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Hamiathes's Gift Exchange 2025: Schedule Announcement!

The schedule is here, and well ahead of time this year! We're kicking off in about three months, and the schedule will be relatively close to last year's. This exchange is open to anyone with an AO3 account who wants to write a fic or make a piece of QT art. For more details on length, size, and logistics of the exchange, check out the FAQ linked at the bottom of this post.

2025 Schedule

Character/relationship/worldbuilding nominations: Thursday, July 17 - Thursday, July 24

Signups: Friday, July 5 - Sunday, August 3

Assignments sent out: Tuesday, August 5

Fanworks due: Friday, September 12

Fanworks revealed: Friday, September 18

Artists/authors revealed: Friday, September 26

All deadlines are at 8pm EDT

Note: If you don't have an AO3 account, you can request an invite here. There is currently a 3 week waiting list to get an invite, so please make sure you request one soon if you're considering participating!

If you have any questions about how the exchange works you can find last year's FAQ here. Check out past HGE works here! If you want a reminder when signups open, dm me!

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Putting together a mood board for this year's art new years reminders:

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3-day warning to post!

We have 22 works and counting in the collection already. Working on something and need more time? Contact the mod for extension information.

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WRITE IT!!! WRITE THAT SELF INDULGENT SHIT!!!

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The Queen’s Thief fanworks challenge Weird the Tag 2025 collection is now open for submissions, and will remain so until the end of March!

This challenge welcomes fanfiction, fanart of all mediums, video and audio art, filk, podfics, and fan crafts. There is a 100 word minimum for fanfics.

Link to collection, with full information: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/WTT_QT_25/profile

Schedule: Prompts document submissions open February 1 Collection opens for submissions March 1 April 1 works due and works go live for viewing April 8 author reveals

This blog, with handy links and Moderator contact: https://weirdthetag.tumblr.com/

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The Queen’s Thief fanworks challenge Weird the Tag will return March 2025! This challenge welcomes fanfiction, fanart of all mediums, video and audio art, filk, podfics, and fan crafts. There is a 100 word minimum for fanfics.

Schedule: Prompts document submissions open February 1 Collection opens for submissions March 1 April 1 works due and works go live for viewing April 8 author reveals

Ao3 collection, with full information: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/WTT_QT_25/profile

This blog, with handy links and Moderator contact: https://weirdthetag.tumblr.com/

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Weird the Tag 2025 prompts

The document is now available with the first 80 suggestions submitted by members of the Geninsula, and will be updated throughout February!

Link to read below. (Sorry for form, Tumblr is being a pain.)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vR-NPTwaxk3uuU1jU0jBgSPvDScmB8gMKfhSvM2cy4DPPgo03-ZF5ECXWHDIkUPRk99pZ_NkWV5Gm0e/pub

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The Queen’s Thief fanworks challenge Weird the Tag will return March 2025! This challenge welcomes fanfiction, fanart of all mediums, video and audio art, filk, podfics, and fan crafts. There is a 100 word minimum for fanfics.

Schedule: Prompts document submissions open February 1 Collection opens for submissions March 1 April 1 works due and works go live for viewing April 8 author reveals

Ao3 collection, with full information: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/WTT_QT_25/profile

This blog, with handy links and Moderator contact: https://weirdthetag.tumblr.com/

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Final day to sign up! And the last reblog. Right now we're the most requested fandom in the sign up summary, and the third most offered. Many thanks to everyone who helped circulate the PSAs, and there's still time to sign up here!

Queen's Thief's final year of Yuletide exchange eligibility

...is 2024! Sign-ups are from October 8th to October 18th. If you sometimes offer or request QT in the Yuletide exchange, consider doing so one last time! First time? None better!

Q: Are a lot of people interested in Queen's Thief fic this year?

A: Yuletide always has a lot of interest in QT: it’s in the top 5 most-written about fandoms in Yuletide! It's reliably popular in requests and offers alike, and the fandom has an active fic scene that I can report is excited to go out with a bang.

Q: What characters have been nominated?

A: The usual suspects are all nominated—Gen, Irene, Helen, Sophos, Costis, Kamet, Pheris. We also have Gen’s mother and children (Eugenia and Hector); the Magus, Aristogiton, and Ion of Attolia; and Timris and Verix. And we have worldbuilding!

Q: Wait, what's Yuletide?

A: Giant annual fic exchange for rare fandoms. Works are posted on Ao3, but see the admin team's Dreamwidth as a hub for links and information: https://yuletide-admin.dreamwidth.org/

Q: Wait, why are we losing eligibility?

A: We're posting a lot of fic! To be too big for Yuletide, we have to have 1,000 fics or more that are 1,000 words or longer, complete, and in English on Ao3. @hamiathesgiftexchange and I have done the math: we will hit this before next year's nominations.

Q: I have another question!

A: DM me here or say hello in the fan Discord! https://discord.gg/JYJufae

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A bit less than three days left to sign up, and the mod of the Hamiathes's Gift Exchange has made an excellent short & sweet sign-up guide in this published Google Doc.

Queen's Thief's final year of Yuletide exchange eligibility

...is 2024! Sign-ups are from October 8th to October 18th. If you sometimes offer or request QT in the Yuletide exchange, consider doing so one last time! First time? None better!

Q: Are a lot of people interested in Queen's Thief fic this year?

A: Yuletide always has a lot of interest in QT: it’s in the top 5 most-written about fandoms in Yuletide! It's reliably popular in requests and offers alike, and the fandom has an active fic scene that I can report is excited to go out with a bang.

Q: What characters have been nominated?

A: The usual suspects are all nominated—Gen, Irene, Helen, Sophos, Costis, Kamet, Pheris. We also have Gen’s mother and children (Eugenia and Hector); the Magus, Aristogiton, and Ion of Attolia; and Timris and Verix. And we have worldbuilding!

Q: Wait, what's Yuletide?

A: Giant annual fic exchange for rare fandoms. Works are posted on Ao3, but see the admin team's Dreamwidth as a hub for links and information: https://yuletide-admin.dreamwidth.org/

Q: Wait, why are we losing eligibility?

A: We're posting a lot of fic! To be too big for Yuletide, we have to have 1,000 fics or more that are 1,000 words or longer, complete, and in English on Ao3. @hamiathesgiftexchange and I have done the math: we will hit this before next year's nominations.

Q: I have another question!

A: DM me here or say hello in the fan Discord! https://discord.gg/JYJufae

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Queen's Thief's final year of Yuletide exchange eligibility

...is 2024! Sign-ups are from October 8th to October 18th. If you sometimes offer or request QT in the Yuletide exchange, consider doing so one last time! First time? None better!

Q: Are a lot of people interested in Queen's Thief fic this year?

A: Yuletide always has a lot of interest in QT: it’s in the top 5 most-written about fandoms in Yuletide! It's reliably popular in requests and offers alike, and the fandom has an active fic scene that I can report is excited to go out with a bang.

Q: What characters have been nominated?

A: The usual suspects are all nominated—Gen, Irene, Helen, Sophos, Costis, Kamet, Pheris. We also have Gen’s mother and children (Eugenia and Hector); the Magus, Aristogiton, and Ion of Attolia; and Timris and Verix. And we have worldbuilding!

Q: Wait, what's Yuletide?

A: Giant annual fic exchange for rare fandoms. Works are posted on Ao3, but see the admin team's Dreamwidth as a hub for links and information: https://yuletide-admin.dreamwidth.org/

Q: Wait, why are we losing eligibility?

A: We're posting a lot of fic! To be too big for Yuletide, we have to have 1,000 fics or more that are 1,000 words or longer, complete, and in English on Ao3. @hamiathesgiftexchange and I have done the math: we will hit this before next year's nominations.

Q: I have another question!

A: DM me here or say hello in the fan Discord! https://discord.gg/JYJufae

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Queen's Thief's final year of Yuletide exchange eligibility

...is 2024! Sign-ups are from October 8th to October 18th. If you sometimes offer or request QT in the Yuletide exchange, consider doing so one last time! First time? None better!

Q: Are a lot of people interested in Queen's Thief fic this year?

A: Yuletide always has a lot of interest in QT: it’s in the top 5 most-written about fandoms in Yuletide! It's reliably popular in requests and offers alike, and the fandom has an active fic scene that I can report is excited to go out with a bang.

Q: What characters have been nominated?

A: The usual suspects are all nominated—Gen, Irene, Helen, Sophos, Costis, Kamet, Pheris. We also have Gen’s mother and children (Eugenia and Hector); the Magus, Aristogiton, and Ion of Attolia; and Timris and Verix. And we have worldbuilding!

Q: Wait, what's Yuletide?

A: Giant annual fic exchange for rare fandoms. Works are posted on Ao3, but see the admin team's Dreamwidth as a hub for links and information: https://yuletide-admin.dreamwidth.org/

Q: Wait, why are we losing eligibility?

A: We're posting a lot of fic! To be too big for Yuletide, we have to have 1,000 fics or more that are 1,000 words or longer, complete, and in English on Ao3. @hamiathesgiftexchange and I have done the math: we will hit this before next year's nominations.

Q: I have another question!

A: DM me here or say hello in the fan Discord! https://discord.gg/JYJufae

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Queen's Thief's final year of Yuletide exchange eligibility

...is 2024! Sign-ups are from October 8th to October 18th. If you sometimes offer or request QT in the Yuletide exchange, consider doing so one last time! First time? None better!

Q: Are a lot of people interested in Queen's Thief fic this year?

A: Yuletide always has a lot of interest in QT: it’s in the top 5 most-written about fandoms in Yuletide! It's reliably popular in requests and offers alike, and the fandom has an active fic scene that I can report is excited to go out with a bang.

Q: What characters have been nominated?

A: The usual suspects are all nominated—Gen, Irene, Helen, Sophos, Costis, Kamet, Pheris. We also have Gen’s mother and children (Eugenia and Hector); the Magus, Aristogiton, and Ion of Attolia; and Timris and Verix. And we have worldbuilding!

Q: Wait, what's Yuletide?

A: Giant annual fic exchange for rare fandoms. Works are posted on Ao3, but see the admin team's Dreamwidth as a hub for links and information: https://yuletide-admin.dreamwidth.org/

Q: Wait, why are we losing eligibility?

A: We're posting a lot of fic! To be too big for Yuletide, we have to have 1,000 fics or more that are 1,000 words or longer, complete, and in English on Ao3. @hamiathesgiftexchange and I have done the math: we will hit this before next year's nominations.

Q: I have another question!

A: DM me here or say hello in the fan Discord! https://discord.gg/JYJufae

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Nominations are open for Hamiathes's Gift Exchange!

Tagset here!

Important info:

- Nominations will be open until August 1 @ 8 pm ET

- you do not need to nominate in order to participate in the exchange but you can only request/offer what's in the tagset so make sure to submit if you want something specific!

If you are going to submit tags, the setup is a little wonky so I’ve added some explanation below!

Relationships and worldbuilding must also be submitted under the "character" submission in the following format:

Relationship: [characters]

Worldbuilding: [element]  

For instance:

Relationship: Eddis/Sophos

Relationship: Helen & Gen

Worldbuilding: Eddisian myths

Check out the tagset here to see what has already been submitted (hit "expand all" to see them), and click "nominate" to submit yours! If you have more questions you can check out the FAQ, or feel free to message me here or on the Queen’s Thief discord!

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Look what else came in the mail! A mole god Eugenides and a mole god Irene. Aren’t they amazing?

Thank you @ioudaleks I love them.

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15 Ephestalian Books Librarians Want You to Read

Fandom: The Queen's Thief - Megan Whalen Turner Rated: T No archive warnings apply Word count: 11,100 - Minor or background relationships Characters: Eugenides the God, Enoclitus, the Magus, Cenna, Pheris Erondites, Gittavjøre "Gitta" Kingsdaughter - Here at the National Library of Ephestalia, we love connecting people with all the books they want to read, but we especially cherish the opportunity to recommend Ephestalian authors.

A fic of in-universe texts with digital collage faux book covers! Every chapter contains something about worldbuilding or views of canon from the future, including vampire lore, coleus lore, and deeply inaccurate shipping. The 15 images in this fic have alt text descriptions. This work was created for the 2024 Weird the Tag QT event.

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Summary: Kamet and Marin are nearly caught when Nahuseresh returns home early.

Characters: Marin, Kamet, Nahuseresh

Rating: E

Warnings: Rape/Non-con

Notes: The first of three fics I wrote for the Queen's Thief fandom event @weirdthetag!

I had the idea for this ages ago, but WTT 2024 gave me an excuse to actually start writing it, and I'm pretty pleased with the result. Basically, a consensual sex scene between Marin and Kamet is interrupted and immediately followed by a very, very dubiously consensual sex scene between Marin and Nahuseresh.