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: 2012-10-25 06:50 am (UTC)E-mail: above handle at gmail dot com
Things I'd like:
Fanfic-wise, I’d dig Blue!Lincoln with a female Dunham: Olivia, Alt!Liv, or even Etta. I miss the Redverse, either in the past or, ideally, in the future – how far is your call. I like character interaction and insight best, but plot impresses me like whoa, and if you can add a bit of humour I will love your writing forever. Higher ratings are better, but don’t strain yourself…only the characters.
Fanworks of other kinds are great too: I’d love a vid very, very dearly. Obviously, anything that has Olivia kicking ass and taking names would be great. I still long for a Landscape (Florence + the Machine) vid featuring Olivia, or if you happen to be a Peter/Olivia shipper, I’ll take a vid for them set to Love Is No Big Truth (Kings of Convenience). Or absolutely any vid featuring Lincoln, any version – clearly I’m still holding out for a Heartbeats vid (The Knife). Podfic of any of my stories also welcome.
Things I wouldn't like: Regarding fanfic, I’m a shipper, so genfic generally excites me less…unless it has Astrid! Then anything goes. While I like most permutations of pairings in all ‘verses just fine, I’m not a huge Peter/Olivia shipper…but if you do them well and steer them far, far away from Forever Destiny! Territory and let them navigate the pitfalls of real life, or have really really hot sex, I’m all for it!
Fanworks? Most graphics don’t do it for me, and as for icons: I don’t post enough lately and do make them myself. But vids and podfics -- can’t go wrong with them.
What I can do: I can write fic and make icons or fanart; I’ll do femslash, slash, and het but write genfic pretty much only for rainer76 (because of *reasons*). I like to think I’m good at dialogue and a blend of drama, pseudo-plot, and humour. Fanwork-wise, my colouring and cropping as well as the composition is quite decent. I think.
What I can't do: Not ideal for P/O fic and alas cannot vid either; I can podfic but not especially well.
Pinch hitter? I could pinch-hit for fanworks that are not fic, I think: icons or a graphic.