Seasons of Drabbles

We have 5 post-deadline pinch hits available! These are due May 26th, 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.

In addition, we have an unofficial treating spreadsheet once more, made by lomelinde_laurea which can be found HERE! It will be updated until the end of the anon period, and it includes users with either no or one gift. There are two sheets, one sorted by fandom and one sorted by username. We are unable to answer any questions about it since we don't maintain it, but we hope you find it useful for your treating plans!

( CLAIMED - Pinch Hit #12: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, Scream (Movies), Dangan Ronpa Series, 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, Dangan Ronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc, Nope (2022),  )

( CLAIMED - Pinch Hit #13: Dimension 20 (Web Series), Critical Role (Web Series), The Legend of Vox Machina (Cartoon), Haunted House Flippers (Podcast), Victoriocity (Podcast), Invitation to the Dance - Tamara Allen, The Orc Prince Trilogy - Lionel Hart, Wanted A Gentleman - K. J. Charles )

( CLAIMED - Pinch Hit #14: Famous Five - Enid Blyton, The Haunting (1963), 18th Century CE RPF, 19th Century CE RPF, Ancient Egyptian RPF, 15th Century CE RPF, The Attic - A. M. Burrage, The Mod Squad (TV), Ironside (TV 1967)/The Mod Squad (TV), Thunder Rock (1942) )

( CLAIMED - Pinch Hit #15: Biohazard | Resident Evil (Gameverse), Star Trek: The Original Series, Divinity: Original Sin (Video Games), Star Trek: Enterprise, Arthurian Mythology, Cthulhu Mythos - H. P. Lovecraft, Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, Creator's Choice of Fandom )

( CLAIMED - Pinch Hit #16: The Terror (TV 2018)/Untitled Goose Game (Video Game), The Terror (TV 2018)/The North Water (TV 2021), The Terror (TV 2018)/Outlander (TV), Outlander (TV)/Untitled Goose Game (Video Game), This Country (TV 2017)/Doctor Who (2005), Last Tango In Halifax (TV)/Happy Valley (TV), League of Gentlemen (TV)/Happy Valley (TV), Aubrey-Maturin Series - Patrick O'Brian/Untitled Goose Game (Video Game) )

Hello everyone! As of this post, the deadline for posting your assignment is ~24 hours away (Countdown). Please make sure to post your assignment by then!

If you have already turned in your assignment, you may be interested in writing a treat. You can browse requests in this app. After the deadline has passed, we will also have post-deadline pinch hits up, so keep an eye out for those as well!

Assignments have now been sent out! Some notes:

• The deadline is May 20, 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.

Signups are now closed! Here 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, May 10.

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

Signups are now open! They will remain open until May 7, 11:59pm Eastern (Countdown). You can browse the requests in the app!

The tagset will remain open for nominations through the end of signups. If AO3 won't let you request a character that you know is definitely in the tagset, please comment here with the exact fandom and character(s) you were trying to request. 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.

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.

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 spring 2023.

*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: April 23 (will remain open through signups)
Signups open: April 30
Signups close: May 7 @ 11:59pm Eastern time (Countdown)
Assignments out by: May 10
Assignments due: May 20 @ 11:59pm Eastern time (Countdown)
Collection opens: May 27 @ 1:00pm Eastern time (Countdown)
Authors revealed: May 29 @ 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!

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