OLD (2020) Rules & FAQ
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highadrenalineexchangeAO3 Collection • Tagset • Short Treat Collection
You have two weeks to write 10k (or to draw a 25-panel, 10-page comic). You have one week to edit. Don't die ;)
This is going to be pretty much like every other exchange you've done before, except that you have to sign up with at least one safety fandom, aka a fandom that takes 5 hours or less to consume.
Also, check out the 10k exchange Triple Crown to see some fun prizes you can get for completing this exchange as well as two other 10k exchanges (FFFX and Fic in a Box).
Please keep in mind: 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. 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. Thanks to the vidding exchange equinox_exchange for this very useful idea!
Please nominate your safety fandom with [SAFETY] next to it. For example, "Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) [SAFETY]".
The following qualify as safety fandoms:
If you are a fan of a series, you may nominate both the first item in the series (if you're willing to get fanfiction based only off of that one item!) and the entire series. For example, you can nominate both "The Wee Free Men - Terry Pratchett [SAFETY]" and "Discworld - Pratchett". However, if you use this in order to craft a signup that's three requests of only the same pairing, rendering your whole signup a one-pairing signup, I will transform into a Canada goose and fly to your location to fight you physically.
Regarding megafandoms:
Nominations will close temporarily on November 6 so tagmods can clean everything up and get the tagset looking decent.
When signups open on November 7, people can nominate 3 more fandoms if they really want to, but at that point, please don't nominate a fandom unless you intend to request it.
To be frank, tagmods are fine with people socking up if they are desperate to request 10 fandoms and offer 10 different fandoms, as long as they: 1) disambiguate their relationships 2) check for whether their fandoms are safeties or not, and 3) keep in mind that every single fandom has to be double-checked by tagmods to be sure it is or is not a safety, which will take time.
You must request at least 3 different fandoms. You must request at least one safety fandom (see above for more info on safety fandoms). You must offer at least 4 different fandoms. At most, you can request 10 and offer 10.
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, in which case please say "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. is optional and can go into the Details box or into a letter which you can link in the "Optional Dear Author Letter URL" 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 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 you did not write your assignment, you will not become a pinch hit.
If person A is supposed to write a gift for person B, but defaults, and person C already wrote a gift for person B, then person B will not become a pinch hit.
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)
If you would like to be part of the next villain origin story, you can join the EAD (Exchanges After Dark) discord server here. (Be warned, though, it's a 18+ server, and there's sometimes NSFW or potentially triggering content discussed, so navigate at your own risk.)
You have two weeks to write 10k (or to draw a 25-panel, 10-page comic). You have one week to edit. Don't die ;)
- Tagset nominations open: Sunday, November 1
- Tagset nominations temporarily close for cleanup: Friday, November 6
- Signups open & tagset reopens: Saturday, November 7
- Signups close: Saturday, November 14
- Assignments out by: Sunday, November 15
- Assignments due: Sunday, November 29 (countdown)
- Works revealed: Sunday, December 6
- Authors revealed: Sunday, December 13
This is going to be pretty much like every other exchange you've done before, except that you have to sign up with at least one safety fandom, aka a fandom that takes 5 hours or less to consume.
Also, check out the 10k exchange Triple Crown to see some fun prizes you can get for completing this exchange as well as two other 10k exchanges (FFFX and Fic in a Box).
NOMINATIONS
NOMINATIONS
Tagset nominations will open on November 1 and close temporarily on November 6 for cleanup. They will then reopen until signups close on November 14. 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. "& none" (as in "Iris West & None") indicates a fic that is about one character rather than a relationship. You can also request "Worldbuilding & None". Please disambiguate every relationship by adding "(Your Fandom Name Here)" at the end of it.Please keep in mind: 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. 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. Thanks to the vidding exchange equinox_exchange for this very useful idea!
Please nominate your safety fandom with [SAFETY] next to it. For example, "Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) [SAFETY]".
The following qualify as safety fandoms:
- Any standalone movie, TV episode, TV season, youtube video, music video, letsplay, miniseries, etc, which is under 5 hours (300 minutes). For example, Fleabag season 1 is eligible as a safety fandom because it is less than 300 minutes total and it can be viewed, understood, and written about on its own. Iron Man 3 would not be eligible as a safety fandom because it requires you to also watch Iron Man 1 and Iron Man 2 to understand. But Iron Man 1 would be eligible as a safety fandom.
- Any video game whose main story takes less than 5 hours to play. You can check it at howlongtobeat.com.
- Any comic book run with 30 comics or less (as someone who doesn't know about comics, I am going off of the estimate of one friend who says it takes 10 minutes to read one comic).
- Any book that is 100k words or less. You can get a wordcount estimate at readinglength.com.
- Any painting, photograph, map, etc (which is publicly available for viewing online)
- Original Work
- Any album of music under 300 minutes total.
- Please comment if you think one of your fandoms should be a safety, but it is not in one of the mediums listed above.
If you are a fan of a series, you may nominate both the first item in the series (if you're willing to get fanfiction based only off of that one item!) and the entire series. For example, you can nominate both "The Wee Free Men - Terry Pratchett [SAFETY]" and "Discworld - Pratchett". However, if you use this in order to craft a signup that's three requests of only the same pairing, rendering your whole signup a one-pairing signup, I will transform into a Canada goose and fly to your location to fight you physically.
Regarding megafandoms:
- Please nominate the DCEU as one fandom.
- Please nominate the MCU as one fandom.
- Please nominate the Marvel Netflix stuff under The Defenders (TV)
- Please nominate Star Wars as Star Wars Original Trilogy, Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, etc. Please put crossovers between them under Crossover Fandom (e.g. "Anakin Skywalker (SWPT) & Rose Tico (SWST)"
- Please the core Arrowverse shows (Arrow, Flash, Supergirl, Legends of Tomorrow, Black Lightning, and Batwoman) under Arrowverse. Characters from the broader DC live action multiverse who have appeared in an Arrowverse show may be nominated under either Arrowverse or their home canon (which will stay separate)
Nominations will close temporarily on November 6 so tagmods can clean everything up and get the tagset looking decent.
When signups open on November 7, people can nominate 3 more fandoms if they really want to, but at that point, please don't nominate a fandom unless you intend to request it.
To be frank, tagmods are fine with people socking up if they are desperate to request 10 fandoms and offer 10 different fandoms, as long as they: 1) disambiguate their relationships 2) check for whether their fandoms are safeties or not, and 3) keep in mind that every single fandom has to be double-checked by tagmods to be sure it is or is not a safety, which will take time.
SIGNUPS
SIGNUPS
When signups open (from November 7 to November 14) you should be able to sign up on AO3.You must request at least 3 different fandoms. You must request at least one safety fandom (see above for more info on safety fandoms). You must offer at least 4 different fandoms. At most, you can request 10 and offer 10.
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, in which case please say "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. is optional and can go into the Details box or into a letter which you can link in the "Optional Dear Author Letter URL" 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.
ASSIGNMENTS
ASSIGNMENTS
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.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.
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 write your assignment, you will not become a pinch hit.
If person A is supposed to write a gift for person B, but defaults, and person C already wrote a gift for person B, then person B will not become a pinch hit.
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
OTHER RULES
In most cases, 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)
VILLAIN ORIGIN STORY
If you would like to be part of the next villain origin story, you can join the EAD (Exchanges After Dark) discord server here. (Be warned, though, it's a 18+ server, and there's sometimes NSFW or potentially triggering content discussed, so navigate at your own risk.)
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Date: 2020-11-02 01:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-11-12 07:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-11-12 12:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-11-02 02:59 am (UTC)Cheers
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Date: 2020-11-02 03:10 am (UTC)“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.”
I hope that helps
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Date: 2020-11-02 03:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-11-02 12:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-11-03 02:08 pm (UTC)2) Could a fandom like Ancient Greek Religion & Lore be considered a safety fandom, depending on characters/pairings selected? Most individual myths are short-story or even flash fiction length, and you don't need a classics degree to write fic for it.
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Date: 2020-11-05 02:50 am (UTC)2) Ancient Greek Religion & Lore is not a safety fandom, but I've had a similar question about a specific translation of a specific thingy and I think that'd be fine. so like, "Homeric Hymn to Demeter (Gregory Nagy Translation) [SAFETY]" would be accepted. Does that help
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Date: 2020-11-05 03:46 pm (UTC)OK -- I thought it out and nominated a couple of different safety fandoms.
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Date: 2020-11-06 02:57 am (UTC)sounds good <3
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Date: 2020-11-09 09:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-11-10 01:57 am (UTC)You can offer and request one relationship per fandom at minimum. You can request at minimum 3 fandoms and offer at minimum four fandoms.
You can't ask for the same relationship 3 times in different iterations of the same fandom (e.g. asking for Steve/Bucky in "Captain America: The First Avenger [SAFETY]" and Steve/Bucky in "Marvel Cinematic Universe" and Steve (MCU)/Bucky (comics) in "Crossover Fandom". At a minimum you need to request 3 different relationships and offer 3 different relationships.
That said, I do not think that this would be a good exchange to participate in if you're truly monofannish—especially given the length, it seems unfair to yourself & others to request (or offer) one thing you really like and then some other things that are just okay/fillers. Does that make sense?
I hope this helps! Lmk if you have any other questions <3