2019 Cap-Iron Man Big Bang Posting Instructions

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It's almost time for Big Bang posting! All scheduled posting dates will be emailed out to everyone, and a full posting calendar is available here.

Big Bang stories and accompanying artwork should be completed, formatted, and ready to post by your posting date.

Each participating writer and artist will upload their own fic or art individually. Remember to link to your partner's work when your team has posted, and 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 Big Bang posting period, and a link must be sent to mods so that the works can be added easily.

Posting Day Checklist:

1. Post your completed work to AO3 (both art and fic!).


2. Add your work to our 2019 Cap-IM BB collection (alternatively, post directly to the collection by clicking on the link and then the "post new work to collection" button).


3. Optional cross-posting to other platforms.


4. Add links to your team's work(s) on your BB post(s) once they too have posted.


5. Submit your DW masterpost to the cap_ironman community.

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POSTING YOUR WORK

ARCHIVE OF OUR OWN
All works are required to be posted as unlocked works AO3 for longevity and accessibility reasons. This includes artwork.

Here are some options commonly used when posting a Big Bang collaboration:

• Inspired By — The writer creates an AO3 work for their fic, and the artist posts their art to AO3 separately as a work inspired by the fic. 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.


• Author's Note — The writer and artist(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 Big Bang collection. You can do this by either posting the work directly to the collection, or by manually adding "2019_Cap_Ironman_Big_Bang" 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 25,000 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:
For art, do not host your artwork on a site where it can easily be deleted, requires special access, or use a link that can be broken. For this reason, we ask that you do not rely on Tumblr to provide the permalink to your artwork.

POSTING THE MASTERPOST (REQUIRED)

On your chosen posting day, ONE member from your entire team is required to make a masterpost to the main Dreamwidth community. Writers, if your fic was claimed twice by two different artists, you will be expected to coordinate with both of your artists and include both of their works in the masterpost.

Please use the following form:


<strong>Title:</strong> <strong>Author:</strong> <strong>Artist:</strong> <strong>Universe:</strong> <strong>Rating (both fic and art):</strong> <strong>Word Count:</strong> <strong>Warnings:</strong> <strong>Notes:</strong> <strong>Fic Summary:</strong> <strong><a href="FIC_URL_GOES_HERE">Link to Fic Page</a></strong> <strong><a href="ART_URL_GOES_HERE">Link to Art Page</a></strong>


Art thumbnails or banners are allowed in your post, but not required. Please make sure all thumbnails are SFW (safe for work). If you are opting to post artwork directly to the community, you are welcome to do so, but please make sure the image is under a Dreamwidth cut and, if necessary, warn appropriately for content:


<div text="Big Bang artwork" class="ljcut"><img src="DIRECT_IMAGE_LINK_GOES_HERE" _fcksavedurl="DIRECT_IMAGE_LINK_GOES_HERE"></div>


Please tag your masterpost with the following: challenge: big 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, please make a note of it in the text of your masterpost and a mod will get right to 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 master post, or you can contact the Big 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, please make sure to indicate that it is a work for the Cap-Iron Man Big Bang Challenge and link to your partner's work(s) in the post.

If posting on Tumblr, be sure to tag your post with #capimbb or #capimbb2019 within the first 5 tags so the mods will be able to find it, or email us a rebloggable link to guarantee that it'd 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 with a link or cut to the full version.

Remember this is a collaborative event; we will not reblog Big 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!