A Guide to Treats

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A treat is a work composed for the Black Emporium Collection outside of your assignment. A treat is extra, i.e. you are free but not obligated to create it on top of your assignment. This is possible in the following ways:

• A fanwork for an un-requested pairing on the nominations list. Is there a pairing on there you just absolutely want to write something for and no one requested it? You can post it to the collection as a treat!
• A fanwork that fills a request of one of the participants you weren’t assigned to. Maybe one of the requests on this list just grabs you and you can’t help yourself. We feel you. We really do.

If you create a fanwork for a participant of the Exchange, you are obligated to follow that person’s squicks/triggers and pairings. If your treat doesn’t have a particular recipient, it must still be tagged appropriately (i.e. warn for potentially triggering content, rating).

A treat does not have a minimum word count requirement; it doesn’t need to have over a 1000 words like your assignment fic does. A treat may also be a manip on its own, unlike an assignment artwork.

You do not have to be signed up to post a fanwork to the collection! All you need is an AO3 account; if you don’t have one, you may message the mods and we will get you an invitation. The collection is open to treats from now up to September 30th. It will be inaccessible to anyone but the creator and the mods until that time.

How to post your treat:

1) Log into AO3 and go to the exchange profile.

2) Select "Post to Collection"

3) Under Gift this work, type in your recipient’s name. If it’s a treat, type in the person whose prompt you used for your fanwork if you used one; otherwise, you can leave this form blank to just make a general gift to the community.

4) Scroll to the bottom, post your fanwork! Voila, you are done!

After that, the mods will take a look at your fanwork; if we have any follow up questions, we’ll email you at the address listed on your Ao3 account.