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The collection has been revealed!

Go forth to read, enjoy, and comment.

Thank you again to all our writers and particularly to the pinch hitters who put in the extra work to get us across the finish line.

Authors will remain anonymous until 4 July. As always, if you have concerns about your gift, please contact us privately at fandom5kmod@gmail.com.

Many, many thanks to our last pinch hitter! We are currently on track to open the archive as scheduled, at 11:59 PM EDT on 25 June. Here is a countdown.

Please contact us privately if you have any questions or concerns specific to either your assignment or your gift.

Good luck, and we'll see you soon!

Our deadline is past, and we're busy making sure everyone has a gift! A round of post-deadline pinch hits should follow shortly.

We have quite a few assignments with extensions, so if you don't currently have a gift, you turned in your assignment, and you are not one of our incoming pinch hit recipients, don't worry!

As a reminder, all stories are due at 11:59 PM EDT on 4 June. What time is that for me?

As many of us are writing like the wind, we are still seeking three post-check-in pinch hits, which you can view and claim here.

Other links of interest:

• Beta post
• Treats for pinch hitters
• Full list of requests

Good luck as we enter the home stretch!

The no-fault default deadline, the last opportunity to default without requiring a makeup assignment for next year, is coming up at 11:59 PM on 7 May. What time is that for me?

If you need to pull out of the exchange at any point, we definitely understand! Please do it as soon as you know it's necessary. That gives our pinch hitters more time to work.

After this deadline, we will open our mandatory check-in period. Everyone with an assignment will need to fill out a (very short) form to let us know they're still committed to the exchange.

Other things to note:

• We're currently seeking four pinch hits!
• Our usual treats for pinch hitters post will follow soon
• We'll also be posting a searchable spreadsheet of all requests for treating shortly. Sorry that's taking so long this year

As always, please let us know if you have any questions or concerns, and email us privately for anything specific to your assignment.

We have fourteen initial pinch hits. These are not due to anyone defaulting but to the matching algorithm. If you are interested in claiming these, please comment to this post with the number of the pinch hit you wish to claim and your AO3 name. All comments are screened.

These pinch hits are due at the 4 June deadline and are expected to participate in the mandatory check-in period.

( Pinch Hit 1: Spotlight (2015), Django Unchained (2012), Casualty (TV), Merchant of Venice - Shakespeare )


CLAIMED - Pinch Hit 2: Heart Is Full - Miike Snow (Music Video), Road House (1989), Supernatural, Star Trek: Voyager


CLAIMED - Pinch Hit 3: Bachelorette (2012), Chicago Med, The Good Wife (TV), Pitch (TV 2016), The Walking Dead (TV)


( Pinch Hit 4: Zombillénium (Bande Dessinée), Spacelords (Video Game), Screamland (comic), Justin and the Knights of Valour (2013),  )


CLAIMED - Pinch Hit 5: Ristorante Paradiso, Discworld - Terry Pratchett, The Tillerman Cycle - Cynthia Voigt, Dash (Comics), Arkham Horror Files (Games), Team Fortress 2


( Pinch Hit 6: Ladykiller In a Bind, Hollow Knight (Video Games), Pokemon Reborn (Video Game), Uncommon Time (Video Game) )


( Pinch Hit 7: 盗墓笔记 | The Grave Robbers' Chronicles - All Media Types, Masters of Rome - Colleen McCullough, 镇魂 | Guardian - priest, French Revolution RPF )


( Pinch Hit 8: Crossover Fandom (Heist Society, White Collar, National Treasure, MCU, LotR, Tomorrowland, Vorkosigan, SW Legends, Oxford Time Travel, Narnia), Danny Dunn Series - Jay Williams & Raymond Abrashkin, Lymond Chronicles - Dorothy Dunnett, Oxford Time Travel Universe - Connie Willis, The Robin Hood Stories - Carrie Vaughn )


( Pinch Hit 9: Mr. Lucky (TV), Wild Wild West (TV), River of Teeth - Sarah Gailey, The Shadow (Pulp) )


( Pinch Hit 10: 十三機兵防衛圏 | 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim (Video Game), Death end re;Quest (Video Game), Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World, Tales of the Abyss, Wild ARMs 2 )


( Pinch Hit 11: The Elementalists (Visual Novel), Love & Legends (Visual Novel), RWBY, Original Works )


CLAIMED - Pinch Hit 12: Barbarians (TV 2020), Britannia (TV 2017), Dishonored (Video Games), Doctor Who (1963), The Last Days of Pompeii (TV 1984)


( Pinch Hit 13: 魔入りました! 入間くん | Mairimashita! Iruma-kun | Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun (Manga), Re:ゼロから始める異世界生活 | Re:Zero Starting Life in Another World (Anime), 葬送のフリーレン | Sousou no Frieren | Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Hataraku Maou-Sama! | The Devil Is a Part-Timer! )


( Pinch Hit 14: Crossover Fandom (X-Men ATM, MCU, Buffy, American Horror Story, Marvel 616, Arrowverse), Final Fantasy VII Remake (Video Game 2020), Marvel (Comics), X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies) )

Just over 7 hours for signups! They close at 10 April at 11:59 PM, EDT. Here is a countdown.

You can help us keep things running smoothly in a few ways:

1) Make sure you can match to at least one recipient. (More is always great!) We can't send out assignments until everyone has a recipient. If you don't have the chance to check, or if requests change before signups close, don't worry--we'll contact you at that point, and you'll have 48 hours to reply.

To see if you're matchable right now, you can see all the requests in detail here, or you can view a summary of the offered and requested fandoms. (Note that you need to be logged into AO3 to do this.)

2) Make sure your signup is complete, that you have selected the tags you meant to select, and that any DNWs are clearly indicated in the details section of your requests.

3) If you wrote a letter, make sure the link is in your signup and that it's correct. Make sure your letter is accessible to someone who doesn't have an account on whatever platform you used to host it. Many people are still working on their letters and may have them set as private for right now, which is fine, but keep in mind assignments will go out no later than 13 April.

Writers, take your marks...

Signups are open here! Go forth and request fic! They will close on 10 April.

As you do, please take a moment to familiarize yourself with the rules and the FAQ. Please let us know if they need any clarification. You can comment here or shoot us an email if you have any questions.

There are more details at the FAQ, but here are the basics:

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Here is the list of Additional Tags available for genres.

Here is the full tag set. This year, we have 3,123 characters and relationships in 627 different fandoms.

To help you navigate, keep in mind that Marvel live-action nominations are under the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., or The Defenders (Marvel TV), with groups combining them in Crossover Fandom. DC fandoms may be under the DC Extended Universe (films) or DC's Arrowverse (TV), with groups combining the two under Crossover Fandom.

For those interested in Original Works and Crossover Fandom tags, I've created a filterable spreadsheet for each that might help with finding tags you can offer or request.

Please let me know if there are errors in the spreadsheet. There was a lot of copy/paste, and some of the tags are ambiguous.