#pingxie exchange 2023

[pingxie-exchange]

Pingxie Exchange 2023

*taps the mic* Is this thing on?

So, time got a little away from me and I have abruptly realized that it's that time of year again. I wanted to put out a little post to gauge whether or not there is enough interest to run this exchange again this year. But I realize that time is of the essence if I want to get this up and off the ground any time soon.

So! How about a poll?

I also had a vague thought of perhaps adding videos as an option for what you can create for a recipient and adding the DMBJ mobile game as an option the way the Time Raiders movie is an option (i.e., you can choose it but it can't be your only option). So if you could sound off in the replies if either of those would be of interest to you, that would be appreciated. ^_^

Thanks, everyone!

[drjezdzanyart]

Two drawings I did for @eirenical over at the @pingxie-exchange 2023. Actually, these are two versions of the same drawing which I only coloured differently.

[lyselkatz]

We just need some sleep. We just need some time to catch our breath.

The fear that we feel In our troubled hearts... Is told to be what will make us last.

We'll prove that we are strong, Though our lines are bleeding through. We are becoming whole, slowly now.

We just need some sleep To dream away these fears.

My 2023 @pingxie-exchange piece for @drjezdzanyart , hope you like it :)

...☕?/commission

[dmbjexchange]

Small-Med Ships Exchange Signups Open

It’s time for the Daomu Biji Small-Med Ships Exchange, a fic, art and vid exchange for DMBJ ships where more than 3% of English-language authors have posted fics on AO3.

In this exchange, participants will be anonymously matched to create gifts for one another during a six week creating period.

This exchange is open to all the DMBJ canons - if it’s DMBJ, then it’s eligible! It will take place on AO3, so you need an AO3 account to participate – if you don’t have one, you can request an invitation code here. If there isn’t enough time, no worries - contact the mods at here on tumblr or on Discord and we can send you an invitation!

Please read this post carefully before signing up.

Schedule

May 4: Signups close May 7: Assignments out June 25: Assignments due July 2: Works reveals July 9: Creator reveals & treats deadline

Allowed Ships

Any DMBJ ship (other than pingxie or heihua) which, as of April 24, 2023, has had more than 3% of English-language authors post fics for it on AO3.

For this year's exchange, this means the following ships are allowed:

Er Yue Hong/Zhang Qishan Hei Xiazi/Huo Xiuxiu/Xie Yuchen Kan Jian/Liu Sang Liang Wan/Zhang Rishan Liu Sang/Wang Pangzi Liu Sang/Wang Pangzi/Wu Xie/Zhang Qiling Liu Sang/Wu Xie Liu Sang/Wu Xie/Zhang Qiling Liu Sang/Zhang Qiling Liu Sang/Zhang Rishan Qi Tie Zui/Zhang Qishan Qi Tie Zui/Zhang Rishan Wang Pangzi/Wu Xie Wang Pangzi/Wu Xie/Zhang Qiling Wang Pangzi/Zhang Qiling Wu Xie/Xie Yuchen

Guidelines

1. Your creation must focus on your recipient’s requested ship (or one of their requested ships, if they have nominated multiple ones). While unrequested background ships are fine (unless listed as a Do Not Want), the focused ship must only be one of the requested ones. 2. You will be expected to create a gift matching your recipient’s request. Filling any specifying prompts is not obligatory, but try to create something you honestly think your recipient will enjoy! 3. You must not include anything that your recipient has listed as a DNW (Do Not Want). This goes for treats as well. 4. The minimum requirements for the gifts are 300 words for fic, one sketch on unlined paper for art (traditional or digital; no manips), or 30 seconds for a vid. 5. After the matching is done, all the requests will be made visible to everyone to allow for treating! There are no minimum requirements for treats (but remember to mind your recipient’s do not wants!). You can also create manips and fanvids for treats. 6. This is an anonymous exchange: refrain from discussing your assignment in public. After the works are revealed, there’ll be one week anon period when the creators remain anonymous before the creator reveals. 7. If at any point you need to drop out, just click on the “default” button on your AO3 assignment page; we’ll find a pinch hitter to create a gift for your recipient instead. If you need an extension to finish your gift, contact the mods before the deadline. 8. After the reveals, comment on your gift. 9. Most importantly: be excellent to each other!

Sign-Up Information

Sign-ups will take place here on AO3, ending on May 4th. There, you can fill out details about your request and offer. You can edit your sign-up at any time until the sign-ups close on May 4th.

When signing up, you will be able to choose fandom and genre tags, as well as specify any additional details.

You will have to select the DMBJ canon you’re interested in creating and receiving a gift in:

Novels: Daomu Biji / The Grave Robbers’ Chronicles (including spinoffs, side stories, and extras)

TV: The Lost Tomb 1

TV: The Lost Tomb 2 Explore with the Note

TV: The Lost Tomb 2.5 Heavenly Palace on the Clouds

TV: Ultimate Note

TV: Sha Hai (and spin off movies)

TV: The Lost Tomb Reboot/The Sound of Providence (and spin offs)

TV: The Mystic Nine (and spin off movies)

Movie: Time Raiders

This does not mean that you’re limited to requesting or creating a work during the canon timelines for those series/books. It’s just to mark which canons you’re familiar with to allow for easier matching: some participants might have a preference for a particular canon era, some might not be familiar with all the versions. You still have to choose your preferred canon eras even if you want to create or receive an AU.

You will also have to specify genres you’re interested in

Action/Adventure

Alternate Universe

Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence

Angst

Canon Compliant

Crack

Dark

Domesticity

Fluff

Humor

Hurt/Comfort

Porn With Plot

PWP

Requests

Fandom - you have to choose at least one. If you’re willing to receive a gift in any canon era, you can just click “Any”!

Genre - you have to choose at least three tags.

Ratings - you have to choose at least one. This will help your gifter know what you like and are comfortable with when they're coming up with ideas to fill your prompts.

Warnings - you have to choose at least one. This does not mean that you WILL receive a gift with warnings, it just lets your gifter know if you are comfortable receiving a gift with warnings or not.

Optional Details - here’s where you can go into more detail about your perfect exchange gift!You can include:

General Likes: your gifter may, but doesn’t have to, include them. This isn’t a place for detailed prompts, just general themes you enjoy, like getting together or established relationship.

Please note that fics featuring QPRs, ace, and/or aro characters are absolutely valid things to request in a ship exchange.

DNW (Do Not Wants): things that your creator must not include - squicks, triggers, characters or things that you simply don’t like. Remember that you don’t owe anyone an explanation about why something is a DNW, and that DNW are not meant to be taken personally. Just list the things you don’t like, “DNW: X, Y.”

Please list if you have any audio or visual triggers (such as flashing lights). This could be in your DNW or could be separate. Please also list song/music DNWs (e.g.   "please no lyrics that use the n-word" or "please no lyrics in [specific language]"  or “please no [specific genre/s of music”).

Prompts/specific ideas: if you have any prompts, you can also put them here! You can be as general or as detailed as you’d like, but remember that while your creator will try to make the best gift for you, filling a specific prompt is not obligatory. You can include a crossover prompt (with other DMBJ verse or other canons), but make sure it’s not the only prompt you have.

For vid prompts, please list things like genres/styles of music you like (or like in vids), vibes/tone/theme you’d like to see (e.g. “angsty amnesiac Xioage”, “Fuba crack”, etc.), and things like that. Please try to avoid giving one or two specific songs for a specific character/ship.

If you chose novels as one of your fandoms, you can use this field to list the ones you’re familiar with, such as ‘Books 1-4′ , ‘main series only′, ‘main series + specific extras’, etc.

The requests will be made publicly visible after matching is done, so that others will be able to create treats (additional gifts) based on them!

Offers

Fandom - you have to choose at least one. If you can create works for any canon era, you can choose “Any”!

Genre - you have to choose at least three.

Ratings - you have to choose at least one. This will help matching what people are comfortable creating with what people are comfortable receiving.Warnings - you have to choose at least one. This does not mean that you have to create a gift with warnings, it's just for helping to match what people are comfortable writing with what people are comfortable receiving.

Optional Details - in this field, you can tell us more about the kind of works you like to create, for example if you really prefer established relationship, feel best with certain kinds of AUs, or like writing darkfic. We’ll take it into account when matching! By the same token, if there’s something you really don’t want to write, let us know here as well.

If you chose novels as one of your fandoms, you can use this field to list the ones you’re familiar with, such as ‘Books 1-4′ , ‘main series only′, ‘main series + specific extras’, etc.

In the optional details of your offer, you can also name people you don’t want to be matched to, for example your regular beta, and we will do our best to avoid matching you!

The offers will only ever be visible to the mods; never to anyone else.

Your Assignment

You will be matched to create a gift for someone who requested at least one of the fandoms that you offer, with as many similar genres/likes as possible. This exchange will be hand-matched, after using AO3’s matching algorithm to first generate the potential matches.

If you have any issues when you receive your assignment (you have a question about it or think there’s an issue with it), contact the mods as soon as possible. Do not contact your recipient on your own.

You will have to create a gift for your recipient, fulfilling the minimum requirements of fandom, genre, and ship, and avoiding any stated “do not wants”. Filling exact prompts is optional, but try to create something matching your recipient’s likes that they will enjoy!

You will have to post your gift to the exchange AO3 collection before the due date (June 25th), using the “gift this work to” option to give it to your recipient. Your work will remain in the collection only visible to you and the mods until the reveals happen. Remember to tag your work appropriately or use the “chose not to warn” warning.

Treating

Treats are additional gifts for the participants! To allow for treating, the requests will be made visible when matching is done. You can create treats at any time until the creator reveals! There are no minimum requirements for treats, and manips are also allowed in addition to fic, art, and vids. As with assignments, you have to respect the recipient’s Do Not Wants, and while the optional details are optional, try to create something fitting the listed likes. One treat can only be gifted to one person.

Pinch Hits

In case someone needs to drop out, we will look for a pinch hitter to complete their assignment. Pinch hits will be posted to this tumblr and the DMBJ Yu Cun Discord.

Extensions

If you think you can finish your assignment, but you need a few days more, you can always ask for an extension! 

Multi-Chapter Fics

If you are writing a multi-chapter fic for the exchange and don’t want to drop the entire fic at once, these are the posting guidelines for it:

Multi-chapter fics that are assignment fills must be fully written and at least the first chapter posted by the assignment deadline, ready for the fic reveals on July 2nd.

From July 2nd, at least one chapter is to be posted daily.

All chapters of the fic must be posted by the time of author reveals and end of treating on July 9th (If the fic is more than 7 chapters long, then this will mean that multiple chapters will need to be posted on some days).

Multi-chapter fics that are treats can begin to be posted at any time, but must also be fully posted by July 9th.

Other Important Information

Make sure to check the email you use on AO3 frequently during the exchange, as it will be the primary means of communication. We might contact you if there is an issue with your sign-up or if your gift creator has a question for you.

If you’d rather we contact you on your twitter or tumblr, please leave your handle in the offer section of your sign-up.

Follow us here to avoid missing an announcement or a deadline!

If you have any questions at all, don’t hesitate to contact us here on tumblr or on Discord.

[amidalogicdive]

Closure

My gift fic for the Pingxie Exchange 2023.

[intheyellowandgreen]

Tag 9 People You Want to Get to Know Better:

Ah I’m like so late to doing this, PingXie exchange got me like ☠☠☠. Thank you to @strandedchesspiece for tagging me!! I’ve always enjoyed reading your DMBJ fics, and your My Country fics too!

Favorite Color: Anything that’s blue really, I’m obsessed with the entire colour palette of blue: light, pastel, dark, bright, if it’s blue, I want it.

Currently Reading: Actually fanfiction, although I keep meaning to start reading Obsidian and Blood, I’ve had it open for like months but life has just been so busy and I’ve not had the mental ability to read a full novel.

Last Songs: Uh, my last 5 were: Amsterdam by Nothing but Thieves, Fell in Love At The End of The World by George Ezra, Why So Serious? by SHINee, Doctor by Truslow, and Bummerland by AJR (I’m seeing AJR in Oct! I’m so excited!!).

Last Series: ... I do not remember the last show I watched but it was probably Ultimate Note xD

Last Movie: The Mummy! (May or may not be writing a heipingxie version of it :p)

Currently Working on: - Writing: pingxie exchange 2022, finishing my Skinned Knees and Other Growing Pains series with baby Wu Xie and XiaZi/PanZi, The Mummy HeiPingXie AU, and then maybe a few other smaller fics before taking a hiatus while writing HG AU Part 2, and trying out some new different fandoms for a change...  - Real world: I’m going to start an open uni access module in October, and then start planning to get myself into university proper come September 2023, so it’s going to be guns blazing for the next year... fun times!

Tagging with no pressure: @epicwalrus , @highpriestessofjogan , @amidalogicdive , @itsthemxze , @its-tea-time-darling , @mazerunnermusical , @jinxkid , @lacommunarde , @rose-of-tori + anyone else who’s interested!

[pingxie-exchange]

Hello, everyone! Apologies for the short notice on this post going up, but it's been a doozy of a week for me. OTZ

Pingxie Exchange 2023: Schedule and Guidelines Post

Hi and welcome to the Pingxie Exchange: a fic, art, and fanvid exchange about the Wu Xie/Zhang Qiling pairing.

In this exchange, participants will be anonymously matched to create gifts for one another during a five week creation period. The gifts will be revealed on August 17th: the day Wu Xie welcomed Xiaoge back after his 10-year-long absence behind the Bronze Gate.

This exchange is open to all the DMBJ canons (adaptations featuring Wu Xie or Xiaoge and the original novels). It will take place on AO3, so you need an AO3 account to participate--if you don’t have one, you can request it here; if there isn’t enough time, no worries - contact the mods at pingxie-exchange[@]hotmail.com, on DreamWidth, or on tumblr, and we can send you an invitation! There have been some changes this year, so please read this post carefully before signing up!

Schedule

Sign-ups open: June 5th Sign-ups end: June 15th 11:59 PM Anywhere On Earth (what time is it for me?) Matching: June 16th - June 21st Assignments out: no later than June 21st Assignments due: August 10th 11:59 PM Anywhere On Earth (what time is it for me?) Gift reveals: August 17th Creator reveals and treats deadline: August 24th

Further information behind the cut...

Guidelines

This is a ship exchange: as such, all the works created for this event must be focused on Wu Xie/Zhang Qiling. Works with threesomes/moresomes or other pairings involving Wu Xie and/or Zhang Qiling are not appropriate for this exchange, but background ships of other characters are fine.

You will be expected to create a gift matching your recipient’s request. Filling any specific prompt is not obligatory, but try to create something you honestly think your recipient will enjoy!

You must not include anything stated as “do not want” in your recipient’s sign-up.

The minimum requirements for the gifts are 300 words for fic, one sketch on unlined paper for art (traditional or digital; no manips), or 30 seconds of video for fanvids.

After the matching is done, all the requests will be made visible to everyone to allow for treating! There are no minimum requirements for treats (but remember to mind your recipient’s do not wants!). You can also create manips for treats.

Please note: Now that AO3 has changed the way that gifting works on the archive, if you wish to be eligible for treats, you need to select the option "Allow anyone to gift me works" under the "Collections, Challenges and Gifts" section of your AO3 preferences.  You must also indicate that you are open to treats in your exchange sign-up.

This is an anonymous exchange: refrain from discussing your assignment in public. After the works are revealed, there will be a one week anon period when the creators remain anonymous before the creator reveals.

If at any point you need to drop out, just click on the “default” button on your AO3 assignment page (https://archiveofourown.org/users/YOURNAME/assignments); we’ll find a pinch hitter to create a gift for your recipient instead. If you need an extension to finish your gift, contact the mods before the deadline.

After the reveals, comment on your gift.

Most importantly: be excellent to each other!

Sign-Up information

Sign-ups will take place on AO3 here, starting on June 5th. There, you can fill out details about your request and offer. You can edit your sign-up at any time until the sign-ups close.

When signing up, you will be able to choose fandom, "character" (this is actually going to be the fanwork type: fanart, fanfiction, or fanvid), and genre tags, as well as specify any additional details.

You will have to select the DMBJ canon you’re interested in creating for and receiving a gift in:

Novels: The Grave Robbers’ Chronicles

TV: The Lost Tomb 1

TV: The Lost Tomb 2 - Explore with the Note

TV: The Lost Tomb 2.5 - Heavenly Palace on the Clouds

TV: Ultimate Note

TV: Tomb of the Sea/Sha Hai

TV: The Lost Tomb Reboot/Reunion: The Sound of Providence

Movies: Time Raiders -- rare canon

Video Games: Time Raiders (mobile game) -- rare canon

Note: If you choose a rare canon (Movies: Time Raiders or Video Games: Time Raiders (mobile game)), then you must also choose at least one non-rare canon.

You are not limited to requesting or creating a work during the canon timelines for those series/books. It’s just to mark which canons you’re familiar with to allow for easier matching: some participants might have a preference for a particular canon era, some might not be familiar with all the versions. You still have to choose your preferred canon eras even if you want to create or receive an AU.

You will have to specify which "characters" you’re interested in:

Fanart

Fanfiction

Fanvid

(That's right, this isn't really a character selector; it was the only way I could include fanwork type preference in the matching.)

You will also have to specify genres you’re interested in:

Action/Adventure

Angst

AU

Canon Compliant

Canon Divergent

Dark

Domesticity

Fluff

Humour/Crack

Hurt/Comfort

PWP (only select this if you’re 18+)

Request

In this section, you describe the gift you would like to receive.

Fandom - you have to choose at least one. If you’re willing to receive a gift in any canon era, you can just click “Any”!

Character (remember this is really fanwork type) - you have to choose at least one tag.

Genre - you have to choose at least three tags.

Optional Details - here’s where you can go into more detail about your perfect pingxie gift! You can include:

General Likes: your creator may, but doesn’t have to, include them. This isn’t a place for detailed prompts, just general themes you enjoy, like getting together or established relationship.

DNW (Do Not Wants): things that your creator must not include - squicks, triggers, things that you simply don’t like. Remember that you don’t owe anyone an explanation about why something is a DNW, and that DNWs are not meant to be taken personally. Just list the things you don’t like, “DNW: X, Y.”

Prompts/specific ideas: if you have any prompts, you can also put them here! You can be as general or as detailed as you’d like but remember that while your creator will try to make the best gift for you, filling a specific prompt is not obligatory. You can include a crossover prompt (with other DMBJ versions or other canons), but make sure it’s not the only prompt you have.

If you chose novels as one of your fandoms, you can use this field to list the ones you’re familiar with. If you're interested in receiving a Buried Tree Devil - Book 3 Donghua gift, you can also mention it here.

Optional Tags: You may use the optional tags to share more about your preferences, if you like.

The requests will be made publicly visible after matching is done, so that others will be able to create treats (additional gifts) based on them!

Offer

Fandom - you have to choose at least one. If you’re willing to receive a gift in any canon era, you can just click “Any”!

Character (remember this is really fanwork type) - you have to choose at least one tag.

Genre - you have to choose at least three tags.

Optional Details - in this field, you can tell us more about the kind of works you like to create, for example if you really prefer established relationship, feel best with certain kinds of AUs, or like writing darkfic. You can also tell us if you have a preference of which type of gift you will create (fic or art). We’ll take all of these optional details into account when matching!

If you chose novels as one of your fandoms, you can use this field to list the ones you’re familiar with. If you're interested in creating a Buried Tree Devil - Book 3 Donghua gift, you can also mention it here.

In the optional details of your offer, you can also name one person you don’t want to be matched to, for example your regular beta, and we will do our best to avoid matching you!

Optional Tags: You may use the optional tags to share more about your preferences, if you like. The offers will only ever be visible to the mods; never to anyone else.

Your assignment

You will be matched to create a gift for someone who requested at least one of the fandoms that you offered and one of the fanwork types you offered, with as many similar genres/likes as possible. This exchange will be matched using the AO3 algorithm to generate the initial matches and then tweaked by hand, if necessary, based on the information provided in everyone's optional details.

If you have any issues when you receive your assignment (you have a question about it or think there’s an issue with it), contact the mods as soon as possible. Do not contact your recipient on your own.

You will have to create a gift for your recipient, fulfilling the minimum requirements, and avoiding any stated "do not wants". Filling exact prompts is optional but try to create something matching your recipient's likes that they will enjoy!

You will have to post your gift to the exchange AO3 collection before the due date (August 10th), using the "gift this work to" option to give it to your recipient. Your work will remain in the collection only visible to you and the mods until the reveals happen. Remember to tag your work appropriately, especially if any of the major archive warnings apply, or use the "choose not to warn" warning.

Treating

Treats are additional gifts for the participants! To allow for treating, the requests will be made visible when matching is done. You can create treats at any time until the creator reveals! There are no minimum requirements for treats, and in addition to the fanwork types allowed for gifts, manips are also allowed. As with assignments, you have to respect the recipient’s Do Not Want, and while the optional details are optional, try to create something fitting the listed likes. One treat can only be gifted to one person.

Please note: Now that AO3 has changed the way that gifting works on the archive, if you wish to be eligible for treats, you need to select the option “Allow anyone to gift me works” under the “Collections, Challenges and Gifts” section of your AO3 preferences.  You must also indicate that you are open to treats in your exchange sign-up.

Pinch Hits

In case someone needs to drop out, we will look for a pinch hitter to complete their assignment. Pinch hits will be posted to the DreamWidth community and advertised on tumblr.

Extensions

If you think you can finish your assignment, but you need a day or two more, you can always ask the mods for an extension!

Other important information

Make sure to check the email you use on AO3 frequently during the exchange, as it will be the primary means of communication. We might contact you if there is an issue with your sign-up or if your gift creator has a question for you. If you’d rather we contact you on your twitter or tumblr, please leave your handle in the offer section of your sign-up. Follow us on DreamWidth and/or on tumblr to avoid missing an announcement or a deadline! If you have any questions at all, don’t hesitate to contact the mods at pingxie-exchange@hotmail.com, on DreamWidth (anonymous comments are allowed), or on tumblr.

A very large thank you to laireshi for writing the rules and guidelines being used for this exchange.  They are presented here with minor changes.

[pingxie-exchange]

Hello, everyone! The Collection is now open!

Please enjoy the gifts and let their creators know that you did.

You are welcome to post about your gifts and make recommendations based on what you enjoyed, but please do not post your OWN creations until creator reveals on the 24th. Until then, the collection remains anonymous, so please don't spoil the surprise!

You also have another week to create treats if you are so minded.

Finally, if you come across a DNW in your gift that was stated in your sign-up, please let me know. I didn't have time to go over everything as extensively as I did last year, so I might have missed something.

All my best and Happy 8/17, everyone!!

[pingxie-exchange]

I just realized that the first post I made wouldn't have ended up in the tags, so here we go again:

Sign-ups for the Pingxie Exchange are now open (June 5-15)!

(For more information, please see the pinned post at the top of this blog.)

[pingxie-exchange]

Thank you to everyone who voted in the first poll! There's still a day left to vote if you'd like to, but at this point I feel confident that there is enough interest to run the exchange again this year.

So on to my next question... sign-ups for this exchange usually run from June 18th to June 28th with an assignment due date of August 10th and a work reveal date of August 17th (the day Xiaoge returned from behind the Bronze Gate).

However, this year, the Small-Medium Ship Exchange has had a delay. This means that works are due for that exchange on June 28th. Therefore, I suspect that the 18th to the 28th will be prime stress time for anyone participating in that exchange and people may not want to sign up for another in the middle of that. 😬

So I'm thinking of moving the sign-up time for this exchange to a different time.

(Also, please keep in mind that no matter when sign-ups are, your works will still be due on August 10th, and there will be a few days lag time between sign-ups and assignments going out as I run matching. So, the later sign-ups are, the less time you will have to create your works.)

Thank you all for helping me out again!

[pingxie-exchange]

Hi, everyone, my apologies but I just realized that in the process of trying to fix one setting in the collection a few weeks ago, I goofed up another one.

The collection was closed by accident. It IS now open again, so you should all be able to post things, main gifts and treats alike.

Sorry about the confusion!

Also a reminder:

Assignments are due: August 10th 11:59 PM Anywhere On Earth (what time is it for me?)

So you have a bit more than a week. If you are starting to feel like you might not be done in time, please reach out to me sooner rather than later so we can either talk about an extension or finding you a pinch hitter.

Good luck and write and draw like the wind! ^_^

[pingxie-exchange]

Pingxie Exchange 2023

Sign-ups end today! (what time is it for me?)

Sign up here, if you're interested.

If you'd like to sign up, but you need another day or two to get your sign-up together, please let me know. I'm considering extending sign-ups (maybe through the weekend?) if there are enough people who are interested but need more time.

[pingxie-exchange]

Sign-ups for the Pingxie Exchange are now open (June 5-15)!

(For more information, please see the pinned post at the top of this blog.)

Five more days to sign up, everyone! Please join us!

[pingxie-exchange]

Hello, hello, everyone! It's August 24th, Xiaoge has been back for a week, and it's time for author reveals!

Enjoy!

[pingxie-exchange]

Hello, everyone! I'm starting to see assignments roll in and that's very exciting!

A quick reminder for everyone:

Assignments are due: August 10th 11:59 PM Anywhere On Earth (what time is it for me?)

...which is tomorrow (Thursday) for some of you and very early morning on Friday for others of you. Please click the link if you're not sure when that is!

You will have a week after assignments are due (until the collection opens on the 17th) to tweak and edit your works, but you need to have a complete work posted by the deadline on the 10th. You will have until a week after that when authors are revealed (on the 24th), to create treats if you want to. (...I mean, you can post them after the 24th too, but they will no longer be anonymous. ;D)

When posting your works, please make sure that you either do so by clicking the Fulfill button in your "My Assignments" screen:

Or by going to the AO3 collection page and clicking "post to collection":

Please double check that you are spelling the AO3 username of the intended recipient correctly when you post.

Also, please double check your recipient's DNWs before you post and make sure you have not included any of them in your work.

If you have not posted a work (or talked to me about an extension) by the deadline on the 10th, then your assignment will be defaulted and will go out for a pinch hit to insure that your recipient will get a gift.

You do not have to have signed up for the exchange to pick up a pinch hit! For anyone who missed signing up, this is a great way to get involved, if you'd still like to.

You can also still create treats if you didn't sign up.

If you have any last minute questions or you think you will need an extension, please let me know as soon as possible! (And please do so by ask or by email, not by message. I do not check this blog every day, so I do not see messages in a timely fashion.)

Good luck and write and draw like the wind! ^_^

[pingxie-exchange]

Hello, everyone!

Just a little reminder and check-in post. ^_^

Collection reveal is about a month away, which means that assignments are due in about three weeks.

I hope the writing/drawing/creating is going well for everyone!

But if, by some chance, it isn't, please reach out to me as soon as possible, preferably before the deadline (please see the pinned post on this blog for a "what time is that for me?" link), so either a pinch hitter can be assigned or an extension can be granted if reasonable.

I hope you're all having fun! ^_^