The Fringe Fandom Gift Exchange
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fringe_exchangeIn a festive mood for Fringe? For a gift exchange of fiction, podfic, art including icons, and vids?
Then you're about to enter the right universe: welcome tofringe_exchange. The sub-community of fringe_kinkmeme, formerly known as Fringe Secret Santa, has its own shiny new place.
The Fringe Gift Exchange is open to fanfic, podfic, fanart including icons, and fanvids; on the fic side everything goes -- all we ask for is a minimum word count of 750, that kinks are tagged and warnings included.
1. To SIGN UP, all you need to do is add a comment to this very post containing your request by the 31st of October.
2. RESPONSES to gift requests are to be posted by December 27, in a separate entry to this community, preferably by your Dreamwidth (or validated open id) sock of choice. The entries will go into a moderation queue until the reveal. All entries will be unveiled by the mods at the same time once every participant has a gift.
3. If you don't want to make a sock journal, that's not a problem. Just let one of the mods know ahead of time. We can easily put up a separate entry for you to post your gift as an anonymous comment.
4. Now! To join the exchange, post your request with the following information:
Name: [DW handle] OR [LJ handle] OR [AO3 account] OR [ff.net handle] OR [...]
E-mail:
Things I'd like: Please request at least three things here...but ultimately feel free to add as many things as you'd like at this point. Doesn't mean you'll get them all, but there's no harm in asking, and it ensures you get a great Secret Santa match. If you'd like a specific pairing or character, then speak now or forever hold thy peace. Don't forget to ask for icons or vids too -- we all know the likelihood is low in a small fandom such as this one, but hey. Worth a shot!
Things I wouldn't like: If there's anything you wouldn't like to receive (pairing in a fic, French electropop for your vid, bright-green textures in your icons) then here's the place to mention it. Without character-, pairing-, or kink-bashing, of course.
What I can do: Are you great at a certain genre (gen, het, slash)? Are you the specialist for writing specific character/s or pairing/s? One of the excellent Fringe vidders out there, or an icon-maker with aspirations? One of the folks on tumblr who brighten every Fringe fan's day? As ever, specifics are great so your match brings you tears of happiness instead of, you know, the opposite.
What I can't do: If there's anything you feel you can't do, then please say so here. Same disclaimer as above applies.
Pinch hitter? In the event of someone not being able to complete their gift are you willing to be a stand-in writer, pod-ficcer, artist, or vidder?
The deadline to sign up is October 31st. Since we are getting a late start this year, the deadline to default is December 22; with all gifts due in on December 27, that should give us time to organize a pinch hitter. Obviously, the sooner we know you can't do it, the easier that will be. If the assignment you received is not what you signed up to do, let us know that as soon as possible. We're doing the matching by hand so that shouldn't be an issue.
Feel free to snag one of these Fringe Exchange icons:
Or make your own!
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A Fringe gift exchange for the holidays, signups end Oct 31st!
EDIT: THE SIGN-UP IS NOW CLOSED.
Then you're about to enter the right universe: welcome to
fringe_exchange. The sub-community of fringe_kinkmeme, formerly known as Fringe Secret Santa, has its own shiny new place. The Fringe Gift Exchange is open to fanfic, podfic, fanart including icons, and fanvids; on the fic side everything goes -- all we ask for is a minimum word count of 750, that kinks are tagged and warnings included.
1. To SIGN UP, all you need to do is add a comment to this very post containing your request by the 31st of October.
2. RESPONSES to gift requests are to be posted by December 27, in a separate entry to this community, preferably by your Dreamwidth (or validated open id) sock of choice. The entries will go into a moderation queue until the reveal. All entries will be unveiled by the mods at the same time once every participant has a gift.
3. If you don't want to make a sock journal, that's not a problem. Just let one of the mods know ahead of time. We can easily put up a separate entry for you to post your gift as an anonymous comment.
4. Now! To join the exchange, post your request with the following information:
Name: [DW handle] OR [LJ handle] OR [AO3 account] OR [ff.net handle] OR [...]
E-mail:
Things I'd like: Please request at least three things here...but ultimately feel free to add as many things as you'd like at this point. Doesn't mean you'll get them all, but there's no harm in asking, and it ensures you get a great Secret Santa match. If you'd like a specific pairing or character, then speak now or forever hold thy peace. Don't forget to ask for icons or vids too -- we all know the likelihood is low in a small fandom such as this one, but hey. Worth a shot!
Things I wouldn't like: If there's anything you wouldn't like to receive (pairing in a fic, French electropop for your vid, bright-green textures in your icons) then here's the place to mention it. Without character-, pairing-, or kink-bashing, of course.
What I can do: Are you great at a certain genre (gen, het, slash)? Are you the specialist for writing specific character/s or pairing/s? One of the excellent Fringe vidders out there, or an icon-maker with aspirations? One of the folks on tumblr who brighten every Fringe fan's day? As ever, specifics are great so your match brings you tears of happiness instead of, you know, the opposite.
What I can't do: If there's anything you feel you can't do, then please say so here. Same disclaimer as above applies.
Pinch hitter? In the event of someone not being able to complete their gift are you willing to be a stand-in writer, pod-ficcer, artist, or vidder?
The deadline to sign up is October 31st. Since we are getting a late start this year, the deadline to default is December 22; with all gifts due in on December 27, that should give us time to organize a pinch hitter. Obviously, the sooner we know you can't do it, the easier that will be. If the assignment you received is not what you signed up to do, let us know that as soon as possible. We're doing the matching by hand so that shouldn't be an issue.
fringe_exchangeA Fringe gift exchange for the holidays, signups end Oct 31st!
EDIT: THE SIGN-UP IS NOW CLOSED.
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Date: 2012-10-24 10:54 pm (UTC)E-mail: wintersnap (at) fastmail (dot) fm
Things I'd like: (in no particular order)
FIC
-an AU where baby Henry lived (and maybe Henrietta also came along?) Set in any verse.
-Charlie, Liv, and alt!Lincoln having adventures and banter and fantastic chemistry in the alt!verse
-Liv, Lincoln, and Tyrone having adventures and banter and fantastic chemistry in the alt!verse
-a mission involving the red and blue teams having to work together
-Lincoln/Lincoln
-Brown Betty verse Olivia/Esther
-Walternate and Elizabeth's relationship in the amber verse
-any combination of the show's women talking, doing things, whatever
-femmeslash
-power dynamics in sex, but not power imbalances (so like, your Astrid/Broyles/Walter epic shouldn't hang on their boss/employee relationship and Astrid fears for her job, but could totally involve D/s in the bedroom)
-on-screen negotiation of kinks
-hilarious, awkward, and altogether real sex (scorching hot idealized sex is also A-OK)
-queer gen and queer themes in shippy fic
-anything that would qualify for the "Let's Get Astrid Laid" tag, because yes, Astrid deserves all of the awesome sex she wants
-back half of S3 Peter/Astrid
PODFIC (I'd really, really love to receive podfic, if any other podficcers have signed up.)
-any of the above, where and if it exists
-but also blue or amber verse casefic
-Walter and Peter bonding/trying not to snap at each other/being a family
-happy blue and amber team fic
-Nina/Broyles
-Nina and Olivia in the amber 'verse
-Olivia/Peter/Lincoln
-basically anything you think is worth spending the time on, because I <3 podfic really hard
Things I wouldn't like: Generally speaking, I'm less interested in m/m or things that are just about the men. Complicated endings are A-OK, but not unhappy ones. At best, I'm pretty ambivalent about H/C and like I said, stay away from power imbalances in sexual relationships. Please don't play with themes of memory as identity (it's a fraught subject!) Blue!Charlie or Blue!John Scott as a main character would leave me pretty flat.
What I can do:
If I'm writing, I'm most comfortable working with gen, but will happily write pre-ship style ships. Also crossovers! As a podficcer, I prefer not to record incest or explicit sex, but am otherwise pretty good to go.
An assignment that gives me lots to dig into with the women of the show and/or Lincoln would make me happiest! I also love Lincoln/Lincoln and Peter/Olivia/Lincoln in the amber verse.
What I can't do: More or less the same as my "things I wouldn't like to receive" list, although this is a small enough fandom (I love digging into unexplored corners, but Fringe fandom is small enough that most things are unexplored!) that working the men of the show is okay by me, particularly in podfic.
Pinch hitter?
As a podficcer only!