Rare Pairs Exchange

Creators have now been revealed! Thank you all for working to make this exchange happen!

Apologies for the official announcement coming almost a day after reveals; I fell asleep a bit earlier than usual last night.

The current plan is to run it again next year on the same schedule. Hope to see you all again!

We have a pinch hitter working hard; they have a deadline for Sunday August 18 at 11:59 PM EST. If all goes well, the collection will reveal works on Monday August 19 at 11:59 PM EST.

The assignment deadline has passed. There will be two new pinch hits posted later today. If you aren't one of them, and you don't have a gift, then your creator has asked for an extension or you were one of the pinch hits claimed after a new deadline was given for them.

These are the remaining unclaimed pinch hits. They have a tentative deadline of Monday August 12 at 11:59 PM EST; this is negotiable.

Pinch hits can be claimed by anyone, regardless of whether they have signed up to the exchange, as long as they have an AO3 account.

You may claim them by commenting here or emailing rareexmod@gmail.com with your AO3 name.

Comments are screened. Anonymous comments are allowed.

Pinch Hit 3: IT Crowd, American Vandal (TV), Arrested Development


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CLAIMED Pinch Hit 9: DCU (Comics), Crossover Fandom, The Strange Case of Mr. Hyde (Comic), Pretty Deadly (Comics)


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Pinch Hit 11: 神さまのいない日曜日 | Kamisama no Inai Nichiyoubi | Sunday Without God (Anime & Manga), WorldEnd: What do you do at the end of the world? Are you busy? Will you save us? (Anime), よるのないくに | Yoru no Nai Kuni | Nights of Azure (Video Games)


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Pinch Hit 12: Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Z Nation (TV), The Girl with All the Gifts - M. R. Carey, Thief (Video Game Original Series), Crossover Fandom


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Pinch Hit 14: World of Warcraft, Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch, Blood+ (Anime & Manga)


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CLAIMED Pinch Hit 24: Fast and the Furious Series, DC Extended Universe, Skinwalkers (2006), The Mummy Series, Scream (Movies), DC's Arrowverse, Carmilla (Web Series), Crossover Fandom, From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series, Widows (2018)


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There is one new pinch hit. It is due Monday August 12 at 11:59 PM EST; this is negotiable.

The pinch hit can be claimed by anyone, regardless of whether they have signed up to the exchange, as long as they have an AO3 account.

You may claim it by commenting here or emailing rareexmod@gmail.com with your AO3 name.

Comments are screened. Anonymous comments are allowed.

There are more pinch hits in the first batch post.

CLAIMED Pinch Hit 23: Sonic the Hedgehog: The Animated Series, Sonic the Hedgehog (Video Games), 幽☆遊☆白書 | YuYu Hakusho: Ghost Files


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There are three new pinch hits. They are due at the same time as assignments: Friday August 9 at 11:59 PM EST. Here's a countdown.

They can be claimed by anyone, regardless of whether they have signed up to the exchange, as long as they have an AO3 account.

You may claim them by commenting here or emailing rareexmod@gmail.com with your AO3 name and the pinch hit you would like to claim.

Comments are screened. Anonymous comments are allowed.

There are more pinch hits in the first batch post.

CLAIMED Pinch Hit 19: 東亰ザナドゥ | Tokyo Xanadu (Video Game), イース | Ys, 英雄伝説 閃の軌跡 | Sen no Kiseki | The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel (Video Games), Suikoden, アーランドのアトリエ | Atelier: Arland Series (Video Games), Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones, よるのないくに | Yoru no Nai Kuni | Nights of Azure (Video Games)


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CLAIMED Pinch Hit 20: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Game of Thrones (TV), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Crossover Fandom


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CLAIMED Pinch Hit 21: Castlevania (Cartoon), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Original Works, The Adventure Zone (Podcast), World of Warcraft


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There are sixteen initial pinch hits. They are due at the same time as the assignments: Friday August 9 at 11:59 PM EST. Here's a countdown.

They can be claimed by anyone, regardless of whether they have signed up to the exchange, as long as they have an AO3 account.

You may claim them by commenting here or emailing rareexmod@gmail.com with your AO3 name and the pinch hit you would like to claim.

Comments are screened. Anonymous comments are allowed.

CLAIMED Pinch Hit 1: Baby-Sitters Club - Ann M. Martin, Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys Super Mysteries - Franklin W. Dixon & Carolyn Keene, G.I. Joe (Cartoon), Dungeons and Dragons (Cartoon), voltron: Lion Force (1984)

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CLAIMED Pinch Hit 2: The Broken Earth Series - N. K. Jemisin, Fire & Blood - George R. R. Martin, Strange the Dreamer Series - Laini Taylor, Star Wars Original Trilogy, Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, Crossover Fandom, Star Wars: Thrawn Series - Timothy Zahn (2017)

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Pinch Hit 3: IT Crowd, American Vandal (TV), Arrested Development

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CLAIMED Pinch Hit 4: Power Rangers (Boom! Comics), Power Rangers Ninja Steel, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types

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CLAIMED Pinch Hit 5: Penny Dreadful (TV), Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars Original Trilogy, Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, Crossover Fandom

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CLAIMED Pinch Hit 6: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel (Comics), Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, Avengers Academy (Video Game), Crossover Fandom

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CLAIMED Pinch Hit 7: Berserk (Anime & Manga), Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018), Star Wars Original Trilogy, Star Wars: Rebels, The Witch (2016)

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CLAIMED Pinch Hit 8: Kim Possible (Cartoon), 魔法使いの嫁 | Mahou Tsukai no Yome | The Ancient Magus Bride, Overlord - Maruyama Kugane & Related Fandoms

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Pinch Hit 9: DCU (Comics), Crossover Fandom, The Strange Case of Mr. Hyde (Comic), Pretty Deadly (Comics)

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CLAIMED Pinch Hit 10: アーランドのアトリエ | Atelier: Arland Series (Video Games), モブサイコ100 | Mob Psycho 100, 鉄風 | Teppuu (Manga)

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Pinch Hit 11: 神さまのいない日曜日 | Kamisama no Inai Nichiyoubi | Sunday Without God (Anime & Manga), WorldEnd: What do you do at the end of the world? Are you busy? Will you save us? (Anime), よるのないくに | Yoru no Nai Kuni | Nights of Azure (Video Games)

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Pinch Hit 12: Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Z Nation (TV), The Girl with All the Gifts - M. R. Carey, Thief (Video Game Original Series), Crossover Fandom

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CLAIMED Pinch Hit 13: The Seer and the Sword - Victoria Hanley, Highlander: The Series, Babylon Berlin (TV), Men's Hockey RPF

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Pinch Hit 14: World of Warcraft, Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch, Blood+ (Anime & Manga)

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CLAIMED Pinch Hit 15: 16th Century CE RPF, The Good Place (TV), Cracked: After Hours

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CLAIMED Pinch Hit 16: American Gods (TV), Knightfall (TV), Star Wars Sequel Trilogy

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Sign-ups have closed! Matching has run. There are some creators with no potential recipients. They have been emailed and given 48 hours to add an offer that would make them matchable to someone in the current pool of recipients. If they cannot, or if there is no reply, their signups will have to be deleted so that matching can run again.

If your AO3 username starts with E, F, S, or G, please check your email inboxes and spam.

While requests are visible in the request summary, if you wrote a letter linked in your signup, you may also share that link here. This is completely optional, just as the letter is.

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General

All nominations have been approved except for the ones in this post.

Tagset here.

You can find the Fandom Wrangling results here.

If you have any questions, or see a wandering tag, go ahead and comment or email rareexmod@gmail.com

Questions

There are questions for the following fandoms:
Crossover Fandom
Game of Thrones (TV)
Midsomer Murders – All Media Types
Sān guó yǎn yì | Romance of the Three Kingdoms - All Media Types
Star Wars – All Media Types

1) Crossover Fandom
"Ethan Hunt/Max Rockatansky"

This was not disambiguated. Do you mean the Ethan Hunt of the Mission Impossible movies and the Max Rockatansky of the Mad Max films? I’ll amend it to that if there’s no reply by Monday June 10th at 11:59 PM EST.

2) Game of Thrones (TV)
"Arianne Martell/Arya Stark"
"Arianne Martell/Sansa Stark"
"Arya Stark/Willas Tyrell"

To my knowledge, Arianne Martell and Willas Tyrell exist only in the A Song of Ice and Fire books. Do you prefer they be added to those books or did you want the show versions of Arya and Sansa with them? In that case, I will add them under Crossover Fandom. If there’s no reply by Monday June 10th at 11:59 PM EST, I'll add it under the books.

3) Midsomer Murders – All Media Types
"Tom Barnaby/Gavin Troy"

It seems AO3 has marged the Midsomer Murders television show with the Chief Inspector Barnaby books by Caroline Graham. Is this nomination for the TV series or the Caroline Graham books? If there’s no reply by Monday June 10th at 11:59 PM EST, I’ll change the fandom tag to the show.

4) Sān guó yǎn yì | Romance of the Three Kingdoms - All Media Types
"Dǒng Zhuó/Lǚ Bù"

There seem to be various versions, a novel and tv shows; nominator, are you partial to a specific one? If there’s no reply by Monday June 10th at 11:59 PM EST, I'll amend it to "Sān guó yǎn yì | Romance of the Three Kingdoms - Luó Guànzhōng".

5) Star Wars - All Media Types

Star Wars ships in the tagset will appear as laid out in the Fandom Wrangling results. Unless there’s a reply stating a preference where there is ambiguity, as in the case of ships with characters who appear in the books and comics as well as in the films, by Monday June 10th at 11:59 PM EST, I will divide the ships according to the aforementioned post.