What's a remix?

As promised in the FAQ post (LJ|DW), here's a post with more details about what remixing usually means as well as some guidelines for what we expect in this challenge.

( Basics )

( Some things you can do )

( Some things you shouldn't do )

( Expectations and etiquette )

( Further reading )

( Discuss! )

Contacting the mods

Have a question or concern about the challenge? Please comment here and let us know how you’d like us to get back to you. Comments on this post are screened. If you want others to see your comment, use another post such as Frequently Asked Questions (LJ|DW). If you’d rather contact us privately, e-mail camelotremix at gmail dot com.

Not going to be able to finish your remix by the deadline? Please let us know as soon as possible so we can find a pinch-hitter and they’ll have time to write a good story. You can comment here or e-mail us. If you’re not sure what to say in your message, “Hi, I won’t be able to write a remix of [remixee]’s fic so I’m dropping out of the challenge” is fine.

Your friendly neighborhood mods are sophinisba/sophinisba, netgirl_y2k/netgirl_y2k, and lilian_cho/lilian_cho. We love remixes and this fandom and we want the challenge to be fun for everyone, so please don’t hesitate to contact us.

Sign-ups post

Welcome to the camelotremix/camelotremix sign-up post! (Eeee!)

Important Dates
Sign-ups start right now and close on August 21; assignments will go out few days later.

Remixes are due on October 9 and must be at least 1000 words long. The archive will open on October 16 or as soon as we have one remix for everybody.

Eligibility
To sign up as a regular participant you must have written at least five stories of at least 500 words of Merlin FPF (fictional person fic) and/or Merlin RPF (real person fic).

You can specify one fic as a "safe story" that you don't want to be remixed, but this will not count towards your five qualifying stories.

Pinch hitting
If you don't have the qualifying fics you can still sign up as a pinch hitter. If you want to do this, just write "pinch hitter" in the subject line and give us your name, e-mail address, and preference for RPF or FPF.

Offering to pinch-hit does not obligate you to write an extra story, it just puts you on our list of people to ask if someone drops out.

Other stuff
The full rules and more information about remixing can be found at the Frequently Asked Questions and What's a remix? posts. If you have any questions please comment there or email the mods at camelotremix at gmail dot com.

To sign up, copy and paste the following form and comment to this post with it. You can sign up on either livejournal or dreamwidth; there's no need to sign up on both. When you link to your fic, please use a plain url (example: http://archiveofourown.org/users/sophinisba/works) rather than a formatted link (bad example: sophinisba's fic); this will make it easier for us to copy and paste the links into assignment e-mails.

<b>Name:</b> <b>E-mail:</b> <b>AO3 account (if you have one):</b> <b>Link to your fic:</b> <b>Safe story (optional):</b> <b>Do you qualify with fpf, rpf, or both?</b> <b>Do you want to write fpf, rpf, or either one?</b> <b>Want to be on the pinch hit list?</b>

ETA August 22: Sign-ups for regular participants are now closed and assignments will go out soon. Feel free to sign up for the pinch hit list even if you're coming in late.

Getting the word out

In case you missed it, sign-ups are open on Dreamwidth and on LJ!

We'll start promoting the challenge on some fandom comms this weekend. Can you help us out? We'd love it if someone could make a banner with some Merlin characters and/or actors and the information that sign-ups are open until August 21.

If you (like us mods) are not so graphically inclined, you can still help promote camelotremix/camelotremix by posting a note in your journal or a comm where you're active, or talking it up with your friends. Just let us know if you've posted at a comm so we don't end up spamming them with multiple posts. Thank you!!