Guiding Light Fest - Claiming OPEN🍯

🍯About🍯

Guiding Light Fest is a fest dedicated to BTS Sentinel/Guide fanfics.

This fest is open to any sentinel/guide fics and BTS ships, including dead dove (within fest restrictions) and polyamorous relationships.

🍯General Rules🍯

Must be 18+ and have an AO3 account to participate.

Must stay anonymous until author reveals.

All works must be centered around sentinels/guides.

Minimum word count of 2k (WIPs are okay).

All works must be appropriately tagged.

No plagiarism/generative AI.

🍯Restrictions🍯

If you have questions about your prompt/story in relation to these restrictions please don’t hesitate to reach out to us!

Underage sex

Boypussy (trans and multisex characters welcome)

Pedophilia/Grooming

Reader inserts

🍯Prompting Guidelines🍯

Must have an AO3 account to submit prompts.

You can submit up to 3 prompts.

Make sure to include your DW and DNW (absolutely NO top/bottom dynamics allowed).

Prompts that violate rules will be deleted.

DO NOT plagiarize prompts.

There will be no self prompts this round.

Including your preferred ship is optional – writers will have the creative freedom to choose the ship they feel best fits the prompt.

When prompting there are NO TOP/BOTTOM DYNAMICS allowed. This is to ensure that writers are not limited to a certain bedroom dynamic for their story.

Long prompts will also be deleted. Please be sure to be less detailed to give our writers room to be creative. Being extra specific is better left for commissioned fics, not a fest!

🍯Claiming Guidelines🍯

Writers can claim 1 prompt at a time. Self prompts are not allowed.

After claiming, you must fill the claiming form or your claim will be deleted after 48 hours.

Each prompt can only have 1 claim – first come first serve, based on claiming form submissions.

Writers can fulfill the prompt you’ve claimed with a ship other than the one that might be stated.

If you submit your first fic before claiming is over, you can claim up to two more (three total for this season).

If you'd like to drop your claim, please fill out the drop out form.

🍯Writing Guidelines🍯

Your work must meet the min wc requirement to be included in the fest. WIPs are okay.

Works must be original and not a continuation of an already existing work.

Works can be for a ship that isn’t stated in the prompt.

You must keep your prompt anonymous – WIP Wednesdays are encouraged.

You must submit your work to the collection on AO3 and complete the submission form to be included in author reveals.

Please respect both the DW and DNW in your chosen prompt.

Please fill in the check-in form within a week of receiving it or your claims will be deleted.

🍯Dead Dove Themes🍯

This is a non-exhaustive list that you can reference when prompting/writing!

If you're curious to learn about this trope, you can check out the intro guide put together by mod ⚡here.

🍯How to participate in the pre-ceremony activities for this season: