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: 2012-10-29 12:43 am (UTC)E-mail: pond@ponderosa121.com
Things I'd like: I pretty much adore everyone, and would equally enjoy something gen or something shippy. Any type of fanwork will make me happy. If icons or graphics are your thing, I would love some new Olivia or Astrid centric icons, an Olivia-focused tumblr layout, or a cinemagraph or two!
In general P/O is my core ship, and/or poly/threesomes involving P/O, but Olivia is my favorite character, so while I don’t much care to see Peter with anyone else, I love other ships featuring Olivia. Team dynamics hit a ton of my buttons, especially as they appear in Redverse or in earlier Blueverse when the focus was more investigatory.
Fannish tropes I can never get enough of include genderswap/genderfuck (though genderswap purely for the purpose of a m/m pwp isn’t too interesting to me), bodyswitch, pretend couple (esp. Blue!Olivia/Red!Lincoln or Olivia/Astrid), and Canadian shack.
Random things that came to mind while typing this up are: one of my biggest canon regrets is never getting a Red!John Scott when the Redverse was first introduced; a BBC Sherlock crossover would probably be amazing; and this is one of the few fandoms where I would really love to see some non-saccharine mpreg (human...though really, larval is cool, too).
Things I wouldn't like: Unhappy endings or endings without hope. I’m not too keen on Blue!Lincoln/Red!Liv as a ship. h/c or AUs of the mundane sort aren’t my thing (i.e. a werewolf or steampunk AU are cherished while a bookstore AU is likely to make me snooze). Animated icons, or icons that are mostly text.
What I can do: I draw, write, and on occasion, I vid. I’ve never podficced, but I’d be willing to give it shot! Based on prior efforts, I’m probably best suited to write something with Blue!Olivia, Red!Lincoln, or Walter as the focus.
What I can't do: Much to my frustration, I can’t typically manage complex, plotty things. I’m really not very good at domestic or fluffy situations. I doubt I could write anything with Broyles or Nina featuring strongly.
Pinch hitter? I'm good for an art pinch.