520 Day Reverse Exchange: 2025 round coming soon!

[trobadora]

The Annual Interdimensional Haixing-Dixing 520 Day Reverse Exchange is coming back for 2025!

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 seventh 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
ETA: everything's ready, so we decided to open sign-ups early and have a longer sign-up period. Hopefully this means more people will have a chance to hear about the exchange and sign up!

Sign-ups part 1 - offers: Saturday 22 Sunday 16 March - Friday 28 March
Sign-ups part 2 - requests: Saturday 29 March - Friday 4 April
Matching: Saturday 5 April - Tuesday 8 April
Assignments out: Wednesday 9 April at the latest
Deadline: Tuesday 13 May
Work reveals: Tuesday 20 May (there is no anon period)

Poll #32786 520 Day Reverse Exchange 2025

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

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520 Day Reverse Exchange 2025

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Yay!
9 (64.3%)

I will definitely sign up!
7 (50.0%)

I might sign up
5 (35.7%)

I'm already thinking about what to offer
5 (35.7%)

I'm willing to post a promo to Tumblr/Twitter/Discord/elsewhere, to spread the word (we'll PM you a reminder)
7 (50.0%)

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

Comments

[awanderingcoyote]

EEEeeeeeeEEeeeee! I'm so excited! EEEEE :D

[trobadora]

Woohoo! *twirls you*

[facethestrange]

!!!!!!!!!!!! :D :D :D :D :D ♡♡♡ I think it's bordering on impossible to be more excited. :D :D

I'm not just thinking what to offer, I know exactly what I'm offering, hahah, but that also means I already have a question? Just one, for now. xD If the fanwork categories are the same this year, are digital drawings analogue or digital? :P Because it sounds like only the first category is drawings, and the second one is graphics?

Art (analogue) -- a sketch, not on lined paper, at least 500x500 pixels
Art (digital) -- an edited/manipulated digital image, at least 500x500 pixels

[trobadora]

Thank you for bringing that up! Oops, yeah, that's confusing, and we didn't mean to make it sound like that. *g* We'll change things to make it clearer for this year. :)

[facethestrange]

Oh yay, thanks. :D

[china_shop]

Yayayayayayay!!! \o/!!

[trobadora]

*twirls you*

[amedia]

Wheeee! So excited!

[amedia]

Also, I forgot to tick the box for being willing to post a promo - I could put something on a FB group I belong to for fans of Asian dramas.

[china_shop]

Yayayay!

[china_shop]

That would be awesome, yay!! You can edit your poll choices here. :-)

[amedia]

Cool! I did not actually know that that was possible. I have new learningz!!!

[china_shop]

\o/!! (You can click the "[Change Your Vote]" link at the top of the poll. That takes you to the same page.)

Somewhat of an aside, but-

[velithya]

I have the "!event" tag tracked in sid_guardian but didn't get an email from DW about this post (and it's not in my DW inbox either).
Did anyone else with the tag tracked get - or not get - an email/inbox notification from DW?
Just trying to figure out if I should raise a support request or not....

[facethestrange]

Just saw the edit, reblogged on tumblr, will reblog again. :D

[trobadora]

Woohoo! :D

[trobadora]

Thank you, you're a star! ♥

Re: Somewhat of an aside, but-

[trobadora]

Sorry about that, I forgot to add the tag at first, and it only sends notifications if the tag is there when a post first goes up.

[trobadora]

Yay! :D

Re: Somewhat of an aside, but-

[velithya]

Ohhhh right that makes sense!! Thank you for explaining, and no worries we've all forgotten a tag here and there 🥰