Preliminary Overview

[unrequited_affections]

Note: All this is subject to change. Discussion is welcome in comments below, and in channels where the moderator is active.

Preliminary guidelines are below.

Guidelines will be set in stone on the 20th of April, GMT.

This is an exchange focused on fanfiction centering one-sided attraction.

Each fanfiction must contain at least 1000 words. They must centre around one character’s unrequited(Or believed to be so) affection for another character.

These characters will be distinguished by ‘Character B’ for the character on the receiving end of affections, and ’Character A’ for the one in love.

Nominations will be done by tags ’Character A wants Character B

Nominations will be from May 1 to May 15.
Sign-ups will be open from May 16 to June 1st. Assignments should be out by June 5, if not earlier. Assignment deadline will be August 17.

Each prospective attendant may submit up to six fandoms with five relationships each. Freeform tags will be used to ease matching. If we end up with a lot of pinch hits as a result, matching on tags may be discarded. In that case, we will still allow the use of tags as general guidelines.

Each attendant can request 3-10 fandoms, but must offer at least four fandoms, with at least one pairing in each. They may also offer 1-6 freeform tags.

Tag examples:
’A doesn’t realize self is in love’ or ’B loves A In an intense but platonic fashion’

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Psst, you might want to set up a comm to make it easier on the modding side.

[(Anonymous)]

Also, re: your schedule. It might not be the best idea to have assignments out before signups close (and in fact won't be possible if you're using AO3). If you're using AO3, you might also want to leave a day or two between nominations closing and signups opening for tagset cleanup purposes.

[unrequited_affections]

Amended schedule. Thank you for letting us know!

[unrequited_affections]

If another co-mod appears before sign-ups begin, I would love to do so. Unfortunately, mine has had to cancel for unexpected reasons.

[(Anonymous)]

Hello, mod! Thank you for running this exchange. I have a question about relationship eligibility: is this exchange for unrequited romantic love only, or will you also allow unrequited friendship, familial love, loyalty, and similar onesided feelings?

[unrequited_affections]

Hello, anon! :)

This exchange is for romantic love only, else the scope will be too broad.

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you for the clarification!