lotr_sesa | [Mod Post] One Week to Go! (And Treat Updates)

This is your one week warning! Submissions are due on December 19th. Please post them to our collection at the AO3, and make sure that your recipient's name is properly entered into the "Gift this work to" field.

We've also had a couple more questions about the mechanics of treats for

lotr_sesa.

1. Does the December 19th deadline apply to treats as well?

Short Answer: No.

Longer Answer: The Dec. 19th deadline does not apply. We're fine with people submitting treats up to the moment the primary part of the exchange goes live. While we never set a specific time on the 24th when submissions are approved (it's entirely contingent on mod availability on a fairly busy day), if the stories/art haven't been released yet, you're still good to go. (In fact, because we never set an exact release time for the 24th, I'll make sure we check back a few hours after the exchange goes live just to approve any treats that didn't quite slip under the wire.)

2. Are gifts to the community allowed? (Ex: Fanart, ficlets, drabbles, other fanworks, etc. that are not specifically prompt-based, or are two or more prompts mixed together, or take an idea from a prompt and run in another direction entirely, etc. that are gifted to the larger

lotr_sesa community, rather than a particular participant.)

Short Answer: Yes.

Longer Answer: ...That's pretty much all there is to it. Yes, of course they're allowed! That sounds like a really nice idea. You can post them to the AO3 collection the same way you would an assignment, but without filling in the "Gift this work to" field.

Good luck on your assignments, everyone, and for both our assigned writers/artists and those of you trying out some treating, have fun!