Lord of the Rings Secret Santa 2016 signups are OPEN!

[empy.livejournal.com]

Greetings from your friendly neighbourhood elves! (Hopefully of the Tolkien variety rather than the tiny and twee North Pole type. ^_~)

So, it's that time of the year again: time to sign up for the Lord of the Rings Secret Santa exchange! Slash, femslash, het and gen, fic and fanart; you can request it all, so why not join in? Sign-ups will run from now until November 15th.

Previous years' stories and art can be found, as usual, via the website or on the lotr_sesa community.

Please note that this is an FPF challenge. (i.e. Fictional, not real people fiction/RPF.)

We're always open to all the Peoples and Ages of Middle-earth, which means that characters from The Hobbit are welcome too!


The Rules (2016):

1. Your story (or fanart) is due December 17th 11:59 pm Pacific Time (you can check what that is in your time zone here) and will go online December 24th -- please post it to the community (and nowhere else, until January 1st) and we will make it public on Christmas Eve.

2. Naturally, it'd be better if you didn't talk too much about your fic/art beforehand in places where your recipient could see it. Also, as a matter of fairness, please make your story more than 500 words (1000 is better). For fanart we'd expect you to spend at least a couple of hours on your work.

3. Please only sign up if you plan on actually fulfilling your end of the bargain. If you're going to be late or cannot complete your assignment, please let us know so we can discuss alternate arrangements. In addition, there will be a pool of emergency replacement writers/artists, so that everyone who signs up gets their gift.

4. Signing up: the sign up form can be found here (or here if the main link gives you an error message). If you need help with signing up, please don't hesitate to contact the mods.

5. This year's timeline (2016):

- Signups: November 4th to 15th.

- Assignments sent out: On or near November 16th.

- Assignments due: December 17th.

- Stories/art revealed: December 24th.

- Author/artist names revealed: January 1st.

6. When you're done, please add your story/art to the collection on AO3. All gifts will be revealed on December 24th.

That should be it. Assignments will be sent out shortly after signups close, hopefully on or very shortly after November 16th, giving you approximately four and a half weeks to finish your assignment. We realize that it's not possible that everyone gets to write their OTP, but we'll do our best to make sure you don't have to write something that squicks you, so be sure to let us know your preferences.

Have fun -- and spread the word!

Comments

[dunderklumpen.livejournal.com]

That might be a stupid question but I'm a bit confused.

So I can make up to 6 requests which means if I have an OTP in LotR I would like to get a story about I fill in 1 request. And if I have another OTP from The Hobbit I fill in another request. But no matter how many requests, I could for example only make 1 offer? Or do 2 requests mean 2 offers as well? And of all the requests the one who answers it only chooses 1. Did I get that right?

And if I have more than one pairing in for example LotR... can I add them all in one request. Or do I have to fill in 1 request for every pairing? Or only for the different fandoms?

I suppose I make it way too complicated for myself here...

[empy.livejournal.com]

Don't worry, that's not a stupid question!

The amount of offers isn't tied to the amount of requests. So you could make two requests but make only one offer, or only request one pairing but offer three, and so on.

Your writer only has to choose one request (or one pairing from one request if the request has several pairings listed). So if you have, say, Aragorn/Boromir and Legolas/Gimli in the request, then your writer only has to pick one. They won't have to write a story with BOTH Aragorn/Boromir and Legolas/Gimli.

If you have several pairings in LotR, then you can add them all in one request, and then use the Optional Details field to specify if there is a favourite among them, or if there's elements you'd rather not read or a certain trope that you particularly like. Or you can make a separate request for each, though that uses more slots of the allowed six. The latter is better if you have your heart set on a particular pairing, like Thorin/Bilbo, as opposed to listing a handful of pairings that are of equal interest.

I hope that clarified things! :)

[dunderklumpen.livejournal.com]

Yes, it did. Thanks fo the quick answer:)