Merlin Holidays 2020 sign ups!
Welcome to Merlin Holidays 2020!
We are ready to get Merlin Holidays 2020 started and we hope you’ll join us for this holiday gift extravaganza!
SIGN UP HERE
Friday 25th September, 12pm UTC (What time is that for me?)
A handy sign-up guide we prepared a while ago:
https://merlin-holidays.livejournal.com/97956.html
Items of note this year:
We have upped freeform tags to minimum 10
We have upped prompts to minimum 5
Please keep in mind:
If you want to receive art, please include art friendly prompts as well. Preferably in addition to writing prompts! (see our new prompt guide )
Be generous with information! Please give as many prompts/likes as possible to enable easy matching, don’t be shy! Remember that your gifter is going to need as much help as possible to give you something you will enjoy! If your requests are very few and very closed to interpretation, it will be very difficult to make sure you’re happy with your gift! Give the elves as much to work with as you can, and be as open about them as you can to ensure a match and a happy outcome for all!
Be open minded with requests! Please remember that this is a gift exchange fest, and as such, you are signing up to write or create art for someone else’s preferences and likes. There are bound to be elements of the request that do not suit your personal tastes, but we are asking all of you to keep an open mind about your giftee’s requests, and to concentrate on the things you can do, rather than those you can’t. Please remember that the mods work very hard to ensure that participants are carefully matched up. We don’t rely on automation, we do this manually, one participant at a time! Please check your giftee’s prompts carefully and choose what you can work with and ignore what you can’t (except the DNWs - please don’t ignore those!).
Note that:
Participants who ghost us (do not post on their scheduled day and stop answering attempts to reach them) will not be permitted to take part next year
Participants who default/do not post their work after their own gift has been posted will also not be permitted to take part next year.
The mods are trying to keep this as fair as possible and want to make sure everyone gets a gift. Please help us achieve that to the best of your ability <3
