Invites for Accounts at the Archive of Our Own

[elynross]

Work is still ongoing on tag wrangling and coding for sign-ups for Yuletide 2010! More news forthcoming as it becomes available.

However, you will need an account at the Archive of Our Own (AO3) in order to sign-up. If you don't already have an account, you can get an invitation either by emailing me at yuletide@yuletidetreasure.org or by signing

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[mumblemutter]

I always meant to ask this and never got around to, really sorry if this was already answered elsewhere. This is a shared journal and we also signed up for an AO3 account together, making use of the pseud system to create two sub-accounts, so to speak. Can we both sign up for Yuletide as "pseud1 (username)" and "pseud2 (username)" or will that be a problem? *makes big eyes*

[elynross]

It's one sign-up per AO3 account, so you could sign up together, and write/get a single story, but if you want to sign up individually, you'll need separate accounts. Otherwise, when you tried to sign up with a second pseud, it would just give you the first signup to edit.

[elynross]

Hey, franziska had a thought: You'd still need two accounts to sign up independently, but then, after the author reveal, you could put the pseud from your primary AO3 account on the 2nd account's story as a co-author (and even remove the 2nd account, if you want). Does that make sense?

[mumblemutter]

(You were faster than me, I was just thinking out loud the following:)

"Oh, good thing I asked. /o\ That makes sense.

Okay, hypothetical scenario: I create another account just for Yuletide, get the assignment, write a story, add my actual mumblemutter pseud as a co-author for my story and, after author reveal and everything, delete the Yuletide account as an author. The story now belongs to the mumblemutter account, but is still part of the Yuletide collection. Yes? Would this fuck with anything going on in the background?

As for my gift (whee, gift!) I could maybe contact the author after reveal and everything and be like (after profuse expressions of gratitude), 'could you maybe change the recipient to my actual account, I can explain!' Would that fuck with anything?"

So! You're right though, I'd have to add the other pseud *after* reveal, otherwise it's just confusing. And sorry for making this difficult, I didn't think I'd ever have the guts to sign up for Yuletide when we created the account. But now I'm thinking maybe yes.

[storyfan]

I tried to help you guys last weekend and was totally useless. Just let me say that I've got a lot of respect for the work you all put into Yuletide.

[elynross]

Aw! That you tried means a lot (I mean, hey, that's more than I did... *kof*). And thank you so much.

[wallwalker]

Excited! :D

Is it horrible, though, that I find myself looking at AO3 in certain categories and wanting to yell things like, "Stop uploading fic in [insert category here], people! I want [insert category here] to be eligible for Yuletide this year and you're making it too big!" (I tend to be stuck on the 100-fic rule, even though I know that might not be the rule that ends up being used....)

[elynross]

*pets* I'm sure you're not the only one. If it's any help, I don't think any stories uploaded between now and when we have the final list will have that much impact. *g*

[wallwalker]

Rationally, I know this. Irrationally... um. Well. -_^

[word_never_said]

Just wanted to check since I haven't seen it posted but sign ups aren't closed yet right? If I'm blind and missed it that's fine but I didn't think they were and peoples questions seem to infer its up but it's not loading. Is it down for maintenance or am I really that blind?

[artemidora]

Not A Mod, but sign-ups haven't even opened yet, so you haven't missed them!

[nycscribbler]

You have no idea how obsessively I'm refreshing this comm and yuletide to see when sign-ups open.

[mammothluv]

You are definitely not the only person doing that!

[wallwalker]

Nope, definitely not. My boyfriend and I are both participating this year, and I've been obsessing for both of us!

[wagontrain]

I just want to be clear: sign-ups haven't opened/closed yet? I really want to write for Yuletide, but I got so tied up in the semester that I didn't even think to check until just now.