ohhh I am so hyped for the nifexchange reveal. I've been trying not to look too closely at items as they come in, so I too can be surprised on the 25th, but I have seen so many delicious tags/summaries in the last few days 👀
Reminder that if you want to include a treat in the general reveal, you can do that until the 24th - the reveal will be at 9am UTC on the 25th, so get it in before then!
If, like me, you know your only free time is going to come after the 25th, you can still add treats to the collection until 2nd January. (I think I originally said 31st December, but er, ignore that.)
You don't have to be signed up to the exchange to send in a treat, and we're an exchange for all forms of fanwork, unless a participant has specifically requested otherwise.
Link to treat prompts
Link to the collection:
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
Deadline reminder and how to post to the collection
The deadline (21st December) approacheth and the AO3 collection is live.
Posting to the collection should be fairly self-explanatory - there's a button at the top of the collection page that takes you to the usual AO3 New Work page, but when you post from that, your work will be in the collection. You don't need to join the collection as a member to post in it.
You won't be able to see details of any of the works other than your own at the moment, but you can look at the tag cloud, which is always fun. Works will not appear on the general fandom AO3 page until the reveal, at which point they'll be ordered by the date uploaded, so you may want to update the posting date to the 25th once the works are revealed.
You can continue to edit work once it's in the collection, but the work should be in a giftable condition when uploaded.
The deadline to upload assignments is 21st December. If you're creating a treat that you would like to be included in the general reveal on the 25th, please upload it by midday on the 24th (your timezone) to be sure it's included. The collection will remain open until 2nd January for additional treats - anything posted after the main reveal will appear immediately, though creators for all works will remain anonymous until 31st December.
If you have any questions that aren't addressed here or in the FAQs, let me know!
I've never done an exchange before - what's the recommended word count for a fic?
For a treat, literally anything goes. For the exchange itself, the minimum is 500 words and there is no maximum. You can see works from previous years in the Exchange collections on AO3 (https://archiveofourown.org/collections/Nirvana_in_Fire_Exchange_Parent_Collection) if you'd like to get a sense of how much people usually write, but it really does vary.
You can view the treats list for this year's exchange here.
Anyone can make a treat, whether or not you're signed up to the exchange. You can post them to the exchange's AO3 collection here, with the tag NIFTREAT24. The collection will remain open for treats until 31st December, though if you want your treat to be part of the general reveal, you'll need to get it in by EOD on 24th Dec.
The collection is moderated, anonymous and unrevealed at the moment, so you won't be able to see other people's offerings, and it may take a little while for your own to appear. Gifts will be revealed on 25th December, and creators will be revealed on 31st December.
If you signed up, you should now have received your assignment for this year's exchange. If you haven't, please let me know and I'll get it to you some other way!
You should have received an email confirming your sign-up; if you haven't, please let me know ASAP so I can make sure you're on the list.
The anonymised prompt list and claiming form will be sent out on 17th October. As a reminder, claiming isn't first-come-first-served this year, but based on your ranked choices. As long as you send in your claims form by 21st Oct, we'll do our best to match you with one of your top choices.
The sign-up process for artists is exactly the same as for anybody - the form will open tomorrow for you to submit prompts (I'll post a link on this blog), and then you'll be able to claim other people's prompts later in October.
If you're not interested in submitting prompts yourself, there's also the option to create 'treats' for the collection based on prompts other people have submitted. You don't need to sign up for treats - the prompt list will be made publicly available for that on 31st October.
Announcing: The Nirvana in Fire Fanwork Exchange 2024
Sign-ups — 1st-14th Oct
Prompt claiming — 17th-21st Oct
Assignments — 24th Oct
Check-in — 1st-5th Dec
Deadline — 21st Dec
Gift reveals — 25th Dec
Creator reveals — 31st Dec
The Nirvana in Fire Fanwork Exchange is an event for anyone who's a fan of the show Nirvana in Fire, its sequel series The Wind Blows in Changlin, the novel, manhua, audio drama and any other associated media I've forgotten.
It takes the form of an anonymous fanwork gift exchange: gifters will be matched with recipients based on prompts submitted by participants during sign-up. All participants will create a gift and receive one.
The event is open to all types of fanworks: fic, vids, visual art, crafts, podfic, etc.
Announcements will be crossposted to Tumblr, Discord and Dreamwidth.
If you would like an invite to the Langya Hall discord server, which has a channel for discussing the exchange, please let me know.
How It Works
During the sign-up period, you will be able to submit a Google Form with a list of 3 prompts for fanworks you would like to receive, as well as space to list any Do/Do Not Wants. The link will be posted on the DW community, the Langya Hall discord, and on this Tumblr.
On 17th Oct, participants will be sent an anonymous list of sets of prompts and asked to rank their top 5 choices. Once all participants have responded, the mods will do their best to match everyone according to their preferences.
On 24th Oct, participants will be sent their individual assignment: the prompt list of the person they have been matched with, along with that person's AO3 username.
On 31st Oct, the prompt list will be made public, for anyone, whether they signed up or not, to creat additional 'treats' for the prompters.
There will be a mandatory check-in 1st-5th Dec. Participants will be asked whether they are on track to complete a gift by the final deadline of 21st Dec. Participants who miss this deadline without contacting the mods will be assumed to have defaulted and their assignment will be sent to a pinch-hitter.
Gifts should be submitted to the AO3 collection (still under construction) by the end of the day on 21st Dec. Participants will still be able to make edits, but the gift should be in a giftable state by then.
On 25th Dec, the gifts will be revealed: everyone will be able to see all works in the collection, though the creators will still remain anonymous.
On 31st Dec, the names of the creators will be revealed.
TL;DR: Sign up with prompts, choose the prompts you'd like to fill, make a thing, post a thing, get a thing, shower your fellow creators with love and comments.
Minimum gift requirements
Treats
Fic: 500 words
Podfic: 5 mins
Art: 1 artwork (B&W or colored)
Video: 30 secs to 1 min, depending on complexity
Crafts: 1 picture and/or documentation of the finished project
If you don't want to sign up as a full exchange participant, you can still create fills for prompts as 'treats'. The prompt list will be made public on 31st Oct. Treats can be posted to the AO3 community and tagged with 'NIFTREAT24'.
General Points
BYOB: Bring your own beta. In previous years, the exchange has offered a beta-matching service, but we're running at reduced capacity this year, so if you want your work beta-read, please organise this yourself.
Timezones: Deadlines for participants are 11.59pm of the date in question, wherever you might be in the world. Timings for the mod doing stuff are based on 'when I have a spare hour during that day' and I can't be more precise than that.
AO3: You'll be able to add your work to the Nirvana in Fire 2024 Exchange collection on AO3 (currently under construction but you can see last year's collection here). If you need an AO3 invite, we can arrange this, but please let me know before December if possible.
Contact a mod: If you're in the Langya Hall discord server, feel free to ping me @ sinni-ok-sessi on there, or @ withans for a PM. You can also contact me @sinni-ok-sessi or via the @nifexchange24 Tumblr. Nominally I am on Dreamwidth, but I almost never remember to check it, so that's not your best bet. If you sign up, you will receive instructions for how to email me.
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