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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
INSTRUCTIONS
Livejournal Name: your livejournal handle
Email: if you’re uncomfortable listing this in a public post please either PM me with it or email be_compromised at hotmail dot com (with your livejournal name as well so I know who you are!)
TO RECIEVE
Gift Type: this can be FIC or GIFT BASKET or EITHER. If you would like a gift basket you can say if you’d prefer art, a fanmix, icons etc but this is not guaranteed.
Prompts: prompt at LEAST 3 ideas and no more than 6 that you would like. This can be anything! Winter kisses or fireside cuddles, SHIELD missions or Avengers battles, domestic fluff or silly antics, AUs or crossovers… Past Secret Santas and the promptathon posts can be helpful if you get stuck. If you really don’t mind what you get then feel free to say so, but you still need to give at least 3 prompts so that if in doubt your giftee has something to work with
Yes please: a brief list of things that you like that aren’t as specific as a prompt, like genres, kissing, other characters, banter etc. Your gift giver isn’t obliged to use them, but it can help give them some ideas. Again, please don’t just say ‘I don’t mind’, say something like ‘I don’t mind but feel free to include…’.
No thank you: Anything that your really do not want, such as character death, angst, fluff, background pairings that you actively dislike, music that you can’t stand (f you’re asking for a fanmix), anything that might be triggering for you etc. (Feel free to specify if some things are just a rather not and some are no-way, not-ever.)
TO GIVE
Gift Type: this can be FIC or GIFT BASKET or EITHER. If you’d like to create something specific for a gift basket (such as a fanmix, vid, wallpaper) do let us know.
I’d like to: genres, background characters, ideas etc that you’d like to create, that you’d feel comfortable creating, that you would be really happy to have assigned to you! Would you be happy writing from the comics, or just the films, or mixing them up? Are you comfortable writing AUs? Are sexy times your thing or missions or hilarity?
I’d rather not: Things that you don’t really like to create or feel uncomfortable with, like a background character you don’t feel confident in writing or a genre that isn’t your strength
Absolutely Not: Things that are an absolute no for you, such as anything triggering, character death, things that you will not do. (You may get a request that has something it in from your ‘rather not’ section that you can ignore, because the request has other prompts in it or because it’s not a deal breaker for the requester, but these are things that we will make sure you don’t get in your assignment if we can absolutely help it. Please don’t use this for general dislikes that go on forever or lines in the sand; it’s the no-way, no-how, not-evers.)
Just to let you know: if you’re interested in being a pinch-hitter, beta reader, or graphics maker you could let us know here
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
INSTRUCTIONS
Livejournal Name: your livejournal handle
Email: if you’re uncomfortable listing this in a public post please either PM me with it or email be_compromised at hotmail dot com (with your livejournal name as well so I know who you are!)
TO RECIEVE
Gift Type: this can be FIC or GIFT BASKET or EITHER. If you would like a gift basket you can say if you’d prefer art, a fanmix, icons etc but this is not guaranteed.
Prompts: prompt at LEAST 3 ideas and no more than 6 that you would like. This can be anything! Winter kisses or fireside cuddles, SHIELD missions or Avengers battles, domestic fluff or silly antics, AUs or crossovers… Past Secret Santas and the promptathon posts can be helpful if you get stuck. If you really don’t mind what you get then feel free to say so, but you still need to give at least 3 prompts so that if in doubt your giftee has something to work with
Yes please: a brief list of things that you like that aren’t as specific as a prompt, like genres, kissing, other characters, banter etc. Your gift giver isn’t obliged to use them, but it can help give them some ideas. Again, please don’t just say ‘I don’t mind’, say something like ‘I don’t mind but feel free to include…’.
No thank you: Anything that your really do not want, such as character death, angst, fluff, background pairings that you actively dislike, music that you can’t stand (f you’re asking for a fanmix), anything that might be triggering for you etc. (Feel free to specify if some things are just a rather not and some are no-way, not-ever.)
TO GIVE
Gift Type: this can be FIC or GIFT BASKET or EITHER. If you’d like to create something specific for a gift basket (such as a fanmix, vid, wallpaper) do let us know.
I’d like to: genres, background characters, ideas etc that you’d like to create, that you’d feel comfortable creating, that you would be really happy to have assigned to you! Would you be happy writing from the comics, or just the films, or mixing them up? Are you comfortable writing AUs? Are sexy times your thing or missions or hilarity?
I’d rather not: Things that you don’t really like to create or feel uncomfortable with, like a background character you don’t feel confident in writing or a genre that isn’t your strength
Absolutely Not: Things that are an absolute no for you, such as anything triggering, character death, things that you will not do. (You may get a request that has something it in from your ‘rather not’ section that you can ignore, because the request has other prompts in it or because it’s not a deal breaker for the requester, but these are things that we will make sure you don’t get in your assignment if we can absolutely help it. Please don’t use this for general dislikes that go on forever or lines in the sand; it’s the no-way, no-how, not-evers.)
Just to let you know: if you’re interested in being a pinch-hitter, beta reader, or graphics maker you could let us know here
ARE YOU EXCITED? I’M EXCITED! HERE WE GOOOO!
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