In honor of the holidays, we will be organizing a gift exchange across the fic, poetry and art forums, both here in the family-friendly section and in the restricted section. All board members may participate. You must have access to the restricted section to participate there.

The Gifts

Gifts may be Art, Photography or digitally-based (such as original wallpapers), Poems or Fic. They may include Fandom Crossovers (LOTRxHP) and AU pieces.

You do not have to create the same form of gift as you request. We will do our best to match people according to their wishes.


How it works:

Sign-ups begin today and continue through 10 November. You may sign up for both the family-friendly exchange and the restricted section exchange. If you sign up for the restricted section exchange, you will be expected to create a restricted section piece.

In order to sign up, you should post below for the family-friendly version and here for the restricted section version.

You MUST then send your assigned Mod the following information by Private Message (PM). Do not post this information in the thread:

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[u]For the gift you will receive:[/u] [b]List in numerical order five pairings (or characters if it's gen) and prompts (or situations) you would like to receive.[/b] [b]What are you not comfortable receiving (characters, places, situations, pairings, fandoms, etc)?[/b] [b]What is the highest rating you are willing to receive?[/b] [b]What form(s) would you like your gift in?[/b] [u]For the gift you will give:[/u] [b]What do you prefer to write/draw (characters, genres, situations, fandoms, etc)?[/b] [b]What are you not comfortable giving (characters, places, situations, pairings, genres, fandoms etc)?[/b] [b]What is the highest rating you are willing to give?[/b] [b]What form(s) are you willing to give?[/b]

Your happiness with the gift you receive is directly related to how detailed your answers are to the above questions.

Good Example

~ List in numerical order five pairings (or characters if it's gen) and prompts (or situations) you would like to receive.

1. Harry/Ginny, their wedding; it can be romantic, but not mushy
2. Tom Riddle, any genre, but something involving the making of his horcruxes
3. Marauders, pulling a prank while they were in Hogwarts, should be humor
4. Sirius/Buffy, something involving a broom cupboard, humor
5. Dumbledore/Gandalf, wizards do it with wands, any genre

~ What are you not comfortable receiving (characters, places, situations, pairings, etc)?
I do not want Snape featured in anything. I'd prefer no AUs.

~ What is the highest rating you are willing to receive?
Up to PG-13 is fine.

~ What form(s) would you like your gift in?
I would like fic or poetry.

~ What do you prefer to write/draw (characters, genres, situations, genres, etc)?
Marauders. Any combinations of James/Lily/Sirus/Remus/Regulus. Humor. Angst. Harry and Ginny (and the pairing). Anything gen. Willing to write HP crossovers feat. LotR and PotC fandoms esp. Legolas, Aragorn, Will Turner'
~ What are you not comfortable giving (characters, places, situations, pairings, genres, etc)?
I will not write Snape. I prefer to avoid anything really dark. I can't write femmeslash.
~ What is the highest rating you are willing to give?
Up to PG-13 is fine.
~ What form(s) are you willing to give?
I only write fic!


Bad Example

~ List in numerical order five pairings (or characters if it's gen) and prompts (or situations) you would like to receive.
I'm not particular, anything is fine!

~ What are you not comfortable receiving (characters, places, situations, pairings, etc)?
I'm just so excited to be participating!

~ What is the highest rating you are willing to receive?
Why are you asking me this?! You know me!

~ What form(s) would you like your gift in?
Digital!

~ What do you prefer to write/draw (characters, genres, situations, genres, etc)?
Oh you know, Anything!

~ What are you not comfortable giving (characters, places, situations, pairings, genres, etc)?
Crack! fic is my favorite!

~ What is the highest rating you are willing to give?
Duh! What do you think?!!

~ What form(s) are you willing to give? ......

The Assigned Mods

Fanfic: MoonandDogstar
Fanart: Sirius Star
Poetry: Tarafina

If your assigned mod does not have your exchange information before 11 November, you will be dropped from the exchange.

Creating your Gift

After sign-ups close, we will distribute assignments.

You will have from 17 November until 8 December to create your gifts. ETA: To take account of the recent blackout you have until 11th December to create your gifts.

The assignments will be completely anonymous. The moderators will be posting the gifts in order to maintain this secrecy until the end of the exchange on Christmas Day.

Please email your gifts to your assigned Mod by 9 December. Emails are available on the mod's profile page. ETA: Do not email Star as she is taking part - email your work to Tara or Moon by 12th December

While creating, do your best to fulfill your recipient’s wishes. If you have any questions, please PM them to your assigned Mod. If you are unsure about a pairing or situation, err on the side of caution.

Please note, as with other swaps, once you sign up you are obligated to participate. You will be receiving a gift, so it is only fair that you reciprocate. However, if you have a dire situation where you will not be able to complete your piece on-time, PLEASE PM one of the mods immediately. We will find someone to replace you.

We are also looking for volunteers to create an extra gift if someone does drop out. Please PM us if you think you could do so.

Posting the work:

The Creative Forum Mods will begin posting the gifts on 13 December and continue posting them until Christmas Eve. Shortly after the last piece is posted, the master list will be revealed. Please refrain from posting your gifts elsewhere until after the master list is announced.


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I'm taking part to this challenge!

Sign me up, please! This sounds like fun.

Just wondering, when will we receive our assignments?

They will be sent out shortly. We want everyone to have plenty of time to create their gifts.

Thanks for participating!

Yay! I can't wait to get our assignments! I love the holidays!

I might need help to find a beta, though. Could someone beta read my story?

I can beta your story. I've never done it before, but I think I could manage it. Unless you've already found somebody. But I can if you want, just let me know.

I might want to consider a beta reader too. Just so I don't mess it up.

I've found a beta reader thanks to Moon, but thanks for proposing, Nina!

No problem. I'm glad you found someone!

How is everyone doing? We've received a few entries so far, but have lots to go! Remember, you have until 12 December to get your piece into us - that's less than a week away. If you don't think you'll make it, now is the time to speak up!

Mine is pretty much done. I just want to tie up some loose ends and have the last part beta-read. That shouldn't take too long since I am determined to finish by the end of today. I just hope my email will work so I can send it properly.

I'm not far yet, but I think I'll finish within time. I've got this weekend to work on it.

~Glam