cap_ironman | Cap-Ironman Mid-Year Fanworks Alphabet 2021 (Reply)

Welcome to this year’s low pressure mid-year cap-ironman challenge: The Cap-Ironman Mid-Year Fanworks Alphabet 2021! In this challenge you pick a letter (or several), find a theme or prompt starting with each letter you've pledged to create for, and make a fanwork inspired by that prompt! By the end of the challenge, we'll have amazing new Steve/Tony and Steve&Tony works for all 26 letters of the alphabet.

Schedule

Make a pledge and create your work(s): July 26 - August 23
Posting Deadline: August 23, midnight ET
Reveals: August 24 - 30

How does it work?

Pledge to create a fanwork for a letter (or several!), or ask us to assign you a random letter if you feel adventurous.
Choose a prompt/theme that starts with the letter you've claimed.
Make a fanwork based on that prompt in secret.
Submit your work to the Alphabet Challenge AO3 Collection by the posting deadline.
Wait for reveals, then comment and kudos away!

Fanworks Alphabet Guidelines

This challenge is open to participants of all ages.

All types of fanworks are welcome! This includes, but is not limited to: multimedia fanworks, fanfiction, poetry, music, crafts, art, podfics, vids, edits, gifsets, etc. Note that we have a list of podfic-friendly writers if you don't want to script or podfic your own work.

Steve and Tony's relationship—whether it is romantic, platonic, pre-slash or otherwise—should be the main focus of your work and the “endgame” relationship, if applicable.

There are no minimum requirements for works, apart from needing to be stand-alone and complete. This means that you can submit sketches, podfics of any length, flash fiction, 100 word drabbles and so on!

Collaborations are allowed.

Fills must be previously unpublished and created specifically for this challenge. You can combine a Fanworks Alphabet Challenge fill with other challenges like the Cap-IM Stony Bingo or any non-cap-ironman challenge, as long as these challenges allow it and the work fulfills the requirements of both challenges.

Please abide by our General Cap-IM Event Guidelines

PLEDGING TO CREATE FOR A LETTER
The pledging and creation period will run from July 26 until August 23. In order to make a pledge, comment below with the sign up information, and a mod will respond as soon as possible to confirm your pledge or assign you random letters! You don't need a Dreamwidth account to comment or participate.

To sign up you need to comment with the following information:

Your AO3 username
The letter(s) you're pledging to create for, or the number of random letters you'd like to be assigned

You may pledge for as many letters as you'd like or ask us to assign you any number of random letters. Every letter will be available for multiple pledges and fills, and you can create any number of works for any of your letters. Let’s try to get all the letters in the alphabet claimed at least once, though!

Want to be ambitious? Try for the whole alphabet and earn a special badge!

While letter pledges are public, please keep the prompt/theme you come up with, and your work, a secret until works are revealed in August.

You're allowed to come back and claim more letters as often as you'd like during the claims and creation period. If you'd like to take back your pledge, please let us know by August 23 so we can make sure every letter gets at least one work.

There’s no penalty in dropping out of this challenge at any point.

If you want to help us ensure that all letters have at least one or two fills, you can also sign-up as a stand-by creator by writing to us at cap.im.events@gmail.com. Closer to the deadline we will contact all who are interested with updates on the letters that are without or low on works.

CREATING YOUR CHALLENGE WORK
After pledging to create for a letter, you can choose to create a work inspired by any sort of prompt, provided it starts with that letter. Prompts can be single words, or longer phrases or titles — whatever you like!

If you can't think of a prompt or work to create, we have plenty of past prompt lists to browse through and you can also check the prompts for past and current round of this year's Universe Medley fest.

You'll have until midnight ET on August 23 to work on your fill in secret. Remember, there is no minimum requirement for your work, so feel free to create small pieces and flashworks for this challenge, or go as epic as you can in the timeframe!

SUBMITTING YOUR WORK
Once you've finished your piece, you must submit it to our AO3 Collection. Don't forget to mention the Letter and the corresponding prompt you've chosen in your creator's notes!

You may request an AO3 account here. If you fear you won’t receive an invitation on time, please contact us at cap.im.events@gmail.com.

Your work must be completed and in the collection by midnight ET of August 23 for it to be included in the reveals posts. (You can absolutely post a work before the deadline and come back to make another pledge).

If you need a short extension, contact us at cap.im.events@gmail.com and let us know.

Please do not share your work or de-anon until after it has been revealed.

REVEALS
Reveals will run from August 24 - 30, as we'll reveal four or so letters' worth of works every day.

Once your work is revealed, you're welcome to discuss and share your revealed fill(s)! If you're posting your work on Tumblr or Twitter, please tag us

cap_ironman so we can boost it. Our challenge tag is #capimalphabet2021

If you have any questions, feel free to ask them below, email us at cap.im.events@gmail.com, or get in touch!

Current Pledges
Here you can see all the letter pledges made by people so far.

A —

hollyandvice, ssyn3
B —

uisceonelove,

alexcat
C —

navaan,

lady_zm
D —

jetblackfeeling,

lady_zm
E —

shinysylver,

coffee_and_notebooks
F —

hollyandvice, Leshaya
G —

hollyandvice, Leshaya
H —

yohkob, ssyn3
I —