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This is a little bit of fun before the creator reveals. I'm not sure I'll have the time to do any little prizes for the most correct guesses but I can always do a little ficlet 😄

Post your guesses in the comments:
List of creators this year:

feroxargentea,
LarixLaricina,
mific,
noxelementalist,
BardicRaven,
Jodie,
easystreets,
Stetchkags99,
Lucy410,
gjdraws (trq),
Damned_Writers,
AlexandraMRobertson,
flownwrong,
SpaceTimeConundrum,
alittleindulgence,
seleneheart,
KittKat,
portlandwithyou,
blueniverse_42,
Hwaetnot, ThisaintBC, ferenginars,

Have fun!
All Points North

Family Findings

Release, revolve, renew

Stop Motion Poetry

Under the Mistletoe

(Standing in the Way of) Control

Red Suits Her

On this Winter's Night with You

A Few Good Mounties

A Podfic Red and Green

Will testify for doughnuts a podfic

Red Flash

Olly Olly oxen free

A million Skies

Ways that don't need exploring at this juncture

The Laws of Silence

An Arctic Encounter

Mix and Match

Hinting

The Wolf Brothers and Other Tales

Wonderful Nothing

Best Friend

A Boundless Moment

wicked3659

Hello Seekrit Santas

This is a reminder that all prompts in the exchange are open for Treats. You do not have to have signed up to the exchange to contribute a treat and you can post treats right up until the collection closes on 1st January 2025.

We had a couple of pinch hitters this time around, so you might want to treat them a little something something 😉 I for one appreciate them stepping in, in a crunch

mific and

thisaintbc

Santa letters for each pinch hitter can be found below. They have waived the right to be anonymous for the purpose of treats. 😃

mific
mific.dreamwidth.org/266811.html

thisaintbc

thisaintbc.dreamwidth.org/16728.html

(My insert link isn't working bear with me 😅) Fixed it!

Treat away!

wicked3659

Get your drafts finished. Get your works uploaded.

You have just over a week to go. Please message me for a short extension should you need.

Assignments are due in one week!

wicked3659

We have a pinch hit request for any one the following:
CLAIMED

~~Request 1 by alittleindulgence~~

~~Fandom:due South~~

~~No rating~~

~~Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings~~

~~No category~~

~~Request Unfulfilled~~

~~23 Oct 2024~~

~~Tags~~

~~Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski/Ray VecchioFanartFanfictionFanvid~~

~~Summary~~

~~I am on such an OT3 kick right now, would love ANYTHING.~~

~~Interests include:~~

~~- Getting together fic~~

~~- RayV dealing with Vegas~~

~~- RayK and RayV rescuing Fraser in some way shape or form~~

~~- Domesticity - how and where is this all working out?~~

~~- Vecchio and Kowalski being (eventually) sweet to one another~~

~~- PWP~~

~~- General hijinks~~

~~Request 2 by alittleindulgence~~

~~Fandom:due South~~

~~No rating~~

~~Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings~~

~~No category~~

~~Request Unfulfilled~~

~~23 Oct 2024~~

~~Tags~~

~~Benton Fraser/Ray KowalskiFanartFanfictionFanvid~~

~~Summary~~

~~Ship of my heart!~~

~~Will love pretty much anything, but especially:~~

~~- First-time~~

~~- Getting together in unusual ways~~

~~- Domesticity~~

~~- Problem-solving~~

~~- Unexpected ways Fraser is different after they get together~~

~~- Unexpected ways Ray is different after they get together~~

~~- Maybe there's a cat?~~

~~Request 3 by alittleindulgence~~

~~Fandom:due South~~

~~No rating~~

~~Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings~~

~~No category~~

~~Request Unfulfilled~~

~~23 Oct 2024~~

~~Tags~~

~~Ray Kowalski & NoneFanartFanfictionFanvid~~

~~Summary~~

~~I just enjoy RayK - so a celebration/exploration of this character would be lovely.~~

There’s a lot of growth that happens behind the scenes in s3-4 - I’d be interested in something that expands on what’s happening for him internally during this time - or whatever else you'd like to explore!

~~Things I don’t love/DNW:~~

~~- Major archive warnings~~

~~- Unhappy or ambiguous endings~~

- AI generated anything

My Dear Santa Letter: ~~docs.google.com/document/d/1oaA9lf8FYzB0019gB_SE3uGO1d6QtvXaVr2lDTs97NA/edit~~

wicked3659

Hello Duesers,

This is your check in post. Assignments are due in 19 days. If you think you can't make that date, send me an email: dsssmod20@gmail.com so we can get the assignment out to pinch hitters.

Now is also the time you can create treats. Please only take on treats if you have finished your gift. I won't accept works if you have gifts outstanding.

Get in touch if you need anything.

wicked3659

Hello Duesers,

Sorry for the lateness this year. I blame academia.

This is the post where you can volunteer for Beta or cheerleader or both.

Please comment with your name, and how is best to contact you onto this post.

I hope you are all happy with your assignments. If you have any questions or concerns please message me here, discord or email to dsssmod20@gmail.com

If you fancy doing a treat feel free to start looking at the reqs now. Treat posting will start from December 😁🥳

Thank you kindly everyone

wicked3659

Hello Duesers,

I'm reaching out for a pinch hitter for the DSSS gift exchange.
Here are the prompts:

Request 1:

~~Fandom:due South~~

~~No rating~~

~~Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings~~

~~Tags~~

Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski
Fanart, Fanfiction

~~Summary~~

~~- Fraser and Kowalski are undercover, completely different people. Like Miss Fraser and Ray the baseball player. Except both of them on the same assignment. Can be serious or comedic. Gen or slash.~~

Request 2:
Fandom: Due South
Benton Fraser & None, Benton Fraser,
Fanart, Fanfiction

~~Summary~~

- post credit stinger for the episode of your choice (similar to what the MCU always does with their movies). What should have been added to the ep? Where there any dangling plot threads? What about a scene that might lead to some sort of AU? Or a scene showing if the characters had made different choices?

Request 3:
Fandom: Due South

Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski
Fanart, Fanfiction

~~Summary~~

- post CotW, Fraser and Kowalski are posted to some large Canadian city. How to they adapt? How does Fraser cope with another city? How does Ray cope with someplace not Chicago? What is great about it? What do they struggle with? Can be gen or slash.

~~As for DNW, see my letter.~~

~~My Dear Santa Letter:~~

~~seleneheart.dreamwidth.org/1325725.html~~

~~seleneheart.dreamwidth.org/1325725.html~~
Deadline is: 20th December 2024

Please email me at dsssmod20@gmail.com or DM me here or in Discord if interested.

Thank you kindly!!

CLAIMED THANK YOU KINDLY!!

wicked3659

Hello Seekrit Santas,

I am putting out an announcement for anyone currently signed up who might like to do a swap. No explanation needed, perhaps the prompts aren't hitting the right notes or you're just not feeling confident you can do justice to what your gifter will really enjoy.

No judgement, but I will need you to email me privately on the dsssmod20@gmail.com to discuss the details of the prompts to maintain the secrecy and anonymity of the gift exchange. As soon as possible, thank you kindly.

wicked3659

All your assignments have been sent. Any issues please message me or email the mod email.

Have fun, get your Secret Santa letters ready and don't talk about your assignments, it's a surprise 🤪🤫

wicked3659

DSSS 2024 First Post!

Disclaimer for any new guys to the fandom - and I know there's a few, I run this by myself in between 2 teaching jobs and researching for a doctorate so please bear with me! ^__^;;;

Here is this year's schedule!

Signups Open	Sunday 7th October 2024
Signups Close	Friday October 27th, 2024 at 11:59pm (UTC)
Assignments sent out to participants	Monday October 28th 2024
Collection open for posting	November 1st, 2024
Assignments Due	Friday 20th December 2024 at 11:59pm (UTC)
Reveal Anonymous Works	Tuesday December 24th, 2024 11:59pm (UTC)
Reveal Authors	Jan 1st, 2024

Welcome back to another year of DSSS. This year everything will run like last year. (Except a little late and with a shorter sign up (what's new!?).

The AO3 tagset will run like a standard exchange with 3 requests to 1 match up carried out using AO3 algorithms.

Requests will be visible from the start of sign ups. This allows for more transparency and longer time to start thinking about treats whether or not you decide to sign up to the main event.

There will be no beta check in. We recommend you get your work beta'd before submitting it to continue DSSS high standards. It is a gift after all. The mod (me) will be checking for any glaring mistakes when you submit and will get in touch if anything needs amending.

That being said there will be a beta volunteer post at a later date so please ask if you are struggling to get a beta.

We are scrapping the rule that if you default on your main match you can't treat. We understand why this was done previously but we decided that life happens sometimes, and inspiration comes and goes when it feels like it. Nobody wants to default. But if you do, and later on you get inspiration for something else, there's nothing wrong with throwing more cake into the mix. Who doesn't love more cake at Christmas? I will still ensure that everybody who signs up gets a gift regardless.

The collection will be open at the same time this year giving more time for contributions.

If you have any questions please comment on this post.

Sign ups are open (give or take an hour from now). Get ready!

archiveofourown.org/collections/DSSS2024/signups/new

verushka70

Hello all! The old/lost dSSS entries that were on the defunct (for several years now) crocolanthus server - and the initial LJs - are being imported to AO3 by OTW. I worked so hard tracking down links from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine (and LJ) and OTW is going to start importing next month.

Please see their post on AO3 for more details on how to reach them if you're an author or were a recipient and you think you might have a dSSS fanwork (or 2, or 3, or more!) that will be in their import. (I will not be doing the importing, only OTW does that, so I'm not the one to contact going forward!) Thank you! And thank you, OTW!

wicked3659

It is tonight midnight UK time that dsss closes. There's likely to be some wiggle room so please message or email if you have any issues.

Pinch hitters: You have until the 24th 😁💪

Don't forget to tick your complete box or AO3 will show you as incomplete/defaulted!

Also be sure to tick your assignment box when you post or you'll be shown as defaulted. I get notifications and will be checking as well and will send out reminders if I think anybody has missed it 😁

wicked3659

As much as it pains me to tell you. The deadline looms!!

Please email me at dsssmod20@gmail.com if you cannot finish.

wicked3659

Calling all pinch hitters, there is one claim to be made.

CLAIMED

Deadline 20th December.

Summary

Likes:
-My OTP for due South is Fraser and Kowalski, although I'm also fond of Vecchio/Stella.
-Some tropes I like: fake/pretend relationship, friends to lovers, Canadian shack, post-CoTW, everybody (including Frannie) being competent. I'm not opposed to animal transformation especially in the context of mythology (but see below). I love fairy tales.
Prompts:
-Lean even harder into the magical realism of the show - ghosts, faerie, cryptids, myths walking amongst us.
-Past lives, like Cloud Atlas or the Lady of Hay, for instance. Reincarnation, cycle of lives, correcting past mistakes.
-Something extremely specific to Chicago, that couldn't happen in any other major city.
-Something inspired by Canadian folk songs/singers, Stan Rogers, Gordon Lightfoot.
-Cabin fic with small town shenanigans, eccentric characters, wholesome energy, and so on. Feel free to add a dash of darkness or danger.
~~Request 2 by seleneheart~~
~~Fandom:due South~~
~~No rating~~
~~Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings~~
~~No category~~
~~Request Unfulfilled~~
~~08 Oct 2023~~
~~Tags~~
~~Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski & Diefenbaker~~
~~Fanart~~
~~Fanfiction~~
~~Summary~~
Likes:
-My OTP for due South is Fraser and Kowalski, although I'm also fond of Vecchio/Stella.
-Some tropes I like: fake/pretend relationship, friends to lovers, Canadian shack, post-CoTW, everybody (including Frannie) being competent. I'm not opposed to animal transformation especially in the context of mythology (but see below). I love fairy tales.
Prompts:
-Lean even harder into the magical realism of the show - ghosts, faerie, cryptids, myths walking amongst us.
-Past lives, like Cloud Atlas or the Lady of Hay, for instance. Reincarnation, cycle of lives, correcting past mistakes.
-Something extremely specific to Chicago, that couldn't happen in any other major city.
-Something inspired by Canadian folk songs/singers, Stan Rogers, Gordon Lightfoot.
-Cabin fic with small town shenanigans, eccentric characters, wholesome energy, and so on. Feel free to add a dash of darkness or danger.

~~Request 3 by seleneheart~~
~~Fandom:due South~~
~~No rating~~
~~Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings~~
~~No category~~
~~Request Unfulfilled~~
~~08 Oct 2023~~
~~Tags~~
~~Benton Fraser & Ray Kowalski~~
~~Fanart~~
~~Fanfiction~~
~~Summary~~
Likes:
-My OTP for due South is Fraser and Kowalski, although I'm also fond of Vecchio/Stella.
-Some tropes I like: fake/pretend relationship, friends to lovers, Canadian shack, post-CoTW, everybody (including Frannie) being competent. I'm not opposed to animal transformation especially in the context of mythology (but see below). I love fairy tales.
Prompts:
-Lean even harder into the magical realism of the show - ghosts, faerie, cryptids, myths walking amongst us.
-Past lives, like Cloud Atlas or the Lady of Hay, for instance. Reincarnation, cycle of lives, correcting past mistakes.
-Something extremely specific to Chicago, that couldn't happen in any other major city.
-Something inspired by Canadian folk songs/singers, Stan Rogers, Gordon Lightfoot.
-Cabin fic with small town shenanigans, eccentric characters, wholesome energy, and so on. Feel free to add a dash of darkness or danger.

~~DNWs:~~
-kid fic
-dumbing down characters or making them weak to advance the plot. I'm okay with sick!fic but it's not my fav, so avoid if possible.
-out of character behavior to advance the plot
-unhappy endings, however, I don’t mind bittersweet
-first or second person pov
-A/B/O
-Fraser with either (any) Vecchios, Ray/Ray
-bad science
-rape/non-con

~~My Dear Santa Letter:~~ ~~http://seleneheart.dreamwidth.org/1315804.html~~

Please reply with your AO3 name if you can claim and complete.

Comments are screened to protect creator anonymity.

wicked3659

Hello Duesers,

This is the post where you can volunteer for Beta or cheerleader or both.

Please comment with your name, and how is best to contact you onto this post.

I hope you are all happy with your assignments. If you have any questions or concerns please message me here, discord or email to dsssmod20@gmail.com

If you fancy doing a treat feel free to start looking at the reqs now. Treat posting will start from December 😁🥳

Thank you kindly everyone!

wicked3659

Assignments have gone out.

Please please let me know if you have any issues, questions , reservations in due course by sending me an email at dsssmod20@gmail.com

wicked3659

So, I figured out AO3, it looks okay so I'm opening Sign ups today!!

Signups are indeed open! If you're interested, links below!

Signups Link:
archiveofourown.org/collections/DueSouthSeekritSanta2023/profile

Questions? Ask them at our Dreamwidth page here: ds-ssdiscussion.dreamwidth.org/151046.html

wicked3659

DSSS 2023 First Post!

I am running this by myself this year, so I am a teensy bit behind as I started my PhD and quit my job to do it yesterday, wheee!!

Please bear with me! I will give you enough time for sign ups and gift creating.

Here is this year's schedule!

Signups Open	Sunday 1st October 2023
Signups Close	Friday October 20th, 2023 at 11:59pm (UTC) (this is the longest I can give without pushing assignment send out to November).
Assignments sent out to participants	Monday October 23rd, 2023
Collection open for posting	November 1st, 2023
Assignments Due	Wednesday 20th December 2023 at 11:59pm (UTC)
Reveal Anonymous Works	Saturday December 24th, 2023 11:59pm (UTC)
Reveal Authors	Jan 1st, 2024

Welcome back to another year of DSSS. This year everything will run like last year. (Except a little late and with a shorter sign up).

The AO3 tagset will run like a standard exchange with 3 requests to 1 match up carried out using AO3 algorithms.

Requests will be visible from the start of sign ups. This allows for more transparency and longer time to start thinking about treats whether or not you decide to sign up to the main event.

That being said there will be a beta volunteer post at a later date so please ask if you are struggling to get a beta.

The collection will be open at the same time this year giving more time for contributions.

If you have any questions please comment on this post.

Sign ups are coming, in 2 days. Get ready!

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