I am a horrible hostess and got so involved with cleaning and clearing out my office that I forgot my hostessing duties! Oh noes! But it's still Friday and we have a whole fabulous fall weekend ahead of us, so here we go...

Once upon a time, there was a Princess named Emily and she adored bubblebaths. She also adored fandom. Hence, bubblefic was born.

What is bubblefic, you ask? Well, if you want to get technical, it's fic that features a bubblebath. But why should we limit ourselves here? It could be anything related to water--a bath, a shower, a hot tub, a kiddie pool.

Sometimes bubblefic is smutty (cause, hello? nekkid people!), but just as often it's not. Sometimes it's art, sometimes it's a drabble. Sometimes it's just a headcanon. Get creative and show us your bubbles!

As always...

Things to remember:
1) Always label NSFW (Not Safe For Work) stuff in the title and post under a cut.
2) Fic and artwork needs to have a rating and warnings (or you can say that you’ve chosen not to use warnings).
3) For people with annoying internet connections, say in the title if a comment is graphic/images/gif-heavy and post picspams under a cut.
4) Have a damn good time! (Because if that’s not happening then this post has clearly failed.)

Hello! I’m helping out this year with our Annual Secret Santa! So guys... *drumroll* It’s sign up time!

Please read the following information carefully – we like to tweak things to try and make them better – and please do follow the instructions for the sign up form because it makes everything easier. Thank you!

TIMELINE

REQUESTS: from now until 09:00 GMT Saturday 21st October
CHOICES POST: will go up ASAP and be available until 17:00 GMT Saturday 28th October
ASSIGNMENTS SENT OUT: by Tuesday 31st October at the latest
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Midnight (whatever your time zone) Sunday 3rd December
GIFT POSTING STARTS: Sunday 17th December

THINGS TO KNOW

An exchange is where you sign up with ideas for what kind of gift you’d 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 also like to have a graphics team to make banners for all the gifts. If you would also like to make other graphics goodies, pinch-hit, beta read, and cheerlead, THANK YOU. You can do any or all of these extra things regardless of whether you’re in the exchange or not – either comment to this post or wait until we have a post later on calling for volunteers.

RULES

1) THE RULES OF THE COMM APPLY

2) Your gifts need to have a focus on Clint and/or Natasha – solo or as friends, partners, lovers, colleagues, spouses, enemies… We love other characters and welcome fics with all pairings and no pairing group gen fics, but the focus of our comm are on these two. SEE THIS POST and message a mod if you have any questions.

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, fanvid, 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. If you submit by the agreed extension date the pinch-hit will be a community gift. If you don’t submit by the extension 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, but please be considerate of your fellow bar members and mods – unlike Santa’s elves your mods 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.

Comments are screened to keep them anonymous. After the sign up deadline of 09:00 GMT Saturday 21st October we will do a public post of all the requests making them anonymous. You then reply to that post with your top three picks of which requests you’d like to create for. (There will be more information on this in the requests post.)

You’re not guaranteed your choices, but we will be using these to match you up as best we can and will keep to your choices as much as possible. We aim to match everyone up in the best combinations possible, but we make no guarantees of perfection! Please feel free to include lots of info in your sign up form; it actually makes things easier, both for matching and for whoever gets you as an assignment.

Once matching has been done you will receive your assignment by email. We’ll provide information closer to the time on how to submit your gifts, which will be by email to the community email address. Remember, this is an anonymous exchange!

For questions: there’s a thread at the top of this post that we will keep un-screening the comments on so we can chat.


SIGN UP FORM

Copy and paste into a comment to this post:

<b>Email:</b> <b>TO RECIEVE Gift Type:</b> <b>Prompts:</b> <b>Yes please:</b> <b>No thank you:</b> <b>Canon Preference:</b> <b>TO GIVE Gift Type:</b> <b>I’d like to:</b> <b>I’d rather not:</b> <b>Absolutely Not:</b> <b>Canon Preference:</b>


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Okay then. HERE WE GO!