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Inspired by [community profile] launchtheship *, Smash The Champagne Bottle is a low-pressure multifandom challenge to write the first fic for a ship in a fandom! Launching a ship on the seas has always been accompanied by ceremony, and our name comes from the tradition of smashing a bottle of champagne across the bow of a newly laid ship as the hull slides out of dry dock into the sea.

Have a ship you love that has zero fics on AO3? This is the challenge for you!

*Please note, we are not trying to step on any toes or replace Launch the Ship, which is a beloved event. However, since there has been no indication one way or other if the event will run this year- including attempting to ask on the LTS DW going unanswered, and people have been looking for it, so we decided to step in and create an event in the same vein with enough time for the event to take place before the year ends. We hope all is well for the LTS admin/s, and this will only become a repeated event if it should happen that LTS does not continue.

Schedule (all times and dates are US Eastern time)

Sign up: starts now, and will run though the deadline, though last minute signups could be slightly delayed in being added to the collection
Deadline: Friday, November 15th, 11:59pm
Collection Opens: Saturday, November 16th, 12:59am


1. Qualifying Ships

Anything that currently has 0 fics in English, of any length, be it for a romantic or gen ship (/ or &) qualifies. There are also no ship requirements. Your ship can be a gen ship between two peope, or three, or four, or twenty-seven. It can be a romantic ship between two people, or a polyamorous ship between three people, or even eighteen people. The open sea is the limit.

Note: If someone else posts the ship you want to write during the creation period, that's still fine. Your ship qualified during the sign up period it qualifies. 

ETA: A question has come in regarding fics in other languages. Our stance is: the more people who can take part in this, the merrier! So with regards to language, the qualifying rule is "zero fics in the language you want to write in". If you're writing in English, it should be zero fics in English. If you want to write in another language, it should be zero fics in that language. If you'll be writing in another language, please let us know in your sign up! Otherwise we will take it to be English.

2. Fic Requirements

Your fic just has to be complete. That's it. There are no word count requirements. Your fic can be a poem. Your fic can be co-authored. Your fic can have ten different relationship tags, provided the main one has zero ships.

If you are writing for several zero fic ships, please make sure you post them as separate fics though.

All ratings are welcome as long as they are appropriately tagged.

3. Signing Up

Post a comment on the sign-up post with the fandom your ship is in, and what your ship is! That's it! You don't need to have a dreamwidth account to join us - anyone is free to post anonymously, or signed in if they do have a dreamwidth account and wish to do so.

You can list as many ships as you want, provided they all qualify. If you decide to change your mind during the creation period, that's fine too. You can do anything you want, as long as your ship qualifies!

This isn't a formal exchange, so signing up isn't mandatory. It's just a nice way to commit to the deadline and to join a small community of people working together. When your fic is added to the collection, if you did not sign up previously, we will verify that your ship meets the requirements. Please note that there is a potential advantage to signing up, as we check for the ship at the time of signup, so if you don't sign up and someone else posts your ship in the meantime, it may not meet the event qualification.

4. AO3 Collection

You can post your work(s) to our collection! Works will remain unrevealed until Saturday, November 16th at 12:59am, which is when the entire collection will open. If you’re running a little late, no problem, the collection will remain open at least a week afterwards for you to add to it. 

At the end of reveals, we’ll do a round up post here on dreamwidth to showcase all the fics submitted!

5. Promos

Entirely optional, but totally encouraged! Come share with us your squee! Tell us why you love the ship you’ll be writing for! Do they look amazing together? Did they tease at something more in canon that was just a teeny tiny snippet that left you craving more? Do they have compatible attitudes? Are they character foils of each other? Do you think the snarky banter between them would be oh so glorious? Are they two characters who never interacted in canon but definitely needed to? Two characters from completely different fandoms who absolutely need to meet? We're here for all of this...and more!

Come share, peruse, and cheer each other on as we get ready to do some bottle smashing!

6. OC's and Self Inserts

 These are great, and we completely support their creation. However, we do see them as different entities from ships comprised entirely of canonical characters, and the event will be limited to canonical characters.

7. I have a question. How do I contact you?

Please leave a comment on this post, send up a PM on Dreamwidth, or send an email to eratoschild@gmail.com. We can also be found on Discord at the Exchanges After Dark server!




smashthechampagnebottle: Two gloved hands smashing a bottle of champagne in the side of a boat (Default)
Hey folks, we're running a bit behind in closing the collection, as you can see. Holidays and life just got in the way, you know how it goes.

That said, if you were looking to contribute and haven't, you still have a chance! The collection will be open until sometime this weekend Don't ask for an exact date and time, we've already demonstrated that we're terrible at meeting those, but it will close sometime between 1201am Saturday and 1159pm Sunday, US Eastern time. We'll check for any last minute submissions before closing, so suffice it to say, if the collection is still open, we're still accepting submissions.

It's been a great event, y'all are the best and sometime after closing, we should have some sort of wrap up post to share!
smashthechampagnebottle: Two gloved hands smashing a bottle of champagne in the side of a boat (Default)
Hey all! A little late, but here we are for the midway round up!!

Well done to all who have submitted so far. There's still time for those who haven't - a little under two weeks - so keep on writing! 

A quick look at the bottles we've smashed so far:

Anime, Manga and Webcomics:
 

TV Shows and Cartoons:

Cartoons & Comics & Graphic Novels:

Books:



Video Games:

Please do have a look at the collection and give these very very veeeeery rare ships a little love! Thanks to all of you for joining us, and if you still have more ships coming in, please continue writing and submitting to the collection! 

See you guys again just before we close!
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The time has come, fellow shippers! Behold, all the champagne bottles being smashed on deck!!

To all those who have submitted your stories, thank you so much for joining us! To those of you who haven't submitted yet, fret not! The collection will remain open for another month for you to submit in your own time.

We will do a round up post after two weeks, and one at the very end when we close the collection.

In the meantime, please dive in and peruse all the brand new shiny sparkling ships that never used to exist but now do! Hurrah!! Who knows, maybe you'll find a new fandom and new ship to sink your teeth into.

See you guys in two weeks' time for the first round up post. 

And now that you've smashed your champagne bottles, happy sailing!
smashthechampagnebottle: Two gloved hands smashing a bottle of champagne in the side of a boat (Default)
Hey, everyone! How are y'all doing?

This post is a reminder that the deadline for submitting to the Smash the Champagne Bottle Collection is Friday, November 15th, 11:59pm (EST).

Fic reveals will then take place an hour later on Saturday, November 16th, 12:59am (EST). We hope to see your fics there!

If you’re just seeing this for the first time and want to join in, please do! Just a reminder that signing up is optional, but encouraged so you can ‘reserve’ your ship. But if you have a qualifying ship and a fic, you can submit to the collection directly and you’ll be welcomed aboard.

The collection will also stay open for late submissions for a month after reveals, so no panic if you aren't quite done yet! We will be doing a round-up post two weeks after the collection opens, as well as one at the very end when we close the collection.

More info about the Smash the Champagne Bottle Event
smashthechampagnebottle: Two gloved hands smashing a bottle of champagne in the side of a boat (Default)
Hi all! How're we all doing? Hope the writing is going well!

This post is just a reminder that the deadline for submitting to the collection is Friday, November 15th, 11:59pm (EST) and the collection will open on Saturday, November 16th, 12:59am (EST) aka one hour after the collection closes.

There's still time, so here is a cheer for you! Go go go!! Write write write!!! Show us all your precious, shiny, brand new ships that you'll be smashing all these champagne bottles for!

Also, if you haven't promoted your ship yet, we encourage you to do so here! Share your squee with us! Tell us why you love these characters together! And while you're at it, have a look at what everyone else is aiming to smash champagne for. Who knows? Maybe you'll fnd yourself a brand new ship and set sail towards and brand new fandom!!

If you have any questions, please feel free to PM this account on dreamwidth, or leave a comment on this post. Also, note that there might be a slight delay in the time you submit your fic to the collection and the time it appears in the collection - this is just for us to verify your ships against our sign-ups (or in the case of no sign-up, that there isn't already a fic on AO3 for the ship).

See you guys again nearer the date! And to those who celebrate, Happy Spooky Season 🎃

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This is where you fall all over yourself telling us everything wonderful (Or not so wonderful as the case may be!) about your ships. Feel free to lament the lack of existing fics for them...we're all in the same boat (see what I did there?)

What fandom/s do they come from? What do you love about them? What gave you the ida to put them together? Do they make you smile? Do they break your heart? Do they make you laugh? Are they just idiots that make you roll your eyes? Do they do it all?

Please post one ship per comment...we can't wait to read about them!

Sign-ups!

Aug. 28th, 2024 08:37 am
smashthechampagnebottle: Two gloved hands smashing a bottle of champagne in the side of a boat (Default)

Reply to this post with the fandom you will be writing in and the ship(s) you will be writing for. Sign-ups will remain open until 11:59 pm on November 15th (US Eastern)

Please post one ship per comment (If you can format the ship as an ao3 tag, that would be lovely but is to mandatory. Just make sure everything is spelled correctly and that it is is clear if the ship is romantic/sexual (/) or gen/platonic (&).

Reminder: signing up is not mandatory, but keep in mind that we are counting ships that meet the requirements at the time of signup. That means that if you sign up and someone posts your ship in the meantime, you're still in. But if you don't sign up and someone posts your ship before you do, then it will not be qualified. There may also be a delay to adding qualified fics to the collection while we verify eligibility.
 


 

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