Hey everyone - first of all thank you to all the new people signing up this year, and welcome! I realize the rules/FAQ could use some refreshing but frankly I haven't had the time or energy to devote to it, and since I am running this thing on my own I truly appreciate your patience. If you're not familiar with the history of this exchange, it was a continuation of the older remix exchange, Remix Redux (which was itself a continuation of a version of it on LJ back in the day), which I took over from another mod a few years ago. So if you run across something in the rules that's confusing, it's probably my fault for not catching it! Long story short.
As we enter the last few days of sign ups, here are some reminders that I thought would be helpful:
- Matching is 1 fandom + 1 medium (fic remixed as art, art remixed as fic, fic remixed as fic, or art remixed as art), and that's all. So all the fandoms you're eligible in should be combined into one request! Same with offers. You have the ability to make two, in case you have so many fandoms that you exceed AO3's limit of 20, and/or you wanted to separate different fandoms with different mediums (i.e., Request 1 is all the fandoms you want remixed as art, and Request 2 is all the fandoms you want remixed as fic, etc).
- That being said, once someone is assigned to remix you, they are allowed to remix ANY of your works. So let's say you signed up for Harry Potter, and someone gets matched to you because of that fandom, but they poke through your profile and find something you did eight years ago for a tiny book fandom, and your ONE work is the ONLY WORK to this day in that fandom's tag - they're allowed to remix that! Everything you've created that isn't marked as safe, or a collaboration or a remix itself, is FAIR GAME.
- So it's important for you to signify in your sign up which of your works ARE remixes (an interpretation you did of someone else's work), a collaboration (a work created with another person), and/or marked as safe. You are limited to 3 safe works, 1 safe fandom, 1 safe series, and 1 safe pseud. You can have one of each of all of these, if you so choose. Remember that you can choose an umbrella fandom to mark as safe (so if you mark MCU as safe, that would cover works in Iron Man, Captain America: Civil War, Black Panther, Wandavision, etc etc etc)
- A remix challenge is not a gift exchange! Remember that this is an opportunity for the creator to have fun and stretch their skills - it's not intended to be a gift tailored to your tastes! This is the reason why there's a limit on how many things you can mark as safe, and why the remixer can choose literally anything to remix, even if you didn't sign up with that fandom. The only thing your remixer will be beholden to keep is the fandom, the basic plot, and the pairing - a "remix" might be a completely different take/interpretation on the work you created in the first place, and that's sort of what makes it fun!
- This is also why I will not be enforcing DNWs. Again, it's not a gift! Be honest with yourself about this one; if you don't think you could handle it if someone remixed your work and included something you don't want to see or read about, then this is probably not the exchange for you.
- To reiterate, because this is not an exchange for gifts, you are not allowed to indicate preferences of any kind in your sign up. If I see this when sign ups close (I won't be editing anything in sign ups until then), I will remove it! This includes likes/dislikes, pairings, tropes, kinks, whatever. Be brave! Embrace the unknown!
AND A NOTE FOR ARTISTS: If you created art for a reverse bang challenge, then that art is eligible to be remixed. It was an original work made by you! However, art created for someone else's fic, such as for a big bang challenge or something similar, is not eligible. Since that's technically an interpretation of someone else's work, I would consider that art to be a remix, and therefore it's ineligible. I realize there might be grey areas, so if you're unsure get in touch with me and I'll make a judgment call!
(This is obviously the reverse for writers: something written for a reverse bang would be an interpretation of someone else's work, and therefore ineligible. However, a work you wrote that someone later created art for? Fair game!)
AND A NOTE ON POD_TOGETHER:
I will let you decide on your own whether stories written for pod_together (a challenge which pairs together podficcers and fic writers) count as a collaboration or not. In my opinion it's a bit of a grey area whether stories written for this challenge are original works that were later "remixed" (with a podfic) or a collaborative project. Nobody knows more about the creative process of a piece than the creator. If you think your podficcer partner was a creative collaborator insofar that they deserve credit as a co-author, then I would mark that piece ineligible. But I'm not going to police that too heavily; please take this on good faith, respect your past creative partners, and if you need help making a call about something, let me know.
AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST:
Someone requested that I make a Discord server, so have at it! Caveat is that I have very little experience with modding on Discord, so please be nice to me. (Also if there's anything on there you think is weird/want me to change, let me know and I'll fix it!) I'll edit the pinned post here on the DW with the invite link.
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