Sign Ups Open + Rules Refresher!

[ficmod]

 Sign ups are open! They'll stay open until August 23 at 11:59 PM, MST. Remix madness sign ups will begin on August 24.

A few reminders:

• To sign up, you must have a minimum of three (3) 500-word fics, a minimum of five (5) 100-word fics, or a minimum of three (3) drawings in each requested fandom. Your qualifying fic/art should already be at the URL you provide when you sign up.
• You may include up to 20 fandoms per request; it is not necessary to have more than one request unless you have a reason for splitting your offers (like you want to receive fic for some fandoms but would prefer art for other fandoms).
• You may leave the text box blank if you don't have any safe works/previous remixes.
  
• If you're a writer, you want to choose Fic Remixed As Fic and/or Fic Remixed As Art, depending on your preferences. If you're an artist, you want to choose Art Remixed As Art and/or Art Remixed As Fic. If you have enough qualifying fic AND art in your requested fandoms, you can do both. If you have fic and art in different fandoms, or want to request different things in different fandoms, you can add a second request.
• The URL you include for your work MUST be easily navigated by fandom. This means you must either link to your AO3 dashboard/works page, OR an index elsewhere that has your works sorted by fandom. Unless you have only/primarily written/drawn in a single fandom, you should NOT link to a general fic/art tag on your tumblr. The reason for this is that while your remixer can do something in a different fandom than you matched on, they must still be able to easily find your works in the fandom you matched on.
• You are limited to 3 individual safe works, 1 safe series, and/or 1 safe fandom per signup (not per request). Safe fandoms may be an umbrella fandom or "all media types" fandom.
• All fandoms in your request must be AO3 canonical tags. Whenever possible, choose the most unique version of your fandom (i.e., "Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)" instead of "Marvel Cinematic Universe.")

Below the cut is a quick refresher of the rules. Any questions, feel free to comment or get in touch at mod4remixrevival@gmail.com!



What's the difference between the exchange and Remix Madness?
The main Remix Revival exchange is a traditional gift exchange. You will sign up with the understanding that you will create a remixed work for someone else and in return, someone will be assigned to create a remix for you. The rules for this collection are the same for any other gift exchange - we will not reveal the works until everyone who participated receives a gift, pinch hits will be posted here to the community, and works will be anonymous for first week.

The Madness round, on the other hand, is set up like a prompt claiming meme. There is no minimum for works created for Madness, and you do not have to be signed up for the main exchange to participate. You can remix as many works as you want, and you DO NOT have to opt in to be remixed in order to create works for other people.

Treats, aka extra works created for people you were not assigned to, are also posted to the Madness collection. There is no minimum/maximum limit on work size/type for treats either, and you can create as many as you want.

A few reminders! This is what you need in order to participate in the main Remix Revival exchange:

For each fandom in your requests, you must have:

• Three (3) qualifying stories of at least 500 words OR
• Five (5) qualifying stories of at least 100 words OR
• Three (3) qualifying drawings (no manips, please)

in that fandom, and be willing to have them remixed. You must also be willing to remix someone else's story/art.

The minimum limit on requested fandoms is one (1), so if you have only created works in one fandom, you can still sign up as long as there are at least a few of them. If you do not have enough qualifying works in any fandom to sign up for the main exchange, please feel free to opt into Remix Madness when signups have opened over there.

A qualifying work is a work that:

• Is complete
• Is at least 100 word long (for fic)
• Is not a crossover
• Is not a remix
• Is not a collaboration
• Is not denoted as "safe"
• Is in a medium you have requested to be remixed in
• Is posted on your AO3 account or available publicly at another site*

You must also be willing to remix someone else's fic/art, and must match to at least one person's request once signups close. If there is no one for you to write/draw for, you will be asked to add to your offers.

*If your works are posted outside of AO3, they should be easy to navigate via a masterpost or similar. Please don't link to a tumblr tag for your works unless they are in a single fandom, as your remixer should not get a headache trying to find your works in X fandom.

Can I denote a "safe" work - aka, one that is not allowed to be remixed by my creator?
Yes! However, you are limited to a MAXIMUM of:

• Three (3) individual safe works;
• One (1) safe series;
• one (1) safe fandom*
• one (1) pre-existing safe pseud**.

You may have 3 safe works AND 1 safe series AND 1 safe fandom AND 1 safe pseud if you want to.

Safe works and works within your safe series/safe fandom/safe pseud are completely off-limits to your remixer.

Safe work limits are per signup (not per request)

*In general, if you can request/offer a fandom, you can safe work that fandom as well. So you can safe work umbrella tags or "All Media Types" tags if you want to.

**"Safe pseuds" are intended for use by people with pre-existing pseuds only (ie, please don't make a brand-new pseud in order to safe work extra things). If it's abused or causes any problems, it will not be an option going forward.

If you want to receive a fic remix of your art or an art remix of your fic:
You're in luck there, too, as both requests and offers will allow you to indicate what kind of works you have, and what kind of works you would like to receive.

Fic Remixed As Fic = the traditional remix, where you'll receive or write a fic remixing another fic
Fic Remixed As Art = you'll receive an art remix for your fic, or offer an art remix for someone else's fic
Art Remixed As Art = you'll receive an art remix of your art, or draw a remix of someone else's art
Art Remixed As Fic = you'll receive a story remix of your art, or write a remix of someone else's art

Are there similar requirements to submit prompts for Remix Madness?
Nope. All that is required is that you have at least one fic available in the fandom you are requesting. There is no minimum requirement (the only rule is that works must be complete), and you can denote as many safe fics/fandoms as you want. You are more than welcome to say "please only remix x, y, and z" or whatever other specific request you have. It truly is a free-for-fall, the reason being that they are prompts available to claim rather than assignments.

For FAQs and the full rules for both Remix Revival and Remix Madness, please check the collections at AO3.

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Comments

[likeadeuce]

Is there a post on here that we can link to that gives basics on what a remix is and how the exchange works? The rules + FAQ post seem to be written for ppl who have participated in Remix before. I'd like to share the post w/ my current fandom without having to explain the basics of remix. Thanks!

[ficmod]

The rules/FAQ on the AO3 collection should explain the basics of the exchange itself. The FAQ covers what a remix is, what you can and cannot change, common questions, etc. I don't have a post on the dreamwidth here because I took over this exchange from another mod, which was a replacement for another exchange which is now defunct, so there may be places where things are unclear or confusing (like a 5-year-long game of Telephone, essentially). Is there something specifically about the rules/FAQ that you think I should change?

[likeadeuce]

Is there a way to link to the FAQ independently? The issue is that it's halfway down the page after a bunch of really technical and specific rules.

[ficmod]

Yep: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/remixrevival2021/profile#faq

You can also navigate directly to each section via the heading links on the left side of the bar, on the AO3 page:

[likeadeuce]

Thanks :D

[suzume]

Umm...help??

AO3 told me:
"Sorry! We couldn't save this challenge signup because:

You must submit between 1 and 2 offers to sign up for this challenge. You currently have 12.
You must submit between 1 and 2 requests to sign up for this challenge. You currently have 7."

[ficmod]

Are you trying to do multiple offers and requests for each specific fandom? This is different from a lot of other exchanges that match on fandoms AND ships (or additional tags, or characters, or whatever). Matching for Remix Revival is for one medium (fic remixed as art, fic remixed as fic, etc.) and one fandom, so all of the fandoms you want should be combined into one request. The maximum limit is 2 requests to allow people to request up to 40 fandoms total (the limit on AO3 for request is 20 fandom tags), and/or to specify that they want certain fandoms remixed in certain mediums. (So your Request 1 might be all the fandoms you want remixed as art, while Request 2 might be the ones you want remixed as fic, or some other combination like that.)

It will work the same with offers: you'll combine all your fandoms into one. You'll be matched on 1 medium (fic remixed as fic, fic remixed as art, etc etc) + 1 fandom. If you look at the request summary you can see examples if that helps. Does that make sense?

[suzume]

Yes! That was my problem! Thanks for the explanation!

[reflectedeve]

From your FAQ, I think illustrations for other peoples’ fanfic qualify as remixes (and therefore not available to themselves be remixed for this exchange), right? I just want to make sure, since I quite a few of those (too many to cover as "safe"), and it wouldn’t feel fair to the original fic author to have them remixed as gifts for me, if that makes sense.

On the other hand, is art I drew for a Reverse Bang eligible for remixing, since it was the original fanwork, and created solely by me (even though it has technically been remixed before, by the Reverse Bang writer who claimed it)?

Thanks - this looks really fun!

[ficmod]

Yes, I think that would count as a collaborative work, in which case it wouldn't be eligible. And you're right, it's to make sure the co-creators (who didn't sign up) don't have their works remixed without their permission. I realize there might be grey areas, so if there's anything that any artists are unsure on I would probably take it case-by-case and just make a judgment call.

If there was a certain piece that you really wanted to make eligible, if you obtained permission from the other creator/s involved, I would accept that! I'm not sure what the previous mod did in those cases but I'd be comfortable with allowing that.

In the case of a Reverse Bang, I think since the fic in those challenges are meant to be a response/interpretation of your piece, which was the original, that's less of a collaboration and more of a work that's been remixed at one point by someone else, if that makes sense. (ETA: I realize now that I just repeated exactly what you said in your comment, sorry!! Long day, lmfao.) I would maybe put a note in your sign up to your potential remixer to remind them to focus on your work only, however.

[reflectedeve]

Thanks so much! This is exactly in line with what I thought on all counts (and I’m not interested in trying to make any of my collaborative pieces eligible; quite the opposite). I think I have everything in that category pretty well labeled in my masterlist, but I’ll make sure to put a note in my sign-up too, since there’s just so much of it.

[lafgl]

okay oh god i haven't used dreamwidth since i signed up like three years ago i pray i am doing this correctly

i have several works on ao3 in a fandom i would like to add to my requests, that i previously hosted on another account (as i wanted it more separate than a pseud). they are now listed as being authored both by that account and my main account -- so question: should i make a note in my sign-up that this is the case and these works are eligible?

[ficmod]

So if the fics show up on your main account, the one you plan to link in your sign up, but they show as being co-authored by your alt account, is that right? Then yes I would put a note in that says "[username] is my alternate account, so any works co-authored by that handle are not collaborations" or something similar. Hope that helps!

[lafgl]

yep, thank yooou! <3