2009 Hetalia Sunshine Sign Up Post - CLOSED

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Welcome to the Sign Up post for Hetalia Sunshine 2009--a fanworks exchange for the brighter side of Hetalia! If you have not read the introductory post and guidelines, please hop over there first.

( Sign-ups for 2009 are now closed! )

Hetalia Sunshine Fanworks Exchange: introduction, guidelines, & timeline

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Welcome to the comm for The Hetalia Sunshine Fanworks Exchange! As the name implies, this ficathon/artathon is for the sunnier side of Hetalia: the brightness, the joy, the sweetness, the laughter, the tenderness, the love, the warmth. Prompts revolving around romance, friendship, family, and gen situations (single character or multiple characters) are equally encouraged. In keeping with our theme, we ask only that all requests and all fills focus on the sunny side of Hetalia. ♥


GUIDELINES

• Hetalia Sunshine is open to fic and art. If you have something else in mind to do and aren't sure if it falls under either category, please send an email to hetalia.sunshine [at] gmail.
  
• All participants are welcome. A livejournal account is not required. (More details in the Sign Up post.)
  
• All characters are welcome.
  
• Gen, friendship, and romance of all flavors are welcome.
  
• All ratings are welcome. (When you sign up, you'll be able to specify any ratings limitations for your own request and for what you're willing to write/draw.)
  
• Requirements for fic: minimum 1,000 words; no maximum.
  
• Requirements for art: none.

HOW IT WORKS

• Go to the Sign Up post and make your request. (More details there.) ETA: sign-ups for 2010 are closed.
  
• Assignments will be sent by email (see below for timeline).
  
• You have until the deadline listed below to write/draw/create your fill and email it to hetalia.sunshine [at] gmail.
  
• Posting to the comm will begin 2 days after fills are due (see below for timeline). This gives us a day to send everyone their gift personally before we start sharing in the comm.
  
• Happiness ensues!

TIMELINE/DEADLINES

• Sign-ups open: June 4, 2010
  
• Sign-ups close: June 18, 2010 @ 11:59 pm PT (this countdown timer will tell you how much time is left, regardless of your time zone) ETA: sign-ups are now closed!
  
• Assignments sent: June 20, 2010 June 27, 2010
  
• Fic/Art due (emailed to hetalia.sunshine [at] gmail: August 20, 2010 by 11:59 pm PT (this countdown timer will tell you how much time is left, regardless of your time zone).
  
• Sunshine Day (gift fills emailed to recipients): August 21, 2010.
  
• Posting in the comm begins: August 22, 2010 (not before then, please!). Please see this post for additional details.
  
• Posting for the main round ends: September 12, 2010.

DROPPING OUT

• If you need to drop out for any reason, please let us know as soon as possible! We want this to be fun for everyone and we want to make sure everyone who participates gets something, so we'll have pinch hitters standing by. If you wait until the day before to drop out, that's kind of unfair to your recipient as well as to the pinch hitter who will be scrambling to get something done. These things happen, so if you find you need to drop out, please email hetalia.sunshine [at] gmail.

OTHER THINGS, in the form of a Mini-FAQ:

Q: Will we know the name of our recipient when we get our assignments?
A: Yes. The name might be a pseudonym for those choosing to participate anonymously, but you'll have a name. For non-anonymous participants with LJ accounts, you'll also get that so you can look around and get ideas about things they might like that weren't specified in their requests. They might even write you an open letter at their LJ. You don't have to check them out, of course, and even if you do, you aren't bound by anything you see there.


Q: When stories are posted, will we know the name of the author or artist right away, or will there be a period of anonymity and then a reveal?
A: You'll know right away. As above, the name might be a pseudonym for those choosing to participate anonymously.


Q: Does that mean we'll know the name of the author or artist who did our fill when you email it to us?
A: Nope! Identifying information will be removed before being sent, so the "reveal" will be when it's posted to the comm.


Q: What about all those awesome requests that don't get filled? Will they die ignoble deaths?
A: That certainly wouldn't be in the spirit of this exchange, would it? No ignoble deaths, though also no guarantees of fills. My idea is that once all the fills have been posted, I'll make a post of all the requests that haven't been filled, and then it'll be a free-for-all. No claiming, no requirements, no deadline. Free-for-all fills can be posted at any time to the comm, and wherever else you like as well.


Q: I have a problem with some/all of this.
A: As the end of the saying goes, you can't please all of the people all of the time. I'm just trying to make as many people as possible happy for as much of the time as possible. If you have any suggestions on how to improve the proposed system, by all means please comment here. Thank you! ♥

We'd love it if you'd help spread the word. The more, the merrier! ♥


If you have any questions, please check the here to make sure they haven't been answered there. Otherwise, please leave a comment or email Miaou @ hetalia.sunshine [at] gmail.