Torigingerfox

Aw thank you so much! I hope you feel the same by the end! 😂😂😭

You are a thing, both beautiful and terrible, and you deserve someone who treats you like the moon and can love the dark side of your soul too.

Or perhaps in Slytherin,

You'll make your real friends,

These cunning folks use any means,

Drum roll, please…

We are so excited to introduce the:

Once Upon a Lifetime Fest

As much as we all love the sexier side of triad and multi ships, sometimes there’s something deliciously satisfying about the more normal aspects of their relationships. 

Our previous fests have focused on earning that E rating, but with the Spring season upon us, the Kinky Crew here at TRS wants to give you all a chance to button up those high collars and show us what happens after the fics typically fade to black. Instead of showing us what happens between the sheets, we want to see everything else!

Do you want to write Harry, Hermione, and Ron buying their first house? Do you want to read Draco, Pansy, and Theo walking down the aisle? Maybe you’re interested in seeing Hermione, Lucius, and Snape take a vacation! If so, this is the fest for you!

We want to fulfill your (not so wild) T-rated dreams!

All prompts will center around various moments in your ship’s lifetime. (i.e. the birth of their first child, holidays, assembling furniture, etc.)

Now onto the nitty, gritty details. 

Because this is such a busy time for the fandom, we’ve set a low word count but will allow multiple submissions (HA!) as long as the first one is posted when the next is claimed. 

Important Dates:

March 1 - Claiming Opens

March 31 - Submissions Due

April 3 - Reveals Begin

Rules:

Must include 3+ characters. (Opening to any and all pairings.)

Stories must not be rated higher than T. (This means ZERO smut. Zip. Zilch. Nada.)

Stories must meet a 1k minimum word count. No maximum word count.

Stories must be considered complete by the end of the fest. No ongoing multichapters will be part of the collection unless they are posted in their entirety during the fest dates.

Each prompt may only be claimed ONCE.

You may only claim ONE prompt at a time. 

To claim any additional prompts, your current prompt must be fulfilled and submitted to the collection on Ao3 and an admin must be notified prior to claiming another one. 

Smut isn’t the only thing to earn the M or E rating. Because of the T rating, triggering topics should be limited. If you choose to include triggering topics, you MUST utilize Ao3’s standard tagging and warning system. Non-con, dub-con, or heavy themes that may require a higher rating than T will NOT be allowed. If you have any questions, please PM a member of the Kinky Crew.

All rules and deadlines can be found in this Google Document!

Stay tuned for more information before claiming begins!

Admin - @ms-merlinblack​ - Questionnaire 

Admin - @dreamsofdramione​ (aka - @bugggghead​ ) - Questionnaire 

Content Curator - @lumoslyra​ - Questionnaire 

Event Enthusiast - @torigingerfox​ - Questionnaire 

Graphics Guru - Ian - Questionnaire

Graphics Guru - @nuclearnik​ - Questionnaire

Membership Manager - @botwp​ - Questionnaire 

New Romantics by @ms-merlinblack​ [ X ]

“File-sharing” is not people peddling stolen stories in a dark alley as a very few loud voices would have us believe. It is literally sharing stories with others who want to read them. Back in the early fandom days, stories were hand-written and distributed. Then came fanzines. Early internet days, fans printed whole stories and kept them in binders, passing them to friends in the hallways at school. Sharing stories is literally what fandom is built on.

“But what about the authors?” you may ask. If I don’t ask an author’s permission before sending my friend a link to the story on FFN or AO3, I’m not going to ask for the permission to send my friend my PDF or ePub of the same story. Just like I don’t ask for an author’s permission before sharing my books with others. Also, think about this. Safe/everythursday had been gone from fandom and social media for a few years before Hawthorn & Vine went down. If it weren’t for those gosh awful file-sharing thieves, fans would never be able to read The Fallout again. Or Parade of the Sun. Or For Whom the Bell Tolls. You get my point.

Don’t buy into the hype. Being against file-sharing is a new (and incredibly minority) belief that only exists in small sunsets of this fandom, and it’s time that mindset died out.

Signed,

“File-sharing” is not people peddling stolen stories in a dark alley as a very few loud voices would have us believe. It is literally sharing stories with others who want to read them. Back in the early fandom days, stories were hand-written and distributed. Then came fanzines. Early internet days, fans printed whole stories and kept them in binders, passing them to friends in the hallways at school. Sharing stories is literally what fandom is built on.

“But what about the authors?” you may ask. If I don’t ask an author’s permission before sending my friend a link to the story on FFN or AO3, I’m not going to ask for the permission to send my friend my PDF or ePub of the same story. Just like I don’t ask for an author’s permission before sharing my books with others. Also, think about this. Safe/everythursday had been gone from fandom and social media for a few years before Hawthorn & Vine went down. If it weren’t for those gosh awful file-sharing thieves, fans would never be able to read The Fallout again. Or Parade of the Sun. Or For Whom the Bell Tolls. You get my point.

Don’t buy into the hype. Being against file-sharing is a new (and incredibly minority) belief that only exists in small sunsets of this fandom, and it’s time that mindset died out.

Signed,

Nope.

Honestly, not long ago Bex-Chan was able to recover one of her fics she had accidentally lost THANKS to someone who had downloaded a copy.

File sharing is theft.

If you are doing it against the creators explicit wishes — as anyone is with mine — you are violating their consent.

And I’m not “one of those people” because you have no bloody idea of the kind of person I am. I am a creator, I am pro-file sharing of my works as well, I practice what I preach. Also, if it helps you sleep at night, I don’t have any of your stories saved.

Nope.

Honestly, not long ago Bex-Chan was able to recover one of her fics she had accidentally lost THANKS to someone who had downloaded a copy.

Nope.