Welcome to Maribat Menagerie's 1st Event! Malachite Milestones
Malachite Milestones runs through the entirety of June. It is focused on rare pairs and poly ships!
Malachite Milestones works in 3 waves. Each wave is to properly gauge what ships Maribatters would like to see in the event. They will also have their own posts as they commence.
The ship suggestion form is released. This form explains the specifics within. Any and all ships that you want to see potentially featured in the event must be suggested here.
This form will be open from May 22nd - May 27th, 11:00am EST.
The previous wave 1 form closes, and all of the suggestions are compiled into another form. This form is the ship selection form where Maribatters will choose from the lists which ships to feature in the event.
This form opens May 27th, 12:00pm EST - May 31st, 9:00pm EST.
This wave is the true start to the event.
Wave 2's form closes, then the top ships voted for in each section will be determined. These ships are the ones featured in this year's event.
The ships featured in the event are dubbed the 'Active Roster'.
The Active Roster gets revealed on June 1st. Afterwards, creators are free to run while in order to hit milestones.
What are the Milestones and Rules?
The rules of the event are fairly straight forward.
Every submission must be through Ao3.
Every submission needs to be sent through the submissions form in order to count toward the points.
If anyone would like to still create for the event without it going towards points, please feel free to do so! The 1st wildcard is earned via the ship who receives the most pieces via this method.
All pieces will be reblogged (Tumblr) or shared on stories (Instagram), as well as included in the submission tracker to give proper recognition to the work.
The way the milestones work is that every fic (or submission) gets a point. Afterwards the following chart is awarded as a ship hits that many submissions.
10 Submissions = 5 Points
15 Submissions = 7 Points
20 Submissions = 10 Points
25 Submissions = 15 Points
30 Submissions = 17 Points
35 Submissions = 20 Points
After 35 submissions, the points awarded per milestone remain a mystery until a ship achieves that threshold. For further explanation, check the google doc for the event at the bottom of this post.
What are the aforementioned 'sections' of ships?
Brilliant question! In order to give a wide variety of rare pairs and poly ships, three sections have been created.
Garnet ships are those 2-member ships that are ‘popular’ or would come to mind by the average Maribatter.
There will be 5 ships in the roster.
Rhodonite ships are all other 2-member ships in Maribat.
These ships can be anything so long as it is DC Character/Miraculous Character. Ships from one parent fandom are amazing, but not the focus of this event.
There will be 7 ships in the roster.
Alexandrite ships are 3 or more member ships aka poly ships.
There will be 5 ships in the roster.
Is there any sort of prize or incentive for winning?
Absolutely! There are two main reasons for participating as well as trying to get a ship to win.
Firstly, the top ship of each section will get its own channel within the discord!
To help other ships still have a chance at a channel, 2 wildcards are implied through the event. These will be announced through a tumblr post as well as added to the doc. Wildcard 1 is featured above under the rules.
Secondly, someone has graciously offered to draw for the event!
The drawing will be of the ship that has the most points overall by the end.
It is not something that is won by one person or for one person specifically. Please do not expect it to be.
This event in its first year running so if anything goes weird or funky, please feel free to politely point those things that are confusing.
A more in-depth explanation of everything you have seen here, plus a little extra stuff can be found in the event doc. This doc includes all of the links for the event.
For tumblr purposes, these are the tags for the event
Maribat Menagerie Malachite Milestones
Malachite Milestones '24 (or 2024)
Finally,
Have an amazing time zone and see you all again soon!
Prompt Idea Form: Open until May 31st, 10:00 pm EST
Malachite Milestones '24 Prompt Ideas
Ao3 Collection: Opens June 1st
Maribat Menagerie's Malachite Milestones | Archive of Our Own
Event Informational Doc:
Maribat Menagerie: Malachite Milestones '24
