[Dreaming of Sunshine Exchange] Sign ups open!

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Sign ups are open until 11:59PM EST December 19th. To sign up you need an account on Archive of Our Own. Please comment here or email me if you need an account.

Also important: I will be able to see your email if you sign up. Please make sure your AO3-associated email won't divulge any information you don't want me to know (for example, your wallet name or the name of your school) and check your AO3-associated email frequently after you sign up in case I need to contact you about a problem with your sign up or a question from your creator.

Important links for sign ups:

• the sign up form
• the google form to opt-in to receive further transformation of existing DoS works (also a list of all the works listed there with links is here)
• requests summary
• sign up summary (by fandom)
• tagset
• Dear Creator letter tutorial

PLEASE NOTE: The tag(s) you enter must be from the tagset and they must match exactly. If the tag you want won't autocomplete, that's a known bug! Copy the tag directly from the tagset and it will be accepted. We've done our best to make sure tags on the gsheet above match those in the tagset, but please check the tagset version of the tag you're trying to nominate if you have any problems.

Requests

Requests are for things you want to be given! They're visible to everyone.

Something to keep in mind is that you can match on any combination of tags from inside a request, but not on combination of tags across requests.

The requests on the sign up form will have the following fields.

Fandom

• You can only select one fandom per request, and at least one of your requests needs to be a Dreaming of Sunshine request.
• You can have up to nine other requests with the same or different fandoms.
• For example, a sign up of ten Dreaming of Sunshine requests is allowed, and so is a sign up of one Dreaming of Sunshine request (with three relationship tags!) and ten crossovers.

Character

• This is where you select the fanwork medium(s) you want to receive.
• I know that it's kind of confusing that this slot is named "Characters", but such is life on AO3.
• You need to select at least one medium, but can select multiple.
• You will only get ONE (1) of these mediums — so, if you select both art and fic, you will recieve art or fic from your assigned creator, not both.

Relationship

• Each request can have between 1 and 20 relationships.
• Like mediums, you will only get ONE (1) of these relationships from your assigned creator.
• You need to request at least THREE (3) relationships from the Dreaming of Sunshine - Silver Queen fandom across all of your requests, but you can split them up however you want — the absolute bare minimum would be three Dreaming of Sunshine - Silver Queen requests with one relationship each.

Additional Tags

• This is where freeforms go. They'll help you match with a creator who likes the same kinds of things you do.
• You can match without any freeforms.
• Your creator will not be required to produce a work that includes any of your freeform tags.

Optional Details

• Your Do Not Wants (DNWs) go into the optional detail box. I will only enforce DNWs that are in your AO3 sign up.
• You should also maybe put some other stuff in this box to help your creator make the best possible gift for you! I would suggest a list of things you like in fic/art/other mediums, and also maybe some prompts.
• You can leave this box totally blank if you want, but if you want a fic tailored to your likes I would suggest you put something in it.
• Please keep in mind that optional details are optional, so your creator may choose to ignore everything in this box except for your DNWs. They probably won't, because usually creators sign up with the intent to give people things they like, but you will have a better chance of getting something you like if you provide a range of details.
• Like, maybe your ideal DoS fic would be about a canon divergence where Shikako goes into accounting...but your assigned creator might not know anything about accounting! So letting them know a few of your other favorite things will mean it's more likely that you will be asking for something that you like and that they can write.
• If you want to recieve works based on other Dreaming of Sunshine fics, please additionally fill out this form, which will provide searchable data when we get this round's spreadsheet of requests up. YOU MUST USE EXACTLY THE AO3 NAME YOU SIGN UP WITH. Computers are dumb and life is short, so if you give a nickname or something things won't work.

Letter

Some people like to put only their DNWs in the optional details box and put their optional details in a Dear Creator letter on a different site — usually Dreamwidth, but Tumblr or another blogging platform would work too. (Google docs is sometimes used too, but not everyone can open gdocs, it can expose your email to random people, and in my experience some creators feel nervous about their recip being able to tell when their letter is being viewed, so use at your own risk.)

Letters are great for better formatting, longer like lists, and more prompts! You can see an example of a letter on my Dreamwidth — here's the letter I wrote for the Trick or Treat exchange, where you can see that posting a letter let me include three long, bulleted lists of likes that would be annoying to scroll past on the AO3 requests summary. A lot of people who make treats (extra gifts produced on top of official assignments) prefer letters so that they can bookmark potential treat recipients.

You do not have to write a letter, it's completely optional, but I think that they're fun! I've provided more info about letter writing here.

Offers

Offers are for things you want to give! No one but the mod can see them.

Like with requests, you can match on any combination of tags from inside an offer, but not on combination of tags across offers.

The requests on the sign up form will have these fields:

Fandom

• You can only select one fandom per offer, and at least one of your offers needs to be a Dreaming of Sunshine offer.
• You can have up to nine other offers with the same or different fandoms.

Character

• This is where you select the fanwork medium(s) you want to offer.
• You need to select at least one medium, but can select multiple.
• You will only be required to make ONE (1) of these mediums.

Relationship

• Each offer can have between 1 and 20 relationships.
• Your Dreaming of Sunshine offer needs to have at least THREE (3) relationships to ensure matching will go smoothly.
• Like mediums, you will only have to create a work with ONE (1) of these relationships for your recip.

Additional tags

• This is where you can put freeforms. They'll help you match with a recip who likes the same kinds of things you do.
• You can match without any freeforms.
• You will not be required to produce a work that includes any of your recip's freeform tags.

Please let me know if you have any questions. If your question involves your offers, please email me instead of posting publicly to preserve that whole anonymous creator deal.