#Exchanges

[cr-summer-wildflowers]

Nominations are Now Open!

Okay, here me out: Verin and Cerkonos. Why isn't this already a thing? Himbo 4 Himbo communication.

Or... okay okay okay - Fearne & Orym needs more fics. But also Beau/Yasha/Imogen/Laudna definitely needs more attention. Or maybe you're a Vexleth truther or an Esswulf fan or think that the Temult family dynamics are absolutely fascinating.

Does this sound like something you'd be into? Then we have a fic exchange for you!

Critical Role Wildflowers is an exchange that features pairings that have fewer than 500 works on AO3. The first step in the process is nominations - where we decide which pairings will be eligible for signing up.

Nominate here

FAQ & Rules are here

Discord is here

The things you need to know for nominations:

The relationships can be platonic or romantic, but all characters have to originate in Exandria and have under 500 works in AO3

When nominating a ship, don't use the main critical role tag for the fandom! Instead, use one of these: Critical Role Campaign One Critical Role Campaign Two Critical Role Campaign Three Exandria Unlimited (note: includes Calamity, Kymal, Divergence, as well as the original) Wildmount Wildlings Darrington Brigade Critical Crossovers The Re-Slayers Take

For the relationships - please do use the canonical tag whenever possible! This is the one that autofills whenever you start typing. If nothing pops up, then please try to add the full character name, alphabetizing by last name. (For example, Lucien Tavelle/Tyffial Wase, but Cree Deeproots/Lucien Tavelle)

Want answers to the following questions? Check them out under the cut:

How do I contact a mod?   Who all is running this anyway? How can I follow the exchange? Do I have to join the discord?

What's the schedule? What is the difference between nominations and signups? Why are they separate? What exactly is a crossover, considering campaign 3? Are platonic relationships allowed? What relationships are not included? So is everything else included? What does it mean for a relationship to not be included?

How do I contact a mod?

If you need to contact the mods for any reason, here are the ways in which you can do so. Please use the method which suits you best. If you do not receive a response within 48 hours, please try again using an alternate method.

E-mail: CR.Summer.Wildflowers@proton.me The CR WIldflowers Discord A comment to any post on the Dreamwidth Community Tumblr message or ask to the Summer Wildflowers blog.

Who all is running this anyway?

From 2021 - 2024, Wildflowers was run by @ladyofrosefire and @capitola

For 2025, it’s being run by @operafloozy with generous help from @mapleandgingeroatmeal (helping with answering questions and clarifications, discord moderation among other things), and @anubisisms (graphics design and discord creation/moderation). If you know any of us and are more comfortable reaching out to that person directly, please feel free to do so.

How can I follow the exchange?

You can follow us here on Tumblr and Dreamwidth. You can also join the CR Wildflowers Discord Community.

Do I have to join the discord?

Nope! It’s completely optional. We’ll be using the discord for questions, resources, sprints, reminders, encouragement, and general camaraderie, but if it’s not your jam - or you just are in enough discords–that's perfectly fine.

What's the schedule?

For 2025, the schedule is as follows:

Nominations Open: April 25 Nominations Close: May 8 (11:55 EST) Sign ups Open: May 9 (9AM EST) Sign ups Close: May 23 (11:55 EST) Assignments Go Out: No Later than May 26 (11:55 EST) No Penalty Default Deadline: June 23 (11:55 EST) Assignments Due: July 7 Works Revealed: July 14 Creators Revealed: July 21

What's the difference between nominations and signups? Why are they two separate things?

Nominations: You have the chance to nominate various relationships - platonic, romantic, or sexual. This is not required to participate, but if nobody nominates a relationship, you can't request or offer it.

Signups: You look through the list of nominated relationships and create 4-10 prompts based on them and offer to write 4-10 relationships. This can be relationships that you nominated or ones that you didn't - and you don't have to request or offer every relationship you nominated (it's considered good manners to at least intend to request or offer them). You have to do this step to get a gift fic.

Why is it done this way?  There are a lot of possible combinations of relationships that are out there, and you're all creative individuals. The 2024 tagset had over 300 relationships nominated. This is an exchange, which means that the offers and requests have to match. We need to limit it somehow. And you might decide to offer or request relationships that don't match the ones you nominated (maybe someone else nominated them - or someone else has an idea so brilliant that you want to steal it).  But also - the background logic for automatically signing someone up based off of their nominations would be a lot for poor AO3.

After the way campaign 3 ended, is everything a crossover? Is nothing?

The general rules we have are as follows:

a) If the characters largely interact in one campaign, nominate that pairing in that campaign. For example, Ludinus Da'leth/Trent Ikithon would be in Critical Role Campaign Two; Ludinus Da'leth/Predathos would be Critical Role Campaign Three

b) If the characters interact in multiple campaigns, nominate that pairing within the campaign they are featured in the most. For example, Keyleth & Percy interact in both Campaign One and Campaign Three, but because they are more heavily featured in Campaign One, they should be nominated there.

c) If the characters are from a miniseries (Exandria Unlimited, for example) and are also seen within a main campaign, go with the one where they have more screen time (approximate).  For example, Dorian & Fearne and Fearne/Opal are pairings that have interacted in both Campaign 3 and Exandria Unlimited, but Dorian & Fearne would be Campaign Three, while Fearne/Opal would be Exandria Unlimited.

d) If the characters feature in different campaigns and haven't interacted or you're not sure if they've interacted, nominate them within Critical Crossovers.

Use your best judgement, you're not going to be yelled at for getting it wrong.

Are platonic relationships allowed?

Yes! Platonic relationships are allowed and encouraged, and this includes platonic versions of the disallowed romantic relationships. If the platonic relationship has more than 500 fics, though, it also falls outside the guidelines for this exchange.

What relationships are not included?

This year, in 2025, the list is as follows:

Keyleth/Vax'ildan Kima/Allura Percy/Vex'halia Percy/Vax'ildan Vax'ildan & Vex'ahlia Beauregard Lionett/Yasha Nydoorin Beauregard Lionett & Caleb Widogast Essek Theylss/Caleb Widogast Fjord Stone/Caleb Widogast Jester Lavorre/Caleb Widogast Jester Lavorre/Fjord Stone Jester Lavorre/Beauregard Lionett Mollymauk Tealeaf/Caleb Widogast Nott & Caleb Widogast Yasha Nydoorin & Mollymauk Tealeaf Laudna/Imogen Temult Laudna & Imogen Temult Orym/Dorian Storm

Is everything else included?

All relationships where all of the characters involved originate from Exandria (or Ruidis) count. Note that this does not include RPF.

What does it mean for a relationship to not be included? Does that mean that Yasha can’t ever refer to her wife or Vex and Percy can’t ever have a conversation about their kids?

The relationships above aren’t eligible to be included in the nominations, which means that people can’t sign up to have them be the focus of a work. Other relationships can be depicted (unless they are specifically listed in the DNW list), but the requested relationship should be the focus.

[amarilly]

A Christmas gift for my partner in the RadioApple gift exchange on AO3 and Twitter. Merry Christmas!! @mothballmilkshake

I hope you like it and that you’ve had a great holiday!!

[fuckyeahladybug]

Hey, y’all!

I’m putting my mod hat on for just a second because I want to make sure you’re aware of @comment-exchange and the good work they’ve done in fandom writ large over the last five years.

Comment Exchange is what it sounds like—a pan-fandom hub for the creators of fanworks of all stripes to share works with low or no interactions and comments. If your work has less than ten comments (or less than fifteen, in the case of multichaps) it’s eligible. Once a work enters the Comment Exchange masterlist, it stays there forever.

Along with traditional fanfiction, Comment Exchange accepts all sorts of different forms of fanwork, including podcasts, podfic, fan comics, fanart, meta, and poetry. All genres and ratings of work are accepted.

To submit, read the rules here, comment on a work on the masterlist (or another low-interaction work) and fill out one of the provided forms. It’s easy and takes no time at all!

There are a lot of interesting and unique fanworks in the masterlist, including works from small book fandoms that don’t get a lot of attention. Even if you’re not interested in submitting to the Comment Exchange today, check out their bookmarks on AO3 to find something weird and wonderful you might not otherwise get the chance to see.

Thank you for everything you do, @comment-exchange! You’re a real one.

[enisywrites]

Signups are open now through 16 May!

☀️ Sign up for the exchange here ☀️

If you're unsure about something, check the FAQ - or feel free to ask me.

Looking forward to everyone's requests!

[cacodaemonia]

I just came across this in a server, and it's such a great guide for things like requesting art in exchanges and giving prompts to artists. But I think it's also useful for just like, general conversations about fandom and fanworks, which almost always center fics and overlook things like visual art, podfics, etc.

There's a similar (but shorter) podfic guide on dreamwidth here. It's sfw, but I guess the blog in general is not, so you have to click through a 'discretion advised' warning. I also haven't run this by any podficcer friends yet, so idk how universal it is, but hopefully it's helpful for people who want to give podfics some love.

[chanihobbit]

Did everybody else receive their gift? I guess I‘m just a little unlucky where these things are concerned. 😕

[landofspaceandrainbows]

Scarlet Pearl: A Double Life SMP Pearl Web Weave

A Fairy stories/Autumnal inspired web weave for @ollyboros as part of the Mcytblr Holidays Exchange

@mcytblrholidayexchange

Hope you have a nice holiday season!

~

Sources:

Fields Swaledale Gunnerside by Kreuzschnabel on Wikimedia National Dress Cape of Gbraltar by John Cummings on Wikimedia Vagabonds by Emily Pauline Johnson Under Canvas by Emily Pauline Johnson Autumn Path by Yuko Kudos on Wikimedia Hallowmas by Madison Julius Cawein Country Brick, Autumn Maple Tree by Forestwander on Wikimedia Black Fisherman Sandals with Orange Tights and Fall Leaves by Jamie on Wikimedia Decorated Sword on Swordwallpapers.com Song V by E. E. Cummings Tikaani 2 by Saweiss on Wikimedia The Phantom Horsewoman by Thomas Hardy Horse Riding, Mountain Pass by Vyacheslav Argenberg on Wikimedia Bow and Arrow by Arrows and crosses on Wikimedia Quiver and Arrows by Thos E. Hill on Wikimedia All Hallows Night by Lizette Woodworth Reese New Jersey Tree with Autumn Leaves by Tomwsulcer on Wikimedia

[liesmyth]

I'm sorry is that a prize for the year's best incest fanfic?

CACKLING OH MY GOD. No, yuletide is a fic exchange that runs over the holiday season (in fact, it should be starting up right about now!!!) and it's one of the longest-running multifandom exchanges. The only criterion is that you have to write fic for a "canon" (in the loose sense of the word) that has less than 1000 works complete in english. Every year people really go all in creating fics for niche book canons, music videos, non-English language films, historical RPF, and. sometimes. the Folgers incest commercial

2024 schedule here! I do recommend it it's fun

[theonficexchange]

Hello, Theon fans! Theon Exchange is back for its third year and we are super excited to be back! For everyone who is new, this is a Secret Santa-style fanfic (and art) exchange focused on Theon Greyjoy. The schedule for this year’s round is as follows:

Sign-ups: October 29, 2023 – November 10, 2023

Assignments sent: by November 14, 2023

Assignments Due/Deadline: December 24, 2023 11:59 PM (PST/GMT-8)

Stories Revealed: January 1, 2024

Creators Revealed: January 8, 2024

All ships and gen relationships involving Theon, from either ASOIAF or GoT, are welcome to this event. This is a relatively low-pressure fic exchange with a minimum of 500 words, with the option of receiving and giving art. Follow this blog for important announcements and updates. Our pinned post has all the important links!

Please read the full rules before signing up (even if you signed up last year).

We also have a Discord server for the exchange and general ASOIAF/GoT discussion!

[cr-summer-wildflowers]

When those April showers melt unliked snow and Campaign Three hot takes grow cold and old When fandom winds blow folks back to CritRole and works in progress have their half-course run then do folk long for … a not-quite- rarepair exchange?

Hey all, it's just about time for Summer Wildflowers again.

What is CR Summer Wildflowers? It's a fanworks exchange featuring relationships (platonic and romantic) where: a) have all of the characters originate from the Exandria Campaign setting and b) have fewer than 500 works on Archive of Our Own.

Our schedule this year is: Nominations Open: April 25 Nominations Close: May 8 (11:55 EST) Sign ups Open: May 9 (9AM EST) Sign ups Close: May 23 (11:55 EST) Assignments Go Out: No Later than May 26 (11:55 EST) No Penalty Default Deadline: June 23 (11:55 EST) Assignments Due: July 7 Works Revealed: July 14 Creators Revealed: July 21

That means that nominations open next week.

Have some questions? Check out the rules and the FAQ! Still have questions? Feel free to drop us an ask here on tumblr, leave a message for us on dreamwidth, or email us at CR.Summer.Wildflowers [at] proton[dot]me. (the discord will be ready by next week)

Here's hoping to see you there!

[amarilly]

Merry Christmas to @wresrr who is my giftee for the @mlsecretsanta this year! I hope you have a great holiday!

[lihhelsing]

I know a lot of people are doing Valentine's exchanges, so I thought I could do another one of these writing challenge templates to help you get through it!

This is a 27-day challenge that will amount to 8k words in the end!

It's Valentine's themed just because of the upcoming steddie exchanges, but you're free to use it for whatever you want!

It's honestly just a way to break down a big writing goal into smaller ones so it doesn't feel too overwhelming.

[cobalt-knave]

Jews in Space Fic Flash Exchange!

Jews in Space makes a victorious return! Jews in Space 2 is a flash exchange (200 word minimum) focusing on Jewish characters in speculative fiction. Multifandom and open to any speculative fiction (scifi, horror, fantasy, etc) canon, original work, and creator's choice of fandom. Some of the fandoms already nominated include The X-Files, The Murderbot Diaries, Spinning Silver, Original Work, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Stargate SG-1, Voltron: Legendary Defender, and The Sentinel. Jewish characters includes canon, headcanon, and AU! Schedule: Sign-ups and Noms: Open Sign-ups and Noms Close: Tue 26 Nov 2024 11:00PM EST (04:00AM UTC) Assignments Due: Mon 02 Dec 2024 11:00PM EST (04:00AM UTC) Works Revealed: Tue 03 Dec 2024 05:00PM EST (10:00PM UTC) Creators Revealed: Tue 03 Dec 2024 10:00PM EST (03:00AM UTC) Collection: https://archiveofourown.org/tag_sets/21808 Tagset: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/jews_in_space_2/profile

[artbyifer]

Tabletop Kiss

For thescyfychannel:

Multi-person mutual pining comes to a head during a particularly intense session of [INSERT PREFERRED TABLETOP RPG HERE]—no one (except maybe the DM??) has been aware of the mutuality of the pining, and all parties were COMPLETELY ready to nobly sacrifice their feelings, etc. etc., despite the fact that this group of idiots has previously rolled up polyamorous dungeoning/space fighter/investigator characters before. DM should absolutely be part of the polycule, just slightly more emotionally aware and absolutely more Done With This Pining Shit. (alternate ships my wife suggested: EriFefSolKat or EriFefVrisKan) (humanstuck please)

Can also be found on AO3 

[landofspaceandrainbows]

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Decked Out 2

From Hermitcraft!

First for the general inside experience of running the dungeon, and the second includes the (wild, impressive) inner workings too!

Dark!AU - Dark Hermitcraft BDoubleO - Unseelie Fey/Celestial BDubs

The first straight up BDubs focused, the second is The Mooners Vs. BDoubleO/The Big Eyes Crew

What if The Mooners were more right than they were in canon about BDoubleO and The Big Eyes, or alternatively, what might the most fevered stories that The Mooners told eachother as they stayed up at night be like?

"The Archfey -

The archfey BDoubleO was and is a formidable force, showing some control over even the very heavens and earth, able to make flowers bloom and wither, a strong hypnotist, a walker in dreams... Legends of course say that he stole the child of the Moon, but the truth is stranger yet, for who better to steal away the Moon's child than a child of the sky itself?"

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A set of moodboards for @captainschaos for the @mcyt-halloween exchange event ! Hope you have a happy Halloween, Captainschaos!