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camelotremix is Sunday, April 13, just ten short days away!
We've sent emails to those of you who have not responded to the Check In posts on DW or LJ. If you do not respond to the email or the check in by midnight EST TOMORROW, FRIDAY, APRIL 4, we will assume you are no longer participating and will assign your remixee to a pinch hitter. This is mostly to make sure that everyone participating receives a remix, but also for our sanity so we're not biting our nails to the last minute wondering if someone is participating or has fallen off the face of the earth. (There's no shame in needing to drop out. We understand that things happen. If that's the case, please just tell us so we don't have to deal with the guilt and angst.)
Now, on to the less angsty stuff...
Short version:
1. Go to the Camelot Remix 2014 collection and click on the Post to Collection button.
2. Fill out all the relevant fields on the form, including checking the remix box, and filling in your remixee’s name as a recipient. Copy and paste the text of your work into the Work Text box.
3. Click on Preview (bottom right, below the text box for the story) and make sure everything displays the way you want it. If you need to change something, click on Edit. Edit, Preview, and repeat.
4. Click on Post (bottom right) when you’re ready to post!
You’ll be able to see your own story and you can make changes any time, but the stories won’t go public until the mods flip the switch. The latest this will happen is Sunday, April 20. (It will be whenever we have a remix for everybody.)
If you like visuals, there’s a nice simple Tutorial on posting to a challenge at the AO3, which has screencaps. (Just ignore the part about “My Signups” - since we didn’t do signups there, it doesn’t apply.)
Rating General Audiences corresponds to G and PG, Teen to PG-13, etc.
Warnings The system defaults to checking “Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings” box, but most of us will want to uncheck that and then check whatever warnings are needed or “No Archive Warnings Apply”. (If you want to warn for something other than the things on this list, you can do it later on, in Additional Tags or Add Notes.)
Fandom Start typing in the name of the fandom and the Archive will suggest autofills. Most of us will either use Merlin (BBC) or Merlin (BBC) RPF. If you’re doing a crossover, list both/all fandoms, separated by commas.
Category Label it as femslash, gen, etc. You can check one or several of these categories, and use “Multi” for a story with multiple kinds of relationships. “Other” is usually for relationships that don’t fit any of the regular categories, such as Uther/tentacles, Merlin/Arthur’s armour, or Freya/Excalibur. :)
Relationships List the main pairing(s) or other ships. If you type slowly these will autofill. The system generally prefers that characters’ names be in alphabetical order, but if they’re not it will still work.
Characters The main characters’ names, separated by commas. Tip: Use “Arthur Pendragon” and “Gwen (Guinevere)” so your character tags don’t get confused with Inception and Torchwood ones.
Additional Tags OMG choosing the freeform tags is my favorite part of posting to the AO3! Use these to label your story in ways that will help people find it. These could be genres, themes, kinks or sexual acts, or lots of other things. Check out the most popular tags cloud at the AO3 for ideas. You can also start typing in words to see what the system comes up with. (“Canonical tags” are common ones that can be used for filtering, and they show up with capital letters.) I suggest starting with “Remix”. Here are some others that might come in handy: “Alternate Universe”, “Alternate Universe - Modern Setting”, “First Time”, “Friendship”, “Future Fic”, “Hurt/Comfort”, “Magic”, “Reveal”, “Queer Themes”, “Season/Series 01”, “Threesome”, “Women Being Awesome”.
Work Title Oh, I guess we haven’t said anything about funky remix subtitles, which are strongly encouraged but not required. Okay, the traditional form of remix titles goes like this: “Title (The Funky Subtitle Remix)”. You can use the original story’s title for your main title or the funky remix subtitle, or use two new titles. Some people like to use other musical terms like “Dance Mix” or “Overdub”. Besides being fun (and I say this as someone who usually hates coming up with fic titles), funky remix titles are useful in that they make it obvious to anyone glancing at a list of your fics that this one is a remix. Here’s a link to a meta post and discussion about funky remix subtitles, in case this paragraph wasn’t enough for you.
Add co-authors? Don’t check this. There's a specific space for the remixee's name later.
Summary Summaries are really helpful for readers!
Add notes Author’s notes are optional. Check one of the boxes and a text box will show up. Best to leave out beta thanks and other notes that might give away who you are. Remember, these fics will be anonymous for the first week, but you can go back and edit any of this later.
Fulfill an Assignment/Is this to fulfill a challenge assignment? Skip this part. Since we did signups here on LJ/DW, your assignment isn’t in the system.
Post to Collections/Challenges This field should say CamelotRemix2014. If it doesn’t, type it in. This is very important!
Recipient(s): (if this work is a gift) Although a remix isn’t technically a gift, you should fill in your recipient’s name here so that they’ll get a notification when the fic becomes public. We will post the list of AO3 usernames of remix participants after assignments go out.
This work is a remix, a translation, or was inspired by another work Check this box! Other boxes will open up for you to paste in the URL of the story you’re remixing. If you link to a story already on the AO3, the system will automatically show the author name and title, and readers can get to it in one click. If you link to a story on LJ or another site, you need to fill in the author’s name and title, and readers will get to it in two clicks. (So, if you’ve been reading your remixee’s fics on their journal but you know they’re also posted at the AO3, an AO3 link is slightly better, but it’s not a big deal.)
[You can probably skip the next five items.]
This is the big text box where you put the text of your story. The default is html, for people who code in their own italics tags and such. If you want to copy and paste formatted text, click on Rich text (top left corner of the box). Then, if you’re copying and pasting from Microsoft Word, click on the W icon (top left) and a smaller window will pop up.
And then you hit Preview, Edit, and Post!
Please email your submission to camelotremix at gmail dot com as an attachement to the email in either doc, docx, txt, rtf format, or link to the work on Google Drive. Please include the header mentioned below with your email.
ALL PARTICIPANTS must email camelotremix at gmail dot com with the following header once the work is posted to the AO3 or emailed: Please note that under "Work URL" we ONLY want the URL, not a link! If a mod is posting to the community on your behalf, no URL is needed.
Questions? Your mods will do their best to answer. The AO3 support team is also there to help. As always, if you want to contact us privately, you can e-mail us at camelotremix at gmail dot com.
camelotremix/camelotremix is Sunday, April 13, just ten short days away!We've sent emails to those of you who have not responded to the Check In posts on DW or LJ. If you do not respond to the email or the check in by midnight EST TOMORROW, FRIDAY, APRIL 4, we will assume you are no longer participating and will assign your remixee to a pinch hitter. This is mostly to make sure that everyone participating receives a remix, but also for our sanity so we're not biting our nails to the last minute wondering if someone is participating or has fallen off the face of the earth. (There's no shame in needing to drop out. We understand that things happen. If that's the case, please just tell us so we don't have to deal with the guilt and angst.)
Now, on to the less angsty stuff...
If you are posting your Remix to the Archive of Our Own (most of you):
Short version:
1. Go to the Camelot Remix 2014 collection and click on the Post to Collection button.
2. Fill out all the relevant fields on the form, including checking the remix box, and filling in your remixee’s name as a recipient. Copy and paste the text of your work into the Work Text box.
3. Click on Preview (bottom right, below the text box for the story) and make sure everything displays the way you want it. If you need to change something, click on Edit. Edit, Preview, and repeat.
4. Click on Post (bottom right) when you’re ready to post!
You’ll be able to see your own story and you can make changes any time, but the stories won’t go public until the mods flip the switch. The latest this will happen is Sunday, April 20. (It will be whenever we have a remix for everybody.)
If you like visuals, there’s a nice simple Tutorial on posting to a challenge at the AO3, which has screencaps. (Just ignore the part about “My Signups” - since we didn’t do signups there, it doesn’t apply.)
Work Tags
(This part is pretty self-explanatory)Rating General Audiences corresponds to G and PG, Teen to PG-13, etc.
Warnings The system defaults to checking “Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings” box, but most of us will want to uncheck that and then check whatever warnings are needed or “No Archive Warnings Apply”. (If you want to warn for something other than the things on this list, you can do it later on, in Additional Tags or Add Notes.)
Fandom Start typing in the name of the fandom and the Archive will suggest autofills. Most of us will either use Merlin (BBC) or Merlin (BBC) RPF. If you’re doing a crossover, list both/all fandoms, separated by commas.
Category Label it as femslash, gen, etc. You can check one or several of these categories, and use “Multi” for a story with multiple kinds of relationships. “Other” is usually for relationships that don’t fit any of the regular categories, such as Uther/tentacles, Merlin/Arthur’s armour, or Freya/Excalibur. :)
Relationships List the main pairing(s) or other ships. If you type slowly these will autofill. The system generally prefers that characters’ names be in alphabetical order, but if they’re not it will still work.
Characters The main characters’ names, separated by commas. Tip: Use “Arthur Pendragon” and “Gwen (Guinevere)” so your character tags don’t get confused with Inception and Torchwood ones.
Additional Tags OMG choosing the freeform tags is my favorite part of posting to the AO3! Use these to label your story in ways that will help people find it. These could be genres, themes, kinks or sexual acts, or lots of other things. Check out the most popular tags cloud at the AO3 for ideas. You can also start typing in words to see what the system comes up with. (“Canonical tags” are common ones that can be used for filtering, and they show up with capital letters.) I suggest starting with “Remix”. Here are some others that might come in handy: “Alternate Universe”, “Alternate Universe - Modern Setting”, “First Time”, “Friendship”, “Future Fic”, “Hurt/Comfort”, “Magic”, “Reveal”, “Queer Themes”, “Season/Series 01”, “Threesome”, “Women Being Awesome”.
Work Preface
(This part’s even easier.)Work Title Oh, I guess we haven’t said anything about funky remix subtitles, which are strongly encouraged but not required. Okay, the traditional form of remix titles goes like this: “Title (The Funky Subtitle Remix)”. You can use the original story’s title for your main title or the funky remix subtitle, or use two new titles. Some people like to use other musical terms like “Dance Mix” or “Overdub”. Besides being fun (and I say this as someone who usually hates coming up with fic titles), funky remix titles are useful in that they make it obvious to anyone glancing at a list of your fics that this one is a remix. Here’s a link to a meta post and discussion about funky remix subtitles, in case this paragraph wasn’t enough for you.
Add co-authors? Don’t check this. There's a specific space for the remixee's name later.
Summary Summaries are really helpful for readers!
Add notes Author’s notes are optional. Check one of the boxes and a text box will show up. Best to leave out beta thanks and other notes that might give away who you are. Remember, these fics will be anonymous for the first week, but you can go back and edit any of this later.
Associations
This part is less obvious!Fulfill an Assignment/Is this to fulfill a challenge assignment? Skip this part. Since we did signups here on LJ/DW, your assignment isn’t in the system.
Post to Collections/Challenges This field should say CamelotRemix2014. If it doesn’t, type it in. This is very important!
Recipient(s): (if this work is a gift) Although a remix isn’t technically a gift, you should fill in your recipient’s name here so that they’ll get a notification when the fic becomes public. We will post the list of AO3 usernames of remix participants after assignments go out.
This work is a remix, a translation, or was inspired by another work Check this box! Other boxes will open up for you to paste in the URL of the story you’re remixing. If you link to a story already on the AO3, the system will automatically show the author name and title, and readers can get to it in one click. If you link to a story on LJ or another site, you need to fill in the author’s name and title, and readers will get to it in two clicks. (So, if you’ve been reading your remixee’s fics on their journal but you know they’re also posted at the AO3, an AO3 link is slightly better, but it’s not a big deal.)
[You can probably skip the next five items.]
Work Text
This is the big text box where you put the text of your story. The default is html, for people who code in their own italics tags and such. If you want to copy and paste formatted text, click on Rich text (top left corner of the box). Then, if you’re copying and pasting from Microsoft Word, click on the W icon (top left) and a smaller window will pop up.
And then you hit Preview, Edit, and Post!
If you do not have an AO3 account and have asked that the mods post to the community on your behalf:
Please email your submission to camelotremix at gmail dot com as an attachement to the email in either doc, docx, txt, rtf format, or link to the work on Google Drive. Please include the header mentioned below with your email.
ALL PARTICIPANTS must email camelotremix at gmail dot com with the following header once the work is posted to the AO3 or emailed: Please note that under "Work URL" we ONLY want the URL, not a link! If a mod is posting to the community on your behalf, no URL is needed.
Questions? Your mods will do their best to answer. The AO3 support team is also there to help. As always, if you want to contact us privately, you can e-mail us at camelotremix at gmail dot com.