Smut 4 Smut

Signups are open now through Feb 24 at 8pm EST. Please read this post before signing up! You may also want to review the general rules post.

Signup Form | Collection | Request Summary | Fandom Tag Set | Kink Tag Set

General Notes
- There is a known bug that not all tags autocomplete in AO3’s dropdowns. Copy/paste these directly from the tag set, and they should go through.

- Matching is OR. That means you’ll match on one request, and one ship, medium, kink, and archive warning within that request.

- Since there are a lot of factors to match on, it can be helpful to check requests near the end of signups to make sure you’re matchable as a creator. If you have no possible recipients at the end of signups, we will email you with the choice to either add offers or delete your signup.

- If you were a no-show default last year or if we contacted you about an incomplete placeholder after the deadline, you are not eligible to sign up for this year's event. (If you hit the default button yourself prior to the deadline, you're fine!)

- New this year: We will not accommodate "do not match me as a creator" requests. Please adjust your own offers accordingly.

Emails
Make sure the email attached to your AO3 account is one that 1) you check regularly, and 2) are comfortable with exchange mods seeing. You can verify your email here: archiveofourown.org/users/[your ao3 name here]/change_email

If you have any questions, comment below or email us at smut4smutmod@gmail.com!

( More detailed signup information! )

Signups continue through Feb 23, 8 pm EST!

We've also realized that a couple examples of "what counts as too broad/limiting a DNW" never made it into the main rules post -- they were just mentioned in previous clarification posts. So, this isn't a new policy, just a note that we're updating the signup post and rules post with these specific examples.

Do Not Wants must be in the AO3 signup form itself to be enforced. "Enforced" means that if your gift accidentally contains one of these DNWs, we will get you a replacement gift if you request one. (Creators are still expected to put their best effort into avoiding letter-only DNWs.)

We consider the following DNWs too broad and limiting for this exchange, and won't enforce them:

"DNW unrequested kinks" - since the tag set uses such a broad interpretation of "kink," please elaborate on what categories of kink you don't want instead
"DNW PWP" - we will not give emergency pinch hits because a gift is too smutty
"DNW sex" - this is a smut exchange

Signup Form | Collection | Request Summary | Fandom Tag Set | Kink Tag Set

Signups are open now through Feb 26 at 8pm EST. Please read this post before signing up!

Signup Form | Collection | Request Summary | Fandom Tag Set | Kink Tag Set

New AO3 Gift Setting
AO3 recently implemented a new setting allowing users to opt in or out of receiving non-assigned gifts. See this post for an explanation: https://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/21676

You can find the preference on this setting page, under the Collections, Challenges and Gifts section: archiveofourown.org/users/[YOUR USERNAME HERE]/preferences

In the context of Smut 4 Smut:
CHECKING “Allow others to give me gift works outside gift exchanges and prompt memes.” means you can receive extra gifts (treats) for S4S.
UNCHECKING “Allow others to give me gift works outside gift exchanges and prompt memes.” means you cannot receive extra gifts (treats) even within the exchange collection.

Old accounts are checked by default. New accounts are unchecked by default.

Currently, the only way to tell if someone cannot receive treats is to attempt to post a gift for them, and AO3 will give you an error message.

Because this setting is so new, we’re not implementing any policy changes for this year’s S4S. We’d like to see how much this actually ends up impacting the event. We do have some suggestions to help make this a smoother process.

• Confirm whether the extra gifts setting is checked or unchecked on your account.
  
• If you uncheck the setting (meaning: you cannot receive treats) consider leaving a note on your profile or in your signup, to avoid someone creating a treat without realizing you can’t receive it.
  
• If you uncheck the setting, consider emailing the mods at smut4smutmod@gmail.com so we’re aware in case of weird pinch hit situations.
  
• If you attempt to treat someone and get an error message about them not receiving gifts, you can A) simply post the gift to the collection, B) email the mods and we can ask the recip if they intended to uncheck the setting.

Okay, now the usual reminders!

General Notes
- There is a known bug that not all tags autocomplete in AO3’s dropdowns. Copy/paste these directly from the tag set, and they should go through.

- Matching is OR. That means you’ll match on one request, and one ship, medium, kink, and archive warning within that request.

- Since there are a lot of factors to match on, it can be helpful to check requests near the end of signups to make sure you’re matchable as a creator. If you have no possible recipients at the end of signups, we will email you with the choice to either add offers or delete your signup.

- If you were a no-show default last year or if we contacted you about an incomplete placeholder after the deadline, you are not eligible to sign up for this year's event. (If you hit the default button yourself prior to the deadline, you're fine!)

Emails
Make sure the email attached to your AO3 account is one that 1) you check regularly, and 2) are comfortable with exchange mods seeing. You can verify your email here: archiveofourown.org/users/[your ao3 name here]/change_email

If you have any questions, comment below or email us at smut4smutmod@gmail.com!

( More detailed signup information! )

Signups are open now through Feb 25 at 10pm EST.

Signup Form | Collection | Request Summary | Tag Set

General Notes

There is a known bug that not all tags autocomplete in AO3’s dropdowns. Copy/paste these directly from the tag set, and they should go through.

Matching is OR. That means you’ll match on one request, and one ship, medium, kink, and archive warning within that request.

Since there are a lot of factors to match on, it can be helpful to check requests near the end of signups to make sure you’re matchable as a creator. If you have no possible recipients at the end of signups, we will email you with the choice to either add offers or delete your signup.

Make sure the email attached to your AO3 account is one that 1) you check regularly, and 2) are comfortable with exchange mods seeing. You can verify your email here: archiveofourown.org/users/[your ao3 name here]/change_email

If you have any questions, comment below or email us at smut4smutmod@gmail.com!

Requests

Fandoms: You can request 3-10 fandoms. Three of those fandoms must be unique. After that, you can request fandoms multiple times with different ships/kinks/etc. Signups without three unique fandoms will be deleted after signups close.

Character: The “character” field is for selecting Fanart, Fanfic, or both.

Relationships: Each request can have 1-20 ships or solo characters. You’re only guaranteed to receive one of the ship or solo tags you request.

Additional Tags & Optional Tags: You must request 4-20 kinks under Additional Tags. If you want extra kinks after that, list up to 20 more under Optional Tags. Please copy these directly from the tag set! AO3’s autofill will pull up tags not in the tag set, which aren’t allowed.

You’re guaranteed to receive one of the kinks you request. Please make sure you’d be happy to receive any of your requested kinks with any of the ship tags in that request!

Archive Warnings: The archive warnings you request are topics you want to see in your gift. If you select “graphic violence,” that means you want to receive graphic violence. You are only guaranteed ONE of the archive warnings you've selected, so if you select “graphic violence” and “rape/noncon,” you might get a gift with graphic violence, or rape/noncon, or both.

Optional Details: You can add prompts and likes here, as well as Do Not Wants. All Do Not Wants must be included in this field, and clearly labeled, in order for mods to enforce them if necessary.

Don't use your DNWs to try to force your creator to create a specific type of work (beyond the specifics they matched on). In general, don’t use your optional details to require something you didn’t match on -- for example, if you requested ships A/B and X/Y in the same request slot with kinks 1-17, you can’t specify that kinks 1-3 are only for A/B while kinks 4-17 are only for X/Y.

Letter: You can link to an off-AO3 letter with your prompts and preferences if you like. Please try to have your letter finished and accessible by the time assignments go out.

Offers

Fandoms: You must offer 3-10 fandoms. Three of those fandoms must be unique. After that, you can offer fandoms multiple times with different ships/kinks/etc. Signups without three unique fandoms will be deleted after signups close.

Character: The “character” field is for selecting Fanart, Fanfic, or both.

Relationships: Each offer can have 1-20 ships or solo characters. You can offer “Any,” which means any ship or solo tag in the tag set for that fandom. Please review the tag set to make sure you mean it.

Additional Tags & Optional Tags: You must offer 4-20 kinks under Additional Tags. If you want extra kinks after that, list up to 20 more under Optional Tags. Please copy these directly from the tag set! AO3’s autofill will pull up tags not in the tag set.

You can offer “Any” here too, which means any kink tag in the tag set. There are 1200+ of these, please review the tag set to make sure you mean it.

Archive Warnings: The archive warnings you offer are topics you want to create. If you select “graphic violence,” that means you’re willing to create a gift with graphic violence.