Nirvana in Fire Exchange

This is a community for the Fanworks exchange of the acclaimed Cdrama Nirvana in Fire, starting 2017 | Currently running: NIF Exchange 2021 | Contact @[email protected] | Dreamwidth @nifexchange | Twitter @nif_exchange | nifexchange.carrd.co

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NIF Exchange 2025 Sign-up is now OPEN!

Calling all NIF fans!

We are so back!!!

Nirvana in Fire Exchange is back this 2025 in its usual Exchange format. You can choose your preferred method of stabbing: fics, art, fanvid, podfic, and/or crafts. Whether you're a veteran, new to the fandom, returnee, lurker,  or a restless ghost - everyone is welcome to join the fun of gifting each other in this NIF fandom tradition!

To recap, Nirvana in Fire Exchange is a fandom event where we build community through creativity! This event takes the form of an anonymous gift exchange (aka Secret Santa) between participants. Gifts are posted anonymously, and after a week of appreciation, creators are revealed. NIF Exchange is open to fanworks of all adaptations of Nirvana in Fire, including NIF2, the novel, and manhua.

Please go to our event’s AO3 Collection Profile for all the Guidelines, FAQs, and Rules.

SIGN UP HERE. Sign-up period is open until Oct 31st.

If you have any questions, you can contact the mod: @umichii (twitter/tumblr), @umi_chii (Discord), or [email protected]

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2022 Collection now LIVE!

THE NIF EXCHANGE 2022 COLLECTION HAS BEEN REVEALED!

Somehow, we have broke the records again this year, with 75 works! What’s even crazier is that our pool of creators less than half! Amazing!!!

We owe a very special thanks to everyone who participated that made this year’s success possible! The fun has just begun! Anyone is welcome to take part in our Special Events! PLAY OUR GUESS THE CREATOR GAME! As you go though the works, can you figure out which talented creator made which work? Also, don’t forget to leave appreciative comments in your wake! Each comment can be submitted to our COMMENT FEST RAFFLE for a chance to win a prize! (max of 75 entries per person)

All the details can be found in our carrd, go and check it out! 

Stay tuned for the Creators Reveal on December 10th! 

Enjoy, everyone!

Ever grateful,

<3 NIF Exchange Mods Team

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NIF EXCHANGE SIGN UPS OPEN!

Hello dear NIF fans!

NIF exchange is back for our 6th year!! Unfortunately, your mods find themselves with drastically reduced availability this year.  

We still wanted to run the event for the community, but we needed to make some changes to make the workload more manageable for us. 

First and foremost, we will be leaning into the support of the NIF community to help us keep this event running smoothly. 

Therefore, we will be interacting more in the Lang Ya Hall discord server and count on you all to support each other. We will however still send out all official communication via email. For those not already in the discord, an invite link will be included in the sign up confirmation email. 

Some changes we are going with this year are: 

Automated response emails to sign ups and check-in.

Claimed prompts will no longer be struck-out in real time. This means all prompts remain open during the entirety of claiming. We encourage people to list all prompts they are comfortable creating for to give us the most leeway during matching. 

We will no longer match betas individually. Please use the partner-up channel in the LYH server to find a beta to work with, or contact a beta directly through our list of signed-up betas. 

Due to problems with extensions in previous years, we will be stricter with the check-in deadline and work submission deadline. If we do not get a response on the mandatory check-in NOV 5-7, we will consider it an automatic default. All works need to be submitted by the deadline on NOV 26 2022, even if it's not 100% complete. Failure to submit to the collection by NOV 26 will automatically mean we send your assignment out to pinch-hit. 

Now that the serious announcements are over, let the fun begin!  

SIGN UPS ARE OPEN NOW UNTIL SEPT 30th. 

PLEASE HEAD TO OUR CARRD FOR ALL INFORMATION REGARDING THE RUNNING OF THE EXCHANGE: http://nifexchange.carrd.co

FILL IN THE SIGN UP FORM HERE: https://forms.gle/heZ5t8FeaniVPhSF7

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Creators Revealed! Comment Fest Raffle open til Dec 4th

All our hard-working creators for the 2021 NIF Exchange have been revealed! Go and shower them with love and appreciation!!

While you do that, remember that YOU, yes you, the person reading this, can have a chance to win one of our adorable prizes by entering EACH COMMENT YOU LEAVE ON A NIF EXCHANGE 2021 COLLECTION WORK to this year’s new event, the COMMENT FEST RAFFLE! 

The raffle will take place on DECEMBER 4th, so there is still a whole week for you to comment and enter. Each person can enter a maximum of 70 times, the same as the number of total works we have in the collection this year! (A RECORD!!)  We hope to see your name appear on our response form! :D  The prizes include:  1 x Jingmum enamel pin 1 x Jingyan badge + Mei Changsu badge set 1 x Mei Changsu & Nihuang acrylic standee 1 x Mei Changsu enamel pin 1 x Fei Liu & Mei Changsu photocards set 

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Last chance to Guess the Creator!

Our creator reveals are less than 24 hours away!  This is your last chance to get your guesses in for our GUESS THE CREATOR GAME.  The form will close 1 hour before the reveals happen.  The participant with the highest number of correct guess will win one of our prizes!  Four more prizes are available for the COMMENT FEST RAFFLE, which goes on until December 4th. 

That’s another week for you to comment on any of the works in the collection and enter your name to the raffle! Everyone is welcome to play! Enter as many times as there are works in the collection for a chance to win one of these cute prizes: 

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2021 Collection now LIVE

THE NIF EXCHANGE 2021 COLLECTION HAS BEEN REVEALED! 

We have a record number of 69 works this year!!! 

We owe a very special thanks to everyone who participated but in particular to all the betas, pinch-hitters and treaters that made this year’s success possible!  The fun has just begun! Anyone is welcome to take part in our Special Events!  PLAY OUR GUESS THE CREATOR GAME! As you go though the works, try to guess which talented creator made which work?  Also, do’t forget to leave appreciative comments in your wake! Each comment can be submitted to our COMMENT FEST RAFFLE for a chance to win a prize! (max of 69 entries per person)

 LOOK AT OUR CUTE PRIZES!! We have:  1x Jingmum enamel pin 1x Jingyan and Mei Changsu badges 1x Nihuang and Mei Changsu acrylic standee 1x Mei Changsu enamel pin 1 x Feiliu and Mei Changsu photocards

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Reveals in 14 hrs +SPECIAL EVENTS!!!!

Hello hello Exchangelings and all Nirvana in Fire Fans The NIF Exchange Collection is gearing up to reveal all the gifts at 8pm CST (Taipei time) on November 20th. That’s less than 14hrs from the time of writing this post!  In preparation for the festivities, we are pleased to announce our TWO special events that ANYONE is welcome to take part in. They even come with prizes!!

  READ ALL THE DETAILS FOR THE EVENTS HERE ON OUR CARRD PAGE. 

GUESS THE CREATOR GAME  November 20th- November 27th (one hour before Creator Reveals) Our annual game of whodunit, but instead of murder, it's guess who created each of our wonderful gifts! The person with the highest number of correct answer will win one of our prizes! COMMENT FEST RAFFLE  November 20th - December 4th (2 weeks commenting time)  Leave appreciative comments on any work in the collection! Submit them as entries to the Raffle! 4 winners will be drawn at random on December 4th.  Check out our roster of prizes! These will be shipped internationally to the winners. Mailing fees to be covered my mods. 

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Deadline looming

Exchangelings, this is the home stretch!  We are just 2 days away from deadline. 

You can submit your work as long as it’s November 13th anywhere in the world. We have a handy countdown clock on the carrd HERE. 

Treaters, you have until November 20th to submit. Please tag your treat NIFTREAT2021. 

All gifts and treats will be revealed on November 20th. This mean that after submitting your gift, you do have next week to subtly go tinker and do final edits to your gift if you really need to. 

As always, if you need support of any kind, please reach out to us at [email protected]

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Prompt list revealed + treating is open!

Exchangeling sign ups for our 2021 edition are CLOSED! A huge thank you to our 53 participants! But the fun has only just started! 

View this year’s prompt list here. 

Inspired? Intrigued? ANYONE can create treats, no sign up necessary! You can start RIGHT NOW! Treats have no minimum requirements. Any and all medium creations are welcome! 

Post your treats at any time to our NIF Exchange 2021 Collection on AO3 and tag it NIFTREAT2021. All treats will be revealed at the same time as the gifts on NOVEMBER 20th and remain anonymous until November 27th. 

If you wish to gift your treat to the specific person who prompted it, or if you wish to treat a specific participant and would like to know which prompt set is their’s, email mods so that we may assist you with that information. ([email protected])

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Treating remains open and we welcome any and all types of creators!!! 

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Seeking pinch-hitters and c-picker help!

Hello lovely people,  NIF exchange finds itself in need of some help with pinch-hitting and beta-ing volunteers!

If you’d like to help, please head over to our Pinch-hitters and beta sign up form. 

WHAT IS PINCH-HITTING? Pinch-hitting means to step up to create a gift in the place of a participant who has defaulted, usually within tighter delays. We would email you an orphaned prompt set. If you accept it, you would be creating a gift based on that prompt set.  WHAT IS BEING A BETA?? C-PICKING?? A beta is someone who helps a creator look over their work as a second set of eyes. We welcome betas with any skillset, since we do have creators of all kinds (artists, podficcers, vidders, writers, poets, etc). Different creators are looking different kinds of help and feedback, so any input you can offer is valuable.  C-picking is just like brit-picking, but for chinese elements. We absolutely do not expect c-pickers to be experts in chinese culture, but simply to be able to bring that chn/diasporic perspective.  HOW DOES IT WORK? We might email you to offer you a beta or pinch-hit request. You are ALWAYS free to accept or pass on it, no questions asked. 

If you accept, we will either put you in touch with the creator you will collaborate with if you are beta-ing, or give you free rein on the prompt you are pinch-hitting for. Mods are always here to offer support in any way we can.  Thank you for signal boosting this!

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Check-in reminder

Hello exchangelings! This is your reminder to please check-in with us about your participation status to NIF exchange!  If there’s any way we can offer you support, don’t hesitate to ask! If life is getting overwhelming and you need to default, doing it now is a good time and there’s absolutely no guilt involved! We just want to make sure everyone can have the best experience possible!

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I saw in the carrd that there's a discord server for the exchange, but if there was meant to be a hyperlink there, it's not working. Is the discord still active? Thanks!

We do not have an event-specific discord, the mods just camp out in the Lang Ya Hall server. DM us if you'd like an invite! (We didn't put the link of the carrd, it's normal that it's not clickable.)

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Heya NIFEX mods! If we wanted to write for two (or three) of the prompts in our assigned set, is that okay? Do we designate one as the gift and the other(s) as treat...?

Hello! You are welcome to create multiple gifts from the same prompt set if you wish, but it is absolutely not a requirement. We will leave it to your discretion how you want to designate them, as long as one of them is submitted as your main gift.  Mods leave it completely up to the creator how they want to utilise their prompt sets. We don’t have rigid rules. You can combine both or all three of your prompts into one work.  You may even start working on one prompt and change your mind halfway and end up making a gift based on a different prompt. As long as the final product is something your recipient can enjoy, it’s all good with us! 

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Prompt list revealed + treating is open!

Exchangeling sign ups for our 2021 edition are CLOSED! A huge thank you to our 53 participants! But the fun has only just started! 

View this year’s prompt list here. 

Inspired? Intrigued? ANYONE can create treats, no sign up necessary! You can start RIGHT NOW! Treats have no minimum requirements. Any and all medium creations are welcome! 

Post your treats at any time to our NIF Exchange 2021 Collection on AO3 and tag it NIFTREAT2021. All treats will be revealed at the same time as the gifts on NOVEMBER 20th and remain anonymous until November 27th. 

If you wish to gift your treat to the specific person who prompted it, or if you wish to treat a specific participant and would like to know which prompt set is their’s, email mods so that we may assist you with that information. ([email protected])

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How do I choose only three from those excellent prompts???? I know I had the same problem last year, this fandom is so great guys.

The good news is that 3 is the MINIMUM number of prompts participants should choose! You can definitely let us know ALL the prompts that are inspiring to you. That actually makes matching easier because we then have more options ;) <3<3<3

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Prompt list revealed + treating is open!

Exchangeling sign ups for our 2021 edition are CLOSED! A huge thank you to our 53 participants! But the fun has only just started! 

View this year’s prompt list here. 

Inspired? Intrigued? ANYONE can create treats, no sign up necessary! You can start RIGHT NOW! Treats have no minimum requirements. Any and all medium creations are welcome! 

Post your treats at any time to our NIF Exchange 2021 Collection on AO3 and tag it NIFTREAT2021. All treats will be revealed at the same time as the gifts on NOVEMBER 20th and remain anonymous until November 27th. 

If you wish to gift your treat to the specific person who prompted it, or if you wish to treat a specific participant and would like to know which prompt set is their’s, email mods so that we may assist you with that information. ([email protected])

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SIGN UPS ARE OPEN!!! Join us as a participant HERE All mediums are welcome, no matter what kind of creator you are! Not doing the exchange but still wanna help? Sign up beta and/or pinch-hitter HERE Beta&pinch-hitter sign ups remains open for the entirety of the Exchange. Once the prompt list is revealed and assignments sent out, anyone (no sign up necessary) is welcome to create treats! All info and details at nifexchange.carrd.co Contact us at [email protected]

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LAST DAY!!! Sign ups close when it is no longer Sept 20th anywhere in the world. 

Beta and pinch-hitter sign ups will remain open throughout the fest. 

Anyone can create treats at any time! Prompt list will be revealed Sept 22nd.