Just a reminder that all stories are due tonight.  The initial deadline was midnight tonight, but I'll be up till about 4 am (CST), and will close the archive at that time.   SO you'll have a few extra hours to write, if you need them ( Read more... )

Hi everybody! A few pinch hits are coming out shortly, so start watching your inboxes.

Thought I'd take this time to offer a few reminders as we start nearing the deadlines!

1) Treats!

As prozacpark posted, here is a list of every request for this year. There's also a wonderful spreadsheet of letters if you want to shop around. Treats can be ( Read more... )

Treats: You can now view all requests that were made for the challenge here (you can even filter them by fandom!).  You can also access a spreadsheet with all the letters and their requested fandoms here (thanks to somehowunbroken, who put the spreadsheet together again this year) for all your treating needs ( Read more... )

Spread the word! You still have time to sign up for this year's exchange, but NOT MUCH! Sign-ups close in eight days (depending on where you are in the world) -- so get in there now!

SIGN UP HERE

Consider offering some needy fandoms

And don't forget to post your dear author letter here! (I'm off to do that now, actually!)

Please use this space to link to your Dear Author letter. Participants may want to read through to provide treats ( Read more... )

Sign-ups will run from now until March 2nd, roughly midnight CST (but we will provide in-comm warning ( Read more... )

So in the light of the entire Xavin discussion (a character who was introduced as and read as genderqueer/genderfluid by most people in a run that was taken over by Joss Whedon, who then retconned Xavin as identifying as a woman), we've come to a big decision and a change for next year ( Read more... )

WOW! Check out our amazing tag set so far! RIGHT HERE. There are over two thousand women included!

Now begins the time (until Feb. 15) when we take feedback from you and make any necessary changes to the tag set before signups. Here are some known issues or changes:

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We now enter "mod busting butt" mode and sort through anything that hasn't been approved yet.

Please refrain from emailing/commenting concerns until after this period.

There are, at current, a few major issues that we'll need to work on. A few reminders while we work:

3) What would render a character ineligible ( Read more... )

This is your 24-hour warning! Nominations will close as close to midnight CST as possible tomorrow. prozacpark and I are still filtering through approvals, so don't worry if yours haven't gone through yet. We'll make a post asking for any corrections that need to be made once the tag set is ready.

Stop procrastinating and get those nominations in!