b2mem | Posting and Tagging Rules

Here are the rules for posting and tagging your fanworks in the B2MeM Dreamwidth community. Even if you’ve done B2MeM before, we encourage you to at least skim them and refresh your memory. Please either comment here or email the mod team at b2mem.mod@gmail.com if you have any questions.

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 whether it’s from the generator or a daily prompt. It makes the taggers’ lives much easier if we don’t have to go looking to figure out where a prompt came from!

B2MeM Prompt:
Format:
Genre:
Rating:
Warnings:
Characters:
Pairings:
Creator’s Notes (optional):
Summary:

<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.

Format: short story, drabble, photomanip, poem, sketch, et cetera

Genre: the genre(s) of your fanwork. Please see MPTT’s glossary for definitions of many 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 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 Independence1776 and our tagging volunteer Jenni (jenni_blog). Please don’t hesitate to ask us 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 the mods 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 2020 or other years. These are admin tags.

~ For those more familiar with AO3 or 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 fanwork entry for prompt, characters, format, and genre.

Details and Examples

Prompt

The prompt tags vary year by year. This year, we are tagging for generator prompts and daily prompts.The tags are: “generator 2020” and “daily prompt 2020.”

a) generator 2020

This is for prompts you used from the generator. You do not need to delineate which field you used.

b) daily prompt 2020
Tag your fanwork with this if you used a daily prompt.

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. 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.

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.