drop_the_not | Entries tagged with mod post

Here are instructions for posting your fic to the Drop the Not! collection.

Go to the Drop the Not! collection and find the prompt you claimed.
Click the "Fulfill" button. This will open the Post New Work form; the text of the prompt will be automatically added to the Notes section and the collection will be automatically selected.
Complete the information for your fic as normal (rating, warnings, title, etc.).
Under "Associations," check the box for "This work is a remix, a translation, a podfic, or was inspired by another work." Paste the "Link to Oral Not!Fic Audio" link from the prompt you're fulfilling into the "URL" box.
1. If the oral not!fic audio link is an AO3 work, the other fields will fill in automatically.
2. If the oral not!fic audio link is NOT an AO3 work, fill in the other fields manually. For "Author", put the name(s) of the oral not!ficcer(s).
Add your work text, preview, fix anything that needs fixing, and post!

We mods will check for length, absence of DNWs, requested rating (if applicable), and other rules before approving the fic. It will be unrevealed until Monday, May 23 at 10am US Central Time. If you need to find your fic before then, go to your works, then click on "Works in Collections."

Fics are due on Monday, May 16 at 10am US Central Time. If you don't think you can finish, or if you have any questions, please contact us mods.

Hi again not!fic enthusiasts! After a moderately successful and highly fun round 1 of Drop the Not in 2021, we're back with another round for 2022.

For those of you who are new or aren't familiar with the challenge, Drop the Not! is a multi-fandom fanwork challenge where authors create written fanworks that are prompted or inspired by oral not!fic.

An oral not!fic is a type of podfic not based on existing text, such as a fic. It is often improvisational or conversational in tone.

This challenge follows the idea of reverse big bangs and prompt communities, but puts a unique spin on things. Here's how it works:

Oral not!ficcers submit their prompts or inspiration in the form of oral!not fic, and writers claim individual oral not!fics and create a story inspired by the not!fic. The claiming period happens over three weeks, and then writers have five weeks to write a minimum of 1k based on or inspired by the not!fic. In some cases, the oral not!fic may be very detailed and follow specific plot lines with specific characters and in some cases the oral not!fic may be more general, similar to the "I wish someone would write me a fic where..." prompts on Tumblr.

Not!fic can be as detailed or general as the creator likes, but we do ask that writers clearly honour the spirit of the not!fic to the best of their ability. This means that things like fandom, characters, and setting should be similar. We won’t be policing how writers are inspired, or how they take the prompt, and the work an author produces may be very similar or radically different from the podfic they received. That’s part of the joy!

New for 2022! One of our goals is to create new fanworks, both oral not!fics and written fics, so this year we're strongly encouraging participants to submit new works that have never been posted anywhere publicly for this challenge. This isn't an official rule (yet), but we ask that you make every effort to honour this and create new content everyone can enjoy!

This challenge was inspired by the remixapod challenge. We sincerely thank the Remixapod mods for their encouragement and advice!

Check out our AO3 collection here!

Authors: Your mods have created an example if you’d like to see one. We’re in no way holding you to the same style or level of detail, but wanted to provide this if needed. Feel free to put your own interpretation and spin on the challenge. We're so excited to see what you all create!

Challenge Timeline:

Monday, March 14 - Monday, April 4: Not!Ficcers submit not!fics
Monday, March 21 - Monday, April 11: Authors claim not!fics
Thursday, April 28: Author Check in
Monday, May 16: Fics Due
Monday, May 23: Fics Revealed

Rules are largely the same as last year, with a few adjustments, so please review the rules below before before signing up.

Note that we have added an author check-in at 2.5 weeks into the fic writing period. We will be contacting you with the contact information in your AO3 profiles, so please either fill those out (don't forget to add your transformative works statements!) or send us an email at dropthenot.mod@gmail.com with that info.

Rules:

1. All fandoms are welcome. This includes RPF.

2. Oral Not!Ficcers can submit up to five oral not!fics of any length. We cannot guarantee that any of your not!fics will be claimed.

3. When submitting a not!fic, please specify DNWs, hard triggers, and other rating requests (e.g. Teen or below) in the "description" box. This will allow your author to write a fic you will be able to read without getting triggered.

4. New for 2022. Oral Not!Ficcers can re-submit oral not!fics that weren't claimed in the previous challenge AS LONG AS you also submit at least one new, never-before-submitted work (see above about generating new fanworks!).

5. Authors may claim one not!fic at a time; in other words, you may drop a claim on a not!fic and claim another one in a claiming period.

6. Each fic must be at least 1000 words long. There is no maximum length.

7. When writing your fic, please avoid DNWs and other hard triggers listed in the "description" box (if any). If the "description" box includes a rating request, please respect it; for example, if the not!ficcer has specified Teen or below, then please do your best to keep the fic Teen or below.

8. There is to be no bashing of fandoms, ships, characters, tropes, kinks, and/or creators. If you engage in hate or character bashing, the mods will ban your participation and remove your work from the collection. That said, we recognise that there can be a lot of harmful content in fandoms or canons, and we want people to feel safe naming and critiquing racist, ableist, or otherwise oppressive content within canon or fandom without fearing banning, If you are unsure whether something crosses the line from criticism to bashing, please feel free to contact us for more guidance, and if you do include critical content in your fanwork, please tag accordingly.

9. Please use the Archive warnings as they apply. Alternatively, if you choose not to warn, please use the "Choose Not to Warn" option instead of the "No Archive Warnings Apply" option, as they mean different things.

For more, see our FAQ post here!

Hi all! We're excited to announce that the challenge has been completed for this year and our amazing participants have created a grand total of 28 new oral not!fics, with 5 of them receiving associated written works. A sincere thank you to all of you who participated, whether by creating not!fics, creating written fics, or even just spreading the word about the challenge. This is a first-year challenge, so we mods are thrilled to have so many people join in and create works for the fest and hope even more of you will join us in the future!

To find all the works submitted this year, you can visit our AO3 Collection, or search for "Drop the Not! 2021" on AO3.

Here are links to all the written works, with accompanying links to the oral not!fics that inspired them:

A Lingering Smell

Written by eafay70

Oral not!fic by ItsADrizzit and WhiteHaru37

Fandom: Football RPF - Tottenham Hotspur

Rating: General Audiences

Set A Thief

Written by litra
Oral not!fic by LittleRedRobinHood

Fandom: Leverage, Ant Man (movies)

Rating: General Audiences

Craig and Giarc A Scientific Journal by Arthur Seymour

Written by FandomisOhana
Oral not!fic by CarbonCopies, elaineofshalott, girlwithabubblegun, klb, LittleRedRobinHood, luvtheheaven, reena_jenkins, secretsofluftnarp, silverandblue, wingedwords, wordsaremyfaith

Fandom: Craig the Discord bot
Rating: General Audiences

to blave

Written by reena_jenkins

Oral not!fic by minnabird

Fandom: Star Wars

Rating: General Audiences

Happy Accidents

Written by minnabird

Oral not!fic by reena_jenkins

Fandom: Star Wars

Rating: General Audiences

Thanks so much again to all our creators!

Sonny Pranks Dele

Oral not!fic by ItsADrizzit and WhiteHaru37

Fandom: Football RPF - Tottenham Hotspur

Brandon Williams is Grey Ace

Oral not!fic by eafay70

Fandom: Football RPF - Manchester United

Kalzeb Soulmate Switch

Oral not!fic by litra

Fandom: Star Wars Rebels

The JSA of OZ

Oral not!fic by litra

Fandom: Justice Society of America (Comics)

Boba Fett on Kamino

Oral not!fic by litra

Fandom: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008)

Rebel Lyste

Oral not!fic by litra

Fandom: Star Wars: Rebels

Jaskier's Poetry
Oral not!fic by litra

Fandom: Wiedźmin | The Witcher (Video Game)

Chirpy Couchsurfs
Oral not!fic by eafay70

Fandom: Men's Football RPF -- Tottenham Hotspur

Sew the Dress, Save the Universe

Oral not!fic by Aether, caminante, klb, TheArcher

Fandom: The Adventure Zone

Basketball and Mashed Potatoes

Oral not!fic by canarypods, Elle_dubs, esbielle, klb, mahons_ondine, and semperfiona

Fandom: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), High School Musical (Movies)

Sera and Dagna Raise Bees for Science

Oral not!fic by WhiteHaru37

Fandom: Dragon Age: Inquisition

The Story of Craig

Oral not!fic by carboncopies, elaineofshalott, girlwithabubblegun, klb, LittleRedRobinHood, luvtheheaven, reena_jenkins, secretsofluftnarp, silverandblue, wingedwords, wordsaremyfaith
Fandom: Craig the Discord bot

Trolley is a TARDIS

Oral not!fic by aethel, elaineofshalott, klb, luvtheheaven, reena_jenkins, secretsofluftnarp, wingedwords

Fandom: Daniel Tiger's Neighbourhood, Doctor Who

Girl Scout Cookies!
Oral not!fic by aethel, blackglass, girlwithabubblegun, LittleRedRobinHood, silverandblue, VioletEmerald

Fandom: Girl Scout Cookies

Leverage/Ant-Man Crossover

Oral not!fic by LittleRedRobinHood

Fandom: Leverage, Ant Man

Team Bonding

Oral not!fic by LittleRedRobinHood

Fandom: Men's Hockey RPF

West Ham Band

Oral not!fic by eafay70

Fandom: Men's Football RPF -- Manchester United

Carlos and the Other Phantoms

Oral not!fic by canarypods, klb, mistbornhero, reena_jenkins

Fandom: Julie and the Phantoms (TV 2020), WandaVision (TV)

Star Wars Secret Relationship Shenanigans

Oral not!fic by MelancholyMorningstar

Fandom: Star Wars

Geister

Oral not!fic by eafay70

Fandom: Men's Football RPF - SV Werder Bremen

USMNT BuLi Group Chat

Oral not!fic by eafay70

Fandom: Men's Football RPF - USMNT

Destiel Cured and Smoked Meats

Oral not!fic by WhiteHaru37

Fandom: Supernatural

Prince Dominic Thiem and the Fight Against Ocean Plastic

Oral not!fic by ItsADrizzit and WhiteHaru37

Fandom: Tennis RPF

I Feel It In My Bones

Oral not!fic by silverandblue

Fandom: Original Work - Skeletons

Jabba's Place

Oral not!fic by minnabird

Fandom: Star Wars Original Trilogy

The Red-Headed League Job

Oral not!fic by minnabird

Fandom: Leverage

Sir Juan Martin Saves a Wedding

Oral not!fic by eafay70, ItsADrizzit, and WhiteHaru37

Fandom: Tennis RPF

Din Djarin Travels To The Clone Wars And Doesn't Realize It (Because He Doesn't Know Anything)
Oral not!fic by reena_jenkins

Fandom: Star Wars, The Mandalorian (TV), Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008)

Thanks so much again to all our creators!

Here are instructions for posting your fic to the Drop the Not! collection.

Go to the Drop the Not! collection and find the prompt you claimed.
Click the "Fulfill" button. This will open the Post New Work form; the text of the prompt will be automatically added to the Notes section and the collection will be automatically selected.
Complete the information for your fic as normal (rating, warnings, title, etc.).
Under "Associations," check the box for "This work is a remix, a translation, a podfic, or was inspired by another work." Paste the "Link to Oral Not!Fic Audio" link from the prompt you're fulfilling into the "URL" box.
1. If the oral not!fic audio link is an AO3 work, the other fields will fill in automatically.
2. If the oral not!fic audio link is NOT an AO3 work, fill in the other fields manually. For "Author", put the name(s) of the oral not!ficcer(s).
Add your work text, preview, fix anything that needs fixing, and post!

We mods will check for length, absence of DNWs, requested rating (if applicable), and other rules before approving the fic. It will be unrevealed until Monday, May 24 at 10am US Central Time. If you need to find your fic before then, go to your works, then click on "Works in Collections."

Fics are due on Monday, May 17 at 10am US Central Time. If you don't think you can finish, or if you have any questions, please contact us mods.

Can I submit an oral not!fic that already exists as a podfic of a written not!fic? (The not!fic already exists in text form.)
No. If the written not!fic already exists and has been published somewhere (AO3, DW, LJ, Tumblr, Twitter, etc.) then you cannot submit the oral!not fic for the challenge, since there is already a written work version of the not!fic.
Can I submit a pre-existing oral not!fic for the exchange as long as there is no written text?
Yes, but... If the oral not!fic already exists somewhere, but is not posted anywhere as a written not!fic (exists as original audio not!fic only) you may submit it to the fest, but we are strongly encouraging participants to create new content for this fest rather than posting oral not!fic that has previously been posted somewhere.
Do I need to create a written transcript of the audio for accessibility when posting my oral not!fic?
No, although you can if you choose to. (See the following question!)
Can I create a transcript of the audio for accessibility when posting my oral not!fic?
Yes, as long as the transcript is just the conversational audio in transcribed form and you specify that you're submitting the prompt this way somewhere in your signup.
Can I leave the characters/fandom/other details unspecified in my oral not!fic?
Yes. Your oral not!fic can be as specific or as general as you would like. If you just want someone to write you any story with a specific trope, you can submit that. If you want to submit a detailed oral not!fic with very specific details (understanding that the author is not obligated to honour all of them) you can do so.

To sign up as a not!ficcer, please fill out the signup form on AO3. Most elements are optional, but may be helpful to your author. We've allowed you to select up to two ratings in case you're not entirely sure what rating best suits your not!fic.

You can submit up to five not!fics of any length.

Please specify DNWs, hard triggers, and other rating requests (e.g. Teen or below) in the "description" box. This will allow your author to write a fic you will be able to read without getting triggered.

Drop the Not! is a multi-fandom fanwork challenge where authors create written fanworks that are prompted or inspired by oral not!fic.

An oral not!fic is a type of podfic not based on existing text, such as a fic. It is often improvisational or conversational in tone.

This challenge follows the idea of reverse big bangs and prompt communities, but puts a unique spin on things. Here's how it works:

remixapod challenge. We sincerely thank the Remixapod mods for their encouragement and advice!

Check out our AO3 collection here!

Authors: Your mods have created an example if you’d like to see one. We’re in no way holding you to the same style or level of detail, but wanted to provide this if needed. Feel free to put your own interpretation and spin on the challenge. We're so excited to see what you all create!

Challenge Timeline:

Monday, March 15 - Monday, April 5: Not!Ficcers submit not!fics
Monday, March 22 - Monday, April 12: Authors claim not!fics
Monday, May 17 (10am US Central Time): Fics Due
Monday, May 24 (10am US Central Time): Fics Revealed

Rules:

1. All fandoms are welcome. This includes RPF.

2. Oral Not!Ficcers can submit up to five oral not!fics of any length. We cannot guarantee that any of your not!fics will be claimed.

3. When submitting a not!fic, please specify DNWs, hard triggers, and other rating requests (e.g. Teen or below) in the "description" box. This will allow your author to write a fic you will be able to read without getting triggered.

4. Authors may claim one not!fic at a time; in other words, you may drop a claim on a not!fic and claim another one in a claiming period.

5. Each fic must be at least 1000 words long. There is no maximum length.

6. When writing your fic, please avoid DNWs and other hard triggers listed in the "description" box (if any). If the "description" box includes a rating request, please respect it; for example, if the not!ficcer has specified Teen or below, then please do your best to keep the fic Teen or below.

7. There is to be no bashing of fandoms, ships, characters, tropes, kinks, and/or creators. If you engage in hate or character bashing, the mods will ban your participation and remove your work from the collection. That said, we recognise that there can be a lot of harmful content in fandoms or canons, and we want people to feel safe naming and critiquing racist, ableist, or otherwise oppressive content within canon or fandom without fearing banning, If you are unsure whether something crosses the line from criticism to bashing, please feel free to contact us for more guidance, and if you do include critical content in your fanwork, please tag accordingly.

8. Please use the Archive warnings as they apply. Alternatively, if you choose not to warn, please use the "Choose Not to Warn" option instead of the "No Archive Warnings Apply" option, as they mean different things.

For more, see our FAQ post here!