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Hi everyone, we have several query emails out at the moment—please take a second to check the email associated with your AO3 account! Hearing back from everyone will help us be able to post the updated list of pinch hits sooner; otherwise, expect them in about a day from now.

The collection is also once again open for posting. In the time between now and work reveals, you are encouraged to write treats!

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.

Hi everyone, this is a reminder that assignments are due in 48 hours on Saturday, January 27, 11:59pm Eastern time (Countdown).

Recall that all gifts and treats should be for a fandom and character the recipient requested, must be a length they requested, and must not include reasonable DNWs from their AO3 signup. Treats that do not fit any recipient's request may be posted to the collection without a recipient.

We have a couple email queries out right now, so take a look in your inboxes!

We have a couple remaining initial as well as new pinch hits available! These are due at the same time as assignments, Saturday, January 27 @ 11:59pm Eastern time (Countdown). To claim, please comment on this post with your AO3 username and the pinch hit you'd like to claim. Comments are screened. Pinch hits are given on a first come, first serve basis.

( CLAIMED - PH 1 - From (TV 2022), Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (TV 2016), Marvel Cinematic Universe )

( CLAIMED - PH 5 - Psychonauts (Video Games), Shoujo Kakumei Utena | Revolutionary Girl Utena, Mortal Kombat (Video Games), Higurashi no Naku Koro ni | Higurashi When They Cry, Detective Grimoire (Video Games) )

( CLAIMED - PH 8 - The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo, Dracula - Bram Stoker (Novel 1897), Shadow and Bone (TV) )

( PH 9 - Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Fire Emblem Musou: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes, 機動戦士ガンダムサンダーボルト | Gundam Thunderbolt )

We have 7 initial pinch hits available! These are due at the same time as assignments, Saturday, January 27 @ 11:59pm Eastern time (Countdown). To claim, please comment on this post with your AO3 username and the pinch hit you'd like to claim. Comments are screened. Pinch hits are given on a first come, first serve basis.

( PH 1 - From (TV 2022), Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (TV 2016), Marvel Cinematic Universe )

( CLAIMED - PH 2 - Good Omens (TV), Highlander: The Series, Reba (TV), Star Trek: Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation )

( CLAIMED - PH 3 - General Hospital (TV 1963), All My Children (TV 1970-2013), Grey's Anatomy, General Hospital/Grey's Anatomy, Beverly Hills 90210 (1990), I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997), Creator’s choice of any fandom I’ve written )

( CLAIMED - PH 4 - Blue Eye Samurai (Cartoon), Creator’s choice of any fandom I’ve written, Halt and Catch Fire, Vespertine Series - Margaret Rogerson, Chronicles of Amber - Roger Zelazny, The Bastard Son and the Devil Himself (TV) )

( PH 5 - Psychonauts (Video Games), Shoujo Kakumei Utena | Revolutionary Girl Utena, Mortal Kombat (Video Games), Higurashi no Naku Koro ni | Higurashi When They Cry, Detective Grimoire (Video Games) )

( CLAIMED - PH 6 - 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game), Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir, The Coffin of Andy and Leyley (Visual Novel) )

( CLAIMED - PH 7 - 重返未来：1999 | Reverse: 1999 (Video Game), Bocchi the Rock! (Anime), Chainsaw Man (Manga), SHY (Manga) )

Assignments have now been sent out! Some notes:

The deadline is Saturday, January 27 @ 11:59pm Eastern 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.

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

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, January 17.

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

Hi everyone, we have one last nominations query in addition to the previous ones—"Jacob Ferris (SVH)" was nominated under Sweet Valley High - Francine Pascal, but we're having trouble verifying that this is a character that exists. Could we get more information on where they appear?

As of this post, there are a little over 11 hours left till signups close! (Countdown) Recall that there will be a brief grace period after, where you can ask us to add tags to your signup.

Hi all, we have both new and remaining questions about some of the nominations. Thanks so much for your help!

Fire Emblem: Three Houses
- Golden Deer Students (FE3H): We generally don't allow groups unless they only exist as a group/it's impossible to nominate the members individually. Please be more specific in your nomination.
Fire Emblem Heroes
- Darius | Darios, Lianna, Rowan: We're having trouble verifying that these character belong under this fandom, could you share some evidence of them appearing in this particular game?
Fortnite (Video Game)
- Void (Fortnite) We're having trouble verifying that this is a character/skin, could you share more specifics?
Guild Wars 2 (Video Game)
- Any Charr Character (GW2), Any Hylek Character (GW2), Any Jotun/Giant Character (GW2), Any Ogre Character (GW2): Please be more specific in your nomination.
IDOLiSH7 (Anime)
- IDOLiSH7 Ensemble: Please be more specific in your nomination.
Object and Concept Anthropomorphism
- Peacock (Object and Concept Anthropomorphism): We wouldn't categorize living animals under Object and Concept anthropomorphism; would you be interested in nominating under Original Works instead?
Saiyuki Ibun
- The three current sanzos (Saiyuki Ibun): We generally don't allow groups unless they only exist as a group/it's impossible to nominate the members individually. Please be more specific in your nomination.

Hi everyone, we have a couple more questions about nominations as well as some remaining ones. Thank you for your help!

Fire Emblem: Three Houses
- Golden Deer Students (FE3H): We generally don't allow groups unless they only exist as a group/it's impossible to nominate the members individually. Please be more specific in your nomination.
Guild Wars 2 (Video Game)
- Any Charr Character (GW2), Any Hylek Character (GW2), Any Jotun/Giant Character (GW2), Any Ogre Character (GW2): Please be more specific in your nomination.
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
- Lawr: This seems like a typo, but we want to make sure before rejecting.
Object and Concept Anthropomorphism
- Peacock (Object and Concept Anthropomorphism): We wouldn't categorize living animals under Object and Concept anthropomorphism; would you be interested in nominating under Original Works instead?
Saiyuki Ibun
- The three current sanzos (Saiyuki Ibun): We generally don't allow groups unless they only exist as a group/it's impossible to nominate the members individually. Please be more specific in your nomination.

Note: there are currently two versions of the "Creator's Choice of Fandom" tag in the tagset, with different apostrophes. Please feel free to request/offer either version for now; they will be consolidated once signups close.

Signups are now open! They will remain open until Sunday, January 14 @ 11:59pm Eastern time (Countdown). You can browse the requests in the app!

The tagset will remain open for nominations through the end of signups. PLEASE 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. (We are aware of the character tag issue; please see the note at the top of this post!)

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.

Hello everyone, thank you for all your great nominations so far! We have a handful of them that we wanted to clarify. Please check below to see if one of your noms is mentioned.

~~Encanto (2021)~~
- random townsperson, random traveller: Are these are intended to be effectively original characters? If so, for clarity's sake, we will edit the nominations to "Original Townperson" and "Original Traveller"
Fire Emblem: Three Houses
- Golden Deer Students (FE3H): We generally don't allow groups unless they only exist as a group/it's impossible to nominate the members individually.
Guild Wars 2 (Video Game)
- Any Charr Character (GW2), Any Hylek Character (GW2), Any Jotun/Giant Character (GW2), Any Ogre Character (GW2): Please be more specific in your nomination.
Lobotomy Corporation
- Abnormality (Lobotomy Corporation): From what we can tell, this is a category of beings encompassing a range of more specific characters. Is the character being nominated a specific Abnormality?
~~Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Main Video Game Series)~~
- ~~Any Pokemon (PMVGS): Please be more specific in your nomination.~~
~~Snow White and the Seven Dwarves/Cinderella~~
- ~~Which version of these stories is being nominated? Disney movies, fairy tales, etc.?~~
~~Supernatural~~
- ~~Any side character: Please be more specific in your nomination.~~

We are also aware of several wandering tags that we intend to round up, but please let us know if we've missed any:

Clint Barton (MCU)
Natasha Romanov (MCU)
Riley (MCU)
Loki (Loki TV)
Steven Grant (Moon Knight TV)
Marc Spector (Moon Knight TV)
Taweret (Moon Knight TV)
Luke Skywalker (Star Wars Legends)
Mara Jade (Star Wars Legends)
Wedge Antilles (Star Wars Legends)

Thank you so much!

Nominations are now open for the Winter 2023/2024 round of Seasons of Drabbles! We've started with a new tagset since the old one was getting unwieldy to use on the mod-end, and it's a new year!

Guidelines

The tagset is here. Nominations will remain open until signups close on Sunday, January 14.

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

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.

The tagset will be re-used through the end of 2024. Nominations will be wiped ahead of each new round to allow you to nominate new fandoms/characters for that round.

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 winter 2023/2024. We've started with a new tagset since the old one was getting unwieldy to use on the mod-end, and it's a new year!

*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.

Schedule:
Nominations open: Sunday, December 31 (will remain open through signups)
Signups open: Sunday, January 7
Signups close: Sunday, January 14 @ 11:59pm Eastern time (Countdown)
Assignments out by: Wednesday, January 17
Assignments due: Saturday, January 27 @ 11:59pm Eastern time (Countdown)
Collection opens: Saturday, February 3 @ 1:00pm Eastern time (Countdown)
Authors revealed: Monday, February 5 @ 1:00pm Eastern 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!

Reminder about our newer rule: Participants must be 18+. We won't be actively checking participants' ages, but if someone brings a violation to our attention, we'll enforce the rule.

( Guidelines )

Winter Round Schedule:
Nominations open: Sunday, December 31 (will remain open through signups)
Signups open: Sunday, January 7
Signups close: Sunday, January 14 @ 11:59pm Eastern time (Countdown)
Assignments out by: Wednesday, January 17
Assignments due: Saturday, January 27 @ 11:59pm Eastern time (Countdown)
Collection opens: Saturday, February 3 @ 1:00pm Eastern time (Countdown)
Authors revealed: Monday, February 5 @ 1:00pm Eastern time

Hello everyone! Just a quick note that we'll be posting the winter round schedule at some point during this weekend. :)

And authors are now revealed! Thank you to everyone who participated. The collection would not have been able to reach over 300 fics without you all.

Reveals doesn't mean you should stop reading and commenting! We hope you continue to enjoy the great drabbles written for this round.

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 on November 6 at 5pm GMT (or, ignoring the U.S.'s Daylight Savings, 12pm Eastern Standard Time)—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.

Hi everyone, since all pinch hits are claimed, barring any unexpected events, the collection is on track to open November 4, 1:00pm Eastern time (Countdown). Hope you're excited!

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littlefics - Check your email for queries!
littlefics - Deadline Passed!
littlefics - 48 Hours Until Assignments Are Due!
littlefics - Remaining and New Pinch Hits as of Jan 22
littlefics - 7 Initial Pinch Hits
littlefics - Assignments Out!
littlefics - 12-Hour Grace Period
littlefics - One last nominations query
littlefics - Signups Closing Soon
littlefics - Nominations Clarifications & Questions - 3
littlefics - Nominations Clarifications & Questions - 2
littlefics - Signups Open!
littlefics - Nominations Clarifications & Questions - 1
littlefics - Nominations Guidelines - Winter 2023/2024
littlefics - Seasons of Drabbles - Winter Round 2023/2024
littlefics - Winter Round Schedule!
littlefics - Winter schedule coming soon
littlefics - Author Reveals!
littlefics - Works Revealed!
littlefics - All PHs claimed, collection on track to open

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