cap_ironman | 2018 Cap-Iron Man Community Gifts Rules and Instructions

A year has passed and it is time for Community Gifts again! The Cap-IronMan Community Gifts event is a period where the community invites anyone to submit and fill prompts to be revealed alongside the Holiday Exchange works. All completed fills are gifts for the community and all its members to enjoy!

You don't have to take part in the Holiday Exchange to submit or create Community Gifts. There is no sign-up and no commitment, and no minimum requirement for any of the fills. The main four rules are:

★ The prompts and fills must be focused on Steve Rogers & Tony Stark.
★ The works must be completed and created solely for the Community Gifts (and no other event).
★ The works must be kept anonymous and a secret until the reveals.
★ Most importantly: be excellent to each other!

Before submitting to the Community Gifts, please make sure to read through our General Event Policies and the following information below, even if you participated in previous years.

★ SCHEDULE

October 11th: Community Gifts prompt submission open
October 31st 10:59 PM UTC (what time is it for me?): Community Gifts prompt submissions close
November 3rd: Community Gifts prompts list is posted
December 24th 5AM UTC (what time is it for me?): Community Gifts are due
December 26th: Start of gift reveals
The end of 2018: Community Gifts are due--you can submit as long as it's still 2018 somewhere!
January 6th (approximate): Creator reveals

For the full schedule and quick links to related posts, check out the 2018 Holiday Exchange & Community Gifts Masterpost.

★ SUBMITTING A PROMPT

Prompt submissions will open on October 11 and will close on October 31. During this time, anyone can anonymously submit Steve/Tony prompts using the submission form.

There is no sign-up required to participate in Community Gifts, and you don’t have to commit to creating a gift in order to submit a prompt. This does mean that, unlike the main exchange, any submitted community gift prompts are not guaranteed to receive a fill.

PROMPTS RULES

Text prompts can be either as short as a simple phrase, or as long as two paragraphs.

Prompts can also be things like links to images, poetry, and music.

Prompts cannot be existing fanworks.

You can submit multiple prompts. Each should be a separate submission.

This is a gift for the Cap-Ironman Community, so the prompts should be about Steve and Tony.

All ratings are welcome for both prompts and fills, but please mark NSFW prompts as such during prompt submissions.

Only one option can be selected for Canon. There are two options that aren’t specific canons: the "Other" option which is used to write in canons not listed or crossovers, and the "AU" option.

EXAMPLE PROMPTS
The following examples have already been added to the list, no need to resubmit them.

Canon: 616
Prompt Description: secret relationship

Canon: Avengers Assemble
Prompt Description: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/84/4d/c9/844dc9b1ffc49bf197355a5c4d3e8f43--labyrinth-maze-labyrinth-garden.jpg

Canon: MCU
Prompt Description: The team comes back from a mission to find that the Avengers Tower has disappeared.

Canon: Other: Crossover (1872/Noir)
Prompt Description: After 1872 Steve dies, he can’t seem to move on and finds himself haunting Tony and his descendants, fading in and out of their lives. Steve has resigned himself to never being seen, heard, or able to interact with the living world, until Noir Tony finds an artifact that allows him to see the dead.

Canon: 3490
Prompt Description: Lady in Red - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AUVkQs_Nxw

Canon: AU
Prompt Description: Tony is a mechanic who likes to listen to podcasts while he works. He finds a podcast called “America" that covers anything and everything, and the host, a man called Steve, has the most incredible voice. Tony devours the podcast, daydreaming about what he imagines Steve to be like. Then, in December, Steve offers a special contest to his listeners - win a Christmas Eve date with the man himself. Tony does everything in his power to win the date.
Bonus points: Tony embarrasses himself deeply on their date, but Steve likes him anyway
Steve is nothing like Tony imagined - he’s so much better
They end up spending Christmas day together

★ SUBMITTING A GIFT

Prompts will be revealed on November 3rd, and prompts can be filled by anybody interested.

The list of Community Gift Prompts is available here!

GIFT RULES

Gifts should be new and created solely for the 2018 Cap-Ironman Community Gifts, and not for any other fandom event.

Works created for the Community Gifts are gifts for the community and entire fandom, and not to any individual.

Gifts can be fics, art, poetry, music, fanvids, or any other type of fanwork, and there are no minimum work requirements, aside from being complete, stand-alone works.

If you are a participant in the Exchange, we ask that you complete your Exchange gift before creating a Community Gift.

All works must follow the Event Work Requirements detailed in the General Event Policies.

Community Gifts must remain anonymous until creator reveals.

Please list the prompt in the summary or author's note (either at the beginning or end of your work, in case of spoilers).

The list of available Community Gift prompts will be available on November 3rd!

Once you finish your gift, submit it to the 2018 Captain America/Iron Man Holiday Exchange collection on AO3 by December 24th.

Instructions on how to submit your gift can be found in our AO3 Guide. Please ensure that your work is in the Cap_Ironman_Holiday_Exchange_2018 Collection and gifted to Cap Iron Man Community. (If you're new to Community Gifts, image instructions from last year can be found here!)

If you have any questions regarding submitting or filling prompts, please don't hesitate to contact the mods at cap.im.events@gmail.com, comment below, or send us an message on Tumblr!

★ COMMUNITY GIFTS FAQ

Q. I’m new. What are 'Community Gifts'?
A. It is the annual gift giving event run in tandem with the Holiday Exchange! It is a way for participants to give gifts to the community without the pressure or commitment of the Holiday Exchange. Prompts are collected anonymously from anyone who wants to submit one, and after they’re published, everyone is welcome to fill them.

Q. Is there an event tag I can follow on Tumblr?
A. Yes, we’ll be tagging all event posts with #capimexchange.

Q. I want to create gen friendship fanwork, is that okay?
A. Of course! This comm also welcomes fanworks that depict a non-slashy relationship between Steve and Tony, as long as the focus is on the two of them.

Q. Can I submit a prompt from another event and/or community?
A. Yes, as long as that event or community doesn’t have rules against it.

Q. Can I submit a prompt that requests a specific type of fanwork?
A. Yes, but there is no requirement for participants to stick to the prompts and no guarantee it will be filled.

Q. Oh no! I made a mistake in my prompt but accidently already submitted it! Is there any way I can fix it?
A. No, due to the nature of the prompts being anonymous there is no way to tell who submitted which prompt. Please make sure to check over your prompt for mistakes before you submit it. If you think you really messed it up, you can submit a corrected version of the prompt the same way you’d submit a new prompt.

Q. Can I sign up to be a pinch hitter?
A. While the Holiday Exchange needs pinch hitters, Community Gifts does not. Feel free to fill any prompt you want! For more information about being a pinch hitter for the Holiday Exchange check out the Holiday Exchange FAQ.

Q. Do I need an AO3 account to participate?
A. Submitting prompts does not require an AO3 account. You can fill out the prompt submission form without logging on to any account.

If you want to submit your gift to the collection, an AO3 account is required. If you do not have one you can request an AO3 invite here. It can take weeks, so If you think you might want to participate and need an account, request an invitation now!

Q. Can we discuss our Community Gift prompts or fills on social media or chats?
A. Feel free to discuss the prompts in general, but try not to give away if you’re creating something! We require creator’s to remain anonymous until reveals. Guessing the creators is half the fun!

Q. If I create a Community Gift, do I have to adhere strictly to the prompt I picked?
A. No. Because the fills are meant to be gifts to the community, instead of gifts to a specific person, you can deviate from a community prompt as much as you’d like as long as it adheres to the rules above. Please note that this is different from the main Exchange, where you should adhere to your recipient’s prompt.

Q. My friend is making a fill for a prompt I want to fill too! Can I still submit mine?
A. Sure, every prompt can be filled multiple times!

Q. I defaulted on another event and am not eligible to participate in this year’s Holiday Exchange. Can I still participate in Community Gifts?
A. Yes. Since there’s no commitment in advance, everyone is eligible to participate in Community Gifts, both by submitting prompts and/or by creating gifts to fill prompts.

Q. Can I post my gift (that I created) to Tumblr?
A. Of course, but only after we reveal creators around January 6th. Please tag it with #capimexchange so we can see and reblog it.

Q. Can I have an extension?
A. Please email us with the specifics at cap.im.events@gmail.com with the subject ‘Holiday Exchange - Community Gifts’.

Q. I’m participating in the Exchange as well. Will prompts from my Exchange sign-up request be shown in the list of Community Prompts?
A. No. Only prompts specifically submitted to the Community Gifts prompt pool will be included in the community prompts. Exchange requests will be seen only by the mods and your gift creator.

Q. I’m participating in the Exchange as well. Can I submit one of my own prompts from my exchange requests to the list of Community Prompts?
A. No, please let your gift-creator have first shot at all prompts from your requests. You can submit prompts from previous years if you are not repeating them in this year’s requests.

Q. I’m participating in the Exchange as well. I like more than one of the prompts in the request letter of the person I was assigned to. Can I submit the ones I’m not creating a fan work for?
A. Please don’t, as that spoils the surprise for your recipient of which of their prompts you’ll be creating for. If you like multiple prompts of theirs, you are welcome to provide your recipient with multiple gifts.

Q. When will my submission be revealed?
A. Prompts will stay anonymous and be posted in a list to the public on November 2nd.
Community Gifts will be revealed in daily batches with the Holiday Exchange fills starting December 26th. Please be patient: all works will be revealed within the reveals period. Community Gift creators will be revealed together with the exchange creators around January 6th .

Q. I have a question that hasn't been answered here.
A. Email us at cap.im.events@gmail.com, send the cap-ironman Tumblr an ask, or leave a comment on this post!