🛶 Tiny Ships Rules

A non-canon rare pair and/or rare crack ship, as defined by the fest criteria below, must prominently feature in a fanwork that you create.
Other ships are permitted as long as they aren't the focus.
There is no word count minimum or maximum for fics.
Tiny Ships does permit derivative works such as podfics and translations as your submission.

🚣🏼‍♂️ Does my ship qualify?

Ships need to pass both the combined criteria AND the additional criteria for the specific ship type.

Canon ships are excluded, regardless of their popularity within a fandom. We understand that some canon ships don’t have a lot of fanworks, which technically makes them rare within their fandoms, but this isn’t the fest for them.
To keep the focus on lesser-known ships, we’re capping the total number of public works a ship can have on AO3 at 1,500. This may exclude true rare pairs and crack ships in larger fandoms. (If your fandom is plagued by genAI, filter it out!! They do not count toward the 1,500.)
We will accept both the / (slash: romantic and/or sexual) and & (platonic) version of a ship. For this fest, we consider the / and & versions to be separate ships. Only the ship you tag has to pass the criteria. If you choose to tag both / and &, both ships have to pass.
No shipping OCs unless the original work involves game play using original or customizable characters (e.g. a dating sim).
It's totally fine to use a little-known character as long as they were mentioned in canon!