you can drop at any time for any reason without telling us!! the main purpose of sign ups is for writers to indicate if they want to stay anonymous at reveals. we don't have check-ins, and we aren't going to follow up on anyone personally if they don't claim or submit anything. we know this is a departure from the way most events are run! but with regards to sign ups, really you only need to reach out to the mods if you change your mind on anonymity or change the ao3 pseud you're participating with (but you can also just sign up again and we'll reference the most recent sign up!)

as a side note, participating in prompting is 100% optional. you can submit a fic without a prompt! we included prompts because we know our theme is so vague that some people might want more direction on where to start, and prompting is a good way to get more people involved in participating in the fest even if they don't feel up to writing themselves!!! again though, we know we're set up different from a lot of events and people want to err on the side of caution. we really are this permissive and low commitment haha

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