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The deadline for Secret Santa 2020 is on MIDNIGHT SUNDAY DECEMBER 6TH (that's midnight in whatever time zone you live in) so here's some REALLY IMPORTANT INFORMATION THAT YOU REALLY NEED TO READ aka your three step guide to submitting your Secret Santa gift. Paying attention to this post will make the lives of you, your mods, your pinch hitters, and your graphic makers so very much easier. If you have any questions at all about anything please just ask, in the comments or send a mod a PM or an email if you're shy. Thank you :)
There are three things you need to do: finish, submit your gift by email, AND comment to this post. Read on to find out how...
STEP ONE: Getting It Done
Complete your Secret Santa gift by the deadline of SUNDAY 6th DECEMBER. That's finished, beta read if you want, all polished and ready to be gift-wrapped.
STEP TWO: Gift-wrapping
Send your gifts to be_compromised@hotmail.com wrapping them up as follows:
The subject line of your email needs to be: "YOUR DW/ONLINE NAME Secret Santa Gift for giftee"
Place the following header at the top of your fic or in the main body of your email. Use it exactly as it is, just copy and paste, fill it in and replace the capital letter parts with the relevant names:
Please submit your fic as an email attachment, preferably as a Word or .doc, but we will also accept plain text or .txt file. All fics will be posted as submitted, so make sure you’ve formatted for bold, italic, line breaks etc. This can be in rich text or html.
STEP THREE: Place It Under The Tree
PLEASE CAN EVERYONE COMMENT TO THIS POST BY MIDNIGHT SUNDAY 6TH DECEMBER with the following:
We use this to double check we’ve received your submitted fic (they have occasionally gone astray) or your different deadline, if you have an extension or are a pinch hitter, and for banner making reasons. All comments are screened.
PROBLEMS: We Know They Happen
If for any reason you think that you won't be able to submit by the deadline of SUNDAY 6TH DECEMBER please let us know as soon as possible. We don't yell, we just want to make sure that everyone who participates gets a gift and that everyone taking part in all ways have as few worries as possible.
If you can't submit by the deadline a pinch hitter will automatically be assigned. If you then manage to submit by an agreed extended deadline the pinch-hit will become a community gift. If you don't submit by the agreed extension we will assume that you have dropped out. If you drop out then the gift for you will be reassigned as a community gift and we will rely on your pinch hitter. If you haven’t contacted us and we assume you’ve dropped out we will not be able to accept late gifts as part of the exchange.
The best way to contact a mod is to send an email to the community address and/or PM mods inkvoices and franztastisch.
What Happens Next
This is an anonymous gift exchange, so please don’t post or upload your gift elsewhere until after the reveals.
We aim to post gifts in the run up to Christmas, then once all gifts have been posted we will have the reveals, at which point there will be a master post and an AO3 collection for this year's exchange if you want to crosspost your work.
Thank you for reading - we look forward to reading your exchange gifts!
There are three things you need to do: finish, submit your gift by email, AND comment to this post. Read on to find out how...
STEP ONE: Getting It Done
Complete your Secret Santa gift by the deadline of SUNDAY 6th DECEMBER. That's finished, beta read if you want, all polished and ready to be gift-wrapped.
STEP TWO: Gift-wrapping
Send your gifts to be_compromised@hotmail.com wrapping them up as follows:
The subject line of your email needs to be: "YOUR DW/ONLINE NAME Secret Santa Gift for giftee"
Place the following header at the top of your fic or in the main body of your email. Use it exactly as it is, just copy and paste, fill it in and replace the capital letter parts with the relevant names:
Please submit your fic as an email attachment, preferably as a Word or .doc, but we will also accept plain text or .txt file. All fics will be posted as submitted, so make sure you’ve formatted for bold, italic, line breaks etc. This can be in rich text or html.
STEP THREE: Place It Under The Tree
PLEASE CAN EVERYONE COMMENT TO THIS POST BY MIDNIGHT SUNDAY 6TH DECEMBER with the following:
We use this to double check we’ve received your submitted fic (they have occasionally gone astray) or your different deadline, if you have an extension or are a pinch hitter, and for banner making reasons. All comments are screened.
PROBLEMS: We Know They Happen
If for any reason you think that you won't be able to submit by the deadline of SUNDAY 6TH DECEMBER please let us know as soon as possible. We don't yell, we just want to make sure that everyone who participates gets a gift and that everyone taking part in all ways have as few worries as possible.
If you can't submit by the deadline a pinch hitter will automatically be assigned. If you then manage to submit by an agreed extended deadline the pinch-hit will become a community gift. If you don't submit by the agreed extension we will assume that you have dropped out. If you drop out then the gift for you will be reassigned as a community gift and we will rely on your pinch hitter. If you haven’t contacted us and we assume you’ve dropped out we will not be able to accept late gifts as part of the exchange.
The best way to contact a mod is to send an email to the community address and/or PM mods inkvoices and franztastisch.
What Happens Next
This is an anonymous gift exchange, so please don’t post or upload your gift elsewhere until after the reveals.
We aim to post gifts in the run up to Christmas, then once all gifts have been posted we will have the reveals, at which point there will be a master post and an AO3 collection for this year's exchange if you want to crosspost your work.
Thank you for reading - we look forward to reading your exchange gifts!
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