Crossworks 2023 Sign-Ups Open!

[morbane]

2023 sign-ups are open at AO3! See the sign-up form on the sidebar.

The basics

• You need an AO3 account. You can request an invite here, or contact the mod directly.


• One sign-up only per person. Do not sign up at all if I've previously banned you from any exchange for signing up multiple times at once.


• If there are things that would ruin a gift for you, please enter them in the sign-up form, in the "DNWs and Optional Details" field, as Do Not Wants or DNWs.


• You can write prompts, if you want, but you don't have to. You can link to a longer document, a "letter", with more information about your prompts and preferences, if you want, but you don't have to. Letter links can't be added after sign-ups end. If writing a letter, aim to complete it by the end of June 27th. The preferences in your optional details can include characters and relationships, but your creator isn't bound by them - please do not request fandoms where you are only interested in a very small subset of characters or worldbuilding.


• You can organize your requests according to whether you'd like art or fic or both, and crossovers or fusions or both. Each request and offer must include at least one of the tags Art/Fusion, Fic/Fusion, Art/Crossover, and Fic/Crossover. Crossovers and fusions are defined at the collection.


• You can use the "Notes to Mod" field to tell me more about your matching preferences, or you can leave that blank. I'll try to accommodate your preferences. I can't guarantee you'll match on a specific fandom or person. I will do my best to keep you from matching to someone you'd prefer to avoid, though I may need to clarify with you how to handle pinch hits or other situations.


• You must sign up with 3 (min) to 10 (max) requests, and 3 (min) to 10 (max) offers.

How to combine fandoms

• Each of your requests and offers needs to include 2-10 fandom tags from the tag set.


• Your requests (in total) must include at least 5 different fandom tags.


• Your requests (in total) must include at least 5 different fandom combinations. (That is: Harry Potter and John Wick is one combination. A request for Harry Potter, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and John Wick includes 3 different fandom combinations: HPxB, BxJW, HPxJW.)


• Your combinations cannot all require knowledge of your one favourite fandom. Ie, the five requests AxB, AxC, AxD, AxE, and AxF would all require your creator to know fandom A.


• Don't put fandoms into the same request or offer if you aren't interested in all the combinations they could make. For example, if you want Harry Potter and Buffy, and also Harry Potter and John Wick, but you don't want Buffy and John Wick, putting those three in the same request would be a bad idea because your creator could have offered Buffy and John Wick but not Harry Potter. In that case, put John Wick and Buffy in two different request slots and put Harry Potter in both.


• Don't put fandoms into the same request if the combination they make wouldn't create a fusion or crossover. Examples:
  • Don't put Discworld (Death Series) in the same request as Discworld (Witches Series) - these are subseries of the same world with shared characters and settings
  
  
  • Don't put Tortall in the same request as In the Hand of the Lioness, since Hand of the Lioness is a subset of Tortall
  
  
  • Don't put Shadow and Bone in the same request as Six of Crows, since one is an adaptation of the other
  
  
  • It's fine to combine similar fandoms in this way in your offers, just not in requests.

New this year: Any Other Fandom tags
As suggested by argentum_ls, we are trying out a wildcard system that may make it easier for you to cover all the fandom combinations you are interested in receiving.

This is very much a bonus: you can ignore it completely if you want. In that case, simply don't select the "Any Other Fandom" tags.

If interested, here's how it works.

-In one of your requests, select a fandom from the tagset and "Any Other Fandom I've Requested in CW2023". This means that your creator can combine that fandom with any fandom you've ticked in any of your other requests.

-Or, in one of your requests, select "Any Other Fandom I've Requested in CW2023" and "Any Other Fandom I've Requested in CW2023 (Select Only In Combo With AOF Tag & No Other Fandoms)". This is using tags to say "Absolutely any possible 2-fandom combination is welcome as long as both fandoms appear somewhere in my requests this year".

Click to see examples and notes

Normal sign-up
Request 1: Fic/Crossover, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dark Lords of Derkholm, The Old Guard, Dundaxian Codex
Request 2: Art/Fusion, Fic/Fusion: Dragonriders of Pern, The Hunger Games, Black Jewels, Dundaxian Codex
Request 3: Art/Fusion, Chronicles of Narnia, Revolutionary Girl Utena
Request 4: Fic/Fusion: Dundaxian Codex, Moby Dick
Request 5: Fic/Fusion: Dundaxian Codex, Chronicles of Narnia

Here I could get a crossover between Dark Lords of Derkholm and The Old Guard, but if I got a fusion between Black Jewels and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, it would not fulfil my request.

This set-up also means that I am prompting for multiple fusions with Gloryhammer's Dundaxian Codex. This is different from putting Dundaxian Codex, Moby Dick and the Narnia all in the same request - if I did that, I might get Moby Dick and Narnia, and a VERY different Voyage of the Dawn Treader. (No shade or judgment if you think that would be great! This is purely an example.)

Using Any Other Fandom tags
Request 1: Fic/Crossover, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dark Lords of Derkholm, The Old Guard
Request 2: Art/Fusion, Fic/Fusion: Dragonriders of Pern, The Hunger Games, Black Jewels
Request 3: Art/Fusion, Chronicles of Narnia, Revolutionary Girl Utena
Request 4: Fic/Fusion: Dundaxian Codex, Any Other Fandom I've Requested in CW2023

This could save me time because if my creator likes the Dundaxian Codex, they can combine that with any other fandom in the requests. (Only with fic/fusion though). I'd have to figure out another way to work in Moby Dick, though...


Using Any Other Fandom tags - both of them
Request 1: Fic/Crossover, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dark Lords of Derkholm, The Old Guard, Dundaxian Codex
Request 2: Art/Fusion, Fic/Fusion: Dragonriders of Pern, The Hunger Games, Black Jewels
Request 3: Art/Fusion, Chronicles of Narnia, Revolutionary Girl Utena
Request 4: Fic/Fusion: Any Other Fandom I've Requested in CW2023, Any Other Fandom I've Requested in CW2023 (Select Only In Combo With AOF Tag & No Other Fandoms)

In this case, Request 4 means I could get a fusion story between Utena and the Old Guard, Black Jewels and Narnia, or Dundaxian Codex and Pern. Anything's fair game. No combination is excluded.


This is the only way "Any Other Fandom I've Requested in CW2023 (Select Only In Combo With AOF Tag & No Other Fandoms)" should be selected in your requests. It should appear as the second fandom with "Any Other Fandom I've Requested in CW2023" as the first fandom, and there should not be a third fandom in that request.

If using "Any Other Fandom I've Requested in CW2023", please list out what those fandoms are in the optional details of the request where you have selected this tag. This helps creators check they're combining the right fandoms.

NB: Please be very cautious about offering these bonus tags - see further discussion here.


Please feel free to ask if you have questions!

Lastly
When looking through the tag set, please keep in mind the Uncategorized fandoms in the tag set. Some of these may be fandoms you've never heard of - but some of them may just be sub-groupings of a fandom you know.

Please include a note about your treat settings (enabled or disabled?) in your request optional details.

If you have blocked other participants, including likely pinch hitters, please help me by noting them in the offers notes among the people you would prefer not to match to.

App!
As sign-ups progress, karanguni's app may make it easier to find requests by fandom. This is updated on request and will say when it was last updated.


Sign-ups will end at 11:59pm EDT on 23 June. A letters post will go up soon.

Comments

[morbane]

Thanks! I've reached out to the requester for more information about that one. I generally prefer people not do that because it makes it harder to ensure everyone is matching on things that are definitely crossovers/fusions. I'm aware that you can treat closely related canons of that kind as alternate universes, and want them combined in good faith, but it doesn't play very well with the matching algorithm, unfortunately.