Battleship 2024 sign-ups and prompts are open!

[battleshipmod]

Sign up at the main AO3 collection. You must sign up in order to be on a team, and your sign-up must contain at least 3 unique fandoms for you to be guaranteed a gift. An individual person may sign up with a maximum of one account, since that account will be placed on a team and eligible for the gift guarantee. Don't worry—there will be plenty of gifts for everyone.

Prompt at the prompt collection. Prompts are very important and we need as many of them as possible! You don't have to sign up in order to prompt, and there's no minimum or maximum number of prompts you can add. Putting a request in the prompt collection doesn't sign you up for a team and doesn't guarantee you a gift. Prompting will remain open throughout the game. Multiple accounts may be used to leave prompts in the prompt collection.

You need a free AO3 account in order to sign up or prompt. If you don't have one, contact the mods for an invitation code.

What to put in your request

You may make up to 10 requests in your sign-up and an infinite additional number in the prompt collection (50 prompts per account times however many accounts you have).

For each request, select 1 fandom, 1 to 20 ships, 1 to 3 formats (in the Character field), and 1 to 400 tagset freeforms (20 in the Additional Tags box plus an unlimited number in the Optional Tags box). Please only use freeforms from the Battleship 2024 tagset in your sign-up or prompt.

Fandoms may be requested multiple times. For each request, you can indicate whether fic, art, and/or podfic is desired.

If you're requesting original work or original characters, please note that these will be created by the work's creator. To request work with your OCs, nominate your original work as a fandom.

Since nominations will be open throughout sign-ups, you may want to periodically check the tagset for new nominations and adjust your requests.

There are no formal assignments. AO3 requires that each sign-up have one offer with some content, so there's a big text box there and you need to put something in it or your sign-up will break. Feel free to say hi or link to a cat photo or tell us your philosophy of life. Don't put any important information in that text box! Use email to communicate with the mods.

DNWs

Your DNW list does not need to explain why you don't want something. Please don't use your DNWs to disparage something that someone else may be into.

DNWs that create an impossible request, such as "DNW incest" for an incest ship, and DNWs that are vague or difficult to understand, such as "DNW hard kinks," will be disregarded. DNWs that directly contradict a freeform (such as requesting an omorashi tag and then "DNW watersports") will be disregarded. However, DNWs may be used to specify how freeforms are applied to requested ships or characters ("DNW Bill Nye wetting his pants").

If you're requesting a solo character, you have the option to DNW romantic or sexual ships involving that character. By default, your creator may depict that character being in relationships.

If you're requesting Creator's Choice of Fandom (CCOF) or Any Fandom I've Requested Before (AFIRB), you may DNW up to three fandoms.

Optional details

Ideas, inspiration, and likes are encouraged but not required.

For each request, you may opt in to receiving sequels to your past gifts and remixes or sequels of your own work.

Linking a letter or a list of likes is encouraged but not required. Please complete and unlock letters by July 6.

If you request Any Fandom I've Requested Before, please link to a list of your past requests or your "everything search" results in the AO3 Automagic App.

Participation anticipation survey

At the bottom of the main collection sign-up form is a link to a Google Forms survey where you tell us your availability and how you think you might participate in the game, so we can balance teams, and also where you tell us what your AO3 and Discord usernames are, so we can add you to the correct team channel in Discord. Please fill it out once you've signed up. The participation questions are optional, and all we ask is your best guess. It's okay if your actual participation turns out to be very different from what you anticipated.

The survey doesn't collect your Google login address, and you can fill it in while entirely logged out of Google. If you prefer not to use the survey, you may email your responses to us instead.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

question: you say "an infinite additional number in the prompt collection." but the prompt collection is limited to 10 requests tops? was that meant in a jokey tone?

[(Anonymous)]

The limit is 50 for me. Which is not infinite, but could as well be. :)

[battleshipmod]

Thank you for pointing that out—it was meant to be 50 (the AO3 max), and we've fixed that now. You really can put in infinite prompts if you use infinite additional accounts. Go wild!