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The deadline for Secret Santa 2018 is on MIDNIGHT SUNDAY DECEMBER 9TH (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, even in 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 9th DECEMBER. That’s finished, beta read if you wanted, 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:
FIC should be submitted as an email attachment, preferably as a Word or .doc, but it can be a plain text or .txt file. If your fic is longer than will fit in a single DW post, or if you would like it to be posted as chapters, please indicate in BIG CAPITALS WHERE YOU WOULD LIKE THE BREAK TO BE. All fics must be formatted to suit DW (ie. if you want words to be bold or italic, line breaks etc). This can be rich text or html. Your fic will be posted as submitted.
ART/GRAPHICS/VIDS/MIXES if your gift contains any of these please PM or email to discuss how to submit while keeping your creations anonymous. DO NOT link to already uploaded works. Please specify if multiple art pieces should be in any particular order, and if you have any blurbs or captions etc.
STEP THREE: Place It Under The Tree
EVERYONE MUST COMMENT TO THIS POST BY MIDNIGHT SUNDAY 9TH DECEMBER. EVEN IF YOU HAVE AN EXTENSION. If you are submitting on time, comment to this post after you’ve submitted your gift by email, but you must comment to this post regardless by the deadline.
We need this for banner making as well as a check in and to confirm if emails have been received. All comments are screened.
Comment to this post with the following, accurately:
PROBLEMS: We Know They Happen
If for any reason you think that you won’t be able to submit by the deadline of SUNDAY 9TH DECEMBER you need to 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 capacities 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. Once assumed to have 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 week starting 17th December. 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.
Almost there folks!
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 9th DECEMBER. That’s finished, beta read if you wanted, 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:
FIC should be submitted as an email attachment, preferably as a Word or .doc, but it can be a plain text or .txt file. If your fic is longer than will fit in a single DW post, or if you would like it to be posted as chapters, please indicate in BIG CAPITALS WHERE YOU WOULD LIKE THE BREAK TO BE. All fics must be formatted to suit DW (ie. if you want words to be bold or italic, line breaks etc). This can be rich text or html. Your fic will be posted as submitted.
ART/GRAPHICS/VIDS/MIXES if your gift contains any of these please PM or email to discuss how to submit while keeping your creations anonymous. DO NOT link to already uploaded works. Please specify if multiple art pieces should be in any particular order, and if you have any blurbs or captions etc.
STEP THREE: Place It Under The Tree
EVERYONE MUST COMMENT TO THIS POST BY MIDNIGHT SUNDAY 9TH DECEMBER. EVEN IF YOU HAVE AN EXTENSION. If you are submitting on time, comment to this post after you’ve submitted your gift by email, but you must comment to this post regardless by the deadline.
We need this for banner making as well as a check in and to confirm if emails have been received. All comments are screened.
Comment to this post with the following, accurately:
PROBLEMS: We Know They Happen
If for any reason you think that you won’t be able to submit by the deadline of SUNDAY 9TH DECEMBER you need to 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 capacities 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. Once assumed to have 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 week starting 17th December. 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.
Almost there folks!
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