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yuletide_admin2025-10-29 07:29 am
yuletidemods) wrote in yuletide_admin2025-10-29 07:29 amEntry tags:
2025 Requests + How and Where to Post fics + Author Question Update
All Yuletide requests are now visible:
-at karanguni's app
-at the Yuletide 2025 collection on AO3
-in a spreadsheet
-in a text doc
Please check back later for pinch hitter prompts.
Enjoy!
Both the main Yuletide 2025 collection and the Yuletide Madness 2025 collection are open for posting works. Before posting your assignment, or posting a treat to either collection, please read the notes below.
( Posting, and to Which Collection )
As a result of that poll, in a situation where an author has a fandom-specific question, we will now send questions for at least 3 fandoms in a person's requests, but will not generally make up extra/decoy questions for their full set of fandoms.
You suggested that curious authors could make up (some of) their own extra questions. While that could be helpful - if you want to - we ask you to keep the following things in mind.
And again - you are not obliged to provide decoy questions! If you need to ask your recipient something, all we need from you is: 1) what information you need, and 2) who you are. That's great! We can take care of the rest.
Schedule, Rules, & Collection | Contact Mods | Participant DW | Participant LJ | Pinch Hits on DW | Discord | Tag set | Tag set app
Please either comment logged-in or sign a name. Unsigned anonymous comments will be left screened.
-at karanguni's app
-at the Yuletide 2025 collection on AO3
-in a spreadsheet
-in a text doc
Please check back later for pinch hitter prompts.
Enjoy!
Both the main Yuletide 2025 collection and the Yuletide Madness 2025 collection are open for posting works. Before posting your assignment, or posting a treat to either collection, please read the notes below.
( Posting, and to Which Collection )
Bonus!! Decoy questions/author questions
A few weeks ago, we made a post about the questions we send to recipients when authors need to clarify something about their recipients' preferences.As a result of that poll, in a situation where an author has a fandom-specific question, we will now send questions for at least 3 fandoms in a person's requests, but will not generally make up extra/decoy questions for their full set of fandoms.
You suggested that curious authors could make up (some of) their own extra questions. While that could be helpful - if you want to - we ask you to keep the following things in mind.
- Clear questions are the best questions. Several times in the past we've received extremely confusing questions and it turned out a participant thought they needed to disguise what they were asking from the mods. Please do not.
- Avoid excessive detail, especially about plots you don't plan to write. Don't ask your recipient "Would you be interested in a story where they time-travel to meet five different generations of their ancestors, and also there are capybara zombies?" unless you are contemplating such a plot (and maybe not even then) - because you may make your recipient hopeful about something that won't arrive.
- Avoid being disingenuous about things that are actually clear to you. Try to ask about points of reasonable ambiguity. If you ask your recipient things like "You said you don't want any mention of hospitals, but is it okay if a character has a headache?" you could stress them out by making them wonder if they need to re-write their DNWs, or by making them wonder if you have wildly misinterpreted other parts of their requests. Decoy questions require a little creativity… but not too much. Save most of your creativity for the actual writing.
And again - you are not obliged to provide decoy questions! If you need to ask your recipient something, all we need from you is: 1) what information you need, and 2) who you are. That's great! We can take care of the rest.
Please either comment logged-in or sign a name. Unsigned anonymous comments will be left screened.
yuletidemods (yuletidemods) wrote in yuletide_admin2025-10-27 01:05 am
yuletidemods) wrote in yuletide_admin2025-10-27 01:05 amEntry tags:
2025 Assignments
Assignments are out! You can find your assignment:
You must write for one of your recipient's requests, including all of the characters they specified in that request (but see below). It doesn't have to be the fandom you offered.
Some recipients have selected several characters, but given permission for writers not to include them all using the Additional Tags checkboxes (the ones that start "My gift must…"). These tags are recent and we're still experimenting with their use, so please check through mods if you're not completely sure what your recipient means. You always have the option of including all the characters your recipient selected.
Your assignment is due at 9pm UTC on December 17. Note that this is an earlier deadline for 2025 as compared to the last few years and may be one calendar day earlier in your timezone.
Please click on that link right now! The date and time it shows may surprise you. Better to be surprised now than at the deadline!
Our reveals are earlier this year as well.
No Peeking (Or Squeaking) Until December 24th!
This is a secret exchange. Please don’t announce or hint what your assignment is. Don't say what you offered. Don’t reveal to your recipient who you are or what you plan to write for them. In fact, please don’t contact your recipient at all! You can send questions through the mods at yuletideadmin@gmail.com.
I have questions!!
Right! Send us an email at yuletideadmin@gmail.com, or, if your question won't give away what you offered or who you're writing for, you're welcome to comment here. We get tonnes of questions at this time, so please bear with us - it may take us a few days to reply.
Based on our survey about author questions and some internal discussion, this year we plan to include a questions for a few fandoms each time we contact a recipient, but we won’t necessarily include decoy questions for every single fandom. This may give the recipient a clue as to which fandoms they’re more likely to receive but should preserve some of the suspense!
Please don't ask us to poke your recipient to update a locked or placeholder letter until at least October 29.
When you send us a question about your assignment, please include your assignment link, which looks like: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/yuletide2025/assignments/#######
Some of your questions may be answered by our next post when we reveal all requests. Please keep an eye on our admin community!
Pinch hits and all requests
The first batch of pinch hits will go out in the next day. In the next following days, after those pinch hits are claimed, we will make all requests visible and open the Yuletide Madness collection.
Check out the pinch hit community,yuletide_pinch_hits, and sign up through Discord, a feed, or the Google groups mailing list to get immediate alerts for pinch hits. You don't have to be signed up to this year's round of Yuletide to claim a pinch hit.
The New Year's Resolutions 2025 collection is now closed.
Schedule, Rules, & Collection | Contact Mods | Participant DW | Participant LJ | Pinch Hits on DW | Discord | Tag set | Tag set app
Please either comment logged-in or sign a name. Unsigned anonymous comments will be left screened.
- at your assignments page: https://archiveofourown.org/users/YOUR-USERNAME-HERE/assignments
- at the sidebar of the collection
- in your email.
You must write for one of your recipient's requests, including all of the characters they specified in that request (but see below). It doesn't have to be the fandom you offered.
Some recipients have selected several characters, but given permission for writers not to include them all using the Additional Tags checkboxes (the ones that start "My gift must…"). These tags are recent and we're still experimenting with their use, so please check through mods if you're not completely sure what your recipient means. You always have the option of including all the characters your recipient selected.
Your assignment is due at 9pm UTC on December 17. Note that this is an earlier deadline for 2025 as compared to the last few years and may be one calendar day earlier in your timezone.
Please click on that link right now! The date and time it shows may surprise you. Better to be surprised now than at the deadline!
Our reveals are earlier this year as well.
No Peeking (Or Squeaking) Until December 24th!
This is a secret exchange. Please don’t announce or hint what your assignment is. Don't say what you offered. Don’t reveal to your recipient who you are or what you plan to write for them. In fact, please don’t contact your recipient at all! You can send questions through the mods at yuletideadmin@gmail.com.
I have questions!!
Right! Send us an email at yuletideadmin@gmail.com, or, if your question won't give away what you offered or who you're writing for, you're welcome to comment here. We get tonnes of questions at this time, so please bear with us - it may take us a few days to reply.
Based on our survey about author questions and some internal discussion, this year we plan to include a questions for a few fandoms each time we contact a recipient, but we won’t necessarily include decoy questions for every single fandom. This may give the recipient a clue as to which fandoms they’re more likely to receive but should preserve some of the suspense!
Please don't ask us to poke your recipient to update a locked or placeholder letter until at least October 29.
When you send us a question about your assignment, please include your assignment link, which looks like: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/yuletide2025/assignments/#######
Some of your questions may be answered by our next post when we reveal all requests. Please keep an eye on our admin community!
Pinch hits and all requests
The first batch of pinch hits will go out in the next day. In the next following days, after those pinch hits are claimed, we will make all requests visible and open the Yuletide Madness collection.
Check out the pinch hit community,
yuletide_pinch_hits, and sign up through Discord, a feed, or the Google groups mailing list to get immediate alerts for pinch hits. You don't have to be signed up to this year's round of Yuletide to claim a pinch hit.The New Year's Resolutions 2025 collection is now closed.
Please either comment logged-in or sign a name. Unsigned anonymous comments will be left screened.
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dw_maintenance2025-10-25 08:42 am
mark) wrote in dw_maintenance2025-10-25 08:42 amDatabase maintenance
Good morning, afternoon, and evening!
We're doing some database and other light server maintenance this weekend (upgrading the version of MySQL we use in particular, but also probably doing some CDN work.)
I expect all of this to be pretty invisible except for some small "couple of minute" blips as we switch between machines, but there's a chance you will notice something untoward. I'll keep an eye on comments as per usual.
Ta for now!
yuletidemods (yuletidemods) wrote in yuletide_admin2025-10-24 04:36 pm
yuletidemods) wrote in yuletide_admin2025-10-24 04:36 pmEntry tags:
Yuletide 2025 Signups Closed!
Sign-ups for this year's event are now closed, with 1224 sign-ups. Welcome to everyone who's joined us for Yuletide 2025!
The Avoid Matching request form will remain open for another three hours for last-minute edits to your requests.
What will mods do now?
- Run matching.
- Contact participants who have no possible recipients, or where there's another matter to discuss.
- Update you on when assignments are likely to go out.
If we need to contact you, we'll use the email account associated with your AO3 account. (You can find it at Preferences -> Edit Profile -> Change Email.) We may also use this account later in Yuletide - for example, if your author has a question for you. Please check that you can access this email!
What should you do now?
Congratulations to everyone who posted a story to the 2025 New Year's Resolutions collection, either as requested by mods or just because you wanted to fill a prompt. The collection will be open for roughly one more day, until we send out assignments - if you're planning to post, post soon! The NYR 2026 collection will open on January 1.
Schedule, Rules, & Collection | Contact Mods | Participant DW | Participant LJ | Pinch Hits on DW | Discord | Tag set | Tag set app
Please either comment logged-in or sign a name. Unsigned anonymous comments will be left screened.
The Avoid Matching request form will remain open for another three hours for last-minute edits to your requests.
What will mods do now?
- Run matching.
- Contact participants who have no possible recipients, or where there's another matter to discuss.
- Update you on when assignments are likely to go out.
If we need to contact you, we'll use the email account associated with your AO3 account. (You can find it at Preferences -> Edit Profile -> Change Email.) We may also use this account later in Yuletide - for example, if your author has a question for you. Please check that you can access this email!
What should you do now?
- Check and edit any letter you may have linked in your sign-up (please ensure it's complete by end of October 29th AT THE VERY LATEST, and consider adding it to the app and to the comments at the letters post). (If you didn't link your letter in your sign-up, it's too late now. Trust in your author!)
- Please check your letter is accessible - log out of the platform where you have posted it and check that you can still view it, or ask a friend to. Tumblr in particular may cause issues with this and may require you to change your settings.
- Keep quiet about what you've offered: Yuletide is anonymous until reveals.
- Check that you can access your AO3-linked email.
- Check out the pinch hit community, yuletide_pinch_hits, and sign up through Discord, a feed, or the Google groups mailing list to get immediate alerts for pinch hits. You don't have to be signed up to this year's round of Yuletide to claim a pinch hit.
- Browse the promo post or even add a promotion.
- Check that you're happy with your AO3 settings for treats / unassigned gifts - see an older post for more information. If your account is new, treats may be disabled.
- Look forward to your assignments!
Congratulations to everyone who posted a story to the 2025 New Year's Resolutions collection, either as requested by mods or just because you wanted to fill a prompt. The collection will be open for roughly one more day, until we send out assignments - if you're planning to post, post soon! The NYR 2026 collection will open on January 1.
Please either comment logged-in or sign a name. Unsigned anonymous comments will be left screened.
yuletidemods (yuletidemods) wrote in yuletide_admin2025-10-24 10:08 am
yuletidemods) wrote in yuletide_admin2025-10-24 10:08 amEntry tags:
Last Day to Sign Up for 2025
Sign-up instructions
Collection
Letters post
Countdown to Sign-Ups Closing
Some notes/reminders:
Schedule, Rules, & Collection | Contact Mods | Participant DW | Participant LJ | Pinch Hits on DW | Discord | Tag set | Tag set app
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Collection
Letters post
Some notes/reminders:
- If you don't select characters in a request, it's your author's choice which character or characters to include from the tag set. Please don't say you want a particular character more than others when you have not selected character tags.
- Please check the additional tag you've selected makes sense for the characters you've selected. For example, "One or more characters (giver's choice)" doesn't make sense if you select several characters and you really want at least two to interact.
- Please check you can access the email associated with your AO3 account. Mods may use this to reach out to you with questions.
- If you are open to treats, feel free to say so - it isn't greedy! It's just letting people know that you haven't disabled the treat setting.
Please either comment logged-in or sign a name. Unsigned anonymous comments will be left screened.
littlefics (littlefics) wrote in seasonsofdrabbles2025-10-22 10:50 pm
littlefics) wrote in seasonsofdrabbles2025-10-22 10:50 pmEntry tags:
Fall Round: 14 Initial Pinch Hits
Here are the 14 initial pinch hits for this round! These are due at the assignment deadline, Saturday, November 1st, 11:59pm Eastern time (Countdown).
If you would like to claim a pinch hit, please comment to this post with the name/number of the pinch hit you would like. Make sure to include your AO3 username! Comments are screened.
(This is a repost with the correct requests.)
( CLAIMED PH 1 - 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, Elden Ring (Video Game), Elden Ring Nightreign (Video Game), Dark Souls (Video Games), Bloodborne (Video Game), Gachiakuta (Anime) )
( CLAIMED PH 2 - The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - Suzanne Collins, Classical Greece and Rome History & Literature RPF, Fallout: New Vegas, Daredevil (TV), Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion )
( CLAIMED PH 3 - Jem and the Holograms (Cartoon), Bits & Pieces - Judy Schachner, Chalion Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold, Nancy Drew - Carolyn Keene, He-Man Cartoon 1983/She-Ra Princess of Power 1985, Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018), Voltron: Lion Force (1984), Haunted Mansion (Disney Parks Attraction), Murder She Wrote )
( CLAIMED PH 5 - The Terror (TV 2018), Titanic (1997), 80 Days (Video Game 2014), The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022), Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016), Andor (TV), Discworld - Terry Pratchett )
( CLAIMED PH 6 - Invisible Inc. (Video Game), Firefly (TV 2002), Betrayal at Krondor (Video Games) )
( CLAIMED PH 7 - Dial M for Murder (1954), To Catch a Thief (1955), Home Before Dark (1958), The Big Country (1958), The Big Heat (1953), A Star Is Born (1937) )
( PH 8 - Psychonauts (Video Games), Umineko no Naku Koro ni | When the Seagulls Cry, No Straight Roads (Video Game), Sonic the Hedgehog - All Media Types )
( CLAIMED PH 9 - Kamen Rider OOO, 仮面ライダーガッチャード | Kamen Rider Gotchard (TV), わが青春のアルカディア | Waga Seishun no Arcadia | Arcadia of My Youth (1982), Kamen Rider Ryuki, Kamen Rider Kuuga, Choujuu Sentai Liveman, Kamen Rider V3, Kamen Rider Kiva, Choujin Sentai Jetman )
( PH 10 - The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension (1984), Crossing Jordan (TV 2001), NCIS: Los Angeles )
( PH 11 - เขาจ้างให้ผมจีบนักฆ่า | The Heart Killers (Thailand TV), วาระซ่อนเร้น | Hidden Agenda (TV), KinnPorsche: The Series (TV), ทำนายทายทัพ | My Magic Prophecy (TV), แฟนผมเป็นประธานนักเรียน | My School President (TV 2022), เพื่อนายแค่หนึ่งเดียว | Never Let Me Go (TV 2022), สายรหัสเทวดา | Perfect 10 Liners (TV 2024), Thai Actor RPF, We Are คือเรารักกัน | We Are (Thailand TV 2024) )
( CLAIMED PH 12 - SK8 the Infinity (Anime), Winx Club, 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Manga), Dangan Ronpa Series )
( CLAIMED PH 13 - The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir, Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022) RPF, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (Movies) )
( CLAIMED PH 14 - Psych (TV 2006), The Orville (TV), Yellowjackets (TV) )
If you would like to claim a pinch hit, please comment to this post with the name/number of the pinch hit you would like. Make sure to include your AO3 username! Comments are screened.
(This is a repost with the correct requests.)
( CLAIMED PH 1 - 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, Elden Ring (Video Game), Elden Ring Nightreign (Video Game), Dark Souls (Video Games), Bloodborne (Video Game), Gachiakuta (Anime) )
( CLAIMED PH 2 - The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - Suzanne Collins, Classical Greece and Rome History & Literature RPF, Fallout: New Vegas, Daredevil (TV), Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion )
( CLAIMED PH 3 - Jem and the Holograms (Cartoon), Bits & Pieces - Judy Schachner, Chalion Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold, Nancy Drew - Carolyn Keene, He-Man Cartoon 1983/She-Ra Princess of Power 1985, Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018), Voltron: Lion Force (1984), Haunted Mansion (Disney Parks Attraction), Murder She Wrote )
CLAIMED PH 4
( CLAIMED PH 5 - The Terror (TV 2018), Titanic (1997), 80 Days (Video Game 2014), The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022), Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016), Andor (TV), Discworld - Terry Pratchett )
( CLAIMED PH 6 - Invisible Inc. (Video Game), Firefly (TV 2002), Betrayal at Krondor (Video Games) )
( CLAIMED PH 7 - Dial M for Murder (1954), To Catch a Thief (1955), Home Before Dark (1958), The Big Country (1958), The Big Heat (1953), A Star Is Born (1937) )
( PH 8 - Psychonauts (Video Games), Umineko no Naku Koro ni | When the Seagulls Cry, No Straight Roads (Video Game), Sonic the Hedgehog - All Media Types )
( CLAIMED PH 9 - Kamen Rider OOO, 仮面ライダーガッチャード | Kamen Rider Gotchard (TV), わが青春のアルカディア | Waga Seishun no Arcadia | Arcadia of My Youth (1982), Kamen Rider Ryuki, Kamen Rider Kuuga, Choujuu Sentai Liveman, Kamen Rider V3, Kamen Rider Kiva, Choujin Sentai Jetman )
( PH 10 - The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension (1984), Crossing Jordan (TV 2001), NCIS: Los Angeles )
( PH 11 - เขาจ้างให้ผมจีบนักฆ่า | The Heart Killers (Thailand TV), วาระซ่อนเร้น | Hidden Agenda (TV), KinnPorsche: The Series (TV), ทำนายทายทัพ | My Magic Prophecy (TV), แฟนผมเป็นประธานนักเรียน | My School President (TV 2022), เพื่อนายแค่หนึ่งเดียว | Never Let Me Go (TV 2022), สายรหัสเทวดา | Perfect 10 Liners (TV 2024), Thai Actor RPF, We Are คือเรารักกัน | We Are (Thailand TV 2024) )
( CLAIMED PH 12 - SK8 the Infinity (Anime), Winx Club, 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Manga), Dangan Ronpa Series )
( CLAIMED PH 13 - The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir, Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022) RPF, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (Movies) )
( CLAIMED PH 14 - Psych (TV 2006), The Orville (TV), Yellowjackets (TV) )
littlefics (littlefics) wrote in seasonsofdrabbles2025-10-22 12:17 pm
littlefics) wrote in seasonsofdrabbles2025-10-22 12:17 pmEntry tags:
Fall 2025 Assignments Out!
Assignments have now been sent out!
We'll aim to post initial pinch hits in the next 24 hours. Happy drabbling!
- The deadline is Saturday, November 1 @ 11:59pm Eastern Daylight time (Countdown). If your assignment has not been submitted to AO3 by then, you will be defaulted.
- If your recipient did not request a fandom, character, and drabble type you offered, please contact the mods at seasonsofdrabbles@gmail.com ASAP.
- If you need to default, please do so via the button on AO3.
- For the requirements your drabble must meet, please see our guidelines. The collection is moderated and we will be doing a brief check of submitted works before admitting them into the collection. If we see an issue, we will contact you through email.
- If you write a drabble for a fandom in the tagset but it doesn't fit anyone's request, you may post it to the collection anyway, with no recipient.
We'll aim to post initial pinch hits in the next 24 hours. Happy drabbling!