2023 Schedule & Links

[rarepairmod]

Hello and welcome to the Rare Pairs Exchange, a multifandom exchange focused on ships with less than 250 works on AO3, completed, written in English, and filtered using the otp:true filter. The minimum requirements are either a 1,000 word fic or a piece of clean lineart on unlined paper.

You must be 18+ to participate.

The planned schedule is as follows:

✓ Nominations: May 12th-21st (closes at 11:59PM EDT) [ Countdown ] | [ In your timezone ]
✓ Ship Promo Post: Posted after nominations close. Here!
✓ Sign-Ups Open: May 24th
✓ Sign-Ups Close: June 7th, 11:59PM EDT
✓ Assignments Out: approximately June 10th
✓ Assignments Due: August 4th, 11:59PM EDT [ Countdown ] [ In your timezone ]
✓ Assignments Revealed: August 25th, 11:59PM EDT [ Countdown ] [ In your timezone ]
✓ Creators Revealed: September 1st, 11:59PM EDT [Countdown] [In your timezone]

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Contact: rarepairexmod@gmail.com

Comments

[embraidery]

hello! I was wondering if we could have a place to promo our ships? thanks!

[rarepairmod]

Hi! Absolutely! We will put up a post after nominations close for participants to promo their ships. :)

[trobadora]

Hi! Just a note - the "Assignments Revealed" link under "In your timezone" goes to 11:59 UTC, not EDT.

[rarepairmod]

Thank you! I thought I had fixed that but I see it chose to be stubborn. It should (hopefully) be EDT now!

[trobadora]

It is! Thank you very much! :D

[(Anonymous)]

Hi, will assignments and creator reveals happen at the same time? Currently, the schedule says that it will (on the 18th) but I thought it would be good to double-check that.

[rarepairmod]

Hello,

No, it won't be. I updated the assignments reveal time as per our pinch hits, but as we haven't decided on a creator reveal date yet, we've left it as is for now. Once all pinch hits have been claimed, we'll announce the new creator reveals date and update the above.

Thanks for checking in. :)

[trobadora]

Hi! Just to be sure - the "In your timezone" link for reveals says 11:59 EDT, as in AM, but it's definitely PM, right?

[rarepairmod]

Hi! Yes, it's PM, not AM. Thanks for letting us know. I've hopefully fixed it now.

[ultra_fic]

So, we're well beyond the assignment due date, and I haven't seen myself on any of the pinch hit lists, but there's no pending gift on my AO3 for this exchange, 4 days before reveals. I assume the person creating for me got an extension or something, but since not all exchanges allow that, I just thought I'd check :)

[rarepairmod]

Hi,

We can see a gift on your gifts page for the exchange when you scroll past the other anonymous works for other exchanges and also when searching your username in the collection.

[ultra_fic]

Yeah, I had a 'duh' moment and didn't even think to scroll down beyond the previously revealed ones. *facepalm* Sorry about that and thank you :)