#dbda gift exchange

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And we are live! Head over to AO3 here to sign up for the gift exchange!

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Dead Boy Detectives Fic Exchange

Welcome to the Dead Boy Detectives Fic Exchange! It is, as the name suggests, a fanfiction exchange for the Dead Boy Detectives fandom.

The minimum word count is just 500 words.

Schedule:

Nominations Open: Open now! Nominations Close: Saturday November 9, 2024 Sign-ups Open: Sunday November 10, 2024 Sign-ups Close: Saturday November 16, 2024 Works due: Wednesday December 18, 2024 Works revealed: Tuesday December 24, 2024

Sign-ups are open now!

Visit the tag set to see which relationships have been nominated. Please visit AO3 to see our rules and FAQs.

Please share to help spread the word.

[sixbynine-da]

Chapters: 1/9 Fandom: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Dead Boy Detectives (DC Comics) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne/Charles Rowland, Monty (Dead Boy Detectives)/Charles Rowland (DCU), Monty/Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne, Monty/Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne/Charles Rowland Characters: Charles Rowland (DCU), Monty (Dead Boy Detectives), Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne, Crystal Palace (DCU) Additional Tags: Charles Rowland Loves Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne, Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne Loves Charles Rowland, Monty loves Edwin Paine, Monty loves Charles Rowland, Alternate Universe - Human, Alternate Universe - College/University, Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne and Crystal Palace are Like Siblings, Pining, Mutual Pining, Crystal Palace has the brain cell, Fake/Pretend Relationship, mild homophobia, Misunderstandings, Charles Rowland is a Labrador, fight me, Idiots in Love, Light Angst, Fluff, Smut, Fluff and Smut, Charles Rowland and his ongoing Bi Sexual Denial Summary:

How to get yourself a boyfriend in six easy steps, Charles Rowland style!

After realising he's in love with Edwin, Charles does what /any/ normal person would do upon the realisation they have feelings for their bestie - who also loves them.

He sets up an elaborate fake dating scheme.

It's foolproof! Gift fic for @b-chrno !! Who’s ask included Fake dating and pining  and boy oh boy am i on board for those things.

[voiidvagabond]

when the cold finds us entwined | payneland fanmix

Youtube Mix ┊ Spotify Mix

moodboard sources ┊ x x x x x x x

A fanmix created as part of the Besotted Brats December Holiday Gift Exchange! This is for the wonderful @cristalknife! I hope you enjoy it <3

Winter (from The Four Seasons) - Antonio Vivaldi

Fimbulvetr - SKÁLD

Winter Wonderland - Beegie Adair

A Winter Romance - Dean Martin

This December - Ricky Montgomery

Always Forever - Cults

Mouthful of Diamonds - Phantogram

BIRDS OF A FEATHER - Billie Eilish

Wait for Springtime - Kishi Bashi

Pretty Boy - The Neighborhood

Harvest Moon - Neil Young

Words - Gregory Alan Isakov

Everyone Adores You (at least I do) - Matt Maltese

Say Yeah - Kishi Bashi

Easily - Bruno Major

Your Hand in Mine - Bedside Kites

Falling In Love - Cigarettes After Sex

Wildflower - Beach House

Odyssey - Talos

j's lullaby (darlin' i'd wait for you) - Delaney Bailey

[dbdayuletide]

Dead Boy Detectives Yuletide 2024

Let's celebrate the Winter Holidays in the Dead Boy Detectives fandom!

Prompt list.

For this event, we have 5 prompts that can be developed in as many weeks, running from 2nd December to 5th January, though whichever medium you can think of (art, fics, poetry, cosplay, photography, etc...)

Post it on social media on the same week or afterwards, whether on Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram and/or AO3 (more rules and guidelines coming soon) with the hashtag #dbdayuletide2024 and mentioning the account @dbdayuletide.

The prompts:

Putting up the Decorations (Dec. 2-8)

Playing in the Snow (Dec. 9-15)

Under the Mistletoe (Dec. 16 -22)

Exchanging Presents (Dec. 23 - 29)

Coziness around the Fireplace (Dec. 30 - Jan. 5)

Wish list (Gift Exchange).

We'd like to set up a gift exchange where people could fill in a wishlist that can be picked up by creators.

Simply download the template, fill it with your requests and wait to see if someone gifts it to you!

As a creator, you can pick up as many requests you want to fulfill.

(The Gift Exchange is in collaboration with DBDA Ghostmas)

[merlilica]

Dead Girl Detectives - A DBDA Role Reversal

Edwin Payne is a living boy who goes to St. Hilarion's and takes a strong interest in the occult. A little... too strong. When Edwin gifts his demon boyfriend (now ex-boyfriend) a body in the mortal world, the Dead Girl Detectives are summoned to take care of it.

Crystal Palace is a psychic who died in 1923, and the de-facto leader of the Dead Girl Detective Agency. She can't remember how she died, but she does remember each of her fifty-six years in Hell before escaping into Niko's living room.

Yeahhhh so I REALLY love role reversal aus, and this one is my newest! At the beginning it was just an excuse to draw charles with white hair, but then morphed into a big ol' au.

To elaborate a bit, Edwin doesn't get posessed like Crystal does, but he essentially gets manipulated into helping his demon (name tbd) possess someone, then he promptly abandons Edwin to find someone stronger. He doesn't yet realize his demon is only manipulating him, and he's actually rather upset when the DGDs try (and fail) to send him back to hell.

Crystal keeps her memory plot, but also absorbs Edwin's Hell plot. She's on the run, but doesn't really know why. She does most of the legwork on the cases, and Niko does the paperwork and research in exchange. She also uses a baseball bat. Because I said so. I put Crystal further back than Niko because it is wild that Edwin's from 1916 if you think about it. Like women couldn't even vote yet.

[dbdaghostmas]

❄️ DBDA Fandom Gift Exchange! ❄️

Publish your wishlist with the tag #dbdaWishlist2024!

Anyone can use my Wishlist template or the wishlist template by @dbdayuletide to fill in a list of requests to repost on their account. Creators can then pick up the requests that they like to fulfill and gift them to the original poster. A few examples of wishlists will be posted alongside the template, but let your imagination roam free!

Note: The gift exchange will be open, public, and unmoderated.

Open: anyone can join at any moment with a list of requests and anyone can fulfill as many as they like. That means that some requests may receive more than one entry, while others none.

Public: Everything will go through social media, so both the wisher and the creator will be visible to everyone!

Unmoderated: As mods we cannot guarantee that every request will be matched, but we hope that this event will run smoothly and that everyone will have fun!

This event was coordinated between @dbdayuletide and @dbdaghostmas. We can't wait to see all the wonderful, festive works you all create this holiday season! 👻🎁

[alltimefail]

Here's my DBDA Gift Exchange Wishlist! ❄️

I did one for fics and one for fanart! If you want to pick up any of these concepts and gift me a little treat, I would be so thankful to you! 🥹💜

I put the blank template under the cut if you want to participate and make your own! Find out information and rules for the community gift exchange HERE at @dbdaghostmas or over HERE @dbdayuletide!

Make sure to put "dbdawishlist2024" in the tags so people can find your wishlist!

[qwanderer]

I've been VERY involved in a new fanfic but I can't talk much about it because it's for a holiday gift exchange! suffice to say it's a dbda casefic.

It was supposed to be a little emotionally focused piece like my leverage holiday exchange fics last year (a 1500 word main and 600 word side gift) but with this fic it feels like I picked up a piece of colored glass from the beach and went "oh cool I can make something out of this" only to look up from my work weeks later and go "...oh shit I'm building a cathedral."

I'm already over 6k and haven't gotten to the scene that has the original spark of glass in it!

At least I have a month in which to write the rest.

Still hoping to finish well before that and get back to other projects, i've got more pre-canon stuff planned and a couple of AUs still lurking in my brain!

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If anyone wanted to sign up but didn't get the chance, now is your time! We are seeking pinch hitters for a few different requests which are currently unpaired.

So, what is a pinch hitter? They're a creator who steps in to fulfil an unmatched prompt in a gift exchange (such as this one). They are hugely important to exchanges and help to make sure that everyone can get what they're looking for.

If you're willing to be a pinch hitter for any of the below requests, whether or not you're already participating in the exchange: firstly, you're amazing, and secondly, please DM me or email elusiveellipsis@gmail.com! You will also be able to pick an offer from those currently unpaired, so you'll get gifted a work too. I'll update this post as requests are claimed, so check back on the original.

Request 1:

Tags: Monty, Charles, Humor, Friendship, Any Rating

Description: you know how monty and charles have this passive aggressive thing going on? i think it would be really funny to have something that focuses on that.

Request 2:

Tags: Charles, Monty, Edwin, Any Rating

Description: Monty and Charles grudgingly working together to help Edwin with something, it turns out they work really well together, not that they'll admit it

Request 3:

Tags: Any Character, Any Relationship, Any Rating

Description: Modern or Historical everybody is alive AU, any format

Request 4:

Tags: Edwin/Charles, Edwin, Charles, Pre-Canon, Case Fic, Getting Together, Flirting, Happy Ending, Idiots in Love, Murder Mystery, Any Rating

Description: Just Charles and Edwin being flirty dorks on a case and realizing they're in love, probably at the worst time possible because they are stupid

Request 5:

Tags: Edwin/Charles, Edwin, Charles, Fanvid, Any Rating

Description: For Edits: I'll take any and every Taylor Swift song, but honestly surprise me. Crack vids welcome

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Dead Boy Detectives Gift Exchange FAQ

Q: Who are you?

A: I'm @overlord-of-chaos, or elusive_ellipsis over on AO3, but you can call me Entity. This is a sideblog I set up for the gift exchange but I am equally DBDA-obsessed over on my main so feel free to go give me a follow there too!

Q: What is a gift exchange?

A: Basically, people put in requests and offers for different works (can be in any format eg. gifsets, artwork but it's assumed for this exchange that unless otherwise specified you're looking for fanfic) and get paired up. The offerer will produce the work requested by the requester and then it'll be added to the collection so everyone can see it.

Q: When will this gift exchange run?

A: Signups will open on 31st October, close on 14th November, then people will have until roughly February to produce their works.

Q: Who can see my requests/offers?

A: Me and any moderators on the collection. They also will be shared with the person you are paired with once you are paired. In the case that your request/offer doesn't have a match, it may be revealed publicly or to requesters/offerers who are unpaired for the sake of finding someone to match you to.

Q: Why are you doing this?

A: Because I love Dead Boy Detectives and I want to do something for the fandom! We have so many incredible creators and I hope this provides them with an opportunity to have some fun, I cannot wait to see what y'all create! (I will also be participating.) Also because @the-ipre suggested one and I was inspired.

Q: Why is it called a secret pumpkin on AO3?

A: Because it's like a secret santa, but it's not Christmas, it's Halloween? I am accepting better ideas should you wish to suggest them but for now I have made this choice and I must live with it.

Q: My question isn't answered here.

A: My ask box is open! Feel free to ask me whatever, I'm sure there's something I haven't thought of.

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Calling all DBDA creators! On Halloween, signups for a Dead Boy Detectives gift exchange will open on AO3. If you're interested, check out this post and follow this blog. More details to follow.

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And that's a wrap for signups! Expect to start hearing about your matchups in the next few days, I'll keep you updated on how that's progressing and announce when all pairings are complete.

(If you missed signups, there is a slim but not nonexistent chance that we might need to reopen so that we can get good matches for folks, so keep an eye out.)

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One week down, one week to go! It's been wonderful to see so many people interested. Be sure to head over to AO3 here to sign up if you haven't already!

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This is going to be something of a long post, as I have a lot of announcements to make, so please bear with me.

Firstly, pairing is mostly complete, and you should be receiving emails letting you know what you'll be making soon. It's been a delight to see all of your wonderful ideas. However, I have tragically misunderstood how the AO3 pairing system works (it matches participants with participants and not individual offers with requests) and so have had to pair everyone the old-fashioned way, since I told everyone requests and offers would be matched one-to-one and I wanted to keep that. (I am surrounded by so many flashcards. Next time, I will remember this day.) This means that while you're all being emailed your assignments, you won't be able to view them on AO3 itself. You can still gift works and add them to the collection, though.

Secondly, you were all amazingly generous, and we actually got more offers than requests! There are 2 fic offers and 1 fanvid that are currently unpaired. If you are already signed up to the gift exchange and wish to make an additional request for one of these (provided you're not already at the maximum of 3), send me a DM or email elusiveellipsis@gmail.com. These will be assigned on a first come, first served basis.

Thirdly, we have one unpaired request for a fanvid. If you are interested in making one for the exchange, even if you are not currently signed up, please DM me to let me know. You will also be able to make a fanfic request to go with your offer if you wish.

(Please check back on the original post to see if these offers/requests are still available, I'll be updating as they're claimed.)

Fourthly, if you aren't signed up and you want to be: watch this space! Current participants have until 1st December to turn down their matches if they're not for them. If anyone does, I will open up those unpaired offers and requests to anyone who wishes to take them, including anyone who missed signups.

As ever, if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask. I wrote a lot of emails for this, so there's every chance I made a few mistakes. If you think your request info might be missing something or it doesn't make sense or there's some other issue, you're probably right, so please reply to the email to let me know. But otherwise, happy creating!

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Signups will be closing tomorrow! It's been wonderful to see so many people interested so far, so this is your reminder that if you want to be involved but haven't yet signed up, now's the time!

You can sign up on AO3 here and you can find our FAQ here.

Once signups close, request-offer matching will begin, and you'll all find out what works you're making in the next week or so.

Note: the collection on AO3 lists a specific closing time, but signups will still be open until I manually close them. I'll announce when I do so, but before then you're free to sign up even if it looks like it's past the deadline.