one ficlet for each of the 4 fandoms I offered. I am so pleased with this.

And likewise, I got an unexpected second treat in the past hour and I am so pumped for all of them!

Explanation for the wait

[(Anonymous)]

Just like matching, the mods saying GO doesn't make it instantaneous. The archive has to process all the fics moving away from mystery works.

The more times you hit the archive, the more it delays that. So just wait until chat or someone where says it's up.

Re: Explanation for the wait

[(Anonymous)]

Coalie, the matching algorithm is complicated and takes days. Let the people who know what they're talking about do the talking.

COLLECTION'S OPEN

[(Anonymous)]

!!!!!

Re: COLLECTION'S OPEN

[(Anonymous)]

ass

well this isnt what i planned

[(Anonymous)]

I did notintend to stay up until one inthemorning to see the collection go live, but I got ill and cant sleep so here I am. Great. At least its an experience!

Re: well this isnt what i planned

[(Anonymous)]

:( feel better, coalie.

[(Anonymous)]

I was pro morbane but now I am anti morbane , and this collection has until the half hour to open or I will be anti FOREVER.

[(Anonymous)]

collection open by :30 or morbane has to write fic for everyone.

WHOA

[(Anonymous)]

ONE OF MY GIFTS JUST GOT REVEALED

Some fics available

[(Anonymous)]

But some are still Mysteries.

Re: Some fics available

[(Anonymous)]

Mine haven't been, but they have lost their collection! Which is uh, curious.

[(Anonymous)]

A treat appeared!!!

[(Anonymous)]

It's in Madness so it isn't that long but OMG I've never gotten any before :D

Reading order

[(Anonymous)]

One gift is open, one isn't

I still want to read the one that isn't first, because I think it has more potential to be coal