#modnote

As you should know if you've been reading the policy posts and reminders we've been making over the past six or so months, we've been struggling with members sending "concerns" about the group and particularly about other members on anon, which led to us reaching the point of even going so far as to make it policy back at the beginning of January to not use anon for feedback asks.

Unfortunately, the volume of anons we've received has worsened in the past month or so and despite a few more reasonable asks that we've addressed or are still planning on addressing soon, the vast majority of them have been vague, rude, or otherwise mean.

We want to make it clear that we want to be able to help you guys if you have concerns, but sending things to the tune of "x members are bad" or "x things need to change" with no details about what the members are doing or actual suggestions on how to solve your issue are not helpful.

If you think a member did something wrong or has a bad history in another setting, you need to come off of anon and share the details you can so that we can pose follow-up questions, provide explanations to you if what the member is doing isn't against the rules, and, if done privately, communicate to you when we've taken action so that no assumptions are made regarding what actions we have or haven't taken.

Either way, we made a warning late last year that if the anons continued, we would consider closing anon on the masterlist for a little while and we've decided to take that step now. While we understand this may be disruptive for people that reserve on anon, we will be disabling anon on the blog until sometime in the middle of March. We'll re-enable it at that time and if the anons resume again, we will extend that period.

If you have any serious concerns during this time, you can send them to the masterlist as normal, by using the #staff-questions channel in the server, or by reaching out to a mod with the "Contact me!" role in the server!

Pump has a message for you all!

the challenge request form for the giant rank has been updated to reflect the changes made during the policy update earlier this year! we apologize for the delay, and in the near future we plan on adding some additional resources such as some example challenges, as we're aware not everyone trying to rank up may have an idea of what they're normally like.

if you've been given a challenge in the past, still have it, and would like to offer it as an example challenge for that list, please let us know!

Inspired by @confessions-sm!

If you have headcanons about characters, ships, OCs, or other Spooky Month-related things, send them in and they'll be shared with everyone else in the fandom!

RULES

Do not hate on other people's headcanons. Everyone can share or have different headcanons.

Though the mod is an adult, try to avoid sending anything too NSFW. Suggestive asks are fine and will be tagged appropriately.

Please don't spam, asks will be posted, whether that is sooner or later depends on my IRL schedule.

Nothing gross or illegal - Do not send in headcanons that glorify racism, homophobia, transphobia, pedo, incest etc. I can and will report you if you do.

Proship DNI

Rules will be updated if necessary

Hello all!

Just a quick wee note to say I've drafted the Microfic Challenge post for July so it's ready to go because I'll be on holiday when the first of the month rolls around.

I also wanted to say that, come August, I will make that our first pairing- or character-specific challenge. I haven't quite decided which to do yet but I do know that Jalex will be banned because most of the entries are Jalex. I love that ship very much, it's near and dear to my heart, so no hard feelings about it, but I also love reading other ships and it's nice to see other pairings get the spotlight!

If the challenge was pairing-specific, that means a pairing would be chosen to go alongside the prompt. So, for example, it could be "road, 603 words, Zalex."

If the challenge was character-specific, that means the pairing would have to feature the chosen character, but the pairing (or if there was a pairing at all) is up to you. So, for example, it could be "road, 603 words, Matt Flyzik." The story could be based around Matt with no pairing, or he could be featured with any All Time Low band or crew member (or someone else entirely!) that you desire, as long as he's part of it.

Another possible option is sometimes having a month where the character is, say, Jack, but he must be paired with someone from a different band.

As always, non-slash pairings are also welcome.

I hope that all makes sense, I just want there to be an extra challenge with the prompt sometimes to keep it exciting and give us content for ships or characters that might not often get a look in.

All that said, if you want to give this post a wee reply once you've read it and let us know if you'd like a pre-selected pairing for August's challenge, or if you'd like to try the character-specific way first, that would be lovely. <3

I closed the ask box for now. I'll finish the design asks I had left (except the halloween ones) then you will see what happen :>c fuhuhuhu and that's when I open the ask box again. I promise you will notice it just hang on everyone

(submissions also closed, will state when all opens up again so pls bare with me)