The second part of our 10-year Steve/Tony CA:CW celebrations is our mini gift exchange! Just like Steve gifted Tony a letter and flip phone and Tony tried to gift Steve FDR's fountain pens in CA:CW, we'll be giving one another presents as well, though hopefully ones that are less heart-shattering—unless you ask for your heart to be broken, of course.
Everyone who joins will be matched with another participant, for whom they'll secretly create a Steve/Tony fanwork. At the end of the event, the gifts will be posted anonymously, and after all the gifts have been posted, creators will be revealed!
Ready to join the fun? Fill out our sign-up form here!
Or see below for more info on the event as well as info on how to participate if you're interested, but you don't know if you can commit.
About the anniversary event
August 8: sign-ups close at 11:59 PM EDT (what time is that for me?)
August 10: assignments sent out
October 10: works due at 11:59 PM EDT (what time is that for me?)
October 17–22: posting period
October 23: creator reveals
Minimum work requirements
Art (traditional or digital, including fancomics): one polished work on an unlined surface
Music (with or without lyrics): 30 seconds
Podfic: 250 words if you’re writing the text for the podfic or 500 words if you’re recording a pre-existing work
Graphic/edit/manip: one polished work
Fanmix: ten songs and cover art (this can be digital, traditional, an edit, etc.)
Mood board: three images + 200 words (the text doesn’t have to be a fic; it can be a description, lyrics, quote, etc.)
Multimedia work: the minimum requirement for at least one of the fanwork types included in the work
These are just the minimum work requirements. You’re always welcome to create more, whether it’s a bigger work or multiple works.
General rules & guidelines
You must be over the age of 18.
You must have an AO3 account. If you don’t have one, request one here or contact us.
Only one sign-up per person/team is allowed. If you sign up as a team (i.e., collaborate with someone to co-create a work), you can’t sign up separately as a solo creator as well.
Using multiple accounts to sign up for the gift exchange more than once or to leave comments/kudos on works to hide your identity during exchange reveals is not allowed.
There is NO limit to how many works you can create or how many prompts you can request or fulfill.
Making multiple works for a single prompt or combining multiple prompts for a single work is okay.
Works must be new works made for the event.
No gen AI/LLM (e.g., ChatGPT) use is allowed.
Keep your prompts, gift recipients, and gifts a secret until after reveals happen. See more info in the “anonymity and reveals” section of our gift exchange guidelines.
Creators will do their best to create a work for your prompt(s) and must respect your DNWs, but they’ll bring their own viewpoints and sensibilities. While we’ll do our best to match people, you should not expect to be matched to specific creators or have your prompt fulfilled exactly the way you imagined it.
Everyone has different viewpoints on CA:CW, but we're all fellow fans at the end of the day. Please be kind to other participants as we want this to be a fun event for everyone! ❤️
You must fulfill at least one of your giftee’s prompts. Alternatively, you can create a gift based on just your giftee’s likes and tags, but we strongly encourage you to work with their prompts.
Do not include any of your giftee’s listed “do not want"s (DNWs) in your work.
All prompts/works must focus on Steve and Tony's relationship, whether it's platonic (pre-slash or gen/not shippy at all), romantic, or sexual. You can indicate your likes/DNWs on the sign-up form.
All relationship permutations—gen, pre-slash, unrequited or requited love, mutual or one-sided pining, established relationship, get together/get back together, breakups, etc.—are allowed. You can indicate your likes/DNWs on your sign-up form.
We welcome everything from the 100% sugary sweet to the 100% bitterly dark. All kinds of endings—unhappy, ambiguous/open, bittersweet, hopeful, or happy—are welcome. You can indicate your likes/DNWs on your sign-up form.
Darkness and angst all the way through "dead dove: do not eat" and works looking at the events of CA:CW critically are welcome, but character bashing is not allowed.
You're allowed to request other romantic/sexual relationships featuring Steve and/or Tony (including poly). These are okay ONLY IF the primary focus of the prompt/work is on Steve and Tony AND the work concludes in one of the following ways (you can indicate what you prefer in your request or leave this up to your gifter):
- Steve/Tony end up together (no poly)
- Steve and Tony are single at the end
- Steve and/or Tony is in a relationship with someone else at the end, BUT it's made obvious that the relationship is unhappy or doomed because of Steve's feelings for Tony/Tony's feelings for Steve
You cannot create a work that includes Steve and/or Tony in a relationship with another character unless the giftee explicitly said they’re okay with it, however. If the giftee gave the green light, remember your work still needs to follow the guidelines above. This also applies to works with POVs of other characters.
Prompts/works must either be set in CA:CW or heavily based on CA:CW if the prompt/work is canon-divergent, post-CA:CW, crossover, or fusion.
Interested but don't know if you can commit to participating in the gift exchange?
There are two ways you can still get involved in our CA:CW anniversary event. The first is joining our no-commitment event, the prompt fest. There is NO minimum requirement, all ratings are allowed, and all fanworks are allowed. We have 305 prompts for you to check out.
The other way is to sign up as a gift exchange pinch hitter. Pinch hitters are people who fulfill an assignment if someone drops out. If we reach out to you, you’re under no obligation to take on the assignment; we just ask that you let us know promptly whether you can or can’t take it on. If you’d like to volunteer as a pinch hitter, you can sign up here.
If you have any questions about anything at all, please check out our FAQ and feel free to contact us anytime. Otherwise, you can find our sign-up form here if you don't want to scroll back up. We look forward to seeing your sign-ups! ❤️🔥
