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Be Sure to Search for Possible Other Gifts! And What to Do if Something is Wonky About Your Story

Dec 25, 2009 12:03

Given the disparity between Yuletide signup names and AO3 usernames, and the bug issues with usernames qualified by pseuds, you may have gifts you're unaware of! Many people have multiple stories, but the way the recipient's name is on them may vary, depending on whether they were uploaded before you created your own AO3 account, and whether they ( Read more... )

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sageness December 25 2009, 23:19:02 UTC

Just a note to say that searching for either sage or sageness does bring up the fic I wrote but fails to bring up the fic I received. I have the 0 My Gifts count bug, too, so maybe that's related. Anyway, in the unlikely event that there are other fics for me, I kind of have no way of finding them. (Also, I wasn't sure if I should address this to you or to the AO3. If I should write it up as a bug report there instead, let me know and I can do that.)

elynross December 25 2009, 23:25:43 UTC

Yeah, it's not displaying in your gifts because of the sage (sageness) combo, but I can confirm that you're not missing any, you do just have the one.

mmebahorel December 26 2009, 04:29:28 UTC

I'm having this issue as well - searching for my name or pseud (I'm "Mme Bahorel" or "mmebahorel" everywhere on the internet, and thus username is "mmebahorel" and pseud is "Mme Bahorel") through "works" comes up with nothing. Paging to M or even B on "people" gets me nothing. Searching for "mme" in desperate hope of partials gets me nothing. And I received no email, so I have no idea if there's even a fic for me (though I wasn't a post-reveal pinch hit).

I've had to go fandom by fandom of what I signed up for looking for fic. (oh so many fics! 3! I love you, dear writers!)

elynross December 26 2009, 06:35:52 UTC

Huh -- I show all three come up on a search for "Mme Bahorel" on the Yuletide Works page.

chibifukurou December 25 2009, 23:55:21 UTC

Thank you guys for all your help and dedication and I hope you are having a good Yuletide despite it all!

I checked through the fandoms I requested, since no fics showed up when I searched my pseud or pseud/name combo, and found one fic which was gifted to C.Fukurou(my official Yuletide name) which due to the period I was unable to create as a pseud name.

I just wanted to check that I wasn't missing any other fics due to the discrepancy between my official name(C.Fukurou) and my pseud name(CFukurou).

elynross December 26 2009, 00:06:39 UTC

Considering how very much you contributed, I wish I could say there was more than one story for you! Thank you for all you did, though.

chibifukurou December 26 2009, 00:25:23 UTC

Thanks again for all the work you and astolat put into this and I hope to see you both again next year! This Yuletide was a lot of fun.

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Re: Thank you!!! elynross December 26 2009, 03:29:13 UTC

Man, yuletide is addictive!!

Isn't it, though? I'll tell you a secret -- okay, not so much a secret as old history, heh -- the first year of Yuletide, I did not sign up. Not only that, but I was still relatively monofannish.

And then, come the day before (the deadline for everyone was the 23rd, then, IIRC), I was on IRC with astolat and the other CRAZY PEOPLE who were doing this thing, and they were flinging out pinch hit requests, and SUDDENLY-- I had written a pinch hit and gift fics for both astolat and tzikeh (who co-modded at that point).

And I've never looked back, and my Yuletide stories are the ones I'm probably most proud of. It totally helped me as a writer, and while I can't say I'd tackle anything now, I'm willing to risk quite a lot when it comes time to sign up. *g*

I'm so glad you're having a good Yuletide!