Mod Contact (Winter 2026)

[hafnia]

Question? Comments? Concerns?

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[hafnia]

Hi! Thank you for letting us know. I deleted her signup. We look forward to seeing her submit again :)

[impala_chick]

Hello mods, I'm excited for this event! Does the starting work need to be something new written for this challenge or can it be a fic we've written at any point?

[hafnia]

Hello! The fic submitted should be something new, written for the event. :)

[impala_chick]

Got it, thanks!

[lalunaunita]

Hi Mods! How do we submit the new fic (not the remix fic) due in January? Is it via assignment fulfillment on Ao3, or another way?

[hafnia]

Hello!

You should be able to add the fic to the collection. Once this is done, fill out the Google form (located here). You'll get an emailed confirmation from one of the two mods that your signup has been received and you are good to go. :)

[lalunaunita]

DNWs question: if a sign-up has a DNW not included on the common list, should it be noted to the mods when signing up as well? For example, if a sign-up does not like A/B/O stories, is it enough to omit checking the A/B/O trope selection in the sign-up, or should they explicitly contact the mods for any tropes that are also a DNW?

[hafnia]

Additional DNW criteria should be given to the mods, yes, especially if it's a trope listed in the master list.

[lalunaunita]

I'm sorry to keep spamming with questions. I have a trope question now. Does Doppelganger include "fake" doppelganger ideas, similar to the Nutty Professor or Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde type ideas? (Or is that more accurately categorized under Identity Reveal a la secret identity hijinx?) Thank you!

[shadaras]

Questions are great! We'd rather you ask than be confused.

In general: We don't want to be prescriptive about trope use. Everyone is going to have a slightly different view of any given trope, after all!

As a guideline, think about how your story would be tagged on Ao3—would it make sense to tag it as "Doppelgangers" and/or "Identity Reveal"? Would one of those potentially confuse your readers? But if you think it makes sense as a tag/believe that a trope is in your story, go ahead and tick the ticky box saying "this trope is in my story". :)

On the side of "I would have fun remixing this trope!", however, we would suggest thinking about more classic versions of a trope. If you only like a trope in its edge cases, it's unlikely to be as much fun if we match you on that. (Unless you're hoping to be assigned a classic version of a trope and remix it to a more unusual version, which is a totally valid way of using the ticky boxes! Just, we can't promise anything and it's more likely that a more common version of any given trope will show up, you know?)

(fwiw this mod thinks that "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" is quite interested in an Identity Reveal and not engaging with what I think of as Doppelganger tropes, though I'm sure you could write a version that is Doppelganger-y!)

Does that answer your question?