specrecs | A Guide to Treats

A treat is a work composed for the Spectre Requisitions Collection outside of your assignment. A treat is extra, i.e. you are free but not obligated to create it on top of your assignment. This is possible in the following ways:

A fanwork for an un-requested pairing on the nominations list. Is there a pairing on there you just absolutely want to write something for and no one requested it? You can post it to the collection as a treat!
A fanwork that fills a request of one of the participants you weren’t assigned to. Maybe one of the requests on this list just grabs you and you can’t help yourself. We feel you. We really do.

If you create a fanwork for a participant of the Exchange, you are obligated to follow that person’s squicks/triggers and pairings. If your treat doesn’t have a particular recipient, it must still be tagged appropriately (i.e. warn for potentially triggering content, rating).

A treat does not have a minimum word count requirement; it doesn’t need to have over a 1000 words like your Assignment Fic does. A treat may also be a manip on its own, unlike an Assignment Artwork.

You do not have to be signed up to post a fanwork to the collection! All you need is an AO3 account; if you don’t have one, you may message the mods and we will get you an invitation. The collection is open to treats from now up to March 28th. It will be inaccessible to anyone but the creator and the mods until reveals.

How to post your treat:

1) Log into AO3 and go to Post->New Work. Fill in your actual document, titles, warnings, etc. like normal.

2) Under Post to Collections/Challenges, type in the following groups:

- SpecRecs2021

3) Under Gift this work, type in your recipient’s name. If it’s a treat, type in the person whose prompt you used for your fanwork if you used one; otherwise, you can leave this form blank to just make a general gift to the community. If you’ve done it right, it should look like this: