Supernatural Rarepair Shipfest 2012

The voting is over, and the results are in!

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Thank you to everyone who produced an entry and to everyone who voted. You are now free to de-anon your work wherever it is posted, or in the comments below!

Voting on entries for Main Round 1 is now open.

You can read all of the Main Round 1 entries in the Main Round 1 Dreamwidth community. If you wish to leave feedback on any entries, feel free to do so in the comments of the entry in question.

We ask that you read as many entries as possible before voting. Please choose the entries you wish to vote for based on the quality of the entry, the portrayal of the ship involved, and the interpretation of the prompt.

Votes are cast on an individual basis, although if all members of a team vote, that team will receive a point bonus.

When voting, you are asked to list three teams. These must all be different, valid teams in the competition which submitted an entry to this round. You may not vote for your own team, and you can only vote cast one set of votes. Invalid or duplicate votes will be penalised.

When voting, put your Dreamwidth username and your own team in the subject line, and the teams you wish to vote for in the main body of the post. Please use the official team names, i.e. the names of the characters involved in the ship separated by slashes. The order you cast votes in does not matter.

An example voting post could be:

benedlund (Team Writers)
Alice/Bob
Bob/Eve
Alice/Bob/Eve

Leave your votes in the comments below; these are screened and will not be visible to other participants.

Main Round 1 votes must be cast before the Main Round 2 deadline, on January 5th 2013.

Voting on this round is now closed.

Entries for Main Round One need to be submitted by posting them to the Main Round One comm. All team leaders or their appointed replacements should have been invited to this comm already, and have posting rights. If they do not, they should contact the mods immediately.

Formatting for entries is detailed below. Everything within [square brackets], including the square brackets themselves, should be deleted and replaced with the specifics of your entry.

The title for the entry post must be in the following format:

[MEDIA]: [Title] ([Team])

For example:

FIC: The Woman In White (Team Chuck)

When creating the body of the post, you should navigate to the HTML tab at the top of the post editor (next to the subject line) and copy-paste the following.

<b>Summary:</b> [A short summary of the entry.] <b>Word Count:</b> [This line can be deleted for non-written works (works with less than 1000 words).] <b>Characters:</b> [A list of all characters appearing in the fic.] <b>Pairings:</b> [A list of all pairings appearing in the fic, including the team pairing.] <b>Tags:</b> [Failure to use tags in the tagging policy may be penalised, but any other tags can be included if you feel they are suitable.] <cut text="[Entry Title]"> [The body of the entry goes here. This can include formatting, links and embedded media in addition to text.] </cut>

You can then continue editing in normal view or HTML as you prefer and the correct formatting should be produced.

The mods will be using wordcounter.net for consistency and openness in word counts. However, you can use other word count software (which may produce slightly different figures) provided your word count falls within the limits for the media you have chosen.

Please remember that any text within images should be captioned, and will count towards the total word count. The full list of required tags can be found in the Tagging Policy.

Entries must be submitted by midday GMT, December 15 2012 in order to earn participation points for this round. Late entries will be posted late, but may still be voted for and receive placement points.

Note: Only one entry per team can be submitted. If there is some problem and you need to resubmit your entry, please contact the mods to alert them to this. Teams which submit multiple entries without contacting the mods will have points deducted.

And finally, the theme for SRS Round 1 is revealed: species swap!

For this round, we would like to see your chosen pairing, threesome, or, indeed, foursome, in a canon-based AU in which all two, three or four of them happen to be a different species. For instance, if one of your characters is human, we would like to see how things would change if they were, say, an angel. If they are an angel, what would they be like as a demon? Alternatively, what if they were all monsters? How does this affect their moral perspective? How does it challenge the dynamic between your pairing? Whether your happy, harmonious human/human pairing has metamorphosed into forbidden lust between a pagan god and a wendigo, or whether your emotionally fraught angelcest has been transformed into a lackadaisical, kill-happy demonic romp through the graveyards of Wisconsin, something is bound to have altered.

Remember, even if your chosen characters are of the same species in canon, they do not have to be from the same species in your AU. For example, if you were a member of the (non-existent) Team Anna/Gabriel , you could easily make Anna a crossroads demon, and Gabriel a werewolf, and proceed to document the vicissitudes of their gore-spattered love. Alternatively, they could both be vengeful spirits, caught between their feelings for each other, and the uncontrollable urge to drop a tonne of bricks on their killers’ skulls. In short? Go nuts!

Note that we want to see an AU in which these characters have always [edit: or at least, for a significant time period] belonged to a different species, not a story in the canon universe where the characters have been suddenly transformed.

[ Edit: You are welcome to include species not featured in the Supernatural canon, or a different take on species which have been. However, your fic should be understandable with no other reference than the TV series, so any species from other sources should be briefly explained where neccessary.]

If you wish to include characters other than those in your ship, it is your decision as to whether they will be species-swapped or not. However, we would like to see all of the characters within your ship species-swapped.

This prompt is open to your interpretation, but if you don’t have any ideas, you might want to consider the following:

• How do your characters’ respective upbringings now differ? How does this impact their personalities and outlook?
• Who are their family? Is it different from before? How much do they care about them?
• What are their new motivations and goals?
• How does this affect your ship? Do they find it easier or more difficult to understand one another? Are there any parallels between the characters that only become apparent in this setting?
• Are your characters now enemies, or has the species swap made them allies?

Entries can be produced by any team member or collaboratively between team members. Remember that Main Round entries can be in any media or combination of two media, but some media have length restrictions:

• Written entries must be of length 1000-4000 words.
• Graphical entries must be no longer than 10 images or panels.
• Combination written and graphical entries must have 1000-4000 words and no more than 4 images or panels.

Images which contain text, such as speech bubbles or captions, should be followed by a transcription of that text, which counts towards the entry’s word count.

The submission deadline for this round is midday GMT, December 15 2012. Information on how to submit entries is now available here.

Important: Any work you produce for this prompt, whether or not it is chosen as your team’s entry, must be kept anonymous until the voting for this round has ended. An anonymous AO3 collection for this round will be created closer to the deadline.