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Thank you all for making this year's event run as smoothly as possible. Now that creators have been revealed, we're onto the part where I solicit your feedback! What worked well for you? What didn't? What would you like to see done differently? As always, I can't promise anything will be implemented, but I'm interested in hearing any and all suggestions.

From the mod end, the two different tagsets for medium vs fandom worked well. The opt-ins were much easier this year than last. I'm really grateful to all the pinch hitters whose awesome work made it possible for us to open on time, and am considering a treats-for-pinch-hitters post next year.
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Works have been revealed! Go forth and consume the bounty of unconventional works before you. Comments are not required, but they are strongly encouraged -- please let your creator know you appreciate the work they put in to make you a gift!

If there is an issue with your gift, meaning that your gift contains a DNW, does not feature a requested fandom/character/medium combination, or otherwise does not comply with the rules, please reach out to me via Dreamwidth private messages or email to let me know.
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Thank you all for your patience. I'm happy to announce that all assignments are in, and reveals will go forth as scheduled in about 26 hours -- here is a countdown.

The collection will remain moderated until creator reveals, after which point I'll leave it open for late treats.
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Below are the six initial pinch hits for the 2022 round. To claim, please leave a comment below with your AO3 handle and the number or name of the pinch hit you'd like to pick up. Comments are screened. These will be due July 9 along with regular assignments.

ExpandPH1: CLAIMED )

ExpandPH2: Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine )

ExpandPH3: Star Trek: Picard, Star Trek: Discovery, Game of Thrones (TV), Star Trek: Picard )

ExpandPH4: CLAIMED )

ExpandPH5: BASEketball (1998), Chernobyl (TV 2019), Crossover Fandom, Fawlty Towers, Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983), Night at the Museum (Movies) )

ExpandPH6: CLAIMED )
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Thank you all for your patience. Assignments are now out! We have six initial pinch hits, which I will be posting to the community shortly.

A couple notes:

- Please take a moment to review the minimums as you begin planning your work.

- If you need to default for any reason, you can do so by going to your assignment on AO3 and clicking the button labeled "Default" on the top right of the page. I will not ask you to explain why you defaulted, and in fact I probably don't need to know.

- The collection is moderated and even if you submit your fill, I may not approve it for days or even weeks. This isn't a reflection on anything except the fact that I like to approve them in batches.

- The collection will not open until and unless every signed-up person who fulfills an assignment has a gift.

- If you have questions for your recipient, you can contact me through Dreamwidth direct messages or via email. I need to know your AO3 handle and the AO3 handle of the person whose requests you have questions about.
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Signups are officially closed! I have run the first round of matching and there are four (4) participants who have no potential recipients. If your AO3 username begins with letter D, K, P, or S, please check the email associated with your AO3 account and let me know what you'd like done with your signup in the next 48 hours.

I expect to have assignments out before it becomes June 2 in UTC.
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Signups will close in just under 36 hours! New countdown, accounting for the delay when I had to close and reopen signups, is here.
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New and improved! The signup form should now be working as intended. Here is the link again.

If your signup was purged before you were able to copy over your requests and offers, please contact me via email or Dreamwidth PM to see my screenshots of your signup.
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I've made a mistake! Signups are closed right now, since I forgot to enable the mediums in the offers section.

To fix this, I will need to purge the existing signups. I will hold off on doing so for a couple hours to give people time to copy over their existing signups, and additionally I have taken screenshots of all the current signups. If you signed up already and did NOT get a chance to copy your existing signup to save it, you can contact me via email, flowersforgravefics at gmail dot com, or via Dreamwidth private messages with your AO3 handle, and I will send you my image of your signup.

I deeply apologize for the inconvenience. I will be holding signups open for an extra 24 hours to compensate.
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Signups are now open! See the countdown to close here. Have fun! As always, please feel free to reach out to me through Dreamwidth private messages or through email at flowersforgravesfics @ gmail dot com if you have any issues.
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As is tradition, here's the yearly post about blanket permission statements, also called transformative works policies. For the purposes of this exchange, you do NOT need one. However, as per the rules, if you are requesting transformative work (i.e., work that involves manipulating another fanwork in some way) such as podfic, translation, recursive work, or similar, you MUST indicate in your signup if you're okay with your own work being transformed to fill your prompt.

Blanket permission statements do not have to be a blanket yes to anything and everything. It's okay to provide stipulations or caveats to your policy, such as "don't translate any of my works in [x fandom]" or "please link back to my original text when podficcing". For some examples, check out the Fanlore article about blanket statements. Anyone may copy and use, in full or in part, my own statement on my AO3 profile.

If you are not comfortable or interested in posting a transformative works policy more generally, but would be comfortable with the possibility of your works being transformed specifically for this exchange, please feel free to leave a comment with the following information:
  • Your AO3 handle
  • What kinds of transformative works you're okay with
  • Any restrictions, caveats, or conditions (including what, if any, fandoms or works are off-limits)
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Nominations are now closed. Please feel free to leave a comment if you see any wandering tags, duplicates, or anything else I may have missed. Go ahead and peruse both the fandom and character tagset and the medium tagset.

I have a few last clarifications. If I don't hear back in 48 hours, I will change the nominations to the phrasing I indicate below and accept them.

ExpandFandom and Character Queries )

ExpandMedium Query )

I expect signups to open on schedule on May 15th.
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Keep those nominations coming! Here's the countdown to close.

ExpandFandom & Character Queries )
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Excited to see all the new nominations coming in! However, I do have some more queries and notes about both the medium tagset and the fandom/characters tagset.

ExpandFandom & Characters )

ExpandFreeforms )
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First, the good news: thank you to everyone who has nominated medium tags! All of them have been accepted. If you have already used your nom slot and need one more, you can leave a comment here with that medium tag and I'll add it in.

However, I do have a couple queries on the fandom and characters tagset:

ExpandClarification questions )

Anonymous comments are enabled.
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Nominations for both fandom & characters and mediums are now open for the 2022 tagset.

Some reminders:

- Please do not nominate "Creator's Choice of Fandom" or characters under that fandom. They will be rejected AND you will lose that nomination slot. If you would like something else nominated under that fandom, please let me know by email, Dreamwidth private message, or leaving a comment on this post.

- Do not nominate opt-ins. If you want more opt-ins, please let me know by email, Dreamwidth private message, or leaving a comment on this post.

- Nominations such as "Any Jedi Character" or "Group: Kathryn Janeway & Any Maquis Crewmember" are accepted.

- Nominating "Worldbuilding (Fandom Name)" is accepted, but must be disambiguated.

- Freeform tags must be prefaced with one of the categories already existing. If you want to propose another category, please do so by email, Dreamwidth private message, or commenting here.

Have fun nominating! Once again, here's the countdown to close.
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Unconventional Fanworks Exchange is a gift exchange for fanwork besides traditional fic and art, including (but not limited to): meta, in-universe documents, vids, podfic, audio not!fic, chatfic, and multimedia fanwork.

Important Links:
AO3 Collection
Medium Tagset
Fandom + Character Tagset
Mod Contact: flowersforgravesfics @ gmail (dot) com, or Dreamwidth private messages. I do not answer mod questions via Discord.

Schedule:
All times, unless otherwise specified, will be 12:59 AM (OO:59) UTC.

Nominations: April 24 - May 8 (countdown to close)
Signups: May 15 - May 29 (countdown to close)
Assignments Out: on or before June 1
Assignments Due: July 9 (countdown)
Works Revealed: July 16
Creators Revealed: July 23

ExpandRules and Guidelines )

ExpandOpt-Ins )
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Firstly, I'd like to apologize for the lateness of creator reveals. That was entirely my fault and should have been addressed sooner.

With that out of the way, I'd like to thank everyone who participated! I wanted to try a couple new things with the nominations, which I'm not sure worked as well as I hoped. Either way, thank you to everyone who nominated, created works, and signed up.


I've also made the decision to push the regular full-length exchange timeline back by about a month due to a number of factors. I expect nominations to open at the beginning of May.

The full schedule will be made available toward the end of March or beginning of April.
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The three initial pinch hits from the semiflash are still available for claiming. To claim, please comment on the relevant post with your AO3 username and the username of the pinch hit you'd like to pick up. I will not be holding the collection closed until everyone has a gift.

There is one post-deadline pinch hit:

4. Expandfacethestrange )

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