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Ninjago Oc Secret Summer 2024!

What is a Secret Summer? - It's basically a Secret Santa (A secret gift giving event) but in Summertime/Not-December instead! - For this event, you'll be secretly assigned someone to draw/write a gift for based around their oc(s) - It's very important that no one knows that you are making them a gift and vice versa, that you don't know who is making you a gift!

Are there any rules?

- Absolutely no N/S/F/W or Suggestive content is permitted for prompts, gifts, or references. This is /not/ an 18+ event.

- No direct contact with the person you're making a gift for; you can communicate through me or someone helping run the event, or ask through anon on tumblr if you can.

- No AI art/writing, Gacha edits, face claims, picrews, or bases will be permitted for oc reference submissions or gifts.

- Oc x Canon and Oc x Oc ships are 100% allowed.

- Fankids, sonas, and self inserts are also allowed; my only rule is that fankids of Lloyd x Canon ships are not permitted.

- Please respect requests regarding holiday or seasonal preferences when making a gift. Don't depict an oc participating in a holiday or seasonal activity that the creator asked not be depicted. - For the art portion, you must draw the character(s) you were assigned and they must be visible (feel free to ask for clarification).

How many ocs can be submitted total? - Three ocs can be submitted but only one is required.

What will I need for sign ups? - Refs or art that show a clear, colored depiction of your oc - OR at least two pieces of writing for said oc (does not need to be a whole fic. Could easily just be a quick blurb showing how they're written as a character) - Basic Information/Fun Facts about your character. This can be background information, relationships, likes/dislikes, age and height, personality, etc. - Suggestions or prompts for your gift giver. Stuff to help get their brain going. - Your blog name (not the name you go by but the url name. Like @/Ninjago-Oc-Appreciation, for example. Make sure it's a tumblr url, and not from any other social media).

What's the General Timeline for this event? - Sign ups will be rolling out April 14th and will remain open until the 21st. Requests can be made for small extensions if needed. - Assignments will be made sometime after the sign up forms close; posting week will begin late June (exact date to be announced with sign ups) - There will be exactly one week designated as a late period at the start of July.

How do I sign up? - In April, I'll post a google document where you can submit your ocs! There will be one for writing and one for art! - Please reach out to me after signing up in some way. This can be through messages, asks, comments, etc. In the past we've had issues with the forms, where they'd "eat' a submission, and I'd like to know when to check to make sure this doesn't happen again.

Event Tags

- We'll be using #NOSS2024, #NinjagoOcSecretSummer2024, and #SecretNinja2024 as tags for this event!

That's all! If you have any questions feel free to let me know, I tried to cover everything but I may have missed something!

Feel free to reblog this post and share with people who might be interested!

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Ninjago Oc Secret Summer Interest Post

As some of y'all might recall, last year I ran a Secret Summer event as an attempt to try out a Summer/Not-December version of the Secret Santa!

Well the time has come to start planning out another such event! This post is going to serve as an interest check and general announcement, with a more detailed announcement to come depending on whether or not people are interested.

The timeline for the event will be around the same as last year, with announcements in March, sign ups and assignments in April, time to create your gifts throughout May and June, and then posting in Late June.

If anyone has any questions or concerns, feel free to let me know!

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Ninjago Oc Secret Summer 2024 Sign Ups

Alrighty folks, the time has come to sign up for the 2024 Ninjago Oc Secret Summer! Please read the information provided in the description of the form; additional information will be provided upon receiving your assignment.

As of the forms being released, you will have until April 24th to fill your form out.

Expect to receive your assignments within the week after the form closes. After receiving your assignment you will have until June 23rd to June 30th to finish you piece, with a late period extending from July 1st to July 7th.

Do not post your piece until the designated posting days.

There’s no rule against signing up for both sections; however I do ask you to consider the time provided and how long it will take you to finish a piece.

If you have any questions feel free to reach out!

Sign Up (Art Form)

Sign Up (Writing Form)

Info Post

Ninjago Oc Discord Server

Important Info Regarding the Forms: I am using google forms for this event; unfortunately, in order to allow documents to be submitted, the forms have to require participants to sign in with an email.

The forms are still entirely anonymous however; they are not permitted to collect your email (meaning: I can't see it! It is still entirely private).

I’ll be tagging some people who showed interest; if for whatever reason you are unable to sign up or no longer have an interest in signing up that is fine.

Tagging (under the cut because tumblr was being weird and I needed to make a bunch of awkward spaces that made the post way to long)

@ninjago-events, @kitkatmonsterfox, @swampythesweetsketch, @cherri-dash,

@starshineandbooks, @gravyhoney, @triangular-dude, @juniperjellyfish, @sobri-k-eyt,

@pan-annigans,

@rainofthetwilight, @penofwildfire, @stfu-im-thinking-abt-blorbo, @ririthu, @weekend-whip,

@summertide-treehouse , @marmaleye, @ekacucumber, @lavandaray, @destinymanticor,

@an-oddlyfluffycarpet, @roselock22, @numberonepartyboy, @senseiwu,

@kriti-the-creator

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Quick Announcement: The Ninjago Oc Secret Summer Sign Ups are getting extended to April 24th! Everyone has a few additional days to sign up now ^^

Sign Up Post

Info Post

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Sign Ups for the Secret Summer will be closing today at 11:59 pm American EST!

If you've signed up for the event please remember to A. Confirm with me that your submission got sent in properly and google didn't "eat" it and B. That I am able to contact you via dms here on tumblr! I'll need to be able to reach out to you when its time for assignments!

Info Post

Sign Up Forms

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Ninjago Oc Secret Summer Sign Ups will be opening tonight, 12 am EST!

For a refresher on rules/timeline, what you'll need to sign up, or if this is the first time you're hearing about the event, here's the Info Post!

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Hey guys, little ninjago secret summer thing here: If you've noticed that your assignment document has a different name than your assignment blog name- please tell me!! This likely means I accidentally gave you the wrong document (it happens unfortunately as I'm copy pasting /a lot/ of google doc links at once) and I need to give you the proper one asap!

Please and thank you!! Boosting so more participants of the event see this is helpful!!

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I can’t remember if anyone has already asked this question, but are we allowed to have Dragons Rising content in our submissions?

Hello,

No I can't say anyone's asked that yet, and I think that since I haven't watched DR myself I didn't really consider that an issue til now.

I think for now I'll say its fine so long as it isn't spoiler heavy content. If it mentions the merge, a new element, or an oc being from a specific realm/faction that's fine. But if it goes into detail or has to do with the actual plot of DR or anything that happens to canon characters, I'd advise not including it.

Hope this makes sense and thank you for asking. Feel free to reach out if further clarification is needed.

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Hi, is it that if you write for an OC you get writing back, and if you draw, you get art back? equivalent exchange? so if someone writes someone's OC, you can't give them art instead of a fic?

Hey there!

Yes, that is exactly how the event works. The artist portion is art for art, and the writer portion is writing for writing. You can sign up for both, but that really just means you'll be making one piece of writing for a fellow writer, and one piece of art for a fellow artist.

Thanks for asking!

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HII quick question about the secret summer Santa- can someone sign up for both the art and writing at the same time? Or can we only pick one?

Hey there!

You can absolutely sign up for both! All I ask is that people consider how much time it’ll take for both projects before doing so.

Thanks for asking!

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Hi, when you ask for blurbs on the oc writing form, do you mean paragraphs explaining the character, dialogue collection across a wide variety, or meaningful character dynamic interaction drabbles with exposition?

Hello!

So basically what I mean by "blurbs" is any short piece of writing you feel depicts your character and how they're written. So this could be, as you mentioned, collections of dialogue and meaningful character interactions, or it could be them doing some kind of task, etc. Whatever you think gets how they act and who they are across!

Hope this was helpful, feel free to send in more asks for further clarification if needed!

Thanks for sending in an ask!

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