#rarepairs exchange

[sihirbazi]

hera/ahsoka treat for dornishviper (ao3 username, don't know you on tumblr, sorry!) for the star wars rarepair exchange!

[witcherrarepaircommentexchange]

The Witcher Rarepair Comment Exchange will return in June 2024!

This time, it will be for fics shorter than 1k words - get out your drabbels and ficlets!

Signups will open:

May 1st

rules and details

[dcu-rarepair]

The DCU Rarepair Exchange is an event to celebrate pairings and trios that are underappreciated or underprovided for in the DCU Fandom. The Exchange is an opportunity to have more content produced for rarepairs!

How does it work?

Content creators signing up for the Exchange will be asked to select three rarepairs or rarepolys they are interested in receiving a Gift for. The Gift they are given will be for one of these rarepair preferences. Gifts can take the form of written fics or artworks. All creators who signed up will have their preferences assigned to a Giftor, and will be assigned a Giftee themselves. 

You’ll then have one month to prepare your Gift!

How much do I have to write/create?

Gifts must be a minimum of 1000 words for fics, but there is no word limit if Giftors choose to write more. Alternatively, Giftors may submit one completed art-piece as their Gift, but additional artworks are not discouraged.

If you’re interested in participating in the DCU Rarepair Exchange, please read the FAQs and Guidelines. Sign Ups close midnight 20th August (GMT). 

You can sign up via Google form by clicking here!

To review the DCU Rarepair Exchange schedule, click here!

[ferindencadash]

And now for a little shameless self-promotion!!

@spectre-requisitions-exchange 2024 has officially ended and the authors have been revealed! Which means I can talk about all the stuff I wrote! (I may have gone a little overboard...)

In addition to my first assignment, I picked up a pinch hit. And then I was feeling so inspired I wrote another two treats! I have been on a writing bender and it feels good! Not gonna lie, I'm pretty proud of myself. 😌

So my fics this year were:

T-rated (my first non-explicit fic!! 😅) FemShep/Ashley pairing. For @biotickaidan

Set in ME3, Ash has a crisis of fate after her near-death experience and talks things through with Shepard. A romance is rekindled.

People have been SO NICE about this fic?? I have never had so many comments before, it's honestly blowing my mind. Y'all are so sweet. 🥹

E-rated Jack/Kasumi (t4t!!) for @krahka

Be gay, do crime! Set pre-ME2, Jack and Kasumi accidentally end up committing the same crime. Hijinks ensue™️ and things get a little sexy.

This was ridiculously fun to write and very challenging. I watched a ton of heist movies to prepare for this one! 😂

E-rated MShep/James Vega for @ginbiscuit

Set between ME2 and 3, while James is guarding Shep in lock up. Shep is bored and entertains himself by being an incorrigible flirt. James tries to behave. You can guess how well that goes.

I think this is actually my favourite fic I have ever written?? I really think it's quite good. I fell in love with those two idiots while they fell in love with each other. Ethan Shepard may just have some future adventures, cause goddamnit HE IS CUTE. And I'm proud of my baseball metaphor (gods I hope someone notices 😭).

Please read this one? For me? 🥺

And finally! M-rated Tali & Jack for @beltsquid

Set during ME2. Tali is having a bad day. Jack is having a bad day and is making it everyone else's problem. Together they clean out the Normandy's bar and an unexpected friendship(?) develops.

I literally just finished this one a few hours ago. 😅My first gen fic! The prompt was fantastic and super inspiring. These two are so great together and I had so much fun exploring their relationship.

There were even more fantastic prompts I really wanted to write, but time is short! So I'll save them for next year. ;)

Now that I am finally done writing, I am going to delve into the rest of the fics available in the collection! There are SO MANY I'm excited to check out! So definitely look out for a recommendation list in the next few days. Or just go poke around the collection yourself!!

[trillscienceofficer]

For the Rare Pair Exchange 2023, I'm delighted to have received two really amazing Trek stories as a gift!

Heavenly Bodies, a Leeta/Kira fic in which we learn more about both Leeta's faith and her family, and

just give me trust and watch what’ll happen, a Kes/B'Elanna fic in which the events of “Before and After” and “Real Life” have taken a toll on both characters but also allow them to forge a really heartfelt connection.

I really recommend reading both!! There are also many other Trek rarepairs in the collection I linked above, I can't wait to delve into all the fic myself!

[zeroducks-2]

*dragging myself kicking and screaming into doing something I enjoy, will relax me, and will make me go to bed happy and satisfied with myself*

My brain: I LITERALLY PREFER TO STARE AT THE WHITE WALL THAN DOING THIS. I WILL NOT - I REPEAT - I WILL NOT ALLOW YOU TO DO SOMETHING ENJOYABLE TONIGHT!!

[elwenyere]

femslash rarepair? 👀

Vel/Cinta (Andor) is definitely on my list!

[blackat-t7t]

Watching from the Shadows

By blackat_t7t, for Siderea

Rated T

9,300 words

Feral Opress/Commander Fox

Feral is supposed to be keeping an eye on Sidious and reporting back to Maul. What happens to the Commander of the Coruscant Guard really shouldn't be any of his business.

[canonskyrissian]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Wars: Ahsoka - E. K. Johnston, Star Wars: Rebellion Era - All Media Types Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Kaeden Larte/Ahsoka Tano Characters: Kaeden Larte, Ahsoka Tano, Original Jedi Character(s) (Star Wars) Additional Tags: Mutual Pining, Sharing a Bed, well a bedroll, Crash Landing, References to Ancient Finnish Religion & Lore, Useless Lesbians, said with love, Humor, Mission Fic, Sort Of, do not copy to another site Summary:

A crash landing takes Kaeden Larte and Ahsoka Tano to a strange planet with even stranger inhabitants.

[thisweekinfandomhistory]

Baaa, says the Yuletide Goat! This week, Emily and V celebrate 20 years of fannish Yuletide, the biggest fic exchange there ever was for the tiniest fandoms there could ever be. V, newly freed from Yuletide Jail, chimes in with on-the-ground experience while Emily gives the stats and facts as someone who's never heard of Yuletide before now. Featured are Yuletide's greatest hits: Folgercest, Wait Wait Don't Eat Me, and Re: The Snake Portion Of Your Defense, plus Anthony Bourdain and a whole mess of oceanic fears. Do you Yuletide? What did you request this year?

This Week In Fandom History is a fandom-centric podcast that tells you… what happened this week in fandom history!

[sihirbazi]

spyscrapper treat from the sw rarepair exchange, done for @voidcat-senket !

[corvidscreams]

Creator reveals came out a few days ago for the Star Wars Rare Pair exchange for this year and this is my contribution for @brotherskywalker of Din/Luke/Leia ("Fic" Here, it's just the images again for the AO3 collection lol)

[witcherrarepaircommentexchange]

The Witcher Rarepair Comment Exchange will return November 2023

Follow us on @witcherrarepaircommentexchange

all canons, pairings and characters people have submitted fics for past events

Rules

You will be submitting your rarepair fic(s), and commit to leaving a comment on someone else's fic(s). The event will match people based on fic tags and your preferences/DNWs.

Comments: Comments need to be at least 100 words long. Anything you quote from the fic doesn't count towards that. If you want only to comment and not submit a fic, you are welcome to sign up!

Fics: Submit at least one oneshot/chapter with a wordcount of no more than 10k, and no less than 500 words. You can submit up to three fics so there's a better chance to match readers and fics.

If you have participated before and submit more than one fic, please submit no more than ONE fic/chapter you have submitted before! If you submit one fic/chapter, it should be a new one.

Signups: open November 1-15

Signup via Google Form here

Matches will be sent out December 1, time to comment until January 15

If you have suddenly forgotten everything you like/don't like to read, the Fisstech & Succubi Eskel Exchange has an excellent list to help you get started here

The rarepair must be the focus of your fic. We count everything as a rarepair with less than 1000 fics on AO3 at the time when you submit your story.

The pairing can be romantic or platonic/friendship.

This event welcomes darkfic, WIPs (the submitted chapter must be published on AO3), crossovers and OCs. As long as the fic is tagged correctly, you can submit whatever you want. The flip side of submit whatever you want is that we will not tolerate bashing of submitted fics.

If you end up paired with a fic that is in hindsight not your cup of tea for whatever reason, please contact the mods before commenting to be paired with another fic (there's no need to tell us why). Don’t feel obliged to read material you'd rather not, and do not send the author negativity.

Mods:

Bookscorpion

BawdyBean

[dcu-rarepair]

Day 3 Gifts

Eight fantastic Gifts have been released for Day Three! Head to the Collection to check them out, and view the Release Schedule to see what’s in store!

We also have a handy Commenting Guide to help our Giftees with showing their Giftors some love. And now, here’s today’s works: 

double page spread by anonymous for Zero_Ducks

Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Dubious Consent Explicit | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Dick Grayson/Clark Kent/Slade Wilson It's not the first time Slade has fucked him before completing a rescue. It's not unusual; in fact, it's expected. This is the first time they've ever been walked in on, however, and he doesn't seem surprised. Dick doesn't know what to make of it.

honey, can't you see? by anonymous for ZeroMonster

General Audiences | No Archive Warnings Apply Stephanie Brown/Kara Zor-El Kara Danvers is in Gotham on a work trip with her boss, Cat Grant. After an accident at the studio's filming location, Kara has to summon her acting chops at the doctor's so as to not give away her identity.

Little's Worth In Famine by anonymous for DontStopHerNow

General Audiences | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Clark Kent/Vandal Savage Detailing the inner thoughts of Vandal Savage during the Justice League episode Hereafter as he works with a time-displaced Superman far in the future after an apocalypse on Earth. As well as the lonliness when Superman has to leave him.

Catching a Canary by anonymous for Pillow Lord

Art | Teen and Up | No Archive Warnings Apply Dinah Lance/Sandra Woosan Lady Shiva and Black Canary have a run-in on a mission.

Have you seen The Matrix? by anonymous for dxncingquxxr

General Audiences | No Archive Warnings Apply Dick Grayson/Joseph Wilson ‘You’re okay ?’ He asked one-handed, knuckles touching Dick’s cheekbone when the man ducked his head and smiled. “Have you seen The Matrix ?” Dick goes down in a fight and Joey is anxious to make sure he's okay. They spend some well-earned comfort time together, but is everything as good as it seems ?

A little discipline can mess you up inside by anonymous for kieran_granola

Explicit | Underage | Creator Chose Not to Use Archive Warnings Kon-El | Conner Kent/Bruce Wayne, Clark Kent & Kon-El | Conner Kent Kon has never needed to follow orders and he isn't about to start now. But discipline is important for any young hero and Batman is going to make sure he understands that, even if his methods are a little... unorthodox.

Only for you by anonymous for abovesnakes

Mature | No Archive Warnings Apply Minhkoa Khan/Jason Todd Jason stared at the box left in his safehouse. He needed to figure out who left it here and what they wanted. It was an easy enough task. He really didn't expect a boyfriend out of it.

if i can't dance (i don't want to be part of your revolution) by anonymous for Silver_Snow_77

Canon Divergence AU - College Roommates Teen and Up | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Tim Drake/Lonnie Machin Lonnie’s goals when he decided to apply to Gotham University were simple: introduce anarchist ideas to the students and build connections to create a network of like-minded individuals. Nowhere in his plans did Lonnie foresee Tim Drake as his college roommate or his growing feelings for the other man.

[masculinepeacock]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Merlin (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Gwaine/Percival (Merlin) Characters: Gwaine (Merlin), Percival (Merlin) Additional Tags: Romcom elements, Teachers, Winter fair, Gwen is mentioned, Open ended, Horny flirting, these man ain’t subtle Summary:

Percival meets Gwaine at a winter fair and the two hit it off. Is this destined to be a one off, or something more?

[kohakhearts]

when i was younger and more inspired i used to do this thing where id just put two characters together Because I Could, in a like “put random characters names on a dart board and fire til i hit two or more that Might be interesting” kind of way. in the true spirit of Shipping, i would then lovingly craft an alternate universe in which they got enough time on screen together to become an item—realistically, that is. whatever that means. anyway i need to channel this energy again i think itd be good for me