Welcome to the April Fools Bleach Exchange!
Hello everybody! Susako here, ready to kick off the April Fools Bleach Exchange!
I was in charge of back-ups for the last exchange, but since myself, pyrefly and jamiefawkes are rotating, it falls to me to organise this exchange.
Since it is around the time of April Fools day, it has been decided that this should be a humour/crack mini-exchange. That means that all works should at least attempt to be funny, or have some kind of crack in them. Off the wall craziness is totally encouraged for this exchange! No more of this love and romance crap! Well you can have love and romance in there if you want, but the emphasis should be on humour or a humorous situation. If the emphasis is on the love and fluff, then sorry folks, but it belongs to the Valentines Exchange and you are a month late. We want to make people laugh, and cry with laughter, or go crazy from sheer wackiness. We want to break brains all round. XD As such, general fanworks aren't really a part of this. Remember: Crack is whack.
Now this will be a mini-exchange run very similar to how the Valentines Day one was run. Just in case people weren't around, or have forgotten, I shall explain briefly the rules for this mini-exchange once more.
This was taken from Piru-san's two posts about readjusted rules for the mini-exchanges.
* Mini-exchanges are limited to fanfiction, fanart, fancomics and AMVs only.
* Participants do not get to specify the media of their requests. You get whatever your April Fool/Original Prankster is able to make.
* Do not request things that you are not willing to write/draw yourself.
* Crack pairings/threesomes are definitely acceptable for this exchange!
* Fics should be at least 500 words in length, or at least enough to decently develop a scene.
* Fanart should be more than a simple outline drawing with no shading.
* Fancomics should be equivalent to at least a page of a manga/magazine with text that matches the pictures.
* AMVs should emphasise the character/pairing.
* Above all, your work must include humour of some kind! If pairings are requested, then it is assumed that unless your assignee tells you otherwise, the love is requited.
1. Join the community if you haven't already done so and ideally, make sure that you have us on your friends list to check for updates.
2. Copy and paste the sign-up form to a comment in this post, making sure you answer everything as honestly and clearly as possible. This form will be used to pair you with your April Fool/Original Prankster. Sign-ups will close on Friday 24th March.
3. Make sure to check your email between Saturday 25th March and Sunday 26th March. I will be assigning people and contacting them at the email address provided in the form, so make sure you check that account. Emails will be coming from darkstarcalling@hotmail.com so make sure that you add me to your safe list, and keep checking.
4. Come back and check this post to see the requests of the person you have been assigned to. You may leave anonymous comments to ask them about specifics if you wish. But keep it clean, polite and not too obvious. Wouldn't want to spoil the surprise, right? ^_^
5. Start working on your gift! And be sure to email me to say that you are done so I can add your name to the list of people to grant posting access to.
6. Some time before the final deadline I will be posting a check-in so that people who haven't already emailed me can let me know that they are around and have either finished or are still working on their gifts.
7. Posting access will be granted on Friday 14th April. There will be a reminder of posting guidelines along with this. Expect there to be a flood of funny stuff in the community!
8. Commenting and thanking is encouraged. People take time to make gifts and it's only polite to say thank you! Plus it's always really cool to get feedback on stuff. ^_^
Now, the part you've all been waiting for!
NAME:
EMAIL ADDRESS:
ANYTHING YOU ABSOLUTELY WILL NOT DO:
CHARACTER(S)/PAIRING/THREESOME:
OPTIONAL PROMPT:
SMUT Y/N:
After some deliberation, I decided to include the smut question in there. Some people may want smut with their crack pairing, for example. Meh, sex can be funny, I guess. ^^;
Please list a minimum of three requests and a maximum of ten. We want to give people a fair amount of choice, here.
So, since we like explanations and examples, here's my sample sign-up form.
NAME: Susako
EMAIL ADDRESS: darkstarcalling@hotmail.com
ANYTHING YOU ABSOLUTELY WILL NOT DO: IchiIshi, RenRuki, anything with Komamura, anything with Shuuhei. No incest or hardcore yaoi. Shounen-ai is ok, though.
CHARACTER(S)/PAIRING/THREESOME: Ichigo, Chad, Keigo, and Mizuiro.
OPTIONAL PROMPT: The friends have a discussion about girls.
SMUT Y/N: No.
CHARACTER(S)/PAIRING/THREESOME: Rukia (other characters too, but the focus is on her)
OPTIONAL PROMPT: Her gigai is malfunctioning.... XDDDD
SMUT Y/N: No.
CHARACTER(S)/PAIRING/THREESOME: Ukitake, Kiyone and Sentarou
OPTIONAL PROMPT: Kiyone and Sentarou striving for Ukitake's approval.
SMUT Y/N: No.
CHARACTER(S)/PAIRING/THREESOME: Shunsui x Nanao
OPTIONAL PROMPT: Nanao teases Shunsui for a change.
SMUT Y/N: No.
CHARACTER(S)/PAIRING/THREESOME: Kon!Ichigo x Ichigo x Rukia
OPTIONAL PROMPT: "You want to do what?!"
SMUT Y/N: It'd be nice XD
Please note that the form gives you the option of specifying characters, a pairing or a threesome. Trying to add variety in here! You can choose to specify characters that you would like to see in a humorous situation with no pairings, or you can specify a pairing (crack or otherwise). For example, above I've specified Ichigo, Chad, Mizuiro and Keigo in a non-pairing fashion, but I've also specified Shunsui x Nanao as a pairing.
There will be a reminder of posting guidelines nearer the time but if you want, you can check them out now at this here post. It would also be lovely if posts could be tagged as APRIL FOOLS 2006 and what kind of gift they are eg FANART or FANFICTION.
We are still running the demerits system. If you sign up and don't check in at all by the final deadline, there is one demerit for you. Sign up, check in but don't post your gift on time without letting the mods know, then it's half a demerit. Two demerits means you are banned from an exchange. Piru-san, correct me if I'm wrong on any of this.
So, there we go. Any questions, comments or concerns? Email me! darkstarcalling@hotmail.com I will be happy to help you out to the best of my ability. With the dates, I figure that I've left enough time for back-ups and what not to be out of the way before the Summer Exchange starts. Again, Piru-san, if you have any issues with the timing, just poke me. XD
LET THE CRACK BEGIN!
Sign-up deadline: Friday 24th March
Assignments sent out: Saturday 25th March - Sunday 26th March
Posting access granted: Friday 14th April
Final deadline for posting gifts: Friday 21st April
I was in charge of back-ups for the last exchange, but since myself, pyrefly and jamiefawkes are rotating, it falls to me to organise this exchange.
Since it is around the time of April Fools day, it has been decided that this should be a humour/crack mini-exchange. That means that all works should at least attempt to be funny, or have some kind of crack in them. Off the wall craziness is totally encouraged for this exchange! No more of this love and romance crap! Well you can have love and romance in there if you want, but the emphasis should be on humour or a humorous situation. If the emphasis is on the love and fluff, then sorry folks, but it belongs to the Valentines Exchange and you are a month late. We want to make people laugh, and cry with laughter, or go crazy from sheer wackiness. We want to break brains all round. XD As such, general fanworks aren't really a part of this. Remember: Crack is whack.
Now this will be a mini-exchange run very similar to how the Valentines Day one was run. Just in case people weren't around, or have forgotten, I shall explain briefly the rules for this mini-exchange once more.
This was taken from Piru-san's two posts about readjusted rules for the mini-exchanges.
* Mini-exchanges are limited to fanfiction, fanart, fancomics and AMVs only.
* Participants do not get to specify the media of their requests. You get whatever your April Fool/Original Prankster is able to make.
* Do not request things that you are not willing to write/draw yourself.
* Crack pairings/threesomes are definitely acceptable for this exchange!
* Fics should be at least 500 words in length, or at least enough to decently develop a scene.
* Fanart should be more than a simple outline drawing with no shading.
* Fancomics should be equivalent to at least a page of a manga/magazine with text that matches the pictures.
* AMVs should emphasise the character/pairing.
* Above all, your work must include humour of some kind! If pairings are requested, then it is assumed that unless your assignee tells you otherwise, the love is requited.
1. Join the community if you haven't already done so and ideally, make sure that you have us on your friends list to check for updates.
2. Copy and paste the sign-up form to a comment in this post, making sure you answer everything as honestly and clearly as possible. This form will be used to pair you with your April Fool/Original Prankster. Sign-ups will close on Friday 24th March.
3. Make sure to check your email between Saturday 25th March and Sunday 26th March. I will be assigning people and contacting them at the email address provided in the form, so make sure you check that account. Emails will be coming from darkstarcalling@hotmail.com so make sure that you add me to your safe list, and keep checking.
4. Come back and check this post to see the requests of the person you have been assigned to. You may leave anonymous comments to ask them about specifics if you wish. But keep it clean, polite and not too obvious. Wouldn't want to spoil the surprise, right? ^_^
5. Start working on your gift! And be sure to email me to say that you are done so I can add your name to the list of people to grant posting access to.
6. Some time before the final deadline I will be posting a check-in so that people who haven't already emailed me can let me know that they are around and have either finished or are still working on their gifts.
7. Posting access will be granted on Friday 14th April. There will be a reminder of posting guidelines along with this. Expect there to be a flood of funny stuff in the community!
8. Commenting and thanking is encouraged. People take time to make gifts and it's only polite to say thank you! Plus it's always really cool to get feedback on stuff. ^_^
Now, the part you've all been waiting for!
NAME:
EMAIL ADDRESS:
ANYTHING YOU ABSOLUTELY WILL NOT DO:
CHARACTER(S)/PAIRING/THREESOME:
OPTIONAL PROMPT:
SMUT Y/N:
After some deliberation, I decided to include the smut question in there. Some people may want smut with their crack pairing, for example. Meh, sex can be funny, I guess. ^^;
Please list a minimum of three requests and a maximum of ten. We want to give people a fair amount of choice, here.
So, since we like explanations and examples, here's my sample sign-up form.
NAME: Susako
EMAIL ADDRESS: darkstarcalling@hotmail.com
ANYTHING YOU ABSOLUTELY WILL NOT DO: IchiIshi, RenRuki, anything with Komamura, anything with Shuuhei. No incest or hardcore yaoi. Shounen-ai is ok, though.
CHARACTER(S)/PAIRING/THREESOME: Ichigo, Chad, Keigo, and Mizuiro.
OPTIONAL PROMPT: The friends have a discussion about girls.
SMUT Y/N: No.
CHARACTER(S)/PAIRING/THREESOME: Rukia (other characters too, but the focus is on her)
OPTIONAL PROMPT: Her gigai is malfunctioning.... XDDDD
SMUT Y/N: No.
CHARACTER(S)/PAIRING/THREESOME: Ukitake, Kiyone and Sentarou
OPTIONAL PROMPT: Kiyone and Sentarou striving for Ukitake's approval.
SMUT Y/N: No.
CHARACTER(S)/PAIRING/THREESOME: Shunsui x Nanao
OPTIONAL PROMPT: Nanao teases Shunsui for a change.
SMUT Y/N: No.
CHARACTER(S)/PAIRING/THREESOME: Kon!Ichigo x Ichigo x Rukia
OPTIONAL PROMPT: "You want to do what?!"
SMUT Y/N: It'd be nice XD
Please note that the form gives you the option of specifying characters, a pairing or a threesome. Trying to add variety in here! You can choose to specify characters that you would like to see in a humorous situation with no pairings, or you can specify a pairing (crack or otherwise). For example, above I've specified Ichigo, Chad, Mizuiro and Keigo in a non-pairing fashion, but I've also specified Shunsui x Nanao as a pairing.
There will be a reminder of posting guidelines nearer the time but if you want, you can check them out now at this here post. It would also be lovely if posts could be tagged as APRIL FOOLS 2006 and what kind of gift they are eg FANART or FANFICTION.
We are still running the demerits system. If you sign up and don't check in at all by the final deadline, there is one demerit for you. Sign up, check in but don't post your gift on time without letting the mods know, then it's half a demerit. Two demerits means you are banned from an exchange. Piru-san, correct me if I'm wrong on any of this.
So, there we go. Any questions, comments or concerns? Email me! darkstarcalling@hotmail.com I will be happy to help you out to the best of my ability. With the dates, I figure that I've left enough time for back-ups and what not to be out of the way before the Summer Exchange starts. Again, Piru-san, if you have any issues with the timing, just poke me. XD
LET THE CRACK BEGIN!
Sign-up deadline: Friday 24th March
Assignments sent out: Saturday 25th March - Sunday 26th March
Posting access granted: Friday 14th April
Final deadline for posting gifts: Friday 21st April