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 06:40 pm (UTC)E-mail:zippy1013 at gmail dot com
Things I'd like: All I really want this holiday exchange is fic. Boyond that, I only ask, dear writer, that you put aside any worries about what I would and would not like, and enjoy playing with this canon. Too vague? Okay, I like 5-things stories, secret marriages, road trips, outsider point of view. I like time travel and paradoxes and stories where one tiny thing in canon is changed but affects things in a big way. I love the Original Harvard Four, before things got complicated, but any timeline will do. Found families and stories about making complicated relationships work (and not just romantic ones - this show is about fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, and every surrogate combination thereof) are my weak spot. I'd prefer gen or het to slash, but if that's what makes your story work, then run with it.
Things I wouldn't like: PWP, Etta/anybody outside her timeline, permanent character death, anything that requires the standard trigger warnings.
What I can do: Gen, het, plotty fic, one-shots, 5-things, character-centric stories, time travel, non-linear storytelling...missing scenes. I've got half a case-fic written that I'd love to be pushed into finishing and give away.
What I can't do: My talents are pretty much limited to fic. Beyond that, I'm open to try anything, though given my writing style, requests for explicit slash/femslash should probably be left to people with a better handle on pronouns.
Pinch hitter? Not this year, sadly.