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Creators are revealed, but the collection is still open for new works, of which we've had several already! And, of course, you can continue to read and comment to your heart's content.

Find more to read here!

Thank you to everyone who participated this year, and especially to all the pinch hitters who got us across the finish line--I appreciate you very much.

I also have an announcement to make:

Next year will be the tenth round of Fandom5K, if you can believe that! I've also decided it will be the last.

I've had a great time running this exchange, I've met some amazing people, and I've been delighted to see millions and millions of words posted to make other fans happy. However, ten years is a long time to do anything, and I'm ready to focus on personal projects. The exchange scene is much busier now than it was when CBMod and I kicked this off--hopefully participants can find plenty of other options throughout the year.

My plan is to retire the exchange rather than handing it over to a new mod, but of course anyone is welcome to start up an exchange on a similar theme. If you are interested in doing so and have any questions, I'd be happy to answer them.

To make the tenth and final year something we can all look forward to, two sub-announcements:

First, I plan to announce the 2026 schedule by 1 February, 2026.

Hopefully that way everyone who wants to join can plan ahead more easily, and hopefully I can keep myself from letting the schedule creep later and later every year, as it has a habit of doing.

Second, I am issuing an amnesty to anyone who defaulted late in 2025 or previous years, as long as that default occurred before the works due deadline.

That is, if you forgot to contact me during check-in week, or you checked in but then hit the default button before the deadline because something came up, you no longer need to create a make-up assignment to participate in the final round.

If you didn't default before the works due deadline--maybe you simply didn't show up on that date and never turned a work in, or you defaulted with an extension--I will still ask you to turn in a makeup assignment before signing up next year. This also may apply if you turned in a placeholder or your gift otherwise didn't fulfill our rules.

If you have any questions about how this amnesty applies to you, please let me know! I may take a little time to get back to you during the offseason, so I'd suggest asking early if you need to plan ahead.

Authors are revealed, but the collection is still open for late treats, of which we've had several already! And, of course, you can continue to read and comment to your heart's content.

Find more to read here!

Thank you to everyone who participated this year, and especially to O. for helping with story checking. And, as always, thanks go out to everyone who wrote pinch hits and got us across the finish line.

I'd like to open this post up for any feedback you have about the exchange, and especially about a couple of new rules under consideration for next year. These are just ideas, and they may not be implemented regardless of responses, but it would be helpful to know if there's interest one way or another.

Ideas under early consideration:

• Implementing a commenting rule along the lines of FFFX, where recipients must comment on their gift, refuse it, or contact the mod before signing up for the following year
• Allowing participants to offer and request comics at least 5 panels in length, also along the lines of FFFX's comparable requirements. Would you be interested in offering or requesting comics?

Hello, writers and readers and all beta readers! We are currently set to go live in about three and a half hours, at 23:59 EDT on Saturday, 20 July.

Thank you again, sincerely, to all our pinch hitters getting us over the finish line! I'll see you there shortly.

Author names are now revealed! But the collection is still open for late treats, and of course for reading and commenting. We hope you'll continue to enjoy the stories!

We're still seeking one pinch hitter, and we've decided to delay the archive opening by a week. New dates:

Stories revealed: 8 July at 11:59 PM US Eastern (countdown)
Authors revealed: 23 July at 11:59 PM US Eastern (countdown)

If you are able to take this pinch hit, please leave a comment with your AO3 name. Our ideal due date would be Friday, 7 July at 11:59 PM US Eastern.

If you could take the pinch hit but would need more time than that, please comment to let us know, and we'll see if another delay would make sense!


CLAIMED - PH 7 - Death end re;Quest (Video Game), Final Fantasy XIII Series, Final Fantasy XIV

Thank you all for bearing with the changes this year, and thank you especially to everyone who helped us across the finish line.

We're delighted to announce that the archive is now open. Go forth to read and comment!

As always, if there are any problems, please email us so we can follow up privately. We hope you find lots to enjoy in this year's collection.

We've extended creator reveals until the 30th to allow for one full weekend, plus part of another, for anonymous reading. The collection will remain open for treats and makeup assignments.

Hello, everyone--we sincerely apologize, but we're announcing a delay of 8 hours to 7:59 AM, EDT, on Sunday the 10th.

Here is a countdown to the new time!

We'll let you know as soon as we do if the situation changes, but we will not reveal earlier than nine and a half hours from now.

Good luck with any last-minute edits!