Rules and Guidelines
SCHEDULE
1st December - Trope Voting Opens
20th December - Trope Voting Closes
1st January - Submissions Open
24th April - Submissions Close
1st May - Posting begins
1st June - Masterlist Posted
TROPE VOTING:
When trope voting is open, you can find the form here: Trope Voting Form
Only complete the form once.
The form has a starter question - whether or not you’re a writer. This means that if you have written and posted destiel fanfics, you can choose the writer option; if you just read fics, then you can choose the reader option.
From here you’ll be either taken to the list for writers or readers depending on your initial answer. Both lists are identical.
You may choose whichever tropes you like up to 31 as there are only 31 days in May.
After you have chosen, you can use the last box to let me know if there’s anything else you’d like to say. If you ask a question here, I’ll make a post on the blog answering it.
Remember that trope voting is anonymous.
SUBMISSIONS:
When Submissions are open there will be a link to the Submission Form.
It will ask you to input an email address - this is only used in order to send a copy of the completed form to you. This means that you can see which ones you’ve submitted.
The next question is your Tumblr username. This is to be written in the simple format for example: ‘envydean’. Please do not give a link here or use the @ symbol.
If you do not have a Tumblr account, that is completely fine. Just write your username and whichever platform it’s used on.
Next is the title of the fic you’re submitting.
Please make sure that it has the right capitalisation that you want it to have as this will not change after submission.
The rating is based on the AO3 rating system as 99% of fics submitted are hosted on AO3.
The options are: General, Teen & Up, Mature, Explicit, No Rating
This must match the content of the fic.
You will be asked if the fic is a work in progress. This requires a simple yes, or no, answer.
You should check yes if your work is still incomplete and is being updated.
Please make sure your fic has been updated within the last month. If it hasn’t please refrain from submitting it.
Next is word count.
This figure must be the exact number and not rounded to the nearest 100 or 1000, it will be not be added to the list if so.
If it is a WIP, please put the most recent word count. I’ll check back on the most current word count, or if it has since been completed, when I post.
Please don’t add commas, the form doesn’t like it.
The tags and warnings should be the most important ones.
Tags about not using a beta, how fast it was written, etc are not needed. This makes sure that each fic submission is succinct and easy to read.
Please make sure each tag is comma separated.
It has been requested in feedback to add the relevant top/bottom!character tags where necessary.
If submitting to Season 15 Fix-its, it has been requested that authors add whether Cas is human or not in their story.
The summary should be as is posted.
If you need line breaks in it, then add those in too and I’ll do my best to make sure they come across in the final post.
The link to the fic should be a web URL to whichever story you are submitting.
If you are posting a fic that has multiple chapters, please make sure the link is to the first chapter.
Submitting a fic which is a collection of several (smaller) fics is not allowed. For instance, if your fic is a collection of flufftober fills, and only the fill for day 14 (chapter 14) fits, you cannot submit this fic or fill. They need to be posted as separate stories.
The next question is the trope your submitting to.
You can only check one trope per fic.
Use your best judgement to decide which one it should go in if it contains more than one. If you’re really indecisive, flip a coin.
You cannot put one fic into two (or more) categories.
Please only submit up to two fics per category - this has been requested via feedback for a few years.
This completes what you need for the form. If there are any further questions or enquiries, please send an ask (or IM) to the blog and I will do my best to explain, answer or confirm anything that’s needed.
