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equinox_exchangeSign ups are open for the Spring Equinox vid exchange! This season's theme is Game On.
Sign up for Spring Equinox on AO3
The tag sets for Game On! can be viewed here: Safety Fandoms Tag Set | Non-Safety Fandoms Tag Set
Sign ups close on Saturday, February 29th at 11:59PM Eastern.
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Rules for Requests You can request 4 – 8 fandoms. The first four requests must be distinct fandoms with no overlap. (Being excited about a franchise is great, but vidders need options. At least four of your requests must not contain the same/overlapping source material – eg, "Mary Poppins (1964)" and "Mary Poppins Returns (2018)" are overlapping fandom tags, as are "Captain America: The First Avenger" and "Captain Marvel (2019)", despite not containing significant character overlap.)
Please note: We will be carefully enforcing this rule. If your sign up doesn't include at least four requests for separate and distinct franchises, you will be contacted by moderators to make changes. At least one request must be a source from the safety fandom tag set, with a total runtime of 240 minutes or less and a maximum of two films/episodes.
For the remaining four additional request slots, you're free to overlap as much as you like (keeping in mind each request must be for a unique fandom tag). You can also use an additional request slot to request "multi-fandom," if there's a theme-specific multifandom concept you want to ask for (e.g. women in space, space engineers, alien villains, etc.). Please make sure to include the multi-fandom concept you have in mind in the "optional details" space.
For Spring 2020, you can include up to 10 character and 10 relationship tags in each fandom request. This is strictly optional; only fandoms are required for sign-up, and characters/relationships are optional for both AO3 matching and the assigned vidder. If you do have one or more characters or relationships in mind, you're encouraged to include them by tag in your request, as AO3 will take characters / relationships into account if possible to make better matches. (Character and relationship tags are considered individually - Rey or Finn or Poe Dameron or Poe Dameron/Finn/Rey or BB-8 & Rey. If you included all of those in your request, they would be treated as individual, optional requests for vids about Rey or Finn or Poe Dameron/Finn/Rey, etc.)
Only characters and relationships canonically associated with each fandom within AO3 will be available at sign-up. AO3 relationship tags include romantic relationships (Y/Z, X/Y/Z, etc) and platonic relationships (Y & Z). If there's a character or relationship you want to request that doesn't populate automatically, contact the exchange mods.
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Rules for Offers
You can offer 4 – 10 fandoms. As with requests, the first four offers must be for distinct fandoms/franchises with no overlap. For the remaining six additional offer slots, you are free to overlap as much as you like. Since the specific tag under which someone asks for a fandom may vary, if there's something you very much want to vid, you may want to offer it under a couple of different fandom tags – but keep in mind that the broader the fandom tag, the broader the scope of the source you're offering.
(As an example that does not specifically pertain to this season: if you really only want to offer to vid "Star Wars Original Trilogy," that should be the tag you pick, and not "Star Wars - All Media Types," where someone may ask for another trilogy – or a TV show – or a book. If you want to vid Original Trilogy but are also up for vidding Empire Strikes Back on its own, you would want to offer both; fandom tags have to match exactly and tag nesting doesn't affect matching, so you can't be assigned a Empire Strikes Back request just by offering Original Trilogy.)
You can include up to 10 character and 10 relationship tags in each fandom offer.
To give you the best possible match, you're encouraged to offer as many characters or relationships as you wish to vid (up to the form limits). Even if you're matched on both fandom and character, the character tag is still optional – you aren't required to vid the character or relationship tags – but it will help to bring your vidding interests more in line with your recipients' interests.
Unlike requests, "multi-fandom" is not allowed as an offer fandom (it will show up on the form, but if you tick it as an offer, you'll be asked to edit your sign up). Multi-fandom requests are not used for matching.
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You can edit your sign up form at any time before sign ups close, under My Sign Ups on AO3.
The requests summary will be visible here once sign ups start coming in.
Sign up for Spring Equinox on AO3
The tag sets for Game On! can be viewed here: Safety Fandoms Tag Set | Non-Safety Fandoms Tag Set
Sign ups close on Saturday, February 29th at 11:59PM Eastern.
*
Rules for Requests You can request 4 – 8 fandoms. The first four requests must be distinct fandoms with no overlap. (Being excited about a franchise is great, but vidders need options. At least four of your requests must not contain the same/overlapping source material – eg, "Mary Poppins (1964)" and "Mary Poppins Returns (2018)" are overlapping fandom tags, as are "Captain America: The First Avenger" and "Captain Marvel (2019)", despite not containing significant character overlap.)
Please note: We will be carefully enforcing this rule. If your sign up doesn't include at least four requests for separate and distinct franchises, you will be contacted by moderators to make changes. At least one request must be a source from the safety fandom tag set, with a total runtime of 240 minutes or less and a maximum of two films/episodes.
For the remaining four additional request slots, you're free to overlap as much as you like (keeping in mind each request must be for a unique fandom tag). You can also use an additional request slot to request "multi-fandom," if there's a theme-specific multifandom concept you want to ask for (e.g. women in space, space engineers, alien villains, etc.). Please make sure to include the multi-fandom concept you have in mind in the "optional details" space.
For Spring 2020, you can include up to 10 character and 10 relationship tags in each fandom request. This is strictly optional; only fandoms are required for sign-up, and characters/relationships are optional for both AO3 matching and the assigned vidder. If you do have one or more characters or relationships in mind, you're encouraged to include them by tag in your request, as AO3 will take characters / relationships into account if possible to make better matches. (Character and relationship tags are considered individually - Rey or Finn or Poe Dameron or Poe Dameron/Finn/Rey or BB-8 & Rey. If you included all of those in your request, they would be treated as individual, optional requests for vids about Rey or Finn or Poe Dameron/Finn/Rey, etc.)
Only characters and relationships canonically associated with each fandom within AO3 will be available at sign-up. AO3 relationship tags include romantic relationships (Y/Z, X/Y/Z, etc) and platonic relationships (Y & Z). If there's a character or relationship you want to request that doesn't populate automatically, contact the exchange mods.
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Rules for Offers
You can offer 4 – 10 fandoms. As with requests, the first four offers must be for distinct fandoms/franchises with no overlap. For the remaining six additional offer slots, you are free to overlap as much as you like. Since the specific tag under which someone asks for a fandom may vary, if there's something you very much want to vid, you may want to offer it under a couple of different fandom tags – but keep in mind that the broader the fandom tag, the broader the scope of the source you're offering.
(As an example that does not specifically pertain to this season: if you really only want to offer to vid "Star Wars Original Trilogy," that should be the tag you pick, and not "Star Wars - All Media Types," where someone may ask for another trilogy – or a TV show – or a book. If you want to vid Original Trilogy but are also up for vidding Empire Strikes Back on its own, you would want to offer both; fandom tags have to match exactly and tag nesting doesn't affect matching, so you can't be assigned a Empire Strikes Back request just by offering Original Trilogy.)
You can include up to 10 character and 10 relationship tags in each fandom offer.
To give you the best possible match, you're encouraged to offer as many characters or relationships as you wish to vid (up to the form limits). Even if you're matched on both fandom and character, the character tag is still optional – you aren't required to vid the character or relationship tags – but it will help to bring your vidding interests more in line with your recipients' interests.
Unlike requests, "multi-fandom" is not allowed as an offer fandom (it will show up on the form, but if you tick it as an offer, you'll be asked to edit your sign up). Multi-fandom requests are not used for matching.
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You can edit your sign up form at any time before sign ups close, under My Sign Ups on AO3.
The requests summary will be visible here once sign ups start coming in.
