Round 3 Schedule & Description

[modzilla]

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.

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Current Phase: Round Three is over. Works and their creators are visible at the 2022-2023 collection. Belated treats are welcome. A draft schedule has been posted for Round Four.

Schedule

Nominations start: 24 July 2022
Nominations close: 3 August (11:59pm EDT)
Sign-ups start: 6 August
Sign-ups close: 18 August (11:59pm EDT)
Assignments out by: 25 August
Assignment Swaps / FINAL Letter Completion Deadline*: 10 September
Check-in Week**: 20-27 November
Assignments due: 21 January 2023 (11:59pm EST)
Works revealed: 25 February (5pm EST)
Creators revealed: 11 March (5pm EST)

Further explanations below, covering assignment swaps, check-in week, and other topics

*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 September 10. Between September 10 and the main deadline of January 21, 2023, 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 10 September 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 (eight 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 (two 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 an exchange for long works 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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We're Back! And Changes for Round 3

[modzilla]

Hello all! Welcome back, previous participants - I hope you've had a good break during the brief part of the year fffx isn't running. And welcome to newcomers, of course!

Thanks to those who gave feedback previously. I've made the following tweaks:

-There is a change to the nominations format this time!!! We will use the Relationships field rather than the Character field by default. This means that you will NOT put "Group: " in front of all gen and shippy relationships. They will not have a prefix at all. Instead, please use the prefix "Char: " when nominating characters on their own. And "Oth: " insted of "Other: " for worldbuilding. Given that the majority of nominations are for relationships, I'm hoping this will save both you and me typing and correcting time.

-You can nominate in 8 fandoms this year to start with, instead of 7. However, I just want to warn you that I expect to be slow at approving in the first part of the nominations period. Thanks in advance for your patience.

-You can now swap your assignment with an extant pinch hit all the way until the deadline on January 21. Let's see if that works.

-I have adjusted the defaulting rules so that default-based bans last for one year only. You can still get rid of the ban early by posting make-up works. I am applying this retroactively, so if you simply defaulted in round 1, you are welcome to sign up to this round. You still need to comment on any past gifts, if you haven't yet - that requirement doesn't lapse with time. Similarly, if your ban involved a placeholder or other serious behavior I spoke to you about that wasn't simply defaulting, the ban does not lapse with time. I'm happy to discuss your particular circumstances - please reach out privately.

-Schedule: Since I'm a little late starting, the sign-up period is a bit shorter than it was last year. If I hear from several people that extending would make a big difference to them, I'll make the period longer. The check-in week will not shift, nor will the deadline, if I do that.

-I have clarified (I hope) that if a full-length comic is organized around a 10-page layout rather than panel number, it still needs to be 36+ panels. Similarly, if it's organized around a 5-page layout, it still need to have at least 18 panels. Comics that are 40+ or 20+ panels can be grouped into fewer than 10 or 5 pages (respectively).


I hope all that makes sense! Please feel free to remark on any of the above, or ask questions, or use this post to brainstorm what you're thinking of nominating!

This exchange is part of the triplecrownofexchanges challenge, and over in Triple Crown, surveys have just gone out for Round 2 prize creators and winners - please fill those out by July 31 if that applies to you. And keep an eye out for Round 3 thoughts!