Schedule 2026 - Round 2
Welcome to the All But Romance Fanwork Exchange, a gen multifandom gift exchange run on AO3 focused on all kinds of platonic relationships - familial, friendships, colleagues etc. During the exchange you have to create at least a 2k fic meeting the requirements, or at least a clean and detailed lineart.
We're focusing on fanworks with no romantic or sexual content, so for the purpose of this exchange we decided not to accept relationships indicated by a / (slash).
THIS YEAR WE'RE STARTING A LITTLE EARLIER!
Schedule:
Nominations: 6 April – 16 April 2026 (in your timezone) (in your timezone)
Signups: 20 April – 3 May 2026 (in your timezone) (in your timezone)
Soft check-in: 15 – 21 June 2026 (in your timezone) (in your timezone)
Default deadline: 5 July (in your timezone)
>>Posting deadline: 2 August 2026 (in your timezone)
Work reveal: 14 August 2026 (in your timezone)
Creator reveal: 21 August 2026 (in your timezone)
NOTE THE CHANGE OF THE TIMEZONE THIS YEAR!
All deadlines are at 20:00 UTC+1 | CEST
Subcollection 2026 | Nomination Guidelines | Tagset | Rules and Guidelines | AO3 Magic App (with easy access to sign-ups) | Treats for Pinch Hitters TBA
The mod e-mail is: [email protected]
There have been some changes in the rules this year, for the full breakdown please check out full posts (nomination guidelines and rules and guidelines), most important ones:
Nominations
Where applicable, please use the canonical tag (so whatever shows from the drop-down menu on ao3)
There were changes to nominating Original Works (regarding how to tag characters)
We're allowing Recursive fandoms now
Nominating multiple characters in one tag limited to 4 characters (groups still ok)
Rules and guidelines
From this year, we'll be enforcing a ban for defaulting after the default deadline, see details in the rules and guidelines. To be unbanned, you will have to do a make-up assignment.
Extensions changed from 48 hours to 7 days.
There will be a soft check-in (not mandatory) this is for this round only for now.
We'll have Do-Not-Match requests for max. 2 users THIS IS ON TRIAL BASIS, if it doesn't work or is too much work for us, we'll not do this next round.