Posting and Tagging Rules
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b2memHere are the rules for posting and tagging your fanworks in the B2MeM Dreamwidth community. I encourage people to at least skim them and refresh your memory, even if you’ve done B2MeM before. Also, this year we’re on Dreamwidth for the first time, and some things work a little differently. Please either comment here or email the mod team at b2mem.mod@gmail.com if you have any questions.
For the title of your post, use the format "Fanwork Title by Creator" (e.g., A Story About Hobbits by Middle-earth Fan).
Copy and paste the form below into the body of the post. All fields are required, except for the optional notes. If one or more does not apply, please use "none" or N/A or the like. Using a cut is also required for all works.
Please include the full prompt, including the category (initial prompt, daily prompt, or comment prompt). This will make things much easier for the taggers.
<strong>B2MeM Prompt and Category:</strong>
<strong>Format:</strong>
<strong>Genre:</strong>
<strong>Rating:</strong>
<strong>Warnings:</strong>
<strong>Characters:</strong>
<strong>Pairings:</strong>
<strong>Creator’s Notes (optional):</strong>
<strong>Summary:</strong>
<cut>FANWORK GOES HERE</cut>
You are encouraged to tag your entry for character(s), genre(s), format(s), and prompt(s). If you don’t, a volunteer tagger will do it for you. (Please see below for more info on tagging.)
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If you wish to post a link to your fanwork on another site: you need to fill out the header, but you do not need to use a cut if you are only linking to your fanwork. Instead, just add the link to your creation after the summary. (If you are both linking to and posting your fanwork here, you still need to use a cut.)
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Explanation of the form's fields:
B2MeM Prompt: the prompt the piece was created for, including the category. (The category means whether it’s an initial prompt, daily prompt, or comment prompt.)
Format: short story, drabble, photomanip, poem, sketch, et cetera
Genre: the genre(s) of your fanwork. Please see MPTT’s glossary for definitions of most genres.
Rating: use either the G-NC17, General/Teens/Adult, or General/Teens/Mature/Explicit system. If you are unsure how to rate your piece, the ratings guidelines on Many Paths To Tread or the Silmarillion Writers' Guild may be helpful. (Note that the B2MeM event does not follow MPTT's restrictions on rating or content.)
Warnings: reasonable warnings for content that fellow fans might wish to avoid, such as violence, gore, explicit sex, incest, etc. You may also put Choose Not to Warn (CNTW) in the warnings field. Choose Not to Warn indicates that the work may contain anything, including potentially triggering or explicit content. Participants who wish to avoid certain content should make their own decisions on whether to read or view CNTW entries.
Characters: a list of important characters featured in your piece
Pairings: a list of any important romantic/sexual pairings in your piece
Summary: a brief synopsis of what the piece is about
This year's tagging team is myself, Indy, and our tagging volunteer Jenni (jenni_blog). Please don’t hesitate to ask me or email the mod team at b2mem.mod@gmail.com if you have any questions about how or what to tag, if there’s a tag you need deleted, or anything related to this subject.
A few general guidelines:
~ It’s necessary to have one standardized form of every tag. Dreamwidth doesn’t work like AO3; we have no power to “syn” or connect different versions of the same tag behind the scenes. If one person tags as character:sam and another person tags character:samwise gamgee, DW treats them as two completely separate tags. So please use the existing form of the tag, if there is one. The list of currently existing tags may be found here: https://b2mem.dreamwidth.org/tag/
~ Please check to see if the tag you want already exists before creating one. You may need to check under more than one name for a character. For example, if your work includes Elu Thingol, you won’t find him under Elu or Elwë, but there is a tag for character:thingol.
~ The formatting is to have no space between the colon and the subject. For example, character:frodo. The same goes for every tag.
~ Tags are not capitalized. We also don’t use accents or diacritical marks of any kind in tags (ë, ú, and so on), since not everyone knows how to do them.
~ Please check your spelling. A misspelled or misformatted tag still appears in the “available tag” list even if you correct it after the fact and must be manually deleted by the mods. (People can and have used misspellings and misformattings before because they appeared first in the list!) If you notice that you've accidentally created a misspelled or superfluous tag, it's helpful to let me or Indy know so we can delete it.
~ If you are typing the tags in, please remember to separate the tags with commas. If you don’t do this, the tags will merge together into one Frankenstein monster tag. (Don’t worry, the tag mods can fix it.)
~ Please do not use the tags beginning with 2018 or other years. These are admin tags.
~ For those more familiar with AO3 and Tumblr: tagging on Dreamwidth is solely for organizational purposes within a community or journal. There is no need for tags such as “b2mem” or “tolkien fanfic” or the like.
~ We tag each entry for prompt, characters, format, and genre.
Details and Examples
Prompt
The prompt tag varies year by year. This year, we are tagging for the prompt category: that is, whether the prompt comes from the initial list of prompts that was posted in mid-February, one of the daily prompts posted in March, or a comment prompt. The comment prompt tag would be used if you posted a rec list of several works that you had commented on to fulfill one of this year’s comment prompts, or something similar.
Motw in the tags stands for this year’s theme, “Music of the Waters.”
EXAMPLES:
motw:initial, motw:daily, motw:comment
Character
-Please tag only for the main characters of your work -- there’s no need to tag for a character who is briefly mentioned or appears in one sentence.
-Please do not create group tags such as character:fellowship or character:dwarves, as we prefer you to tag by individual character. You can use the character:oc tag if your work features original characters.
-We do not capitalize characters’ names in tags. We also don’t use accents or diacritical marks (ë, ú, and so on), since not everyone knows how to do them.
EXAMPLES:
character:eowyn, character:finwe
(NOT character:éowyn or character:Finwë)
Format
-This is fairly simple. Is your work fic, poetry, artwork, etc.? Please note that all forms of poetry go under format:poetry. Also note that all drabbles and variations thereof (double, triple, etc.) go under format:drabble. (We use the true drabble definition of exactly 100 words.) There is no format:fic tag.
-For fanfic, the format tag is dictated by length. Ficlets are 999 words or shorter, not including drabbles. Short stories are 1000 to 9999 words. (For reference, because we’ve yet to need these tags, novellas are 10,000 to 39,999 words and novels are 40,000+ words.) Chaptered stories go under format:chaptered regardless of the length of individual updates.
EXAMPLES:
format:ficlet, format:digital art
Genre
-What genre(s) does your work fall under? If you don’t see one you think fits, please add it.
EXAMPLES:
genre:slash, genre:fluff
How to Tag:
If you’re typing your tags manually, please remember to check your format and spelling, and to separate tags with a comma. There are multiple different ways to tag an entry on Dreamwidth.
1) When posting your entry, click on the Tags box and type in the tags manually.
Unlike LiveJournal, Dreamwidth has autocomplete for tags, meaning that it will try to guess what tag you meant from the letters you’ve typed so far. This can be both helpful and confusing. If you’ve only typed in a few letters, it will almost certainly autocomplete to the wrong thing. That’s fine! Just ignore it and keep typing the correct tag, or correct it to what you want.
If you’re not used to Dreamwidth, you might want to take a moment to double-check that the autocomplete hasn’t accidentally put any tags on your entry that you don’t want.
2) Type out the complete tag(s) in another document, then copy and paste into the tags field. (Remember to separate tags with a comma!)
3) Post your entry, and then go back to add the tags by clicking the “Edit Tags” icon at the bottom of the entry. You will see a list of all the existing tags in alphabetical order. You can scroll down and select as many tags as you want. If you want to add more than one tag, hold down Ctrl while clicking.
You can also type your tags manually into the “Current tags” box.
Posting Rules
For the title of your post, use the format "Fanwork Title by Creator" (e.g., A Story About Hobbits by Middle-earth Fan).
Copy and paste the form below into the body of the post. All fields are required, except for the optional notes. If one or more does not apply, please use "none" or N/A or the like. Using a cut is also required for all works.
Please include the full prompt, including the category (initial prompt, daily prompt, or comment prompt). This will make things much easier for the taggers.
<strong>B2MeM Prompt and Category:</strong>
<strong>Format:</strong>
<strong>Genre:</strong>
<strong>Rating:</strong>
<strong>Warnings:</strong>
<strong>Characters:</strong>
<strong>Pairings:</strong>
<strong>Creator’s Notes (optional):</strong>
<strong>Summary:</strong>
<cut>FANWORK GOES HERE</cut>
You are encouraged to tag your entry for character(s), genre(s), format(s), and prompt(s). If you don’t, a volunteer tagger will do it for you. (Please see below for more info on tagging.)
*
If you wish to post a link to your fanwork on another site: you need to fill out the header, but you do not need to use a cut if you are only linking to your fanwork. Instead, just add the link to your creation after the summary. (If you are both linking to and posting your fanwork here, you still need to use a cut.)
*
Explanation of the form's fields:
B2MeM Prompt: the prompt the piece was created for, including the category. (The category means whether it’s an initial prompt, daily prompt, or comment prompt.)
Format: short story, drabble, photomanip, poem, sketch, et cetera
Genre: the genre(s) of your fanwork. Please see MPTT’s glossary for definitions of most genres.
Rating: use either the G-NC17, General/Teens/Adult, or General/Teens/Mature/Explicit system. If you are unsure how to rate your piece, the ratings guidelines on Many Paths To Tread or the Silmarillion Writers' Guild may be helpful. (Note that the B2MeM event does not follow MPTT's restrictions on rating or content.)
Warnings: reasonable warnings for content that fellow fans might wish to avoid, such as violence, gore, explicit sex, incest, etc. You may also put Choose Not to Warn (CNTW) in the warnings field. Choose Not to Warn indicates that the work may contain anything, including potentially triggering or explicit content. Participants who wish to avoid certain content should make their own decisions on whether to read or view CNTW entries.
Characters: a list of important characters featured in your piece
Pairings: a list of any important romantic/sexual pairings in your piece
Summary: a brief synopsis of what the piece is about
Tagging Rules
This year's tagging team is myself, Indy, and our tagging volunteer Jenni (
jenni_blog). Please don’t hesitate to ask me or email the mod team at b2mem.mod@gmail.com if you have any questions about how or what to tag, if there’s a tag you need deleted, or anything related to this subject.A few general guidelines:
~ It’s necessary to have one standardized form of every tag. Dreamwidth doesn’t work like AO3; we have no power to “syn” or connect different versions of the same tag behind the scenes. If one person tags as character:sam and another person tags character:samwise gamgee, DW treats them as two completely separate tags. So please use the existing form of the tag, if there is one. The list of currently existing tags may be found here: https://b2mem.dreamwidth.org/tag/
~ Please check to see if the tag you want already exists before creating one. You may need to check under more than one name for a character. For example, if your work includes Elu Thingol, you won’t find him under Elu or Elwë, but there is a tag for character:thingol.
~ The formatting is to have no space between the colon and the subject. For example, character:frodo. The same goes for every tag.
~ Tags are not capitalized. We also don’t use accents or diacritical marks of any kind in tags (ë, ú, and so on), since not everyone knows how to do them.
~ Please check your spelling. A misspelled or misformatted tag still appears in the “available tag” list even if you correct it after the fact and must be manually deleted by the mods. (People can and have used misspellings and misformattings before because they appeared first in the list!) If you notice that you've accidentally created a misspelled or superfluous tag, it's helpful to let me or Indy know so we can delete it.
~ If you are typing the tags in, please remember to separate the tags with commas. If you don’t do this, the tags will merge together into one Frankenstein monster tag. (Don’t worry, the tag mods can fix it.)
~ Please do not use the tags beginning with 2018 or other years. These are admin tags.
~ For those more familiar with AO3 and Tumblr: tagging on Dreamwidth is solely for organizational purposes within a community or journal. There is no need for tags such as “b2mem” or “tolkien fanfic” or the like.
~ We tag each entry for prompt, characters, format, and genre.
Details and Examples
Prompt
The prompt tag varies year by year. This year, we are tagging for the prompt category: that is, whether the prompt comes from the initial list of prompts that was posted in mid-February, one of the daily prompts posted in March, or a comment prompt. The comment prompt tag would be used if you posted a rec list of several works that you had commented on to fulfill one of this year’s comment prompts, or something similar.
Motw in the tags stands for this year’s theme, “Music of the Waters.”
EXAMPLES:
motw:initial, motw:daily, motw:comment
Character
-Please tag only for the main characters of your work -- there’s no need to tag for a character who is briefly mentioned or appears in one sentence.
-Please do not create group tags such as character:fellowship or character:dwarves, as we prefer you to tag by individual character. You can use the character:oc tag if your work features original characters.
-We do not capitalize characters’ names in tags. We also don’t use accents or diacritical marks (ë, ú, and so on), since not everyone knows how to do them.
EXAMPLES:
character:eowyn, character:finwe
(NOT character:éowyn or character:Finwë)
Format
-This is fairly simple. Is your work fic, poetry, artwork, etc.? Please note that all forms of poetry go under format:poetry. Also note that all drabbles and variations thereof (double, triple, etc.) go under format:drabble. (We use the true drabble definition of exactly 100 words.) There is no format:fic tag.
-For fanfic, the format tag is dictated by length. Ficlets are 999 words or shorter, not including drabbles. Short stories are 1000 to 9999 words. (For reference, because we’ve yet to need these tags, novellas are 10,000 to 39,999 words and novels are 40,000+ words.) Chaptered stories go under format:chaptered regardless of the length of individual updates.
EXAMPLES:
format:ficlet, format:digital art
Genre
-What genre(s) does your work fall under? If you don’t see one you think fits, please add it.
EXAMPLES:
genre:slash, genre:fluff
How to Tag:
If you’re typing your tags manually, please remember to check your format and spelling, and to separate tags with a comma. There are multiple different ways to tag an entry on Dreamwidth.
1) When posting your entry, click on the Tags box and type in the tags manually.
Unlike LiveJournal, Dreamwidth has autocomplete for tags, meaning that it will try to guess what tag you meant from the letters you’ve typed so far. This can be both helpful and confusing. If you’ve only typed in a few letters, it will almost certainly autocomplete to the wrong thing. That’s fine! Just ignore it and keep typing the correct tag, or correct it to what you want.
If you’re not used to Dreamwidth, you might want to take a moment to double-check that the autocomplete hasn’t accidentally put any tags on your entry that you don’t want.
2) Type out the complete tag(s) in another document, then copy and paste into the tags field. (Remember to separate tags with a comma!)
3) Post your entry, and then go back to add the tags by clicking the “Edit Tags” icon at the bottom of the entry. You will see a list of all the existing tags in alphabetical order. You can scroll down and select as many tags as you want. If you want to add more than one tag, hold down Ctrl while clicking.
You can also type your tags manually into the “Current tags” box.
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Date: 2018-03-01 02:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-03-01 03:36 pm (UTC)In the meantime, if you join the comm as a member using the "join community" button on the profile, that might make you able to tag.
Edit: All right, I've changed one of the comm settings. Hopefully you should be able to tag now. If you can't, let me know.
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Date: 2018-03-01 05:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-03-01 06:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-03-02 12:24 am (UTC)does the lady of the blue brooch not have a character tag yet, or does she get tagged as 'oc' because everyone has their own headcanon/character for her? (i didn't see her in the tag list, and she's going to be popping up in at least two or three of my stories this month, i figured i'd ask before creating the tag)
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Date: 2018-03-02 07:35 am (UTC)It looks like there have been a few "lady of the blue brooch" fics in past years; I see two tagged as OC and one not tagged at all for that character. I don't think that was a deliberate policy, though -- I don't remember anyone specifically asking about a tag for her before.
If you want to make a tag for her, I'm fine with that. It sounds like you'll be getting some use out of it. (And I am really looking forward to the Goldberry femslash. I may have added at least one prompt to the list in the hope that it would inspire someone to write some.)
Does "character:lady of the blue brooch" sound good?
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Date: 2018-03-02 10:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-03-02 11:14 am (UTC)