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The signup deadline approaches
Signups will close at 10 p.m. Eastern Time today, which is twenty hours from the time on this post.
Now is a great time to:
1) Make yourself matchable. That specifically refers to having an offer that matches someone else's request. Since people can change and delete their signups at the last minute, it's best to find at least two or three people you can create for. If no one is offering what you're requesting, that's fine; you'll go up for pinch hit. But you must be able to create for another participant in order to participate in the exchange.
2) For each individual request, make sure you'd be happy with receiving a work featuring any combination of the ships and freeforms on that request, and any non-DNW'd application of freeform to ship. Don't assume your creator will agree with you on what's "obvious"; if your ST:TOS request has Kirk/Spock and Spock/Uhura along with Plot-Fixing Accidental Pregnancy, your creator might have their heart set on that accidental pregnancy happening to Kirk and/or Spock. If that's what you'd like too, great! If not, you might want to move Spock/Uhura and any pregnancy tags to their own request (and DNW mpreg just in case).
3) Get your DNWs in good shape. That means not having vague or subjective DNWs (like "gross stuff" or "hard kinks") and not having DNWs that unreasonably box in your creator (like "DNW any character being less than seven feet tall") or make it impossible to fulfill your request (like "DNW incest" for a request with an incestuous ship).
4) Make sure any letter hosted elsewhere is complete and visible by the time assignments go out. Letters aren't required, and the information in them isn't binding, but they can be very helpful to your creator if you want to share more information than will fit in the signup form.
IPQ honors Do Not Match requests. Email idficmod@gmail.com before signups close if you want to ask us not to match you with a particular other participant. Please let us know:
Now is a great time to:
1) Make yourself matchable. That specifically refers to having an offer that matches someone else's request. Since people can change and delete their signups at the last minute, it's best to find at least two or three people you can create for. If no one is offering what you're requesting, that's fine; you'll go up for pinch hit. But you must be able to create for another participant in order to participate in the exchange.
2) For each individual request, make sure you'd be happy with receiving a work featuring any combination of the ships and freeforms on that request, and any non-DNW'd application of freeform to ship. Don't assume your creator will agree with you on what's "obvious"; if your ST:TOS request has Kirk/Spock and Spock/Uhura along with Plot-Fixing Accidental Pregnancy, your creator might have their heart set on that accidental pregnancy happening to Kirk and/or Spock. If that's what you'd like too, great! If not, you might want to move Spock/Uhura and any pregnancy tags to their own request (and DNW mpreg just in case).
3) Get your DNWs in good shape. That means not having vague or subjective DNWs (like "gross stuff" or "hard kinks") and not having DNWs that unreasonably box in your creator (like "DNW any character being less than seven feet tall") or make it impossible to fulfill your request (like "DNW incest" for a request with an incestuous ship).
4) Make sure any letter hosted elsewhere is complete and visible by the time assignments go out. Letters aren't required, and the information in them isn't binding, but they can be very helpful to your creator if you want to share more information than will fit in the signup form.
IPQ honors Do Not Match requests. Email idficmod@gmail.com before signups close if you want to ask us not to match you with a particular other participant. Please let us know:
- whether it's for creating, receiving, or both
- what you would like us to do if that participant offers to pick up your pinch hit
- what you would like us to do if that participant creates a treat for you