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@lost-words-exchange
The single greatest work hack I’ve ever encountered:
Read the email.
Read the whole email thread.
I am -sadly- not joking. The amount of people I work with that ask me questions covered in the fucking email is boggling.
So kids (and not kids)! If you want to get ahead and impress your boss, try this one, easy work-hack!
But seriously. Please read the fucking email, guys.
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Lost Words Exchange Returns for 2025
Welcome back to the Lost Words exchange, a fanworks exchange for any and all characters in the October Daye Universe.
Schedule
September 9th-19th: Nominations and signups (concurrently) September 19th: Assignments go out October 24th: Assignments due October 31st: Works revealed November 7th: Creators revealed A guide to nominations can be found here. FAQ and rules can be found at Ao3. If anything is not clear, you may send us an ask/message through this Tumblr or email [email protected]
We look forward to seeing what the Toby Daye fandom can come up with this year!
NOMINATIONS ARE OPEN!
Yes, it's that time of the year again!
Please go HERE to nominate!
Collection and rules are HERE.
To avoid wasting your nomination slots, note that we're using the same tagset from last year, so MANY relationships and characters are already in the tagset. You don't have to nominate those again, so only include those that you can't see there.
Nomination Formatting
All nominations should be nominated under the "October Daye Series - Seanan McGuire" fandom.
Nominations do not need to auto-complete to be accepted; if Ao3 does not complete your ideal nomination, just type it in manually.
For romantic/sexual relationships, please nominate the characters you wish to nominate with a "/" between each character. For familial, platonic, or otherwise non-sexual requests, please use a "&." e.g., "Connor O’Dell & Tybalt" would not have any sexual or romantic undertones. "Connor O’Dell/Tybalt" would be considered sexual and/or romantic, even if the fanwork itself didn't include any sexual acts.
Nominations should be spelled correctly.
Nominations should ideally be in alphabetical order, by last name. If a character does not have a last name, use the first name instead.
If a character has multiple names or aliases, go by their "main" name.
If you want to nominate a single character instead of a relationship, please use the relationship field and put your nominations as “Solo: Character Name”. e.g. Solo: October “Toby” Daye
Nominating Characters from Other Canons (i.e. Crossovers)
We allow crossovers from other series so long as they are interacting with at least one canonical character. However, when nominating a character from another specific series, please put the name of the fandom the character is from in parenthesis after the name, for example: "Quentin Sollys & Rose Marshall (Ghost Roads)"
Nominating Original Characters
Original Characters are also allowed to be nominated, provided they follow the following guidelines:
The OC is listed in such a way as to give someone freedom in how to write them.
OCs should be generalized or archetypal. e.g., "my OC June Daye" is too individualized and customized, but "Male Cait Sidhe” is eligible
If the gender of an OC is considered important to your request, please include it. If you are fine with any gender option, gender does not need to be added, and the creator of the work can choose their choice of gender options for the character. e.g., "Cait Sidhe" or "Female Cait Sidhe"
NOMINATIONS ARE OPEN!
Yes, it's that time of the year again!
Please go HERE to nominate!
Collection and rules are HERE.
To avoid wasting your nomination slots, note that we're using the same tagset from last year, so MANY relationships and characters are already in the tagset. You don't have to nominate those again, so only include those that you can't see there.
Nomination Formatting
All nominations should be nominated under the "October Daye Series - Seanan McGuire" fandom.
Nominations do not need to auto-complete to be accepted; if Ao3 does not complete your ideal nomination, just type it in manually.
For romantic/sexual relationships, please nominate the characters you wish to nominate with a "/" between each character. For familial, platonic, or otherwise non-sexual requests, please use a "&." e.g., "Connor O’Dell & Tybalt" would not have any sexual or romantic undertones. "Connor O’Dell/Tybalt" would be considered sexual and/or romantic, even if the fanwork itself didn't include any sexual acts.
Nominations should be spelled correctly.
Nominations should ideally be in alphabetical order, by last name. If a character does not have a last name, use the first name instead.
If a character has multiple names or aliases, go by their "main" name.
If you want to nominate a single character instead of a relationship, please use the relationship field and put your nominations as “Solo: Character Name”. e.g. Solo: October “Toby” Daye
Nominating Characters from Other Canons (i.e. Crossovers)
We allow crossovers from other series so long as they are interacting with at least one canonical character. However, when nominating a character from another specific series, please put the name of the fandom the character is from in parenthesis after the name, for example: "Quentin Sollys & Rose Marshall (Ghost Roads)"
Nominating Original Characters
Original Characters are also allowed to be nominated, provided they follow the following guidelines:
The OC is listed in such a way as to give someone freedom in how to write them.
OCs should be generalized or archetypal. e.g., "my OC June Daye" is too individualized and customized, but "Male Cait Sidhe” is eligible
If the gender of an OC is considered important to your request, please include it. If you are fine with any gender option, gender does not need to be added, and the creator of the work can choose their choice of gender options for the character. e.g., "Cait Sidhe" or "Female Cait Sidhe"
SIGN-UPS ARE OPENING!
Please go HERE to sign up!
Sign-Ups Process
In your sign-up, you'll specify the works you'd like to receive and the works you're willing to create. (They do not necessarily have to be the same!)
You must fill out at least two requests and two offers. You may only select each pairing or character once, but may give multiple ideas per pairing in your prompt.
If you are interested in receiving Mature- or Explicit-rated works, you must be at least 18 years old and opt-in by mentioning it in your sign-up description.
You will have to fill out several fields on the sign-up form:
Relationships
Here you can write in the relationships and characters that you wish to request. As long as it is part of the tag set/nominated pairings and characters, it should be able to be selected here.
If your chosen relationship is in the tag-set but isn't auto-completing, this is unfortunately a bug on AO3's end that we cannot fix -- but if you copy and paste your relationship from the tag-set into this field, you should be able to submit. (Please contact moderators via email at [email protected] if you get an error and let us know what the error was.)
Additional Tags
This field is to mark if you're open to receiving fanfiction, fanart, or both (check both boxes), for this request.
Example of someone requesting ONLY fanart for any pairings listed in this Request field.
Ratings (Requests)
If you are open to receiving Mature- or Explicit-rated works, please mention it in your sign-up description. We use the AO3 ratings guide as far as judging what each rating entails.
Any participant under 18 should NOT indicate interest in M or E works, as those are intended for 18+ audiences only.
Indicating interest in receiving higher rating works does not mean you are guaranteed to receive them, just that other people will be allowed to gift them to you in this exchange.
Letter
This is a place to put a link to a letter, if you have one. A letter generally is a completely optional, longer version of the description field, and might include more details you'd like your creator to know, or things like pictures that are hard to paste into the description box.
Letters are commonly hosted on Dreamwidth, Tumblr, Google docs, or other such freely accessible websites.
Please note that the moderators cannot enforce any DNWs you put only in your letter.
Completely optional field. Leave blank if you don't have a letter.
Description
Please feel free to use this field to go into some detail about what you would like; this helps give the creator of your work some different ideas about what they could make for you.
If you are open to treats, please indicate interest.
Examples of prompts or helpful information you could share with your recipient (reminder, your creator is not required to follow your prompts/likes):
General trope likes, e.g., Fluff, First Kiss, There Was Only One Bed, Enemies to Lovers, etc.
Stylistic likes, e.g., 2nd person writing, Tarot Card art, chat-fic, etc.
A sentence or two about why you like the pairing, e.g., "I love Toby being oblivious about her own feelings!"
"What If?" prompts, especially open ended ones, e.g., "What if Toby decided to go full fae? What if Toby was raised by Simon as a child? How would it change her perspective on the world?"
Rating restriction clarifications, e.g., interested in E rated smut, but not E rated violence
Be sure to list your Do Not Wants (DNWs) -- if they're not listed in the Description box of your sign up, then the mods cannot enforce your DNWs. If your DNWs are poorly worded or go against exchange rules, they will also be considered unenforceable.Sign-Ups - Offers
The process to Offers is similar to Requests when it comes to pairings and denoting interest in creating fanart and/or fanfic. However, there are a couple differences one should make note of:
"Notes to mods" Field
If you want, you can write notes to the mods, but this isn't required. Some things you might want to include:
If you are under 18 or do not want to receive any "E" requests/prompts from your recipient, please put a simple "No 'E' requests" or in your sign up. This will not disclose your age as we have adult participants who have asked this of mods over the years.
The AO3 username of any individual(s) you don't want to be matched with. You don't have to provide a reason as to why you don't want to be matched with someone, but we will rely entirely on the name(s) you enter; if you ask not to be matched with FanficWriter69 but you meant FanficWriter96, we can't guarantee you won't get matched. For the sake of everyone's stress level, triple check any names and make sure you're giving us their AO3 username.
Please do not use this field to ask to be matched with a specific person.
"Any" Box
If you would like, you can offer to create a work for "Any."
PLEASE ONLY CHECK THIS BOX IF YOU TRULY MEAN ANY RELATIONSHIP OR CHARACTER IN THE TAG SET.
Signups close Tuesday, September 12! Get them in while there’s still time!
SIGN-UPS ARE OPENING!
Please go HERE to sign up!
Sign-Ups Process
In your sign-up, you'll specify the works you'd like to receive and the works you're willing to create. (They do not necessarily have to be the same!)
You must fill out at least two requests and two offers. You may only select each pairing or character once, but may give multiple ideas per pairing in your prompt.
If you are interested in receiving Mature- or Explicit-rated works, you must be at least 18 years old and opt-in by mentioning it in your sign-up description.
You will have to fill out several fields on the sign-up form:
Relationships
Here you can write in the relationships and characters that you wish to request. As long as it is part of the tag set/nominated pairings and characters, it should be able to be selected here.
If your chosen relationship is in the tag-set but isn't auto-completing, this is unfortunately a bug on AO3's end that we cannot fix -- but if you copy and paste your relationship from the tag-set into this field, you should be able to submit. (Please contact moderators via email at [email protected] if you get an error and let us know what the error was.)
Additional Tags
This field is to mark if you're open to receiving fanfiction, fanart, or both (check both boxes), for this request.
Example of someone requesting ONLY fanart for any pairings listed in this Request field.
Ratings (Requests)
If you are open to receiving Mature- or Explicit-rated works, please mention it in your sign-up description. We use the AO3 ratings guide as far as judging what each rating entails.
Any participant under 18 should NOT indicate interest in M or E works, as those are intended for 18+ audiences only.
Indicating interest in receiving higher rating works does not mean you are guaranteed to receive them, just that other people will be allowed to gift them to you in this exchange.
Letter
This is a place to put a link to a letter, if you have one. A letter generally is a completely optional, longer version of the description field, and might include more details you'd like your creator to know, or things like pictures that are hard to paste into the description box.
Letters are commonly hosted on Dreamwidth, Tumblr, Google docs, or other such freely accessible websites.
Please note that the moderators cannot enforce any DNWs you put only in your letter.
Completely optional field. Leave blank if you don't have a letter.
Description
Please feel free to use this field to go into some detail about what you would like; this helps give the creator of your work some different ideas about what they could make for you.
If you are open to treats, please indicate interest.
Examples of prompts or helpful information you could share with your recipient (reminder, your creator is not required to follow your prompts/likes):
General trope likes, e.g., Fluff, First Kiss, There Was Only One Bed, Enemies to Lovers, etc.
Stylistic likes, e.g., 2nd person writing, Tarot Card art, chat-fic, etc.
A sentence or two about why you like the pairing, e.g., "I love Toby being oblivious about her own feelings!"
"What If?" prompts, especially open ended ones, e.g., "What if Toby decided to go full fae? What if Toby was raised by Simon as a child? How would it change her perspective on the world?"
Rating restriction clarifications, e.g., interested in E rated smut, but not E rated violence
Be sure to list your Do Not Wants (DNWs) -- if they're not listed in the Description box of your sign up, then the mods cannot enforce your DNWs. If your DNWs are poorly worded or go against exchange rules, they will also be considered unenforceable.Sign-Ups - Offers
The process to Offers is similar to Requests when it comes to pairings and denoting interest in creating fanart and/or fanfic. However, there are a couple differences one should make note of:
"Notes to mods" Field
If you want, you can write notes to the mods, but this isn't required. Some things you might want to include:
If you are under 18 or do not want to receive any "E" requests/prompts from your recipient, please put a simple "No 'E' requests" or in your sign up. This will not disclose your age as we have adult participants who have asked this of mods over the years.
The AO3 username of any individual(s) you don't want to be matched with. You don't have to provide a reason as to why you don't want to be matched with someone, but we will rely entirely on the name(s) you enter; if you ask not to be matched with FanficWriter69 but you meant FanficWriter96, we can't guarantee you won't get matched. For the sake of everyone's stress level, triple check any names and make sure you're giving us their AO3 username.
Please do not use this field to ask to be matched with a specific person.
"Any" Box
If you would like, you can offer to create a work for "Any."
PLEASE ONLY CHECK THIS BOX IF YOU TRULY MEAN ANY RELATIONSHIP OR CHARACTER IN THE TAG SET.
Nominations are now open!
Please go HERE to nominate!
Nomination Formatting
All nominations should be nominated under the "October Daye Series - Seanan McGuire" fandom.
Nominations do not need to auto-complete to be accepted; if Ao3 does not complete your ideal nomination, just type it in manually.
For romantic/sexual relationships, please nominate the characters you wish to nominate with a "/" between each character. For familial, platonic, or otherwise non-sexual requests, please use a "&." e.g., "Connor O’Dell & Tybalt" would not have any sexual or romantic undertones. "Connor O’Dell/Tybalt" would be considered sexual and/or romantic, even if the fanwork itself didn't include any sexual acts.
Nominations should be spelled correctly.
Nominations should ideally be in alphabetical order, by last name. If a character does not have a last name, use the first name instead.
If a character has multiple names or aliases, go by their "main" name.
If you want to nominate a single character instead of a relationship, please use the relationship field and put your nominations as “Solo: Character Name”. e.g. Solo: October “Toby” Daye
Nominating Characters from Other Canons (i.e. Crossovers)
We allow crossovers from other series so long as they are interacting with at least one canonical character. However, when nominating a character from another specific series, please put the name of the fandom the character is from in parenthesis after the name, for example: "Quentin Sollys & Rose Marshall (Ghost Roads)"
Nominating Original Characters
Original Characters are also allowed to be nominated, provided they follow the following guidelines:
The OC is listed in such a way as to give someone freedom in how to write them.
OCs should be generalized or archetypal. e.g., "my OC June Daye" is too individualized and customized, but "Male Cait Sidhe” is eligible
If the gender of an OC is considered important to your request, please include it. If you are fine with any gender option, gender does not need to be added, and the creator of the work can choose their choice of gender options for the character. e.g., "Cait Sidhe" or "Female Cait Sidhe"
Announcing: The Lost Words Exchange
Toby fans! We are delighted to announce Lost Words, an Ao3 fanart & fanfiction exchange for characters and relationships from the October Daye series. Please see the Ao3 collection for rules, FAQ, and walkthrough information.
Schedule
Nominations August 24-August 30th Signups August 31st-September 12th Assignments Due October 24th Fanworks Reveals October 31st Creator Reveals November 7th
If you have questions, please send an ask or email the mods at [email protected]
We hope to see many of you signing up! Please spread the word so that any Toby fans who are interested have the chance to participate.
