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Happy Valentine’s Day, Witcher Friends!

I am pleased to announce I will be running a new round of the Fisstech & Succubi Eskel Celebration in 2022, now that we have more Eskel content to create amazing fanworks of!  Based on feedback I received from last year’s participants, I am going to be running this year’s exchange using the gift exchange platform on AO3 so the timeline and format for signups will be slightly different.  If you have any questions at all, please send them to the ask box for this blog so I can answer them for everybody to see.  This is my first time running (or participating in) a gift exchange through the AO3 platform so please be patient with me, I might not have all the answers right away.

Monday February 14 2022 (that’s today!!!) to Monday February 28 2022 - Tag Nominations.  Please follow the link at the bottom of this post, and I will also make a separate post with the same link.

 - You will have the opportunity to add up to three fandoms (that’s Witcher Netflix, Witcher games, and Witcher novels); and then for each fandom up to five characters and up to five relationships.

 - You don’t have to specify Eskel as a character, I will make sure that all three forms of him are on the tag set.

 - This is a fandom event about Eskel so your relationship nominations should include Eskel as one of the characters.  The relationships can be / (romantic and/or sexual) or & (non-romantic and non-sexual).

 - you will also have the opportunity to add up to 15 additional tags that you would like to write about, read about, or that you think would be fun for people to have in the mix.  Please be generous and creative, try to fill up all 15 of your tags, because later during the signup process people will be limited to asking for and offering only the things that are in the tag list.

 - You do not have to commit to participating in the exchange in order to nominate tags!  In fact the more people we have nominating tags, the more fun it will be.

Tuesday March 1 2022 to Thursday March 10 2022 - Signups will be open.  The form will prompt you to input characters, relationships, and tags (from the tags that were nominated during the tag nomination period) for three works you’re willing to write; and characters, relationships, and tags for three works you’d like to receive as a gift.

Friday March 11 2022 to Mumbleday March Mumble 2022 - requests are matched with writers.  Apparently there is a script on the AO3 website that does this automatically, and also sends out the emails with the assignments automatically, so maybe it really won’t take that long!  I hope it will be finished by Sunday, March 13 2022 but if it’s not, the next part of the timeline will be bumped forward accordingly.

Sunday May 15 2022 - fic due date!

A couple answers to questions I know I will get - yes, I would appreciate pinch hitters; and yes, people can do treats/gifts.

And a question for participants: how do you feel about an anonymous period during fic writing and for a short time after the fics are posted?

Anyway, here is the link to the tag nominations form (I hope)!

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Do you still need creators?

I absolutely still need creators! Please sign up! Please tell your friends to sign up! Please tell your acquaintances, your frenemies, and your sworn enemies to sign up! Signups close March 15.

The signup form is here.

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Hey everyone, sorry for being a day late on revealing the collection, here you go!

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Thank you to everyone who participated, happy reading!

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Hi everybody, thank you for your patience! This is my first time running or participating in a gift exchange through AO3 and I wanted to make sure I had the signup form set up properly (and all this was after an evening of knitting my taxes negotiating with the grocery store after they lost at least four bags out of our click & collect order). Anyway here we go. I have extended the schedule a bit because of how late I posted the signup form and I will post the schedule in another post.

Signups are now open!!!!

Here is the signup form.

You will need to make three different requests and you can make up to five requests. One (1) of your requests will get filled. They can all be the same genre (eg all fluff, all PWP, whatever) or all different genres, but if they are all the same genre they should each be different from one another - include different characters, different tropes from the tagsets, etc. This is to ensure that when the matching script does its thing, there is a greater chance of it finding someone to match you with based on their offers. Keep in mind that your request contains UP TO three different characters, relationships, and tropes (besides Eskel) that you are hoping to see and the person responding to your request might not fit all of them into their work.

You can put any squicks, triggers, and DNWs in the "details/description" field. I will reblog last year's list of common squicks, triggers, and DNWs for everyone's reference in case you get to this part and think to yourself "uhh, I don't know, I just don't want the usual stuff that everybody doesn't want?" There is a section in the signup form that lets you pick which archive warnings you want or that you want "No archive warnings apply." Remember that "No archive warnings apply" is NOT the same thing as "Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings," in fact they are basically the opposite of each other.

You will need to make three different offers and you can make up to five offers. From your offers you will be assigned to fill one (1) fill. They can all be the same genre or all different genres, but if they are all the same genre they should each be different from one another. This is to ensure that when the matching script does its thing, there is a greater chance of it finding someone to match with you based on their requests. I have set the script to match on one character, one relationship, and one tag even though everyone is required to request and offer three of each. This is also to increase the chances of matching. Keep in mind that the requests and offers each contain UP TO three different characters, relationships, and tropes (besides Eskel) that the requester is hoping to see or the offeror is willing to write, so your fill doesn't have to include everything your requester asked for - so don't stress if you can't fit it all in or one of the things in your assignment is something you just can't write, but do make sure you are giving your requester at least some of the things they asked for!

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Everybody you still have like 36 hours to sign up for Fisstech & Succubi 2022! Signup form is here!

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Hey everybody!  You still have a week left to sign up with your very best offers and your very best requests, so sign up here and then reblog this post to get all your friends to do the same!  Signups will be open until March 15.

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Signups Are Open Now 

Signups Close Tuesday March 15 2022

I don’t know how long the script takes to make the matches and send out the assignments but I assume not more than a couple of days.

Assignments Due Sunday May 15 2022

Works Revealed Tuesday May 17 2022

Creators Revealed Tuesday May 24 2022

Please send me any questions you may have through the ask box.  Yes, I would like pinch hitters, but I am not 100% certain how to add pinch hitters to the system yet, I will let you know.

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If you can see this, I nominate you to head over to the tag nomination form for Fisstech & Succubi 2022 and nominate some characters, relationships, and tags for this year’s exchange!  It would also be fun if you want to sign up to create and receive a work (signups open on March 1) but even if you’re not sure yet if you want to, it would be great if you want to add some tags to the tagset - this will give everybody who does participate lots of great tropes from fluffy to angsty and from family-friendly to decidedly NSFW to use as inspiration.  Don’t leave everybody stuck with nothing to work with beyond “a cat bit my finger,” Aiden and Kiyan and Gaetan only have so many teeth.  Tag nominations are open until Monday February 28.