trobadora: (Guardian - SID team)
trobadora ([personal profile] trobadora) wrote in [community profile] guardian_wishlist2023-08-16 11:35 pm
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Guardian Wishlist 2023 - Rules/FAQ

A gifting fest for Guardian and related fandoms: guardian-wishlist.dreamwidth.org

[community profile] guardian_wishlist is a Dreamwidth-based gifting fest along the lines of [community profile] fandomtrees, [community profile] fandomgiftbox, etc., but specifically for Guardian (novel, drama, and RPF) and other canons starring the main Guardian actors, with gifts revealed for the Reunion Festival (Mid-Autumn Festival) on 29 September.

How it works
  1. Participants complete the sign-up template with a list of requests and prompts, as well as any DNWs. Sign-ups without Dreamwidth accounts must supply an email address, either in their sign-up or in a screened comment on the Ask a Mod post.
  2. Mods post each person's requests in a separate post on [community profile] guardian_wishlist. Comments are screened.
  3. Anyone can write or make gifts for any sign-up, right up to reveals. There are no assignments, and you don't have to be signed up to participate in gift-giving. You don't need a Dreamwidth or AO3 account.
  4. At reveals, mods unscreen comments and reveal the collection.

Links
Ask a Mod
AO3 Collection
Promo text and graphics
Spreadsheet
Fandom and media tags (this year's tags are the plain tags at the bottom)
Sign-ups

Schedule
21 August: sign-ups open
29 August: first wishlists are posted
8 September: sign-ups close at the end of the day (any timezone)
9 September: final wishlists are posted
29 September (Reunion Festival): gifts are revealed (no earlier than 7am UTC - what time is that for me?)

All times are UTC.

Mod posts and reminders will be crossposted from [community profile] guardian_wishlist to [community profile] sid_guardian.


Rules

Who can sign up?
Anyone can sign up. If you don't have a Dreamwidth account, you must include a current email address in your sign-up or in a screened comment on the Ask a Mod post so we can contact you if necessary, e.g. with queries about your DNWs, and to let you know when gifts are revealed.

You don't need to have an AO3 account, or have your AO3 account set to accept gifts. Please be aware we can't control who will make gifts for you.

What you can request
  • Canons: Wishlist covers Guardian (novel, drama, and RPF) and other canons starring the main Guardian actors (dramas, movies, commercials, etc.), including various Bai Yu/Zhu Yilong character combinations.

    If your fandoms are commercials, photo shoots, etc., please include a link to them, if possible.

    Some examples of related canons: 绅探 | Detective L, 蓬莱间 | Fairyland Lovers, 许你浮生若梦 | Granting You a Dreamlike Life, 人生大事 | Lighting Up the Stars, 沉默的真相 | The Long Night, 美人为馅 | Memory Lost, 叛逆者 | The Rebel, 重啟之極海聽雷 | Reunion: The Sound of the Providence (aka The Lost Tomb Reboot), 新萧十一郎 | The Shaw Eleven Lang, 知否知否应是绿肥红瘦 | The Story of Ming Lan, 风起陇西 | The Wind Blows from Longxi, L'Oréal Time Engraver commercials, Thermos Flower Series commercials, Zhu Yilong KFC commercials, Bai Yu Pizza Hut commercials ...

  • Media: Requests can include any media, including transformative works like fic, art, icons, vids, podfic, and also picspams and meta, translation advice, related music links, anything that can be posted or linked in a comment. If you aren't requesting fic, please ask for a range of media, not (for example) only vids or only podfic.

    Some more examples of things you could request: ideas on what "steampunk" could look like in the Guardian universe, screencaps of that one ad, an icon of Bai Yu smiling, crossover fanvid recs, an ode to Da Qing, a list of place(s) where an English speaker can buy merch, songs that makes you think of Zhu Hong, rec(s) for fanwork(s) that made you smile, any Detective L inspired recipe, favourite side-characters, feedback about X fanwork ... (Thanks to Mo(on)Raccoon on Discord for this list!)

Are there assignments?
No assignments! Anyone can make gifts! We hope participants will join in the fun and make gifts for other wishlists, but you are not required to.

Requirements for gifts
Gifts must fit the requests and not include any DNWs. Prompts are optional. There are no minimums for gifts. Gifts must be unique to the recipient.

Podfic
  • For podficcers looking for creators with blanket permissions statements (meaning you don't have to contact them to ask before podficcing their works), try checking:
    • https://www.fpslist.org/ - this tool lets you filter by fandom (including some tiny fandoms relevant to our interests!) to find creators who have permission statements
    • specific authors' profile pages on Dreamwidth or AO3.
  • For people who are requesting podfic in their sign-up, please include in your request whether you mean podfic of your own work or someone else's.

  • For all participants, if you're happy for people to make podfic of your existing fanworks, as gifts for you or for others, and you don't already have a blanket permission in your AO3 profile, please comment below with a permission statement, either generally or specifically for [community profile] guardian_wishlist 2023.

    Permission statements can give blanket permission (i.e. covering all kinds of transformative works, from remixes and translations to podfic) or be targeted to specific media. You can include notes such as "please send me a link to the posted work" or not. You don't have to request podfic (or listen to it!) to give permission - someone might want to record your fic for someone else.

How to post a gift
All gifts must be hidden from public view until reveals, either by posting directly in a comment on that person's wishlist, or by posting to the AO3 collection or a Google document accessible only with a direct link, a private tumblr post, or something similar.

(If the collection doesn't show in the dropdown on AO3, go directly to the collection page and click the "Post to Collection" button from there, or alternatively paste in the collection name - Guardian_Wishlist_2023 - exactly as given here.)

Regardless of where you post, please comment on the wishlist with a link to the gift. Gift comments can be anonymous or signed in. Comments are screened until reveals.

If you've created a gift for someone whose AO3 account is set to not allow gifts, you can post the gift to the collection without a recipient.

If your gift does not meet AO3's terms of service (for example, picspam, non-transformative meta or resource) and is too big to fit in a comment, you can post to Googledocs, set the security to "anyone with the link", and link to the work in the wishlist comments. Other hosting (Tumblr, etc.) is also fine.

Gifting continues right up until reveals on 29 September.

Required warnings
For gifts containing graphic sexual content, graphic violence, rape/non-con, underage sexual content, or major character death, please either post to AO3 and link, or include content warnings in the subject line of your comment.

Upon reveals
After reveals, please thank everyone who generously made you gifts! And bookmark or track your wishlist post, in case there are late gifts. Participants who don't thank their creators may not sign up again next year.

Everyone gets a gift
Every wishlist will get at least one gift.

Abusive or inappropriate gifts
If we notice abusive or inappropriate gifts, we'll delete them, but mods will not be checking gifts in detail, so please a) check DNWs before you post and b) play nice.

Upon reveals, if any of the gifts you receive seem abusive, contain a DNW or are otherwise inappropriate, let us know immediately. You are not expected to comment on gifts that are abusive or against the rules.

Who we are
Your wishlist mods are [personal profile] trobadora and [personal profile] china_shop.

In general
Be respectful. Have fun. Share the Guardian (and associated fandoms) love!
shadaras: A phoenix with wings fully outspread, holidng a rose and an arrow in its talons. (Default)

Re: Permission statements

[personal profile] shadaras 2023-08-22 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
I have a blanket permission statement in my ao3 profile.

You're welcome to podfic any of my works, and I even have an audioclip of how I pronounce my username linked in my ao3 profile. Feel free to gift podfics of my works to anyone who wants podfics!

I've written for Guardian (both TV [more often] and Novel [a few times]), The Lost Tomb Reboot (a few times), Detective L (a few times), and The Rebel (once).

(people are also welcome to be like "hey, what if you remixed X fic Shadaras wrote?", even if you aren't me! love for people to be inspired by things I made! <3)

Re: Permission statements

(Anonymous) 2023-08-22 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
Jayswing101 (tumblr) / jayfire (ao3) here to give blanket permission for any fanworks inspired by any of my fics or art! I do ask that you please link back to the work that inspired you, thank you!

Also please note that some of my works do incorporate aspects of my Kanien'kehá:ka (an Indigenous north american nation) culture, please be respectful of those cultural elements and ask if you're concerned about misrepresenting anything 💙
amedia: Man looking out from behind a giant clock, leaning both arms on the structure and looking pensive; caption says TIME TIME TIME (Guardian: L'Oreal Time Engraver 2)

Re: Permission statements

[personal profile] amedia 2023-08-30 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
I love your blanket permission statement! So much so that I, er, may have swiped it, with a few modifications. Does that count as a remix? [grin]

Srsly, if you mind, I can take some time and rewrite it.

Here's the link to the blanket statement on my AO3 profile: Blanket permission statement for transformative works.
Edited (to add the link to my AO3 profile) 2023-08-30 02:48 (UTC)
yaaurens: (hei pao shi)

Re: Permission statements

[personal profile] yaaurens 2023-08-24 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
I am totally open to people making podfic and/or creating other transformative works of my existing fanworks, provided they credit me and let me know that they have made their creation.
velithya: (Default)

Re: Permission statements

[personal profile] velithya 2023-09-03 09:50 am (UTC)(link)
For the purposes of [community profile] guardian_wishlist, podfics and artwork of my existing fanworks, as gifts for myself or others, are all permitted. If posting on AO3 please use the "Inspired By" function to link back to the original work. If posting elsewhere please drop me a note so I can link back from the original work in another way. Thank you ♥
sef1029: Shen Wei and Zhao Yunlan faces (Default)

[personal profile] sef1029 2023-08-16 11:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks for covering the podfic issues so effectively!
china_shop: Lao-Chu dressed all in black, giving a thumbs up, against a purple background. (Guardian - CSZ thumbs up)

[personal profile] china_shop 2023-08-16 11:12 pm (UTC)(link)
We learned from last year. *g* (Yay, podfic!)