High Adrenaline Exchange

Assignments are out! Please check yours to make sure it's something you can create for! If there's something wacky about it, like no DNWs or the letter still locked or no request that matches your offers, email highadrenalinemod@gmail.com ASAP to let me know!

Initial pinch hits will be posted as soon as I make the spreadsheet do spreadsheety thingies. You can swap your assignment for a pinch hit if you see one you like better. I won't tell.

GO GO GO!

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( Safety: Things to Read )

 

( Safety: Things to Watch )

 

( Safety: Things to Listen To )

 

( Safety: Video Games )

 

( Safety: Comics and Manga )

 

( Safety: Still Images )

 

( Safety: RPF )

 

( Non-Safety Fandoms )

You have a little under three and a half hours to get in your last nominations and answer any outstanding queries. When nominations close, at 10 PM EST, that's also your 24-hour notice to sign up.

If you offered "Any Relationship" in any fandom, PLEASE check your offers against the finalized tagset to make sure you're really cool with creating for ANY of the nominated relationships in your fandom.

It's also a good time to email highadrenalinemod@gmail.com with your Do Not Match, Do Please Assign, and I'm Only Creating Art requests. I need those in by the time signups close, because I'm going to run matching ASAP.

Things I can guarantee: if you're only creating art, I'll assign you to create for someone who opted in to art (assuming you have an offer that matches a request), and if you have a Do Not Match request, I won't assign you to create for that person or that person to create for you.

Things I can't guarantee: that you'll get the particular recipient of your dreams. But I'll do my best to make it happen! And no, you can't request that a particular creator be assigned to create for you.

Nominations close at 9:59 PM EST on January 31. Sign-ups close at 9:59 PM EST on February 1. Then, WE RIDE.

BEFORE YOU SIGN UP PLEASE READ THIS
even if you've done HA many times and think you know it all

Nominations have reopened but please don't nominate a fandom that isn't already in the tagset unless you are definitely going to request it. Nominations will close 24 hours before sign-ups close.

You will need to request at least one safety fandom. You will need to offer at least one thing that someone else is requesting. If you don't have a safety fandom or you can't be matched to a recipient, you'll be given 24 hours to fix it or delete your sign-up.

You must request at least 3 different fandoms. You must offer at least 3 different fandoms. Angling your offers to match a request you know you can create for is a good idea, but don't pad your offers out with things you aren't really into and then hope no one requests them. If you can't think of three fandoms that you love SO MUCH you're willing to spend two panicked weeks writing 10k/drawing a long comic for them, this might not be the right exchange for you.

You must put DNWs in each request or "I have no DNWs" if you really don't have any. No empty optional detail boxes! Prompts and letters are great, but they're not required. If you link a letter, it needs to be readable (not a locked Dreamwidth post) and complete by the time sign-ups end.

You must check EITHER “I Opt In to Receiving a Comic Instead of Fic” OR “I Do Not Opt In to Receiving a Comic -- Fic Only for Me!” for each request. This is different from past years! Hopefully it's better and clearer!

If you choose to offer "Any Relationship" that refers to any relationship in the tagset. Since nominations will keep coming in during most of the sign-up phase, make sure you check the tagset periodically to make sure you're comfortable creating for ANY of the nominated ships in your fandom.

Email highadrenalinemod@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.

Sign-Up Form • Sign-Up Search App

Help us out by commenting on this post if you spot issues like duplicate ships, duplicate fandoms, or typos.

We'll reopen nominations, and open signups, Sat 25 Jan 2025 01:00PM EST.

Please Fix

These nominations aren't quite right. If you nominated one of them, please nominate it again through the nomination form with the problem corrected.

[SAFETY] Kolja | Kolya (1996), Mr. Brož/Mrs. Brožová & Their Children (Kolja | Kolya (1996))
[SAFETY] Kolja | Kolya (1996), Mr. Brož/Mrs. Brožová & Their Pets (Kolja | Kolya (1996))
Crossover Fandom, Nick Burkhardt/Sean Renard/Juliette Silverton (Grimm) & Shen Wei (Guardian TV)
We don't accept combined / and & nominations.

[SAFETY] Original Work, Enemies to Lovers & their wary friends try to get along
[SAFETY] Original Work, Enemies to Lovers: A is Casually Affectionate/B is Touch-starved & C is B's BFF and Wary of A(OW)
[SAFETY] Original Work, Enemies to Lovers: A is Casually affectionate/B is touch-starved hanging around to get touched
[SAFETY] Original Work, new A/B where B is A's best friend's brother and they all must navigate their changed relationships
Please only nominate ships. You can prompt specific stories in your signup.

[SAFETY] Original Work, Female Bounty Hunter/Female Bounty who Falls in Love with Her
Duplicate of "Female Bounty Hunter/Female Bounty She Falls in Love With". If you intended a one-sided relationship, use phrasing such as "has a crush on".

The fourteenth prince is sick of heaven’s will - romanceyourdemons
The original nominator has let us know that the author does not give permission for this to be recursed.

Queries

We have questions about these nominations. If you nominated them or are pretty sure you know what the deal is, please reply in comments. Queries we can't resolve will be consigned to the dustbin of history.

[SAFETY] Star Wars: A New Hope, Luke's father & Darth Vader (SW:ANH)
These are the same character. Can you clarify what you're looking for from this nomination?

Captain America movies, Steve Rogers/Bucky Barnes
The combined running length of The First Avenger, The Winter Soldier, and Civil War is over 5 hours, so "Captain America Movies" is not a safety fandom. If you meant some other set of Captain America movies, let us know. Otherwise we'll approve this fandom as "Captain America Movies 2011-2016" and it won't have safety status.

Ghost Quartet - Malloy
We can't tell whether Ghost Quartet is the name of the performance, the name of the group performing, or both. Can you clarify so we make sure the fandom name is correct?

Planetarian: Chiisana Hoshi no Yume
You provided links to both the anime and a playthrough of the game. Which version of the canon are you nominating?

Sonic 3 (Movie)
A movie showing only in theaters isn't accessible enough to be a safety fandom, but we understand that it's likely to start streaming soon. We're holding it to recheck during nomination clean-up. If it's not streaming by then, we'll approve it without safety status.

Good morning good afternoon good evening! Here are the rules for the 2025 round of High Adrenaline. The nomination process has changed, there's a new way to opt in to receiving comics, and there's a new option to help lingering pinch hits get picked up. Please read everything for all the info!

AO3 Collection • Nomination Form • Approved Nominations Spreadsheet • 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. Have fun ;)

• Nominations Open: Sat 18 Jan 2025 10:00AM EST
• Nominations Temporarily Close for Cleanup: Fri 24 Jan 2025 09:59PM EST
• Sign-up Opens & Nominations Reopen: Sat 25 Jan 2025 01:00PM EST
• Nominations Close: Fri 31 Jan 2025 09:59 PM EST
• Sign-up Closes: Sat 1 Feb 2025 9:59PM EST
• Assignments Go Out: ASAP
• Assignments Due: Sun 16 Feb 2025 9:59PM EST
• Works Revealed: Sun 2 Mar 2025 9:59PM EST
• 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 High Adrenaline-relevant community stuff, check out the Triple Crown Discord.

NOMINATIONS

NOMINATIONS

TIMING

Starting January 18, each person can nominate fandoms, with up to 10 relationships or solo characters per fandom.

There are two ways to nominate:

• Use our handy Google form. We prefer this! Any nominations that are incorrect or questionable will be queried on Dreamwidth. Safety fandoms must be nominated using the Google form so you can provide verification of safety status.
• Use the standard AO3 tagset nomination form. Any nominations that are incorrect or questionable will be rejected immediately to keep the queue from getting clogged. To renominate them correctly, use the Google form.

Nominations will close temporarily on January 24 so tagmods can finish checking and approving fandoms and putting them in the tagset.

When signups open on January 25, 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. Relationships should be in the form A/B, A & B, or 1: A. 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 primarily about one character rather than a relationship (though that character can be in relationships of various kinds with other people). 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 groups or "Any [Group]" as a character. For example, "Eduardo Sandoval & Any Cop (Narcos)" and "Lucy Pevensie/Maenads (Narnia - Lewis)" would not be eligible as nominations. Relationships of the form A/B & C are also not accepted.

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 Google 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.

It also has to be reasonably available. If your fandom is rare, out of print, expensive, or otherwise hard for a pinch hitter to borrow or buy on short notice, it's not 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 Google 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 and ships, they'll be added to the AO3 tagset.

SIGNUPS

SIGNUPS

When signups open (from January 25 to February 1) you can sign up on AO3. You need a free AO3 account. If you don't have one, email highadrenalinemod@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 for a request, check “I Opt In to Receiving a Comic Instead of Fic.” If you are not open to this, check “I Do Not Opt In to Receiving a Comic -- Fic Only for Me!” You must check ONE AND ONLY ONE of these options for each request. Opting in to a comic doesn’t guarantee you’ll get one—fic is an acceptable fill for any request.

If you are an artist, and you only want to create a comic, sign up normally and email highadrenalinemod@gmail.com so that I know to only match you to people who opt into art.

You can also email highadrenalinemod@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 fic of at least 10,000 words for at least one of your recipient's requested relationships. If your recipient opts in to getting a comic, you can draw a comic of at least 10 pages/25 panels. 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 highadrenalinemod@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.

For pinch hits that linger or are added after the deadline, the requester may choose to opt in to receiving two 5k+ fics (or 5-page/12-panel comics) instead of one 10k+ fic (or 10-page/25-panel comic). This is completely optional.

TREATS

TREATS

Please only post treats that are 10k+ to the main collection. 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 highadrenalinemod@gmail.com.

The final button has been pushed and Heart Attack 2024 creators are revealed!

Congratulations to everyone who participated, and especially to the Triple Crown winners! And my most humble heartfelt thanks to the pinch hitters.

Thanks also to this year's incredible team of tagmods and work checkers and cheerleaders, including Ashling, Asymptotical, flowersforgraves, keita52, lailah_tov, and Tavina. Trying to do this by myself would have simply melted my face off. I'm unspeakably grateful.

The collections are now unmoderated for late treating. Treats under 10k should still go in Mild Heart Attack.

A boost for works with few comments

There are several works in the collection with zero or few comments. Find them sorted here. If you have a little time to read outside your usual fandoms/tags or check out something you missed, please give those hard-working creators some love.

And don't forget to check out the short treats if 10k+ is more than you can read right now. There's some great stuff in there too.

Changes for next year

Yes, HA will run again in 2025! Timing TBD, but probably moving back to Februaryish. The reasons I couldn't do that schedule in 2024 won't apply in 2025, and running right up against Battleship was no fun for anyone. (Thanks for holding off on your schedule until HA was sorted, Battleship mods! A real kindness to all involved. I won't make you do it again.)

HA is a normal exchange with a high minimum on a tight timeline, not a flash exchange, and everyone who participates is guaranteed a gift. That won't change. But finding pinch hitters who can do 10k in one week is nearly impossible, and the uncertainty of all the extensions makes it hard for non-pinch hitters to plan their revisions. Solution: The post-deadline period for pinch hits and edits will start at two weeks. There may still need to be extensions, but I'm hoping for fewer of them.

Feedback wanted

In the name of making things just a little easier on everyone (including me), I'm considering an FFFX-style "You can opt in to 2 x 5k" option that includes 5k partial pinch hits for those who opt in. Would this make it more fun for you, or ruin the vibe of the exchange?

The Google forms input for nominations worked really well on the mod side, but I haven't heard much about what it was like on the participant side. Love it, hate it, neutral about it?

The name of the exchange will probably change. Right now I'm leaning toward Adrenaline Rush, but we could also go with Happily Agitated or something else that keeps the HA initials (so we don't have to change HAP's name, very important). Suggestions welcome.

Drench me in your additional feedback, pls. Comment here (preferred) or email heartattackmod@gmail.com.

The previously announced delay is still in effect, because it's mean to give an extra day of editing and treating time and then take it away again, but ALL WORKS ARE IN and there will be no further delays.

WORK REVEALS: June 18, 10 PM Eastern Time

CREATOR REVEALS: July 2, 10 PM Eastern Time

ALL
PINCH
HITS
ARE
CLAIMED

I'm crying real tears rn! With real hearts in my real eyes! I'm like "I love you guys (gn)" drunk except without the drinking! Just because fandom is so great!

Reveals are currently set for Monday June 17 at 9:59 PM EDT. If a pinch hitter needs more time, there could be a further delay. Watch this space.

GO GO GADGET PINCH HITTERS