Round 2 Schedule & Description

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FFFX stands for Five Figure Fanwork Exchange. It is a multifandom gift exchange for fanfic of 10,000+ words, and for comics of least 10 pages or at least 40 panels.

AO3 collection | Tag set | App | Canon promo post | Beta post

Current Phase: Round Two of fffx is over! You can see all Round One and Two works here. Keep an eye out for round 3's schedule, likely to be posted before May and to involve nominations around July.

Schedule

Nominations start: 19 July 2021

Sign-ups start: 30 July

Sign-ups close: 11 August

Assignments out by: 18 August

Assignment Swaps / FINAL Letter Completion Deadline*: 31 August

Check-in Week**: 19-26 November

Assignments due: 22 January 2022

Works revealed: 26 February (5pm EST)

Creators revealed: 12 March (5pm EST)


*How do assignment swaps work? This exchange allows you to trade in your current assignment for a different one. This is intended as a safety net. Maybe you tried a new fandom to match a request and it didn't work out. Maybe you matched on something safe, but fell in love with something else after assignments went out. Whether you can swap to the new assignment of your choice will depend on several factors, including whether several other people are already creating for it. You can ask for any other assignment before August 31. Between August 31 and December 31, you can still trade in the assignment you hold for another one, but only if the one you want is listed as a pinch hit.

If you're writing a letter, I recommend you finish it during sign-ups so that your assigned creator can use it right away, but that doesn't always happen. So there's a hard deadline: any linked letters that are incomplete on 31 August will be deleted from your sign-up.


**What is Check-In Week? This is when you contact the mod on a check-in post at this community to confirm that you are committed to fulfilling your assignment(s). If you do not check in, you will be defaulted.


FFFX follows the pattern of many other Archive-of-Our-Own-based multifandom exchanges. The pool of available fandoms is created by nominations (seven fandoms, with five characters or relationships each, per person, with selective additions possible during sign-ups). When signing up, you can offer and request as few as four fandoms (three for offers), with one character or relationship in each, or as many as ten fandoms, with ten relationships in each. You will match on one of those characters or relationships (OR matching). FFFX allows original works prompts. FFFX does not match on freeform tags or rating.

Because this is a longfic exchange and many creators like to have something to go on, you are required to put either prompts, or notes on what appeals to you about a fandom, or general likes, or some combination, in your requests.

Fandom promotion posts and guides to where your canon can be found are encouraged.

The mod can be reached at mod.modzilla@gmail.com as well as through this Dreamwidth community.

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Nominations - Round 2

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Nominations

Nominations are open! See the tag set. Nominations close at 11:59pm EDT on July 27.

Everyone starts with 7 fandoms to nominate and 5 characters or relationships per fandom. When nominations close on July 27, I'll tidy up the tag set, then re-open nominations with a smaller slate, during sign-ups, so that you can nominate things you forgot.

Please check this community before nominations end, because I'm bound to have questions about the nominations. If I don't get answers, I may mess up and approve them wrong.

FFFX is using the Fandom and the Character tag slots for nominations. Characters, relationships, and a Worldbuilding option can be nominated in the Character slot - please read further for how to format them.

In the Fandom field, you can enter a canonical or non-canonical fandom (yes, it's okay if there's no fic for it yet on AO3).

If you want to nominate a relationship, please enter it as Group: Character/Character (Fandom) (for romantic or sexual relationships) or Group: Character & Character (Fandom) (for platonic relationships).

The Group: part is is really important and helps future tag users.

The punctuation / and & is very important to indicate what sort of relationship it is.

Putting the fandom at the end of the nomination is really helpful to stop the tags misbehaving.

Larger groups are OK - ie, "Group: Character/Character & Character/Character" means you're asking for two sets of pairings who are doing something together or otherwise relate to each other.

If you want to nominate a character, just enter their name with the (Fandom) at the end. Some may even autocomplete. Original characters are also OK as long as you describe a character who could have existed in canon, such as "Original Force-sensitive Character (Star Wars Original Trilogy)".

If you want to nominate Worldbuilding for a canon, to offer or request it, please nominate it as "Other: Worldbuilding (Fandom)" (filling in the relevant fandom).


Some fandom notes:
Please separate out Marvel movies and separate TV shows - ie, Iron Man (Movies) rather than MCU.

Please nominate the Star Wars movies according to trilogy - no "Star Wars (All Media Types)".

Arrowverse TV shows and DCU and Marvel comics are discussed here.

"All Media Types" fandoms will probably be approved last, overall, because I'll want to see if there's a more specific version of the fandom that's in conflict. And I don't know many fandoms. So if you already know that All Media Types is what's right for your fandom, consider dropping me a comment to clarify so that I can confidently approve it faster.

Where you want to nominate a relationship between characters who appear in different fandoms, please nominate them under Crossover Fandom and include the fandom for each. For example: Group: Arya Stark (ASoIF)/Elsa (Frozen - Movies). Please be specific if the fandom name could refer to different versions and adaptations. You can ask for general crossovers between fandoms by nominating "Other: Worldbuilding (Fandom 1 & Fandom 2)"

You can also nominate characters and groups under Original Work. Please indicate the genders of the characters if that is important to you. If someone requests Original Work characters or relationships with ambiguous genders, the preference of the person requesting takes precedence over the preference of the person offering. (But you can ask to add a more specific version to the tag set during sign-ups if that is an issue.)


Please feel free to use the comments to ask questions or brainstorm with others.

Unbanning & some round 2 statistics

If you defaulted, or failed to post a work, after November 16 last year, or if you did not comment on your gift (or both), you may not sign up to round 2. That is fixable, as you can comment on your gift - or discuss with me why that may be impossible - and post a make-up gift (or two half-gifts) to be unbanned. If you are posting two half-gifts, they don't have to be for the same request or even the same person. I especially encourage you to post a gift for a pinch hitter.

Some interesting stats:
-143 people signed up to round 1
-Of that number, 42 defaulted after mid-November or did not post; between this and 12 people not commenting on gifts, nearly 1/3 of the original participants are not (yet) eligible to sign up this round (so you may be in good company if you are not eligible! But please comment)
-131 accounts received gifts
-32 accounts that were not signed up created gifts. ♥

This is a good time to check if you left a placeholder comment on your gift. Or just to read it again, if you liked it.