#rockabyexo

DAY 1

Cat’s Out of the Bag | RB009 | Kim Minseok/Lu Han | General Audiences

“It was an accident, I swear.” | Read it here! 

Where Love Exists | RB040 | Wu Yifan/Kim Junmyeon | Mature Audiences

Special round notes:

This special round is being held with a secondary theme aside from kidfics: the holidays!

Anything from domestic fluff, to gift-giving, to family vacation shenanigans are welcome, as long as the prompt satisfies the two requirements of the round, being:

A kidfic (with child/ren being central to the plot of the fic; and

Holiday season-themed.

Complete guidelines for prompting for Rock a Bye:

The prompting form will go live on August 15, 2019, at 9 AM KST.

‘Children’ in this fest are described as characters who are no older than 13 years of age.

All prompts must have at least one member of EXO involved, either as an adult or a child character. Prompts must involve children, or have its central theme be about children.

Only one prompt may be submitted per form. Forms with multiple prompts may be deleted during the purging.

Prompts that involve the children growing up into adulthood are allowed, but note that the main part of the story must be the children.

Numnum: things that you want to see written in the fic, listed in order of importance. (Greatly appreciated if ranked as well! e.g., 1. breakfast in bed, 2. fluffy fun times).

Blech: things that you do not want to see written in the fic, and would like to request the author to avoid writing as much as possible.

Gift tag: A note/letter you would like to tell your writer, when your prompt gets claimed. (Only your writer will see this, so write as much as you want!)

Prompts will be purged once a day. Repeated prompts, incomplete prompts, and inappropriate prompts will be removed from the masterlist. Purging will be done at 10 PM KST.

Note to prompters:

Prompters must submit only one prompt per Form. If you want to send several prompts, you may do so by filling up different forms. Please do not submit several prompts in a single form!

Be as specific as you can. Give the writer as much detail as you can in the prompts - especially those that are Numnum (things you agree to) and those that are Blech (things you would not like to see in the fic).

Be available in case the mods of the fest contact you! We will contact you in place of the writer should they have any questions about your prompt.

Please understand that prompts may get dropped, or may remain unclaimed through the duration of the fest. That doesn’t mean there’s anything wrong with your prompt; maybe a writer will pick it up later!

You may choose to be revealed during the reveals or you may choose to remain anonymous. Please let the mods know!

Prompters with claimed prompts may request for updates on how their prompts’ stories are going after the first check-in. We’ll do our best to keep you all updated!

Contact Us

Prompting Guidelines | Claiming Guidelines | Check-in Guidelines | Love Letters

Prompting: February 15 to March 10 Claiming: March 12 to April 20 First check-in: April 20 Second check-in: May 20 Posting: June 12 Reveals: June 25 

Written/Fic Submissions

Minimum word count for Rock a Bye is 1000 words. There is no upper limit; long fics are more than welcome!

The work must center around children characters, or have children be its central theme. This means that the bulk of the story must involve the children characters.

We do not condone abuse, pedophilia, and other such themes. Mentions of these themes as character development are okay, so long as they are tagged properly, but explicit scenes with these themes are not welcome.

Please read our Tagging Guidelines for more information!

We accept multi-chapter fics, as long as the total word count for the work is at least 1000 words. Read below how posting works!

Written works must at least be edited! We understand that our writers are members of the fandom, but if you need a beta request the mods to read through your work) please let us know ASAP.

Fics submitted to the fest must be standalone, complete works. They cannot be sequels to previously posted works, or part of an established series.

Our authors can choose to continue/add more to their fics as a series after the end of the round!

Fics must be written in English. To our non-English writing claimers: please let us know if you’re claiming a prompt to be written in another language, as the prompts you’ve claimed will remain claimable for other writers.

Please submit your works in .docx format! It will make it much easier for the mods to go over the fic for posting.

Art Submissions

Artworks must be submitted to us in .PNG format, to ensure preservation of quality. Please do not submit your PSD files! All of your work is yours; we will simply be hosting your work on our fest.

Submitted artworks that are not part of a fic must be submitted with a three-sentence caption. (Talk to us about your art!)

Preferably, artwork size should be 1280 x 1920 pixels, which is the high-resolution image size on Tumblr posts, but we realize that artists have their own sizes they’re comfortable with.

Any artwork is fine with us, but please make sure to avoid any explicit artworks! Let us try to preserve the wholesomeness of this the kidfic fest~

Posting

All works will be hosted on ArchiveOfOurOwn, with link announcements to our Tumblr and Twitter accounts.

Prompts Archive |  Claiming Guidelines | Check-in Form

Prompting: February 15 to March 10 Claiming: March 12 to April 20 First check-in: April 20 Second check-in: May 20 Posting: June 12 Reveals: June 25

General Guidelines

A check-in is simply a way for us mods to know about how far along you are in your fics/artwork! For us, any progress is good progress.

It’s also a way for us to know if you need any help at all.

All check-ins will remain anonymous. Only the mods will be able to know the contents of what you’ve submitted to us.

Submission:

There are two (2) ways you can submit a check-in: through email, or through Google Forms.

Email Check-in:

Send email to: [email protected]

Subject of email: <PROMPT CODE> 1st/2nd Check In - username

Body of email:

Title of entry [tentative titles are allowed for the first check-in] Summary Current word count Pairing/s Rating

Please attach a .docx format file of your current work.

Google Forms check-in: Simply submit through this Google Form.

We will be sending reminder emails for each check-in a week before the check-in deadline. You may start submitting check-ins when you’ve received your reminder email. This is to ensure that should a claimer need more time, they can request for an extension (especially for the second check-in).

All of your work are yours. We do not condone plagiarism. We will not be posting any drafts on any platform, and we’ll ensure that none of the works we receive are plagiarized or copied in any way.

First Check-in Guidelines

The first check-in is voluntary. Meaning to say, the claimers only need to send us an email that they’re working on their works, and that’s it!

Please check above for check-in options.

There is no word-count limit for the first check-in. Any progress is progress for us!

We will be posting an update on our Twitter about the number of check-ins we’ve received, but no one will know who have checked in and who haven’t.

Second Check-in Guidelines

The second check-in is obligatory. Please make sure to send us a check-in on or before the deadline, or send us an email requesting for an extension so we don’t consider you dropped from the fest. This is to make sure that the fest runs smoothly during posting and reveals~

Second check-in also requires a 1,000 word minimum for writing claims. This is the fest’s minimum word count for fics.

Contact Us

Claiming Form | Prompt Archive

Schedule

Prompting: February 15 to March 10 Claiming: March 12 to April 30 First check-in: April 30 Second check-in: May 20 Posting: June 12 Reveals: June 25

General Guidelines

Claiming period begins on March 12, 2019, 12 PM KST. 

Note that only one prompt can be claimed at at a time, but you can enter your top three preferred prompts in case your top choice has been claimed beforehand. Claimed prompts cannot be claimed again unless they’ve been dropped and/or put up for adoption.

If a writer submits two claims, the mods will consider the first submission to be their claim.

The mods will email claimers with a confirmation within 3 hours. This confirmation email will include your claimed prompt, a schedule, and your prompter’s Playground note!

If you have questions, you may send an email to the mods at any time.

The prompt archive will be updated as claims are confirmed! 

Claiming Reminders:

Please keep the prompter’s preferences (Numnum) and dislikes (Blech) in mind.

If you have any questions for the prompter, please let the mods know, and we’ll contact the prompter as soon as possible.

You will be submitting only the prompt code in the claiming form, so make sure to list them down!

The Rating stated in the prompt archive is the maximum or the highest rating that the prompter would like to see or read. Please make sure to rate your works appropriately!

For non-writer claimers:

Non-writer claimers are welcome to the fest! This includes artists, rpers, and other members of the fandom.

You may claim any of the prompts in the archive, including those that have already been claimed! If you choose a claimed prompt, your work will the fic’s cover image.

The schedule for non-writer claimers follows the same as the schedule for writers.

Note to writers:

Writers can claim only one (1) prompt at a time. If a writer completes their story before the posting deadline, and wishes to claim a second prompt, they may choose to do by getting into contact with the mods of the fest.

For writers with AO3 accounts: you can submit your works by posting it on the collection to be posted by the mods three (3) weeks before posting starts. If you would like to remain anonymous, please let the mods know before the reveal dates.

For writers without AO3 accounts: you can submit your works through .docx format, and it will be posted by the fic fest Archive account. You may only post your works in non-AO3 platforms (AFF, LiveJournal, Tumblr, etc) after the reveals. Please let the mods know so that we can add a link to the work to the masterlist!

Please keep in mind the notes given by the prompter! Should you have any questions, you can always contact us through our accounts.

More specific Tagging guidelines will be available soon, but in general, we would like to request all our writers to tag the most pressing and most relevant tags in the story.

Rock A Bye is an EXO kid-fic fest created for writers and readers who love kidfic. This fic fest is also a recommendations fest for our favorite kidfics! Stay tuned for updates!

Schedule

Please read our Schedule post for a more detailed explanation of the fest’s schedule!

Prompting starts on February 15

Claiming starts on March 12

First (voluntary) check-in for writers is on April 30

Deadline for dropping out is on May 7

Second (obligatory) check-in, with at least 1,000 words, is on May 20

Final drafts should be submitted by June 7

Posting starts on June 12

Author reveals will be on June 25

General Guidelines

Please keep in mind that all the participants of this fest are fellow fans - the writers, the prompters, the readers, and the mods!

This fest will operate in Korean Standard Time (KST).

Authors and prompters will remain anonymous throughout the duration of the fest until the reveals at the end of the fest. Both authors and prompters may contact the mods through email, Twitter, or CuriousCat.

Works will be posted on AO3. Guidelines for writers who do not have an account in the Archive will be available shortly. Feedback from readers will also be available in AO3, although the mods allow and encourage Love Letters.

Negative and hateful behavior is strongly condemned in this fest! We would like to keep this fest as much of a safe space for all as possible. The mods welcome constructive criticism, but harassment will not be tolerated.

To our writers: please know that you have creative freedom for this fic, but that should you need assistance, we are only one message away.

To our prompters: please keep in mind that you are just as important in this fest as us mods, our writers, and our readers!

To our readers: thank you for reading our writers’ works! please do know that feedback, comments, and love are very much appreciated! leave a comment or two, or a Love Letter!

Prompter Guidelines

Please read our Prompting Guidelines for a more detailed post on our prompting rules!

Prompters must submit only one prompt per Form. If you want to send several prompts, you may do so by filling up different forms. Please do not submit several prompts in a single form!

Be as specific as you can. Give the writer as much detail as you can in the prompts - especially those that are Numnum (things you agree to) and those that are Blech (things you would not like to see in the fic).

Be available in case the mods of the fest contact you! We will contact you in place of the writer should they have any questions about your prompt.

Please understand that prompts may get dropped, or may remain unclaimed through the duration of the fest. That doesn’t mean there’s anything wrong with your prompt; maybe a writer will pick it up later!

You may choose to be revealed during the reveals or you may choose to remain anonymous. Please let the mods know!

Prompters with claimed prompts may request for updates on how their prompts’ stories are going after the first check-in. We’ll do our best to keep you all updated!

Writer Guidelines

Please read our Claiming Guidelines for a more detailed post on our Claiming rules!

Writers can claim only one (1) prompt at a time. If a writer completes their story before the posting deadline, and wishes to claim a second prompt, they may choose to do by getting into contact with the mods of the fest.

For writers with AO3 accounts: you can submit your works by posting it on the collection to be posted by the mods three (3) weeks before posting starts. If you would like to remain anonymous, please let the mods know before the reveal dates.

For writers without AO3 accounts: you can submit your works through .docx format, and it will be posted by the fic fest Archive account. You may only post your works in non-AO3 platforms (AFF, LiveJournal, Tumblr, etc) after the reveals. Please let the mods know so that we can add a link to the work to the masterlist!

Please keep in mind the notes given by the prompter! Should you have any questions, you can always contact us through our accounts.

More specific Tagging guidelines will be available soon, but in general, we would like to request all our writers to tag the most pressing and most relevant tags in the story.

You may request for a beta by contacting the mods!

Non-writer claimers (artists, etc.) may also claim prompts. You may claim claimed or unclaimed prompts! Please submit your works in .png format, 540px in width. You may choose the height.

Fic Guidelines

Please read our Entry and Submission Guidelines for a more detailed post on our Fic rules!

Fics will be posted on Archive of Our Own (AO3), in the collection posted by the fest’s account. Writers may choose to post their works using their own accounts, or allow the fest’s account to post their works on their behalf.

Fice must be at least 1,000 words long. There is no upper limit; writers can write as many words as they want!

Fics must be standalone fics and not part of a sequel. They must also be completed by the posting deadline.

Writers can choose to add more parts to their fest entry after the fest as long as the entry itself is a complete work.

Plagiarism will not be tolerated. Please post only your own original works.

Only fics that have been written and completed during the fest are allowed. Previously completed works, which were edited to fit the prompt, are not allowed to be submitted as a fest entry.

Check in guidelines

The first check in, which will be on April 30, 2019, 11:59 PM KST, is voluntary. Authors may choose not to check in during this time.

The second check in, which will be on May 20, 2019, 11:59 PM KST, is an obligatory check-in. All participating writers are required to check-in during this time.

Check-ins can be done through Email or through Google Forms. Writers can only choose one (1) form of check-in.

EMAIL CHECK-IN

Send email to: [email protected]

Subject of email: <PROMPT CODE> 1st/2nd Check In - username

Body of email:

Title of entry [tentative titles are allowed for the first check-in]

Summary

Current word count

Pairing/s

Rating

Please attach a .docx file of your work to the email.

GOOGLE FORMS CHECK-IN: Please fill out this Google Form.

Writers who aren’t able to join the second check-in will be considered dropped, and their prompts will be marked as ‘Available’ in the prompts list.

Contact Us

Prompting Form | Prompts Archive

Schedule:

Prompting: February 15 to March 10 Claiming: March 12 to April 30 First check-in: April 30 Second check-in: May 20 Posting: June 12 Reveals: June 25

Complete guidelines for prompting for Rock a Bye:

The prompting form will go live on February 15, 2019, at 9 AM KST.

‘Children’ in this fest are described as characters who are no older than 13 years of age.

All prompts must have at least one member of EXO involved, either as an adult or a child character. Prompts must involve children, or have its central theme be about children. 

Only one prompt may be submitted per form. Forms with multiple prompts may be deleted during the purging.

Prompts that involve the children growing up into adulthood are allowed, but note that the main part of the story must be the children.

Numnum: things that you want to see written in the fic, listed in order of importance. (Greatly appreciated if ranked as well! e.g., 1. breakfast in bed, 2. fluffy fun times).

Blech: things that you do not want to see written in the fic, and would like to request the author to avoid writing as much as possible.

Playground: A note/letter you would like to tell your writer, when your prompt gets claimed. (Only your writer will see this, so write as much as you want!)

Prompts will be purged once a day. Repeated prompts, incomplete prompts, and inappropriate prompts will be removed from the masterlist. Purging will be done at 10 PM KST.

Categories:

Dawn: A time of hope. Prompts that involve the adult character acquiring a child (through adoption, birth, or our favorite Accidental Baby Acquisition, for example) fall into this category.

Noon: The middle ground. Prompts that feature children as the main characters and/or point-of-view characters fall into this category. 

Dusk: A time of rest. Prompts with families that have existing children fall in this category. Domestic and family fluff, established relationships, among others, are within this category as well.

Midnight: Moments of darkness. Dark or possible trigger warning prompts will be put under this category. (NOTE: The mods reserve the right to purge prompts that are inappropriate to the fest and that go against the welfare of children. This fest does not tolerate incest, rape, and other such behavior towards children.)

Note to prompters:

Prompters must submit only one prompt per Form. If you want to send several prompts, you may do so by filling up different forms. Please do not submit several prompts in a single form!

Be as specific as you can. Give the writer as much detail as you can in the prompts - especially those that are Numnum (things you agree to) and those that are Blech (things you would not like to see in the fic).

Be available in case the mods of the fest contact you! We will contact you in place of the writer should they have any questions about your prompt.

Please understand that prompts may get dropped, or may remain unclaimed through the duration of the fest. That doesn’t mean there’s anything wrong with your prompt; maybe a writer will pick it up later!

You may choose to be revealed during the reveals or you may choose to remain anonymous. Please let the mods know!

Prompters with claimed prompts may request for updates on how their prompts’ stories are going after the first check-in. We’ll do our best to keep you all updated!

Contact Us

Notes:

The prompting form will go live on February 15, 2019, at 9 AM KST (What time is that for me?). It will stay active until March 10, 2019, 11:59 PM KST. 

The prompt archive will be posted on March 5, 2019, one week before claiming begins!

If you have questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact us through Twitter or our CuriousCat.

The tentative first schedule for the Rock a Bye rec fest is:

Sign-ups: August 1 to August 25

First check-in: September 7

Drop-out deadline: September 20

Second check-in: October 1

Rec list deadline: October 9

Posting: October 16