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: 2012-10-23 11:50 pm (UTC)E-mail: wendelah1 at gmail dot com
Things I'd like: Redverse! I miss Redverse!Lincoln Lee the most. I want him back. Could someone write me an AU where he didn't die? Or really any story set in the Redverse during any season except the fourth? I also love team fic, so including any combination of the Redverse's Olivia and Charlie and Astrid would make me happy. They don't have to do anything except hang out together. I kind of doom-ship Redverse Altlivia and Lincoln, but actually I'd be fine if she was still with Frank, too. Fringe friendshipping is the best shipping.
Stories not set in the Redverse: I would be interested in a story where our Lincoln didn't leave for the Otherside, but instead went back to Connecticut and reconnected with his partner's widow and his godchildren. Not a romance, but look, he'd told Olivia they were the family he'd never had. And then he left them. Twice. That needs fixing imho.
Alternate crazy-Wendy ideas: if you're a Phile, you could write me a fic set in my AU where Mulder was Charlie's first partner. Set it back in the day, when there was still an FBI. Fox Mulder and Charlie Francis! We put the "I" in FBI! Or set it in the present day and have Mulder and Scully have Charlie and His Bug Science Lady Friend over for Thanksgiving Day dinner. Other cross-over ideas: if you could figure out a way to cross Fringe and Elementary, that would be amazing.
Non-fic things: a podfic of any of my three Fringe stories would make me very happy. Or a banner for any of the three stories. Or icons, I do love me some icons. If you can make mix and match fandoms, icons where the X-Files and Fringe intersect would be awesome. Otherwise, Lincoln Lee is always a good bet. If you like to vid, how about a Redverse Lincoln Lee vid set to Regina Spector's The Party. There wouldn't be a dry eye left in the house. Or any music, really. Just getting a Fringe vid would incredible.
Things I wouldn't like: Porn Without Plot. I like short, crucial to the plot sex scenes fine, but I kind of don't read the lengthy ones anymore. I am fine with all pairings, as long as they aren't the sole focus of the story. Also I'm not personally convinced that the Fringe characters are polyamorous.
What I can do: I can write plotty genfic. I can write fix-it fic and missing scenes (except porn), AUs, cross-overs with any fandom I'm familiar with, and even (gasp) romance. I can make simple icons and banners.
What I can't do: I cannot write good porn. I cannot vid. I cannot create podfic.
Pinch hitter? Yes. I write well under pressure, except for porn. I cannot be a backup vidder or podficcer.