520 Day Reverse Exchange: 2026 round coming soon!

[trobadora]

The Annual Interdimensional Haixing-Dixing 520 Day Reverse Exchange is coming back for 2026!

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 eighth 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: Sunday 15 March - Friday 27 March
Sign-ups part 2 - requests: Saturday 28 March - Friday 3 April
Matching: Saturday 4 April - Tuesday 7 April
Assignments out: Wednesday 8 April at the latest
Deadline: Wednesday 13 May
Work reveals: Wednesday 20 May (there is no anon period)

Poll #34332 520 Day Reverse Exchange 2026

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 10

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520 Day Reverse Exchange 2026

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Yay!
7 (70.0%)

I will definitely sign up!
7 (70.0%)

I might sign up
3 (30.0%)

I'm already thinking about what to offer
4 (40.0%)

I'm willing to post a promo to Tumblr/Twitter/Discord/elsewhere, to spread the word (we'll PM you a reminder)
1 (10.0%)

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

Comments

[facethestrange]

Ahhhhhh omg yayyyy!! :D :D :D ♡♡♡♡♡ (It's WILD that it's been a year already, wth, when. xD xD)

[trobadora]

*twirls you*

(I think that every year! WHERE DOES THE TIME GO OMG.)

[china_shop]

*\o/* *\o/* *\o/* *\o/* *\o/*

[awanderingcoyote]

Eeeeeeeeeee so excited!!!!!

[china_shop]

*dances with you*

[trobadora]

Woohoo! *twirls you*

[tehfanglyfish]

I'M SOOOOOOOO EXCITED FOR THIS!!!! Thanks for bringing it back yet again!! I've already reblogged your initial promo post on my main account and I'll also reblog it on the bingo account since that has a lot of Guardian fans following it.

[trobadora]

Woohoo! *twirls you*

Thank you so much for the reblogging, and I'm so happy you're looking forward to this, too! :D

[china_shop]

Yayay! Thanks so much for reblogging!!! <3 <3 <3 :D :D :D