Assignments are out! A few reminders below.

[rarepairmod]

Your assignment has been sent! Please check your fruit basket for your rare pear assignment!

If your assignment does not match your offers, please get in touch ASAP at rarepairexmod@gmail.com. If you have any issues with your assignment, please contact me with your AO3 name, your recipient's AO3 name, and a description of the issue so I can sort this out for you.

Assignments are due Sunday 21 September at 11:59pm EDT. [ In your timezone + Countdown. ]

Please ensure you post to our AO3 collection and that your work has the correct recipient!

A few reminders:

• Please review the rules/guidelines for anything about medium requirements, posting, extensions, and defaulting. We do allow treats to be given to the collection.


• Please unlock your Dear Creator letters by Sunday 31 August so your creator and anyone looking to treat you can access your additional information. I will not be deleting letters from sign-ups or emailing participants about these.


• Please email rarepairexmod@gmail.com with your recipient questions. Be sure to remember your AO3 username, your recipient's AO3 name, and your question.
  
  You are welcome to be as detailed as possible in your question and provide decoy questions. (I am the type of mod who endeavours to try not to give away what fandom your recipient may be getting as I want them to be surprised, so please feel free to let me know your preferences regarding that.)


• Please do not include any self-deprecating comments in your author's note and any identifying information, such as social media links. I will not be accepting works into the collection that contain any of these. Be proud of your work! Such notes negatively impact the recipient's experience and set a tone for the work that is not true.
  
  You can add your social media links once the exchange is over! (I highly encourage you to do this! Just don't do it now.)


• The collection is moderated. I cannot access drafts, so please be sure to press "submit" when your work is completed. I will review these to ensure that they match the request and meet the bare minimum requirements.
  
  If you find your work is sitting in the moderation queue for more than three days, please email me your AO3 name and the title of your work so I can check to see if I have simply misread it as a draft.
  
  Once your work has been accepted, you are welcome to continue editing it until the assignment deadline. When you submit your work, it must be completed by the time of submission. Please ensure you do not accidentally delete half your assignment as I may not be able to catch this at the time of reveals. (Save a copy of your assignment somewhere!)


• If you submit your assignment and it is left in draft form by the assignment deadline, you will be considered defaulted.


• If you are a pinch hit and you find that you have remained unclaimed for a few weeks, you are more than welcome to email me at rarepairexmod@gmail.com with additional requests.
  
  I ask that the Rare Pair community remains positive about pinch hits; being a pinch hit is a great opportunity to be selected by someone who didn't have time to sign up for the round, but still wishes to create something for your rare pair!


• Please whitelist rarepairexmod@gmail.com. If your creator has a question, you'll definitely want to answer!


• We offer an extension for participants who require additional time. This extension is Sunday 28 September at 11:59pm EDT. [ In your timezone + Countdown. ]
  
  If you request an extension, you are agreeing to: 1) requesting only if you are reasonably certain you will be able to finish in this additional time and 2) if you have requested an extension and default or are a no-show default, you will not be able to request an extension in 2026's round.
  
  I do not need to know the reason why you need an extension.
  
  Please email rarepairexmod@gmail.com with your AO3 name and recipient's AO3 name.
  
  If you have extenuating circumstances, please get in touch ASAP.


• We have a ship promo post that you're welcome to add to during the creation period.

What's coming up next:

• Initial pinch hits will be posted in 24-48 hours from now.


• A beta post.


• A pinch hitter's treats post.

Thank you for joining me for our third round of Rare Pair! Please have fun creating. I can't wait to see what we end up adding to our fruit basket.