Hello all!

We've got about a week and a half to go until time to turn in your Secret Santa gifts, so I wanted to do a quick Check-In post and get an idea of a. what people are doing (this will help me plan the posting schedule) and b. how close y'all are to done.

We want all the entries in as promptly as possible, but if you think you might need some kind of extension, please please please let us know ASAP.



First, for the check-in:

Please copy and paste the code below into a comment and fill in your responses. I've set up the comments as "screened" so that I and the mods are the only people who can see them. (Though please keep in mind that the mods are playing, too, so don't mention who you're making a gift for. We want everything to be a surprise!)

<b>Username:</b> <b>Are You on AO3?:</b> (If so, who are you there?) <b>Type of Gift:</b> (Fic, Art, a Gift Basket, etc. I need to know so I can balance out the posting schedule.) <b>How are you Doing?:</B> (Are you on track to be done on time?)


Second: Reminders

Submissions are due December 20th, by 11 pm (whatever your local time is).
Please do not post your gifts/submissions on your own journals or other archives until *after* the reveal date. Since this is an annonymous exchange we'll be posting the fics and art directly to the comm at first.

(I'm working on setting up an AO3 collection, and will have more information about that when I post the submission guidelines.)

Submissions should be in plain text with simple html mark-up for things like italics and bold text. inkvoices did a fantastic tutorial on basic html mark-up here.

If you are writing/creating a community treat, you are welcome to post those all month long. Community treats are not anonymous and also don't have to wait until after the 20th. :D

If you post your stories at AO3 or read stories posted at AO3, you might be interested in this Avenger specific AO3 tagging info post! This is super in-depth and I found it to be very helpful! I'm actually thinking of retagging some of my stories to see if they will be easier for readers to find.

Title: Random numbers (7/?)
Type: crossover (Castle/Avengers)
Genre: crack-ish drama with elements of fluff and family and romance
Pairings: Castle/Beckett (still at UST stage) and Clint/Natasha.
Characters: everyone from Castle, everyone from Avengers.
Spoilers: the Avengers movie, season 4 of Castle
Summary: so I was answering questions in a meme with ten random characters from stuff that I like and one question was "#2 and #6 have a child together. What's #7s reaction to this fact?" So, there's a kid, his mom is a badass lady cop, his dad is a badass archer, and #7 in the meme was Kevin Ryan.

A/N: a huge thank you to cybermathwitch who looked over s big part of this and said it was okay. All remaining mistakes are mine. Other than that - phew, finally a new chapter! I'm sorry about the long wait, folks. I hope you're still interested in this. To everyone who wanted Natasha and Kate to meet, this is what you've been waiting for. I hope you like! <3!


Chapter one
Chapter two
Chapter three
Chapter four
Chapter five
Chapter six

Chapter seven