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Medium Rulesets

The mediums are all organized into rulesets that will tell you what the minimums and equivalents are for that subset of medium tags. Every medium tag is prefixed with the ruleset that you need to check! For example if a tag says "Medium Opt In: Art - [tag]" then you should head down to the Art section!

Most rulesets have multiple options for minimums and equivalents. Your work only needs to meet one of the options.

It is possible that one tag may fit into multiple mediums. If that's the case then it may have multiple tags. To account for this, during signups this year you will be able to add as many Opt-In tags as you want to the "Optional Tags" field.

While anon rules are important, they aren't reasonable in all cases so exceptions have been built into the rulesets. During the anon period it's expected that everyone should still act as though the works are anon even if the name is visible (this means no naming the creator and no claiming the work in namespace until after creator reveals).

If posting a work that requires the use of an outside account, please follow the anon rules above. In addition, if possible you must embed your work on AO3. If embedding is impossible, you must put something besides a link into your AO3 work: a screenshot, an example, instructions, and/or similar -- think of this like giftwrapping. It doesn't need to be complex, it just needs to be enough to count as a fanwork per the Archive Terms of Service [link].

• In the tagset (link)
• In the medium tag checklist (link) which will generate comma separated lists to use in signups.

If you want a medium added, or think that we've missed a medium option for one of the existing mediums, please head over to the medium nomination page and request it here (link)!