Secret Mutant Madness is open!
Hi, folks! Welcome to Secret Mutant Madness!
Secret Mutant Madness is an arm of the secret_mutant exchange that is ~*new this year*~. For those of you who have done Yuletide Madness or Remix Madness, the format will follow those very closely. For those unfamiliar with the format, here is how it will work.
At the bottom of this post are links to posts in this comm that are full of the prompts submitted for Secret Mutant. Prompts are broken out by pairing (there is a very large gen list as well!) and list the requester, pairings, characters, and the actual prompt. You can peruse these prompts and pick any that strike your fancy to write/draw/craft an additional gift for people who are participating in the exchange.
Additional Guidelines
Instructions
To upload your story to Secret Mutant Madness, you'll follow most of the steps in the AO3 Tutorial. Where it differs is "Step Nine: Associations." Secret Mutant Madness stories aren't assignments, so there's no ticky box for assignment. Instead, where it says "Post to Collections / Challenges" you'll type "secret_mutant_madness_2012" and where it says "Gift this work to" you'll type the name listed in your prompt. That way, it will be added to the collection and an automatic email will go out to the recipient informing them that you've fulfilled their prompt!
The collection on AO3 is located here!
Questions?
Feel free to comment and ask if you have any questions!
And with that, here are the prompts!
Gen Prompts
Charles/Erik Prompts
All Other Ships Prompts
Secret Mutant Madness is an arm of the secret_mutant exchange that is ~*new this year*~. For those of you who have done Yuletide Madness or Remix Madness, the format will follow those very closely. For those unfamiliar with the format, here is how it will work.
At the bottom of this post are links to posts in this comm that are full of the prompts submitted for Secret Mutant. Prompts are broken out by pairing (there is a very large gen list as well!) and list the requester, pairings, characters, and the actual prompt. You can peruse these prompts and pick any that strike your fancy to write/draw/craft an additional gift for people who are participating in the exchange.
Additional Guidelines
- Secret Mutant Madness will run until 12pm EST on Saturday, December 22.
- There is no "claiming" necessary. Anyone can use any prompt and all prompts can be used multiple times. (In fact, comments on these posts will be turned off to avoid confusion.)
- There is no word limit for fic. You can write a 100 word drabble, a 300 word ficlet, or a 30k epic.
- Similarly, if you're an artist, you can submit what I am going to call "sketches." Meaning that they don't have to be colored/painted/finished or whatever, it can be doodles or more preliminary work.
- Works will remain anonymous until December 22 at 8pm EST, when authors/artists are revealed on the main Secret Mutant collection.
- Most importantly, ANYONE CAN PARTICIPATE IN SECRET MUTANT MADNESS! If you defaulted on your Secret Mutant assignment, you can try to finish it for Secret Mutant Madness or pick another prompt and write something else all together. If you didn't think you'd have time to get something done by the Secret Mutant deadline, but now you find you have free time, you can participate! If you generally write shorter works and avoided Secret Mutant because of the 1000 word minimum, you are more than welcome in Secret Mutant Madness. You do not have to be a participant of Secret Mutant to play!
- (Because you don't have to be a participant, please tell all your friends that they are welcome to play! Feel free to pass this around Tumblr, Twitter, etc!)
- Similarly, if this is totally not your style, there's no obligation or requirement to participate.
Instructions
To upload your story to Secret Mutant Madness, you'll follow most of the steps in the AO3 Tutorial. Where it differs is "Step Nine: Associations." Secret Mutant Madness stories aren't assignments, so there's no ticky box for assignment. Instead, where it says "Post to Collections / Challenges" you'll type "secret_mutant_madness_2012" and where it says "Gift this work to" you'll type the name listed in your prompt. That way, it will be added to the collection and an automatic email will go out to the recipient informing them that you've fulfilled their prompt!
The collection on AO3 is located here!
Questions?
Feel free to comment and ask if you have any questions!
And with that, here are the prompts!
Gen Prompts
Charles/Erik Prompts
All Other Ships Prompts