2024 schedule & rules
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highadrenalinemodGood morning good afternoon good evening! Here are the rules for the 2024 round of Heart Attack. The nomination process has changed and we have some new guidelines for safety fandoms. Read all the rules before you nominate!
AO3 Collection • Nomination Form • Tagset • Sign-Up Form • Sign-Up Search App • Short Treat Collection • Advice for Newcomers
You have two weeks to write 10k (or draw a 25-panel, 10-page comic) and one week to edit. Don't die ;)
Check out the![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
triplecrownofexchanges to see some fun prizes you can get for completing this exchange as well as two other 10k exchanges (fffx and ficinabox). For creator support, the Screamening, and other Heart Attack-relevant community stuff, check out the Triple Crown Discord.
TIMING
Starting May 4, each person can nominate fandoms with up to 10 relationships or solo characters per fandom. Nominations will happen through a Google form this year. If you don't want to use the form, you can email your nominations to the mod.
Nominations will close temporarily on May 10 so tagmods can finish checking and approving fandoms and putting them in the tagset.
When signups open on May 11, people can nominate more fandoms if they really want to, but at that point, please don't nominate a fandom unless you are definitely going to request it.
Nominations will end 24 hours before signups end so we have time to check the last nominations and add them to the tagset.
FORMAT
You can nominate fandoms and relationships. The / (as in "Barry Allen/Iris West") indicates a sexual and/or romantic relationship. The & (as in "Barry Allen & Iris West") indicates a platonic relationship. "1:" (as in "1: Iris West") indicates a fic that is about one character rather than a relationship. You can also request "1: Worldbuilding". Please disambiguate every relationship by adding the fandom name at the end of it, like "1: Worldbuilding (Discworld - Pratchett)".
Please do not nominate "Any [Group]" as a character. For example, "Eduardo Sandoval & Any Cop (Narcos)" would not be eligible as a nomination.
Crossovers should go under Crossover Fandom. Relationship example: "Peter Pevensie (Narnia - Lewis)/Sansa Stark (Game of Thrones TV)". If you want a character from fandom A in a fusion or crossover with fandom B, you can format it like this: "Peter Pevensie (Narnia - Lewis) & Worldbuilding (Game of Thrones TV)".
Almost all fandoms are eligible for the tagset. Creator’s Choice of Fandom will not be in the tagset. All original work nominations go under Original Work. We prefer specific canons over All Media Type fandoms, but we will evaluate those as they come.
Every single fandom has to be double-checked by tagmods for safety fandom status, which will take time. You can technically fill out the form as many times as you want, but for the sake of our achy wrists and tired eyes, please only nominate fandoms you're pretty sure you want to request or offer.
SAFETY FANDOMS
You will need to sign up with at least one safety fandom. A safety fandom is a fandom that can be consumed in five hours or less. It should also be available in English or with an English translation. This is designed to prevent the untimely death of our pinch hitters, who will have exactly one week to write 10k and who therefore cannot spend 20+ hours consuming a new canon for a pinch hit.
What exactly counts as a safety fandom? Glad you asked! One of these things MUST be true for your fandom to be a safety:
When nominating a safety fandom, you'll need to provide links for at least one place where it can be gotten. Links for non-safety fandoms are welcome too, but they're required for safeties! If you're nominating RPF, the info source you link here will be considered the "canon" for that nomination.
The nomination form also has a space for writing a quick fandom promo. We encourage this for safety fandoms especially! If you're hanging out as a lingering pinch hit, that lil blurb could be what gets a pinch hitter to read your book/watch your movie/listen to your album and pinch hit for you. Make it easy for our pinch hitter heroes to save the day!
As tagmods check the fandoms, they'll be added to the AO3 tagset. The tagset won't take nominations directly at any point. Put them in the Google form or email them to heartattackmod@gmail.com.
When signups open (from May 11 to May 18) you can sign up on AO3. You need a free AO3 account. If you don't have one, email heartattackmod@gmail.com and I'll get you an invite code.
You must request at least 3 different fandoms. You must request at least 1 safety fandom (see above for more info on safety fandoms). You must offer at least 3 different fandoms, and at least 1 relationship per fandom. At most, you can request 10 and offer 10. Requests and offers have to be unique.
Please be sure to include a list of Do Not Wants (DNWs) in the Details box! Unless you genuinely are fine with receiving any kind of fic/comment, in which case please say "I have no DNWs". DNWs should be specific. For instance, do not ask for "nothing icky" because it's very hard to know what that means. DNWs should also not force the author to only write one thing. For instance, do not DNW "fic where my chosen character isn't pregnant" because it's unfair to try and make your writer do one very narrow type of fic (in the example, pregnancy fic).
Likes, prompts, ship thoughts, general screaming, etc. are optional and can go into the Details box or into a letter which you can link in the "Letter or other link" box.
Please keep in mind that optional details ARE OPTIONAL—this means that a writer only needs to include at least one of your requested relationships and avoid your DNWs. Writers are not obliged to write out a specific prompt or plot for you.
If nobody requests anything you offer, we will email you so that you can add offers. If you do not reply to the mod email within 24 hours, your signup will be deleted so that we can get assignments out on time.
If nobody offers what you request, you will become a pinch hit.
If you are open to receiving a 25-panel, 10-page comic, you may opt into that in your Optional Details box. If you are an artist, and you only want to create a comic, sign up normally and email heartattackmod@gmail.com so that I know to only match you to people who opt into art.
You can also email heartattackmod@gmail.com with Do Not Match requests (to prevent a particular person or people from creating for you) and Do Please Assign requests (to ask that you be assigned to create for a particular person). I can't guarantee I'll assign you to the recipient you want, but I'll try.
For your assignment, please write a 10k fic for at least one of your recipient's requested relationships. If your recipient requests a 10 page, 25-panel comic, you can draw that for at least one of your recipient's requested relationships. Please respect your recipient's DNWs. Please do not post a sequel to a previous work of yours unless your recipient has explicitly opted into receiving sequel works.
If you can't finish your assignment in time, please default. There is no penalty for defaulting before the deadline. However, if you attempt to publish an unfinished assignment before deadline, or if you copypaste the word pickle in 10,000 times (or similar), that will lead to a one-year ban.
If a fic includes parts such as [add apple-picking scene here] or simply does not have an ending, it is incomplete. A fic must be publishable at deadline; that is, a fic must be ready to be seen by the public at deadline. If your work is incomplete at deadline, you will be defaulted and your recipient will go to pinch hit.
You may request one 2-day extension. Your request needs to be emailed to heartattackmod@gmail.com before the deadline. There will be no second extensions.
If at least one person has completed their assignment, yet they do not have a gift ready for them 24 hours before the collection is set to reveal, then the work reveals will be delayed in increments of 24 hours (i.e. it might be one day, two, etc) to ensure all who finish their assignment receive their gift.
Pinch hits will be posted to the Dreamwidth. You can claim them by commenting on the pinch hit post (comments will be screened). If there are outstanding pinch hits when the collection is supposed to open, the collection opening will be postponed.
If you did not complete your assignment, you will not become a pinch hit.
Please only post treats that are 10k. If you have a treat that is less than 10k, you can post it in the short treat collection. Anything posted in the short treat collection will not count towards Triple Crown.
You must be 18 or older to ride this ride.
In most cases of problems, mod will try to communicate first to make sure it isn't an accident & to see if it can be fixed. That said, mod reserves the right to act if any of the following happens:
1. somebody publishes an incomplete fic
2. somebody publishes the word pickle 10,000 times (or similar)
3. somebody creates a fanwork containing one of their recip's DNWs
4. somebody writes spite fic
5. somebody behaves like an asshole towards other participants and/or mod (for example, if you were to email mod every hour on the hour demanding mod answer your question immediately, that would qualify)
Questions? Did I mess up a link? Is this confusing or scary? Email heartattackmod@gmail.com.
AO3 Collection • Nomination Form • Tagset • Sign-Up Form • Sign-Up Search App • Short Treat Collection • Advice for Newcomers
You have two weeks to write 10k (or draw a 25-panel, 10-page comic) and one week to edit. Don't die ;)
- Nominations Open: Sat 04 May 2024 10:00AM EDT
- Nominations Temporarily Close for Cleanup: Fri 10 May 2024 09:59PM EDT
- Sign-up Opens & Nominations Reopen: Sat 11 May 2024 01:00PM EDT
- Nominations Close: Fri 17 May 2024 09:59 PM EDT
- Sign-up Closes: Sat 18 May 2024 9:59PM EDT
- Assignments Go Out: ASAP
- Assignments Due: Sun 02 Jun 2024 9:59PM EDT (countdown)
- Works Revealed:
Sun 09Tue 18 Jun 2024 9:59PM EDT - Creators Revealed: two weeks after work reveals
Check out the
triplecrownofexchanges to see some fun prizes you can get for completing this exchange as well as two other 10k exchanges (fffx and ficinabox). For creator support, the Screamening, and other Heart Attack-relevant community stuff, check out the Triple Crown Discord. NOMINATIONS
NOMINATIONS
TIMING
Starting May 4, each person can nominate fandoms with up to 10 relationships or solo characters per fandom. Nominations will happen through a Google form this year. If you don't want to use the form, you can email your nominations to the mod.
Nominations will close temporarily on May 10 so tagmods can finish checking and approving fandoms and putting them in the tagset.
When signups open on May 11, people can nominate more fandoms if they really want to, but at that point, please don't nominate a fandom unless you are definitely going to request it.
Nominations will end 24 hours before signups end so we have time to check the last nominations and add them to the tagset.
FORMAT
You can nominate fandoms and relationships. The / (as in "Barry Allen/Iris West") indicates a sexual and/or romantic relationship. The & (as in "Barry Allen & Iris West") indicates a platonic relationship. "1:" (as in "1: Iris West") indicates a fic that is about one character rather than a relationship. You can also request "1: Worldbuilding". Please disambiguate every relationship by adding the fandom name at the end of it, like "1: Worldbuilding (Discworld - Pratchett)".
Please do not nominate "Any [Group]" as a character. For example, "Eduardo Sandoval & Any Cop (Narcos)" would not be eligible as a nomination.
Crossovers should go under Crossover Fandom. Relationship example: "Peter Pevensie (Narnia - Lewis)/Sansa Stark (Game of Thrones TV)". If you want a character from fandom A in a fusion or crossover with fandom B, you can format it like this: "Peter Pevensie (Narnia - Lewis) & Worldbuilding (Game of Thrones TV)".
Almost all fandoms are eligible for the tagset. Creator’s Choice of Fandom will not be in the tagset. All original work nominations go under Original Work. We prefer specific canons over All Media Type fandoms, but we will evaluate those as they come.
Every single fandom has to be double-checked by tagmods for safety fandom status, which will take time. You can technically fill out the form as many times as you want, but for the sake of our achy wrists and tired eyes, please only nominate fandoms you're pretty sure you want to request or offer.
SAFETY FANDOMS
You will need to sign up with at least one safety fandom. A safety fandom is a fandom that can be consumed in five hours or less. It should also be available in English or with an English translation. This is designed to prevent the untimely death of our pinch hitters, who will have exactly one week to write 10k and who therefore cannot spend 20+ hours consuming a new canon for a pinch hit.
What exactly counts as a safety fandom? Glad you asked! One of these things MUST be true for your fandom to be a safety:
- It's Original Work.
- It's a standalone you can watch (TV episode or series, movie, music video, etc.) that's up to 5 hours long.
- It's a standalone you can read in English (book, poem, collection of stories, etc.) that's up to 100,000 words long (check at Reading Length).
- It's a standalone you can listen to (song, album, performance, etc.) that's up to 5 hours long.
- It's a video game whose main story takes up to 5 hours to play (check at How Long to Beat).
- It's a comic book run with up to 30 comics.
- It's a manga with up to 30 chapters.
- It's a still image (photograph, painting, etc.) or series of still images.
- It's RPF, and the necessary information about the people you're nominating is contained in a medium that fits one of the above categories (a biography under 100,000 words, a documentary under 5 hours, etc.).
- It's some other fixed-length fandom, in English or with an English translation available, that's easy to access and can be consumed in under 5 hours.
When nominating a safety fandom, you'll need to provide links for at least one place where it can be gotten. Links for non-safety fandoms are welcome too, but they're required for safeties! If you're nominating RPF, the info source you link here will be considered the "canon" for that nomination.
The nomination form also has a space for writing a quick fandom promo. We encourage this for safety fandoms especially! If you're hanging out as a lingering pinch hit, that lil blurb could be what gets a pinch hitter to read your book/watch your movie/listen to your album and pinch hit for you. Make it easy for our pinch hitter heroes to save the day!
As tagmods check the fandoms, they'll be added to the AO3 tagset. The tagset won't take nominations directly at any point. Put them in the Google form or email them to heartattackmod@gmail.com.
SIGNUPS
SIGNUPS
When signups open (from May 11 to May 18) you can sign up on AO3. You need a free AO3 account. If you don't have one, email heartattackmod@gmail.com and I'll get you an invite code.
You must request at least 3 different fandoms. You must request at least 1 safety fandom (see above for more info on safety fandoms). You must offer at least 3 different fandoms, and at least 1 relationship per fandom. At most, you can request 10 and offer 10. Requests and offers have to be unique.
Please be sure to include a list of Do Not Wants (DNWs) in the Details box! Unless you genuinely are fine with receiving any kind of fic/comment, in which case please say "I have no DNWs". DNWs should be specific. For instance, do not ask for "nothing icky" because it's very hard to know what that means. DNWs should also not force the author to only write one thing. For instance, do not DNW "fic where my chosen character isn't pregnant" because it's unfair to try and make your writer do one very narrow type of fic (in the example, pregnancy fic).
Likes, prompts, ship thoughts, general screaming, etc. are optional and can go into the Details box or into a letter which you can link in the "Letter or other link" box.
Please keep in mind that optional details ARE OPTIONAL—this means that a writer only needs to include at least one of your requested relationships and avoid your DNWs. Writers are not obliged to write out a specific prompt or plot for you.
If nobody requests anything you offer, we will email you so that you can add offers. If you do not reply to the mod email within 24 hours, your signup will be deleted so that we can get assignments out on time.
If nobody offers what you request, you will become a pinch hit.
If you are open to receiving a 25-panel, 10-page comic, you may opt into that in your Optional Details box. If you are an artist, and you only want to create a comic, sign up normally and email heartattackmod@gmail.com so that I know to only match you to people who opt into art.
You can also email heartattackmod@gmail.com with Do Not Match requests (to prevent a particular person or people from creating for you) and Do Please Assign requests (to ask that you be assigned to create for a particular person). I can't guarantee I'll assign you to the recipient you want, but I'll try.
ASSIGNMENTS, DEADLINE, REVEALS
ASSIGNMENTS, DEADLINE, REVEALS
For your assignment, please write a 10k fic for at least one of your recipient's requested relationships. If your recipient requests a 10 page, 25-panel comic, you can draw that for at least one of your recipient's requested relationships. Please respect your recipient's DNWs. Please do not post a sequel to a previous work of yours unless your recipient has explicitly opted into receiving sequel works.
If you can't finish your assignment in time, please default. There is no penalty for defaulting before the deadline. However, if you attempt to publish an unfinished assignment before deadline, or if you copypaste the word pickle in 10,000 times (or similar), that will lead to a one-year ban.
If a fic includes parts such as [add apple-picking scene here] or simply does not have an ending, it is incomplete. A fic must be publishable at deadline; that is, a fic must be ready to be seen by the public at deadline. If your work is incomplete at deadline, you will be defaulted and your recipient will go to pinch hit.
You may request one 2-day extension. Your request needs to be emailed to heartattackmod@gmail.com before the deadline. There will be no second extensions.
If at least one person has completed their assignment, yet they do not have a gift ready for them 24 hours before the collection is set to reveal, then the work reveals will be delayed in increments of 24 hours (i.e. it might be one day, two, etc) to ensure all who finish their assignment receive their gift.
PINCH HITS
PINCH HITS
Pinch hits will be posted to the Dreamwidth. You can claim them by commenting on the pinch hit post (comments will be screened). If there are outstanding pinch hits when the collection is supposed to open, the collection opening will be postponed.
If you did not complete your assignment, you will not become a pinch hit.
TREATS
TREATS
Please only post treats that are 10k. If you have a treat that is less than 10k, you can post it in the short treat collection. Anything posted in the short treat collection will not count towards Triple Crown.
OTHER RULES
OTHER RULES
You must be 18 or older to ride this ride.
In most cases of problems, mod will try to communicate first to make sure it isn't an accident & to see if it can be fixed. That said, mod reserves the right to act if any of the following happens:
1. somebody publishes an incomplete fic
2. somebody publishes the word pickle 10,000 times (or similar)
3. somebody creates a fanwork containing one of their recip's DNWs
4. somebody writes spite fic
5. somebody behaves like an asshole towards other participants and/or mod (for example, if you were to email mod every hour on the hour demanding mod answer your question immediately, that would qualify)
Questions? Did I mess up a link? Is this confusing or scary? Email heartattackmod@gmail.com.
