48 Hours Until Signups Close!
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ficinabox48 Hours Until Signups Close!
Time to get those sign ups in!
Signup Closing Reminder
Signups will be closing on August 31st at 10PM EDT (Countdown) ! You have until then to finish signing up or any edits to your signup!
If you are someone who would like to create for a non-fanfic medium, check out the instructions on the signup post (link) for how to offer mediums! You have until August 31st at 10PM EDT to send in any of those offers.
After signups close we will be spending several days on matching and on checking the signups to make sure their are no issues. Please check the signups instructions (link) to review some unique to FIAB requirements such as DNW labels or minimum request details, this will help us get through checking requests faster!
Some general reminders:
- All of the Do Not Match requests sent in have now been processed and replied to. If you sent one and we haven't replied, something has gone wrong! Please email again or contact us via the screened contact post on Dreamwidth.
- All of the medium matching requests for people who aren't making fic sent in have now been processed and replied to. If you sent one and we haven't replied, something has gone wrong! Please email again or contact us via the screened contact post on Dreamwidth.
- We did some early request checking to find problems before sign ups close, while people can still edit their own sign ups. These emails went to roughly 1/4th of the people signed up. Please check the email associated with your AO3 account! Some of you will have tags or even whole requests deleted if you don't follow our email instructions. We've now stopped pre-checks and further sign ups will just get the usual post-sign up close emails from us if there are problems.
- Please keep checking the email associated with your AO3 account after signups close. Every year we have a few people with sign up problems that mean we have to delete them from the exchange, which we don't want to do. Emails will probably go out 24-48 hours after sign ups close, but might go out earlier to later. We would suggest you check your email at least once a day until initial assignments come out.
Late Nominations
If something you want to request isn't in the tagset, you can still nominate it over on the late nominations post! Late nominations will close 24 hours before signups close on August 30th at 10pm EDT.
We're very strict with formatting for late nominations, so make sure you check the guidelines on that post and maybe check some of the other nominations that were requested before posting.
Swaps
Swaps are currently open (check out the swaps post for more information on what they are and how to request them!) and will remain open until September 7th. You will receive your assignment at least 24 hours before swaps close.
Brief exchange delay
Aug. 30th, 2025 12:02 ammodzilla posting in fffxHello all,
I'm really sorry, but a family emergency came up and the sign-ups will be at least one further day delayed.
Given there's a buffer between the proposed sign-ups close time (7 September) and the date assignments go out (13 September), my current plan is to close sign-ups later (somewhere between 9 and 11 September) and send assignments out more quickly. Let me know if that will be a problem for you. I think the gap between sign-ups and assignments can be a nice feature in this slow-paced exchange - it gives you some breathing room to finish a letter or decide if you want to ask for a particular assignment - but assignment swaps are still a thing!
A further query post will come soon, and then sign-ups. I'm regretful I've had to call on your patience a couple of times already this round, but I'm grateful for that patience! I hope this will be the last delay on my side.
I'm really sorry, but a family emergency came up and the sign-ups will be at least one further day delayed.
Given there's a buffer between the proposed sign-ups close time (7 September) and the date assignments go out (13 September), my current plan is to close sign-ups later (somewhere between 9 and 11 September) and send assignments out more quickly. Let me know if that will be a problem for you. I think the gap between sign-ups and assignments can be a nice feature in this slow-paced exchange - it gives you some breathing room to finish a letter or decide if you want to ask for a particular assignment - but assignment swaps are still a thing!
A further query post will come soon, and then sign-ups. I'm regretful I've had to call on your patience a couple of times already this round, but I'm grateful for that patience! I hope this will be the last delay on my side.