Admin Post: Work Reveals!

[mm_rares_mods]

We're pleased to announce that works have been revealed and gift notifications should be on their way out to e-mail inboxes of participants! You can access the collection directly to see everything that was created for this year's exchange. There may still be a couple more works on the way that we know people are working on, but everyone has a gift in the collection, allowing us to go ahead with reveals. The collection will remain open through Sunday at 8PM PDT as a last chance for those remaining in-progress works, as we appreciate that work and don't want it to get lost.

Please take a moment to comment to your author our artist to thank them. Creators certainly love to hear from their recipients! During the time before creators are revealed, they can even respond to comments on their works anonymously--which is a pretty cool feature of the AO3!

As of this moment, there were 81 works produced this year with 94 fandoms represented. (For reference, this is an increase over last year's 47 works and 54 fandoms.)

We want to take a moment now to thank everyone who signed up as a participant, who promoted the exchange, who took on pinch hits (some at an extremely late hour), and those who helped signal boost pinch hits out to broader audiences.

We'll probably have another thank you after creator reveals in a week's time--can't thank you all enough--and at that time will share some details regarding plans for the 2016 iteration of the exchange...because we certainly plan to bring this back again!
:)

ETA: It turns out we won't have a mod around on the evening of September 4th to reveal authors (due to out of country travel), so we'll be revealing on Thursday the 3rd instead. A day early never hurt anyone, after all.

Comments

[refu]

Thank you, mods, for your efforts in organising this challenge. :-)

[wanted_a_pony]

Sooo cool! Thank you to all the writers, artists, vidders, mods, cheerleaders, betas, & everyone else who helped this happen. :-DDD

:: gallops off to check out tasty & odd combinations ::

[aurilly]

Thank you for running this! It was a lot of fun. :)

[bluemanta]

Thank you for run this challenge, it was fun!

I prefer a earlier time in the year for this challenge too, but I think Rare Ship Swap also happens sometime in spring, in case you'd prefer to make sure to not overlap too much the dates with it. Here's the community with the timeline for 2015: http://shipswap.livejournal.com

[mm_rares_mods]

On the radar as it's one we usually participate in as well! But thanks for bringing this up. We know we can't avoid overlap with other exchanges completely, but this year there were at least three that had some overlap and we know some people wrote for the same people in two or more, some of which were due just a couple of weeks apart. So if we can at least space things out, it might not seem as strange. We'll see!