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WHAT UP, it's nominations time! That means we're four weeks from the deadline! Haha! Don't panic! I'm definitely not panicking! It's fine!

You have two juicy options for nominating this year:

THE GOOGLE FORM

This is basically the same as last year, with two additions: you can put a pseudonym on your nominations, and approved noms will be visible on on the approved nominations spreadsheet. It's sorted by fandom and ship, but you can ctrl-F your pseud to find your own stuff. Everyone can see all the pseudonyms on the approved nominations spreadsheet so for God's sake don't use your email address (the form will yell at you if you try) or anything else private.

Some people asked whether we could set the setting on Google Forms that has them email you a copy of your responses. We tried it and immediately realized we didn't want the responsibility of owning a spreadsheet full of participant email addresses. Also, if you turn on that setting, the form requires an email address even if you don't want your answers emailed to you, and working around that is a pain. So we have the pseudonym option, and also a reminder on the form that it's a good idea to write out your nominations in a separate document and then copy them in so you have a record of them. Just like writing your fic in a separate document and then copying it over instead of writing directly in the AO3 posting form, which I personally have never done.

THE TAGSET

Yes! You can nominate through the tagset! BUT

1) Safety fandoms MUST be nominated through the Google form in order to be checked for safety status.

B) Any incorrect or questionable nominations in the tagset will be rejected immediately to keep the queue clear. If you want to renominate it correctly, you'll need to use the Google form.

Full instructions for nominating are here! Please read them, especially if you want to nominate something as a safety! And remember that a real person needs to check every nomination for safety status and everyone on our tagmod team is (like you) bravely struggling through life under late-stage capitalism, so please be patient if it takes us a day or two to approve stuff, especially now that there are two places to look for stuff to approve.

AWAY WE GO

highadrenalinemod

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

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

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

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 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

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

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.

highadrenalinemod

Good 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 ;)

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 09~~ Tue 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

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.

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 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

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

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

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

Questions? Did I mess up a link? Is this confusing or scary? Email heartattackmod@gmail.com.

ashling

AO3 Collection • Tagset • Short Treat Collection • Beta Reader Post
You have two weeks to write 10k (or draw a 25-panel, 10-page comic) and one week to edit. Don't die ;)

Tagset nominations open: Monday, April 10
Tagset nominations temporarily close for cleanup: Friday, April 14
Signups open & tagset reopens: Saturday, April 15
Signups close: Friday, April 21 (countdown)
Assignments out by: Saturday, April 22
Assignments due: Saturday, May 6 (countdown)
Works revealed: ~~Saturday, May 13 Wednesday, May 17~~ Friday, May 19
Authors revealed: ~~Saturday, May 20 Wednesday, May 24~~ Friday, May 26

Everything closes/is due/is revealed at 9:59pm EST. (Note: assignments may go out a couple hours later than 9:59pm EST.)

If you participated in 2021, you may notice some changes to this year. Most importantly, unmatchables will have 24 hours to respond to mod emails to adjust their signup. Also, reveals will be delayed in denominations of 24 hours if necessary.

If you didn't participate in 2021, no worries! 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

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

TIMING
Starting April 10, each person can nominate 7 fandoms per person with up to 10 relationships (or character & none) per fandom.

Nominations will close temporarily on April 14 so tagmods can clean everything up and get the tagset looking decent.

When signups open on April 15, 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.

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. "& 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 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, and we prefer specific canons over All Media Type fandoms, but we will evaluate those as they come.

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.

SAFETY FANDOMS

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. 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. 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:

Original Work
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.
Any manga with 30 chapters or less at the time of nominations.
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)
Any song or 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 it is a fixed length fandom under 5 hours, in English or with an English translation available, and reasonably widely available (that is to say, not an obscurely out of print type thing) then it should be good.

A note on translations: fan translations into English are acceptable, but please double-check to make sure that your fan translations cover your whole fandom (so for example, if you have a 25 chapter manga but the fan translation only covers the first 9 chapters at the time of nominations, please do not nominate that as a safety.)

A note on book series: If you are a fan of a series, you may nominate both the first book in the series (if you're willing to get fanfiction based only off of that one book!) 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.

The following do not qualify as safety fandoms:

Crossover Fandom
A non-English-language fandom with no English language translation available (because our pool of pinch hitter writers is primarily English language speaking)
A fandom that is extremely difficult to get ahold of or consume. For example, a book that went out of print long ago, is not available as an ebook, and can only be procured by bidding for it on eBay.
Anything without a fixed limit, such as RPF (because in RPF the canon itself is an ambiguous collection of interviews, photos, videos, social media, etc).

If you notice a fandom that should be marked a safety but isn't, or a fandom that is marked as a safety but shouldn't, please do email, message, or comment. We will happily review any extra information you have :)

UMBRELLA FANDOMS

Please nominate the DCEU as one fandom.
Please nominate the MCU as one fandom, the Marvel Netflix stuff under The Defenders (TV) as its own separate fandom, ditto Agent Carter (TV), Agents of SHIELD (TV), The Falcon And The Winter Soldier (TV), and What If... (TV). For What If..., you can nominate specific versions of the characters (e.g. "Dark!Stephen Strange & None (What If...) if you want.
Please nominate Star Wars as Star Wars Original Trilogy, Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, Star Wars Visions, etc. Please put crossovers between them under Crossover Fandom (e.g. "Anakin Skywalker (SWPT) & Rose Tico (SWST)"
Please nominate Doctor Who relationships under existing subfandoms (Doctor Who (1963) Doctor Who (2005), Torchwood, Class, and Sarah Jane Adventures). Please put crossovers between them under Crossover Fandom (e.g. “The Doctor (Any Doctor Who Subfandom/The Master (Dhawan) (Doctor Who 2005)”)
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)

SIGNUPS

When signups open (from April 15 to April 21) 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 3 different fandoms, and at least one relationship per fandom. 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 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 ashling.and.hurricanes@gmail.com so that I know to only match you to people who opt into art.

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 when published at deadline. If incomplete fics are published at deadline, then they do not count as completed assignments and they will be defaulted and go to pinch hit.

Creators may request one extension before deadline. There will be no second extensions available.

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 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

OTHER RULES & VILLAIN ORIGIN STORY

OTHER RULES

This is an 18+ exchange. If a participant under the age of 18 signed up and requested smut, it just wouldn't be fair to their creator. I am not checking the personal information of everyone who signs up, but if I somehow find out that an underage person has signed up, I will have to delete their signup. This has never happened to me before, and hopefully it never does.

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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