The First Annual Interdimensional Haixing-Dixing 520 Day Reverse Exchange

[trobadora]

Coming soon: the First Annual Interdimensional Haixing-Dixing 520 Day Reverse Exchange (hereafter known as the 520 Day Reverse Exchange)! This is a multimedia fanworks exchange for 镇魂 | Guardian fandom. Everyone is welcome to join in! :-)

What is 520 Day? 520 sounds like "I love you" in Mandarin, so May 20th is like Valentine's Day. We thought an exchange would be a great way to celebrate the day!

520 Day Reverse Exchange General Concept

As the name suggests, this is a reverse exchange, also known as a Choose Your Writer/Artist/Fanwork Creator 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.

You can offer and/or request fanfic (including RPF), fanart, icons, vids, podfic, meta, a remix of an existing fanwork, or fanart for an existing fanwork. Or any combination of the above!

Hopefully this means you get an assignment that fits you like a glove, and just the gift fanwork you’re looking for -- maybe even from one of your favourite authors, artists or creators!

(Many thanks to reversathon for letting us adopt their format.)

Schedule

• Sign-ups: Saturday 30 March - Friday 05 April


• Claims: Saturday 06 April - Friday 12 April


• Matching: Saturday 13 April - Tuesday 16 April


• Assignments out: Wednesday 17 April at the latest


• Deadline: Monday 13 May


• Work reveals: Monday 20 May (there is no anon period)

Minimum requirements

• Fanfic and other written fanworks (meta, etc) - at least 300 words


• Art (drawn) - a sketch not on lined paper, at least 500x500 pixels


• Art (digital) - an edited/manipulated digital image, at least 500x500 pixels


• Vids - at least 30 seconds long


• Icons - at least 3 icons


• Podfic - at least 3 minutes

Any questions? We're here to answer them! Ask in the comments to this post!

Comments

[jo_lasalle]

*raises hand*

I'm not sure I'm understanding the set-up correctly, so I'd like to ask for clarification! :-) With the progression you describe, isn't it possible that someone / some offers might not get picked at all and some ads will get picked a lot? Or is there some first come, first serve basis where people know which offer already got picked?

(Either way strikes me as potentially stress-inducing, so I want to make sure I'm understanding correctly. *g*)

[mekare]

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!!!!!!!

[tinny]

Sounds awesome!

I love this because it's not fic-centered and I feel like I can actually participate on an equal footing.

[china_shop]

Yay, you posted!!! \o/ \o/ \o/

[bonibaru]

Logistics question: where will this take place? AO3? DW? How will we sign up - google form? The process analyst in me can't help asking lol.

[kurosakiami01]

Oh this looks fun!! <3

[goss]

Yay! \o/

The timing works out great for me, because I'll still be on Easter Break when the assignments go out. :D

[asya_ana]

Reporting for duty!

[riventhorn]

I'm so excited for this!

[likealeafonthewind]

Sounds fun! And the minimum requirements look doable. Can't wait!

[qikiqtarjuaq]

Hmm, for those of us who aren't sure we can commit, can we still treat in an exchange like this? Not sure if the format permits.

[naye]

How are you going to handle drop-outs and pinch hits? I've been on pinch hit lists before, and it's a nice option to have. I'm away during the entire sign-up period, but would love to participate in some way!

[kaminikaku]

Yay! Definitely want to be a part of this!

[galaxysoup]

What a neat idea!

[kat_lair]

oh no.

oh... oh no. This is going to be the thing that drags me to actually actively creating in this fandom, isn't it?

I have fandomtrumpshate fics and smallfandombang art to do... But... damn you for setting such low minimums (I love them) and damn you for providing both fic and icon/art options (I love that).