Schedule and Rules

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2022 Schedule:
(all times 19:59 UTC)

Nominations Open: Wednesday 15 June
Nominations Close: Wednesday 22 June
Signups Open: Friday 24 June
Signups Close: Monday 4 July
Deadline: Friday 19 August
Works reveals: Friday 26 August Friday 2 September
Creator reveals: Friday 2 September Friday 9 September

AO3 Collection | Tagset

Femslash After Dark is a femslash ship exchange in which all works produced must be rated Mature or Explicit.

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Eligibility:

• All characters in each ship must canonically identify as women, or a reader/viewer must be able to reasonably infer that they do.
  
• There are no rarity requirements, for ships or for fandoms.

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Nominations:

• An AO3 account is required to nominate.
  
• Each participant may nominate up to 5 fandoms with up to 10 relationships in each.
  
• RPF: RPF is permitted, subject to eligibility as outlined above. Non-famous family members are not eligible. Under-18s are not eligible for modern RPF.
  
• Threesomes/moresomes: these are permitted. All ships must be F/F (or F/F/F, etc.) only.
  
• Crossovers: Crossover ships are permitted. These should be nominated under 'Crossover Fandom' with the fandom name for each character in brackets, e.g. Leia Organa (SW Original Trilogy)/Natasha Romanoff (MCU).
  
• Original characters in non-original canons: You may nominate Character/Original Character(s), e.g. Leia Organa/Original Character; Hermione Granger/Original Characters. Any original character(s) nominated will be assumed to be women.
  
• Original Works: Original ships are permitted. These must be nominated under ‘Original Work' in the format 'Character Type/Character Type' e.g. ‘Queen/Advisor’, ’Pilot/Soldier/General’, etc. All characters will be assumed to be women. If they are not nominated in this way, they will be rejected.

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Signups:

• An AO3 account is required to sign up.
  
• You can request 3-10 fandoms with 1-10 ships each.
  
• You can offer 3-10 fandoms with 1-10 ships each.
  
• If no offers match your requests, your requests will go out for claiming as an initial pinch hit. Please bear in mind that if this is unclaimed for a number of weeks, you may be asked to add extra requests; however, the mods will do all they can to prevent this.
  
• If no requests match your offers, the mods will contact you to see if there is anything else you can offer. If you do not reply within 24 hours, or there is nothing else you can offer, your signup will be deleted.
  
• Dear Creator letters may be linked to in your signup in order to give your gifter further details on your likes and dislikes. These are optional.
  
• Please include anything you absolutely don't want to receive (Do Not Wants) in the Optional Details field in your AO3 signup. In the event that a DNW is included in your gift, only reasonable DNWs noted in your signup will be enforced.
  
• If you sign up with more than one account, please bear in mind you will be expected to produce at least one fanwork per signup. Please sock responsibly!

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Assignments:

• Assignments are only guaranteed to match on one fandom and one ship.
  
• The minimum requirement is a complete fic of 1000 words or more or a finished piece of art, not on lined paper, with dimensions at least 500 x 500 px
  
• Your assignment must focus on a requested ship, and must include a romantic and/or sexual relationship of some kind. This is not a friendship exchange!
  
• All gifts must be rated Mature or Explicit. The rating could be for sexual content and/or dark themes and/or any other content warranting such a rating.
  
• Please do not discuss your assignment in public; creators should remain anonymous until after creator reveals. Do, however, feel free to discuss with a beta reader.
  
• If your assignment does not match a combination of tags which you offered, contact the mods as soon as possible. It will not be possible to change assignments for any other reason.

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Posting:

• To post your fic on AO3: navigate to your AO3 dashboard, click on 'Assignments', find your Femslash After Dark 2020 assignment and click 'Post to fulfil'.
  
• Works containing excessive spelling or grammar errors (enough to hinder comprehension) will not be accepted.
  
• Due to the collection's anonymous period, do not post your work elsewhere before creator reveals.
  
• You can edit your work after posting it, but your gift must be complete enough to stand as it is by the deadline.
  
• Saved drafts do not fulfil assignments. Please ensure that you post your gift!

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Defaulting:

• If you cannot finish your gift, please default.
  
• To default: navigate to your AO3 dashboard, click 'Assignments', locate your Femslash After Dark assignment and click 'Default'.
  
• If you default and your creator also defaults, you will not be assigned a pinch hitter.
  
• There is no penalty for defaulting before the deadline.
  
• If you have not posted a gift by the deadline, the mods will default you. You will need to post a full gift for any request in the exchange (excluding your own) before you will be permitted to participate in any further rounds.

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Pinch hits:

• Pinch hits will be posted to the Dreamwidth community.
  
• Please reply to the pinch hit post to claim, including your AO3 username; if you are successful, the mods will contact you and officially assign the pinch hit to you through AO3.
  
• You can claim a pinch hit even if you aren't signed up for the exchange, but you will need an AO3 account.

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Treats:

• You can write additional gifts for other participants and post them to the exchange collection as treats.
  
• To do this, navigate to the collection and click 'Post to Collection'. You will need to manually add the name of your intended recipient - please check this carefully!
  
• Treats do not have to fulfil the minimum word count.
  
• You are welcome to write treats even if you aren't signed up for the exchange.
  
• Treats will not become main gifts for this exchange.

Mods reserve the right to apply their best judgement to any situations that arise which are not specifically covered by the rules above.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask! You can either comment on this post (anon is on), or email femslashafterdark.mods@gmx.com.