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Hello wonderful people of the bar, it’s that time of year again: time to start thinking about the end of year holiday season and to sign up for SECRET SANTA 2014!
TIMELINE
REQUESTS: from now until Midnght Monday 6th October
ASSIGNMENTS SENT OUT: by the 13th/14th October
CHECK IN: Mid-November
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Midnight Friday 5th December
GIFT POSTING STARTS: 15th December
THINGS TO KNOW
An exchange is where you sign up with ideas for what kind of gift you like and what kind of gift you'd like to give, then everyone gets a gift and makes a gift, and it's all anonymous until reveals at the end. For this exchange gifts can be EITHER a fic OR a gift basket.
This post is to sign up to take part in the exchange. We will also have a graphics making team, organized by the lovely![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
frea_o, for gift banners and other goodies, we’ll need pinch-hitters and beta readers and cheerleaders, and community gifts are always welcome. You can do any or all of these extra things regardless of whether you’re in the exchange or not!
RULES
1) THE RULES OF THE COMM APPLY
2) Your gifts need to include Clint and Natasha - as friends, partners, lovers, colleagues, spouses, enemies… We love other characters and they can be involved as well, but the focus, as always with our comm, is on these two.
3) Fics must be a MINIMUM of 1,000 words and a MAXIMUM of 10,000 words. Gift Baskets are the arty option, but should be the equivalent of the same length fic. They can be made up of art (such as a wallpaper, painting, picset, or graphic manip), a fanmix (minimum cover and 5 tracks), icons (minimum 10), or a combination or any of these, or a combination of these and a short fic (minimum 500 words).
4) This is an anonymous exchange, so don’t reveal who your giftee is until after the reveals!
TROUBLESHOOTING
If at any point during this exchange you feel you won’t be able to submit your gift by the deadline please do let us know straight away by email or PM. We don’t yell, we just want to make sure that everyone who participates gets a gift.
To keep things fair, for participants, pinch-hitters, and your mods, if you don’t submit by the deadline a pinch-hitter will automatically be assigned (because we’d like those done by the 15th Dec). If you submit by the agreed extension date the pinch-hit will be a community gift, and if you don’t then whatever you create will not be posted as part of the exchange and the gift for you will be reassigned as a community gift. We’ll still love you and you’ll still be able to take part in this and other events, it’s just that unlike Santa’s elves unfortunately we can’t work logistical magic.
TO TAKE PART IN THE EXCHANGE AS A GIFT GIVER AND RECEIVER
To take part please copy and paste the sign up form into a comment and fill it in. Instructions are behind the cut.
This post has a thread for questions and a thread for chatting at the top. Please don’t reply to any request comments, because then you can keep on editing your requests right up until the deadline.
We aim to match everyone up as best as possible, but we make no guarantees of perfection! If as time goes by and before the sign up deadline you see that someone has posted a request for something you would really like to write/create like, say, Clint from Fraction’s comics or zombies wearing Santa hats, feel free to edit your gift offer to say something like, “I like writing about zombies”. This can only help your chances! Seven people might do the same thing, but hey, one of you is likely to get to write about zombies.
SIGN UP FORM
( FORM )
ARE YOU EXCITED? I’M EXCITED! HERE WE GOOOO!
TIMELINE
REQUESTS: from now until Midnght Monday 6th October
ASSIGNMENTS SENT OUT: by the 13th/14th October
CHECK IN: Mid-November
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Midnight Friday 5th December
GIFT POSTING STARTS: 15th December
THINGS TO KNOW
An exchange is where you sign up with ideas for what kind of gift you like and what kind of gift you'd like to give, then everyone gets a gift and makes a gift, and it's all anonymous until reveals at the end. For this exchange gifts can be EITHER a fic OR a gift basket.
This post is to sign up to take part in the exchange. We will also have a graphics making team, organized by the lovely
frea_o, for gift banners and other goodies, we’ll need pinch-hitters and beta readers and cheerleaders, and community gifts are always welcome. You can do any or all of these extra things regardless of whether you’re in the exchange or not!RULES
1) THE RULES OF THE COMM APPLY
2) Your gifts need to include Clint and Natasha - as friends, partners, lovers, colleagues, spouses, enemies… We love other characters and they can be involved as well, but the focus, as always with our comm, is on these two.
3) Fics must be a MINIMUM of 1,000 words and a MAXIMUM of 10,000 words. Gift Baskets are the arty option, but should be the equivalent of the same length fic. They can be made up of art (such as a wallpaper, painting, picset, or graphic manip), a fanmix (minimum cover and 5 tracks), icons (minimum 10), or a combination or any of these, or a combination of these and a short fic (minimum 500 words).
4) This is an anonymous exchange, so don’t reveal who your giftee is until after the reveals!
TROUBLESHOOTING
If at any point during this exchange you feel you won’t be able to submit your gift by the deadline please do let us know straight away by email or PM. We don’t yell, we just want to make sure that everyone who participates gets a gift.
To keep things fair, for participants, pinch-hitters, and your mods, if you don’t submit by the deadline a pinch-hitter will automatically be assigned (because we’d like those done by the 15th Dec). If you submit by the agreed extension date the pinch-hit will be a community gift, and if you don’t then whatever you create will not be posted as part of the exchange and the gift for you will be reassigned as a community gift. We’ll still love you and you’ll still be able to take part in this and other events, it’s just that unlike Santa’s elves unfortunately we can’t work logistical magic.
TO TAKE PART IN THE EXCHANGE AS A GIFT GIVER AND RECEIVER
To take part please copy and paste the sign up form into a comment and fill it in. Instructions are behind the cut.
This post has a thread for questions and a thread for chatting at the top. Please don’t reply to any request comments, because then you can keep on editing your requests right up until the deadline.
We aim to match everyone up as best as possible, but we make no guarantees of perfection! If as time goes by and before the sign up deadline you see that someone has posted a request for something you would really like to write/create like, say, Clint from Fraction’s comics or zombies wearing Santa hats, feel free to edit your gift offer to say something like, “I like writing about zombies”. This can only help your chances! Seven people might do the same thing, but hey, one of you is likely to get to write about zombies.
SIGN UP FORM
( FORM )
ARE YOU EXCITED? I’M EXCITED! HERE WE GOOOO!
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