Coalclaw Adventures

[heavensqueen]

Keep the yulewank spirit alive

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Random Thoughts You Have While Reading Through The Collection

[(Anonymous)]

ITT

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[(Anonymous)]

I saw someone got two 10k+ stories and they didn't comment on either of them. I know from past exchanges that they never comment on a single thing.

This is why people should check comment history before treating. I feel so bad for those authors.

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[(Anonymous)]

I just read a great 10,000 word fic that only had one lonely comment. Sad!

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[(Anonymous)]

Link?

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[(Anonymous)]

It's the Battle Creek one.

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[(Anonymous)]

Yep, I noticed that too - if it's the person I'm thinking of they've taken part in about 20 exchanges now and never left a comment on a gift. That's so shitty.

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[(Anonymous)]

If a prompt inspired me to write a 10k+ story, knowing that the recip was a serial non-commenter would not be able to stop me from writing that story.

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ayrt

I can respect that. I hope you aren't the type of person who will also complain at having 15 hits, 2 kudos, and one short "liked it!" comments because that's what these two stories have.

If you're the kind of author who needs to write your story, post it, and never look back then more power two you but I still feel bad for the two people who wrote for this jerk :( I think they would have been better posting it as a standalone instead of a gift.

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[(Anonymous)]

Well, I'd be pretty sad if that was all the reaction I'd gotten so far, but I like to write for tiny fandoms and weird pairings and weird pairings in tiny fandoms, so it's not like I'm not used to it.

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I'm always surprised by which fandoms end up being relatively popular (not big-for-Yuletide, but getting 5-10 fics) while other fandoms that seem bigger to me end up with one or zero fics.

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[(Anonymous)]

Examples, nonnie! We needs them!

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[(Anonymous)]

Coalies, I haven't seen this brought up yet, but...someone wrote AlexSeanchai's terrible Greek Mythology with agender Athena combined with a coffeeshop AU prompt, and it is gloriously, bizarrely weird. I might just be being thick tonight, but I can't tell if it's serious.

All the arachnids in the shop decided they'd tempted fate long enough and left while Athena was giving a back loom weaving demonstration.

Athena had been wanting to say it for some time. "I'm not a dude or a girl. I've recently come out to my family as agender."

Olive-Green-Sweats-and-Black-Dykes-To-Watch-Out-For-T-Shirt (though Ogsabdtwofts was going to be awkward as proto-names went) ran around the curve of the hill. Ogsabdtwofts stopped on the trail. Ogsabdtwofts was holding a bow with a very wicked looking arrow what-you-call-it cocked on the string.

"Uh, hi," said Ngalyod, and made a little bit of a leap, but hopefully not an offensive one. "Down with the kyriarchy."

"The antithesis of sweet could describe any number of my siblings," said Athena. Xie wanted to put on xiers armor, but xie was already wearing it. It was always there, implied by the layers of clothes and the long skirt that brushed the floor.

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[(Anonymous)]

Oh man, I remember that god-awful request.

I skimmed through the fic a bit, with all its "hum" and "hu" and... it's a joke, right? It's making fun of it all, right? Except then you read the comments and it seems like that's not the case at all O_o

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ayrt

I thought it was a joke, but the comments are taking it seriously. Including AlexSeanchai who is completely devoid of a sense of humor, who not only liked it but promised to comment more, when she's usually a one word "nice" or "thanks" type.

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sa

*they not she

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[(Anonymous)]

Link to the request and/or fic?

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aayrt

Sorry, I completely forgot. http://archiveofourown.org/works/5463812

Letter link: http://alexseanchai.dreamwidth.org/1056253.html

More choice extracts:

"Gah!" Ngalyod made emphatic gestures at the caring universe. "Could one of Athena's family members manage not to be heteronormative?"

They'd signed the lease on the anniversary of the Hindenburg Exploding.

Ngalyod put some digeridoo music on the portable speakers. Nothing set the mood like Digeridoo.

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I think its pretty awesome, whether taken completely seriously or not.

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i had to back out of this because labelling _anything_ as 'Australian Mythology' is so hugely problematic it caused my brain to collapse and i was a whimpering mess of 'what the blazes'

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[(Anonymous)]

This sounds like a parody comment all on its own.

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"Wow, I'm reading a ton of fics this year that needed SPAG betas in spite of having okay-to-good ideas."

"What is going on with the slow commenting and kudosing?"

"What the fuck are these titles."

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[(Anonymous)]

I think the first two are related, tbh.

And in the last one don't you mean:

what the fuck are these titles

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[(Anonymous)]

My two terrible titles are absolutely not my betas' fault. I hadn't titled them before passing them off.

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[(Anonymous)]

Why the fuck am I seeing so many titles with only the first word capitalized?

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[(Anonymous)]

Everyone's in journalism school?