Fandom Growth Exchange

Apologies for the delay! Artists and authors have now been revealed. Thank you to everyone who participated and helped out with this round.

It'd be great if you could take the time to make sure you've left a comment on your gift, if you haven't already!

All pinch hits are in! Barring any last-minute issues, the collection will open right on schedule, today at 11:55 PM UTC. (Countdown | What time is that for me?)

The deadline has now passed. Many thanks to everyone who has uploaded a gift.

The vast majority of participants (who did not themselves default) now have a gift, and for most others things are in progess. If you believe that you are eligible to receive a gift, are not one of the pinch hits below, and are concerned about the current status of your gift, please do get in touch. (Comments on this post are screened, or contact us via email at fgemods [at] gmail [dot] com.)

At this stage, there are two post-deadline pinch hits; these will be due two days before the scheduled time for the collection opening, on the 17th of October at 11:55 PM UTC. (Countdown | What time is that for me?)

Please comment to claim with your AO3 username and the number of the pinch hit you want to claim; all comments are screened.

CLAIMED ( Post-deadline Pinch Hit #1 - Breath of Fire IV, Glass Thorns, Perks of Being a Wallflower, Magic Mike, Practical Magic, Gilmore Girls, Roswell, Krypton )

CLAIMED ( Post-deadline Pinch Hit #2 - Love Live! School Idol Project, Harry Potter, A Song of Ice and Fire )

The collection will open at 11:55 PM UTC on the 19th of October, or once all pinch hits are in, whichever comes later. You may edit your work as much as you like up until that time. Treats may also be uploaded for any of the requests; you do not have to be signed up to the exchange to create treats.

It's just over 48 hours to deadline now, on the 5th of October at 11:55pm UTC. (Countdown | What time is that for me?)

A quick reminder to all participants that minimums for this exchange are 2,000 words for fic and for art, lineart with basic colors/tones and background or two lineart drawings, not on lined paper, in a requested fandom and medium and containing one of the relationships or characters requested. While you can edit your assignment up until reveals on Oct 19th, we will be checking at deadline that your assignment meets these requirements.

We have two pinch hits remaining, one with new requests! These are due on the 12th of October at 11:55pm UTC. If you can take either of these, please comment on this post with your AO3 name and the pinch hit you wish to claim.

( Pinch Hit #6 - Killjoys, Switch, The Gentlemen's Alliance Cross, Iskryne Series )

CLAIMED( Pinch Hit #11 - Zwei, Cthulhu Saves The World, Dark Savior, Xenoblade Chronicles, Xenoblade Chronicles 2, Suikoden, Nier Gestalt, Shining Force (Video Games) )

Please comment on this post to claim; all comments are screened. In your comment, please clearly indicate which pinch hit you are interested in and your AO3 username.

( Pinch Hit #6 - Killjoys, Switch, The Gentlemen's Alliance Cross, Iskryne Series )

CLAIMED ( Pinch Hit #9 - Good Girls Revolt, Hythrun Chronicles, Obernewtyn Chronicles, Once Upon A Time, The Punisher (TV), Their Finest )

( Pinch Hit #11 - Zwei, Cthulhu Saves The World, Dark Savior )

CLAIMED ( Pinch Hit #12 - Servamp (Anime & Manga), Final Fantasy Tactics, SaGa Frontier, Black Clover - 田畠裕基 | Tabata Yuki, Itsuwaribito Utsuho, Dark Tower - Stephen King )

Assignments have been sent! You should receive an e-mail from AO3 with the details of your assignment soon. If you do not receive an e-mail within 24 hours, and it isn't in your spam folder, please contact us at fgemods@gmail.com. You can also find your assignment on your Assignments page, located at: http://archiveofourown.org/users/USERNAME/assignments

If there are any problems with your assignment, please contact us at fgemods@gmail.com (especially if you believe that you have been assigned to someone whose requests do not match your offers at all, as this may indicate a need to rerun matching entirely - we very much hope this won't happen, though). However, since assignments are going out a little early, please wait until Friday, August 3 to contact us if the issue is a placeholder/locked letter.

If you have finished your own letter, but haven't shared it yet, you can still do so at the letters post. We have also created a Google Doc of all requests in the exchange, for ease of searching here.

Remember, assignments are due no later than Friday, October 5 at 11:55PM UTC. (Countdown | What time is that for me?)

• Art requirements: You must submit complete art—sketches are not permitted. Art must be a minimum of lineart with basic colors/tones as well as background OR two lineart drawings. Lineart may not stand alone as a gift without colors/tones/background. Art may be traditional or digital, but cannot be drawn on lined paper. Manips and other graphics are not permitted.


• Fic requirements: You must submit complete fic. Fic must be a minimum of 2,000 words and must stand on its own.

If you believe you will be unable to complete your assignment by the due date, the default deadline is Friday, September 21 at 11:55PM UTC.

We will post instructions on uploading your assignment as the deadline approaches!

We also have an initial batch of pinch hits coming, so be sure to check those out.

This is just a reminder that sign-ups will close in three days, on July 30th at 11:55 PM UTC. (Countdown | What time is that for me?)

 Sign-ups close July 30th at 11:55 PM UTC. (Countdown | What time is that for me?)

Sign-up Form | AO3 Collection | Tagset | FAQ | Bucket Offers/Requests

If you're new to exchanges, this guide will walk you through signing-up. You can also read this tutorial from AO3. If you have any questions, comment below.

Please note:

• You may edit your sign-up as much as you want until the deadline.
• Requests will be visible throughout (and after) sign-ups.
• Some tags may not appear in the drop-down menu but can still be used by copy and pasting from the tag set itself.
• If you encounter any problems during your sign up, please let us know ASAP; some recent exchanges have been hit by AO3 bugs.
• When viewing the Sign Up Summary, it may appear that you are logged in as another AO3 user.  This is a known bug related to caching of the page, and does not mean that there is any problem with your own or the other user's AO3 account.
• AO3 limits the number of relationships you can request/offer per fandom to 20. In order to make sure participants can still request/offer up to 20 relationships as well as up to 20 characters in one fandom, you can repeat a fandom once: that is, you can use up to 2 slots for each fandom. You must still have the minimum number of unique fandoms (3 requests and 4 offers). If you repeat a fandom, the tags used must be different: you cannot repeat characters or relationships under the same fandom.

( How do I make requests? )

( How do I make offers? )

( How do I make bucket offers or requests? )

( What does "Any Relationship" mean? )

 The following nominations were rejected for the reason provided. If you feel we rejected your nomination in error, feel free to comment below.

A final clarifications post will follow shortly.  Thank you to everyone who has helped throughout the nominations period by responding to queries, adjusting their nominations, etc.

( Rejected Nominations )

As of 1900 UTC, all tags have either been dealt with or are awaiting a response to issues raised in this post or the previous one.  (In some cases we are waiting to deal with fandoms until one or two tags for them are fixed, to avoid having too many tags waiting in the "Already Approved" section.)  If you have tags that have not gone through, for fandoms that are not listed here, please let us know as something may have gone wrong.

There are a little over two days left until nominations close. Countdown | What time is that for me?

Many thanks to everyone who has provided extra information to help us resolve previous queries.  If you have further nominations to add which may not be clearly eligible, please do use the evidence post to explain the circumstances.


Alpennia Series - Heather Rose Jones

• Barbara of Sauveze/Margerit Sovitre - is "Barbara of Sauveze" the same character as "Barbara Lumbiert"?

Collar x Malice

• Hoshino Kazuya - should this be "Hoshino Kazuki"?

DCU (Comics)

• Thomas Blake/Floyd Lawton - this relationship is tagged in 15 works that are complete and in English.  In one of these it is clearly a background pairing, and one seems to be deliberately intended to be applicable to multiple ships, but overall it appears to be over, counting fics in which it is the only ship or apparently of equal importance to other ships.

The Goblin Emperor

• Csethiro CeredinCsoru Drazharan - presumably the missing symbol in this tag is a typo, but is this supposed to be a / ship or an & ship?
• Deret Beshelar/Original Lion Girl - in the rules for this round, we are not allowing nominations for original characters.  If there is a distinct "mentioned or implied" lion girl that this nomination could apply to, please let us know.

Law & Order: SVU

• Dominick "Sonny" Carisi Jr./Peter Stone - this relationship is tagged in 16 complete works in English.  It appears to be a background pairing in 2 of them, but this still leaves 14.

Relatos salvajes | Wild Tales (2014)

• Everyone & Gabriel Pasternak - this tag is somewhat too broad

Son of a Trickster - Eden Robinson

• This fandom's online footprint is very small, which on the one hand means it's definitely the sort of fandom that FGE is for, but on the other makes it difficult for us to verify character names etc., beyond the main character who is mentioned by name in some reviews.  Please could the nominator check spellings etc. extremely carefully and then let us know when they've done so.

War and Peace - Tolstoy

• Fyodor Obolensky/Pyotr Rostove - is "Fyodor Obolensky" in the book?  Googling for the name brings up virtually no results at all, which given the number of War and Peace resources online is surprising.  (Also, should "Rostove" be "Rostov"?)

Under the cut are a number of issues still outstanding from the previous clarifications post.  Please note that some of these tags are at risk of being rejected if we do not receive valid evidence for their inclusion.

( Outstanding issues from post #1 )