Redacted New Year's Gift Exchange 2022
We're proud to announce the beginning of a new event: Redacted New Year's Gift Exchange 2022!
This will be an event styled after 'secret santa' kind events, in which the participants select and submit prompts to participate, and submit a work created for another person. This includes both writing and art!
OVERVIEW:
The applications for the event will open Sept. 16th, 2022, at 12:00 noon, EST. Authors, as well as Artists, Beta Readers, and Pinch Hitters will be allowed to apply for participation. For artists, a minimum of a lined, flat color drawing in either traditional or digital style is presented. For authors, a minimum of 3,000 words is required, but to go above is encouraged and accepted.
This event permits 18+ prompts, but is open to individuals 16 and up. In the 'RULES' segment, more specific limits are established.
The participants will be given roughly three months to complete their selected work, starting after the application process is complete, and the works will be posted in January 2023.
Participants will be given the option of joining a Discord Server for the event including all of the other agreeing participants, and following the reveal of the works will be able to speak to and react to their assigned partners.
ROUGH TIMELINE:
SEPT. 16th: Participant Applications open
Sept. 21st: Participant Applications close, vetting process begins
Sept. 25th: Prompt Submissions Open, Drawing Starts
Sept. 30th: Final Day to modify prompts and exchange assignments, writing/drawing begins
Oct. 5th: First Check-In, no submission required. General Update.
Nov. 5th to 10th: Second Check-In, Sketch and 1,500 minimum wordcount submissions.
Dec. 25th to 30th: Final Submissions, extensions available if requested in advance.
Jan. 1st to 12th: Upload and Reveal.
RULES:
1. Respect first. No disrespect of any participant is permitted. This is a fan event, and personal feuds can be resolved in private.
2. Don't Like, Don't Read: Meaning, another person's prompt does not have to acquiesce to your own personal likes and dislikes. You may request to avoid specific individuals or to change your assigned prompt if you dislike what you've received. Insulting or harassing someone for their preferences will not be tolerated.
3. Do not upload WIPs of Event Items. This is a secret exchange, and to do so defeats the purpose of the event's nature.
4. This is a 16+ event, but the usage of 18+ prompts is permitted. However, applicants and participants who are under the age of 18 who are found attempting to submit or select prompts labelled as NSFW will be asked to change their selection, and if they refuse will be expelled from event participation. Applicants found to be lying about their ages will be expelled without consideration, for the safety and wellbeing of other applicants as well as their own.
5. All prompts and finished works must be tagged and warned appropriately in all aspects. If you are unsure of how a work should be warned or tagged, contact the event page in order to receive aid and advice. If the work is found to have untagged and unwarned elements, we reserve the right to remove it from our public page and listings.
6. Prompt limitations are few but strict: Incest is not permitted, and defined as blood-related characters being paired romantically and/or sexually with each other. Pedophilia is also not permitted, and is defined as the usage of a character written and stated to be explicitly under 18 in a romantic or sexual relationship or situation with someone written and explicitly stated to be over 18. Prompts expressly serving the purpose to 'bash' or physically/ emotionally mutilate a character without a storyline are restricted, and may be subject to scrutiny upon submission. Alternate universes, non-canon pairings, and Listener OC prompts are permitted and not restricted. However, non-Listener OC centric characters and works are not permitted, due to limited contact between participants creating for each other. It is encouraged to create prompts that could be made into writing AND/OR art, but more specificity is not punished, however it may affect partner selection.
F.A.Q
Q: How will the assignments take place?
A: The site 'drawnames.com' will allow participants to be invited and view a wishlist of the prompts created by their fellow participants, while allowing them to anonymously communicate with their assigned pair. If there are any issues with the site, manual prompt submission and selection will take place, and the timeline will be moved accordingly.
Q: What is a pinch hitter?
A: A pinch hitter is the instance of an individual volunteering to take over an emergency role. In this case, the roles are what the event requires once participants are in and the selections have occurred. In the case of dropping out, participants will not be penalized, and a 'pinch hitter' volunteer will be invited to take over the role they would have fulfilled and the work they would have created. However, if a participant drops out after the second check in, this will not take place, out of respect for time limitations and constraints.
Q: Are crossovers allowed?
A: Unfortunately, due to this event being a gift exchange, direct crossovers are not allowed in prompts. If it is fit to have a crossover and fulfill the prompt appropriately, however, the creator that has already received a prompt may do so at discretion.
Q: How will works be uploaded?
A: Written works are expected to be uploaded to Archive of Our Own, into a collection listed on the site. It is not accepted to upload the work in its entirety to any other site, due to the nature of the event. However, linking is allowed. Artists may upload the work to Tumblr, and other social media, but must establish that the work was produced for the purpose of the exchange.