RoyEd Gift Exchange 2017!
We’re back for another, awesome third year, and this time I actually have a blog. Amazing.
Starting today, you can sign up to give and receive fanworks, including gifsets, fanart, graphics, fanfiction, fanvids, etc. for the holiday season!
Just fill out this form! Please answer everything, as we need it to pair people up. Email, age, and “pinch hitter” status will be kept strictly confidential.
Second of all, it would be greatly appreciated if you could give this post a signal boost! Ours is a smaller fandom, and I’d really love it if we could reach as many people as possible to make this awesome.
How does the exchange work?
Signups run from now until November 12. I will spend the next week or so confirming that everyone registered is still participating, pairing up assignments, then send out the assignments via email.
The gift exchange will be the dates December 25th-January 1st, just like last year! Whenever you’d like to post them during this time period, please do. This is to give some flexibility for massively different timezones, and the fact that the season is very busy for some people.
Please spend some time on these gifts! Though we don’t have a word/detail/color/song/etc. count, remember that everyone else will be working hard—you wouldn’t like to spend hours on a piece of art only to receive a hundred word fic if you were hoping for something lengthier (if someone requests flash fic, of course, that’s totally fine!). 1000 words is a good idea for a fic minimum, though the rest of the categories are rather nebulous. Please use your best judgement.
I will also send out confirmation emails before I set up the assignments. Please make sure to reply.
About one week before the deadline, I will be emailing everyone to make sure that they will be able to finish their gifts. If I do not hear back within 48 hours, I will assign a pinch hitter to be sure that everyone receives a gift.
Please keep these gifts anonymous until the reveal week, December 25th-January 1st. If you want to send little snippets of fic or hints of art to your recipient (anonymously!) before the reveal date, feel free, but do not reveal your identity until the posting week.
Once the week rolls around, post your gift! You can tag it #RoyEd Gift Exchange 2017. This is different than last year’s tag! Make sure to take note of it! Be sure to send them an ask letting them know where it is, if not on tumblr—youtube, DeviantArt, AO3, etc. I’ll be creating a collection on AO3 for fanfic and reblogging all gifts!
Minors will not be permitted to give or receive NSFW works. If you create NSFW work for this exchange, ensure that any spicy bits are underneath a cut, so we are able to reblog.
Be respectful of your partner’s dislikes. Try to avoid anything that’s too much of a niche enjoyment (such as threesomes, infidelity, any major archive warnings, extreme angst, etc.) unless your partner requests such.
When posting, ensure that all common triggers and content warnings are tagged for.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask or check out my tag on the event, and thank you for participating!