The First Annual Interdimensional Haixing-Dixing 520 Day Reverse Exchange

[trobadora]

520 Day Reverse Exchange General Concept

As the name says, 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 and what you want to receive.


4. You are assigned one request to create for, based on your offers.


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! (Note that meta will need to be sufficiently transformative to meet AO3's rules, i.e. not a collection of canon facts.)

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!

Participants who are under 18 must request and offer works rated General or Teen And Up only.

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

STEP ONE: Sign up with your offers

To sign up, comment on the sign-up post with your completed offers form by 11:59pm UTC on Friday 5th April 2019. (What time is that for me?) You'll find a template (and guidelines to help you fill it out) in the post. You must say something relevant for each point; feel free to give as much info as you like.

Note: All comments to the sign-up post are screened so only mods (china_shop and trobadora) can see them. If we need to ask you any questions about your sign-up, we will reply to your comment (or email you, if you don't have a Dreamwidth account).

Using our Dixing powers, mods will turn the sign-up forms into anonymous participant ads for you as a writer/artist/fanwork creator.

STEP TWO: Choose three writers/artists/fanwork creators

The anonymous participant ads will be posted on Saturday 6th April. Participants must choose 3 ads from the list to make requests for. (Please note that specific scenarios/prompts are optional for creators.)

Ads will be removed from the list when 3 requests have been received for that writer/artist/fanwork creator, so be ready to jump in and claim yours!

All requests must be made by 11:59pm UTC on Friday 12th April. (What time is that for me?) Then the mods will assign one of your chosen writers/artists/creators to create your gift.

You'll receive your assignment by Wednesday 17 April at the latest.

STEP THREE: Fill your assignment

Minimum requirements:

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


• Art (analogue) -- 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

Give your completed assignment to Wang Zheng. Post your completed assignment to the AO3 collection by 13 May 2019. (What time is that for me?) The collection will go live on 520 Day (20 May 2019). There is no anonymous period.

Note: All entries must be posted to AO3, so you’ll need an AO3 account to participate. If you don’t have an account yet, you can request one on AO3 or comment here to ask the mods for an invite.

You may post your assignment elsewhere after 520 Day, but not before.

Schedule

• Sign-ups part 1 -- offers: Saturday 30 March - Friday 05 April


• Sign-ups part 2 -- requests: 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)

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

Comments

[mekare]

I am so EXCITED!

[trobadora]

Yay! So are we! :D

[teaotter]

For the digital art, can we do multiple images that add up to at least 500x500?

I'm considering offering colorbars, which are very rectangular.

[china_shop]

So long as you make it clear in your offer, then sure. :-)

(Yay!)

[goss]

Hey, I have a question:

As a high school teacher, I make it a point to limit my online (and especially fandom-related) interactions/exchanges to non-minors only. Is there a way to guarantee that I don't pick or am not picked by a person under 18?

Even if the fanworks themselves are only rated Gen or Teen, I am only interested in creating works for and receiving works from an adult.

[trobadora]

We do ask for an age statement during sign-ups, and we can make sure you won't end up with a recipient or creator who gives their age as under 18. I hope that works for you?

[goss]

Excellent! Thank you.

(also YAYYYYY! Very excited for this challenge. :D :D )

[trobadora]

Fabulous! See you at sign-ups, I hope. :D

[asya_ana]

I can't wait! :D

[trobadora]

Me neither!

Only one day to go now! :D

[jo_lasalle]

Are you guys going to give some examples of what a sign up and a request might look like, given the actual sign ups appear to be all black box?

[trobadora]

We have guidelines for how to fill out each section of the sign-up form. Check it out after it goes live tomorrow, and let us know if something isn't clear? (Requests will look pretty similar to offers.)

[abyss_valkyrie]

Abyss,don't be tempted...

[trobadora]

No, no, DO be tempted! :D

[china_shop]

*lures you*

[abyss_valkyrie]

*slowly gets sucked into the blackhole*
T_T
Lol,okay,but uh,where's the sign-up post?
And just so I get it correctly, we sign up first with what we can make.Then we have another signing up choosing which we want to create for?

[trobadora]

The sign-up post will go up tonight. :)

And not quite - you first sign up with what you can make; we compile all the offers in anonymised form; and then you make requests from what other people say they can make.

[abyss_valkyrie]

OOHH!!Got it!!

[tinny]

just to make sure i get this right, you also want icons and art to be posted to the ao3?

[trobadora]

Yes, all entries need to be posted on AO3 so they can be revealed all at once. :)

[starandrea]

I love the name and the concept of this exchange! ♥

I just wanted to check in and see what your thoughts are on including sample story prompts in a sign-up? :) I noticed that some authors did that in their sign-ups for reversathon, even though it wasn't part of the official sign-up form, and it didn't seem to be a limiting feature but more of a potentially helpful one for some people? (I didn't get the feeling that anyone was saying, "These are the only ideas I want to write about." It seemed more like, "If you're trying to get an idea of what I could write, here are some examples.")

I wasn't sure if that kind of addition is typical for reverse exchanges like this, and/or if it's something you'd encourage or discourage for the 520 day exchange. Thanks for any guidance! :)

[china_shop]

Yay! *\o/*

I just wanted to check in and see what your thoughts are on including sample story prompts in a sign-up? :)

Yes, by all means, feel free! Anything that helps to convey the kinds of things you're willing to create is good. :-)

[starandrea]

Hooray! ♥ That makes me very happy! I'm going to go add all the random ideas now! :)

[china_shop]

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

[tinny]

offer thirty-three has RPF in the heading but isn't offering it. Could you fix that, please? Thank you!


Offer THIRTY-THREE: Drama / Novel / Drama-Novel Blend / RPF

Which part of Guardian fandom are you offering for? novel / drama / blend of novel and drama

[trobadora]

Thank you for pointing that out! It should be fixed now. :)

[jo_lasalle]

Hi mods - are we going to be able to edit the story between the submission deadline and reveals, or is the collection going to be inaccessible? (FWIW, 'edit' as in 'fix missed typos and smooth out the odd line', not 'post the second half of the story'.) Just for orientation.

[trobadora]

Hi there! Yes, you can keep editing at any time after posting. :)