Are you done your secret santa fill and ready to post to ao3? Here’s how to do it!
1. Go to post a new work and get your fic all ready to go—fandom, title, summary, the works! (New to ao3 and not sure how to do that? Here’s a tutorial). Don’t post yet!
2. Before you post, click on the “associations” section. Under “Post to Collections / Challenges” start typing “secretkalexsanta2018″ and select it when it comes up.
3. In the “Gift this work to” field, start typing your giftee’s ao3 username and select it from the dropdown menu.
4. Post your work! It will stay hidden until the whole collection is revealed on December 25, so you can post it whenever you’re done. But please make sure to post it by December 20 at the latest!
5. Whoops, you’ve posted your work already and want to edit it? You can find it here—it will be the only work visible to you until the collection is revealed.
Any questions? Feel free to shoot me a message or an ask at this account!
3.5. Before you post your work (or you can go back and do this later if you want):
– Under “Associations” tick the box “Set a different publication date”
– Make sure the publication date is set to December 25th! This will put your work on the top of the Alex/Kara tag on ao3 when it’s revealed!
Question of Smoke 