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Creators are revealed! Thank you, again, to all our participants. The collection will remain open for late gifts, including those for pinch hitters, and of course you can continue to read and comment at your leisure!

Please remember that if you defaulted or were defaulted by us on a main assignment after the end of the check-in period, your makeup assignment for participation in 2023 is your assignment from this year. After that point, you can choose to complete a full-length treat or pinch hit instead.

Before we close the book on the 2022 round, we have two items to address. One is a clarification to our rules and expectations, and the other is a (hopefully welcome) change to our rules for the 2023 round.

Rules Clarification

This is a plea and a reminder that, aside from our other rules, participants should not:

• post a placeholder work that could not go live as a complete gift in its current state
• disguise an inappropriate gift so it appears to be a complete gift at the deadline
• edit a gift after the deadline so it no longer fulfills the requirements
• drop out of contact with us while we are working with them to resolve an urgent problem
• delete their posted work after the deadline or remove it from the exchange without mod permission.

This isn’t targeted at any one person. All these things have happened independently this year, and all of them have happened in previous years. Often, we all get lucky, and things work out smoothly. (Aside from some elevated levels of mod anxiety behind the scenes.) Accidental problems can come up, too, but please help us avoid the preventable ones.

In turn, our commitment as mods includes the following:

• When reasonable and on a case-by-case basis, we will give extensions to participants who request them before the deadline
• We will not ask pinch hit recipients to add fandoms or tags to their requests (though we are happy to add them if the recipient genuinely wants to and contacts us themselves)
• We will not ask recipients to accept gifts that don’t meet the requirements of the exchange
• The exchange will go live only when everyone who checks in and turns in their assignment on time has a gift

We think these expectations on both sides are reasonable and fair! We also understand if you don’t feel they’ll result in a fun exchange experience for you personally. We’ll repost this next year before signups to make sure we’re all on the same page.

Rule Change for 2023

Next, we plan to change the number of tags that are required or allowed for each participant.

In 2023, signups will require a minimum of 3 requested fandoms and 4 offered fandoms. We will also be increasing the number of fandoms and characters/relationships that each person can nominate.

Thank you all once again, and we look forward to seeing you next year.

Just checking in to let everyone know we are on track to reveal works in just over 12 hours!

We will go live at 11:59 PM EDT, Sunday July 17th. What time is that for me?

If you become aware of any problems, please get in touch with us right away.

In the meantime, why not check out our treats for pinch hitters post? Treats are welcome at any time!

The emergency pinch hit is claimed!

We now plan to reveal at 11:59 PM EDT, Sunday July 17th, in about a week. What time is that for me?

As always, we will let you know as soon as we do if anything changes.

First, we're happy to announce all our pinch hits are claimed! Our new story reveals date is 9 July. If anything changes, we will update you as soon as it does. Thank you to all our pinch hitters!

Second, it's not always possible for recipients to read their gifts shortly after the archive opens, particularly when dates have changed this much. If you will be away from your keyboard for an extended period after 9 July and want to let your writer know there may be a delay in your reply, you can leave a comment here with your AO3 name.

Thank you all, good luck with last-minute writing and editing, and we'll see you soon for reveals!

The deadline approaches! It is 11:59 PM EST on 4 June. Here is a countdown. If you have any concerns about the deadline, please email us as soon as you can!

In the meantime, this is our last pre-deadline pinch hit signal boost. If you can claim one, please leave a comment with the number and your AO3 name. These pinch hits are due at 11:59pm EST on 18 June.


( PH 7 - Marvel (Comics), Persona 5, X-Men Evolution, Crossover Fandom, X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies), DCU (Comics) )

( PH 8 - Carnival Row (TV), 악의 꽃 | Flower of Evil (TV), Goliyon Ki Rasleela Ram-Leela (2013), 설강화 | Snowdrop (TV) )

( PH 10 - Hill Street Blues, Actor RPF, Better Call Saul (TV), Trick Baby (1972) )

If you haven't already, please stop by this post and check in! The check-in period ends at 11:59 PM on Saturday, 14 May, EDT. Here is a countdown. Also, please remember that this is the default deadline. If you default after the check-in period, you will be asked to complete a makeup assignment before participating in future years.

The mandatory check-in period has arrived!

Please go over to this form and fill it in.

If you have multiple assignments (for example, an assignment and a pinch hit) please fill the form in separately for each assignment that you have. If you have any problems, shoot us an email at fandom5kmod@gmail.com or comment to this post. All comments to this post are screened. (You can also comment here if you prefer not to use Google forms. If you do, please include answers to the questions on the form--you can omit your email, though!)

You are required to check in by 11:59pm EDT 14 May 2021. If you don't, we will assume you are defaulting. This is also the default deadline to avoid makeup assignments for future rounds rounds.

Please note that all people participating in the exchange as a creator (either as a participant or as a pinch hitter) are required to check in.

We will post an updated pinch hit list shortly, then will hold off on updates until the end of the check-in period, so keep an eye out for those!

We have just over a week left for signups, which will close at 23:59 EDT on Saturday, 9 April. What time is that for me?

Also, since the last round of the exchange, there's been an update to AO3 to allow people to decide whether they want to receive treats. You can change the new setting for your account as follows:

Open your AO3 dashboard > Go to "Preferences" > Go to the "Collections, Challenges and Gifts" section > View "Allow anyone to gift me works."

If the checkbox next to this setting is checked, it means people can give you treats in this exchange (and outside it). If the checkbox is not checked, it means you can only receive gifts from people who are assigned to you in an exchange. Please make sure this setting is checked or unchecked according to your preferences!

As a creator, there is no way to see at a glance if someone you want to treat has this setting on or off, so we have a few recommendations.

1) In the optional details of your signup on AO3, please consider adding a statement like "I am open to treats" or "I don't allow treats" for all of your requested fandoms. We don't require this, but it may save everyone some time!

2) If you are thinking of writing a treat for someone, we strongly recommend you make certain they allow treats before you start! If there's no statement either way in that person's signup, you can always contact us by email, and we'll happily reach out to them while keeping you anonymous. (Alternatively, you can attempt to post a draft work with them as the recipient, and AO3 will give you an error message if they don't allow gifts. If you do this, please be very careful to post it as a draft and to put it in the Fandom5K 2022 collection to make sure they don't get a junk gift by mistake.)

To view people's signups, check out the request summary on AO3, or the easier-to-navigate app.

Thank you for the responses to recent posts! We think we've addressed everything that's been mentioned so far, except for the queries below. If we've missed your question/reply, or if you notice any issues with the tagset, please do let us know!

As always, please include the link to your nominations page if you are responding about one of your noms.

Outstanding & new queries:

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• Gym Leaders (Pokemon)
• Original Pokemon Trainer(s)

• Group: Original Female Trainer/Original Female Partner
• Lycanroc (Pokemon MVGS)

Nominations are pouring in! We will make a decision on the MCU-related TV shows soon--please leave any final comments here if you have a preference.

In the meantime, please remember to check the formatting guidelines at that same post before you nominate. Let us know if anything looks incorrect in the tagset. If you need us to change something with the tags you nominated, please include a link to your personal nominations page.

We have some questions we're hoping you can help us resolve. Again, if these are your nominations, please include a link to your noms page:

Avatar: The Last Airbender, Group: Zuko/Ozao (ATLA) - Should this be Ozai?

Supernatural (TV 2005), Group: Sam Winchester & Creator's Choice of Villain - Are you specifically looking for a canonical villain? If so, may we add "Canonical" to the tag?

Crossover Fandom, Group: Nebula (MCU)/Nebula (MCU) - Is this a MCU nomination or a crossover between MCU Nebula and another version?

Naruto, Fandom should be "Dreaming of Sunshine - Silver Queen (Fanfic DFE)" but AO3 changed it - Please comment with a link to your nominations page. There are a lot of other nominations for Naruto, and we don't know which are yours and are supposed to be for DoS.

The Walking Dead & Related Fandoms, Group: Felix Carlucci/Will Campbell, Group: Rick Grimes/Daryl Dixon - We also have nominations for The Walking Dead (TV). Should these be combined? If not, can we separate this nomination into World Beyond and Walking Dead?

16th Century CE RPF, Historical RPF - The characters nominated in these two fandoms have no overlap, but we'd like to avoid having both century-specific and general historical RPF fandoms in the tagset, and the general historical one spans a few centuries. Are there any objections to combining these? We're looking at a pretty small number of tags (7 total).

Star Trek - Various Authors, Group: Alexander Rozhenko/Giancarlo Wu, Group: Elim Garak/Kelas Parmak - We already have Pawns and Symbols in the tagset. What's the best way to handle that as well as these novel-related nominations?

Transformers - All Media Types - Please nominate a specific media type.

Horizon: Zero Dawn (Video Game), Group: Aloy & Beta, Group: Aloy & Kotallo, Zo (Horizon: Zero Dawn) - Should these be nominated under Zero Dawn or Forbidden West?