Requesting open until May 10th, 10:00pm EDT!

[aat_mod]

Hooray, it's time to start putting our requests into the Main Collection and, for those of you with lots of requests to make, the Request Overflow Collection!

Requesting Reminders

• Requesting in AAT doesn't obligate you to create anything—you can skip bidding if it doesn't interest you. However, creating at least 500 words of stuff for someone else is part of the requirements for pinch hits.
• Requesting at least 3 fandoms with distinct lore is also a requirement to be pinch hit. You can add fandoms to your requests if you're sent out as a pinch hit in June.
• You're allowed to sock up for this event (request with two or more accounts) but you must sock responsibly.
  • Even for people who create a lot of gifts for this event, we only want to guarantee one gift per person, not per account.
  • You must have different requests on each account you sign up with—you can have the same optional details/freeform tags/DNWs, but you need to request different fandoms/relationship slot tags/character slot tags.
  • We expect you to reach out and let us know that your sock(s) don't need to go to pinch hit in June if you've received 500 words of gifts or more on at least one account. (If you've socked up with an account you don't want to connect to your main even in an email to us, that's fine! Just use your sock's email to opt out of pinch hits. We will feel warm and fuzzy about you socking responsibly and not care what your main account actually is, as that's none of our business.)
• There are more reminders in the sign up form about the specific contents of your requests. Please read those too!

Nominations are ongoing!

Nominations, including medium nominations, end on May 9th, 10:00pm EDT. This is 24 hours before sign ups close. We will not add late nominations.

Also, nominate ahead of when you want to submit requests! Our nominations mod will process nominations as fast/often as possible, and the rest of us will help if asked, but tragically sleep and eating and such are necessary.

Medium updates!

Podfic equivalent clarification

We've added the following update to the podfic medium equivalent rules: If any decimals result from [us doing math to convert time to wordcount], we will round the equivalent for that podfic up to the nearest word.

(This was always the case, we just realized we should say so explicitly so podficcers would know how their wordcount is being calculated!)

New mediums!

We've had some new mediums nominated by creators excited to make them! Please consider adding these to your requests:

• Medium: Interactive Fiction
• Medium: Fanvids
• Medium: Collage (includes webweaves!)
• Medium: Poetry (includes filk!)
• Medium: Typeset of a Recipient's Fanfiction

Click here to view the wordcount equivalent rules for the above mediums.

Medium: Interactive Fiction

• A gamified narrative in which players choose one of multiple options to influence how the story goes and ends. It may or may not have visual elements.
• The following will be used to calculate wordcount:
• All unrepeated text is counted as the total wordcount.
• For works between 1k and 5k, a 500 word credit for coding work is added. For works of over 5k, a 1k credit for coding work is added.
• Visual elements will match the individual visual medium's wordcount equivalents.

Medium: Fanvids

• Clips or images from a fandom edited to a song.
• Will be calculated as: 30 seconds of vid are equivalent to 1,000 words.
• If any decimals result from the math, we will round the equivalent for that fanvid up to the nearest word.

Medium: Collage

• A collage of existing images, edited so that the juxtaposition of elements creates meaning.
• Each element of the collage will be equivalent to 150 words.
• Each element must be clearly sourced.

Medium: Poetry

• Text written in metric and/or rhyming verse
• 12 lines is equivalent to 1,000 words.
• If any decimals result from the math for a single poem's equivalent, we will round the equivalent for that poem up to the nearest word.

Medium: Typeset of a Recipient's Fanfiction

• Designing a layout of one (or more) pre-existing fic to make it look like a real book. An ebook or a file easy to print and bind by hand as a book or booklet.
• The following will be used to calculate wordcount:
• 300 per 1k of original fic
• 1k for illustrated front cover
• 500 for half page illustration
• 250 for quarter page illustration
• 100 for two unique drawn scene dividers
• If the recipient opts into manips, manips will be allowed for any of the above visual elements with the same equivalent.

The above mediums and their rulesets have also been added to the "Wordcount Equivalent" section of the rules post.

We'll post another new mediums round up on May 9th, when medium nominations close.

Links

• Requesting section in the rules post
• Main Collection Request Form
• Request Overflow Request Form (Please request in the Main Collection first!)
• Tagset
• Nomination Guidelines section of the rules post
• Medium Nominations post
• Pinch hit section of the rules post
• Automagic App for viewing requests (this will be empty until there are requests to view)
• Tagset cleanup post