Entries tagged with ao3 archiving 2021

What with October just around the corner, it's time to say a few words about the collection at AO3. These will be much the same words that we have said in previous years.

You are not required to post your story/art to AO3, but we encourage you to do so. It lets us have a central location for all of the Big Bang fanworks, and also, as you probably know, all stories are easily downloadable in e-reader friendly formats; this is particularly nice for your fellow fen with health issues or those who just plain love their e-readers.

The collection for the current year is Pros Big Bang 2021. (Previous years' collections are accessible here.)

sineala wrote up a little guide for how to post to AO3 for the Big Bang; the same directions apply,

A couple of reminders:

1. In case anyone still doesn't have an AO3 account who wants one, let us know; we still have invite codes. Alternatively, the wait time for invites is currently under 24 hours.

2. If you have stories/art from previous years that you have not yet posted to the AO3, we have left the previous collections open for exactly this reason. Feel free to add your Big Bang story or art to the appropriate year's collection.

3. If you are planning to post in HTML rather than Rich Text, and (a) you are reasonably conversant with the features of your word processor and (b) that word processor is OpenOffice (it's free!), it may interest you to know that Astolat has a set of OpenOffice macros for formatting italics/bold/etc and turning your story into HTML suitable for copying into a LJ or AO3 post.

Happy posting! Let us know if you have any questions and ~~we will attempt to confuse you further~~, ah, I mean help, of course! =0

Hi there to our writers, artists and vidders. Now that you've been matched hopefully you've been in contact with each other. Best wishes to you all in producing your finished product for our big reveal. :-)

Speaking of reveals - if you post your work to the Archive of Our Own, you can join it up to our Box of Tricks Collection. This year's collection has been set up, ready for later, and if you'd like to bookmark that, feel free. It's not obligatory, but it's handy-dandy way of making sure that your fanworks are easily found and related to the bigger picture too.

Pros Big Bang at AO3

If you'd like to add your story/art for prior Pros Big Bangs to previous years’ collections please feel free - the more the merrier. Just open your story in edit and scroll down to the “associations section.” Where it says “post to collections/challenges” enter one of Pros_Big_Bang_years, depending on which year’s collection you’re adding your story to. Don't forget to click the save option for your changes.

If you want to let us know about your progress - well, this is the check-in post.

The Big Bang collection at AO3

Weekly Check-in and a reminder about our AO3 collections