2023 Sign-Ups Are Open! - NOW CLOSED

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2023 sign-ups are now closed!

SIGN UP HERE - available until February 15th, 11:59 PM Wednesday CST. (When is that?)

You can request 4-10 tales from the tag set and must offer 4-10 tales as well. You can also specify the characters (1-6) you’re interested in writing or receiving (if characters were nominated for that tale). If you tick 'Any' instead of specifying characters, that means you’re open to writing or receiving any of the nominated characters for that canon - it's up to the person you matched with. Ticking 'Any' is also how you request or offer a canon with 0 characters nominated.

You will receive a story that concerns at least one of the tales you asked for and one of your requested characters. You can select several characters for a tale, but your author only has to include one. This is known as 'Or' matching.

If you want, you can use the Optional Details in the form, or a linked letter, or both, to talk about your preferences for a request and what interests you about the tales. Your author may use these details for inspiration, but does not have to follow them closely. If there are elements that would ruin a story for you, please list them in the form, for each request, as Do-Not-Wants. Every author must follow those.

Notes to Mods, in the Offers section of the form, allows you to tell us more about how you'd like to be matched. (Would you prefer to write something shippy, or horror? Do you secretly have one request you especially hope you get matched on?) You can leave these sections blank, but if you enter preferences here, we'll try to accommodate them.

Treat settings - last year, AO3 gave users a new feature to block gifts other than those given through an exchange assignment or prompt claim. New accounts are set up with extra gifts disabled by default. This is an anti-harassment feature for users who have previously received unwanted and unpleasant "gifts"-that-aren't, or for users who are concerned they might get them in future.

In exchanges such as Once Upon a Fic, treats are common, but the new feature makes it hard to know if someone would like treats or has treating turned off. Because of this, please say in your requests if you are happy to receive treats, and so you have extra gifts enabled in your settings. (That is, in your AO3 preferences, the box next to "Allow anyone to gift me works." is ticked.) That helps to give treat creators confidence when browsing prompts.

Similarly, if you choose not to enable extra gifts, please let us know (by notes to mods, or by email, or by saying in your requests that you are not open to treats). It is okay to either disable or enable extra gifts, but more information helps everyone.

And here again are sources for the canons for this year, if you want to reread or try a whole new canon!


And if you’d like to see what people asked for in the past...
Requests from: 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | or look up requests for specific fandoms in karanguni's app!


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