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Hi All, it's the time of year again - Secret Santa sign up time!
Please read the following information carefully and follow the instructions because it makes everything easier. Thank you!
TIMELINE
SIGN UP: from now until MIDDAY GMT Sunday 20th October
CHOICES POST: will go up ASAP and be available until midday GMT Sunday 27th October
ASSIGNMENTS SENT OUT: we aim to have these to you within the following few days
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Midnight (whatever your time zone) Sunday 8th December
GIFT POSTING: the week before Christmas
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. This exchange is primarily a FIC exchange with a gift basket option.
This post is to sign up to take part in the exchange. You can also make graphics goodies, pinch-hit, beta read, or cheerlead, regardless of whether or not you join in the exchange - there will be a post later this month askng for volunteers. (Pinch hitters will have a minimum of the week after the exchange deadline to create.)
RULES
1) THE RULES OF THE COMM APPLY
2) We welcome ALL THINGS MARVEL in this exchange. We may be a Clint and/or Natasha community, but we do welcome other characters and pairings (and threesomes or moresomes). That said, at least ONE of your prompts MUST focus on Clint and/or Natasha or be a generic prompt as giftees MUST have the option to write/create for at least one of these characters as the two that we're definitely all familiar with. This could be Natasha and/or Clint, individually or as friends, lovers, spouses, partners, in gen fic... Feel free to ask a mod if you have any questions – there’s even a handy questions thread at the top of the comments below.
3) Fics must be a MINIMUM of 1,000 words and a MAXIMUM of 10,000 words. Alternatively you can write a short fic (minimum 500 words) accompanyed be something non-wordy creative (eg. wallpaper, painting, picset, fanvid, graphic manip, fanmix, icons... or any combination of these).
4) For anyone lurking or thinking of encouraging friends to sign up: you DON'T have to be a member of the community to join in the exchange and you don't have to be on DW. You DO need to be able to comment using OpenID or anonymously including your online handle and provide an email address.
5) 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 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 an agreed extension date the pinch-hit will become 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 MIDDAY GMT Sunday 20th October we will do anonymise all of the requests and post them to the comm. 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.)
We can't gurantee you will get your choices, but we will use them 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! 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:
INSTRUCTIONS
Online handle: your online name, be that on DW, LJ, AO3, tumblr... so we know what to call you and can link your fic to you after the reveals
Email: your email address, even if you've given it to use before so we know if what we have is up to date
TO RECIEVE
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, AU ideas 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, 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’, instead say something like ‘feel free to create whatever you like, but some ideas of things you could include are…’ For example: if you like the comics or just the movies, what genre of fic you like…
No thank you: Anything that you really do not want, such as character death, angst, fluff, background pairings that you actively dislike, 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.)
Characters/Pairings: 1) how you like your Clint and Natasha (e.g. gen fic or together, ignoring everything from AOU onwards, Clint/Laura/Natasha, comics based, complete AU... ) and 2) other characters and pairings you like from the MCU and/or comics
TO GIVE
I’d like to: genres, 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, anything 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.)
Characters/Pairings: 1) how you like your Clint and Natasha (e.g. genfic or together, ignoring everything from AOU onwards, Clint/Laura/Natasha, comics based, complete AU... ) and 2) other characters and pairings you like from the MCU and/or comics
Okay then. HERE WE GO!
Please read the following information carefully and follow the instructions because it makes everything easier. Thank you!
TIMELINE
SIGN UP: from now until MIDDAY GMT Sunday 20th October
CHOICES POST: will go up ASAP and be available until midday GMT Sunday 27th October
ASSIGNMENTS SENT OUT: we aim to have these to you within the following few days
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Midnight (whatever your time zone) Sunday 8th December
GIFT POSTING: the week before Christmas
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. This exchange is primarily a FIC exchange with a gift basket option.
This post is to sign up to take part in the exchange. You can also make graphics goodies, pinch-hit, beta read, or cheerlead, regardless of whether or not you join in the exchange - there will be a post later this month askng for volunteers. (Pinch hitters will have a minimum of the week after the exchange deadline to create.)
RULES
1) THE RULES OF THE COMM APPLY
2) We welcome ALL THINGS MARVEL in this exchange. We may be a Clint and/or Natasha community, but we do welcome other characters and pairings (and threesomes or moresomes). That said, at least ONE of your prompts MUST focus on Clint and/or Natasha or be a generic prompt as giftees MUST have the option to write/create for at least one of these characters as the two that we're definitely all familiar with. This could be Natasha and/or Clint, individually or as friends, lovers, spouses, partners, in gen fic... Feel free to ask a mod if you have any questions – there’s even a handy questions thread at the top of the comments below.
3) Fics must be a MINIMUM of 1,000 words and a MAXIMUM of 10,000 words. Alternatively you can write a short fic (minimum 500 words) accompanyed be something non-wordy creative (eg. wallpaper, painting, picset, fanvid, graphic manip, fanmix, icons... or any combination of these).
4) For anyone lurking or thinking of encouraging friends to sign up: you DON'T have to be a member of the community to join in the exchange and you don't have to be on DW. You DO need to be able to comment using OpenID or anonymously including your online handle and provide an email address.
5) 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 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 an agreed extension date the pinch-hit will become 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 MIDDAY GMT Sunday 20th October we will do anonymise all of the requests and post them to the comm. 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.)
We can't gurantee you will get your choices, but we will use them 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! 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:
INSTRUCTIONS
Online handle: your online name, be that on DW, LJ, AO3, tumblr... so we know what to call you and can link your fic to you after the reveals
Email: your email address, even if you've given it to use before so we know if what we have is up to date
TO RECIEVE
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, AU ideas 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, 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’, instead say something like ‘feel free to create whatever you like, but some ideas of things you could include are…’ For example: if you like the comics or just the movies, what genre of fic you like…
No thank you: Anything that you really do not want, such as character death, angst, fluff, background pairings that you actively dislike, 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.)
Characters/Pairings: 1) how you like your Clint and Natasha (e.g. gen fic or together, ignoring everything from AOU onwards, Clint/Laura/Natasha, comics based, complete AU... ) and 2) other characters and pairings you like from the MCU and/or comics
TO GIVE
I’d like to: genres, 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, anything 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.)
Characters/Pairings: 1) how you like your Clint and Natasha (e.g. genfic or together, ignoring everything from AOU onwards, Clint/Laura/Natasha, comics based, complete AU... ) and 2) other characters and pairings you like from the MCU and/or comics
Okay then. HERE WE GO!
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