#submission guidelines

[newsmutproject]

Call for Submissions: Erato II

Send us your most seductive flash fiction and prose poetry*!

We’re seeking super short writing in any subgenre, featuring characters of any and every orientation and gender, so long as they’re 18+ and express their consent to all erotic activities. Whether they find pleasure through BDSM, fetish, or vanilla encounters; in long-term romances or one-night stands; with one person, a roomful of people, or just themselves, it’s all good.

How explicitly you want to portray the sex, and what counts as sex, is up to you - but leave the reader in some way breathless.

Vivid writing, clever and original plots, and stylistic or structural experimentation are particularly welcome. We want stories that are sex positive, body positive, and inclusive. Usually at least half the stories in our anthologies feature characters who are LGBTQIA+, including the ace spectrum.

BIPOC writers, trans and nonbinary writers, disabled writers, working-class writers, and writers of other marginalized and underrepresented identities are warmly encouraged to submit. We’re thrilled to work with writers from around the world at any stage of their careers, including those who have never been published before.

*Please note, prose poetry, not verse poetry. We share some inspiring verse poetry on our blog, but don’t publish it—yet.

We’re also interested in excerpts from longer works, including sex scenes from stories in a genre other than erotica. 

Payment & Length:

We’ll pay $25 for the first 500 words and 2 cents per word thereafter, up to $45 for 1,500 words. 

Please include wordcount with your submission. We’re willing to look at slightly longer stories, so long as they still fit the spirit of ‘flash fiction’ (e.g., if you’re at 1,575 words and can’t find more to trim), but payment is capped at $45.

Accepted pieces shorter than 500 words will receive $25.

All contributors will also receive an ebook copy of the anthology and a discount on paperback copies.

For a taste of our tastes, check out our first flash anthology, Erato, and our blog – but we love to be surprised by new concepts, and we actively want to expand the range of identities and perspectives we publish with each book.

You can also read two of the pieces from Erato for free online - both award winners!  

“A Study in Circuits and Charcoal” by jem zero won the Best Feminist Sex category of the Good Sex Awards.

“Touch” by D. Fostalove was a runner-up in the Best Sexy Talk category.

More details and tips below the cut:

Submissions open: April 2 – August 31, 2023 (Extensions can be made upon request.)

We’ll send a confirmation email (manually) within a week of receiving your story. Please query or resend if you don’t see this confirmation in <7 days. 

Acceptances won’t be sent until the submissions period ends and all stories have been considered. Some rejections may be sent out sooner.

Publication date: Early 2024

Some tips to save you time --

Our hard-ons:

All stories will be copyedited before going to print, but well-polished submissions have some advantage. Here’s a guide to dialogue punctuation - getting it right can save lots of editing time (it also shows you paid attention to these guidelines).

We strongly prefer 1 character’s POV per scene unless you’re doing something incredible with an omniscient narrator. Use scene breaks to change POV rather than ‘head hopping’.

We don’t require, but do enjoy, stories that feature realistic sexuality, including safer sex.

Throughout our blog, we share lots of stuff we find interesting about sexuality and would love to see reflected in submissions! For instance: do you know how excited we’d be to publish a story about a character with vaginismus? (Hint: very!)

We’re eager to see sympathetic and sensual depictions of people who are often poorly represented in mainstream smut. Just to start with, this includes Black people, Indigenous people, and other people of color, trans women (as well as trans men and nonbinary people, but we want to especially recognize the impact of transmisogyny), disabled people, and fat people, as well as the many people who belong to more than one marginalized group. Writers of these backgrounds are warmly encouraged to submit. 

Some of our favorite erotic flash fiction opens in the middle of sex. However you do it (and there are many ways to do it), grab the reader’s attention from the first lines.

However short the flash, there’s always room for the ingredients that take a sex scene from a list of mechanical actions to an interaction between multidimensional characters. Some writers get creative by choosing to omit one of those tools, like dialogue - this can work too! We certainly don’t mandate dialogue, or descriptions of textures and scents, or whatnot. But if you’re looking at your story and feel it might be missing something, the Sex Writing 101 list can be useful.

We’re interested in erotic narratives that build or explore a consent culture.  We want to see affirmative consent, whether expressed through a verbal “yes” (or a “maybe, let’s try” or “yes for now”), through action & collaboration (returning their partner’s kiss, guiding their hands to where they want them, etc.), or telepathy. “Enthusiastic consent” can be a fuzzy target (who decides what counts as ‘enthusiasm’? does it leave room for more cautious experimentation or other nuances?), but we’re never going to reject a story because its characters seem too eager and excited to have sex with each other.

All sex that takes place in the action of the story must be consensual. However, stories about characters who have survived sexual coercion or trauma will certainly be considered.

At the New Smut Project, we’re looking for thoughtful stories that explore sex as a positive force in people’s lives. The overall tone of our anthologies tends toward the optimistic, although there’s definitely room for stories that are nuanced, bittersweet, and even gently tragic (both our Good Sex Award winners, linked above, are strong examples of stories that are bittersweet, mixing challenges with reason for hope - and have we mentioned scorching-hot sexiness?). Hope and defiance are very sexy. 

References to other literature, art, music, and more are awesome. Brainy is sexy. Nerdy is sexy. Do keep in mind we can’t publish outright fanfiction unless it’s of a work in the public domain. But we are all about erotic retellings of Shakespeare, or the Epic of Gilgamesh, or what have you.

Right now for Erato II, we’d love to fit in more super-short pieces (500 words and shorter) with intense feeling and imagery - prose with the impact of poetry.

Hard sells and hard nos: 

Our upper limit of 1,500 words isn’t firm because we want to make writers’ lives easier: we know there are times when you aimed for flash, overshot, but trying to trim more words could remove something significant or take more time than it’s worth. Remember, though, this is still a flash fiction anthology, so we can’t include stories that exceed the limit by more than a few hundred words. (The reason we’re not saying how exactly how many more is because that would become a new upper limit that’s not necessarily firm...ad infinitum. If you need a hard limit, aim for <1,500.) 

No coercion as part of the action of the story (as mentioned, it might form part of a character’s history, sensitively handled and not for titillation). This means no characters badgering each other into an activity or characters being “obligated” by circumstances. We’d also prefer not to see sex between teachers and students or doctors/therapists and patients. Especially gross and deliberate violations of the consent guideline may result in your email address being blocked without notice. Don’t troll us. (If you’re not a troll, don’t worry; the kinds of things we block for are not written or sent by accident.) 

No sexually active characters under the age of 18. 

Stories about deception (including infidelity) are very hard sells. Like many of our hard sells, these ideas are worth exploring in literature but often aren’t a good fit with our focus on sex as a positive force in people’s lives.

We appreciate bittersweet stories, but aren’t fans of when tragedy seems like a “punishment” inflicted on the characters for having sex. If characters have contempt for each other in place of sexual tension or the story ends with a death, it’s likely too grim for us (at the same time, stories about desire mingled with grief, pleasure in the face of impending loss, or ghosts with vibrant sex after-lives can be a great fit and are of personal interest to editor T.C. Mill). 

Stories about a character being seduced by someone who turns out to be a vampire, demon, or serial killer and then - surprise! - gets killed/eaten/tortured/dragged to Hell are not a good fit. Cryptid boyfriends (and lovers of other genders) are great, we just don’t want to see them tricking and preying on their partners; that’s not exactly sex positive consent culture in action. 

Other concepts we’re not thrilled to see: stories where characters have sex while very intoxicated/high, stories about sex robots (vs robots who happen to have sex; it’s a key distinction!), and stories where characters have sex because they are hired to (our focus is on different motives for sex; we welcome pieces about sex worker protagonists in their personal lives). Stories with other premises will be much more competitive in the submissions pile. 

Don’t send stories based in transphobia, homophobia, racism, sexism, ableism, fatphobia, and other asshole moves (but it’s fine to send stories acknowledging these prejudices as part of a character’s lived experience).

We can’t accept writing or characters you don’t hold the copyright to (this has been a particular issue with quoted song lyrics. Please only quote lyrics you have written yourself or know to be in the public domain. It also now includes AI-generated text). As mentioned, intertextuality with public domain works is wonderful, though, so bring on the erotic Great Gatsby retellings!

Unlike many publishers, we’re willing to consider stories we rejected from previous calls. It’s best to be upfront about what you’re re-sending and why you believe it might be a fit for us this time around (if the story has been substantially revised, if it received a personal rejection lamenting that we just couldn't fit it in a prior anthology, etc.). Also, be upfront with yourself about whether you have other ideas for stories to submit and if you’re certain you understand the kinds of stories we publish. 

Multiple submissions: We’ll look at 1 or 2 stories per author. You don’t need to send both stories at the same time, but if you are submitting 2 stories at once, feel free to do so as 2 attachments to a single email (easier for us to keep track of).

Simultaneous submissions: Please let us know in your cover email if your story is also under consideration elsewhere. Keep in mind that we’ll hold stories we’re considering at least until September 1, 2023 (and likely later, as it can take some time to make final decisions about which stories we’ll publish).

Reprints: Happily considered! So are translations of stories into English and excerpts from longer pieces. We especially enjoy republishing older stories (reviving those which have gone out of print) and love to look at sexy scenes excerpted from longer stories in genres that aren’t erotica. In your cover email, please give us the details and confirm that you can offer us reprint rights. 

How to submit: Send your story to newsmutproject(at)gmail.com as a .doc/.docx or .rtf file, a Google Drive link, or in the body of the email. In the subject line, include the story’s title and “Erato Submission” to keep your email safe from the spam filter.

We’re not picky about format, but anything resembling Shunn’s Modern Manuscript Format works especially well. However you do it, please include wordcount somewhere on the first page. This info helps us organize the stories we’re considering.

Provide your cover letter in the body of the email, not as an additional attachment. If you’re unsure what to put in your cover letter, no sweat. We don’t need much, but Strange Horizons’s tips are excellent. If authors are comfortable declaring marginalized identities that have informed their writing in their cover letters, we appreciate knowing this and will not disclose the information to others (it’s up to you what you feel safe and comfortable sharing in your published author biography and promotional interviews - and in your cover letter; all this is optional).  

Also, we appreciate hearing in your cover letter about where you learned of this call for submissions! Big thanks to everyone who’s done this so far - it helps us know where to promote future anthology calls.

Submissions will be read by T.C. Mill (she/her) and Guinevere Chase (she/her). 

Questions, updates, and more information: Contact us with questions and suggestions at newsmutproject(at)gmail.com. Answers to frequently asked questions are posted in the q&a tag on this blog. For updates and more info, you can sign up for our newsletter through MailChimp, follow us here on Tumblr, and/or follow us on Twitter (much less active).

#call for submissions #calls for submissions #erato #nsp status update #flash fiction #submission guidelines

[hqrarepairtournament]

Haikyuu!! Sapphic Tournament

Hi! I'm doing another ship tournament, this time with a focus on the f/f ships in the fandom! We all know they could use some more appreciation <3

GUIDELINES:

This time, there is no fic number requirement for submissions! (Although I suspect if I did have one, most f/f ships would qualify anyway) Any ships are allowed!

This may go without saying but I feel the need to be clear: I will not be accepting any incestuous ships or ships with large age gaps.

You are free to submit as many ships as you want! You just have to submit a new form for each one. Please don't send the same ship more than once.

You can submit ships here! Submissions will close Monday, May 22nd at 8 PM (CST).

As always, my inbox is open if you have any questions or simply just want to chat!

Have fun!

#hqsapphictournament #submission guidelines #here's hoping i didn't forget anything

[haveyoubeentothiscity]

Okay new plan—better plan—only look for your submissions at this link, which will never be filtered. Kind of forgot about IMPORTRANGE until now.

If you can’t find a submission and you have checked that your search is working* just send me an ask or DM with the name of your city and I will look for it.

*if you search for “Chicago” and “Paris” and don’t get results, your search is not working. Not uncommon on mobile.

#not a poll #submission guidelines

[mazerunnersecretsanta]

TMRSS23 Submission Guidelines

Time is flying by! Somehow, we're already down to less than 3 weeks to go until the TMRSS23 submission deadline. The tmrss elves are very much looking forward to all the wonderful gifts to come soon 🎅

🎁 A reminder that all TMRSS23 gifts are due on 8th December! 🎁

Please find below gift submission guidelines. Read the instructions carefully, please, as there are specific details according to gift type. Do let us know if you have any questions or concerns!

For all gifts:

Please send all gifts to: [email protected] Please include the following in your email:

Your tumblr username

Your giftee’s username

Gift title

A short summary of your gift and, where relevant, its storyline (this will be included in the gift post on tumblr)

Any warnings

A special message to your giftee (optional)

Anything else - notes, comments etc. (optional)

If submitting fanfic:

Please upload your fic to the collection on AO3 (found here), and then click on ‘post to collection’ to post your work. Before closing the tab, please copy the URL and include this link to your fic in your email to us. This is very important!!!!!

Please also include the following in your email:

Rating

Word Count (Remember: 2,500 words minimum!)

Link to your fic on AO3

If submitting fanvids, fanart, or gifsets:

If your gift is a fanvid, fanart, or gifset (or anything else that results in files which would be too big to email to us), please upload your gift to a dropbox or file sharing site, then send us an email with the link to your submission so that we can download it and post it on our blog. File names should follow this format: tmrss23_gift_for_username When submitting multiple files: tmrss23_for_username_1of6 etc.

For gifsets, edits and fanart, please also include the following in your email:

Formatting instructions

For fanvids, please also include the following in your email:

Music title/artist(s)

Any shows/clips you’ve used that aren’t from TMR

Please remember to make sure your gift doesn’t contain any clues about your identity!

If you want a reminder of the submission guidelines, rules and guidelines, or FAQs, you can find them on our Tumblr. 

We hope everything is clear! Please do get in touch if you’re unsure about anything! Bridge and Dreams 🎅🎁

#tmrss23 #tmrss #gift submission #submission guidelines #maze runner secret santa 2023 #tmr #the maze runner

[rambheemficrecs]

In this post are the Fic Rec Content Guidelines, the Fic Rec Submission Instructions, the Submissions Form, and the Tags Masterlist.

Already have what you need? Hop on over to the submit a rec page!

Fic Recs

Content Guidelines

All stories must center on romance between Ram & Bheem

Polyamory is acceptable! Ram/Bheem/Seetha, Ram/Bheem/Lacchu, whatever, knock yourself out! As long as Ram and Bheem are romantic with each other, anyone else goes!

All other content is acceptable. No tea no shade no pink lemonade; like what you like and submit what you want. If there is a fic you cannot bear to own up to liking, send us an ask with the link and your review and we'll add it for you!

AO3 has a much more robust and accurate tagging system than we do. Our available tags are limited. Because of these two facts, our tags are geared more towards finding content you'll like rather than filtering out content you won't. Please rely on AO3's tagging system for detailed warnings.

Multiple submissions for the same fic are accepted! You do not need to check whether or not a fic has already been submitted before you submit it. Your comments in the submission are what counts, and those will always be unique!

Submitting your own works is accepted! Please, for the love of the gods, rec anyone and anything. When you post a new fic submit it here. Help everyone find every RamBheem fic out there.

There is no minimum wordcount for your review of the fic, and the only max wordcount is that enforced by tumblr itself. You are more than welcome to submit a fic and say "this is my favorite" and nothing else. You are more than welcome to write a 2k essay. What matters is letting people know that the fic exists and you love it so much you think other people would love it too.

The only rule for the reviews is that they must be positive. We have no idea why you'd want to submit a rec for a fic you don't like, but if you're considering doing that, please don't. Negative recs won't be published.

Submission instructions

Copy and paste the below form (including the parts in brackets) into a submission

Copy and paste the information from the fic to fill out the form

Add any warnings

Add your review

Read through the available tags and select all that apply

Click submit

Don't forget to check back later so that once your submission is posted from the queue you can reblog it!

Submission Form (also available on the Submit a Rec! page)

Title: URL: Author: Rating: Warnings: Summary:

My comments:

[If you read the fic, please comment! Comments don't have to be essays; a keysmash or string of emojis is better than silence!]

[Please remember to REBLOG this post!]

Tags Masterlist

Tumblr only allows 30 suggested tags on submitted posts, and doesn't allow people submitting to add their own tags. For this reason, the below 30 tags are the only fic tags consistently in use on this blog. If you're looking for something more specific (like an author or a rating) please go to the blog home page and use the search feature on the upper left.

| alternate universe | angst | canon divergence | daddy or mommy kink | death | established relationship | first kiss or first time | fluff | humor | hurt comfort | incest | kidfic | kink | major character death | mpreg | omegaverse | polyamory | post canon | rrr | ram or bheem x others | rambheem | rape | romance | sad ending | smut | substance use or abuse | -swaps: bheemswap and/or ramswap | trans!bheem and/or trans!ram | underage | whump |

There aren't enough tags for us to have a dedicated tag for submissions; however, all submissions ought to be tagged both RRR and RamBheem, so these tags can be used to see all submissions.

Any questions regarding what tags to use on a specific submission can be sent to us via an ask.

We reblog posts regarding fandom events and challenges; see the fandom tag.

For information pertaining to the blog itself, like announcements and answered asks, see the rambheemficrecs info tag.

fandom blogs for other indian movies include:

@ao3feed-devadas

@ao3feed-dasara

to find other indian movies free and legal to stream see @indianmovielinks.

and, to watch rrr in full, free and legal, in the original telugu and with english subtitles, go here:

#submissions #submission guidelines #submission form #about #rambheemficrecs info #masterlist #tags masterlist

[secretsleuthexchange]

2023 Submission Guidelines

the Secret Sleuth Gift Exchange will begin posting gifts on 24 December, and run until 4 January!

Similar to our 2022 event, we will have a TBD amount of slots for gifts to be shared each day 24 December through 4 January (this number will be finalized and determined based on the number of sign-ups) and each person will be responsible for communicating with their event mod which day they want to sign-up for upon our second check-in (16 December)

However, we do ask that you strive to have your gift completed and ready to go by 23 December. We understand and will honor some flexibility as long as you continue to communicate with us.

the deadline for COMPLETION of gifts will be 23 December

we will begin posting gifts on 24 December

we will assign you a date for posting to help us spread out the gifts over a longer period of time so people can take the time to enjoy all the goodies

you can request specific posting dates, more information will follow on this once we have completed sign-ups

GIFTS

Fanfiction: 1500 word minimum, completed work encouraged

Graphics/gifsets: 2 image minimum

Icons/header sets: 4 item minimum

Fanart

Playlists: 15 song minimum, appropriate cover art, and linked

Fanvid: 2 minute total minimum (multiple shorter videos allowed)

Moodboard: 8 panel minimum

POSTING

You do not have to submit your gift in a traditional sense of the word. We only want to know if you've completed your gift by the due date. However if you would rather we post it through the blog ourselves, we are happy to do that.

SUBMIT HERE, if applicable.

Otherwise you are free to share your gifts on whichever platform(s) you are comfortable with. We ask that you communicate with your event mod during your final check-in what your plan for that is, so we know if we need to post your gift ourselves or cross-post to ensure your gift is seen!

FICS: submit your completed work to our collection on AO3

TUMBLR: if posting through your own blog, schedule or draft your gift to be posted on your assigned date and please tag @secretsleuthexchange & use #secretsleuthgiftexchange in the first five tags to ensure we are alerted to your post

TWITTER: if posting on twitter, please tag @ssgiftexchange

Please make sure your gift meets the minimum requirements and you can visit our previous years tags here and here for examples and inspiration!

you may see the blog use additional tags on reblogs, those are simply for internal organization and we're only asking you for the tags mentioned above!

Please do not reveal your identity to your Secret Sleuth until you post your gift!

#secretsleuthgiftexchange #ndcentral #nancy drew cw #nancy drew #nace #fanson #ssge23 #submission guidelines

[literallycait]

Opening to Queries

I reopen to queries tomorrow! I'll be open for one week to start, then will reopen again when I've responded to all queries in that first batch. I've updated my submission guidelines page so be sure to read through in advance if you'd like to query. Looking forward to seeing everyone's work!

#literary agent #publishing #querying #query status #submission guidelines #books

[fallen-urls]

Welcome, traveler, to the fields of the fallen.

Within these trenches lie the wasted, the missing, the lost, the quality URLs taken in the latest waves of the war against the bots of Tumblr. Though they are blocked now, their sacrifices will not be forgotten. Here's a toast to the fallen URLs.

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Hey folks! After a few weeks of the latest rounds of bots we just couldn't take it anymore, seeing URLs of all walks that were just too "Tumblr" to lie blocked and forgotten.

So! We've (I've, with prodding) opened a submission blog here for you to share with the world the lost URLs that are too good to let languish in your blocked list. Whether unfathomably funny, or hilariously ironic, or a name you cannot believe isn't a blog already, or something that gives you that terrible horrible moment of "Oh, that can only be Tumblr content," you can submit your screenshots here and we'll share them to the world!

We at the Fallen URLs Fields hope that all URLs lost within the trenches may one day be brought to life again through the processing of spam/bot block reports. Onward!

The Guideline Gist: - Submissions will be queued, asks are open, and I'll be running checks on this once a day or so. You may submit anonymously! - Default applied tags will be as follows: "Submission", "Shareable", "Tumblr bot invasion", and "Fallen-URLs" - Right now, available optional tags include: Humorous, Ironic, Why isn't this a blog yet, A toast to the fallen - Occasionally you may see "Mod Tested Mod Approved" awarded to particularly excellent bot names! - Submission contents will be labeled appropriately. Some of these names have been bordering on content warning! This is a safety precaution more than anything. - We reserve the right to reject submissions that may contain explicit imagery (aka the blog profile photos).

Pinned post will be updated as we get this rolling! (Non queue'd posts are mine or are passed to me by friends.)

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[In the distance, the Honorable Kazoo Chorus begins to play My Heart Will Go On. The sacrificial pyre is lit and the longboat cast off its moorings, bound for eternal patrol.]

Here's a toast, boys. May the URL sacrifice not be in vain. o7

#The Fallen URLs #tumblr bot invasion #tumblr bot plague 2023 #So the latest bot plague has been creative #Some of these usernames are just too real #Which is tragic so now we shall enshrine them herein. #submission guidelines #Fallen-URLs #The Honorable Kazoo Chorus

[hp-mcd-fest]

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

This is a guide to how exactly you should submit your work, if you want to participate in the fest, our general guidelines are here and our claiming post is here!

Finished your work? Here's a checklist

Makes sure the work includes Major Character Death.

Check your work for errors/typos (beta is not required but encouraged)

If you gift your work to the prompter, don't include any DNW's.

How to post your work

Go to our collection page right here and click the button post to collection

Fill in the information as you normally would (rating, characters, tags, etc.), keep in mind that you have to use either the Major Character Death or the Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings warning on your work, as your work should include MCD.

Make sure to add the mod account as a co-creator. There is a field for this in the preface section of posting your work. Click the box, add our account. The account is HP_MCD_Fest.

Check for formatting etc. Whatever you normally do when posting something. Post the work.

Your work will not immediately be added to the collection, since it's a moderated collection and we accept each work individually. Your work will say something along the lines of "this will be accepted into a collection soon", and it will be anonymous. (For you as the creator, it will show the creator as "anonymous (your name)", for anyone else it'll just be anonymous.

After posting to the collection

Send us an email. You should have our email since we sent you the confirmation email, but it's [email protected]. This is to confirm you submitted it.

In that email, send us the following header (filled in with your work's information):

Title: Rating: Characters/Pairing: Length: Warnings: Summary: Link:

Please use full character names in the characters/pairing section. The link should be taken from your work on AO3 (which you can access through either your statistics or edit works page where all your works are listed).

After you've submitted your work, you are free and encouraged to claim a second prompt (or a second self-prompt, of course)!

If you have any questions about this process, we're happy to help!

#hp mcd fest 2023 #submission guidelines #mod post

[squealing-santa]

Updated Submission Guidelines

It’s been brought to my attention that Tumblr no longer allows for anonymous or sideblog submissions! 🙃 This, for obvious reasons, is less than ideal. Fortunately, we can work around the limitations and still allow folks who wish to maintain their anonymity the option to do so while also ensuring your works are appropriately credited and tagged.

Step One

Select whether you’re submitting text or an image, and include the title of your art piece or work of fiction if you have one.

Step Two

Insert your gift and who it’s for! Be sure to double check that your submission contains all the bits ‘n’ bobbins that you typically like to include when you post content. This can include summaries/captions, artists or authors note, word count, image ID’s, etc. Once you submit your piece, there will unfortunately be no way to directly edit it, so make sure you like how it’s formatted in the HTML box and that it’s free of error.

Step Three

Insert a page break indicator (a line of - - - or ~~~ would work just fine). Below this line is where you will have the opportunity to include tags for your piece that I can add prior to posting. Please list (separated by comma): • Your preferred/tickle blog username or registered anon handle • All relevant fandom and pairing information • If there are any trigger or content warnings you feel are necessary to include I will add whether it is [#tickle art] or [#tickle fic], as well as [#squealing santa 2k22], [#ss2k22], and [#submission] on your behalf. This way we can find and archive your wonderful creation!

Step Four

Should your preferred username/anon handle differ from the submission username, I will take your creation and make a one-to-one copy as a brand new post to preserve your privacy. The only thing I'll adjust is adding artist/author credit below the title and moving your tags to the, well, tags. Once posted, I'll forward you the link to your post via DMs, similar to what I intend to do when anon gifts are posted. If your preferred username matches the submission username, I'll simply move the tags. I'll only follow the above steps if Tumblr acts a fool and won't let me adjust accordingly. So it's like a 50/50 chance 😅

As always, please make sure to check the 2k22 Bulletin Board for all event specific updates/news in case your question has already been answered elsewhere on the blog 😊

#squealing santa #squealing santa 2k22 #ss2k22 #2k22 bulletin board #submission guidelines

[thedisabilitybookarchive]

Submission Guidelines

The biggest aspect of the Archive is the community involvement. If it wasn't for community support and submission, it simply would not exist. So if you would like to submit your own, here are a couple of guidelines to follow:

Submitting A Book:

If you want to submit a book, you can do so using my ask box or the google form. There are also several "Submit A Book" buttons on the website that will take you to the form. It is completely anonymous- I won't see any of your personal data, I will only see your response sheet.

If you know my main blog, do not send recommendations there. Send them here.

What To Include In A Submission:

Mandatory:

Book Title

Author(s) and/or Editor(s)

Disability Representation or Content

Fiction/Non-Fiction

Series (if relevant)

Optional:

Additional Representation (LGBTQ+, race, religion etc.)

Setting Location (just the country is fine)

Genre(s)

ISBN Number (if known)

Additional Comments (anything personal you would like added about the book, tropes it might fall into etc.)

Would Be Appreciated:

Content Warnings

Submitting An Author:

You can use my ask box, the comments on the site or the anonymous google form below. The author doesn't have to have written a book about/containing a disabled character, they just have to be disabled themself.

And yes, you can submit yourself.

What To Include In A Submission:

Author's Name

Notable Works

Website (if applicable)

Anything Else of Note

Banning Books:

9 times out of 10, every book submitted to the Archive is accepted and added on. I try not to deny any entry, but there have been a few so far that I need to review for various issues.

So long as I have found the book to have actual disability representation, it will likely be added. I do research every submission given to me, and have anonymous comments enabled on every post so that if there is an issue with a book, it can be voiced. And if a book is submitted through the asks, it also allows for community response.

What Type Of Disability Representation Can Be Submitted?

Physical disability, neurodivergence and mental health conditions, neurological conditions, autoimmune diseases, chronic and terminal illness etc. etc.

If you don't know the specifics of a character's disability but you can describe it- i.e. "some kind of neurological condition", "they have a lot of chronic pain" etc.- just tell me and I'll look into it. Sometimes I can't find the specifics either, and that's fine, but describing it will help me place it somewhere in the archive.

#the disability book archive #books #book submission #submission guidelines

[b5positivity]

Submission Prompts

Do you want to submit to this blog but need a bit of help to jog your brain? Here are some questions to help you do just that!

Why is your favorite character your favorite character?

Are there any relationships in the show--romantic, platonic, the opposite--that you think were done particularly well?

What's your favorite fan-creation? Feel free to let us know what it is and why you like it so much!

Similarly, do you have a fellow fan you want to shout out?

Do you have any favorite episodes or seasons?

Favorite minor characters? Why do you like them so much?

What are some standout performances certain actors gave?

Do you have any special memories because of B5? Friends it helped you meet, conventions you'll never forget, experiences bonding with your family over it?

Are there any themes you really feel the show covered well?

What's something B5 did that you'd never seen another show do at that point?

Did you have a particular moment where it hit you that this was going to be one of your favorite shows?

Favorite quotes?

What's something you'd tell outsiders when trying to get them to watch?

And so on. I'll be adding to this as I go, and feel free to reply with suggestions on others that should be added!

Submission Guidelines | Submission Prompts | Send in Submissions

#babylon 5 #submission guidelines #submission prompts #b5

[aspec-friendly-reading]

Submission Guideline

Submissions can be of a book, play, manga, webcomic, magazine, etc that has minimal to no romantic content and/or sexual content.

They can be send via the an ask (on or off anon) or in the actual submissions page.

Your submission may want to include:

Title and Author

Description of any romantic or sexual content (or lack thereof)

Genre

Additional information such as the cover art, content warnings, summary, or reviews

**If you copy anything word for word from somewhere, make sure to cite the source! (Include a name/link to the website)

Please make sure your information is as accurate as possible since the mods can't fact check every example, especially for media we haven't seen.

If you'd like to recommend a piece of media with an aspec character feel free to submit that as well!

#aspec friendly reading #submission guidelines #not a rec

[haveyoubeentothiscity]

Is there like a population limit for the definition of city, because despite the name you have now definitely featured several of what I'd call small towns xD

Yeah “city” is kind of a catchall. This is actually in my pinned post but I haven’t commented on it otherwise, so I’ll copy that here:

I’m not paying any mind to city/town/village descriptors. If something is very small I might deprioritize it in favor of ones that more people have heard of, but as long as I can find a Wikipedia page I won’t disqualify it.

There’s some real tiny ones on the submission list at the moment!

#not a poll #asked and answered #submission guidelines

[thevoiceofdog]

The Voice of Dog Policy relevant to "AI" Writing

While a machine learning algorithm, in theory, is a tool like any other, as they exist currently they involve serious ethical issues. The consent of those whose work was used to train the algorithm is only one.

The purpose of the Voice of Dog podcast is bring stories to the furry community by helping members of the furry community tell their own stories. We cannot operate without the consent of all artists--writers and readers--who contribute, and a writer who does not know they've contributed cannot consent: we cannot accept works you commissioned from someone else, fan fiction of characters not original to you, or that contain AI-generated text. We reserve the right to request assurances and/or evidence that submissions abide by these stipulations, should we feel we have any grounds for question, as a condition of submission.

#the voice of dog #writing #policy #podcast #submission guidelines

[ocwonderland]

Guidelines For Submissions

Submit your prompt ideas via ask. You can be on anon or not, either way your identity won’t be revealed.

I will not be posting the actual ask. Instead I will make a separate text post including your prompt idea, and tag it as #submission. Then I will delete the ask.

Not every idea will be posted. I may delete asks that are: discriminatory or bigoted, NSFW, contain sensitive topics, or are similar to prompts I have already posted.

I may paraphrase your idea or change it slightly. Don’t be surprised if your prompt isn’t word for word what you submitted.

Remember to be creative and have fun!

#submission guidelines #guidelines #not prompts