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Monday, 12 May 2025 12:35 am
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Please check the email associated with your AO3 account(s) as we've now sent emails to everyone who had request problems! In some cases we have said we will change things about your request in this or that way if you don't get back to us, so we would really like to hear from you.

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Requesting closed!

Saturday, 10 May 2025 10:07 pm
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Hooray, we reached the end of requesting! Now the mods will look over all the requests for problems and plan the auction schedules.

  • Please keep an eye on the email associated with your AO3 account; this is where we will contact you if there is a problem with your requests.
  • We'll have the auctions scheduled ASAP, but it might take a few days! We'll post a full schedule as soon as we have one so that you can make auction plans.
  • Did you make a big oops on your requests that you think should really be fixed before you go to auction, like forgetting the DNWs on our of your requests or accidentally asking for your NOTP? Email us or open a ticket on the Discord before auctions start and we'll sort you out!
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Nominations closed! 24 hours left for requesting!

Friday, 9 May 2025 08:49 pm
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Nominations are closed! You have roughly 24 hours (countdown here) to submit your requests. Then we'll schedule auctions!

Outstanding nominations

  • Creator's Choice of Recipient's Requested Fandoms (tags: CCoRRF Character & CCoRRF Characher (CCoRRF), CCoRRF Character/CCoRRF Character (CCoRRF), Solo: CCoRRF Character (CCoRRF)) — We're sorry, nominator, but we've determined that we can't accept these tags because we don't know how to make it clear what they mean and don't mean. For example, we think that what you're asking for is for people to cross over your requested fandoms, but we think that some people who'd request this would want it to be fine to mix and max characters from the same fandom and others wouldn't.

    Instead of a fandom tag, please add something in your AO3 sign up inviting people to mix and match characters in whatever way you prefer. We'll check optional details for that kind of note when we're checking posted works!
  • Devil's in the Defaults - yelp (tags: Rowan & Modette, The Devil & Rowan) — Nominator, we couldn't find where you might have posted the required link to a permissions post. If you can provide that, we will accept these nominations. If not, we're willing to enter replacement tags (one fandom and two relationship slot tags in that fandom) instead.

Posting rules update

One thing we worry about when letting fun new mediums into the event is whether or not posted gifts will comply with the AO3 Terms of Service — so we've made the following edit to the Posting section of the rules:

Mediums not hosted on AO3: Make sure you have some sort of transformative work within the work on AO3, to comply with TOS. This might be an excerpt, a transcript, some or all of linked images, accompanying imagery, or screenshots of the work. You can read more about AO3's TOS here:

Medium updates!

Collage rules clarification

Medium: Collage now has this clarification: Elements used must be creative commons, professionally published and available online, permission obtained, or drawn directly from canon.

New mediums!

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

  • Medium: Clue and/or Logic Based Puzzles
  • Medium: Photomanip
  • Medium: Gifset
  • Medium: Original Music
Click here to view the wordcount equivalent rules for the above mediums.

Medium: Clue and/or Logic Based Puzzles

  • Puzzles which use clues and/or grids to identify associations between words.
  • The majority of clues in the puzzle must be related to a requested tag, parts of the canon the requested tag is from, or a connected story set up by the puzzle framing (e.g. a narrative included with the puzzle).
  • For all puzzles, any non-clue story provided along with them will count as wordcount in addition to the base puzzle equivalent.
  • Puzzle types and base equivalents:
    • Logic Puzzle - Minimum 3 categories, equivalent to 2k
    • Murdle - Minimum 3 categories, equivalent to 2k
    • Raddle - Minimum 10 steps (including first and last), equivalent to 1k
  • If you would like to make a type of puzzle not listed above, please contact the mods prior to making it so we can determine an equivalent (Any puzzles added after signups close will require an opt-in from the recipient).

Medium: Photomanip

  • Using pre-existing images and photographs to digitally create a new composition.
  • One finished photomanip is equivalent to 1k.
  • It must be reasonably clear from the manip which of your recip's requested tags you are filling.
  • Elements used in a manip must be creative commons, professionally published and available online, permission obtained, or drawn directly from canon.

Medium: Gifset

  • Animated graphic(s) (of video and/or images) which tell a story or AU, make an argument, highlight a theme, highlight a parallel, or are otherwise transformative and non-ephemeral.
  • Each gif in a gifset will be equivalent to 150 words
  • Elements used in a gifset must be creative commons, professionally published and available online, permission obtained, or drawn directly from canon.

Medium: Original Music

  • Sheet music or audio recording for an original composition or song in response to prompt.
  • 20 seconds of recorded or transcribed music is equivalent to 1k.
  • If posting sheet music without audio, please list the estimated time to play in the top author's note.
  • Sheet music can be in a downloadable image form or Musescore file, audio recording should be an MP3.

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

Please add these mediums to your requests if you want them! There are creators out there who really want to make this stuff.

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

Thursday, 1 May 2025 12:49 pm
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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.

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