Signups Open!

[thedevilchicken]

Signups are open!

They will remain open until 20:59 BST on Sunday 9 July. View the countdown here.

- The signup form is here.


AUex AO3 Collection | AU Fest AO3 Collection | Tagset | Rules Post

AUex Requests Summary | AUex Signup Summary


Remember: there's a known bug that means not all nominated tags will appear in the dropdown! If you encounter this, copy and paste the tag straight from the tagset and it should work.


Instructions:

1. Fandom: Choose your fandom (1 per request/offer)


2. Characters: Choose fanfiction, fanart, or both


3. Relationships: Choose your characters and/or relationships (1-10 per request; 1-20 per offer)


4. Additional Tags: Choose your AUs! - must be "ALL" tags or match your fandom (2-20 per request/offer)


5. Letter URL: Link to your Dear AUex Creator letter here (optional)


6. Optional Details: Add request information for your gift creator here (optional, but DNWs must be in your signup to be enforceable; bear in mind these cannot be used to box your gift creator into creating a very specific scenario)

Repeating fandoms in requests and offers:

• You must request and offer a minimum of three different fandoms.


• You can request/offer the same fandom more than once to include different characters/groups/AUs, but you must still meet the minimum number of separate fandoms overall.


• e.g. a signup that requests/offers only Harry Potter x3 would be invalid, but requesting/offering Harry Potter x3 plus Star Wars Sequel Trilogy and Buffy the Vampire Slayer would meet the minimum required fandoms.


• If you are not requesting/offering the required number of distinct fandoms by the time signups close, your signup will be deleted.

DNWs:

• If you have any Do Not Wants, please include them in your Optional Details.


• Only reasonable DNWs included in your signup can be enforced. (Please bear in mind that DNWs cannot be used to box your creator into producing a very specific work.)

AU Tags:

• The AU tags you request/offer must either match the fandom or start with "ALL:"


• e.g. if the fandom is Harry Potter, you could request/offer "HP: Character Sorted differently" and "ALL: Space Pirates AU" but not "SW: Ahsoka is a Nightsister".


• Exception: if the tag is for a closely related fandom, e.g. Game of Thrones and A Song of Ice and Fire, you can use it.


• You can request/offer 2-20 AUs in the Additional Tags field.

Multiple signups:

• Participants may sign up with a maximum of two accounts each.


• If you sign up with two accounts, please bear in mind you will be expected to: 1) produce at least one fanwork per signup, and 2) arrange your requests/offers to ensure that you cannot match with yourself (unless you're happy to create a gift for yourself).


• Please sock responsibly!

Tagset:

- You can find the tagset here.

Nominations have reopened to accommodate AU Fest but you're welcome to nominate additional tags for your AUex signup if you wish to. Please do only nominate tags you intend to request at this stage.

Nominations still need to adhere to the guidelines. If they don't, they will be rejected without query. Please also ensure your AU tag nominations are as clear and unambiguous as possible. Please be very careful to avoid typos; I cannot remove tags at this point.

Nominations will reclose one hour before signups end, at 19:59 BST Sunday 9 July, so I'm not overwhelmed with last-minute additions. They will reopen for the fest at some point afterwards.

Note that approvals will not be instantaneous as they do require a mod to look at them; I'd recommend either nominating everything you want to request/offer and waiting for approval before you sign up, or signing up and adding to your signup later once approvals are made.


Any questions, feel free to comment here or email me at thedevilchicken+auex@gmail.com.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Hey, so it looks like you had to edit a tag I nominated (sorry!) and the & turned into a /. Specifically the Childe/Qiqi (Genshin Impact) pair should be Childe & Qiqi (Genshin Impact). If you could please change it back I'd appreciate it! Qiqi is a kid so that makes a huge difference in what someone would write for it!

[thedevilchicken]

Sorry about that - when removing the pipe, I manually typed out some of the corrected tags because honestly it's sometimes easier. Must have put a / in instead of an &.

I'm not going to remove the incorrect one but I've added the correct one now!

[(Anonymous)]

That works, thank you!

[(Anonymous)]

Hi! There's a typo in Aespa (band): Giselle/Karina/Ningning/Winter (Vespa)

It should be (Aespa).

[thedevilchicken]

I'm afraid I can't fix that now - all I can do is add tags, not remove them, which amending this would require (it means removing the tag then adding a new, fixed one). That's why the deadline for fixes was before signups opened.

[(Anonymous)]

I understand, Thank you.

[sandy79]

Found a doublette:

Books & Literature: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
Jaime Lannister/Jon Snow (ASoIaF)
Jamie Lannister/Jon Snow (ASOIAF)

(unless Jaime and Jamie are two different Lannisters XD)

[thedevilchicken]

I'm not taking any more fixes at this time that would require removing tags; the deadline for fixes was 20:59 BST on 25 June. The tag with the typo in it will have to stay.