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Creators Revealed
Creators are now revealed for the Zutara Gift Exchange 2025. A little later than planned and promised, apologies!
Creators, feel free to now edit your Author Notes to put your other handles in them and to cross-post your work to any other site you'd like.
It was a privilege doing this exchange with you all this time around. See you at the end of the year once again!
Gifts are Live!
It brings me such pleasure to announce that all the works for the Zutara Gift Exchange 2025 are now live!
Find the fic and artwork here!
Get your favourite drink and a comfy place to sit, and get stuck in! Don't forget about AO3's lovely little "Mark for Later" feature, for when you just can't fight sleep any more.
From me, Ghosty the mod, I'd love to thank every single person who participated this year. It's been our biggest year, yet! Not only that, but we have had 16 sign ups... and there are over 20 works in the collection. That means that my heart's delight was achieved this year: people did treats!
Thank you, all, for sharing the love so wonderfully. It has truly made my heart happy!
For those receiving gifts: remember to comment! Commenting is feeding the author, and it's a culture we should be working toward growing in our fic community. Even just an emoji and a "thank you; I loved this!" goes a long way.
For the creators: Don't be afraid to respond to comments. Your responses will show up as anonymous until the work reveal on January 4, after which time the work and all your comments will show your name, and the work will appear on your AO3 profile. Anybody subbed to you will also get an email notification then to inform them you've posted a new work!
Isn't AO3 just wonderful?
Happy Zutara-ing, my fellow shipmates!
Hi hi when do the gifts go out?
Hi, Anon!
Gifts will be sent out 31 December 2025 (that's today, yay!) at 8pm UST. Gifts will remain anonymous until 4 January 2026 at 8pm UST.
For any more info, please see our rules and schedule.
Six Days Until Gifts are Due!
We have six days (give or take a few hours) until out gifts are due for the Zutara Gift Exchange 2025.
I hope that you're having fun creating for your assigned giftee! And, as the festive mood hits, don't forget that you're welcome to submit treats all the way up until January 5th!
Happy creating!
Assignments Sent & Beta Reader List
Matches have been matched, and assignments have been sent out! Find your assignment in your email inbox, or under the "my assignments" tab on AO3.
You have 48 hours to request a change in assignment, should the Fic Cupid not have given you a good match! (That means 8pm UTC on 30 November.)
Below is a list of all the users who have offered to be Beta readers. Should you like to have a beta reader for your fic, please reach out to one of them! If they're unable to help you with your request, please reach out to us.
As always, we ask to ensure that you don't ask the person you're writing a fic for to beta read their fic ;) Beta readers will be listed alphabetically by their AO3 username, with their Tumblr handle in brackets.
BETA READERS 2025
arverst_aegnar (@arverst-aegnar)
Justanotherghostwriter (@justanotherghostwriter)
mosylu (@mosylufanfic)
phoebester (@phoebester)
trojantoast (@trojantoast)
Yumani (@yumanichan)
zutarafy (@zutarafy)
2025 sign ups closed!
The matching process is underway!
Soon, those who signed up will be receiving an email with their assignment. You will have 48 hours to ask for a different assignment if you feel completely unable to work with what you've been given.
Keep an eye on the blog for a list of those who offered to beta read this year.
And, most importantly: don't forget about treats! We highly encourage the holiday spirit to entirely take over you so that you create small little things for other participants once your assignment has been filled.
Click here to learn more about treats.
Three Days Left to sign up for the Zutara Gift Exchange 2025
The Zutara Gift Exchange 2025 is a fandom event that runs very similarly to a Secret Santa gift exchange. Artists and writers sign up using the AO3 sign up form, and are then given the name and gift wishlist of another participant in the event. They pick a prompt, theme or idea from their giftee’s wishlist and write/draw them a Zutara gift based on the prompt, theme or idea. While they’re hard at work, another anonymous member of the event is busy making them a gift based off the gift wishlist they submitted. At the end of December 2025, all participants of the event submit their works, and all participants receive a lovely Zutara gift as we ring in 2026. What better way to start a new year than with our OTP?
Sign ups are open until 28 November 2025 at 8pm UTC (see this time in your local timezone).
Minimum requirements: completed 1000 word fanfic or one completed, clean artwork (clean linework or flat colour).
Rules and Schedule.
FAQ.
Requests Summary for Treats
Help with filling in your requests/offer boxes.
The AO3 collection.
Looking forward to once again creating wonderful Zutara things with you all!
One Week Left to sign up for the Zutara Gift Exchange 2025
The Zutara Gift Exchange 2025 is a fandom event that runs very similarly to a Secret Santa gift exchange. Artists and writers sign up using the AO3 sign up form, and are then given the name and gift wishlist of another participant in the event. They pick a prompt, theme or idea from their giftee’s wishlist and write/draw them a Zutara gift based on the prompt, theme or idea. While they’re hard at work, another anonymous member of the event is busy making them a gift based off the gift wishlist they submitted. At the end of December 2025, all participants of the event submit their works, and all participants receive a lovely Zutara gift as we ring in 2026. What better way to start a new year than with our OTP?
Sign ups are open until 28 November 2025 at 8pm UTC (see this time in your local timezone).
Minimum requirements: completed 1000 word fanfic or one completed, clean artwork (clean linework or flat colour).
Rules and Schedule.
FAQ.
Requests Summary for Treats
Help with filling in your requests/offer boxes.
The AO3 collection.
Looking forward to once again creating wonderful Zutara things with you all!
Sign Ups Open: Zutara Gift Exchange 2025
The Zutara Gift Exchange 2025 is a fandom event that runs very similarly to a Secret Santa gift exchange. Artists and writers sign up using the AO3 sign up form, and are then given the name and gift wishlist of another participant in the event. They pick a prompt, theme or idea from their giftee’s wishlist and write/draw them a Zutara gift based on the prompt, theme or idea. While they’re hard at work, another anonymous member of the event is busy making them a gift based off the gift wishlist they submitted. At the end of December 2025, all participants of the event submit their works, and all participants receive a lovely Zutara gift as we ring in 2026. What better way to start a new year than with our OTP?
Sign ups are open until 28 November 2025 at 8pm UTC (see this time in your local timezone).
Minimum requirements: completed 1000 word fanfic or one completed, clean artwork (clean linework or flat colour).
Rules and Schedule.
FAQ.
Requests Summary for Treats
Help with filling in your requests/offer boxes.
The AO3 collection.
Looking forward to once again creating wonderful Zutara things with you all!
Sign Ups Open: Zutara Gift Exchange 2025
The Zutara Gift Exchange 2025 is a fandom event that runs very similarly to a Secret Santa gift exchange. Artists and writers sign up using the AO3 sign up form, and are then given the name and gift wishlist of another participant in the event. They pick a prompt, theme or idea from their giftee’s wishlist and write/draw them a Zutara gift based on the prompt, theme or idea. While they’re hard at work, another anonymous member of the event is busy making them a gift based off the gift wishlist they submitted. At the end of December 2025, all participants of the event submit their works, and all participants receive a lovely Zutara gift as we ring in 2026. What better way to start a new year than with our OTP?
Sign ups are open until 28 November 2025 at 8pm UTC (see this time in your local timezone).
Minimum requirements: completed 1000 word fanfic or 1 completed, clean artwork (clean linework or flat colour).
Rules and Schedule.
FAQ.
Requests Summary for Treats
Help with filling in your requests/offer boxes.
The AO3 collection.
Looking forward to once again creating wonderful Zutara things with you all!
Hi sorry if this is bothersome but what are the chances of another exchange this year? :)
Hi, anon! Not a bother at all; thanks for the message.
It's very, very, very likely that there will be another exchange at the end of 2025! :D
Creators have been revealed!
Thank you to all who participated this year. The period of anonymity is over, and you're now welcome (and encouraged!) to share your wonderful creations on your own social media platforms.
May these fic and artworks continue to bring joy!
See you at the end of the year!
As we have for the past three years, we're going to ring in the new year with Zutara!
All the gifts for this year's gift exchange are live! Even though they're still anonymous for a week, please leave even a short emoji comment to show the writers and artists some love!
And, remember: it's never too late to be inspired by somebody's prompt. 😉
Thank you to all those who participated in the gift exchange this year!
View the fic and artwork here.
you'll get the urge as an artist or a writer to say out loud the things you're worried about "the proportions are off" "kind of out of character" "i'm not good at summaries" "didn't get as much detail as i wanted" "i made a mistake and here's how" and that's the self-conscious part of your brain telling you "it's bad and if you don't tell them you know it's bad then they'll think you're stupid" but you've got to ignore that little voice and pretend you think it's good or else that little voice is going to ruin your life
hi - I was wondering where we could find the list of people who've offered to beta our gifts. I can't find it here or on AO3. Thank you!
Hi, Anon!
Thank you for your message. This year, we didn't do a call for people to sign up as beta readers in the initial sign up. But I'm sure there will be somebody — participant or not! — willing to act as beta. Please keep an eye on the notes of this post and reach out to anybody who comments/reblogs that they'd be willing to beta.
Any willing beta readers:
The fic will very, very likely be SFW, judging from the requests. If you're willing for Anon Writer to reach out so you can get more info on the fic and then decide whether you can beta or not, please either comment or reblog this. Anon Writer will contact you directly.
Thanks, all!
2024 Sign Ups Closed
If you're seeing this message and are disappointed that you missed the sign up then never fear! You can still participate by sending in a treat to anybody and/or signing up to be a pinchitter by inboxing this account.
(Treats are explained under point 8 of our FAQ).
All assignments have been sent out!
Please check your spam folders if you don't see your assignment in your email inbox.
2024 Sign Ups Closed
If you're seeing this message and are disappointed that you missed the sign up then never fear! You can still participate by sending in a treat to anybody and/or signing up to be a pinchitter by inboxing this account.
(Treats are explained under point 8 of our FAQ).
