520 Day Reverse Exchange: 2024 round coming soon!

[trobadora]

The Annual Interdimensional Haixing-Dixing 520 Day Reverse Exchange is coming back for 2024!

520 sounds like "I love you" in Mandarin, so May 20th is a bit like Valentine's Day. To celebrate, we're back with the sixth annual 520 Day Reverse Exchange. As the name says, this is a reverse exchange: instead of making your request and that request being assigned to a writer/artist/fanwork creator, here:

1. You sign up with the kinds of things you enjoy creating.
2. You choose three writers/artists/fanwork creators based on anonymised ads.
3. You make a request of each of them based on what they enjoy creating.
4. You are assigned one request to create for, based on your offer.
5. You receive a gift from one of the creators you chose.

(An updated rules/info post will go up before sign-ups open, but here is last year's for reference.)

This year's schedule

Sign-ups part 1 - offers: Saturday 16 March - Friday 22 March
Sign-ups part 2 - requests: Saturday 23 March - Friday 29 March
Matching: Saturday 30 March - Tuesday 2 April
Assignments out: Wednesday 3 April at the latest
Deadline: Monday 13 May
Work reveals: Monday 20 May (there is no anon period)

Poll #30864 520 Day Reverse Exchange 2024

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 14

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520 Day Reverse Exchange 2024

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Yay!
9 (64.3%)

I will definitely sign up!
8 (57.1%)

I might sign up
3 (21.4%)

I'm already thinking about what I'm going to offer
3 (21.4%)

I'm willing to post a promo to Tumblr/Twitter/Discord/elsewhere, to spread the word
5 (35.7%)

ETA: This post is also on tumblr now, if you'd like to reblog over there!

Comments

[miss_ingno]

Super excited for this!

(Not me, already getting my sign-up ready...)

[trobadora]

Woohoo! Can't wait to see! :D

[velithya]

On the one hand, reverse exchange yay!
On the other hand... I haven't written a word in four months, I'm behind in other fandom commitments, and I'm having a baby next week....
IDK IDK IDK

Is the word count minimum still going to be Quite Short? I don't want my potential recipient to be disappointed but not every year has to be a 15k+ fic, you know???

[trobadora]

Hi! Glad to see you're okay. Congrats on the soon-to-be baby!

The minimums will be the same as last year, which means 300 words for fic. And agreed, not every fic has to be long.

[velithya]

Thank you! I'll have a good think about it ♥

[china_shop]

Hi, you!! So good to hear from you -- and wow, best of luck for next week!! *sends hugs and all good wishes*

Remember that if you make an offer, you need to be available for the requests part of sign-ups too. Not that we wouldn't love to have you participate! Just -- are you able to commit to that? It sounds like it could be a bit tricky, wrt availability...

[velithya]

Thank you! I am Very Ready not to be pregnant any more OTL
I should be out of hospital by the day requests go up (either the day before or day of) so that should be okay, at least. I'll have a think!