We'd like to put things up for discussion we received questions about in the last few days:

1) Do you consider the 250 fics rule (or 5% respectively) a fair way to judge character rarity? Should there be no rule at all and just leave it to the participants to nominate what they consider rare?Our personal thoughts on this matter are that a set ( Read more... )

( New additions to the ineligible list )

If you guys would help promote this exchange in your fandoms, we would be very grateful! The more, the merrier!

Below, you can find a large and a small version of our banner, feel free to grab and share them wherever:

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Go here to nominate!Like last year, you can nominate up to 6 fandoms with up to 15 characters ( Read more... )

Hello, hello! *sending out an SOS*

What with rarepairfest just having closed their sign-ups you surely don't need another Rare [x] challenge, right? However, if you do, there will be a few changes this year. We hope you're okay with that. First, the Dates:

Dates

• Jul 1 - Jul 15: Nomination period
• Jul 16 - Jul 30: Signups open
• Aug 1: Assignments go out
• Oct 1: ( Read more... )

We'd now like to ask a bit of your time to give us feedback on the first round of the exchange. The questions below are just there to spark ideas, no need to answer them all ( Read more... )

I'm sure it's still the 1st of November somewhere...At last, the author reveals! You can now see who created your gift (and stalk the rest of their work) and the works will appear in the creator's list of recent works. You are now free to post your art, fic, podfic, etc. to any other place you desire ( Read more... )

Ladies and gentlemen,

with a little bit of delay, we have safely landed and delivered the cargo various fanworks. You can now go and have a lookAuthor/Artist reveals are on November 1st, so please do not to post your work anywhere else before that date. Once it has come, go wild ( Read more... )

Worst case scenario had to take place, of course. One of our pinch hitters has defaulted on us, so we are in need of an emergency pinch hit ( Read more... )

We're hoping to reveal the collection on October 22, 15:00 PDT/ 23:00 BST (respectively October 23, 00:00 CEST / 09:00 AEDT), provided all pinch hitters have submitted until then. That gives you around 4.5 hours to put final touches on your work.

Fingers crossed! x