Rule 63 Exchange

Authors have now been revealed!

Thank you all for another wonderful Rule 63 Exchange, and see you next year!

Update: All pinch hits have been claimed and we expect the collection to open on August 26 at 11:59pm.

Hello everyone,

Because not every participant has received a gift and we want to make sure that pinch hitters have time to work, the collection will not be opening on-schedule (August 24 at 11:59pm EDT). Reveals are pushed back to August 26 at 11:59pm EDT at the earliest.

This pinch hit is still available:

PDPH #8 (Anne of Green Gables - L. M. Montgomery, Blossom Culp Series - Richard Peck, The Body - Stephen King, IT (Movies - Muschietti))

To claim the pinch hit, please email rule63exchange@gmail.com, message mod63, or comment on either this post or the original post-deadline pinch hit post with your AO3 username (all comments are screened). Ideally, this would be completed by 11:59pm EDT on August 25.

And of course - anyone can use this time for more editing or treat-writing.

Apologies, and thank you all for your patience!

Here are the post-deadline pinch hits for 2020. These are due Saturday, August 22 at 11:59pm EDT. To claim a pinch hit, please email rule63exchange@gmail.com or comment on this post with your AO3 username (all comments are screened).

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( CLAIMED PDPH #1: xxxHoLic, 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs, Katekyou Hitman Reborn! )

( CLAIMED PDPH #2: The Vampire Diaries & Related Fandoms, Game of Thrones (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin )

( CLAIMED PDPH #3: Star Wars - All Media Types, Divergent Series - Veronica Roth, Avatar (TV), Biohazard | Resident Evil (Gameverse), Compilation of Final Fantasy VII )

( CLAIMED PDPH #4: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke, Stand Still Stay Silent, Community (TV), Raffles - E. W. Hornung, Dracula - Bram Stoker )

( CLAIMED PDPH #5: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Tortall - Tamora Pierce, Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch )

( CLAIMED PDPH #6: Voltron: Legendary Defender, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018), Stand Still Stay Silent, Crossover Fandom [Voltron: Legendary Defender x She-Ra and the Princesses of Power], The Hobbit (Jackson Movies) )

( CLAIMED PDPH #7: The Dragon Prince (Cartoon), Voltron: Legendary Defender, DC Extended Universe, Compilation of Final Fantasy VII, The Witcher (TV), DCU (Comics), Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies), Titans (TV 2018) )

( CLAIMED PDPH #8: Anne of Green Gables - L. M. Montgomery, Blossom Culp Series - Richard Peck, The Body - Stephen King, IT (Movies - Muschietti) )

( CLAIMED PDPH #9: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Tortall - Tamora Pierce, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Frankenstein - Mary Shelley, Veep (TV) )

These are due Saturday, August 22 Sunday, August 23 at 11:59pm EDT. To claim a pinch hit, please email rule63exchange@gmail.com or comment on this post with your AO3 username (all comments are screened).

Assignments and pinch hits are due in a little over two days: August 17, 2020 at 11:59pm EDT (countdown).

Extensions must be requested before this deadline. If you think you might need an extension, please contact the mod via email (rule63exchange@gmail.com) or DW message.

Participants who have not submitted a work or requested an extension will be defaulted at deadline.

There is a new pinch hit.

( CLAIMED PH #11: xxxHoLic, 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs, Katekyou Hitman Reborn! )

PH #6 (Fall of Ile-Rien - Martha Wells, Tekken (Video Games), The Elric Saga - Michael Moorcock) is also outstanding.

Pinch hits are due on August 17, 2020 at 11:59pm EDT (countdown). To claim a pinch hit, please email rule63exchange@gmail.com or comment on this post with your AO3 username (all comments are screened).

Here is the list of initial pinch hits for 2020! To claim one, please email rule63exchange@gmail.com or comment on this post with your AO3 username (all comments are screened).

( CLAIMED PH #1: Alien (Movies), Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch, Star Wars - All Media Types )

( CLAIMED PH #2: Actor RPF, I Medici | Medici: Masters of Florence (TV), The Invisible Library - Genevieve Cogman, Lost in Space (TV 2018), Killjoys (TV), The Musketeers (2014) )

( PH #3: Raffles - E. W. Hornung, Frey & McGray Series - Oscar de Muriel, Blake & Avery Series - M. J. Carter, Sam Wyndham Series - Abir Mukherjee, Benjamin January Series - Barbara Hambly, Vampire Babylon - Chris Marie Green )

( CLAIMED PH #4: Teen Wolf (TV), Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon | Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, Merlin (TV) )

( CLAIMED PH #5: King Lear - Shakespeare, Shakespeare - History Plays, The Magnus Archives, Game of Thrones (TV), David Blaize - E. F. Benson, Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch, Voyná i mir | War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy )

( CLAIMED PH #6: Fall of Ile-Rien - Martha Wells, Tekken (Video Games), The Elric Saga - Michael Moorcock )

( CLAIMED PH #7: The Fugitive (Movies), Top Gun (1986), The Hunt for Red October (1990) )

( CLAIMED PH #8: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV) RPF, Merlin (TV) )

( CLAIMED PH #9: Downton Abbey, Mulan (1998), Stormlight Archive - Brandon Sanderson, Tolkien J.R.R. - Works )

Pinch hits are due on August 17, 2020 at 11:59pm EDT (countdown). To claim one, please email rule63exchange@gmail.com or comment on this post with your AO3 username (all comments are screened).

Hi everyone,

All unmatchable participants have responded and matching is complete; however, AO3 is glitching when we try to double-assign one or two participants manually. We've submitted a support ticket and are working on exploring a few unorthodox solutions to make sure that assignments still get out on schedule.

Thanks for your patience!

Signups for Rule 63 Exchange 2020 are now open! They will close at 11:59pm EDT on June 18 (countdown).

Assignments will go out on or by June 22, and are due August 17.

We have a guide for how to sign up, and what you can expect from matching, in the rules post. In brief:

• 3 to 10 fandoms
• 1 to 20 relationships per fandom
• Fic, art, or both
• Any or all: Always, Temporarily, or Permanently a 63
• General audiences, explicit, or both
• OR matching: you may match with a recipient/creator on any shared combination of relationship, medium, freeform, and rating

The mod would like to encourage participants to take a look at the whole tagset. You might see a tag you'd never have thought of, but that you'd love to offer or request!

Tag Set
Signup Summary
Requests

If you need to reach the mod, you can comment, send a PM on dreamwidth or email.

Reminder that nominations close on June 1, 11:59pm EDT.

• DC Extended Universe (DCEU): Tags were nominated that include Lex Luthor Jr. This seems to be a character who appears in the comics but not the films. Did you mean to nominate Lex Luthor Sr.?
• Avatar: The Last Airbender/Avatar: The Legend of Korra: As we are doing with other closely related sequel and companion series, we are inclined to approve these as a single fandom given the character overlap and continuity between them, and the pending "crossover" nominations from them. Is there a fandom tag that is generally used in the fandom to encompass both?
• Drawing Blood - Poppy Z. Brite: Our research suggests that this book is set in the same place as Lost Souls (which we have already approved) and contains some of the same characters. We're not otherwise familiar with it; is the presence of Lost Souls characters more of an easter-egg sort of reference, or is this more like a single fandom where different installments focus on different characters?
• Genjitsu mo Tama ni wa Uso wo Tsuku | Sometimes Reality Tells Lies Too (Manga): From what we can tell, this is the title of the first chapter of a manga called Hanging Out with a Gamer Girl. Nominator, can you clarify?
  

Thanks!

• Kamen Rider Decade, Kamen Rider Kiva, and Kamen Rider Zi-O: These appear to be a shared continuity, with an overlapping universe and characters. Can the nominator or someone else familiar with them please clarify?
• Persona 5: The nomination includes a tag for Akira Kurusu/Joker. These appear to be the same person. Can the nominator or someone else familiar with Persona 5 clarify?
• Peter Pan & Related Fandoms: Please comment or edit your nomination to specify the Barrie version, the animated film, etc.
• Star Wars - All Media Types: The same relationships were nominated for Anakin Skywalker and Darth Vader. We are aware that these are the same person. Nominator, please clarify?
• Voltron: Legendary Defender: "Any" is not permitted in this exchange. Please comment or edit your nomination to refer to a specific Shiro clone or other ship of your choice; if not, it will eventually be approved with Kuron.
• X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies): Nominator, please explain. To which films does this refer and how are they a distinct fandom from other films?

The previous post has outstanding issues relating to Batman - All Media Types, The Witcher (TV), DCU Comics, DC's Arrowverse, and Dragon Age (Video Games).

Further to Star Wars - as some participants have correctly observed, the use of All Media Types this year was to avoid situations where a large number of Crossover Fandom nominations are between characters in a shared continuity who are in the same place at the same time, who are related to one another, etc. (For the same reason, mod is considering the best umbrella tag to encompass Tolkien's Silmarillion, Lord of the Rings, and Hobbit books but not Smith of Wootton Major, etc. or Jackson films; nominator waiting for approval in one of these fandoms, thanks for being patient.) However, the mod is not familiar with all Star Wars properties and would appreciate any guidance on the place in the Star Wars continuity of the games Jedi: Fallen Order and The Old Republic, or anything else you feel may be helpful regarding SW properties that are not the films.

Thank you!