Crossworks: Fic and Art Crossover Exchange

This is a fanwork gift exchange on the Archive of Our Own for art (nice sketch+) and fic (1,000+ words) featuring crossovers and fusions.

Schedule
Nominations: 8-16 June (ends 11:59pm EDT)
Sign-ups: 18-25 June (ends 11:59pm EDT)
Assignments due: 13 August (11:59pm EDT)
Works revealed: 26 August (5pm EDT)
Creators revealed: 4 September (5pm EDT)

2022 Collection
2022 Tag Set
Canon Promo Post
Letters post
Perchange.org widget for generating combinations within 2022's fandoms
App, allowing you to find requests by fandom or by username
Beta post
crossovering (the exchange that came before Crossworks)

Hello all! I had a great time last year with this exchange and I'm looking forward to running it again.

Schedule
Nominations: 1-9 June
Sign-ups: 12-23 June (ends 11:59pm EDT)
Assignments due: 14 August (11:59pm EDT)
Works revealed: 27 August (5pm EDT)
Creators revealed: 4 September (5pm EDT)

This year there are just over 7 weeks in the creation period and the period between deadline & works reveals is 13 days instead of a week. This is to make it easier for pinch hitters to pick up post-deadline pinch hits, since they may be reviewing two canons at once or even picking one up.


Putting fandom combinations in your sign-up
I had trouble writing the instructions for this last year and they weren't the easiest to grasp. Here's what I said at the 2020 collection:

You will use an AO3 account to sign up to the challenge. Your sign-up must contain between 3 and 10 requests, and between 3 and 10 offers. Each request and offer must contain a group of 2-10 fandoms. Although you can repeat fandoms between offers, your requests must include at least 5 distinct fandoms and 5 different possible combinations between two fandoms. You may not enter the same fandom in each of your requests along with a single fandom, in such a way that your giver has to know your favourite fandom in order to create a gift for you. None of your requests may use identical tags to another request.

Putting three fandoms into a single request doesn't mean you'll get a work that combines all three fandoms (though you can suggest that as an optional prompt). It means you could get a work that combines any two of the fandoms, out of three total possible combinations.

What I'm trying to do is set minimums that make matching and pinch hits easier while not requiring so many fandoms that people are discouraged from signing up. For example, a sign-up like:

A/B
A/C
A/D
A/E

could cause difficulty if there aren't available writers or artists for A. So the current rules, at minimum, mean that someone has to have a request like:

A/B
A/C
A/D
A/E
D/E.

(Or like this:

A/B
A/C
A/D/E

-in this version, A appears in all the requests, but since someone could match on just D/E, the request doesn't require someone to know A.)

I also ask you not to put two fandoms into the same request if they are so similar that the combination wouldn't be a crossover or fusion.

Thoughts welcome!


Retrospective
Here is the spreadsheet of last year's requests and the works at last year's collection. Go there to refresh your memory on fandoms and combinations you'd like to see again, or works you meant to (or now want to) look into.

Previous sticky post, for reference

This is a fanwork gift exchange on the Archive of Our Own for art (nice sketch+) and fic (1,000+ words) featuring crossovers and fusions.

Schedule
Nominations: 1-10 June
Sign-ups: 13-23 June (ends 11:59pm EDT)
Assignments due: 22 August (11:59pm EDT)
Works revealed: 29 August (5pm EDT)
Creators revealed: 6 September (5pm EDT)

2020 Collection
2020 Tag Set
2020 letters post
Spreadsheet of requests by fandom
2020 beta post
crossovering (the exchange that came before Crossworks)