2023 Sign-Ups Are Open! - NOW CLOSED

[morbane]

2023 sign-ups are now closed!

SIGN UP HERE - available until February 15th, 11:59 PM Wednesday CST. (When is that?)

You can request 4-10 tales from the tag set and must offer 4-10 tales as well. You can also specify the characters (1-6) you’re interested in writing or receiving (if characters were nominated for that tale). If you tick 'Any' instead of specifying characters, that means you’re open to writing or receiving any of the nominated characters for that canon - it's up to the person you matched with. Ticking 'Any' is also how you request or offer a canon with 0 characters nominated.

You will receive a story that concerns at least one of the tales you asked for and one of your requested characters. You can select several characters for a tale, but your author only has to include one. This is known as 'Or' matching.

If you want, you can use the Optional Details in the form, or a linked letter, or both, to talk about your preferences for a request and what interests you about the tales. Your author may use these details for inspiration, but does not have to follow them closely. If there are elements that would ruin a story for you, please list them in the form, for each request, as Do-Not-Wants. Every author must follow those.

Notes to Mods, in the Offers section of the form, allows you to tell us more about how you'd like to be matched. (Would you prefer to write something shippy, or horror? Do you secretly have one request you especially hope you get matched on?) You can leave these sections blank, but if you enter preferences here, we'll try to accommodate them.

Treat settings - last year, AO3 gave users a new feature to block gifts other than those given through an exchange assignment or prompt claim. New accounts are set up with extra gifts disabled by default. This is an anti-harassment feature for users who have previously received unwanted and unpleasant "gifts"-that-aren't, or for users who are concerned they might get them in future.

In exchanges such as Once Upon a Fic, treats are common, but the new feature makes it hard to know if someone would like treats or has treating turned off. Because of this, please say in your requests if you are happy to receive treats, and so you have extra gifts enabled in your settings. (That is, in your AO3 preferences, the box next to "Allow anyone to gift me works." is ticked.) That helps to give treat creators confidence when browsing prompts.

Similarly, if you choose not to enable extra gifts, please let us know (by notes to mods, or by email, or by saying in your requests that you are not open to treats). It is okay to either disable or enable extra gifts, but more information helps everyone.

And here again are sources for the canons for this year, if you want to reread or try a whole new canon!


And if you’d like to see what people asked for in the past...
Requests from: 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | or look up requests for specific fandoms in karanguni's app!


Important Links
Challenge and FAQ | Tagset | Schedule | Betas | Resources/Sources

email: onceupon@fandom.exchange

Comments

[bleodswean]

I know others aren't as dense...but I'm not understanding the sign ups. How do we know what the story is about? And can we add other characters - such as Pan in Psyche/Eros?

[morbane]

Hello and welcome!

How do we know what the story is about?

You don't have to know in advance what you're writing. Your assigned recipient may have prompts, which are optional to follow. In your offers, the tales or myths you select are simply those you wish to take as inspiration. Clicking on, say, "Orpheus and Eurydice" in the Offers field, and selecting Orpheus and Eurydice, means that you're interested in exploring one or both of those characters in some way.

If you offer Apuleius's Cupid and Psyche, you could get assigned a recipient who has requested that tale. If they've specifically asked for a story about Cupid, you'd need to focus on Cupid. If they've selected both Cupid and Psyche or "Any", you could write about both (almost hard not to) or either. The other characters who aren't in the tag set - Venus, Pan, the sisters - are welcome to appear but shouldn't take the story over completely instead of a story your recipient asked for.

Or, if you're selecting Cupid and Psyche in a request, you're welcome to say that you'd love for the author to include Pan if they want to. They may not, because they only offered one of the two title characters, because those were the only ones nominated this year.


You can also look at other people's requests as they come in, here:
https://archiveofourown.org/collections/onceuponafic23/requests

(Some of the people whose requests are currently blank may add more detail before sign-ups closed.)

For example, there's a recent prompt for Rumpelstiltskin, specifically the character of the Miller's Daughter, from I_wouldnt_be_one_of_them, suggesting "The miller’s daughter promises her first child if she becomes queen. So what if she found a way to escape marrying the king?"

That's an optional prompt - if you offered Rumpelstiltskin and the Miller's Daughter, you might want to explore or transform the story in other ways, though you'd still need to have the daughter at the heart of the story. Or you might find the prompt inspiring.


Does that answer the question? I'm not sure I follow "How do we know what the story is about?" so apologies if I answered a completely different question to the one you were asking.

[bleodswean]

Actually this is EXACTLY what I was after! Thank you for taking the time!

[ellylldan]

Hi mods! I've just noticed that on the Sources sheet, the link for Wulf and Eadwacer actually leads to The Wooing of Etain. There are a lot of translations but I think last year you used this one from the poem's wiki page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wulf_and_Eadwacer#Text_and_translation

:)

[crantz]

Thanks for catching that! I'll fix that right up.