SSR Confidential

All creators are now revealed! You may post your works to Tumblr, DW, or elsewhere, discuss them, and otherwise do whatever you like with them.

Thank you so much to everyone who participated this year, as artists and writers, pinch hitters, beta readers, and commenters! You are all fantastic, and I hope you had a good time.

Everyone has a gift, and we are on track to open on time on Wed., Aug. 10 at 10am Alaska time -- that's 2pm Eastern/6pm UTC. Treats (extra gifts) for participants are still gladly accepted, and will continue to be accepted until the anonymous period ends on Wed., Aug. 17.

Let me know if you have any questions about how to submit treats. You can look at all the requests on AO3 here if you’d like to find someone to make a treat for!

Thank you to everyone who worked hard for an on-time opening, and we'll see you on Wednesday! (Early Thursday for some of you!)

A reminder: the SSR Confidential due date is Wednesday, Aug. 3, by the end of the day (11:59 p.m.) Alaska time. Everything must either be turned in or have a mod-granted extension by this time!

Here is a countdown!

If you need a couple of days' extension, just let me know. Comments are screened, or you can PM me.

Assignments have been sent! Please contact me immediately if you got something you didn't offer or don't think you can work with. Also feel free to contact me if you have any questions. I've screened all comments to this entry so you can include any identifying details without giving away your assignment.

Otherwise, have fun! Assignments are due Wednesday, Aug. 3, and can be posted to the AO3 collection at any point before then; they will remain hidden until I reveal them in August.

Posted assignments need to be complete (not placeholders) but you can continue editing them up to the reveals deadline.

Please keep your assignment secret from your recipient to preserve the fun of the secret-santa-style surprise, although you can obviously talk to your brainstorming partners and betas about it!

Let's gooooooo!

I went ahead and turned signups on tonight so I can troubleshoot any problems that come up, as I'm going to be away from my computer for part of the day tomorrow. I'll do the major announcements over the next couple of days, but you can certainly signal boost anytime!

Signups close June 14th.

2022 Tagset

2022 AO3 Collection

Signup form

The tagset will remain open throughout signups, so if you don't see the character or relationship that you want in the drop-down, you can add it! I've preloaded it with a basic set of tags, but others are welcome. At least one person involved must be an Agent Carter character.

New this year:

- We are now using the Relationship rather than Character field, so when nominating tags, you can simply use the canonical version of a relationship if one exists. Individual characters should have "Solo: " before their name, e.g. "Solo: Peggy Carter." There is no need to disambiguate.

- This year, you can request and/or offer as few as just one character and/or relationship. People who only have one request or offer may be asked to add another one if they turn out to be extremely hard to match, but we'll try to avoid it.

SSRC 2022 WILL happen, but life fell on my head in March pretty hard, and I have two planned trips in April (one for family stuff; the other is the first just-for-fun vacation I'll be taking since 2019 - what even!!) ... so I'm going to push the schedule back to May; it will run later than usual this year.

I'll announce a finalized schedule in early May - I think we'll be looking at mid to late May signups, with the creation period running through August.

I plan to go back to the regular schedule next year, but at this point I think it's going to have to be either this or skipping a year.

So stay tuned, and I'll see you all in May!

Creators are revealed at SSR Confidential! You can now link to your work, repost it elsewhere, add any revealing author’s notes you might have wanted to, add it to a series, basically do anything with it that you would normally do.

Thank you so much to everyone who participated, as a writer, artist, beta, or a commenter or cheerleader! If you haven’t had a chance to comment on your gift yet, please do - and if you had to default, you might still have a gift, so please check your gifts page! Failure to comment may jeopardize your ability to participate next year. However, it’s never too late, and it’s also not too late to read everything - I’ve only just started, and there’s a lot of good stuff; don’t miss out.

We’ll be back next year at about the same time for our next round!

We're still waiting on one (scheduled) extension, but otherwise, all pinch hits are in and everything else is ready to go! There is a possibility we may end up opening late if the extension assignment is late or ends up requiring a pinch hit, but at this point I'm still planning on opening July 1 at 10am Alaska time (2pm EDT).

You can continue to add treats if you like! The collection will remain open for treats after reveals, so if you start working on something now and are worried about finishing in time, it's never too late.

It's looking like a great year!

Your assignments are due TODAY, June 24! If you will need extra time, please leave a comment (all are screened), DM me, or contact me at ssrconfidential to request an extension - please let me know your AO3 name when you do. It is perfectly fine to ask for an extension! If no specific day is asked for, I am currently giving extensions through Sunday night (so you have the whole weekend to work on it).

Tomorrow morning when I get up (Alaska time zone) I’ll be going through what we have, and if anyone hasn’t either turned in their assignment or asked for an extension, I’ll default the assignment and send it out to the pinch hitters.

Assignments that don't meet the minimum requirements or are obvious placeholders will also go to pinch hit. Your assignment can be rough and you can continue editing it right up 'til reveals on July 1, but it MUST be a completed assignment that meets the exchange minimum requirements by tomorrow morning, or else you need to have asked for an extension or otherwise approved it with me!

Please also feel free to contact me if you are having any trouble posting your assignment or need extra help.

We have a GREAT-looking collection so far - I think this is shaping up to be our biggest and best year yet!

It's June 1 and we're halfway through our creation period! Assignments are due at the end of June. How's it going?

You don't need to reply to stay in, but this is a good time to let me know if you have questions, need help, or feel your assignment isn't turning out to be a good fit for you, and you can also give me an early heads-up if you might have to drop out. You can also comment to talk in general terms about how your assignment is going, and encourage each other!

Do we need a beta-reader post this year, for people to offer their beta services or look for one? In the past we haven't gotten much traffic on them, but I'd be happy to put one up if people want it.

Comments are screened, but I will unscreen your comment unless it contains identifying information about your assignment or if you ask me not to.