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!
Villains in Addams Family movies go to really unnecessary lengths to defraud them of the family fortune. These people just give it away on whims all the time. If I just walked into the house and started wearing their clothes and spending their money, they wold start introducing me as Cousin Intruder and forget there was ever a time I didn’t live with them.
so we have a conversational safeword in my group of friends and it’s great, idk why more people don’t do this. whenever someone wants a subject to be dropped immediately no questions asked we just say “spleen” and we stop immediately and it’s a really good way to avoid crossing the line between teasing friends and genuinely upsetting them by accident, or stopping debates from turning into actual arguments
Wait but no this is actually a brilliant idea.
When I was a little baby high school student, I used to do the Living Chessboard at our local Renaissance Faire. We always used “forsooth” to indicate if someone was actually injured and needed to quickly end a choreographed fight. It was also very useful when doing little street improvisations because if someone tried to stop you, you could say “forsooth good sir, I must leave.” and they knew you couldn’t do a scene right then. We all used it in real life too, to say “no really” and it was amazing because there was a word used in a casual setting that meant “I’m not playing, I need you do listen to me.” So if someone tried to pick me up or tickle me, I could say “forsooth stop.” And I was instantly obeyed. I had “forsooth” long before I learned what a safeword was, and having a non-sexual safeword for everyday use amongst a circle of friends was the best thing ever. It made me feel very safe and listened to, even as a tiny 14 year old. Because let’s be honest, 14 year old me was teeny tiny and adorable and it’s easy to coo at kids when they say “no don’t pick me up!” but to have a word that every single person respected to mean “whatever I say after this MUST be listened to” was amazing. It gave me a definitive voice when it would have been easy to dismiss me.
So basically having platonic safewords is awesome and I’m all for it.
All works submitted as gifts for the Secret Kalex Santa need to be completed! If it’s something you want to write sequels to later that is completely fine, what you submit just needs to work as a standalone too.
Question of Smoke 