Scissors & Parchment

There’s still time to join in on the Skystar Secret Santa exchange! Sign-ups are closing on Tuesday October 20th! Head to this post to find out more details and sign up!

Once the event is underway, tag your fic/art with #skystar secret santa 2020 or tag us directly @skystar-secret-santa and we will reblog your works here! We’ll also set up an AO3 archive closer to the time for writers to post in as well!

Even if you’re NOT joining in on the exchange:

MERRY NOT CHRISTMAS! 

Welcome to the SkyStar Secret Santa Fic/Art Exchange 2020! After seeing just how popular @skystarweek​ was, we (@justawayninja​ and @tackytacs​) thought it would be a great idea to do a Skystar-themed Secret Santa gift exchange to celebrate the wintry season of Skystar! *throws confetti*

Dates:

Deadline for event sign-up: Tuesday 20th October

Secret Santa assignment: Sunday 25th October

Gift completion deadline: Sunday 13th December (to confirm all works are complete/appropriate)

Gift exchange/work upload date: Sunday 20th December - Friday 25th December. (All gifts should be posted by December 25th!)

NOTE: If you feel unable to fill the prompts you have been given, then please DM or email us no later than Sunday 1st November to let us know so we might be able to find a replacement. 

Rules for sign-up/prompts:

This is an 18+ ONLY event, as we will be allowing people to request NSFW content. You confirm that you are 18 years or over by filling in the attached questionnaire. 

Fill out the questionnaire below. We’ll need either your Tumblr blog name, twitter username, or email so we can contact you with details of your assignment.

Please provide minimum 3 prompts. The more prompts you provide though, the easier it will be for your Secret Santa to fill them! 

In your prompts:

Continuity-wise, please include at least ONE G1-inspired prompt, and warnings wise at least ONE ‘general, trigger-free’ prompt. You can combine these 2 requirements into one prompt. This is just to cover our bases and make sure everyone will be able to fill something.

Specify a canon continuity or specific AU  (e.g. Angel!Skyfire + Demon!Starscream AU).

Specify any potential warnings (e.g. NSFW, triggers etc.) 

Although this is a Christmas event, prompts do NOT have to be Christmas themed! You can request whatever antics, fluff, angst, humour, etc. you’d like to see Skystar get up to!

Rules for filling prompts:

Fics must be AT LEAST 1000 words, and art must be lined and coloured.

You MUST fill at least one prompt. But you CAN fill multiple prompts for your giftee if you wish!

Please let us know if you will be willing to double-up and fill in the prompts for anyone who decides to drop out. Hopefully no one will, but it will be a big help to know just in case anything happens!

In case your giftee drops out of the event because they can’t fill out the prompts they’ve been given, you can either: 

a) Continue working on the original prompts from your giftee

b) You can choose to fill in the prompts for the person your giftee was originally supposed to be writing/drawing for. 

c) If you’re amazing, do both! (That way, hopefully no one will be left without a gift!)

Please fill out the form below if you’re interested and feel free to DM us if you have any questions! We look forward to hearing back from you! 

Happy shipping, and please reblog to spread the news! :3

I would say… despite the fact I am probably one of the last people who’d say they’re a fan of Siege I’ve still generally wanted this Week to be fun and inclusive of all TF continuities.

Basically, I think my stance would be: I wanted SkyStar Week to be a fun celebration of the pairing, so I doubt I would add any stories to the collection that dealt with Siegefire ‘realistically’ (aka, as how he is in canon as someone who clearly hates Starscream and smacks him around). If it was a story that dealt with those themes rather than them actually being a pairing I probably wouldn’t add them to the collection.

However, if those are themes you’d be interested in exploring in a story or want to write you can absolutely do that. I would just need to read and check it first before I would approve it to the collection.

Generally, I have tried to read every fic approved before adding it to the SkyStar Week collection (there have been a lot of fics so some I have only been able to skim through). So either way I’d still check it before adding it. Whatever you write might be fine to add.

But unfortunately having an influx of dark, obviously trolling and upsetting fics was one of the things that helped prompt SkyStar Week into action in the first place, and the reason I ended up setting the collection to be moderated versus allowing anyone to add what they wanted. So if I felt the story was too in tone with those fics I would not accept it.

Especially after The Siege was aired (I meant not to say that the Original Post specially referred to that). I for the first time wish I could block some authors in AO3 who made Siegefire just another tyrant bullying and torturing Starscream. Also I think Siegefire like that is strongly out of character, even he indeed is portrayed differently from the previous TF continuities. 

We now have a nice little graphic for this event! Thanks to @baebeyza for creating this!

@dorksidefiker​ @grayseeker​ There is a collection on AO3 you can submit to: SkyStar Week 2020. But I suppose also making the tag ‘SkyStar Week 2020′ will also be fitting.

For my friend @scissorsparchment