#sign-up

This is what you see when you open the signup form for the all-ages collection.

There's a lot of segments to sort through, but we can go through them in order! If you take it segment by segment, it's not as bad as it looks. Let's go for it.

Starting with request one.

I have an idea for a side story for Joe and Cleo in This Is About A Stuffed Bird, by bee_4. So, to start with— that's a hermitcraft fic.

So I select Hermitcraft on the Fandoms part of the sign-up. Note that as we add more fandoms to the list, potentially this will become a drop-down menu instead of checklists. You still select the fandom you want in the same way.

Next is Gift Style. We're using the "characters" tab for that one.

I'm good with my gift being an art, a fic, or a web weave, but I'm not interested in podfic for this one, so I left it off! If I only wanted a fic, or an art, etc, I would only select one.

Next is the Relationship tab, which we're using for characters (told you that we were having to squeeze the signup form until it screamed).

Names will start to auto-complete in a drop-down menu as you enter them, and I selected the characters I want— in this case, Cleo and JoeHills. Note that possibly I will only match on one character, as we couldn't do relationship matching this time, so I try to keep that in mind when it comes to my requests!

Next is Additional Tags, which is where I select the fic that I'm actually asking for a gift about! Same as the box where I selected the characters I wanted, Ao3 offers auto-complete suggestions as I enter the name.

Next is categories. This is our shipping on-off switch.

I've decided that I am good with shipping or not with this one, so I've selected BOTH Gen and M/M. But now that I'm on the page I'm like "I wouldn't mind it if they were lesbians either" so I have selected F/F as well.

Now if I was signing up in the All-Ages collection, I wouldn't have this step, but if you're in the 18-plus collection you do have the option of option into smut, which is the rating box.

You'd select General if you are good with no smut for this prompt, or explicit if you are good with smut. In this situation I'm good with either, so I can select both options.

If I wanted no smut whatsoever I could do just Gen (which could also lead to a Mature or Teen work, but excludes E-rated work), and if I definitely wanted there to be dicks out I could select only Explicit.

Then we get to the major archive warnings. This is where you opt-in to archive warnings— it doesn't mean I will necessarily get them, but I'm okay with them! The matching says you might get any one of the things you select here.

Given the source material, I'm opting into Violence and Death as options, and I'm also selecting no warnings apply to show that I'm also good with no major archive warnings! If I was in the 18-plus collection I would also have the option of opting into rape/non-con as an element, but only in that collection.

Now on to the actual request!

There's a space where I could link a letter if I wanted to go into detail with my request, but I think I can fit it in the text box today! You only really need the letter if you want to go into detail or use more formatting than the Ao3 text box includes.

It's very important to include a DNW (do not want) because it lets people know what's off-limits, and if I was signing up on the 18-plus collection I'd include a smut DNW, because there are a lot of things people can be into or not be into and it's a very good idea to give people a heads up.

Okay, on to request two.

As you can see, for request two I'm doing a DSMP fic this time, and I specifically want art or web weaves! I selected emerald duo for the characters, and the fic I want the gift to be based on. And I just want this one to be no shipping, so I only selected Gen for the type of relationship.

I did say graphic violence was okay OR no archive warnings apply, and offered a prompt and a Do Not Want.

On to request three!

This is much like request two, except I only want fic for this one! But it's Dream SMP, Fic requested for my gift, the characters I want (beeduo), the fic I want (catbag), I'm okay with either Gen or shippy, I'm okay with graphic depictions of violence, and my prompt!

Now on to my offers.

I'm gonna start with Stuffed Bird again.

So it's a Hermitcraft fic, I am only able to make fic for it, but you know what, I'll write literally anybody in this world. Hit me. I selected any relationship (which in this case means any CHARACTER). And I selected any TYPE of relationship too— yes I'll write any type of shipping or non-shipping. I will do violence but I'm not good with MCD, so I didn't select that. Remember that if I was in the 18-plus collection I'd also have to say if I was okay with smut or not, but I don't have to bother with that step for the all-ages collection!

For my second request, I opened up catbag.

That's a Dream SMP fic, but this time I only wanted to do specific characters. I set it up so that I'd write any combination of SBI, Beeduo, and Quackity. No shipping for me with this one, but yes I'll do graphic violence.

And then on to odaigahara's fic!

That's a Dream SMP fic, and I think I could make a web weave for that one, so I selected both fic and web weave. I only want to write Emerald Duo for it, so I just selected them. No shipping, only Gen for this one. I don't feel like doing graphic depictions of violence for thisone, so I just selected no archive warnings apply!

For my final one, I really want to make sure that I'm matchable on hermittrafficempires femslash, so I did a bit of a basket offer.

So, I selected every server that would be applicable, and that I would be making fic. I selected all the ladies, including each tag for each server that they're on, and when it came time to select an additional tag, which is what fic I'm saying I'll match on, I selected any. With that and the F/F tag selected, it means that I'll be matchable to any Hermit-Traffic-Empires femslash request, no matter which story or art it's attached to. Cause I figure I can read the source material and make something in the creation time period!