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The posting period for the 2019 Cap-IM Reverse Bang is almost upon us! All scheduled posting dates will be emailed out to everyone, and a calendar will be available on the 2019 Reverse Bang Full Posting Schedule post.
Reverse Bang artworks and accompanying stories should be completed, formatted, and ready to post in full by your posting date.
Each participating artist and writer will upload their own fic or art individually. We require you to link to your partner's work when your team has posted, and it's courteous to acknowledge the hard work they've put into this collaboration!
All works must be posted on your scheduled posting date by midnight, Pacific Standard Time. If something comes up, contact the mods and we'll be able to make arrangements to ensure your work is posted on time. A challenge-fulfilling fic should be posted all at once, and it should be complete as a stand-alone. Anything extra a participant might want to post after their posting date can be done at their own leisure. Extra works will only be included in the Challenge Masterlist if posted before the end of the Reverse Bang posting period, and a link must be sent to mods so that the works can be added easily.
Posting Day Checklist:
- Post your completed work to AO3 (both art and fic!).
- Add your work to our 2019 Cap-IM RBB collection (alternatively, post directly to the collection).
- Optional cross-posting to other platforms.
- Add links to your team's work(s) once they too have posted.
- Submit your DW masterpost to the cap-ironman community.
- Email cap.im.events@gmail.com with your SFW art banner for the Challenge Masterlist.
POSTING YOUR WORK
ARCHIVE OF OUR OWN
All works are required to be posted as unlocked works AO3 for longevity and accessibility reasons.
Here are some options commonly used when posting a Reverse Bang collaboration:
- Inspired By — The artist creates an AO3 work for their artwork, and the author posts their fic to AO3 as a work inspired by the art. This is a good option if your team prefers not to embed the artwork into the story.
- Co-Authors — Creating a single AO3 work with both the artist and writer listed as co-authors, with the artwork embedded into the story. This doesn't work as well for teams that have 2 writers posting.
- Author's Note — The artist and the writer(s) link to each other's works at the top of their AO3 work and describe the association in their own words without using an AO3 function (or in addition to it).
If you need to make an AO3 account, please request an invite here and keep in mind that it might take a few days for you to get it and be able to create the account. If you run into trouble, contact the mods at cap.im.events@gmail.com ASAP so we can sort out an invite.
When posting your work onto AO3, be sure that it is in our 2019 Captain America/Iron Man Reverse Bang collection. You can do this by either posting the work directly to the collection, or by manually adding "cap_ironman_2019_RBB" in the Post to Collection / Challenges field in the Associations section when posting your draft.
For help on AO3 posting, from embedding images to posting in a collection, please check out our AO3 Guide for Cap-Ironman Events.
Writers, please be aware that depending on the writing program you are using, your word count may be different from AO3's when posting. Mods will be going by AO3 for the 5,000 word minimum, so make sure your fic meets that requirement.
Important tip: if you have created a draft of your fic, please make sure that you change the date to your posting date before you click post, otherwise your AO3 posting date will be the date you created your draft and readers looking at the feed by date might not see it.
ARTISTS:
This year, we're starting out a mandatory banner requirement for each Reverse Bang entry. While it is optional to have the art banner in your own Dreamwidth masterpost, you must email a RBB banner for your entry to cap.im.events@gmail.com on your posting date. This will be used in our Challenge Masterlist when we post a round up of everyone's works for this year's challenge.
Please follow the guidelines below when sending us your art banner:
- The banner must be Safe For Work (SFW).
- The banner must be 580px wide and 200px tall or a higher resolution image with the same dimensions (e.g. 1160:400) so that when resized it won't be squished. Please note that the mods will crop your image to size if it is sent incorrectly.
- The banner can be a SFW crop of the artwork by itself; a banner made up of a crop of the art which includes fic title, author(s) and artist; or a specially made banner for the accompanying fic.
- Each team's artist, or the person in charge of the DW masterpost, must send us their art banner by midnight PST of their posting date.
POSTING THE DW MASTERPOST (REQUIRED)
On your chosen posting day, ONE member from your entire team is required to make a masterpost to the main Dreamwidth community. Artists, if your fic was claimed twice by two different writers, you will be expected to coordinate with them both and include all works in the masterpost.
On your chosen posting day, after everyone has posted their respective works,one member from your team must create a masterpost to the main Cap-Iron Man comm by filling in one of the following form templates, then pasting it as an HTML Dreamwidth post and posting to the community. If there is more than one art file, add links as necessary.
If your team consists of an artist and one writer, please title your post "Cap-IM RBB 2019 Team [YOUR TEAM NAME]: [YOUR TITLE]" and use the following form:
If you're in a team with two writers working with one artist, please title your post "Cap-IM RBB 2019 Team [YOUR TEAM NAME]: [YOUR TITLE]" and use the following form:
Please tag your masterpost appropriately on the
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cap_ironman comm with the following: challenge: reverse bang, fanart, fanfic, genre, rating, universe and all team members' usernames. Usernames are in the format x: USERNAMEHERE. If someone on your team doesn’t have a tag yet, please let the mods know so we can add it! You can find all of the community's existing tags here and additional posting guidelines if needed.
In case none of your team members have a Dreamwidth account, you can either set one up and make your own masterpost, or you can contact the Reverse Bang mod team by emailing cap.im.events@gmail.com and send them the required information before your posting date. Your masterpost will then be published on your behalf using the mod account.
CROSSPOSTS
If you'd like to share your fic or art on other social media platforms (eg: Twitter, Dreamwidth, Pillowfort, Tumblr etc.), please make sure to indicate that it is a work for the Cap-Iron Man Reverse Bang Challenge and link to your partner's work(s) in the post.
If posting on Tumblr, be sure to tag your post with #capimrbb or #capimrbb2019 within the first 5 tags so the mods will be able to find it, or email us a rebloggable link to guarantee that it will be reblogged. Please note that we'll be queueing the posts as we see them, so it may take a couple of days for them to be shared on our blog. If your post features art, we will only reblog SFW (safe for work) posts: we encourage you to post a 'safe for work' crop or your art banner with a link or cut to the full version.
Remember this is a collaborative event; we will not reblog Reverse Bang works that do not link to the accompanying fic or art.
If you have any other questions or concerns, please let us know by emailing cap.im.events@gmail.com!
