Howdy friends and folks! After gauging y’all’s interest, here it is the Red Dead Redemption Secret Cupid 2020!

The concept is similar to a Secret Santa exchange: every participant (but we’ll call y’all Cupids from now on) will be assigned another Cupid to create a work for, secretly! This blog will then reblog all entries on Valentine’s day, the 14th of February.

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Schedule

• Applications via google forms close on January 14th
• You will receive your Cupid’s url and wish by January 16th by email. Make sure you give us a valid address!
• You are responsible for submitting your work on your blog on February 14th.

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Rules:

• This goes without saying but join if you’re fairly certain you’ll have the time! This is very important as if several Cupids drop out, other Cupids will be without a gift. We’re planning to have back-up Cupids but let’s try not to overload them with last-minute works.
  
• It’s a Secret Cupid, so keep who you got assigned to a secret!
  
• Only artworks and fanfictions are accepted.
• After much hesitation, we decided to allow 18+/explicit material on 2 strict conditions: First, you MUST be over 18 to participate/ask for an explicit piece. Second, you have to abide to tumblr’s tyranny laws, host your work elsewhere and instead submit a snippet/cropped image of your work.
• We will immediately reject and block the application of any participant asking for any mature work involving underage characters or asking a piece showing hate towards any minorities.
• The list of participants will only be sorted according to what type of work they wish to receive (fanarts or fanfic, or both) and according to their major squicks/trigger but otherwise, it will be randomised. Please understand that you might end up with ships or characters you don’t feel particularly strongly towards (And always remember the first fandom activity’s rule: ship and let ship!).
• To keep things fair, the mods will divide the final list of participants in half, and then each half will be randomly assigned and maintained by one of us, ensuring the other mod isn’t able to spoil their own surprise either.
• The minimum requirement for art is a finished piece, according to the artist’s standards and style. Please, put a lot of heart and soul into your work!
  
• The minimum requirement for fics are 1000 words. Again, please put a lot of heart and soul into your work!
  
• Please try to stick to your recipient’s wishes as much as possible.
• If, for whatever reason, you really can’t make the deadline, please inform us as soon as possible so we can find a replacement in a timely fashion.
• We mods will not sort people depending of their artistic levels. As the participants will be randomised as much as possible, there will be difference regarding of “quality” and styles. Please remember to be kind to each other!

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Submission rules:

• Please tag your work with #RDRSecretCupid2020 so we can reblog it on February 14th! Make sure this tag is present among the 5 first tags of your work so it’ll be indexed but tumblr’s fine databases.
  
• If your work contains mature content, please submit a cropped version/a snippet and host your work elsewhere, for all female presenting nipples’ sake.

If you have any question, feel free to send us and ask or contact us at  rdrsecretcupid202(at)gmail(dot)com!

Application form

- Mods Natt & Crimson