[ADMIN] Rules & FAQ

[darjeeling]

COMMUNITY RULES • Please read this whole FAQ before joining! If you have any questions, please address them here. • Challenges are posted on Wednesday and participants submit their entries through the week. Each week's challenge closes on Monday night at 9:00PM EST (or as close as the mod can make it, life allowing) and a voting post is made. The voting takes place through Tuesday and Wednesday until 9PM EST, with winners announced Wednesday night or Thursday morning when the new challenge goes up. • The maximum word count for each entry is 1000 words. You can use this site or any number of programs to stay inside this limit. (We do allow for very minor variances due to programs differentiating by a word or two.) There is no minimum word count. • Any fictional fandom is acceptable, including original universes. Crossovers between fandoms are fine. • Please note that we do NOT accept Real Person fiction in any format. Any historical figure who has a fandom interpretation is completely fine for writing about in the context of that canon, so Henry VIII from The Tudors (2007) is acceptable, but writing about the actual Henry VIII straight out of real history would not be. Likewise, fiction about celebrities, musicians, sports figures, etc are not acceptable. • Don't showcase your submissions anywhere, including your personal journal or fanfic communities, Fanfiction.net, or AO3, before voting closes and the announcement of the winners is made. If you're found to be previewing your entries elsewhere, your entry will be disqualified. Once the winner's post goes up for that week, you can post your entry anywhere you like, and if you have an AO3 account, we encourage you to submit it to our collection there! • If posting more than one entry per challenge, use the same journal to post both. Anyone found circumventing this rule will be banned. • You cannot use a previously published piece of your fiction, even if the theme fits. All entries must be written new, during the challenge week. • Ratings from G through R are allowed, there are to be no NC-17 entries. Keep it tasteful. Label your entries appropriately with any warnings for content. When relevant, please be courteous and indicate spoiler warnings for newer fandoms. • Please do your best to eliminate any grammatical and spelling errors in your entries before posting them. • Stay on topic! Do not post memes, advertisements, random spam posts, or anything of that nature in this community. If you do, you will have your posting access revoked. If you are interested in promoting fandomweekly in your own journals, we have some codes available HERE. • No flaming or bashing of any author will be tolerated, and will result in the offender being banned from the community. • If you want to affiliate with this community, please leave a comment here. Challenge or fandom communities only; no personal journals. • Be creative and have fun! THEMES AND BONUS GOALS • Every challenge will have a central theme that should reflect in the fic. These themes are open to interpretation, but the general idea of them should come through. • Each challenge will also have a Bonus Goal to incorporate into the fic. This could be a given line of dialogue to include, a specific type of place that the story has to be set in, or other types of specific limitations. These bonus goals are NOT required to be part of the entry, but including them will earn a reward (see below). • For Bonus Goals, while they will sometimes include a specific phrase, we do allow for very minor alterations in the wording where it's needed to fit the fandom. For example, if the phrase was, "Give me all the coffee" but you were writing for Star Trek: Deep Space 9, it could be "Give me all the raktajino" and that would be fine. Likewise if a phrase like "It's something you'll enjoy doing" can be written as "It is something you will enjoy doing" if you have a character that doesn't use contractions. ENTRY SUBMISSION • You can submit up to 2 entries per challenge. If submitting two works for a challenge, please post each completed theme as a separate entry, for tagging and voting reasons. • All works must use the posting format on the community profile. • All entries, whether for challenge or amnesty rounds, must be made public and not locked to the community. • Do not link your submissions to another journal/community (no fake cuts!), they must be posted to this community. • TITLE your posts with the following format: [#000] Story Title (Fandom) EX: [#007] Long Way Home (Marvel's Agent Carter) • TAG your posts with the correct challenge tag, which will be in the tags list: EX: 007 - traveling VOTING & POINTS • Voting takes place over Tuesday and Wednesday of each week. Votes are submitted as screened comments to the voting post, which has a list of links to all submissions for that week. • You cannot vote for your own work. Voting cannot be made anonymously. You must entirely fill out your voting card for your vote to count; you can't vote for just a single entry and no others. You must vote for 3 separate entries, you can't cast votes for the same entry for multiple places. • Votes are cast for people's first, second, and third place choices. A first place vote is worth 3 points, a second worth 2 points, and a third worth 1 point. The entry with the most votes will win first, second etc etc. • Completing the Bonus Goal for that week earns an extra 1 point on that entry. • If there are more than five (5) entries per challenge, there will be first, second, and third place winners selected. If there are less than five (5) entries per challenge, there will only be a first place winner and a runner-up selected. • Winners are posted in the main community after the voting has closed.

Comments

[skyblue_reverie]

Just found this comm and submitted my first entry. Can I pimp the comm on my journal? Or would that be too much like showcasing my entry here?

Thanks!

[fanweeklymod]

Hi there! You can absolutely pimp the comm on your journal, as long as you link to the comm as a whole rather than just to your entry. As long as the link goes to fandomweekly in general (and not to a specific post), all the fics will get the same amount of advertising from the post, so it's fine by me.

And welcome! Thanks for joining us!

[skyblue_reverie]

Awesome, thanks, and pimpage accomplished! :D

Er, not to be a bother, but I tried the invite link for discord and it doesn't work. Expired maybe? Is there a way to get another? I have never used discord before, so I am excited.

Thank you for moderating!

[fanweeklymod]

No bother at all! Thanks for letting me know--I just tried it and apparently it is expired. Sorry about that. I'll need to message the previous mod and see about getting an updated link; I'm not currently in the server, so I can't generate one.

If not, I may need to create a new server and post an updated link, but I have no problem doing that. Thanks again for telling me!

[skyblue_reverie]

Yeah, if you don't mind, I'd love either an updated link or an invite to a new server! Looking forward to it. :)

[fanweeklymod]

Looks like the server wasn't used at the time, so it's no longer active; I'll need to create a new one. I'll probably make a post tonight/tomorrow to gauge interest, since it didn't get a lot last time, and for now I'll remove the old link from the promo posts.

[skyblue_reverie]

Cool, sounds good!