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Treats are extra gifts that are outside of your assignment. Say a prompt really catches your eye or a ship intrigues you and you want to make something, but it’s not your assignment. That’s what a treat is. We’re not stopping you. In fact, we encourage this!
There’s no limit to the amount of treats you can give (and they are not mandatory to give, either). Unlike your assignment, you do not need to hit the minimum word or (for fanvids or music) time requirements, and they do not need to be in by the main gift due date of November 7th. Just stay respectful of your treat recipient’s Do Not Wants. You can also give one treat to multiple people if it fits!
So how does one go about submitting a treat?
Step 1.
Treats are a little harder in that you won’t have an easy, “take care of everything” button like you do when submitting assignments. To submit a treat, you have to go to the dashboard of the A03 exchange page. See that button that says “Post to Collection”? Click it.
Step 2.
This brings us back to a standard A03 submission page, only the Collection is already filled out for you (we don’t recommend searching for a collection yourself from a blank submission page, as most don’t show up on their own). From here, go ahead and input the username (or usernames) of who you want your treat to go to. Do not tick that it fulfills an open assignment, as this is for your actual assignment, not just anything going into the collection.
But what if you don’t have someone you want to gift the work to? Maybe a pairing no one requested but got nominated caught your eye, and you wanted to make something for them and submit to the collection. That’s okay, too! Then you leave that field blank, simple as that!
As mentioned previously, treats may be submitted any time before the collection closes (tentatively the end of November). Like assignments, it will appear as an anonymous gift until the works are revealed. If you submit a treat before the author/artist reveal, it will show the creator as anonymous, and you will find it on your Works in Collections page. If you submit after the author/artist reveal, it will show you as the creator at the time you post.
Same side note as with the assignment submissions: Please don’t check that your work is part of a series. That gives away the anonymous portion of the exchange.
(via https://ift.tt/2NOh0uO)
There’s no limit to the amount of treats you can give (and they are not mandatory to give, either). Unlike your assignment, you do not need to hit the minimum word or (for fanvids or music) time requirements, and they do not need to be in by the main gift due date of November 7th. Just stay respectful of your treat recipient’s Do Not Wants. You can also give one treat to multiple people if it fits!
So how does one go about submitting a treat?
Step 1.
Treats are a little harder in that you won’t have an easy, “take care of everything” button like you do when submitting assignments. To submit a treat, you have to go to the dashboard of the A03 exchange page. See that button that says “Post to Collection”? Click it.
Step 2.
This brings us back to a standard A03 submission page, only the Collection is already filled out for you (we don’t recommend searching for a collection yourself from a blank submission page, as most don’t show up on their own). From here, go ahead and input the username (or usernames) of who you want your treat to go to. Do not tick that it fulfills an open assignment, as this is for your actual assignment, not just anything going into the collection.
But what if you don’t have someone you want to gift the work to? Maybe a pairing no one requested but got nominated caught your eye, and you wanted to make something for them and submit to the collection. That’s okay, too! Then you leave that field blank, simple as that!
As mentioned previously, treats may be submitted any time before the collection closes (tentatively the end of November). Like assignments, it will appear as an anonymous gift until the works are revealed. If you submit a treat before the author/artist reveal, it will show the creator as anonymous, and you will find it on your Works in Collections page. If you submit after the author/artist reveal, it will show you as the creator at the time you post.
Same side note as with the assignment submissions: Please don’t check that your work is part of a series. That gives away the anonymous portion of the exchange.
(via https://ift.tt/2NOh0uO)