Happy Yuletide - Read ALL the FIC (except the Madness fics) (for now)
The collection is open, and notifications should be going out! If you don't get a notification (or don't get it fast enough), you can get to your gift(s) through the My Gifts link on your dashboard.
It will take some time for the archive to catch up and all stories to be visible. If stories are still showing up as mystery works, wait an hour or two before reporting it as a problem.
There are 2592 stories and 1514 fandoms there now!
Please leave a thank-you comment for your writer. You aren't obligated to rave publicly or rec the story if you aren't enthusiastic about it, but an appreciative comment thanking them for their time and effort is simply polite, and will end their Yuletide experience on a positive note. Please leave a comment even if you defaulted -- you may feel too embarrassed to say thank you when you didn't give something yourself, but silence will make your author think you hated the story or couldn't even be bothered to read it.
Please don't complain about your gift in public. If you get something that doesn't match your fandom/character requests or includes something you explicitly listed as a DNW in your signup, contact us in private and we'll handle it. If you get something that matches your fandom/characters but isn't to your taste, please say thank you anyway and move on to the hundreds of other stories available to read and enjoy. And maybe someone will pick out one of your requests to write for the NYR challenge!
Stories will be anonymous for one week. Please don’t cross-post your work, or announce what you wrote, in that time. When you are logged in to AO3, you can reply to comments on your own works, if you want, and your comments will show up under the name of Anonymous Creator. Anonymous Creator comments will show your name on them later, when your fic is no longer anonymous.
Two fandoms have very different tags to those they were nominated under, so to help you find the stories:
Thank you to everyone who has helped to get all the stories in on time, and with minimal last minute fuss!
Madness is still open for posting (it will close in ~24 hours).
It will take some time for the archive to catch up and all stories to be visible. If stories are still showing up as mystery works, wait an hour or two before reporting it as a problem.
There are 2592 stories and 1514 fandoms there now!
Please leave a thank-you comment for your writer. You aren't obligated to rave publicly or rec the story if you aren't enthusiastic about it, but an appreciative comment thanking them for their time and effort is simply polite, and will end their Yuletide experience on a positive note. Please leave a comment even if you defaulted -- you may feel too embarrassed to say thank you when you didn't give something yourself, but silence will make your author think you hated the story or couldn't even be bothered to read it.
Please don't complain about your gift in public. If you get something that doesn't match your fandom/character requests or includes something you explicitly listed as a DNW in your signup, contact us in private and we'll handle it. If you get something that matches your fandom/characters but isn't to your taste, please say thank you anyway and move on to the hundreds of other stories available to read and enjoy. And maybe someone will pick out one of your requests to write for the NYR challenge!
Stories will be anonymous for one week. Please don’t cross-post your work, or announce what you wrote, in that time. When you are logged in to AO3, you can reply to comments on your own works, if you want, and your comments will show up under the name of Anonymous Creator. Anonymous Creator comments will show your name on them later, when your fic is no longer anonymous.
Two fandoms have very different tags to those they were nominated under, so to help you find the stories:
- Oxford Comma Example Sentences appear as Spelling and Grammar (Fandom)
- Gwen Variants (Marvel Comics Covers) appears as Spider-Gwen (Comics)
Thank you to everyone who has helped to get all the stories in on time, and with minimal last minute fuss!
Madness is still open for posting (it will close in ~24 hours).