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Feb. 20th, 2019 09:11 pm
ashling: (john)
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NOTE: THIS HAS BEEN UPDATED AS OF 10/01/19
 
Welcome to Peaky Blinders Exchange Round Two: Season 5 Edition! It's a gift exchange for Peaky Blinders fandom, which means, in essence: you write one gift for someone else, and you get at least one gift.
 
This challenge begins on October 4, when tag nominations open.
 
For more information, updates, and pinch hits, subscribe to this dreamwidth or the exchange tumblr.
 
The full FAQ and rules can be found on the profile page. If you have any questions, please contact the mods at peakyblindersexchangemod@gmail.com! We're happy to help.

What is this?
By Order of the Peaky Blinders Fic Exchange is a gift exchange for the Peaky Blinders fandom, focusing on ships and friendship combos. Everyone writes a story of at least 500 words. In return, they will receive a story of at least 500 words.
 
General schedule:
Tagset nominations open: October 4
Tagset nominations close: October 11 (countdown here)
Signups open: October 12
Signups close: October 20 (countdown here)
Assignments go out: October 21
Posting deadline: November 22 (countdown here)
Story reveals: November 29 (countdown here)
Author reveal: December 6

This exchange has four stages: Nominations, Signups, Assignments, Reveals.

During Nominations, people will use AO3 to nominate which relationships they're interested in writing or receiving. Basically, when you nominate a relationship, you add that relationship to a list of relationships that anyone can ask for. It's a way of standardizing things for matching purposes. If we didn't have nominations, then you'd run into a situation where one person asked for "Finn Shelby & Tommy Shelby" and one person asked for "Finn Shelby & Thomas Shelby" and the computer wouldn't know to match them up.

You do not have to nominate in order to sign up. Each participant will be given 20 slots to nominate relationships. & means a platonic relationship. / means a sexual or romantic one. Character & None (e.g. "Polly Gray & None") denotes a character study. CROSSOVER RELATIONSHIPS WILL BE ALLOWED, as long as you disambiguate the crossover character (e.g. "Tommy Shelby/Ned Stark (Game of Thrones)"). 
 
During Signups, people use a form on the AO3 to sign up to request and offer to create Peaky Blinders fic. While all participants are required to request at least three (with a maximum of ten) relationships they wish to receive a gift for, they are only obligated to create one fic.
 
After signups, participants are matched up based on what they offered and requested, and Assignments are sent out. Participants have about four weeks to create a fic that fits the minimum criteria (but can, of course, exceed it!)
 
Stories must be posted to the By Order of the Peaky Blinders Fic Exchange challenge on AO3 by the deadline. They will automatically appear as anonymous "Mystery Gifts" for the recipients.
 
When works are revealed, author names will still be hidden. If creators wish to comment, they can but they will show up as Anonymous Creator until authors are revealed.

When creators will be revealed, you can see who wrote everything..
 
FAQs beneath the cut. 

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ashling: (peaky blinders)
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 Nominations will start on October 4. The full schedule is now up here, along with the new version of the FAQ.
ashling: (john)
[personal profile] ashling
There's gonna be another exchange! Here's the basics:
  • tagset nominations start October 4, the same day that Peaky Blinders comes out on Netflix internationally
  • crossover pairings will be allowed this time
  • same minimum wordcount, 500
  • full schedule forthcoming
Enjoy Season 5 and start thinking on who you want to nominate!
ashling: (peaky blinders)
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The collection is looking good! While some writers asked for extensions and are currently working on their assignments, others did not and hit the deadline without posting, so here's the pinch hits below. If you would like to pick one up, comment (comments are screened to keep anonymity), email me at peakyblindersexchangemod@gmail.com, message me on discord at ashling#7490, OR message me at peakyblindersexchange.tumblr.com.

Pinch Hits #1-4 have been claimed!

Read more... ) #5 thewestmeadow  Read more... ) #6 Birdywhistle-CLAIMED!

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ashling: (john)
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 I’m about to send out the assignments, and I just wanted to remind you: You only need to write ONE fic that fulfills ONE of the requests on your assignment. 500+ words please. The deadline is April 15, 2019. 

When you post your assignment, please make sure that your recipients username is in the "Gift this work to" box and that the collection peakyblindersexchange2019 is in the "Post to Collections / Challenges" box. (example images below)

 

 

 

If you encounter an emergency and you're unable to finish your gift, please go to your Assignments page and hit the button labeled "Default" so I can find someone to write a replacement gift (which in exchange talk is known as a "pinch hit"). If you only need a one or two day extension, come talk to me.

If you are done with your assignment early, you can poke around in the Requests Summary and see if there's anyone you would like to write a treat (or extra gift) for. Treats are completely optional and very fun! Requests Summary HERE

On April 19, all of the fics will be visible to everybody, but their authors will be listed as anonymous. This is so we can all run around and comment on people's fics. It's often fun to guess who it was that wrote for you, and see if you can recognize your friends’ writing styles. Be sure to leave a comment on your gift letting your author know that you read it (and hopefully liked it!)

On April 26, all the authors will be revealed. 

If you have any questions at all, feel free to hit me up at our tumblr or peakyblindersexchangemod@gmail.com. I’m so happy and excited for the first year of this exchange and I can’t wait to see what you guys will write!

ashling: (john)
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Twenty-six people signed up and I am beyond excited to see what you guys are going to come up with! I'm generating matches right now and assignments should be out by the end of tomorrow at the latest. 
ashling: (john)
[personal profile] ashling
SIGNUPS HERE.

Ask any questions you have in the comments, and/or email us at peakyblindersexchange@gmail.com.

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