Recursive Exchange

A big shout out to all of our creators & our pinch-hitters. Great work everyone! We hope that everyone enjoys their gifts.

Please reach out to us immediately at recursiveexchange@protonmail.com (and include your ao3 username) if any of the following happened:

• You fulfilled an assignment on time but you have not received a gift.
• Your gift is not for a recursed work that you requested.
• Your gift contains a DNW that you had in your AO3 signup.

In the meanwhile, we hope you enjoy your gift and the collection as a whole!

Creators will be revealed one week from today.

We've passed the draft deadline! We currently have 8 creators on extension, so if you do not yet have a gift: not to worry!

We have a post-deadline pinch hit in search of a creator. They have all the same rules as assignments — respecting DNWs and length minimums included. You can find information on assignment minimums here. This PH has an initial due date of July 9th at 10pm EDT, but we're willing to be flexible if you'd like more time.

To pick up a pinch hit, comment below with:

The PH you want

Your AO3 username

(Even if your Dreamwidth username is the same as your AO3, please just tell us your AO3 name so we can be sure!)

All comments are screened to keep pinch hitters secret! If you comment anonymously you won't be able to see replies to your comment, but you will know you got it if you get an email from AO3 saying it's been assigned to you

The post deadline PH has been claimed! Thank you so much to our volunteers! ( Claimed! PH 6 - Crossover Fandom, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Thorne & Rowling, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Orczy )

We have a new pinch hit in search of a creator. They have all the same rules as assignments — respecting DNWs and length minimums included. You can find information on assignment minimums here. This PH is due at the same time as assignments, July 3rd 10PM EDT (Countdown), though we're willing to be flexible if you need more time to complete it.

To pick up a pinch hit, comment below with:

• The PH you want
• Your AO3 username
• (Even if your Dreamwidth username is the same as your AO3, please just tell us your AO3 name so we can be sure!)

All comments are screened to keep pinch hitters secret! If you comment anonymously you won't be able to see replies to your comment, but you will know you got it if you get an email from AO3 saying it's been assigned to you.

PH 5 - Final Fantasy VII (Video Game 1997), Natsume Yuujinchou | Natsume's Book of Friends, The Elder Scrolls - Morrowind, Wiedźmin | The Witcher (Video Game), Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, Star Wars Sequel Trilogy

Hey everyone! Signups and nominations for Recursive Exchange are now closed. We've run matching & contacted one person who we need to hear from before we can send out assignments. If your username starts with C, please check your email and get back to us in the next 24 hours.

Matching has otherwise gone smoothly, and we should be able to send out assignments before the weekend. We will keep you updated! :D

QUESTION(S) TO OUR NOMINATIORS

We still have outstanding questions to our nominators. Please get back to us ASAP so we can accept these nominations into the tagset.

-Bloom by newamsterdam. The work is listed as a bang work with multiple collaborators. Please provide permission statements from all of the collaborators if you'd like us to accept it into the tagset.

-Halo Effect/Soldier's Heart by Alex51324. The permission statement only covers fanfic. Please provide a permission statement that covers fanart as well for it to be accepted into the tagset.

-Proportion in Bliss by meek-bookworm. The permission statement only covers fanfic. Please provide a permission statement that covers fanart as well for it to be accepted into the tagset.

Sign Up Form | AO3 Tagset | Airtable Tagset

Signups for Recursive Exchange are now open! Sign up info can be found on the AO3 signup form, and also in our rules post. Nominations will remain open during signups!! We will process nominations at least once a day. If you need something in order to complete your requests or offers, we recommend you get your nominations in at least 24 hours before signups close. We can't promise that we'll be looking at the spreadsheet to catch all last-day nominations in time for you to complete your signup! (countdown to when sign ups close).

We will have a spreadsheet of requests soon, so keep your eyes peeled for that!

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Please note the absolute minimum to sign up is:

One request with 1 parent fandom with 2 fanworks from different creators, 1 medium, and 1 character category.

One offer with 1 parent fandom, 1 fanwork, 1 medium, and 1 character category that matches at least 1 request besides your own.

This means AT MINIMUM, you need to request 2 fanworks that were created by 2 different creators. These two fanworks CAN be in a single fandom. The offer minimum is one offer that matches someone else's request. If you can achieve that with one offer, you're golden!

Signups that don't meet this minimum threshhold will be contacted at the end of the signup period, and be given 24 hours to respond to our queries. We will ask people who do not meet the minimum requests to expand their requests to include at least two fanworks by two different authors. For people who do not match to another participant as a creator, we will ask you to expand your offers. After that, we will delete signups that do not meet the request/offer minimums.

The flipside to these low minimums is that if you are requesting less than 6 fanwork tags across 3 parent fandoms, and your pinch hit lingers until the day works are due (or one week if you were defaulted on less than a week before the due date) you will be asked to add additional parent fandoms/fanworks. If you don't want to add additional parent fandoms/fanworks, your pinch hit will stay up, but we won't hold up reveals for you. We will hold reveals until everyone who requests 3+ parent fandoms/6+fanworks has a gift. The caveat to the 3 fandoms/6 fanworks rule is for Original Works-only requests. If you request 6 different fanwork tags from Original Work, we will treat that as a full request.

If you have any questions about signups, please feel free to ask them here!

We're underway with nominations, and we've emailed a few nominators with clarifications. Most of our issues have focused on permission statements. Specifically, what we've seen are permission statements that don't fully cover the kinds of transformative work people may be requesting in this event.

If you are nominating a work for this event, the transformative work statement from the creator needs to say yes to a minimum of fanart and fanfic. Even if you plan to request only fanfic, or only fanart, you may not be the only person who requests a specific nomination. Therefore, everything in the tagset must have permission granted for both mediums. And that permission needs to be granted without any caveats about needing to contact the fanwork creator before making transformative works.

Types of statements that are okay:

Someone says blanket yes to all transformative works.

Yes to fic of fic, to fanart, and to other mediums.

Someone says "do whatever, just link me! :D".

Someone says, "I'm excited to see what you make. Credit me please!"

Someone says, "I believe in the give me credit, don't seek permission model of fandom."

Someone says, "you can make recursive work of my fic, but finishing my WIPs is not allowed." This is acceptable for this event, because we ban requests to "write the end of the fic" for incomplete works.

Types of statements where we will ask for further clarification:

Someone says yes to "remixes" and fanart. Remixes and recursive fanfic aren't always the same thing. We will usually ask for the nominator to reach out and ask about whether transformative fic or "fic of fic" is okay.

Someone says yes to fanart, podfics, and translations but no mention of fic.

Someone says yes to fic of their work, with no statement about fanart.

Types of statements where we may reject the nomination:

Someone says people have to specifically contact them before making a fanwork to seek their permission for transformation.

Someone specifically bars people from making fanart of their work.

Someone specifically bars people from writing fic set during their series.

We're happy to talk things through with you if we find a permission statement may not cover everything that this exchange needs! (One of the reasons the nomination period is so long is that we knew that we'd likely need time for people to contact creators to seek clarifications about permission statements.) Good luck and happy nominating!

Hello everyone! Nominations don't start until next week (the 9th) but we wanted to get everything up early for you, especially since you might need to ask for permission for some or all of your nominations.

• Rules & Information
• Nominations Guidelines
• Opt-in/Promo post

Please let us know if you have any questions!

Due to the complexity of nominations, we will primarily be nominating via a google form, and clarifications will primarily happen via email rather than announcement on the comm. If you don't want to or can't use google forms we have also provided instructions for submitting your nominations via Dreamwidth at the bottom of this post.

(Nominating directly to the tagset won't be allowed because we need lots of information and it's better if we collect it all at once. Also, this way you won't have to format your own tags!)

If you have any questions about nominations, please ask! We will answer comments on this post & by email.

Links

• Tagset
• Nominations form
• List of accepted nominations in order of acceptance
• Airtable grid of accepted nominations (can be filtered, sorted, and searched!)
• Opt-in/Promo post

( Tagset organization and tag formatting )

( Parent Fandom Eligibility )

( Fanwork Eligibility  )

( Standards for Permission )

( What to put in the 'Main Pairing/Characters' field )

Information required to nominate:

• Your email — If you don't want us contacting you for nominations clarification or if you're commenting signed-in, you can leave this blank.
• Fanwork title — what is the fanwork called? For series you can use the series name. If the fanwork is untitled, a brief description or summary is fine, keeping in mind the tag we create will need to be 100 characters or less.
• Fanwork creator — What username was the fanwork posted under?
• Fanwork medium — Is it fic? Art? Vid? Gifset?
• Fanwork link — Where can the fanwork be found?
• Parent fandom — What fandom was the fanwork created for? Please try to use AO3 canonicals. Crossovers should be given in the format Fandom A/Fandom B, although they'll go under "Crossover Fandom" in the tagset.
• Fanwork permission link — We need a link to a place where the creator has publicly said they're okay with further transformation of their work, preferably on the same site the work is posted on or on an account the creator has linked. (The permission link will not be included in any public tagset information, it is only used for verification.)
• Main ship/characters — You will be matching on if you want fic about the main ship/characters or side characters, and also this will help people know if they're interested in the work. If you provide just a pairing, we will assume the characters in the pairing are the main characters. If you are nominating original works, please provide the pairing category at the beginning of the tag, and then the descriptive version of the ship tag. A properly formatted OW ship would look like "(F/F) Ghost/Nun" or "(Gen) Ghost & Nun"
• Additional information — Any other information you think mods need about this nomination. On the google form information put in this category is only visible to the mods.

Link to nomination google form

Or, if you would prefer to nominate via Dreamwidth comment, fill out the following form as many times as you want and post it in the comments of this post. Processing these will take a little longer because data entry, but please go absolutely hogwild on your nominations.

</p> <p> <strong>Your email:</strong> (can leave blank if signed in/would prefer handling any clarifications via DW comment) </p> <p> <strong>Fanwork title:</strong> </p> <p> <strong>Fanwork creator:</strong> </p> <p> <strong>Fanwork medium:</strong> </p> <p> <strong>Fanwork link:</strong> </p> <p> <strong>Parent fandom:</strong> </p> <p> <strong>Fanwork permission link:</strong> </p> <p> <strong>Main ship/characters:</strong> </p> <p> <strong>Additional information:</strong> </p> <p>

(Nominations open May 9th. Early nominations to the gform or on this post are fine, but we won't start processing nominations until May 9. Comments with nominations will stay screened until nominations open.)

Recursive Exchange is a fanwork exchange for requesting fanfiction and fanart of other fanworks! Recursive fanfiction is frequently called "fic of fic" and (in a fannish context) recursion essentially means treating a fanwork as a canon source material.

Minimums will be 1000 words or a finished piece of drawn art. Original Works stories count as fic for this exchange.

Schedule

• Nominations open: May 9th
• Signups open (noms still open): May 17th
• Signups close: May 26th
• Assignments out: ideally May 29th (no later than May 30th)
• Assignments due: July 3rd
• Work reveals: July 10th
• Creator reveals: July 17th

Closing times are 10pm EDT.