Guidelines for Claiming Creators

• Remember to read through the Big Bang Guidelines for All Participants, as well as the claiming creators' guidelines outlined below and take note of our General Event Policies before making a claim.
  
  
  
  • With your claim of BB story you agree to create at least
    • one accompanying fanwork and
    
    
    • a story banner for the fic you claim, 580px wide and 200px tall or a higher resolution image with the same dimensions (e.g. 1160:400). The banner can be a SFW crop of the artwork or a specially made banner for the accompanying fic.
    
    
  
  
• By claiming a story you are commiting to finishing all fanwork(s) by your team's posting date.


• There is no penalty-free dropping out after you claimed a summary.

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Claiming Process

To participate in the 2023 Cap-Iron Man Big Bang as a claiming creator, all you need to do is claim a summary on Saturday, 16 September. There is no prior sign-up available or required.

Please note that if you claim a fic that is in a language other than English, you must be able to read this language so that you can read the fic and communicate with your partner.

Please check carefully which fic codenames have opted into receiving fanmixes, gifs, manips or podfic as accompanying fanwork.

• Claims will be done on a first-come, first-serve basis.


• In case you can't make a claim personally on Saturday, 16 September, you are allowed to ask someone to make a claim on your behalf (a proxy claim). There is no need to have a Dreamwidth or OpenID account to make a claim or proxy claim for someone, as anonymous commenting will be enabled.


• Story summaries are posted anonymously. You must claim a story based solely on the summary and details provided. Writers are instructed to be as transparent as they can when providing details on warnings and tropes, other featured characters/relationships, etc.


• Instructions on how to make a claim will go up with the preview of summaries on 14 September.


• Because this is a collaborative event, there is no penalty free dropping out once you've claimed a work. Dropping out once you've been partnered up will be considered defaulting on the challenge and will result in a temporary ban, barring extenuating circumstances. This penalty will only apply to the defaulting member of the team, not the team as a whole and the ban can be lifted before the end of the ban period. For details on how to lift a ban check our Defaulting Guidelines.

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Creation Period and Posting of Accompanying Fanwork

Once you've claimed a work and you've been teamed up with your creating partner(s), all you have to do is make accompanying artwork(s) for your partner's story, and remember to keep in touch with them throughout the event!

Posting Period

The posting period begins in November, and we will be in touch before then with instructions on how to claim a posting date and with more details on how to post your entry to our AO3 collection and how to create the team master post.

Posting

Each participating creator is responsible for posting their work on their scheduled posting day by noon Eastern Time. A challenge-fulfilling work must be posted all at once, and it should be complete as a stand-alone. We require you to link to your partner's work when your team has posted.

On your chosen posting day, ONE member from your entire team is required to send through your team's links and posting information by filling out the Masterpost Information Form.

Image Hosting

Before inserting an image into your work, please note that AO3 does not host images; this means you cannot upload an image directly to AO3. Instead you must upload it elsewhere and retrieve a direct image link once you do. (A direct image URL ends in .jpg, .png, .gif, etc.) We advise using a free image uploading service such as Imgur, though please keep in mind the T's and C's regarding hotlinking. We strongly encourage you not to host your image on Tumblr or Google Drive, as these links are liable to break. For more information about embedding art into AO3, please see our AO3 Guide for Cap-IM Events.

If none of these options work for you, please contact the mods at [email protected] and we will work with you to host your art on one of the Cap-IM accounts.

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Check out our BIG BANG FAQ POST for more information. Have more questions? Feel free to email us at [email protected]!