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Anonymous ASKED

I… don’t even know what to say to this. I can’t imagine someone would sign up that didn’t ship it, since this is clearly a pairing-specific blog and pairing-specific exchange. But since you’re anonymous, there isn’t much that I can do about it on my end. Perhaps contact your partner anonymously and ask them flat-out? If they say no, then please let me know ASAP because this is clearly going to be an issue otherwise.

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Anonymous ASKED

There is actually an option completely separate from your ask box called “submissions.” Click on the settings button at the top of your dash (the little gear), then click on the blog you signed up with on the side of the screen. Scroll down until you see this:

Make sure the, “Let people submit posts” option is checked, and that at the very least, people are allowed to submit text posts. Submissions don’t have a character limit like asks do, so I’ll be able to send you your prompts all in one go rather than having to spread them out over several asks. c:

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Anonymous ASKED

Yes, you’re allowed to, but I will warn you that there are some people who have specifically asked that this not happen.

However, even if your partner doesn’t say anything about other pairings, you’ll want to poke around their blog or send them an anonymous message about it, just to make sure they ship said pairing first. Please don’t assume!

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Anonymous ASKED

I’m working on pairing everyone up and sending the prompts out right now, so you can expect to get your prompts in the next several hours. You can either make sure that submissions are enabled on the blog you signed up with, or send me a message and I’ll reply to you privately.

Let me be clear, you only have to fill one of the three prompts you’re given (though combining prompts is allowed and if you want to do more than one, go right on ahead). 

When you’re finished with your work, you will post it to your own blog sometime between December 25th and January 1st. Make sure you tag the post with sassysanta2012 and your partner’s username (within the first five tags, as well, otherwise they won’t show up in the tracked tags). I’ll be tracking the sassysanta2012 tag, and when posts start going up, I will add them to Sastielweek’s queue.

All this information will be in the submission you receive or in the reply to your message, so you’ll have it on hand as reference. 

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Anonymous ASKED

A prompt can be anything from a single word to a basic outline for a story or description of an image. Anything you personally would like to see happen.

For instance, you could say, “Sam and Cas discuss a case,” or, “Cas is Sam’s guardian angel.” It doesn’t have to be anything super involved or detailed.

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Anonymous ASKED

If you’re unable to finish, then you need to let me know ASAP so I can pass your prompts onto someone else.

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Anonymous ASKED

You will only be expected to write or create one thing for your partner. We only ask for three prompts initially so whoever is given your prompts will have a variety to choose from, in case one or two of them doesn’t work out. They’re just back-ups. :)

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Anonymous ASKED

Not at all! You can prompt anything you like.

Also as a side note, if you’d rather not be given Christmas prompts, you can make a note when you fill out the form, and I’ll do my best to get you a set that are mostly non-holiday.

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Anonymous ASKED

Prompts are assigned more or less at random, while taking into account what people don’t feel comfortable doing. You’ll be given prompts in private and asked to keep the prompts and who you have as a partner secret until you post your finished work after Christmas. I’m the only one who can see the prompts, and the only one who knows who is partnered with whom. 

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Anonymous ASKED

It’s alright, Anon. While I absolutely encourage everyone who is interested to participate, I don’t want to force anyone to do something they’re not comfortable with. I just don’t know what more I can do to keep people interested and involved. 

—Jack