AMAZING! AO3 Signup Walkthrough!

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Drop Condition Status Auto-dropped due to 2 missed check-ins OK! Before September 8th OK! After September 8th, contacted mods OK! After September 8th, where did you go :( One-round ban

Prompt Pool

What's new this round?

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a creator in possession of an iddy idea, must be in want of an outlet for it.Welcome back, iddybangers! It’s that time of year again, and we’re all revved up and ready to go. *nyooms into the iddysphere* We’re on Twitter now, too!PMor email iddybang@gmail.com as usual.To sign up, please fill out the AO3 form. It will look like this:All fields are optional and your signup is not binding - you can change your mind later! If you don't know yet, that's fine too. More than one bang entry is okay; just make sure you can finish them all! To add more entries, please click the ‘Add another request?’ at the bottom of the form.For thefield, please fill in your work medium (fanfic, fanart, fanmix, vid, podcast etc).If your fandom or relationship is not canonical (i.e. the tag does not already exist in AO3), the form may not accept it. In that case, feel free to include it in the Iddy Idea box instead.After submitting the signup form, please click the newbutton on your prompt.You will then have the option toyour claim, which will take you to a page where you can post your work.• Stories must be a minimum of 5,000 words. There is no maximum length.• Stories may be any rating, with any kind and number of relationships.• Stories do not have to be beta-read.• AUs, crossovers, RPF and origfic is allowed.• Continuations of WIPs (your own, unposted), previously unposted sequels to your own existing fic, and drawerfics are allowed• Snippets posted on meme or personal accounts do not count as previously posted• Traditional art, digital art, photomanips, comics and vids are all allowed.• Comics must be a minimum of ten panels.• Art may be any rating.• Continuations of WIPs (your own, unposted) or drawerart is allowed• You must be able to post a public playlist on Youtube, 8tracks, or another music hosting site.• Mixes may be any rating.• The fic being recorded must be a minimum of 5,000 words.• We expect all podficcers to observe the permission norms of their fandoms.(Thanksfor the help with podfic guidelines!)• Please do not post your fanwork publicly prior to the reveal period, which is September 12-19.• Should you need to drop out, let us know! We won't be mad, promise.• Multiple entries are okay!(just make sure you can finish them all).A panfandom mini-bang for >5k idfics.Has your Captain Kirk/OC tribble-milking extravaganza never seen the light of day, but now you'd like it to? Do you not care who takes how many of what where? Then you're in the right place!Stories must have a minimum of 5,000 words. There is no upper limit.For 2019 we will be accepting stories, art (including comics), fanmixes, and podfic. If you want to make fanwork for any other medium, let us know and we’ll be happy to add it!Fic that tickles your id! Maybe it's the fic you make up before you fall asleep. Generally speaking, idfic is that sweet spot where the answer to the question "Is this too filthy/sappy/unbelievable/just plain" is a resounding "No!”We are not defining what content qualifies as idfic. Your story doesn't have to be porny, though it may be.Yes! You can sign-up with an email, though you will need a Dreamwidth account to post your work to the community, or an AO3 account to post to the AO3 collection . You can sign-up for Dreamwidth here , and AO3 here . If you have LJ you can use Open ID.If you don’t want to make a Dreamwidth account or post on AO3:You can send us your work to be posted for you. Otherwise, you can post directly to the platform of your choice (remember to tell us where ) and we will link your work.Yes!You can, as long as it hasn’t been posted previously. We're tickled to be incentive for you to dust off your best OH JOHN RINGO NO drawerfics and finish them.Yes! Just indicate in your sign-up that you're writing more than one story.No, though you may request one or offer to beta at our beta post [link forthcoming later during the bang].For further reading on what constitutes an idfic, please see:• Fanlore's entry on idfic• Our idfic primer A nonnie had some great ideas for non-porny idfic here Sure! You're welcome to use your fic for both. We ask that you please check with the other challenge that it is fine to use the fic for IIBB. Also, please refrain from posting the fic publicly before your scheduled IIBB posting date.The posting period will be, and you may post to either AO3 or Dreamwidth (or both!). Your posting date will be sent via email (the one associated with your AO3 account or the one you signed up with, if you signed up privately). The schedule will also be available on the DW community.You may post early to AO3! Your fic will remain in the moderation queue until your assigned posting date, when we will reveal it for you.If you are posting to DW, please make a post containing your completed story, or a link to it. It's OK to put the full text of the fic elsewhere (i.e. AO3, a personal journal or Tumblr) as long as it can be reached from your DW post.Alternately, you can send us your work to be posted for you, or post directly to the platform of your choice (remember to tell us where ), and we will link your work.Sure! Email us at iddybang@gmail.com prior to your posting date with your fanwork either attached or in the email body, and we’ll put it up for you. (Feel free to include any necessary HTML markup!)So we know you're still with us! Towards the end of the bang, it helps us get an accurate head count for posting dates.We don't need to see your work, or a word count if you’re not comfortable sharing those, but do come and say hi.We understand that things happen. If you know that you're unable to make a check-in beforehand, contact us and we’ll consider you checked in! Similarly, if you miss a check-in and still want to write, please contact us.If you miss both check-ins and we can’t reach you, you will be considered as having dropped out.You are likely to be eaten by a grue. Let's discuss an extension OK! The drop date is. Please don't be shy about coming to us if you need to drop out!If you vanish at the last minute without a word, we will have to ask you to sit out the next round. So please get in touch with us, even if some time has passed!In 99.99999% of cases, yes!Yes! There is an optional prompt pool HERE for you to play in should you be stuck for ideas -- or if you have prompts you’re not using, or would like to see written. You may post as many prompts as you like, but please note that they become claimable once posted to the pool.Prompt claims should be noted in your author signup.If at any time you would like to withdraw your claim, please contact us.Comment on the prompt pool post – either to the post itself, or to the comment containing the prompt – and we will reclassify it in the post as claimed.Use the page-a-mod post or email us at iddybang@gmail.com . For the latter option, please make sure we're on your spam whitelist so you'll get your reply!• We have a Twitter now! Come say hi, and catch our latest updates.• Signups will be run on AO3 this year. If you don’t have an AO3 account or want to sign up privately, you can PM your signup toor email iddybang@gmail.com , or page-a-mod • Mix/matching is still dead, RIP mix/matching.