Assignments Sent!

[maythe4th]

All unmatchable participants have been matched, which means your assignment should be arriving in your inbox right now. If you don't see it, go to your AO3 dashboard and click the "My Assignments" link on the sidebar.

You are responsible for creating either one 500 minimum word fic or one 500 x 500 pixel piece of art on unlined paper based on one of your assigned recipient's requests, and avoiding their listed Do Not Wants. Assignments are due Friday, April 27th, at 11:59 PM UTC. I'll put up a counter closer to the time. Early default deadline is April 20th. The archive is open for submissions, but due to the AO3 anonymity bug, submissions will be moderated. Sorry for the hassle.

Tag your fanworks as you normally would. If you matched on "Character & None," you should only tag for the character's name. Extra treats may go into the main archive. Pinch hits will still be sent out for defaults, regardless of already-posted treats. Please tag all extra treats for other participants as "MayThe4th Treat."

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We will be updating the Letters Spreadsheet as Dear Yoda letters come in. We will also make a Grab Bag post for those requests you didn't have enough slots for, or for people who didn't make it to sign up in time. Finally, keep an eye on this year's Initiate Trials in which we will try to make Bingo as a group.

EDIT TO CLARIFY: If your assignment says "Luke/Leia" and "Luke & Leia" for one of your recipient's requests, you only need to create a work for one of those relationships, or for another relationship they requested such as "Leia & None" even if you did not offer "Leia & None." You do not need to combine "Luke/Leia" and "Luke & Leia" in one work, or create separate fills for both. There are a maximum of two relationships per request to accommodate participants who wanted to request more than ten relationships, which is the maximum AO3 allows in a signup form.

Comments

[liz_mo]

I have a question on my assignment. The only match that I could see that somewhat covered my offering is CharA/CharB AND CharA/CharC. But I only offered CharA/CharB. Do I have to include CharA/CharC now? Because I really kinda don‘t want to. Please advise!

[maythe4th]

There are no ANDs. You matched on Char A/Char B. We opened an extra slot for extra requests that could have potentially been matched on instead, for example by someone offering Char A/Char C instead of Char A/Char B. You have to create a work based on one relationship (or "Char A & None") in your assignment. You could create something with Char A/Char B, or a different request they made for Char C & Char D, as long as it fulfills one of their relationship requests and does not violate one of their DNWs.

Does that help?

[liz_mo]

Yes, thank you. I will write for CharA/CharB. Though the system is a bit confusing. Why then give options for a second relationship in the same prompt if not for someone wanting two relationships in the same story? If this is an OR then I don‘t know if the assignment template for AO3 can be changed because there it does say AND...

[maythe4th]

You would have to take that up with AO3 Support. All we can do on our end is decide how many relationships to allow per field, and set up the matching to match on 1 relationship. There were enough complaints about only being allowed ten possible requests that we opened it to twenty instead. AO3 will not allow twenty separate request fields, which means we allow two per request instead.

The matching interface is very interesting if you ever decide to set up an exchange of your own!

[liz_mo]

Seriously? How greedy are people? I mean, you get ONE story. I know choosing is hard but... sheesh.
Thank you for the explanation. Thank you for all the hard work! I figured it was something like this.

[nic]

Thanks for this explanation! I was a bit confused too (but I admit, I didn't get a chance to read through all of the instructions in detail).