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Guardian Wishlist 2024 - Rules/FAQ
guardian_wishlist is a Dreamwidth-based gifting fest along the lines of fandomtrees, 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 17 September. How it works
- 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.
- Mods post each person's requests in a separate post on guardian_wishlist. Comments are screened.
- 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.
- At reveals, mods unscreen comments and reveal the collection.
Links
Ask a Mod
AO3 Collection
Promo text and graphics
Fandom and media tags (this year's tags are the plain tags at the bottom)
Spreadsheet
Sign-ups
Schedule
9 August: sign-ups open
17 August: first wishlists are posted
27 August: sign-ups close at the end of the day (any timezone)
28 August: final wishlists are posted
17 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
guardian_wishlist to 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, 西出玉门 | Parallel World, 负负得正 | Land of Broken Hearts, 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 guardian_wishlist 2024.
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_2024 - 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 17 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
trobadora and china_shop.In general
Be respectful. Have fun. Share the Guardian (and associated fandoms) love!
Permission statements
Re: Permission statements
Re: Permission statements