#it's a lot of fun i swear

[zunaki]

Repainted an old Byler illustration 💖

[joyfuladorable]

Baby Junior's First Steps (based on a scene from Bluey)

Prompt from my buddy @vadfannypack! Everyone thank them Right NoW!!

[wolfsbanesparks]

Okay so I've gotten a few questions and I'll do my best to answer them with a brief walkthrough of how this exchange works.

All this information (and more details) can be found here if you still have questions! (The link is to the Yuletide 2023 profile page)

Full walkthrough under the cut.

Eligibility

This exchange is for small fandoms only! Your fandom is eligible if it has <1000 completed fics on AO3. Fics are counted towards that total only if they are in English, complete, and at least 1000 words long. So if your fandom has more than 1000 works but only half of them meet the criteria it may still be eligible!

There are a few exceptions and if your fandom is borderline you can provide evidence for why it should be included (Check out this post for more info on that)

Since a lot of my followers are comics fans: a fandom can be a single title or run of a comic if it's distinct enough. For example I nominated the We Are Robin comic run. Even though characters (like Duke Thomas) are in multiple comics and exist in larger fandoms, this run is distinct and self contained enough to be it's own fandom.

Nominations (Open now until Thursday Sept 28)

Nominations are optional, so you can still sign up even if you don't do a nomination. Just be aware that if your favorite small fandom isn't nominated it won't be included as an option for this exchange.

If you follow the link at the top of this reblog it will bring you to the top of the Yuletide Exchange profile page on AO3.

Once there click the "Yuletide 2023 Tagset" link.

Once you click the link it should take you to a new page. Click on the "Nominations" button to be taken to the nomination form.

The Nomination form looks like this:

Just fill it out with the fandom(s) you'd like to nominate and the characters from those fandoms you'd like to see.

You can nominate up to 4 fandoms with up to 4 characters for each fandom. Use the canonical tags for the fandom/characters. If there is no canonical tags just enter it as you would expect to see its canonical tag. For example I nominated the "Monkey Prince" fandom even though it does not have a recognized fandom tag.

Under Characters you can also add "worldbuilding (fandom)" for fics that expand on the world/lore/etc. without focusing on characters themselves.

Once you hit submit the mods will review the submission to double check that your fandoms are eligible and if they are they will be added to the list of fandoms for the exchange.

Sign Ups (Friday Oct 13-Saturday Oct 21)

To sign up all you need is to be 18 years old and have an AO3 account!

I'll add photos once Sign ups are open in October but I'll give you the rundown of how it works here. (And here's the AO3 tutorial on signing up for events like this with visuals)

On Oct 13, a sign up link will appear on the Yuletide 2023 profile page (linked above). It will also be linked on the Dreamwidth page. I will also try to link in this post.

The link will take you to the form where you can fill out your Requests (what you would like your gifted fic to be) and Offers (what you are willing to write)

Requests: Select 3-6 fandoms that you would like a fic of. For each fandom select from the nominated characters (up to 4). If you don't specify characters then your writer can choose any of them.

There will also be a space for "Optional details" where you can specify what you want to see in a fic and what you DON'T want to see. This is where you can put ships, genre preferences, triggers, squicks, prompts etc. Including Do Not Wants (DNW) like triggers and squicks will make sure that there is nothing in your gift fic that will upset you.

Offers: Select 4-10 fandoms that you are willing to write for. For each fandom select 2-20 nominated characters that you would be willing to write (Or you can chose "Any" if you are comfortable writing all nominated characters).

Bucket Offers can be made if there are many fandoms where you are comfortable writing Any characters. You can offer 9 fandoms plus one Bucket Offer of additional fandoms. (I wouldn't recommend doing this for your first exchange but it is an option)

Once you submit your sign up form it will appear on your AO3 profile.

You can click on this button and edit your sign up form at any point before the sign ups close.

Assignments (Sent out by Monday Oct 23)

Once sign ups close you will be matched up with another person based on your Requests and Offers. Matching is done by fandom and by character to find the best match.

When Assignments go out you will get an email with the details of your assignment. This will essentially be the Request portion of your match's sign up form. If you don't get an email or if it gets deleted/eaten by the Spam filter, the Assignment (and all the details) will appear on your AO3 profile.

The person you are writing a fic for will most likely NOT be the person writing a fic for you. It's like a Secret Santa/White Elephant gift exchange--It's supposed to be a secret!

Posting (deadline is Monday Dec 18)

When you finish your story you can click on your Assignment tab. Beside the assignment will be 2 buttons: "Fulfill" and "Default".

Default is for if you can't complete the fic in time (Pinch Hitters will then take over to ensure the person you were matched with still gets a gift). The Default deadline is Dec 11.

If you click the "Fulfill" button you will be taken to the posting form. Just add in your story and metadata as you usually would when uploading a new story, but just double check that it is included in the Yuletide 2023 collection and that your recipient's name is correct (both should be autofilled if you do it this way).

You may also click "Post a New Work" on your main profile page and add in the story that way. Just make sure that it is included in the Yuletide 2023 collection and that your recipient's name is correct.

When you hit "Post", the work will go up but it will be an unrevealed Mystery Work. Others will not be able to see it on your Works page but you will. You can still go in and edit it anytime before the deadline, but no one will be able to read it until the collection is revealed on Dec 25.

Reveals (Story reveal on Dec 25 and Author reveal on Jan 1)

On Christmas morning all the stories will be revealed, though the author will remain a mystery. Recipients will get a notification that they have a gift and they will be able to read it as a special gift to them. It will be available for anyone in the fandom to read and comment on at that time.

On New Year's day, the authors will be revealed. This is when you can finally chat about your story, crosspost it, and show your enthusiasm for what you've written!

And that's everything! This got super long but I hope it helps demystify the process for anyone new to the exchange! Good Luck and I hope you enjoy Yuletide!

@cerealboxlore and @zorilleerrant I know you both mentioned maybe being interested so this one's for you!

Yuletide 2023

Hey y'all!

So I have (perhaps foolishly) been thinking about doing the Yuletide fic exchange again this year and thought that I should share it with all of you!

What is it?

Yuletide is a multi-fandom fic exchange that takes place every year around the holidays. It's for small fandoms with less than 1000 completed fics on AO3. (Find out if your favorite fandom is eligible here!)

When is it?

Nominations are open now! If you are a part of an eligible fandom you have until Thursday September 28 to nominate them. It's very simple, just list the fandom's name and up to four characters from that fandom you would like to see in a fic. You can nominate up to four fandoms if you have multiple that fit the criteria!

Sign-ups to participate happen October 13-21, where you can list which of the eligible fandoms you would like to write for (and which ones you would like your own gift to be from!) Once you're matched up you will have until December 18 to finish your fic!

If you want to know more about Yuletide and how it works go here!

I had a lot of fun doing this exchange last year and would love to have more people join us this year!

EDIT: Here's the link to the rules on AO3 for anyone who isn't sure how to navigate Dreamwidth.

[chalkrub]

been doodling some bri'ish wildlife - love seeing these guys. because they are the classics aren't they?

[ricky-mortis]

So, I heard it was Holloweane Week?

It’s a bit late in the week but I wanted to draw something for it, and I liked this prompt.

The way I see it- their roles may have been swapped, but their dynamic? Exactly the same.

[beeduoo]

exile

[okartichoke]

at a concerrttt yyessss yessss

klapollo >:3

design notes

link to masterpost || some quick justifcations/explanations below cut!!:

Birds of paradise <333 Them being of the same bird family is important to me... (honorary mention to the snowy owl for Kristoph) (also honorable mention to the paradise crow) (but i like them having matching ribbons (and the two birds i went with are more closely related))

I originally tried giving Klav the whole fluffy back of yellow/white feathers, but (a) he looked SO over complicated (especially compared to everyone else) and (b) I realized that no other character has back feathers, anyways. so it would make sense he does not either.

The ribbon-tails are similar to Apollo and Trucy's hearts: they both inherit this feature from one of their parents. (One parent is a stephanie's astrapia, one is a lesser bird-of-paradise). (Also of note: the lesser bird-of-paradise also has two long wire plumes, if you look closely)

Tails: (Klav's is basically a ribbon-tailed astrapia's tail btw.) Because the tail is such a notable feature of these species, I'm including it, though they also come from the base of the wing (though I'll probably just draw them as essentially tails in the future), and are much shorter than they would be, were they proportional.

i got very lazy on the individual introduction sheets they're so bad 😭😭 specifically klavier pls just imagine he and his wings look better there 🙏🙏🙏 LOL i hope the other drawings make up for it !! >:3

FINALLY MY CAT!!!! it’s been a while,,, this is him everyday after taking his pills cuz he knows it’s milk time now (image from my dad) (also flat colors and zoom bc me likey this image)

[recalled11]

Lost Pt. 3

Pt.1/Pt.2/Pt.3/ Next >>

[sysig]

The familiarity is not very comforting (Patreon)

[transitcowboy]

I kinda miss making YT thumbnails.

[dsofi427]

I dressed up as House for a friend's Halloween-Birthday party! 🫣

House with his ducklings be like 🐥

Btw this lil bitch was an olympic diver, he just wouldn't stay in the pocket 🫠

[go-team-snakemouth]

[id in alt] Y'all Jello is voice acting Bug Fables on youtube and I am living. My crops are flourishing. More doodles to come I was just excited and wanted to post this first

[infighter]

Actually really sucks that gaming conversations have been hijacked by anti-woke people and we need to spend basically the entire time defending games from their dumbass rhetoric that we can’t afford to criticize the things that are actually wrong bc otherwise theyll latch onto them and use it to be further annoying

[foxprints]

As with most of my other Murderbot art, there's a long headcanon that goes along with this piece. This one can be summed up as: ART has an unexpectedly difficult time performing system maintenance on its engines using its repair drones after the alien synthetic incident. Murderbot steps in to help out and then continues to periodically help out because they both find that time together soothing.

[screamingsnowflakeart]

💣🐱

[xxplastic-cubexx]

adding 'tentacles are in the walls' to my list of vague x mansion facts

(X-Men #25)