MCYT QPR/ARO EXCHANGE 2025

A multimedia gift exchange celebrating aromanticism and queer-platonic relationships! 18+. Nominations open May 25

[mcyt-qpr]

Pencil it in!

The MCYT Aromanticism & QPR Exchange is an 18+ multimedia Ao3-based gift exchange made with the goal of exploring and depicting the wide spectrum of aromanticism and queerplatonic relationships. All MCYT fandoms welcome!

SCHEDULE

May 25-June 7 - Tag Nominations

June 8-22 - Signups Open

June 25 - Assignments Go Out

June 25-July 20 - Creation Period

July 26 - Pinch Hit Deadline

July 27 - Collection Reveal

August 3 - Anonymous Period Ends

LINKS

Discord

Ao3 Collection

Tagset

Nomination Guidelines

RULES

All participants must be 18 years or older.

You agree to do your best to create a gift that follows your assignment’s requests and DNWs, which is either a complete story of at least 1000 words or one finished piece of artwork.

Participants must adhere to guidelines of DL;DR (Don’t Like, Don’t Read).

AI-generated content is not permitted in any way.

NSFW content is optional and not required to request or create. Each signup will be required to request at least one prompt fillable by a SFW work.

[mcyt-qpr]

Sign-ups have now closed!

If your username begins with U, please check the email associated with your Ao3 account. Once we hear back from everybody who needs an edit to their signup, we’ll move on to matching. Assignments should be out within the next 24-48 hours!

[mcyt-qpr]

Sign-ups close in two hours!

[mcyt-qpr]

hello! how do I indicate that I'd like to receive and create an NSFW gift?

In your sign-up, you can just say “I’m open to receiving an NSFW gift!” As for offers, unfortunately there’s not really a way for us to guarantee that you’ll be matched with someone requesting NSFW. We ask that you be open to potentially creating and receiving safe-for-work gifts as well!

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MCYT QPR August Schedule

MCYT QPR August is an open for all prompts event centered around platonic relationships, specifically within MCYT fandoms.

We welcome all forms of creations - writing, art, gifs, moodboards, playlists, songs, etc! If you want to create it, it counts!

Schedule + Rules under cut

SCHEDULE

June 19th - June 30th - Interest check

July 1st - July 3rd - Posting the prompts and announcing badges!

August 4th - August 31st - Creation Period

September 1st - September 7th - Opening the Google forms for badge claiming & sending them out

RULES

1. Due to the fact that most of the mods are minors, NSFW creations will not be reblogged and won't be added to the ao3 collection. NSFW refers specifically to smut and sexual content, while topics such as underage drinking/drinking in general, smoking, RPF, etc are allowed however will only be reblogged by two of our mods, so we might miss some things.

2. Adding onto the previous rule, even though there's literally no way to stop people from creating fics containing incest, underage relationships (specifically, minor/adult), and rape, we kindly ask that you do not tag us in such works or tie this event to it in any way.

3. AI generated content is strictly prohibited.

4. Participants who are joining the discord server or posting on ao3 must be over 13 and follow their respective TOS.

This event was inspired by the lovely @mcyt-qpr, who gave us permission to do something similar. Once again, thank you so much o7

[mcyt-qpr]

Sign-Ups are now open for the MCYT Aromantic/QPR Exchange!

Nominations have now closed, and we have moved into the sign-up phase of the exchange! Sign-ups will remain open until 3PM EST on June 22nd.

All participants must be 18 years or older.

You agree to do your best to create a gift that follows your assignment’s requests and DNWs, which is either a complete story of at least 1000 words or one finished piece of artwork.

Participants must adhere to guidelines of DL;DR (Don’t Like, Don’t Read).

AI-generated content is not permitted in any way.

NSFW content is optional and not required to request or create. Each signup will be required to request at least one prompt fillable by a SFW work.

For the greatest comfort of all participants and moderators, gifts may not contain non-con/rape or incest. All characters depicted in NSFW fills must be adults, and RPF nominees must be famous in their own right.

While the lines between what exactly is contained in a romantic/sexual relationship versus a platonic one are of course intentionally and celebratedly blurry in aromantic and queerplatonic relationships, for the purposes of this exchange's matching, we count QPRs to fall under a relationship denoted with a slash (/) (i.e. LDShadowLady/SolidarityGaming (Life Series)). A relationship with an ampersand (&) (i.e. LDShadowLady & SolidarityGaming (Life Series)) would be considered a non-romantic, sexual, OR queerplatonic relationship, such as friendship or family. Please craft your sign-up with this in mind!

Collection | Tagset | Discord

[mcyt-qpr]

Sign-ups close in 3 days!

[mcyt-qpr]

Sign-Ups are now open for the MCYT Aromantic/QPR Exchange!

Nominations have now closed, and we have moved into the sign-up phase of the exchange! Sign-ups will remain open until 3PM EST on June 22nd.

All participants must be 18 years or older.

You agree to do your best to create a gift that follows your assignment’s requests and DNWs, which is either a complete story of at least 1000 words or one finished piece of artwork.

Participants must adhere to guidelines of DL;DR (Don’t Like, Don’t Read).

AI-generated content is not permitted in any way.

NSFW content is optional and not required to request or create. Each signup will be required to request at least one prompt fillable by a SFW work.

For the greatest comfort of all participants and moderators, gifts may not contain non-con/rape or incest. All characters depicted in NSFW fills must be adults, and RPF nominees must be famous in their own right.

While the lines between what exactly is contained in a romantic/sexual relationship versus a platonic one are of course intentionally and celebratedly blurry in aromantic and queerplatonic relationships, for the purposes of this exchange's matching, we count QPRs to fall under a relationship denoted with a slash (/) (i.e. LDShadowLady/SolidarityGaming (Life Series)). A relationship with an ampersand (&) (i.e. LDShadowLady & SolidarityGaming (Life Series)) would be considered a non-romantic, sexual, OR queerplatonic relationship, such as friendship or family. Please craft your sign-up with this in mind!

Collection | Tagset | Discord

[mcyt-qpr]

Um, stupid question. Dow we sign up

You’ll need an Ao3 account, and then to navigate to the exchange collection and click the sign-up tab. Then you’ll fill out the form with the type of gift you’d like to receive — fandom, relationship, gift type (art or fic), and any additional info in the text box, such as prompts, likes, and DNW (do not want). You’ll also fill out what type of gift you’d like to make for someone else, with the same parameters. Then you just submit the form, and you’re done!

If you have any specific questions on the process, feel free to let us know and we’ll do our best to explain in more detail.

[mcyt-qpr]

Sign-Ups are now open for the MCYT Aromantic/QPR Exchange!

Nominations have now closed, and we have moved into the sign-up phase of the exchange! Sign-ups will remain open until 3PM EST on June 22nd.

All participants must be 18 years or older.

You agree to do your best to create a gift that follows your assignment’s requests and DNWs, which is either a complete story of at least 1000 words or one finished piece of artwork.

Participants must adhere to guidelines of DL;DR (Don’t Like, Don’t Read).

AI-generated content is not permitted in any way.

NSFW content is optional and not required to request or create. Each signup will be required to request at least one prompt fillable by a SFW work.

For the greatest comfort of all participants and moderators, gifts may not contain non-con/rape or incest. All characters depicted in NSFW fills must be adults, and RPF nominees must be famous in their own right.

While the lines between what exactly is contained in a romantic/sexual relationship versus a platonic one are of course intentionally and celebratedly blurry in aromantic and queerplatonic relationships, for the purposes of this exchange's matching, we count QPRs to fall under a relationship denoted with a slash (/) (i.e. LDShadowLady/SolidarityGaming (Life Series)). A relationship with an ampersand (&) (i.e. LDShadowLady & SolidarityGaming (Life Series)) would be considered a non-romantic, sexual, OR queerplatonic relationship, such as friendship or family. Please craft your sign-up with this in mind!

Collection | Tagset | Discord

[mcyt-qpr]

Sign-Ups are now open for the MCYT Aromantic/QPR Exchange!

Nominations have now closed, and we have moved into the sign-up phase of the exchange! Sign-ups will remain open until 3PM EST on June 22nd.

All participants must be 18 years or older.

You agree to do your best to create a gift that follows your assignment’s requests and DNWs, which is either a complete story of at least 1000 words or one finished piece of artwork.

Participants must adhere to guidelines of DL;DR (Don’t Like, Don’t Read).

AI-generated content is not permitted in any way.

NSFW content is optional and not required to request or create. Each signup will be required to request at least one prompt fillable by a SFW work.

For the greatest comfort of all participants and moderators, gifts may not contain non-con/rape or incest. All characters depicted in NSFW fills must be adults, and RPF nominees must be famous in their own right.

While the lines between what exactly is contained in a romantic/sexual relationship versus a platonic one are of course intentionally and celebratedly blurry in aromantic and queerplatonic relationships, for the purposes of this exchange's matching, we count QPRs to fall under a relationship denoted with a slash (/) (i.e. LDShadowLady/SolidarityGaming (Life Series)). A relationship with an ampersand (&) (i.e. LDShadowLady & SolidarityGaming (Life Series)) would be considered a non-romantic, non-sexual, non-queerplatonic relationship, such as friendship or family. Please craft your sign-up with this in mind!

Collection | Tagset | Discord

[mcyt-qpr]

Nominations are now open!

The tagset is now accepting nominations, and the Discord server is open for the MCYT QPR and Aromanticism Exchange! Nominations will close on June 7. Please note that this exchange is 18+.

Further instructions for nominations may be found under the cut:

You may nominate to 10 fandoms, with up to 20 relationships per fandom. You may nominate solo characters as well as relationships. Please nominate all character names as the characters’ gamertag, avoid pips (a | separating names), and alphabetize the names in relationship tags. Please also disambiguate the fandom at the end of the tag in parenthesis.

An exception may be made for RPF nominations and NPCs; nominate the name that makes the most sense to refer to the character. All RPF nominees must be famous in their own right and over the age of 18.

Ex:

> Solo: Quackity (DSMP)

> Smallishbeans/SolidarityGaming (Life Series)

> GeminiTay/Pearlescentmoon (Hermitcraft)

In typical Ao3 tagging, a / in the relationships refers to a romantic or sexual relationship, while an & refers to platonic. Since queerplatonic relationships blend aspects of both of these relationships, the line is a little blurry — but for the sake of this exchange’s matching, please nominate all QPRs with a / in their relationship.

[mcyt-qpr]

I personally would like to reassure the previous anon that someone will pick up their gift (because if it does have to go to pinch hitters, I’ll definitely snag some there!! I want everyone to get gifts!! Even if I don’t know the characters I will research them :3)

We love our pinch hitters!

[mcyt-qpr]

part of me wants to sign up, but I worry that no one would be able to fulfill my request since my fandom is choice is kinda niche nowadays, so what would happen if there ended up being a person who couldn't be paired with anyone?

If you are unable to be matched at the time of sign-ups because you’re not offering to create a gift that anyone has requested, we’ll talk to you about potentially adding more offers to your sign-up to become matchable. If you are unable to be matched because nobody is offering to create the gift that you have requested, we’ll put your request up to pinch hits immediately and find you a gifter that way!

[mcyt-qpr]

Nominations are now open!

The tagset is now accepting nominations, and the Discord server is open for the MCYT QPR and Aromanticism Exchange! Nominations will close on June 7. Please note that this exchange is 18+.

Further instructions for nominations may be found under the cut:

You may nominate to 10 fandoms, with up to 20 relationships per fandom. You may nominate solo characters as well as relationships. Please nominate all character names as the characters’ gamertag, avoid pips (a | separating names), and alphabetize the names in relationship tags. Please also disambiguate the fandom at the end of the tag in parenthesis.

An exception may be made for RPF nominations and NPCs; nominate the name that makes the most sense to refer to the character. All RPF nominees must be famous in their own right and over the age of 18.

Ex:

> Solo: Quackity (DSMP)

> Smallishbeans/SolidarityGaming (Life Series)

> GeminiTay/Pearlescentmoon (Hermitcraft)

In typical Ao3 tagging, a / in the relationships refers to a romantic or sexual relationship, while an & refers to platonic. Since queerplatonic relationships blend aspects of both of these relationships, the line is a little blurry — but for the sake of this exchange’s matching, please nominate all QPRs with a / in their relationship.

[mcyt-qpr]

Nominations close tomorrow at 3PM EST!

[mcyt-qpr]

hi! that reblog just now said "three more days to submit nominations" but the schedule says tag nominations close on june 7th, which is in over a week; have i misunderstood something here?

…That’s what I get for reblogging right after work and not proofreading. No, you’re right, that one was supposed to go in the scheduler and the OTHER one was supposed to be posted. Thanks for the catch!

Nominations are open for over a week until June 7th! I’m going to go drink more coffee.

[mcyt-qpr]

are you allowed to nominate stuff without joining the event?

We would prefer that nominations are only tags you intend to either request or offer in your own sign-ups, but if you’re planning to participate as a pinch hitter and want to put your favorite guy in there just in case, that’s also welcome!

[mcyt-qpr]

For characters in multiple series should we try to avoid nominating them in multiple series? Or is it encluraged for clarity of setting/lore? (Like if tango is alread in life series should we avoid submitting a hermit tag also)

You should nominate the character in every series that you’d like to request! If you request Solo: TangoTek (Life Series), your gifter will take that to mean they should fill a Life Series gift for you, so if you’d like to receive a Hermitcraft-based gift, you should definitely nominate Solo: TangoTek (Hermitcraft) as well.