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No Default Deadline Has Passed!

The no-default deadline is today! That means any participant which wishes to default on their assignment may do so without penalty, and give us mods time to arrange for a pinch-hitter. After today, any assignment defaulted will come with that penalty, so please talk to a mod if you’re having trouble with your assignment!

The final deadline, when assignments are submitted, is 30 August. If you have any questions, comments, or concerns - especially in regard to fulfilling a recipient’s wishes - please contact the mods here, or via Dreamwidth or Discord. If contacting us, please include your AO3 name and/or use the email attached to the AO3 account that you’re participating with. For more information, please view our FAQ.

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Final Deadlines Approach!

For all participants, please be aware that the no-default deadline is 16 August, and the final deadline is 30 Agust. A reminder that the minimum word count for participants is 500 words.

For everyone else - this exchange is open to treats! Any treated works need not obey the word count or art sketch minimum, only the parameters of a recipient’s request. Treats may be posted to the exchange until work reveals, which is 06 September.

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns - especially in regard to fulfilling a recipient’s wishes - please contact the mods here, or via Dreamwidth or Discord. For more information, please view our FAQ.

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Assignments Delivered!

Please check your email - and also your spam folder! - to verify that you’ve received your assignment, and any questions, comments, or concerns may be directed to the mods on Dreamwidth, Discord, or at obkgen@gmail.com with the email address attached to your AO3 account.

While assignments are due 30 August and must adhere to the 500-word minimum or clean sketch on unlined paper, treats need not and anyone can gift as many treats as they want to during this period (16 August - 06 September). Either way, please do your best to fill your selected prompt(s) as the recipient requested, in terms of both tags and DNWs, and to not post your gifts on other sites (such as tumblr or Dreamwidth) that would de-anon you before the creator reveals date of 13 September!

Pinch-hits may be called occasionally before work reveals, and if you’d like to sign up as a pinch-hitter for specifically this exchange, please fill out this Google Form. Beta readers for this exchange may also sign up using that form, but Yuletide’s Discord server also has a year-round hippo system in place to anonymously match authors and potential beta readers.

Please keep in mind the no-default deadline (or soft deadline) for this exchange is on 16 August. This means participants may not default/withdraw from the exchange after this deadline without penalties. The final deadline is on 30 August.

We’ll post periodic reminders about the due dates on Dreamwidth, tumblr, and Discord. For more information, please view our FAQ.

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Sign-Ups Are Closed!

Sign-ups have now closed! Assignments will be sorted and should be sent out on 28 June, and as a reminder, treats to requests are always welcome to those that have gifting enabled!

If you would like to check the status of enabling gifts on your AO3 profile, please read AO3's news post here. For more information, please view our FAQ.

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Sign-Ups Are Closing Soon!

Sign-ups will be closed on 21 June! If you’re interested, the sign-up form is here, and the tag set is here.

More information is available here, and if you have any questions, feel free to send us an ask! We’re also around on Dreamwidth and Discord, and you can email us at obkgen@gmail.com! If contacting us, please include your AO3 name and/or use the email attached to the AO3 account that you’re participating with. For more information, please view our FAQ.

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Sign-Ups Are Closing In 3 Days!

Sign-ups will be closed in 3 days, on 21 June! If you’re interested in signing up for this exchange, please be sure to sign up here.

If you have any questions, feel free to send us an ask! We’re also around on Dreamwidth and Discord, and you can email us at obkgen@gmail.com! If contacting us, please include your AO3 name and/or use the email attached to the AO3 account that you’re participating with. For more information, please view our FAQ.

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Sign-Ups Are Open!

Nominations have now closed, and you can sign-up here! Please be aware that requests and offers for fandoms, characters, and additional tags are from the tag set. The minimum is 3 requests and 3 offers!

Dates: 07 June - 11 June 2025

Request Options: 1-10 Fandoms, 1-10 Characters*, 1-10 Additional Tags*, 1-2 Relationships**, optional tags allowed, prompt url allowed, description allowed

Offer Options:  1-10 Fandoms, 1-10 Characters*, 1-10 Additional Tags*,  1-2 Relationships**, description allowed

* “Allow any” is available, which is a wildcard function for matching. Please be careful if selecting this instead of specific characters/tags, as you may be matched with something you don’t like. **The Relationship section is to select for request/offer format. "Any Relationship" allows for any medium.

Please note that it is implied that Obi-Wan is a default character in all requests, and as such does not need to be added in each request. If, however, you would like Obi-Wan as the only character in your requests and/or offers, then please use the tag “Solo Character: Obi-Wan Kenobi” in the Character Tag field and do not add other characters in that request box.

Accordingly, please also do not put prompt descriptions in your offers - this section's description field is reserved for gifter-side DNWs, as well as matching preferences. The mods will do their best to uphold these DNWs, but recipient DNWs take precedence, particularly for matching.

Please see our sample sign-up here for more details.

If you have any questions, feel free to send us an ask! We’re also around on Dreamwidth and Discord, and you can email us at obkgen@gmail.com!If contacting us, please include your AO3 name and/or use the email attached to the AO3 account that you’re participating with. For more information, please view our FAQ.

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Nominations Are Closed!

The period for nominating tags to the tag set is now closed! Sign-ups will be open shortly, please stay tuned!

If you have any questions, feel free to send us an ask! We’re also around on Dreamwidth and Discord, and you can email us at obkgen@gmail.com! For more information, please view our FAQ.

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Nominations are open!

Hello there! Tagset nominations for the Obi-Wan Kenobi Gen Exchange are now open here. They will close on 07 June.

Each person can nominate up to

10 fandoms

10 characters

10 freeform tags

When making nominations, please check under the tagset to see if it has already been nominated! Please remember that crossover fandoms are disallowed, but if you have any questions, feel free to send us an ask, pop onto our Discord server, contact our Dreamwidth blog, or email us at obkgen@gmail.com.

If you would like to nominate Obi-Wan as the sole character in a work (i.e. no other characters featured in a work), the tag “Solo Character: Obi-Wan Kenobi” has already been added by nominators as a Character tag! No user-prompted nominations will be necessary in this case. For more information, please view our FAQ.

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The discord link is saying its invalid or expired 😭 idk if this is on my end or not though

Hello there!

We appreciate the question! There has been issues in the past with Discord's invite links expiring, so this is a good head's up for us - the link does appear to be still valid, but while we look into things further, here's a temporary link here.

Please let us know if that works for you, and if there's anything else we can assist you with, we're happy to help!

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Hi! I'm super excited about this as I missed sign-ups last year - I was just wondering what nominations were? I was trying to work it out but I've come up blank haha

Hello there!

Our long-form FAQ, link here, covers the basics of a gift exchange - including nominations - at each step of the schedule. If you have any additional questions, we're happy to help!

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Hello fandom! We would like to announce the 2025 Obi-Wan Kenobi Gen Exchange!

This exchange was created to encourage fanfics and fanart focusing on Obi-Wan Kenobi in a positive way that isn’t dependent upon ships or smut. 

When is this happening?

The 2025 schedule is as follows:

Nominations: 17 May - 07 June

Sign-ups: 07 June - 21 June

Assignments sent out: 28 June

Assignments due: 30 August (No fault deadline: 16 Aug.)

Work Reveals: 06 September

Creator Reveals: 13 September

Who can participate?

Since this is hosted on AO3, anyone with a registered account! Need an AO3 account? No problem - just send a message here and one of the moderators will handle invitations.

How can I participate?

The tag set nominations will open on the 17th, and will be open to anyone.

There’s also signing up for a recipient, in which you can request fics from the tag set. Treating, pinch-hitting, and beta reading are options, too!

Where can we find you?

Dreamwidth and Discord, so feel free to drop by! We also track #obkgenex, and will be tagging all update posts accordingly.

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Creator Reveals

All works now reveal their creators! Thank you to everyone that participated in this exchange, and we hope to see you again next year!

If you have any questions or concerns, please reach out to us here or on Dreamwidth, Discord, or by email at OBKgen@gmail.com. For more information, please view our FAQ.

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Work Reveals

Hello there!

Thank you to everyone who participated in this exchange! All works not under pinch hit have been revealed - you can check them out here! Creator reveals will happen on 14 September.

Thanks again, and please reach out to us here or on Dreamwidth, Discord, or by email at OBKgen@gmail.com if you have any questions or concerns. For more information, please view our FAQ.

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Post-Hard Deadline Pinch Hits

Hello there! We have a defaulted assignment that need filling - if anyone would like to take one up, please go to our post on Dreamwidth here for more information. Due date of work reveals, 07 September, but can be negotiated in a case-dependent manner.

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FINAL DEADLINE HAS PASSED!

Participants with an assigned recipient, please know that the final deadline has passed - moderators will be in contact shortly with anyone who hasn’t submitted their assignment, and pinch hits may be assigned accordingly.

🍬Treats are still open! 🍬Anyone who wishes to participate in the exchange to submit a treat for any of the prompts may do so until 07 September.

If you have a question, comment, or concern about participating in this exchange, please reach out to the mods here, Dreamwidth, Discord, or by email at OBKgen@gmail.com. If contacting us, please include your AO3 name and/or use the email attached to the AO3 account that you’re participating with. For more information, please view our FAQ.

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Deadlines Countdown - One Day!

To all participants with assigned prompts, this is a reminder that the final deadline is tomorrow on 31 August.

If you have any questions, problems, or concerns, please contact the moderators! We’re available here and on Dreamwidth, Discord, and by email at OBKgen@gmail.com. If contacting us, please include your AO3 name and/or use the email attached to the AO3 account that you’re participating with.

Please note that treats may be submitted to the exchange until reveals on 07 September. Anyone is welcome to treat a requested prompt! For more information, please view our FAQ.