Seasons of Drabbles

Wasn't able to make a post now, but authors were revealed a few hours ago! Sorry for the delay. Thanks to all who participated, whether you signed up, treated, and/or pinch hit.

The collection is open indefinitely for any treats you'd like to post. Until next round!

Hi everyone, with all pinch hits claimed, we can now confirm that Sunday, November 17 @ 1:00pm Eastern Standard time (Countdown) is when works will be revealed. Author reveals will happen Tuesday, November 19 @ 1:00pm Eastern Standard time.

We're currently working our way through work approvals, so don't fret if a fic you've posted hasn't been approved yet.

Thanks all!

Hi all, we have two post-deadline pinch hits remaining and one new one! These are due Friday, November 15, noon Eastern time (Countdown), though we can be flexible if needed, so please get in touch if you are interested but need more time.

If you would like to claim a pinch hit, please comment to this post with the name/number of the pinch hit you would like. Make sure to include your AO3 username! Comments are screened.

( CLAIMED - PH 2 - Rise of the Planet of the Apes (Movies), MonsterVerse (Legendary Pictures Movies), Orangutan Jungle School )

( CLAIMED - PH 6 - Lies of P (Video Game), 残酷な神が支配する | Zankoku na Kami ga Shihai Suru | A Cruel God Reigns, The Thaumaturge (Video Game), Withering Rooms (Video Game), Detroit: Become Human/Lies of P, Bloodborne/Lies of P )

( CLAIMED - PH 19 - Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Fire Emblem Musou: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes, Fire Emblem: If | Fire Emblem: Fates, Fire Emblem: Rekka no Ken | Fire Emblem: Blazing Sword, Fire Emblem: Kakusei | Fire Emblem: Awakening, Splatoon, Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle )

The deadline for assignments has now passed! We've temporarily closed the collection to take stock, but it will be open for posting again soon. We expect to have the post-deadline pinch hits out approximately a day from now. Please stay tuned for more updates!

Just a reminder to everyone that assignments are due a bit under 48 hours from now, Saturday, November 9 @ 11:59pm Eastern Standard time (Countdown).

We will be doing a big round of work approvals and may be reaching out to people with queries, so keep an eye on your AO3-associated email!

Hi everyone, assignments have now been sent out!

• The deadline is Saturday, November 9 @ 11:59pm Eastern Standard time (Countdown). If your assignment has not been submitted to AO3 by then, you will be defaulted.

• If your recipient did not request a fandom, character, and drabble type you offered, please contact the mods at seasonsofdrabbles@gmail.com ASAP.

• If you need to default, please do so via the button on AO3.

• For the requirements your drabble must meet, please see our guidelines. The collection is moderated and we will be doing a brief check of submitted works before admitting them into the collection. If we see an issue, we will contact you through email.

• If you write a drabble for a fandom in the tagset but it doesn't fit anyone's request, you may post it to the collection anyway, with no recipient.

We'll aim to post initial pinch hits later on Wednesday. Happy drabbling!

Signups for the current round are now closed! Below is the expected timeline for the next couple days:

• Like always, for the next 12 hours, people can contact us to add to their signups. This is intended for people who may have run into the character tagset bug when signing up close to the deadline, or whose nominations were approved late. However, anyone may ask to have characters/fandoms added to their requests or offers. If you would like us to add to your signup, please post on the screened mod contact post or email us at seasonsofdrabbles@gmail.com. Please make sure to include your AO3 username.

• After that window has closed, we will check the matching and send out emails to anyone who is unmatchable on offers. They will be given 24 hours to respond.

• Barring unexpected delays, assignments will go out before the end of Wednesday, October 30.(This is a bit of an accelerated timeline compared to past rounds, but based on experience, it should be sufficient time to get assignments sorted.)

As you wait for assignments to go out, please feel free to check out the app to browse requests and start writing!

Hi everyone, thank you for all the signups and nominations so far! We just have a couple notes.

First, please let us know ASAP if you're having trouble requesting or offering a tag. We're encountering more issues with this during the current round than we have in the past, so we want to make sure we're addressing it.

Second, when making nominations, make sure to first check whether it's already in the tagset! Disambiguating--i.e., putting the fandom in parentheses at the end--is also extremely helpful. Both of these things allow us to approve nominations more quickly. Thank you for your help!

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Finally, one small clarification regarding the nominations: there are 2 characters nominated under Original Work that seem duplicative of existing tags.

• "Powerful Mage Who's Temporarily Lost His Magic (Original Work)"
  • "Mage Who's Temporarily Lost His Magic (OW)" is already in the tagset.
• "Powerful Mage's Rival (Original Work)"
  • "Mage's Rival (OW)"

If you are the nominator, we welcome you to rephrase it to be more distinct. Thanks!

Nominations are now open for the fall 2024 round of Seasons of Drabbles!  Nominations will remain open until signups close on Monday, October 28.

New Nominations Rule: Going forward, broad writer's-choice character nominations (e.g., "Creator's Choice of Demon" or "Any Star Trek Captain") will not be approved. This is because it requires the mods to have fandom-specific knowledge when checking that gifts are for a requested character during approvals. Instead, please nominate specific characters.

For example, we would not approve "Creator's Choice of Jedi" under Star Wars because it'd require extra work from the mods to look up which individual characters in a gift are Jedi or not. Instead, we'd ask you to nominate specific Jedi characters.

The only fandoms where such broad nominations are permitted are the "Creator's Choice" fandoms, since by their nature, character nominations cannot be specific.

Important Reminders

• Please check first whether the character or fandom you're nominating is already in the tagset! This tagset is to be reused for all rounds in 2024.

• All character nominations should be disambiguated, for example: Steve Rogers (Captain America (Movies)). Not doing this slows the approval process significantly, so please disambiguate! Characters may be nominated in any/every fandom in which they appear.

• You may nominate up to 10 fandoms with up to 10 characters each.

• With some exceptions, both umbrella fandoms and sub-fandoms are allowed. For instance, you may nominate under Marvel Cinematic Universe or Star Wars - All Media Types. You may also nominate under sub-fandoms such as Thor (Movies) or Star Wars Original Trilogy. (Please remember that if you request Any for an umbrella fandom, you will be requesting any character who appears in any of the fandoms below the umbrella - NOT just characters in the tagset. So if you plan to request Any, you may want to request under a specific sub-fandom rather than the umbrella.) Please check the fandom notes section for exceptions prior to nominating!

• RPF is allowed. Nominated RPF characters must be famous in their own right, and must be 18+ for modern RPF.

• Crossovers are allowed. Crossover fandoms should be nominated as Fandom A/Fandom B. Character nominations for crossovers should be nominated as Character's Name (Fandom A/Fandom B). For example, if nominating Luke Skywalker for a Narnia/Star Wars crossover, the fandom would be nominated as Chronicles of Narnia/Star Wars, while the character would be nominated as Luke Skywalker (Narnia/Star Wars).

• Recursive fandoms are allowed. The required format is Recursive: Fic/Series title - Creator. Recursive fandoms may be nominated under two circumstances: 1. the creator has posted a blanket permission statement, 2. you are the creator. In either case, please contact us when nominating so that we have the pertinent permissions. Characters nominated under recursive fandoms should be disambiguated with the title of the recursive fandom.

• Since we will be re-using the tagset all year, recursive fandoms will be removed on an as-needed basis between rounds (only if a blanket permission statement comes down, or the creator asks for it to be removed).

• Original Works are allowed. When nominating characters, please disambiguate with (Original Work). If an original character's gender is important to you, please specify it in your nomination.

• Original characters may also be nominated in existing fandoms. When nominating an original character within an existing fandom, please disambiguate with the name of the fandom. If an original character's gender is important to you, please specify it in your nomination.

• Objects/concepts/etc may be nominated in the character slot for any canon in which they appear. For Original Works, you can make some up if you would like.

Seasons of Drabbles is an exchange for the creation of drabbles and drabble variants. It will run once per season*. The current round is for fall 2024.

We've included some clarifying information on drabble types in the Guidelines, so check them out if you're unsure of their definitions!

*4x per year, with each round taking place sometime within a three-month period (March-May, June-August, September-November, December-February). Each round will take about a month from nominations through author reveals.

New rule as of 6/26: Canons and gifts that are wholly or significantly created through generative* AI are prohibited from this event. Such canons cannot be nominated, requested, or offered, and giving such gifts may result in a ban. We recognize this is an evolving issue, so please feel free to offer feedback or ask questions.

*By generative AI, we mean tools that create new content. Things like spell-check or translation are not included in our definition of generative AI.

Schedule:
Nominations open: Monday, October 14 (will remain open through signups)
Signups open: Monday, October 21
Signups close: Monday, October 28 @ 11:59pm Eastern Daylight time (Countdown)
Assignments out by: Wednesday, October 30
Assignments due: Saturday, November 9 @ 11:59pm Eastern Standard time (Countdown)
Collection opens: Saturday, November 16 @ 1:00pm Eastern Standard time Sunday, November 17 @ 1:00pm Eastern Standard time (Countdown)
Authors revealed: Tuesday, November 19 @ 1:00pm Eastern Standard time

This round's AO3 Collection | Tagset | Nomination guidelines | Requests App | Mod email: seasonsofdrabbles@gmail.com

Need to contact us or have a question? See the Mod Contact post!

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