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The works are revealed! ❄️

Hitman Snow Festival 2023 Collection

Thank you all so much for participating. Now it's time to read the fics and enjoy the festival!

The collection will stay open for late treats until author reveal.

Author reveal is on December 30th!

24 hours until the posting deadline!

Please make sure that your work is posted to the collection (just click the "fulfil gift" button when publishing the work) before December 18, 23:59 UTC!

If you need an extension for any reason, please let me know!

Works that are still in your drafts won't count, please double-check that you actually posted it. Posted works will only be visible to you (well, and to me, but I won't peek) until work reveals on December 25th, so you'll still have some time for last minute edits and such.

Don't worry, there'll be a handy checklist before work reveals!

Sign-ups are now open! ❄️

Let's celebrate another end-of-year with our favourite characters!

Collection | Rules | Sign-Up Form | Tag Set

Sign-ups are open until November 26, 23:59 UTC.

Please re-familiarise yourself with this event's rules before signing up.

If you have any questions, please leave a comment on this post, send me a DM either here or on hitmanexchange, send an Ask on Tumblr, or send an email to hitmanexchange+snow@gmail.com

If you don't have an AO3 account yet, please add yourself to the queue now to be able to participate in this event. Contact me if you didn't receive an AO3 invite one day before sign-ups close.

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Hitman Snow Festival 2022 Collection

Schedule

November 13 - Nominations Open
November 20 - Nominations Close
November 21 - Sign-Ups Open
November 27 - Sign-Ups Close
November 28 - Assignments Out
December 18 - Assignments Due
December 25 - Gift Reveals (16:59 UTC)
December 30 - Creator Reveals (16:59 UTC)
All times are 23:59 UTC unless otherwise specified.

The Basics

Hitman Snow Festival is a gift exchange for the Hitman fandom inspired by the Yuletide Exchange.

Assignments are required to have a minimum wordcount of 500 words. Longer works and additional gifts (treats) are welcome.

What is a gift exchange?

Each participant offers to write a story about characters or pairings of their choosing, and in return gets to request to receive a story about characters or pairings of their choosing.

Nominations

The first phase of Hitman Snow Festival is nominations, where you submit the characters, relationships and additional tags that you are interested in writing or receiving in this prompt fest to the tag set.

Each person can nominate ten character or relationship tags and ten additional tags. The tag set is what participants will use for their requests and offers later in the process.

What fandoms are eligible?

Hitman (Video Games), Hitman (Comics), Hitman: Enemy Within, Hitman: Damnation

Nominations format

You can nominate characters, relationships, and additional tags.

Nominating characters

You may nominate named characters that don't have a tag on the Archive yet. Please use the name order "Given Name Family Name" as usual for Western canons.

Nominating Relationships

You may nominate / or & relationships. "A/B" is a romantic or sexual relationship; "A & B" is a platonic or familial relationship.

Please alphabetise ships by family name.

Requests

How many requests can I add?

You can add up to three requests to your sign-up. If you want to request a more rare pairing, please make sure to also request at least one of the characters individually, to make matching possible.

Additional Tags

For each request, you can include up to ten additional tags from our 2022 tag set. If you'd like to suggest a specific scenario, add it to your request's description.

Try to find the right balance between an interesting idea that gives authors something to work with and a too restrictive request.

Characters and Ships

You may add up to five single character and one relationship to each of your requests. If you absolutely want to see the character interacting with a specific other character, make sure to request ship tags — A/B for romantic or sexual interactions, A & B for platonic or familial interactions.

To make matching possible for the more rare ships in our fandom, please make sure to additionally request at least one of the characters individually.

DNW and Letters

You also have the option to add a link to a letter. These can be very useful to give your writer ideas for possible tricks and treats. It can also be invaluable for telling them what you do not want at all.

If you have anything you Do Not Want (DNW), it must be in the request directly to be enforceable. Authors should respect the Do Not Want list; however, the requester should not abuse it to try and force the author into a corner. Do Not Wants that appear only in an external letter will not be enforced.

Am I guaranteed a gift?

Yes, this is a gift exchange. Each participant will write one story and receive one story in return.

Assignments

Minimum Requirements

Since this is a busy time for fanfic writers, the minimum requirements are intentionally low: 500 words. If you want to write more, you can.

Assignments need to include the requested character(s) and character dynamics. They don't have to include the scenario suggested in your recipient's request, but it is highly encouraged. You only need to write one story according to one of you recipient's requests.

Works need to be newly published for this exchange and created by you.

Posting

Either go to your Assignment page on AO3, which you can find under the "Assignments" link on your Profile page, or go to the Hitman Snow Festival subcollection page and click on "Your Assignment". You should see two buttons at the top right of your Snow Festival assignment: "Fulfill", and "Default".

Click "Fulfill", and you'll be taken to a posting form. This will automatically post your story into the current year's Snow Festival challenge. It also has your recipient's name already filled in. All you need to do is fill in the rest of the form, preview it to make sure it looks okay, and post.

If you're posting a treat, you won't have an assignment or "Fulfill" button. Instead, go to the subcollection and click on "Post to Collection" under the collection title. This will take you to a form with the challenge collection name already filled in. Fill in the recipient's name manually, then fill in the rest of the form, preview it to make sure it looks okay, and post.

Deadline

Assignments are due December 18, to make sure there's enough time to find pinch hitters if needed.

Work Reveals

The works will be revealed on December 25, as soon as every participant has at least one gift.

Anonymity

Works are anonymous until creator reveals, the weekend after work reveals. Please do not add anything to your work that gives away your identity, including adding the work to a non-anonymous series.

Additional Gifts (Treats)

If you'd like to write an additional story for your recipient or for another participant in the exchange, you may do that. Please make sure that the recipient of your treat has additional gifts enabled and is open for treats.

If you're open for treats, make sure that you have additional gifts enabled in your user settings, and leave a note about it in your requests.

Be friendly!

Make sure that your requests and your fanworks do not contain any hostile elements towards people you disagree with in any part of the fanwork (title, tags, summary, author's notes, body text). Refrain from adding DNI notes.