Assignments!!

[koraki]

Matching for Equivalent Exchange 2019 went off without a hitch (I expected to have to hand-match or at least tweak, but the algorithm did a fantastic job on its own the first time around) and assignments will be on their way out within the hour!

Some reminders about your assignment:

• Minimum requirements are a 500-word fic or a clean sketch (on unlined paper if drawing traditionally). 
• Assignments are due Thursday, September 26 at 11:59 PM UTC. Extensions may be granted in case of emergency.
• You MUST respect your recipient's DNWs as they are listed in their signup, and you must respect the additional tags they requested (i.e. you may not gift fanart to someone who only requested fanfic; you may not gift fic based on the 2003 anime to someone who only requested Brotherhood/manga). Disregarding DNWs or additional tags is a bannable offense. You are not required to follow your recipient's prompts, but you're strongly encouraged to at least read and take inspiration from them.
• This exchange uses "OR" matching. This means that for your assignment you are required to create a gift focusing on at least one of your recipient's requested characters/ships, in one of their requested mediums, while respecting their DNWs. You may include more than one of the requested characters/ships in your gift if you would like, but you are only required to include one. (For example, if someone requested Roy Mustang, Amue Armstrong, and Roy Mustang/Amue Armstrong, and you matched on Amue Armstrong, you would only be required to create a gift focusing on Amue Armstrong -- no ship content necessary.)
• This exchange does NOT automatically do one-to-one/mutual matching, and this year there is only one pair of people who ended up matched to each other. Therefore your recipient is likely not the same person as your secret giver. Please keep this in mind.
• When you are ready to post your work to AO3, make sure you post it by going to your assignment and clicking the "Fulfill" button -- this will ensure that your assignment is marked as fulfilled, your identity is kept secret, and your work ends up in the Equivalent Exchange collection! (AO3 exchange newbies, feel free to contact the mod if you're confused about how to do this.)
• Creators will not be revealed until October 10! Please keep your identity secret from your recipient until then. Please do not post your work anywhere outside of AO3, talk about your recipient/your gift publicly, or directly PM your recipient about their gift until after October 10, to protect the surprise. If you have any questions for your recipient, email them to the mod at equivalentexchangemod@gmail.com and I will forward them to your recipient, then send the answer back to you.
• If you have any questions at all about your assignment, please email the mod at equivalentexchangemod@gmail.com!

Assignments will be out shortly. Have a blast!