2023 schedule + info
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everywomanEvery Woman is returning in June for a 2023 round, modded by fiachairecht and ladybrooke under the shared everywomanmods account. If you have questions, please comment here (anon commenting is enabled, screening is off). If you have questions that you don't want to ask on the comm, please DM everywomanmods or email everywomanmods AT protonmail DOT com.
Elephant in the room: Yes, we're both very aware of the recent revelations & ongoing discussion about how OTW has mistreated its volunteers, especially those on the Policy & Abuse Committee (PAC). We did seriously consider whether we wanted to run Everywoman right now, given how reprehensibly a lot of the people involved in the org are behaving (hence, this being posted the day before nominations open). Ultimately, we do feel that the majority of volunteers are wonderful people who deserve much more than they've been given, and that while there's still hope of the org being salvageable, it's worth reminding ourselves why we love AO3 in the first place.
The 2023 round of Everywoman brings one new rule, a total ban on all fic and art created with content-generative artificial 'intelligence' tools. See the Gift Requirements section for additional explanation.
Schedule
All deadlines are 11:59pm Pacific time. Countdowns for important deadlines will be linked.
Nominations
Fandoms
You may nominate up to 8 fandoms, with up to 8 characters or groups in each.
- Any fandom is eligible, including RPF, original works, and crossovers.
- For modern RPF fandoms, the characters involved must be over 18, can be removed at the request of the individual, and must not be in horrendously bad taste. Mods will determine what horrendously bad taste is.
- Non-famous family/friends may not be nominated into modern RPF fandoms.
Characters and Groups
- You may nominate any female character, in the form "A (Fandom Name)". This means:
- You may nominate groups of female characters, in the form "Group: A and B". This means all characters must appear in a work created for the group tag. It does not mean anything about the type of relationship those characters will have in the work - that is for your optional details.
- Nominations of the form "Group: A/B" or "Group: A & B" will be edited before being approved.
- All members of nominated groups must be female.
- During requests, recips may request shippy or platonic fic based on the group. It is not required to fulfill any requests for relationship fic.
- Crossovers should be nominated under the fandom Crossover Groups. Format the group as "Group: Character A (Fandom A) and Character B (Fandom B)". For example, "Group: Aredhel (Silmarillion) and Zelda Spellman (CaoS TV)". If you hit a character limit, let the mods know. If in doubt, feel free to ask.
- Crossover Groups is located under the No Media tab.
Signups: Requests & Offers
- Requests: There is a required minimum of three distinct fandoms requested. You may request up to ten fandoms. Within each fandom, you may request 1-10 characters or groups.
- Do not rank your requests, or otherwise state or imply you want one request more than others.
- If no offers match your requests, you will be sent out as a pinch hit. Mods reserve the right to ask lingering pinch hits to add requests, but hope to not have to do this. Participants who complete their assignment on-time are guaranteed a gift regardless of whether they add requests.
- Offers: There is a required minimum of four distinct fandoms offered. You may offer up to ten fandoms. Within each fandom, you may offer 1-10 characters or groups.
- If you do not want to be matched with specific person, please send an email to everywomanmods@protonmail.com including your AO3 username and the AO3 username of the person. We do not require an explanation or further information. (Note we cannot prevent someone creating a treat for you.)
- If your offers lead to no possible recipients, mods will contact you after signups close to ask you to add offers.
- Medium: You may request or offer fanart, fanfic, or both, using the freeform tags.
- Use the optional details field to give your creator extra information about the things you like in gifts, as well as Do Not Wants (DNWs, things that you absolutely do not want in your gift).
- In order to be enforced, DNWs must be placed in the sign up field on AO3.
- DNWs can't be used to box your creator in to writing only one specific type of story, and can't contradict one of your requested tags. They also can't be too vague to enforce. If mods see a DNW that they think will be difficult to enforce, they will send an email asking for the DNW to be changed.
- If you notice a request that seems contradictory or railroading, please email us privately so we can contact the requester and give them a chance to fix it before matching. Mistakes and misunderstandings happen and it's best to fix them early. Any contradictory or railroading DNWs that persist after matching will not be enforced. Please contact us if you have any questions or concerns about whether or not a DNW is unreasonable.
- Letters may be linked in the 'Letter URL' box in the sign up form, and a letters post will be put up on the DW comm when sign ups open.
- Matching is OR matching. You will be matched based off of 1 fandom, 1 character or group in that fandom, and 1 media type requested for that fandom. Your creator does not have to include multiple fandoms.
- If you sign up with more than one account, you will be expected to produce at least one work per signup for your recipient. Irresponsible socking will result in a ban for all involved accounts. Irresponsible socking includes poor behaviour by known socks in previous exchanges.
Gift Requirements
- Fic is required to be at least 500 words, fanart must be a nice sketch at minimum. No lined paper, no photomanips.
- New in 2023: Works created with content-generative artificial 'intelligence' tools are not allowed in this exchange. This gift exchange is about fans creating works for other fans, not for fans copying and pasting the output of a computer algorithm into a text box. Use of content-generative tools, including partial use (e.g. a paragraph in a story otherwise written by you) and use to create additional content to accompany a fanwork you created (e.g. an illustration for a story you wrote) will result in a permanent ban from this exchange. If you have genuine concern that a work may be AI generated (dislike of a work does not count), bring it to the mods via email or DM to theeverywomanmods account. Comments on a work are not the place for that discussion.
- DNWs listed in the signup on AO3 must be respected. If you feel that your DNWs may have not been respected, please get in touch with the mods. It's important to us that everyone receives a gift that they can enjoy, and writers that violate DNWs will be dealt with at mods' discretion.
- Any character nominated must be treated as a woman in fanworks produced for this exchange, even if they are not definitively female outside of the exchange.
- Participants may leave prompts for femslash or gen relationships based on group noms, or request femslash or het based on single character noms. It is not required for any creator to fulfill those prompts.
Pinch Hits
- Pinch hits will be posted to the DW comm and assigned on a first asked for, first claimed basis.
- You may claim one open pinch hit at a time.
- Pinch hitters do not have to be signed up to the exchange.
- Unless otherwise specified, pinch hits are due the same day as assignments.
Extensions
- Extensions should be requested prior to the due date and will be granted at the mod's discretion.
Defaults
- If you cannot finish your work in the timeframe of the exchange, please default so mods can find a pinch hitter. If you default, and are defaulted on in turn, you will not be sent out as a pinch hit.
- Defaults do not affect your ability to participate in future rounds of this exchange.
- There is mod discretion to impose a penalty for actions like deleting a fic post deadline, forcing an emergency pinch hit, and offensive behavior to mods or other participants (including but not limited to bullying, shaming, writing spitefic, etc.)
fiachairecht and ladybrooke under the shared everywomanmods account. If you have questions, please comment here (anon commenting is enabled, screening is off). If you have questions that you don't want to ask on the comm, please DM everywomanmods or email everywomanmods AT protonmail DOT com.Elephant in the room: Yes, we're both very aware of the recent revelations & ongoing discussion about how OTW has mistreated its volunteers, especially those on the Policy & Abuse Committee (PAC). We did seriously consider whether we wanted to run Everywoman right now, given how reprehensibly a lot of the people involved in the org are behaving (hence, this being posted the day before nominations open). Ultimately, we do feel that the majority of volunteers are wonderful people who deserve much more than they've been given, and that while there's still hope of the org being salvageable, it's worth reminding ourselves why we love AO3 in the first place.
The 2023 round of Everywoman brings one new rule, a total ban on all fic and art created with content-generative artificial 'intelligence' tools. See the Gift Requirements section for additional explanation.
Schedule
All deadlines are 11:59pm Pacific time. Countdowns for important deadlines will be linked.
- Nominations: Thursday, June 1 - Friday, June 9
- Cleanup: Saturday, June 10
- Signups: Saturday, June 10 - Wednesday, June 21
- Assignments out by: Friday, June 23
- Assignments due: Tuesday, July 25
- Final pinch hits due: Sunday, July 30
- Works revealed: Tuesday, August 1
- Authors revealed: Tuesday, August 8
Nominations
Fandoms
You may nominate up to 8 fandoms, with up to 8 characters or groups in each.
- Any fandom is eligible, including RPF, original works, and crossovers.
- For modern RPF fandoms, the characters involved must be over 18, can be removed at the request of the individual, and must not be in horrendously bad taste. Mods will determine what horrendously bad taste is.
- Non-famous family/friends may not be nominated into modern RPF fandoms.
Characters and Groups
- You may nominate any female character, in the form "A (Fandom Name)". This means:
- Cis women
- Trans women
- Canon female versions of canonical male characters
- Female versions of video game characters where you chose the gender (e.g. Female Shepard from Mass Effect)
- Characters whose gender is not revealed by canon
- 2nd person works where the gender is not clearly stated
- Female non-human characters, such as goddesses, forest spirits, aliens, sentient trees, horses, etc
- RPF of people who identify as female
- Cases where a character is not necessarily a woman in canon, but a case can be made where a reasonable person would understand why they could be interpreted as such
- You may nominate groups of female characters, in the form "Group: A and B". This means all characters must appear in a work created for the group tag. It does not mean anything about the type of relationship those characters will have in the work - that is for your optional details.
- Nominations of the form "Group: A/B" or "Group: A & B" will be edited before being approved.
- All members of nominated groups must be female.
- During requests, recips may request shippy or platonic fic based on the group. It is not required to fulfill any requests for relationship fic.
- Crossovers should be nominated under the fandom Crossover Groups. Format the group as "Group: Character A (Fandom A) and Character B (Fandom B)". For example, "Group: Aredhel (Silmarillion) and Zelda Spellman (CaoS TV)". If you hit a character limit, let the mods know. If in doubt, feel free to ask.
- Crossover Groups is located under the No Media tab.
Signups: Requests & Offers
- Requests: There is a required minimum of three distinct fandoms requested. You may request up to ten fandoms. Within each fandom, you may request 1-10 characters or groups.
- Do not rank your requests, or otherwise state or imply you want one request more than others.
- If no offers match your requests, you will be sent out as a pinch hit. Mods reserve the right to ask lingering pinch hits to add requests, but hope to not have to do this. Participants who complete their assignment on-time are guaranteed a gift regardless of whether they add requests.
- Offers: There is a required minimum of four distinct fandoms offered. You may offer up to ten fandoms. Within each fandom, you may offer 1-10 characters or groups.
- If you do not want to be matched with specific person, please send an email to everywomanmods@protonmail.com including your AO3 username and the AO3 username of the person. We do not require an explanation or further information. (Note we cannot prevent someone creating a treat for you.)
- If your offers lead to no possible recipients, mods will contact you after signups close to ask you to add offers.
- Medium: You may request or offer fanart, fanfic, or both, using the freeform tags.
- Use the optional details field to give your creator extra information about the things you like in gifts, as well as Do Not Wants (DNWs, things that you absolutely do not want in your gift).
- In order to be enforced, DNWs must be placed in the sign up field on AO3.
- DNWs can't be used to box your creator in to writing only one specific type of story, and can't contradict one of your requested tags. They also can't be too vague to enforce. If mods see a DNW that they think will be difficult to enforce, they will send an email asking for the DNW to be changed.
- If you notice a request that seems contradictory or railroading, please email us privately so we can contact the requester and give them a chance to fix it before matching. Mistakes and misunderstandings happen and it's best to fix them early. Any contradictory or railroading DNWs that persist after matching will not be enforced. Please contact us if you have any questions or concerns about whether or not a DNW is unreasonable.
- Letters may be linked in the 'Letter URL' box in the sign up form, and a letters post will be put up on the DW comm when sign ups open.
- Matching is OR matching. You will be matched based off of 1 fandom, 1 character or group in that fandom, and 1 media type requested for that fandom. Your creator does not have to include multiple fandoms.
- If you sign up with more than one account, you will be expected to produce at least one work per signup for your recipient. Irresponsible socking will result in a ban for all involved accounts. Irresponsible socking includes poor behaviour by known socks in previous exchanges.
Gift Requirements
- Fic is required to be at least 500 words, fanart must be a nice sketch at minimum. No lined paper, no photomanips.
- New in 2023: Works created with content-generative artificial 'intelligence' tools are not allowed in this exchange. This gift exchange is about fans creating works for other fans, not for fans copying and pasting the output of a computer algorithm into a text box. Use of content-generative tools, including partial use (e.g. a paragraph in a story otherwise written by you) and use to create additional content to accompany a fanwork you created (e.g. an illustration for a story you wrote) will result in a permanent ban from this exchange. If you have genuine concern that a work may be AI generated (dislike of a work does not count), bring it to the mods via email or DM to the
everywomanmods account. Comments on a work are not the place for that discussion.- DNWs listed in the signup on AO3 must be respected. If you feel that your DNWs may have not been respected, please get in touch with the mods. It's important to us that everyone receives a gift that they can enjoy, and writers that violate DNWs will be dealt with at mods' discretion.
- Any character nominated must be treated as a woman in fanworks produced for this exchange, even if they are not definitively female outside of the exchange.
- Participants may leave prompts for femslash or gen relationships based on group noms, or request femslash or het based on single character noms. It is not required for any creator to fulfill those prompts.
Pinch Hits
- Pinch hits will be posted to the DW comm and assigned on a first asked for, first claimed basis.
- You may claim one open pinch hit at a time.
- Pinch hitters do not have to be signed up to the exchange.
- Unless otherwise specified, pinch hits are due the same day as assignments.
Extensions
- Extensions should be requested prior to the due date and will be granted at the mod's discretion.
Defaults
- If you cannot finish your work in the timeframe of the exchange, please default so mods can find a pinch hitter. If you default, and are defaulted on in turn, you will not be sent out as a pinch hit.
- Defaults do not affect your ability to participate in future rounds of this exchange.
- There is mod discretion to impose a penalty for actions like deleting a fic post deadline, forcing an emergency pinch hit, and offensive behavior to mods or other participants (including but not limited to bullying, shaming, writing spitefic, etc.)
