Porn Battle 5: Bigger, Longer and Uncut!
Yes, it's time for another Porn Battle!!

We've instituted a few changes, two of which are important right now.

1. READ THIS!

We've gotten to the point where we really need to crack down on the formatting rules. Sorting all the prompts is a huge job and it's made a great deal more difficult and frustrating if we have to reformat a quarter of the prompts along the way. So, as hard as it is for me to say this because I'm all about including and not excluding, if you do not format your prompt correctly, we will discard it.

Formatting rules (which will be posted again with examples when we call for prompts):

Fandom, Pairing, prompt word, lyric/phrase (optional)

Use commas to separate each element. Not en or em dashes! Not colons! Not semi colons! Commas.

Use the full name of the fandom. No abbreviations with the following exception:

Because the games are listed this way, Final Fantasy prompts will be as follows, using the Roman numerals: Final Fantasy VII. Not Final Fantasy 7, or Final Fantasy Seven, or FF VII.

If there's a "The" in the title, we'll use it. So it's "The Chronicles of Narnia". Not Chronicles of Narnia or Narnia. We know that this is not common alphabetizing practice, but using the full name of each and every fandom makes it easier for everyone involved. It's easier for us because we only have to sort things once and it's easier for you because you'll know exactly where to go to find any given fandom.

Each prompt must be seperate. If you have a fandom and a pairing and then six different prompt words for that pairing, post them as six different prompts instead of combining them all on one line.

Use "crossover" not "crossovers."

We hope you understand that we're not being arbitrary here. Each formatting rule is designed to make this whole process run as smoothly as possible.

2. The schedule's been changed a little because the time it takes to compile the list of prompts gets longer every time we do this. We'll be taking prompts a day earlier so we can have a whole day for the mods to get the prompt list complied. And of course, there's nothing to stop you from writing during that period, so it won't really slow you down. :) We've also added an extra day at the end, so you'll have more time to write more porn; this makes it easier if you happen to have other things to do on the weekend.

Sunday morning, September 14 -- prompt post goes up
Tuesday evening, September 16 -- prompt post closes
Wednesday, September 17 -- mod has all day to compile prompts
Thursday morning, September 18 -- prompt lists go up/battle begins
Wednesday evening, September 24 -- battle ends
Thursday sometime, September 25 -- list of fics and stats go up

One other change: When you link to a comment on IJ, the link doesn't go directly to the comment the way it does on LJ. Therefore, when the link to a Porn Battle fic is posted, you still have to scroll down through the entire list of prompts, which is just a huge pain in the ass. Also, given the ever increasing number of prompts, we could end up in a situation where we have something like five prompt posts, and that's just a little ridiculous. So....

The prompts list will be posted off-site. It will be neatly cut into easily digested pieces so that you can either go straight to any given fandom, or shop around at your leisure.

If you have any questions about any of this, this is the time/place to ask them.