If you haven't checked out the 19 vids made for Fall Equinox yet, here are the fandoms waiting for you in the AO3 collection:
Interview with the Vampire (2022) - 3 vids!
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - 2 vids!
Dead Boy Detectives - 2 vids!
Alias Grace, Cloud Atlas, Corpse Bride, Frankenstein fandoms, Heaven Official's Blessing (cartoon), I Saw the TV Glow, The Others (2001), Poor Things (2023), Scavengers Reign (cartoon), Stigmata, What Dreams May Come - 1 vid each!
Check out the collection and give the vids some love.
Go-Live is in just a few days - we hope you are as excited as we are! 👻
We wanted to point out a section in the rules regarding content notes that some folks may have missed (and we apologize for not drawing everyone's attention to it earlier - this theme in particular can get pretty dark, so we're seeing a lot more content notes than we're used to!)
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Because this is a gift exchange and we can't know what content notes vid recipients may need, we don't allow "choose not to warn" as an option for vid posts. If your vid post has selected "choose not to use Archive warnings" with no notes provided, we'll bounce it back to you to be edited.
The standard AO3 warnings are:
choose not to use Archive warnings
none of these warnings apply
graphic depictions of violence
major character death
rape/non-con
underage
In addition, we require that vidders include content notes in their post notes for:
alcohol or drug use
animal harm
body image & eating disorders
child harm
sexual violence
self harm
suicide
depictions of bigotry, systemic oppression, or identity-targeted violence, including but not limited to: racism, homophobia, transphobia, antisemitism, Islamophobia; slurs, symbols associated with hate groups, Nazi imagery, slavery, institutional violence
As well as content notes for audio/visual triggers:
audio triggers: e.g., sudden loud noise, rapid changes in volume, gunshot audio, or other startling or sustained loud noises on the audio track
physical triggers: e.g., strobing lights, very rapid cutting between short clips, bright / white flashes of light
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We've e-mailed (or will e-mail within the next few hours) everyone whose vids contain one or more of these topics without a content note for it, asking them to edit their post. We are human, however, and may not have caught everything, so please double check your vid for any of these topics and edit your content notes if necessary. Please also make sure any treats posted in the next few days are tagged appropriately - we'll be checking in last-minute treats pretty late on Friday evening, so it may delay go-live (or go-live may go on with your treat hanging in the queue) if one of the above topics appears in your vid and isn't warned for, and we can't get ahold of you in time.
After reveals, you're welcome to edit your tags/content notes if you'd prefer not to have them there permanently. As always, please email equinoxvids at gmail dot com with any questions. Thanks!
Just a reminder that assignment vids are due by the end of the day today (midnight Eastern Time)! If you are confident you'll finish your vid but need a little extra time, please email us at equinoxvids at gmail dot com. If you don't think you'll finish your vid even with a small extension, please email us about that too!
As a reminder, treats are due the evening of September 20th. There's no firm cut-off time except for "before go-live," but please get your vids in before you go to sleep on the 20th to make sure we have time to review/approve them before go-live the next day.
What you need to know before claiming this pinch hit:
- Pinch hits are assigned on a first come, first served basis, and anyone is welcome to claim one. You do not have to have signed up for the exchange to claim a pinch hit; just comment on the DW post (comments are screened) to say you'll do it, and provide your email address and AO3 username so we can assign it to you. When the pinch hit has been claimed, the post will be edited.
- Pinch hits must meet the requirements of a standard assignment vid (mainly, being at least a minute long and being made to one of the recipient's requests).
- This pinch hit will be due on September 17th.
Details on this pinch hit are under the cut.
Fandom: Stigmata (1999)
Tags: Frankie Paige
Summary: anything to do with Frankie's character arc as a reluctant messiah figure. not opposed to frankie/andrew in the slightest.
Fandom: A Long Time Dead - Samara Breger
Tags: Roisin (A Long Time Dead), Poppy Cavendish
Summary: POPPY/ROISIN POPPY/ROISIN. carmen is also welcome.
Fandom: Overlord (Movie 2018)
Tags: Edward Boyce, Jacob Rosenfeld, Lewis Ford, Lyle Tibbet, Chloe (Overlord)
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Fandom: The Wind (2018)
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Fandom: Zero Patience (1993)
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Fandom: Ju-on: The Grudge (2002)
Tags: Saeki Kayako
Summary: I'd love something Kayako-based!
Fandom: Hell House LLC (Movies)
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Fandom: The Lost Boys (Movies)
Tags: David (Lost Boys) Michael Emerson (Lost Boys)
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It's that time already - it's mandatory check-in time!
Please let us know if you're on track to finish your assignment on time. As a reminder, the deadline for primary vid assignments is September 8th. Just comment on our Dreamwidth post with "still in!" or email us at equinoxvids at gmail.com. If, however, you will not be able to complete your assignment, please let us know as soon as you can. All vidders must check in by Sunday, August 18th at the latest. We'll try to contact you if you don't, but if we're unable to reach you by the default deadline of August 25th, you'll be assumed to be in default.
Also, the AO3 collection is now accepting vid posts, so if you've finished your assignment or a treat, feel free to go ahead and post it now. You can refer to the visual guide to posting in the Rules & Guidelines, or you can contact us for assistance. We will wait for at least a few vids to be in the queue before we start approving them to be added to the collection, to preserve anonymity as much as possible.
Assignments are sent by AO3 to the email address on your AO3 account. If you signed up and don't receive an assignment email soon (or if your assignment doesn't match your sign-up form), email us at [email protected] and let us know.
Before you start in on your assignment vid, make sure you're refreshed on the gift vid requirements and posting guidelines.
The first deadline will be the check-in deadline for vidders - Sunday, August 11th. We'll post reminders here as dates near!
Sign ups for the Fall Equinox 2024: After Life fanvid exchange close tonight, Sunday July 14th at 11:59PM Eastern!
How to sign up, what fandoms are included, key dates, and more info here. If you aren't sure what fandoms to offer, you can check out the sign up summary to see which fandoms are in need of more offers!
If you've been putting off signing up, don't forget to do so before midnight!
Sign ups for the Fall Equinox 2024: After Life fanvid exchange close tomorrow!
The deadline to sign up is Sunday, July 14th at 11:59PM Eastern.
How to sign up, what fandoms are included, key dates, and more info here. If you aren't sure what fandoms to offer, you can check out the sign up summary to see which fandoms are in need of more offers!
Fall Equinox 2024: "After Life" vid exchange sign-ups are now open!
This season's vid exchange focuses on fandoms dealing with life (or unlife) after death. The fandoms for After Life can be browsed in the tag sets: main tag set; safety fandom tag set. Remember that when signing up, at least one of your requests must be from the safety fandom tag set.
We posted some guidance earlier today for keeping requests/vids on-theme in sources with a lot of off-theme content. If you missed it, we recommend reading it over, especially if you plan on requesting/vidding any of the example sources discussed (9-1-1, Black Mirror, Doctor Who 2005, due South, Game of Thrones, Slings & Arrows, Star Wars, Supernatural, The Twilight Zone, and The Untamed).
Make sure you read over the rules before signing up. If you have any questions, you can contact us at [email protected].
Key info:
The sign-up form on AO3
Rules for signing up, which are also on the form itself
Full rules & guidelines for Fall Equinox 2024
Guidelines for keeping requests/vids on-theme in sources with a lot of off-theme content
Sign-ups for the Fall Equinox 2024: After Life vid exchange open later this evening!
You can browse the fandoms available for requests/offers in the tag sets: main tag set; safety fandom tag set.
When deciding on fandoms to request/offer, remember: Requests must contain at least 4 unique franchises and at least 1 safety fandom. Offers must contain at least 4 unique franchises (these can be the same as your requests). "Multi-Fandom" can be used for requests, but can't be offered, as it isn't used for matching. Full info on how to sign up here.
There are a lot of fandoms in the tag sets this season where only a limited amount of the source canon qualifies for this season's theme. Below the cut are some example fandoms drawn from the tag sets, with examples of what does and doesn't qualify.
(These examples contain character death / character return spoilers for Doctor Who, Game of Thrones, Star Wars, Supernatural, and The Untamed, so if you don't know, click with caution!)
9-1-1, 9-1-1 Lone Star, due South, Slings & Arrows: All of these are examples of sources that were approved because they have canon ghosts/hauntings. Anything involving canon ghosts or incidents that arguably-in-canon could be ghosts counts. That doesn't mean you can request or make a vid about Hen going to med school or Vecchio's car or Darren Nichols: none of those things involve ghost plots.
Black Mirror, The Twilight Zone: For anthology sources, you should only be using the individual stories that fit the theme – e.g., "San Junipero" counts, "Striking Vipers" does not count.
Doctor Who (2005): Characters with key storylines about coming back from the dead like Jack Harkness, Rory Williams, and Ashildr count; things like "our digital ghosts were uploaded into the Afterlife Library" count.
But this is an example of a source that is likely to be tricky: regeneration does not count as the Doctor doesn't actually die; time being rewritten doesn't inherently count as 99% of Who timeline revisions aren't telling stories about what happens after you come back from the dead; Vincent and the Doctor-esque time travel to periods after one's own death do not count, as the character is very much still alive in them. When evaluating what parts of a canon count, remember that the theme centers on what happens post-mortem, so if the character in question has not actually died at the point they're at in their own story, that probably doesn't fit the theme.
Game of Thrones: Beric Dondarrion, Jon Snow, wights: on theme! Jaime Loves Brienne: not on theme. (This is also an example of a source that has a lot of "is it reincarnation or is it Memorex" material in it, and we leave that canon question up to you.)
Star Wars: Force ghosts count; general vids about the Force do not count. "Somehow, Palpatine returned" counts; vids about Chewbacca getting up to shenanigans do not count.
Supernatural: A lot here qualifies: vampires, ghosts, angels, demons, the realms of the afterlife, actual God, that time Sam Came Back Wrong, that time Dean Came Back Wrong, that time Mary Came Back Exactly Right, etc. – but there's still a ton of unrelated material in this giant source. If you make a vid about how Charlie is great and nothing bad ever happened to her, that probably does not fit the theme.
The Untamed: This source qualifies on "resurrection / reanimation of the dead" grounds. Wei Wuxian counts; Wen Ning counts; any characters involved in resurrecting or reanimating the dead count. Vid topics like "Lan Wangji loves bunnies" or "Jin Guangyao is just misunderstood" do not count.
These are just a handful of examples meant to communicate the key point: keep your vids on theme! We don't want to have to do deep analysis on your vids to figure out whether or not they're good faith efforts at meeting the theme; a lot of this exchange runs on the honor system. But if you request or submit something that obviously does not fit the theme, we're probably going to bounce that back to you.
If you're requesting or vidding a source and need clarification which parts of canon do or don't qualify, feel free to email us at [email protected].
Fandom nominations for Fall Equinox 2024 close today, July 7th!
This season's vid exchange theme is After Life: "sources in any format focusing on life (or unlife) after death." This includes sources dealing with ghosts, vampires, reapers, resurrection, reincarnation, the afterlife - the list goes on! More details & examples here; updated guidelines here.
You can nominate fandoms to the safety tag set (sources with a max runtime of 240 minutes total, with no more than 2 parts) or the main tag set (any sources that don't qualify as safeties). More info on nominating fandoms here.
Nominations close at 11:59PM Eastern (or roughly thereabouts). If you have any questions about nominations, what sources qualify, what tags to use, etc., you can reach us at [email protected].
Fall Equinox 2024 - "After Life": Updates & Nomination Clarifications!
We've had to do a lot more "does this qualify" / "does this not qualify" soul-searching than we anticipated with the After Life theme, so based on nominations we've had so far, we have some clarifications / guideline updates!
Click to read over clarifications & updates on: time loops, time travel, time being rewritten, cloning, death narrators, hallucinations, possession vs. long con
We also need some clarifications from you! If you nominated any of the following sources, please check out this post and contact us: Bãhubali movies, Doctor Who (1963), Star Wars - All Media Types
Nominations are open until tomorrow, July 7th, so keep nominating sources!
Fandom nominations are ongoing for Fall Equinox 2024!
This season's vid exchange theme is After Life: "sources in any format focusing on life (or unlife) after death." This includes sources dealing with ghosts, vampires, reapers, resurrection, reincarnation, the afterlife - the list goes on! More details & examples here.
You can nominate fandoms to the safety tag set (sources with a max runtime of 240 minutes total, with no more than 2 parts) or the main tag set (any sources that don't qualify as safeties). More info on nominating fandoms here.
A sampling of fandoms already approved to the tag sets for After Life: Coco, Dead Boy Detectives, The Good Place, Hadestown, The Haunting of Hill House, Interview with the Vampire (2022), The Old Guard, Pushing Daisies, The Untamed, What We Do in the Shadows (TV)
We review nominations as they come in, so be sure to check out the tag sets to see what's already approved before you submit your noms!
Equinox is a twice annual vid exchange, running seasonally in spring and fall. Each exchange is on a different theme. To kick things off (again) for Fall 2024, the theme will be "After Life": sources in any format focusing on life (or unlife) after death.
Fandom/source nominations are now open at the main tag set and safety fandom tag set.
What sources qualify for "After Life?"
What qualifies as a safety fandom?
How to nominate fandoms
Key dates for Fall Equinox 2024:
June 27 - July 7: Fandom nominations
July 8 - 14: Sign ups
July 15 - 17: Assignments out
August 11: Mandatory check-in
August 25: Default deadline
September 8: Deadline for primary assignment vids
September 21: Vids go live
September 28: Vidder reveals
Key info:
Equinox Rules & Guidelines
Fall Equinox 2024 on AO3
Equinox on Bluesky
The mods for fall are Trelkez, elipie, and Eunice. If you have any questions, you can email us at [email protected].
