Sign-ups Open!

[littlefics]

Signups are now open! They will remain open until Monday, October 28 @ 11:59pm Eastern Daylight time (Countdown). You can browse the requests in the app!

The tagset will remain open for nominations through the end of signups. Please disambiguate your nominations to make the approvals process faster. IMPORTANT NOTE! If AO3 won't let you signup for a character that you know is definitely in the tagset, please comment here or email us with the exact fandom and character(s) you were trying to request/offer. A mod will then batch load it for you on the backend, and you will be able to request it.

• You must request 3-10 fandoms with 1-20 characters and 1-7 drabble types each. Fandoms in your requests must be unique, but may be related (e.g., three Star Wars requests would be fine, as long as it was three separate Star Wars fandoms).

• If you wish, you may request Any for drabble type. This means you are open to receiving any of the 7 drabble types in the tagset.

• If you wish, you may request Any character. This means any character in the canon (NOT just the tagset). Please do not request Any unless you really are open to receiving any character from that canon.

• If you have character DNWs, requesting Any might not be the best idea, as this could end up with a bad match with someone who had only offered that character. We will be checking for this before we send assignments, but it's possible we could miss something, which would lead to us having to re-assign your writer and send you to pinch hit. (Note that the character DNW would still be upheld in this situation.) If you are requesting Any and do not wish to receive fic about objects etc, you should DNW that as well.

• Blank signups are allowed, but prompts, likes, and a list of DNWs are strongly encouraged.

 

Offers:

• You must offer 3-10 fandoms with 1-20 characters and 1-7 drabble types each. Fandoms in your offers must be unique, but may be related (e.g., three Star Wars offers would be fine, as long as it was three separate Star Wars fandoms).

• If you wish, you may offer Any for drabble type. This means you are open to writing any of the 7 drabble types in the tagset. (Note that unless your recipient has also requested Any, you must write one of the specific drabble types they requested.)

• If you wish, you may offer Any character. This means any character in the tagset (i.e., if your recipient has requested specific characters, you must write one of them). Please do not offer Any unless you really are open to writing any character in the tagset for that fandom (including any last-minute additions to the tagset).

 

Do Not Wants:

• Only reasonable DNWs in your AO3 signup will be enforced.

• A reasonable DNW is a DNW that is clear and does not attempt to box your writer into writing just one thing.

Other:

• Some tags may not appear in the drop-down menu, but can still be used by copy-pasting from the tagset itself. This is a known AO3 bug.

 

• If you encounter any issues while signing up, please let us know ASAP, as AO3 bugs can sometimes hit exchanges.

• If you need to let us know something about your signup (such as not wanting to be assigned to a specific other participant), please contact us via email (seasonsofdrabbles AT gmail) or the mod contact post.

Comments

[aroberuka]

Hi mods! I couldn’t add the following characters to my requests/offers even when copy-pasting them directly from the tagset:

Naruto (Anime & Manga): Hyuuga Hinata (Naruto), Rock Lee (Naruto)

Can you help?

[littlefics]

Hi, thank you for sharing this! AO3 has a caching issue/bug where newly approved tags are not able to be selected in the sign up form, which we can fix on the back end. You should be able to request them now!

[aroberuka]

Yep, all good! Thank you.

[doreyg]

I've got a few characters not loading in, unfortunately!

Robert Lewis in Lewis (TV)
Arnold Rimmer and Dave Lister in Red Dwarf (TV)

Thank you! :)

[littlefics]

Hi, it should work now! Thank you for letting us know.

[doreyg]

Thank you for fixing it! :)

[(Anonymous)]

Hi! For Biohazard | Resident Evil, I'm trying to request Albert Wesker (Resident Evil) but it's not loading for me (and he is in the tagset). Thanks!

[littlefics]

Hi, this should now be fixed! AO3 has a caching issue/bug where newly approved tags are not able to be selected in the sign up form, which we can fix on the back-end. Let us know if there are further problems with it!

[(Anonymous)]

That worked, thank you!

But now I'm trying to request characters from 悪魔城ドラキュラ | Castlevania (Video Games) and none of the following characters are showing up despite being in the tagset:

Mathias Cronqvist (Castlevania)
Isaac Laforeze (Castlevania)
Julia Laforeze (Castlevania)
Leon Belmont (Castlevania)
Sypha Belnades (Castlevania)
Trevor Belmont (Castlevania)

If you could fix, I would appreciate it so much! Thank you

[littlefics]

Hello, just tested it out and you should be able to request those characters now! Unfortunately another bug that doesn't show all the characters in the dropdown seems to be at play, but you should still be able to request them if you copy-paste the exact tags. Sorry about that, and let us know if there are further issues with it.

[(Anonymous)]

Unfortunately, I still can't select any of them. :(

[littlefics]

We just did some more testing and it looks like "Mathias Cronqvist (Castlevania)" might have been the problem. Could you try again and let us know if it works now?

[(Anonymous)]

Unfortunately, it's still not working. I do appreciate your efforts on this, but as I'm sure you have plenty of other tag wrangling to do, I'll just keep that one taggable character and put the other one in my prompt as my preferred ship with them. Thank you so much for trying, though! :)

[littlefics]

Really sorry about that! If you can PM or email us your AO3 name, we can also see if we can edit your signup after signups close in order to add the characters. No harm in trying!

[kameikophoenix]

All the ones that I had to write in manually are not letting me submit them, and I copied them exactly how the tagset appears. I need the following inserted in both requests and offers please!

The Walking Dead (Tv):
Negan (Walking Dead)
Lucille (Walking Dead)

Supernatural (Tv):
gabriel (spn)
Lucifer (SPN)

Lucifer (Tv):
Ella Lopez (Lucifer TV)

Deus Ex (video games):
Aria Argento (Deus Ex)

Fallout 4 (video games):
Female Sole Survivor (Fallout 4)
Dogmeat (Fallout 4)

My username: https://archiveofourown.org/users/Kameiko

I have already submitted what I could. I'll finish editing my sign-ups when these are added. Thank you so much!

Edit: Nevermind. I figured out a workaround, lol. I just have to submit everything first then reenter. They appeared after that. Thank you!

[littlefics]

Hi, glad to hear it worked out! Let us know if you run into this again; AO3 has a caching issue/bug where newly approved tags are not able to be selected in the sign up form, which we can fix on the back end.

[kameikophoenix]

Will do! Yeah, I submitted all the ones it would take first then I thought what would happen if I edit? It doesn’t appear at first in the drop down menu but when you type what you want in, then it will show up. I’ve never seen a03 do that before. I knew to type it in when they don’t appear, but it was wild it did when I just went to edit the signup and they appeared when typing in the name. So I totally get it! Some of them manual entries worked but not all at first. Took a second attempt to see if it would fix it, and it did!

[(Anonymous)]

Hello mods! Thank you so much for organizing this exchange again--I can't even begin to imagine how much work goes into it and truly appreciate everything you're doing to make it happen!

Would you be able to help me add the following characters to their respective fandoms? I wasn't able to load them in the tagset. Thank you so much!

- Kominato Haruichi (Ace of Diamond)
- Kominato Ryousuke (Ace of Diamond)
- Narumiya Mei (Ace of Diamond)
- Himuro Tatsuya (Kuroko’s Basketball)

[littlefics]

Hi, thanks for letting us know about this! Just did a test and I was able to request them now, though I had to still copy-paste from the tagset. Could you let us know if it still doesn't work?

[(Anonymous)]

It worked! Thank you so much for your help!

[(Anonymous)]

Tags that present issues

Майор Гром | Major Grom (Comics)
The Rug (Major Grom Comics)
*Also, spelling mistake, it's supposed to be Rag not Rug

Майор Гром | Major Grom (Trofim Movies)
The Rag (Major Grom Movies)

[littlefics]

Hi, thanks for letting us know about this! I believe it's correctly spelled as The Rag in the Comics fandom? But do let me know if I am missing something.

We just tested it out and though the character tags don't show up in the drop-down, they should work if you copy-paste from the tagset. However, we're experiencing some issues with some tags, so let us know if it still is a problem.

[(Anonymous)]

Ah! I see what the issue is. I copied it from my noms page not the tagset - and you fixed it beforehand. Thank you so much! The film tag also didn't work yesterday for some reason, but it's OK today.

Thank you so much!