Tagset approvals, some changes, some reminders...

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 Nominations continue over here and will until 11:59pm EST (or realistically later) on July 1. Please get your nominations in! We are very close to beating our personal best for nominations, so let's see if we can do that!

There have been some updates to the rules and they are as follows:

• Minimum duration of a vid has been reduced from two minutes to one minute;
• Maximum requests and offers has been increased to 10, as every year we up it to ten anyway and might as well formalize it;
• The requirement to complete a work if you default after the deadline has been changed from "must" to "may" - this is to allow discretion as it may be that something unexpected came up for you and you had to default.

Also, this is an idea I've been considering for a while, but what are your thoughts on an "NPC account" that you can gift works as well, in circumstances where the prompts for a fandom aren't for what you want to create, or you are the only person requesting this fandom, or you want to do one type of media and all the requests are for another type. Creation would be restricted to fandoms and tags in the tag set. Thoughts?

Finally, if you had to be defaulted by me at deadline either last year or the year before (that is, I had to hit the default button for you at deadline), to participate this year you are required to complete your assignment by the time signups close. Please, if you are in this category, finalize your previous assignment and email me a link when it is done. Thank you!

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I think the NPC account would be a fun thing; some fandoms are tiny and excuses to write/draw for them are welcome. For those who have time to write up extra stories, it could be useful for tags that aren't requested. The main question I have is would gifting to the NPC count for those who default? I think it shouldn't; they should still need to fulfill the original assignment.

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Gifting to the NPC account would not count as finishing your assignment! It's an added fun bonus, that's all.

[halfeatenmoon]

I really like the NPC account idea!