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[fiabex]

Fic In A Box 2024

Schedule

August 9-16: Nominations Pre-Gaming (participants can load tags from last year’s tagset into this tagset)

August 17: Tag Nominations Open

August 24: Tag Nominations Close

August 25-26: Nominations Cleanup

August 27: Signups Open

September 1: Swap requests open

September 7: Signups Close

September 10: Assignments Out By This Date

September 11: Swap requests close

October 20: Assignments Due

October 27: First Extension Due Date

November 3: Final Extension Due Date

November 10: Last Day To Submit Makeup Assignments

November 16 28: Work Reveals

November 30 December 12: Creator Reveals

All times 11:59pm Eastern

What is Fic In A Box

A gift exchange is an event where participants create fanworks to gift to each other. Fic In A Box is a fanwork exchange with a large minimum gifting requirement and several unique features. Gifts can include fic, art, audio, video— and much much more.

How It Works/The Nitty-Gritty:

All participants in Fic In A Box are requesting 10,000 words of fanfiction by default, but can opt in to other mediums to give their gifter options. Mediums can include writing structure things like "in-world rpf" for your gift, or include creative formats as far away from fic as different types of art, knitting patterns, logic puzzles, and so on. There were 288 mediums to choose from last year, and we add more every year.

For mediums other than the written word, pretty much any medium will be accepted, as long as it can be digitized for delivery and we can agree on a clear and easily checked equivalent to 1k of written fic. Participants who primarily work in non-writing mediums are very welcome and will get specially matched (as long as they give the mods a heads-up) so they'll have an assignment they can complete. If your art form is fannish cross-stitch? We'd love to have you join us.

Participants have the option to split the 10k words (or equivalent in an opted-into medium) that they owe between several separate works (say, one fic of 3k and a another of 7k) to reach 10k total. The minimum word count per work is 1k by default, but lower wordcount works will count if your recipient has opted into receiving them. (Drabble is a medium that can be opted into!) And initial assignments are 10k for one person, but at the start of the exchange the mods run Swaps which will give you the chance to split that 10k into multiple shorter assignments for multiple recipients!

So when it comes time to turn in gifts, you might turn in 3k worth of art, 4k in fic, and 3k in typesetting a fic (10k total), and then you receive 8k of fic and 2k of map design (10k total). Last year 265 people signed up, and we exchanged 993 gifts at the end of the creation period, everything from fic to reddit posts to logic puzzles to museum catalogues to CYOA stories to colouring pages!

If you cannot complete the full 10k (or other medium equivalent) but are still able to post one or more smaller, complete works, you can default on just the remaining wordcount. You will then be guaranteed (via finding a back up gifter-- "pinch hitting"-- if necessary) a gift equivalent to the amount you were able to submit (rounded down to the nearest 1k). There are also options to "earn back" guaranteed minimum amount by taking pinch hits or completing your original assignment.

Questions?

For more information about Medium rulesets, signing up, nominations of fandoms, relationships, or medium forms, swaps, or much more (questions about how pinch hits work? we have documentation about that), check out the dreamwidth blog!

If you have questions, feel free to ask them here, check the dreamwidth blog for much more documentation, email the mods, or join our discord server. The discord server has a lot of experienced participants happy to answer questions, and you are also welcome to join just to hang out!

Note: you must be 18 or older to join FIAB.

Links

Email: ficinaboxmod@gmail.com

Ao3 Collection (sign up here once signups open)

Tag Set

Dreamwidth Blog

Discord (includes question channel)

Current Pinch Hits

[spectre-requisitions-exchange]

THE SPECTRE REQUISITIONS RARE PAIR EXCHANGE RETURNS FOR 2025

Are you a rare pair shipper? Do you love those pairings that canon never supplied? Or maybe you’re just good ol’ shipping trash who loves to ship almost EVERYONE in the Mass Effect universe? Then boy do we have good news for you!

The Spectre Requisitions Rare Pair Exchange is here!  We’re a rare pair fanart and fanfiction exchange that’s open for the Mass Effect Trilogy and Mass Effect Andromeda. Whether you started with the original Mass Effect or got into the series through Andromeda or the remaster; whether you favor gen and platonic or threesomes and moresomes -- we want you to join us! Mark the dates on your calendar and get those thinking caps on for nominations!

If you’re not already in the Discord, come join us! It’s open year-round for all your rare pair needs.

2025 SCHEDULE

Nominations begin: January 16 Nominations end: January 23 Signup begins: January 25 Signup ends: February 8 Assignments: February 11 (at latest) Assignments due: March 23 Assignment reveal: March 30 Creator reveal: April 6

Watch this space for a guide to nominations! We can't wait to see what rare relationship goodness you come up with this year!

[kghnexchange]

💙 The King and his Knight

🧡 For @v3lleityy

🌸 Rated T

🏐 Art | Royalty AU

Click to see the full gift!

[staugustinebutnotreligious]

I forgot to do my own reveal/post but I'm doing it now! Lol

I participated in the Kagehina exchange event this year as my first ever fanfiction community event, and it was absolutely wonderful! I got assigned to the lovely @shobio-enthusiast and his prompts for me were deliciously fluffy and romantic :)

(They gave me a break from the horrible angsty violent shit I come up with when left to my own devices)

Here is a link to the piece!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/65272633

[lotr-sesa]

The Lord of the Rings Secret Santa 2024 prompt meme signups are OPEN!

So, it's that time of the year again: time to sign up for the Lord of the Rings Secret Santa exchange! Slash, femslash, het and gen; you can request it all, so why not join in?

Lord of the Rings Secret Santa has been going for twenty-one years, and we'd love to see you join us and keep the tradition going.

LotR SeSa has been a traditional exchange since its inception, but we continue to adapt and refine the exchange to best serve all participants. The exchange has been in the form of a prompt meme since 2020. If you are new to the format, AO3 has a helpful FAQ here.

This year's timeline (2024):

Prompt Posting: November 1st to 25th.

Claiming: November 26th to December 27th.

Collection Open for Posting: November 26th to December 27th.

All Fills Due: December 27th

You will be able to post up to 2 prompts, and we will do our best to make sure that at least one of your prompts is filled.

Please note that this is an FPFchallenge. (i.e. Fictional, not real people fiction/RPF.) We're always open to all the Peoples and Ages of Middle-earth, which means that characters from The Hobbit and The Rings of Power are welcome too!

The Rules (2024):

You will be able to post up to 2 prompts between November 1st and 25th, and we will do our best to make sure at least one of your prompts is filled.

Your fill is due December 27th 11:59 pm Pacific Time (you can check what that is in your time zone here). Please post it to AO3 (and nowhere else, until January 3rd).

As a matter of fairness, please make your story more than 750 words (1000 is better).

Signing up: the sign up form can be found here (or here if the main link gives you an error message). If you need help with signing up, please don't hesitate to contact the mods at lotrsesa[AT]gmail.com.

Once claiming has opened, please only claim a prompt if you plan on actually fulfilling your end of the bargain, and please only claim one prompt at a time. After you have completed your fill, you may claim a new one.

Claiming a prompt: use the "Claim" button next to the prompt you want to claim. (You can find open prompts under "Prompts" in the sidebar.) Several people can claim the same prompt. You can also claim a prompt without having submitted any of your own.

It's a good idea to join the LotR_SeSa LiveJournal community or the Dreamwidth community so you can keep track of any admin posts. You can also follow us here on Tumblr.

Have fun -- and spread the word! We appreciate each and every reblog. ❤️

[fang-frenzy-fic-exchange]

Interest Check!

Hello everybody!! Putting out an initial interest check to see if folks are interested in participating in an exchange like this!

In short, Fang Frenzy would be a vampire-centric writing exchange, hosted on AO3 but with announcements provided through this Tumblr and a Dreamwidth community! All told, it would run from March 3rd to June 2nd!

More information about Fang Frenzy can be found under the cut if you're undecided!

What is this?

Fang Frenzy is a writing exchange, centered on vampires, vampire-adjacent characters, and other such bloodsuckers! All works written for this exchange must include at least 1 vampire or vampire-adjacent character!

How does it work?

Exchanges on AO3 work in six parts: Nominations, signups, matching, the writing period, the Pinch Hit period, and reveals!

During nominations, you suggest fandoms and characters to add to the exchange's tagset. The tagset is the list of all the fandoms and characters people want to write about during the exchange.

During signups, you choose fandoms and characters from the tagset that you want to write about, as well as fandoms and characters that you would like to receive a gift fic for!

When signups close, matching begins! You'll be assigned someone to write a gift fic for, and someone will be assigned to write a fic for you! Matching takes some time and happens behind the scenes so everyone's assignments stay secret.

During the writing period, you create a gift for your assignment! For this exchange, you will have 45 days to write it, with no extensions. Don't tell anyone who your assignment is!

The Pinch Hit period happens when the writing period is over, and is a short period of time before gifts become visible. If someone doesn't submit their fic by the deadline or if there are any remaining Pinch Hits, people who accept these Pinch Hits will have this week to finish them.

After the Pinch Hit period, gifts will become visible, and you'll get to read your gift! The authors of all works in the exchange will stay anonymous until the date of reveals! After which, the exchange is over!

When is it?

All phases begin at 12:00 AM and end at 11:59 PM Eastern Time (UTC -4 for the Majority of the Exchange), and take place in the year 2025. These dates assume that all Pinch Hits are fulfilled on time!

Nominations: March 3 - March 16

Signups: March 17 - March 30

Matching: March 31 - April 2

Writing: April 3 - May 18 (Works are due by the end of this phase!)

Pinch Hit Period: May 19 - May 25

Collection Opens: May 26 (World Dracula Day!)

Author Reveals: June 2nd

What if I need to drop out?

If you need to drop out, the assignment you were given to write will become a Pinch Hit. If you drop out, you are not guaranteed a gift, and your signup will not become a Pinch Hit if the person writing your gift drops out or defaults. Pinch Hits contain a participant's signup, and are posted to the Tumblr and Dreamwidth. Anyone can claim them to write them. Gifts will not become visible as long as there are Pinch Hits remaining unwritten.

What if I don't make the deadline?

Similarly to the above, if you do not post your fic by the deadline, your assignment will become a Pinch Hit, and you will not be guaranteed a gift in the event that the person writing your gift also didn't make the deadline.

Can I write for someone other than my assignment?

If they are accepting gifts through AO3 and indicate that they would be okay with "treats" in their signup, you can! If you wish to allow others who are not assigned to write your gift to create additional fics for you, you should indicate that you would like to receive treats in your signup.

A treat is just the term for an extra gift from an exchange.

What fandoms and characters can I nominate?

You can nominate any characters from any fandom! When you're writing your signup, take into account that all works must contain at least 1 vampire or vampire-adjacent character. This means that works created for fandoms that do not contain vampiric characters must be written such that they do contain vampiric characters. In short, if your fandom has no vampires, then you should write it as a Vampire AU or something of the like.

What is a "vampire-adjacent character?"

A vampire-adjacent character is one that exhibits vampiric traits, but might not be called a vampire by name, or may have traits that differentiate them from classic vampires. Examples include the Bloodsuckers from Darkest Dungeon, Flutterbat from My Little Pony, and Vladats from Ben 10.

Whether or not a character fits into this category is decided by me, (FangFrenzyMod) on a case-by-case basis. If you have any questions about this, feel free to reach out through any of the contact methods available. (Email (fangfrenzymod@gmail.com), Tumblr, Dreamwidth)

How much should I write?

There's no word maximum, but the work you write should be at least 500 words.

What can I write?

You can write anything, as long as it fulfills your assignment's signup and contains at least 1 vampire or vampire-adjacent character. In order to fulfill your assignment's signup, your work must belong to at least 1 of their requested fandoms and contain at least 1 of their requested characters, and your work must not include anything your assignment specifically indicated that they did not want to receive. These specifications will be indicated in your assignment's "DNW" within their signup, which stands for "Do Not Write" or "Do Not Want". If your assignment does not include a DNW, then you are free to write anything as long as it fills the other criteria.

What can I include in my DNW?

You can include anything in your DNW, from characters, to tropes, to scenarios, to tags, to certain ships, to writing details (like POV, certain words to exclude, certain formats), and more. The only thing you cannot DNW is genfic. (Genfic is fic that does not contain ships). We cannot force anyone to write ships that they don't want to write, and we cannot force people to write Not Safe For Work content.

What if I have a question I need to ask my assignment?

Reach out to me through Tumblr, Dreamwidth, or email (fangfrenzymod@gmail.com)! I will forward your question to your assignment so that you stay anonymous. This method is not foolproof and does not guarantee a response. Do not attempt to talk to your assignment by yourself, as that would risk revealing your identity for the exchange.

I have a question that's not here!

Contact me through Tumblr, Dreamwidth, or email (fangfrenzymod@gmail.com) and I'll get back to you!

[femcestflash]

https://archiveofourown.org/collections/FemcestFlash2025

Signups for the 1st round of F/F Incest flash close in 3 days!

Sign-up Opens: NOW! Sign-up Closes: Mon 03 Mar 2025 10:00AM EST (03:00PM UTC) Assignments Out: ASAP Assignments Due: Thu 13 Mar 2025 08:50PM EDT (12:50AM UTC) Works Revealed: Sat 15 Mar 2025 10:00AM EDT (02:00PM UTC) Creators Revealed: Mon 17 Mar 2025 10:00AM EDT (02:00PM UTC)

Nominate tags for inclusion here: https://archiveofourown.org/tag_sets/22702

[rarepair-stuck]

SIGN UPS ARE NOW OPEN!

The sign up period will end in two weeks, on January 14th. Make sure to read the guidelines carefully!

[arkane-secret-santa]

Nominations are open

Hello fellow Arkane Fans!

Welcome to the 2024 edition of the Arkane Secret Santa exchange. This is an annual prompt-based gift exchange for fans of all the amazing imsim games designed by Arkane Studios.

The principle is quite simple; you sign up on the AO3 collection, and get matched with two people. One of them will write a fic for you, based on a prompt and a handful of tags you've provided, and the other will be the one to whom you will gift a fic.

This year, to commemorate Arkane Austin closing down, we would like to give special attention to Redfall, Prey, and Dishonored 2. (Of course, all other related fandoms are still very welcome!)

You can find more detailed rules and explanations on the AO3 collection page, and don't hesitate to reach out if you still have a question!

Nominations tagset || 2024 Collection || Discord || Email

[penna-nomen]

There's a Jane Austen exchange starting on AO3!

And I must resist. As much as I love reading & writing Austen fics, I already have too many commitments. I will resist. I will resist.

But in the spirit of the upcoming Good Omens Season 2, I shall play Crowley and see if I can tempt others into participating

[chornayadrakoshig]

sharing some interesting multifandom exchanges I'm signing up for!

Microchip Exchange Flash: Reloaded

This is a multifandom fic and art exchange themed around robots, cyborgs, automatons, androids, AI, and similar characters who are partially or completely robotic or digital.

Tagset nominations & signups close March 23, 2025, 23:00 CET

Bite-Sized Fandoms Exchange 2025

The exchange for fandoms that are easy to pick up and share with others. Short stories, music videos, paintings, commercials, games, movies, standalone novels, and any other fandom that can be experienced in 8 or fewer hours can be eligible for this exchange.

Nominations Close: March 30, 11:59 PM Signups Open: April 1, 11:59 PM Signups Close: April 12, 11:59 PM (US Eastern Time)

[wasted-youth-wasted]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Once Upon a Time (TV) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Rape/Non-Con Relationships: Evil Queen | Regina Mills/Queen of Hearts | Cora Characters: Queen of Hearts | Cora, Evil Queen | Regina Mills Additional Tags: Realm: The Enchanted Forest | Misthaven (Once Upon a Time), Dead Dove: Do Not Eat, Parent/Child Incest, Mother-Daughter Relationship, Non-Consensual Touching, Parental Abuse, Grooming, Vaginal Fingering, Forced Masturbation Summary:

Regina has been keeping a secret to herself ever since she was a young girl in the Enchanted Forest.

[kghnexchange]

💙 home for the summer

🧡 For @rudbeckia-hirta

🌸 Rated G

🏐 5.7k | Didn’t Know They Were Dating

Click to see the full gift!

[thedaselcor]

Spec Recs is one of the 2 exchanges I try to do or treat for every year now, highly recommend it.

THE SPECTRE REQUISITIONS RARE PAIR EXCHANGE RETURNS FOR 2025

Are you a rare pair shipper? Do you love those pairings that canon never supplied? Or maybe you’re just good ol’ shipping trash who loves to ship almost EVERYONE in the Mass Effect universe? Then boy do we have good news for you!

The Spectre Requisitions Rare Pair Exchange is here!  We’re a rare pair fanart and fanfiction exchange that’s open for the Mass Effect Trilogy and Mass Effect Andromeda. Whether you started with the original Mass Effect or got into the series through Andromeda or the remaster; whether you favor gen and platonic or threesomes and moresomes -- we want you to join us! Mark the dates on your calendar and get those thinking caps on for nominations!

If you’re not already in the Discord, come join us! It’s open year-round for all your rare pair needs.

2025 SCHEDULE

Nominations begin: January 16 Nominations end: January 23 Signup begins: January 25 Signup ends: February 8 Assignments: February 11 (at latest) Assignments due: March 23 Assignment reveal: March 30 Creator reveal: April 6

Watch this space for a guide to nominations! We can't wait to see what rare relationship goodness you come up with this year!

[lotr-sesa]

Lord of the Rings Secret Santa 2024 Masterlist!

There are twenty-seven works in the collection: twenty-three fics and four pieces of fanart. The mods would like to thank all the writers and the artists and the pinch hitters, and also extend a special heartfelt thanks to those who filled prompts without signing up with any prompts of their own. Thank you all! ❤️

All the links in the masterlist go directly to the work on AO3. Go, read and enjoy, and please don't forget to leave kudos and/or a comment! And if you received something, please thank your writer or artist!

FICS:

The color of the sea by FiammaGalathon for Empy (Imrahil/Legolas; rated G)

Counterparts by timelessutterances for hereforever (Elrond Peredhel & Elros Tar-Minyatur; rated T+)

Dwarves in Denial by Thornessar for octopus_fool (Bilbo Baggins, Dwalin, Fíli, Glóin; rated T+)

Fíli Gold-foot by Empy for ibissal (Fíli, Dwalin, Kíli; rated G)

A good match by I_did_not_mean_to for ingenious_spark (Fëanor/Nerdanel, Fingolfin, Mahtan Aulendur, Fëanor, Indis, Finwë, Finarfin; rated M) Mature

Halt mich noch ein bisschen, bis ich schlafen kann by I_did_not_mean_to for Anonymous (Maglor & Nerdanel; rated G)

I like you when you are silent by mai_komagata (irreality) for Kanskje_Kaffe (Annatar/Celebrimbor, Celebrimbor/Sauron; rated E)

In the Face of Epics by hereforever for like_giants (Bilbo Baggins, Gandalf, Elrond Peredhel; rated G)

Knit One, Purl Two by ingenious_spark for McShizzleSupreme778 (Gimli/Legolas; rated G)

Life Between the Tides by BaccaratBlack for Anonymous (Anairë/Eärwen/Nerdanel, Anairë/Fingolfin (implied), Eärwen/Finarfin (implied), Fëanor/Nerdanel (implied); rated E)

Lights by Adlanth for Anonymous (Elrond Peredhel/Ereinion Gil-galad; rated T+)

master in deciphering poor handwriting by Handlemewithcare for McShizzleSupreme778 (Frodo Baggins, Merry Brandybuck, Sam Gamgee, Pippin Took, Aragorn, Gimli, Legolas Greenleaf; rated G)

Mistake As Medium by Kanskje_Kaffe for i_did_not_mean_to (Fëanor/Nerdanel; rated E)

Seeds of Summer by Elleth for Unlos (Fingon/Fingon's Wife; rated G)

stranger, you're a like brother (sister) to me by Handlemewithcare for Zorbo_Jorks (Merry Brandybuck & Éowyn, Éomer Éadig & Éowyn; rated G)

The Sundering Sea by Unlos for timelessutterances (Celebrían/Elrond Peredhel; rated G)

Thaw in the Winter Woods by ingenious_spark for Wowstrawberrycow (Elrond Peredhel/Thranduil; rated E)

The Tree that Bends by selfdestructinganimal for Melime (Disa/Durin IV; rated T+)

Very Old Friends by like_giants for Anonymous (Éowyn/Faramir, Diamond Took/Pippin Took, Estella Bolger/Merry Brandybuck; rated G)

Windsmith by saintstars for kanskje_kaffe (Eönwë/Sauron; rated G)

Wonders in This World Beyond Our Wandering by saintstars for facethestrange (Elanor "Nori" Brandyfoot, Poppy Proudfellow, Marigold Brandyfoot, Largo Brandyfoot, Dilly Brandyfoot, Uinen; rated G)

Wounded but not Replaced by ChillinbytheFire for the_minstrell (Fëanor & Fingolfin; rated G; TW: self-harm)

Written in Water by Empy for Handlemewithcare (Gimli/Legolas; rated G)

ART:

Beautiful View by facethestrange for ingenious_spark (Gimli/Legolas Greenleaf; rated G)

Do You Think They'll Recognize Us? by octopus_fool for Anonymous (Eärendil the Mariner/Elwing; rated G)

Hold on by Unlos for Empy (Empyreus) (Dwalin, Thorin; rated T+)

Meeting of Faramirs by Anne_Wolfe for Zorbo_Jorks (Diamond Took/Pippin Took, Éowyn/Faramir; rated G)

[fang-frenzy-fic-exchange]

Nominations open!

Hello everyone!

Nominations for the tagset are now officially open! You can find them here: Link to Tagset

You may nominate a maximum of 10 fandoms, with a maximum of 15 characters each.

As a reminder, you may nominate fandoms and characters from fandoms that do not contain vampires or vampire-adjacent characters, but please do so with the knowledge that fics for the resulting fandoms must be written as Vampire AUs!

Additionally, please add disambiguators to your nominated characters! In short, put the name of the fandom next to the name of the character in parentheses. You can find some acceptable examples below:

Alucard (Hellsing: Ultimate) Dracula (Dracula 1897) Astarion (Baldur's Gate 3)

If you have questions, please don't hesitate to contact the mod through our Tumblr, the comments of this post, the mod's Dreamwidth inbox, or through email at fangfrenzymod@gmail.com! Happy nominating!