yuletide_coal | Rudolph the red-nosed dentist

Rudolph the red-nosed dentist

Writing post : http://yuletide-coal.dreamwidth.org/6728.html

Other useful links:
2016 Timeline : https://yuletide-admin.dreamwidth.org/28822.html
Collection: http://archiveofourown.org/collections/yuletide2016

Letters post: http://yuletide.livejournal.com/1274815.html
Letters DB: http://www.dennis-sellers.com/yuletide/index.html
Treat spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10Bv9vJXykH9BUgn6q5DIBliBgMWzlVpXiB9d1lNoub4/edit?usp=sharing

Yuleporn: http://yuletide.livejournal.com/1276881.html
Crueltide: http://yuletide.livejournal.com/1274987.html
Two for One: http://yuletide.livejournal.com/1278973.html

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http://yuletide-admin.livejournal.com/213173.html

"The wranglers are making great progress on the list of fandoms linked earlier; many are now visible in the fandom lists."

It's been 24 hours and you think it's okay to refer to this bullshit situation as 'great'? Screw you.

...Oh, and Madness is open now.

Someone gifted a madness fic in Ghostbusters 2016 to 16 recipients:
http://archiveofourown.org/works/8892340

This one has bestiality and scat in it!

http://archiveofourown.org/collections/yuletidemadness2016/works/8949196

So the writer of the canon I treated commented on my fic??????

THAT HAPPENED.

It's mostly complimentary, although they point out that one character in the story died in canon (not knowing that the recip requested that character be brought back). Anyway, I'm just kind of freaking out about it. They don't seem to have an AO3 account or even really know what Yuletide itself is, so responding to the comment is probably a pointless exercise.

But STILL. IT HAPPENED. (and the person I wrote it for hasn't commented yet, so that's hilarious. i'm not bitter at the recip or anything, it's still early. it's just funny that he found it before they got a chance to comment.)

I really wanted to make this a thing, in hopes that more of the "fandom of one" requests would get written.

With the current wrangling policies, it's impossible. There's no way of knowing, even now, what's actually been written. Too many stories are being shoved under umbrellas with no way to track them down.

Sorry, all.

Are they being complied anywhere these days? Or is fandom too spread out now?

Anyone have link

Dude, there was Romancing The Stone fic in the collectin all this time and I didn't know it! Seriously, screw that bug and the resulting policy.

Either I've gotten pickier over the years or man, I don't have good luck going out on pinchhits. I loved the first five stories I got for Yuletide. The last few have been just bizarre. I'm only two paragraphs in and already wtfing.

I feel so ungrateful for this but I truly don't give a shit about my madness gift. Less than a hundred words of nothing (truly...nothing happens in it. at all.) and now I have to come up with something nice to say, it just feels like a waste of everyone's time

Did you "read" a fic in a fandom you notice wasn't wrangled?

Name it and I and other wrangler anons can get to it.

How are they going for you?

Because I'm staring at the 30 hits:1 kudos ratio of one of my fics and going :/

All these mini Historical RPF fandoms are now being synned, not sub-tagged, to Historical RPF in AO3. And I suspect there's some other umbrella fandom synning going on too.

Wranglers or not, how do we try to convince people to de-syn them and make them sub-tags in the archive? I don't even really care about the tags in Yuletide 2016 anymore, I feel like this is making it almost impossible for people to find their mini-fandoms AT ALL.

Suggestions?

Mibbit is losing big time in chat

In my letter I put one specific kink as one of my favorites, and someone wrote me a treat which goes as follows:

*setting hints that my kink may be coming*
*characters mention my kink*
*buildup to my kink, totally gonna do it*
[ABRUPT CUT]
*characters note that they definitely just did my kink offscreen and it was great*
*fin.*

This treat is a freaking cocktease, lmao. Not even mad, I think it's hilarious, though I don't think the author intended it that way.

Did recipients get email notifications that they received a Madness treat? I know it's been a problem that they've been a bit spotty, in the past.

Which fandoms are good for comments - either for leaving a lot of them or leaving really good ones?

Which fandoms got a good fic haul this year? (Not necessarily numerous, but GOOD)

My gift was a mix of kittyfic with a good dose of ODAO. While I'm rather disappointed, other people seemed to enjoy it. How should I comment on this lump of black sugar?

But I leave longer comments to fake enthusiasm for something I didn't like much. I'm kind of worried now that my writer from last year is going to see it and think my shorter comment on hers was because I liked it less, when the exact opposite is true. :(

Any time someone on _coal complains that their fic didn't pay attention to their optional details, I can safely assume it's not my recip.

Who got one? Let's start the timer and see how long, if ever, it takes your recip to come back and write the "real comment" they promised.

I'll start: Responded to two comments on one of my fics and then got excited when I saw the comment number go up by two. Was momentarily confused and then profoundly disappointed (but also amused) when I discovered/realized that it was just...my comments...

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Madness open, people writing genuinely rare fandoms still screwed

16 recipients?

Yet Another Inside Out Riley-Gets-Raped fic in Madness

Canon creator comments...

Write Them All Challenge

Recs in general

How do I find madness

no subject

??

no subject

Want a fandom wrangled?

Hits/Comments/Kudos ratios