Schedule, Event Overview, and Rules

Are you ready for the Auctions, As Threatened?

Unlike some other, weaker events where participants are handed an assignment just because they signed up, AAT is different! This event is all auctions, all the time.

To participate in the event you can:

• Request gifts in 1-20 fandom(s)!
• Join us on Discord to bid on the recipient(s) you'd like to create for!
• Win big!! Or maybe lose everything!!!

Posting a gift without winning an auction for your recipient is illegal, though we haven't found any way to stop it from happening again and again.

Other info:

• Because submitting requests isn't directly linked to receiving an assignment, you're not obligated to do both. Participants who only want to request or only want to create are very welcome!
• Requests and fills will be on AO3; auctions will take place on an event-specific discord server
• Format requests for this event like you would a regular exchange, with likes, prompts, and DNWs.
• To receive an assignment, bid on and win a recipient! Otherwise, you will be forced to resort to crimes(tm).
• Auctioned requests will be public, and winners will be public. There is no anonymity/anon period for this event.
• The Event Overview section below outlines the basic stages of AAT.
• The Rules section below explains the specific requirements and expectations for participation in AAT. Please read this section carefully even if you participate in a lot of multifandom events and/or participated in the 2020 We Die Like Fen auction round.

Links

• Main AO3 Collection
• Request Overflow Collection
• Tagset
• Discord

Schedule

• Now-March 28th: Reccing very short canons
• April 1st-April 30th: Festival of Very Short Canons
• April 27th-May 9th: Nominations
• May 1st-10th: Requesting
• May 15th-24th: Auctions
• June 8th-June 14th: Penny Auctions
• June 28th: Assignments due
• June 29th-July 5th: Pinch hit period
• July 6th: Reveals

(schedule times for sign ups closing, auctions beginning/ending, due dates, and reveals are TBD)

( Event Overview )

( Rules )

Festival of Very Short Canons

Worried you won't have enough fandoms in common with other participants? Because the only way to legally post a work to the AAT collection is to win an auction, we'll all have an easier time if we have more fandoms in common—more people to bid on! more people to bid on us! To facilitate this, we're going to have a little festival for very short (under 45 minutes) canons in April. Every day in April, I'll share two very short canons recommended by AAT participants!

View short canon recs here.

Other Info

• Closer to the event there will be more information provided about event logistics (nominations, requesting, bidding, crimes, etc) but that's still a work in progress at this point. I thought people would appreciate being able to see what's in this post ASAP so they can decide if they want to participate, lure in friends, and possibly schedule around things.
• If you have questions you can ask them in a reply to this post; anonymous commenting is on so you don't need a Dreamwidth account. (You can try asking on Discord, but your question might get lost or might not have an answer yet, so commenting here is the best choice!)
• Reminder to consider joining the Discord server which we will be using for auctions!