Hello everyone! The sign-ups for the Summer 2026 Phandom Gift Exchange are now open!
This event is a gift exchange where people create a phanwork for who they are assigned; you don’t know who will be creating your gift, but you can be assured that their talents will match up to your requests!
How to Sign Up
The grand majority of people participating will be gifting a phanwork to another, therefore, you all will be gifters. The person you will be gifting for will (probably) not also be the person gifting for you. On the form, you’ll choose what kind of gifts you’d like and genres/tropes/themes/etc. you enjoy. You’re also encouraged to provide some more specific prompts. Sign-ups to be a gifter will close Thursday, June 18th at 11:59 PM.
The gifter sign-up form is here!
If creating something might not be your thing, but you’d still like to participate in some capacity, you might be interested in being a beta! Betas assist gifters (especially fic writers) with their gifts. If you’re interested, send an ask or contact @husbants! We’ll put you on our email list and invite you to the Discord server so that you can chat and find beta work there.
Timeline
Friday, June 5th: Sign-ups go out
Thursday, June 18th: Sign-ups close
Sunday, June 21st - Monday, June 22nd: Pairings go out
Monday, July 6th: Check-in goes out
Friday, July 10th: Check-in closes
Saturday, July 18th: Posting Date!
More Details
We have a MAJOR UPDATE going into this round. As the admins get older and because Dan and Phil's modern content is unquestionably for mature audiences, we have decided it is best for the event to be 18+. This means that by the end of the sign-up period, you must have had your 18th birthday and we will no longer be having an under-18 gifting group.
The gifting assignments will not be random. The admins (@husbants and @ttlmt) will be matching up each gifter with a partner based on the gifter’s self-identified skills and the partner’s likes and prompts.
We will be communicating through Tumblr DMs and email. There will also be a Discord (the link will be sent through email when assignments go out) and we’ll post updates and announcements there, too. Make sure your Tumblr DMs are open so that we can contact you, you’re checking this blog, and you’re checking your email during the event!
When the gifters post their gifts on July 18th, they should tag both this account and their partner on the post. This blog will reblog everyone’s gift posts. Our Twitter will retweet anyone who cross-posts there. There will be an email sent out with more information about posting a couple days before July 18th.
We will be capping this event at 50 participants. Sign-ups will close early if 50 people sign up.
We’re really hoping this doesn’t happen, but if you are assigned to someone you have blocked or have any sort of issue with, contact one of the admins and we can switch around our own assignments or talk to someone signed up as a pinch-hitter and deal with it. If you know you definitely couldn’t gift for someone, you can also specify this on your sign-up form.
In Conclusion
We hope this event will spread some joy throughout the phandom! Thank you so much for your interest and it would be great if you could reblog and spread the word. If you have any questions, feel free to DM @husbants or send an ask!
