I’d like to submit an entry but I never use Tumblr so I don’t know how. Can you help me out?
TYIA!
Hi and welcome!
If you are on desktop, click on the [...] button and then on "Submit"
It will lead you to this page which will remind you of the categories, the rules and calendar and will have this box at the bottom of the page
This is where you can submit your piece. Note that if you are logged in your account the Name/email entries at the upper right will just show your blog icon.
Once you've pasted/written your piece there, you get to choose the appropriate tags for your piece (you need to give us the category your piece belongs to, but the others are optional). If you wish to add other tags that aren't proposed here, you can just put them at the end of your piece, and I will add them manually before posting it.
I am not quite sure if the submission button appears properly on the mobile app, so I'd suggest you try opening the link above from the app if it doesn't show.
If you experience any difficulty, shoot me a DM and we'll find a workaround.
How to submit your story to be posted on the SPNFanFicPond blog and attract new readers
One of the benefits of being a member of the Pond is being able to submit your stories to us to be posted and spread your work to a wider audience. We have put together this guide so we can help you get your story in front of a wider audience.
Detailed instructions on how to submit your stories and how to help us get the tagging right are all below the cut:
There are two ways to submit a story to the Pond: via desktop or mobile browser app, and the Tumblr app.
Via desktop or mobile internet browser app:
Click on the Submission link in the Navigation block at the top of the Pond blog.
On the drop down list, change from Text submission to Link submission.
In URL, use your permalink URL for your post with your story. Your screen will then look like this:
You do not need to edit the text in the description if you don't want to! However, you do have to click the relevant tags in the list underneath the description. For example, the tags for this story would look like this:
(Why all of these tags? Keep scrolling down to find out!)
Click on the relevant tags, accept the Terms of Submission, click Submit, and you're done!
How to submit on the Tumblr app:
Submitting via the app, whether it's Android or iOS, is fairly easy, though not without it's annoyances. Mainly, the app will automatically load up ALL of the tag options, and you need to manually remove the ones that don't apply. Below is a step-by-step tutorial on submitting via the app. (Special thanks to @negans-lucille-tblr for the help with the screenshots!)
Click on the envelope in the top right corner of the screen, and some version of the question below will appear. You want to Submit Your Fics.
A screen like this will appear (with your URL and icon instead of Bee's). Tap on the link icon at the bottom of the screen and paste your post's URL into the box that pops up.
Your screen will look something like this:
Tap the # icon at the bottom of the screen, and the tags editor will slide up from the bottom of the screen. Tap on each tag that you want to remove, and it will change color and a little x will appear. Tap on the x to remove that tag. (Backspacing or deleting may also work, depending on your phone's keyboard and OS.)
(Why all of these tags? Keep scrolling down to find out!)
Once you've removed all of the irrelevant tags, tap on Done, then Submit, and you're all done!
If you have any problems submitting either on the app or on desktop, or if you think we need to clarify or update something in this tutorial, please send us an ASK and let us know!!
What's the deal with all of the tags?
This is part of our initiative to attract more readers to follow both the Pond blog and your blog! The way new readers find stories and writers they love is through searching Tumblr for tags. We want the Pond blog to become one-stop shopping for all the SPN fan fiction that readers could want, leading them to all of the great writers in our fishy family! By clicking all of the relevant tags in your submission, you will prompt us to add a whole host of relevant tags to our reblog of your story. This will help get your story in front of more readers!
A while back, we asked you all to submit tags that you thought were important, along with all of their variations. We now have a pretty extensive list of tags to use. The trick is getting them all in place on each post. This won’t be easy, and honestly, there will be times when we can’t. That being said, we will do our best to make it work most of the time.
Here is the list of tags that are on the submission page for you to use and what each of them means:
Tags for submissions that are not stories:
Angel Fish Award Nom - This tag is not for story submissions. When you use this tag, we will need a link to the story you want to nominate as well as a short blurb about why you want to nominate the story entered into the description box.
submission from primary blog - Only use this tag if your writing blog is not your main blog!
I'm running a challenge and my fellow pondies should come check it out - This is pretty self-explanatory.
masterlist - Only use this when you are submitting either your own masterlist or the masterlist to a series instead of one of the chapters.
Member type tags:
guppy fic
jelly fish fic
big fish fic
mutual fic
beta fic
Trigger Warning Applies:
Check this box if your story contains any of the following:
tw: violence
tw: mcd
tw: major character death
tw: noncon
tw: dubcon
tw: underage
tw: incest
tw: anal sex
tw: mpreg
tw: pregnancy
tw: sexual abuse
tw: domestic violence
tw: abuse
tw: suicide
tw: cheating
tw: miscarriage
tw: panic attack
tw: mental illness
tw: substance abuse
tw: anxiety
tw: drowning
tw: consensual non-consent
If you use the Trigger Warning tag, then we will expect you to include all applicable warnings in the header of your submission! We will apply the appropriate warning tag(s) based on your header. (This list is subject to change. If there are trigger warnings you would like to see added to this list, send us an ask or a private message!)
Pairing Tags:
reader insert - Use this tag along with the tag for the other half of the pairing. For example, if the pairing is Dean x Reader, you would use this tag and the 'dean winchester' tag.
dean winchester
sam winchester
castiel
destiel
wincest
RPF - Use this tag if your story features actors from the show instead characters on the show.
jensen ackles
jared padalecki
misha collins
J2 - This is for a romantic pairing, not platonic.
Cockles
no pairing - If there is no pairing, you can also add a character tag from above if the story is centered on a particular character.
other pairing - There are a million other pairings in the SPN fandom, but we only have 30 slots for tags. We will take the pairing from your header and try to add all of the relevant tags for you.
Genre tags: (Use all you feel are relevant.)
fluff fic
angst fic
smut fic
crack fic
Story length tags:
one shot - Some readers don't want to invest in a series, so this tag will help them find quick stories.
series - Some readers like to read an epic tale, so this tag will help them find longer, more involved stories.
What the Pond Admins will do with these tags when we get your submission:
When we receive your submission, we will add a host of additional tags to our reblog of your story based on what you have checked in the submission form above. To use the example in the screenshots above (for the desktop submission), we would add the following tags to that reblogged post:
#fan fiction, #fanfiction, #fan fic, #fanfic, #spn fan fiction, #spn fanfiction, #spn fan fic, #spn fanfic, #supernatural fan fiction, #supernatural fan fic, #supernatural fanfiction, #sam x reader, #sam winchester, #sam winchester x reader, #sam winchester fan fiction, #sam winchester fan fic, #sam winchester fanfiction, #sam winchester fanfic
Although this is nowhere near a complete list of tags that could be added to our example here, we are hoping that this is enough to get your stories circulating further than we have before. It will be more than twenty tags, and since Tumblr only tracks the first twenty, any more we would add would just be showing off, anyway.
Hopefully this guide has helped you learn how to submit your stories to the Pond and help us to better serve you! We hope this spreads your works farther and helps you build your audience! If you have any questions or concerns, send us an ASK, or send a message to @mrswhozeewhatsis!
This has been highly requested, so this is how to structure your submissions (to submit CLICK HERE). It’d be so helpful for us if you all do this when you send in your fics and it means we’ll be able to queue things much quicker for you guys!
More detail on exactly what to include:
1. Your Headline. This should include the title of the story, chapter number if multichapter, ship name (please just use name/name for rare pairs), and your pen name. It is much easier for people to find stories when the titles are formatted somewhat consistently. Here are some examples of correct headline formatting:
My Story, 2/10 (Trixya) - Pen Name
My Oneshot (Dela/Shangela) - Pen Name
(We will not edit anything in the body of your fic, but we will correct the formatting in your headlines.)
2. Your author’s note and/or summary. This is optional but highly recommended. Please italicize, and feel free to include any major TWs here.
3. If it is not clearly indicated, feel free to tell us exactly where the “read more” should go.
4. Body of story. Formatted exactly as you want, including bold, italics, etc.
5. Tags. Please list in the BODY of the post at the END of your fic. If you put them in actual tags, it creates an extra step for us.
6. (Optional) Pictures. If you have any pictures to include, either as a “cover” or within the fic itself, you’ll need to submit the pictures separately and then indicate where they go in the body of your main post with [COVER IMAGE HERE] or [INSERT PICTURE HERE]
Note: ALL posts should be formatted this way, including posts that link to other sites like AO3. (In that case, the link should go where you would normally post the body of the fic, but everything else stays the same.) Direct reblogs are only allowed if the original post follows the AQ format, like posts from @writethehousedown.
On tagging: the out-of-drag names of any queen will not be tagged (Bianca Del Rio is perfect, don’t tag Roy Haylock), and neither will the names of anybody who is not a public figure (real-life non-famous partners/family members) or who has publicly expressed a distaste for fanfiction (E.G. Aquaria, Mathu Anderson, Chad O’Connell). We’d also like to make a point of saying that your tags must be relevant. So tag significant characters, ships and genres only.
We can’t stress the importance of adding tags enough - it takes a lot of time to read through fics and tag accordingly so if you could do that it would be a real help to us. Here is some more detailed info about tagging and trigger warnings.
Thanks everyone! <3
