Ancestral Anthology

The Ancestral Anthology is a Homestuck fanwork exchange centered around Ancestors and Guardians.

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End of the Ancestral Anthology 2015

As of now the authors and artists who participated in the HSAA ‘15 are revealed. If you haven’t looked at the whole thing yet, the entire collection is filled to the brim with excellence! If you haven’t dropped your gifter a comment yet, please do! Even a short reassurance that you’ve seen their peace goes a long way.

The main collection is now closed for further contributions, but the treats collection will remain open indefinitely for anyone who gets the itch to create something for any one of the prompts submitted to this exchange.

Finally, thank you all for your kindness and patience through some of my hiccups, thank all of the people who have pinch-hit for this exchange despite challenging time restraints and thank anyone who participated for helping to make this event a success! I hope to see you all again next year!

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I am so excited for my requester to know who I am! When will it be revealed?

Author/artist reveals will take place on the 15th! 

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After a bit of a delay we are live!

A great number of really talented authors and artists have contributed to make this into one seriously awesome collection. 

If you signed up and delivered a fill then there should definitely be a gift waiting for you in this collection. If there are any problems or missing/incomplete works, let me know so we can work something out!

Remember that your anthologist has worked hard to create something just for you, so be sure to leave a comment to let them know you have received their gift!

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The works haven't open up for me yet, is it just on my end or?

It’s not your end! I’m waiting on the one last fill to be submitted to me before I can open the whole thing. I can’t give an exact estimate when the last filler will be finished, but rest assured I will open the collection as soon as I can, which should be relatively soon.

Apologies for the delay, and thanks for bearing with me.

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So, once we complete a work, do we send it to a certain address or what?

If you hover over your username on the top right of the AO3 website you should see a dropdown menu with ‘my assignments’ as one of the options.

When you click on it, you should be shown a list of all your current and past AO3 gift exchange event assignments. If the Ancestral Anthology is your first AO3 based gift exchange, then only your current assignment will be on the list.

at the right of your assignment are two buttons, which should look like this:

To post your fill to the collection, just click the fulfill button and it will take you to the standard AO3 works page, where you can fill everything out the exact same way you would any other work posted on the archive.

Another option, which will become useful by the time treats open, is to select ‘New work’ from the ‘Post’ drop-down menu and scroll down until you see these options;

If you are signed up to one or more challenges, the first option shown here will allow you to tack the exchange the fill is for. If you are filling a treat or don’t want to use that option for whatever reason, you can use the second and third fields to write what exchange the work is for and who it is gifted to manually.

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A kind of last-minute pinch-hit has gone up because of some unforeseen medical circumstances on the initial filler’s part, so anyone who might be willing to help out should take a gander at the pinch hit page.

And the pinch hit has been claimed!

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is it alright if we submit a technically completed work but update it later? like, if just the first chapter meets all the qualifications of the fic and ends in a pretty nice spot and we just feel like expanding on it after?

So long as it can work as a standalone and be marked as complete without feeling incomplete you can always come back to it later. I don’t think anyone would mind getting extra stuff with their fill.

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Calling for pinch hitters!

To make sure the exchange runs smoothly in spite of eventual defaults, anthologists willing to take on some extra work and other kind souls willing to pinch-hit can go over here to sign up for the mailing list.

Wait, what?

While most anthologists diligently whittle away at their entries for the exchange, there are bound to be some participants who will find themselves at loss for time who will have to default.

When someone drops out of the exchange, the prompts assigned to them are left without a filler. To prevent anyone from being left without a gift, pinch-hitters step in and adopt these prompts to ensure the exchange runs smoothly and everyone who signed up for the exchange normally will still get their gift.

Pinch-hitters do not get an assignment sent to them. Instead, potential pinch-hitters can sign up for the mailing list to get a heads-up when new prompts are put up for claiming. They can read through the prompts beforehand and then volunteer to take on the assignment if the prompts interest them.

Pinch-hitting is done entirely on voluntary basis, and you do not need to be signed up for the exchange to be allowed to do it. Signing up for the mailing list alone does not obligate you to do anything. It is only after claiming a prompt you are expected to deliver a fill in time for the pinch-hit deadline.

Thank you ahead of time for your kindness!

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The list of pinch hits has been updated with a fair number of prompts in need of filling before August 7th. If anything catches your eye it would be much appreciated if you helped out!

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for the treats, is there a certain date we have to turn those is? whens the deadline for treats? unless its the same day the works were due?

Treats can be finished whenever! While it's fun to finish them before the deadline so people get multiple things while the exchange is in full swing, there isn't an actual date by which they absolutely need to be done. Theoretically you could be looking through the prompts three months from now and think, 'dang, but I want to randomly create something for this prompt and submit it as a treat' and randomly drop a gift in someone's virtual lap.The treats collection itself reveals a day after the normal collection though, so everyone can fawn over their shiny main fill first and foremost.

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Do pinch hitters need to be writers? I'm the slowest writer around, but i could draw a scene or two if that's acceptable.

Pinch hitters can be artists or writers, whichever the pinch hitter prefers! It follows the same size/length requirements as the regular fills do.

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Calling for pinch hitters!

To make sure the exchange runs smoothly in spite of eventual defaults, anthologists willing to take on some extra work and other kind souls willing to pinch-hit can go over here to sign up for the mailing list.

Wait, what?

While most anthologists diligently whittle away at their entries for the exchange, there are bound to be some participants who will find themselves at loss for time who will have to default.

When someone drops out of the exchange, the prompts assigned to them are left without a filler. To prevent anyone from being left without a gift, pinch-hitters step in and adopt these prompts to ensure the exchange runs smoothly and everyone who signed up for the exchange normally will still get their gift.

Pinch-hitters do not get an assignment sent to them. Instead, potential pinch-hitters can sign up for the mailing list to get a heads-up when new prompts are put up for claiming. They can read through the prompts beforehand and then volunteer to take on the assignment if the prompts interest them.

Pinch-hitting is done entirely on voluntary basis, and you do not need to be signed up for the exchange to be allowed to do it. Signing up for the mailing list alone does not obligate you to do anything. It is only after claiming a prompt you are expected to deliver a fill in time for the pinch-hit deadline.

Thank you ahead of time for your kindness!

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The list of pinch hits has been updated with a fair number of prompts in need of filling before August 7th. If anything catches your eye it would be much appreciated if you helped out!

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So I tried to post my work to the collection, but could see it after I did so, even though everything is supposed to be unrevealed. Is that just because I'm the author of it, or did I screw up in posting it and somehow make it visible to everyone?

You can see your own fill through the unrevealed filters in the list, yes. If you’re looking at the collection page and see all unrevealed works with only your own appearing normally that is entirely normal and everything went right, don’t worry! 

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A reminder that fills are due this Friday!

If you think you cannot finish your work in time, you can mail me at [email protected] for some extra time, provided you can still finish it before the reveals.

On that note, there are still two pinch-hits waiting to be claimed. If you are interested, please take a look over here! The deadline for pinch-hitters is August 7th.

[ancestral-anthology]

A reminder that fills are due this Friday!

If you think you cannot finish your work in time, you can mail me at [email protected] for some extra time, provided you can still finish it before the reveals.

On that note, there are still two pinch-hits waiting to be claimed. If you are interested, please take a look over here! The deadline for pinch-hitters is August 7th.

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Ancestral Anthology Treats!

Already finished your entry for the Ancestral Anthology but got some creative energy left to spare? Did you miss the signup phase but want to write or draw something for the exchange anyhow? Consider writing one of the participants of the exchange a treat!

Unlike regular fills, treats do not need to adhere to a minimum size or length, nor do they necessarily have to be posted before the deadline. Scour through the prompts for the HSAA 2015 for something to your liking, or use the searchable gdoc to search for something more specifically suited to your tastes.

Treats are revealed on August 9th, the day after the regular collection opens. Authors and artists will be revealed the 15th, along with the regular fills.

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I know there's a word minimum, but is there a word limit? I tried to make a short oneshot and ended up with a chaptered piece. Also, can we post one or two of these chapters, then continue to post more after the deadline?

There is no word limit, no! So long as it is at least 1000 words long you can write however much or little you want, spread out over however many chapters you feel is needed.

However! You do need to actually present a finished piece at the reveal. While multichapter WIPs are nice there would be no actual guarantee your giftee would end up with a fully finished gift eventually however much later, no matter how much the author intends to continue. 

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Calling for pinch hitters!

To make sure the exchange runs smoothly in spite of eventual defaults, anthologists willing to take on some extra work and other kind souls willing to pinch-hit can go over here to sign up for the mailing list.

Wait, what?

While most anthologists diligently whittle away at their entries for the exchange, there are bound to be some participants who will find themselves at loss for time who will have to default.

When someone drops out of the exchange, the prompts assigned to them are left without a filler. To prevent anyone from being left without a gift, pinch-hitters step in and adopt these prompts to ensure the exchange runs smoothly and everyone who signed up for the exchange normally will still get their gift.

Pinch-hitters do not get an assignment sent to them. Instead, potential pinch-hitters can sign up for the mailing list to get a heads-up when new prompts are put up for claiming. They can read through the prompts beforehand and then volunteer to take on the assignment if the prompts interest them.

Pinch-hitting is done entirely on voluntary basis, and you do not need to be signed up for the exchange to be allowed to do it. Signing up for the mailing list alone does not obligate you to do anything. It is only after claiming a prompt you are expected to deliver a fill in time for the pinch-hit deadline.

Thank you ahead of time for your kindness!