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Hi everyone, just wanted to give a heads up that we are working on put together a schedule for the next round. Thank you and stay tuned!

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Authors are now revealed! Many thanks to all who participated in this round, especially our wonderful pinch hitters. <3

Reveals doesn't mean you should stop reading and commenting, so we hope you continue to enjoy all the great drabbles.

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Works are now revealed! Please take a moment to leave a comment on your gifts, and enjoy the haul of drabbles this round!

The authors reveals will take place 48 hours from now Monday, July 22 @ 1:00pm Eastern Daylight time (Countdown)—a tiny period of secrecy for tiny fics. You are welcome to continue treating during and after the anonymous period.

Please get in touch if you have any questions! If you have a gift that is not for a fandom, character, and drabble type you requested, reach out to us ASAP.

If your fic is not showing up/is still unrevealed, you may need to repost or re-add it.

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Update: all pinch hits are in and we're on track to open the collection on time!

Hi all, thank you for the treats you've posted in the last few days, and thanks to all the pinch hitters who have stepped up so far! We have one pinch hit remaining. The collection is scheduled to open in a little over a day and a half from the time of this post (Countdown), so we'd prefer to get it in before then, but the due date is negotiable.

If you would like to claim the pinch hit, please comment to this post with your AO3 username! Comments are screened.

( CLAIMED - PH 9 - Heartless (Manga), 악녀는 두 번 산다 - 한민트 | The Villainess Lives Twice - Han Mint (Webcomic), 전지적 독자 시점 - 싱숑 | Omniscient Reader - Sing-Shong )

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We have 8 post-deadline pinch hits available! These are due Friday, July 19, noon Eastern time (Countdown), though we can be flexible if needed.

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 8 - 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs, 名探偵コナン | Detective Conan | Case Closed, Archive 81 (Podcast) )

( PH 9 - Heartless (Manga), 악녀는 두 번 산다 - 한민트 | The Villainess Lives Twice - Han Mint (Webcomic), 전지적 독자 시점 - 싱숑 | Omniscient Reader - Sing-Shong )

( CLAIMED - PH 13 - 残酷な神が支配する | Zankoku na Kami ga Shihai Suru | A Cruel God Reigns, Lies of P (Video Game), The Thaumaturge (Video Game) )

( CLAIMED - PH 14 - Marvel Cinematic Universe, Pacific Rim (Movies), Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies), Transformers (Bay Movies), Original Work )

( CLAIMED - PH 15 - Fairy Tail, Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, Chalion Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (TV), He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983 Cartoon), What If...? (Cartoon 2021), Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light, Jem and the Holograms (Cartoon), Voltron: Lion Force (1984), Star Trek: The Next Generation )

( CLAIMED - PH 16 - Marvel Cinematic Universe, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV), House of the Dragon (TV), Game of Thrones (TV) )

( CLAIMED - PH 17 - Perry Mason (TV 1957), MASH (TV), The Incredible Journey - Sheila Burnford, Bridgerton (TV), Jem and the Holograms (Cartoon) )

( CLAIMED - PH 18 - 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, Dimension 20 (Web Series) - Misfits and Magic, Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen, Stardew Valley (Video Game) )

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Hi everyone, the collection has been reopened for posting. More work approvals will happen later today, so do not be alarmed if a treat you've posted currently shows up as Unreviewed.

We do have a couple queries out, so if your assignment fic has not yet be approved, please check the email associated with your AO3 account and respond in the next 24 hours.

Once that window has passed or once we've heard back from everyone, post-deadline pinch hits will be posted. Thank you to the great pinch hitters who've pitched in thus far!

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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. Thank you!

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Sorry all, one of the mods had an embarrassing moment of utter date misremembering. ^^' Thank you to those who sent corrections. Deepest apologies for any confusion and stress, and do ignore the flailing email some of you might have received.

As the far more accurate countdown says, as of this post, there are a little under 23 hours until assignments are due. So there's time yet to get your drabbles in.

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We have 13 initial pinch hits, which are due at the assignment deadline, July 13 at 11:59pm Eastern Daylight time (Countdown).

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

Given the delay in posting these pinch hits, if you're interested in claiming one but would like to extend the deadline by up to a day, just let us know.

( CLAIMED - PH 1 - Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger, Colorful Love (TV), 体感予報 | Taikan Yohou | My Personal Weatherman (TV), ジャックフロスト | Jack o' Frost (TV), 仮面ライダーガッチャード | Kamen Rider Gotchard (TV), 王様戦隊キングオージャー | Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger (TV), 魔進戦隊キラメイジャー | Mashin Sentai Kiramager, Ride Kamens (Video Game), IF/Inside Out, Gokaiger/Zenkaiger )

( CLAIMED - PH 2 - From (TV 2022), Sense8 (TV), True Detective: Night Country (TV) )

( CLAIMED - PH 3 - Fire Emblem: Kakusei | Fire Emblem: Awakening, Christmas at the Holly Day Inn (2023), Cousin Bette - Honoré de Balzac, Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen, Harold and Maude (1971), Original Work )

( PH 4 - FAKE (Manga), Encanto (2021), Part Of Your World: A Twisted Tale (Book) )

( CLAIMED - PH 5 - Aimless Love - Billy Collins, POTTER Beatrix - Works, All Creatures Great and Small - James Herriot, Bloom County, Lupin (TV 2021), A Touch of Grey - Rhizophora )

( CLAIMED - PH 6 - Citizen Sleeper (Video Game), Invisible Inc. (Video Game), The Red Strings Club (Video Game), Live A Live (Video Game), Neverwinter Nights (Video Games), Betrayal at Krondor (Video Games), Firefly (TV 2002), There is No Antimemetics Division - qntm, Golden - Barns Courtney (Song), Creator’s Choice of Any Fandom I’ve Written (Request Only/Do NOT Offer) )

( CLAIMED - PH 7 - Psychonauts (Video Games), Higurashi no Naku Koro ni | Higurashi When They Cry, Umineko no Naku Koro ni | When the Seagulls Cry, Mortal Kombat (Video Games), Tekken (Video Games) )

( PH 8 - 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs, 名探偵コナン | Detective Conan | Case Closed, Archive 81 (Podcast) )

( PH 9 - Heartless (Manga), 악녀는 두 번 산다 - 한민트 | The Villainess Lives Twice - Han Mint (Webcomic), 전지적 독자 시점 - 싱숑 | Omniscient Reader - Sing-Shong )

( CLAIMED - PH 10 - The Court Jester (1955), Emergency! (TV 1972), Magic School Bus & Magic School Bus Rides Again (Cartoons 1994-2018), The Monkees (TV), Sesame Street (US TV), WordGirl (Cartoon), All Creatures Great and Small (TV 2020) )

( CLAIMED - PH 11 - American Girls: Samantha - Various Authors, The Left-Handed Booksellers of London - Garth Nix, The Angel of the Crows - Katherine Addison, The Bone Key - Sarah Monette, Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard, Last Binding Series - Freya Marske )

( CLAIMED - PH 12 - Snooker RPF, Olympics RPF, Willow (1988) )

( PH 13 - 残酷な神が支配する | Zankoku na Kami ga Shihai Suru | A Cruel God Reigns, Lies of P (Video Game), The Thaumaturge (Video Game) )

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Hi all, so sorry for the delay getting the initial pinch hits up. They'll be posted soon!

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Hi everyone, assignments have now been sent out!

The deadline is Saturday, July 13, 11:59pm Eastern Daylight 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, including a new rule about generative AI. 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.

Initial pinch hits will be posted about a day from now. Happy drabbling!

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With signups closed, below is the expected timeline for the next couple days:

Like always, for the next 12 hours, we will be adding to people's signups upon request. 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 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. We'll also be checking individual signups at this time in case we find any issues there; if there are, those emails will also go out sometime tomorrow. Everyone we email will be given 24 hours to respond. Hopefully there will only be one round of emails that need to be sent out.

Barring unexpected delays, assignments will go out by Wednesday, July 3.

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

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Hi everyone! Signups are closing in about 24 hours on Sunday, June 30 @ 11:59pm Eastern Daylight time (Countdown). There will be a 12-hour grace period as always after signups close, during which you can add requests/offers. The changes may not be reflected right away on AO3 due to the scheduled maintenance, but we'll confirm with you once your signup is updated.

We also have some final nominations queries:

Could the nominator of "Recursive: gunflash - Fleetling" share the author's permission statement?
Knight & Rogue - Hilari Bell, Fisk (Knight & Rogue): Fisk seems to be the surname of several characters. Could the nominator clarify which one they meant?

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Thank you to all who have nominated and signed up so far! We have a couple more nominations queries.

We generally don't accept character nominations of the form "Any [description that applies to multiple characters]" or "Creator's Choice of [description that applies to multiple characters]", as we would be unable to verify that a gift contains this character without being familiar with the canon. If you made a nomination of this form, please feel free to change it to a more specific character!

Gokaiger/Zenkaiger: Could the nominator specify which parts of the Super Sentai series this is meant to encompass?

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Hello everyone, thank you to all who have signed up so far! We'd like to share a rule update that will take effect immediately:

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. Thank you!

*ETA 6/26: 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.

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We have a couple queries about nominated tags, which can be found below!

We also wanted to note that some canons (Hazbin Hotel and Avatar: the Last Airbander) have gotten split up in the tagset; those are being consolidated. We will update participants' signups as necessary once signups close to ensure that it doesn't affect matching. Thank you!

Queries:

Disney Princesses and Heroines of Power (fan fiction): Could the nominator share the author's permission statement?
Harold and Maude (1971), Harold Chasen/Maude Chardin (Harold and Maude): We are a character-matching rather relationship-matching; could you update your nomination to nominate each character separately? We'll update it later this week if we don't hear back, but wanted to flag it for awareness.

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Signups are now open! They will remain open until Sunday, June 30 @ 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.

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Nominations are now open for the summer 2024 round of Seasons of Drabbles! Nominations will remain open until signups close on Sunday, June 30.

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.

General Guidelines

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.

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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 summer 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 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.

*ETA 6/26: 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: Sunday, June 16 (will remain open through signups)
Signups open: Sunday, June 23
Signups close: Sunday, June 30 @ 11:59pm Eastern Daylight time (~~Countdown~~)
Assignments out by: Wednesday, July 3
Assignments due: Saturday, July 13 @ 11:59pm Eastern Daylight time (~~Countdown~~)
Collection opens: Saturday, July 20 @ 1:00pm Eastern Daylight time (Countdown)
Authors revealed: Monday, July 22 @ 1:00pm Eastern Daylight 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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Hope you are looking forward to the upcoming round, which will be starting up soon!

Schedule:
Nominations open: Sunday, June 16 (will remain open through signups)
Signups open: Sunday, June 23
Signups close: Sunday, June 30 @ 11:59pm Eastern Daylight time (Countdown)
Assignments out by: Wednesday, July 3
Assignments due: Saturday, July 13 @ 11:59pm Eastern Daylight time (Countdown)
Collection opens: Saturday, July 20 @ 1:00pm Eastern Daylight time (Countdown)
Authors revealed: Monday, July 22 @ 1:00pm Eastern Daylight time