[ID: gif from Supernatural. In it, Meg finishes kissing Castiel, pulling back with a smug smile; Castiel grabs her waist, turns her around to press her agains a wall, and returns the kiss passionatedly. The gif includes the title “Megstiel Halloween Fest, sign-ups”, in Halloween-themed letters, dripping blood, with a pumpking as the “o” and spider webs in the “w”, the first part in dark red.]
SIGN-UPS ARE OPEN!
For any doubts or inquiries (like if you’re in need of an ao3 invite), CONTACT ME IN MY INBOX.
The sign up form includes an explanation of the rules for requests and for offers, and in the collection’s profile you can find the schedule, the rules and the FAQ. But just to put the main things here:
Sign-ups are open until September 25th at 23:59 CET. The assingments are due on October 28th at 23:59 CET. I also ask that, if anyone thinks they won’t be able to fulfill theirs, they contact me on October 25th AT THE LATEST so that I can find a pinch-hitter. The works will be revealed on October 31st (12:00 CET), and its authors on November 2nd (12:00 CET). After the authors are revealed, you can post your works anywhere else you want (tumblr, fanfiction dot net, etc.). Feel free to send me a link mention me in the post, or tag them with Megstiel Halloween Fest 2021, so I can add them to compilation posts later on.
Requests will be visible after the sign-up period, so that anyone can fulfill extra requests (AFTER they’ve finished their assingment) or for outsiders to participate in the fest. I will also publish a list of those prompts here on tumblr, setting it as my pinned post and linking to it in ao3, for anyone who might have it easier with these page’s format, and to publizice it.
Works must center around Megstiel as a romantic pairing in its own right, and not as a stepping stone for any other ship. Anything less won’t be allowed, period. Polyships are allowed IF your recipient requests them specifically, but there will be limits to how many prompts can include them, so the author can choose to create something else and focused exclusively on Megstiel, if that’s not their cup of tea.
If you’re creating a personalized gift (for the exchange, or on your own), you must respect your recipient requests (i.e. ratings, warnings, etc.) and Do Not Wants. If you’re creating extra gifts or participating on your own (by fulfilling a prompt or even by posting a work on your own), that’s not required, but in that case, don’t put it down as a personalized gift. It’d be a gift for the entire Megstiel community. Archive Warnings must be tagged regardless, with other warnings left at the discretion of the author, with the request that they tag (or warn in the end notes, for those writers and readers who don’t want spoilers) anything potentially triggering in their works.
As per the results of the questionary I made, there are no limits (high or low) to the length of the fanworks. However, I’d ask, in case of personalized gifs, that authors put their best efforts in it. There won’t be an official Halloween/Horror theme either, but requesters can add in the description whether they’d like it added to their gifts, as a bonus, and the authors can choose whether to comply.
Following these rules, any kind of content is game. I’d ask that, if you’re including background pairings, you put them on the Additional Tags category or even the notes, as to not make fans of those ships encounter it in the tags when they’re looking for fanworks about them on their own right.
AO3 allows only up to 10 requests. Per the rules of the exchange, you can also only ask up to 3 requests of each category of gift. Those are selected in “fandom”, and are five in total: fics, fanvids, fanart, poetry, and graphics/gifs/playlists (take into account that your author might only want or can do one of those three when you formulate your prompt). There’s up to 5 offers, one per each category as well.
Use the description in your requests to include any stipulation, Do Not Wants, etc. You can also link to your tumblr if you want your gifter to anonymously contact you with doubts, or even link to a “dear author” letter that you want them to read.
There are links to explanations on how to embed audiovisual content to the page, as well as lists of compatible hosting sites, and a link to a list of tropes for inspiration for your prompts. For the audiovisual content, it’d be great if you added captions and image descriptions (it would certainly save me time when I reblog them over here lol).
I’m tagging those who interacted with the posts pertaining the fest, so you guys can chime in and/or signal boost this. Under the cut there’s also a banner I’ve used for the collection, and that you can use to promote the event anywhere else (twitter, etc.), should you want to.
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