ficinabox | Assignment Swaps (Reply)

Swaps is the part of the exchange where you can trade in 1k increments of your assignment for 1k increments of other assignments!* Requests for swaps are open until September 7th and the mods will finalize the swaps over that weekend. Swaps are voluntary, so you don't have to give up any part of your assignment if you don't want to. We also can't guarantee that you'll be able to swap, although the more people who send in swap requests the more likely it is!

Swaps are mostly for participants who've signed up and received an official assignment, but initial pinch hitters and non-particpants who want to pick up swaps are invited to join in.

(* The rest of this post is going to talk about wordcounts in increments of 1k, but obviously if you are a fanartist or podficcer or something it's equivalent wordcount. Just, that would get really wordy to write every time...and we need the sheet to do the swap math for us...)

Swap Form

The following forms will walk you through the information we need. You may fill these forms out as many times as you need, but only your final request will be used to make your swaps. These forms are identical except for the email part.

Swap Form (link)
Swap Form that asks for your email so it can email you a summary of your inputs (link)

Manual Swap Requests

To enter into swaps without using the above forms, we need the following information emailed to ficinaboxmod@gmail.com. This post is screened just in case, but you won't be able to find your post after posting so please email us.

Your AO3 username exactly as it appears on your sign up.

If you aren't signed up, note that the numbers below are assuming you're signed up so you will need to adjust accordingly.

What is the maximum amount total you would like assigned.

This is the absolute max we will assign to you in total, including your initial assignment and swaps. This amount must be at least 10k if you are signed up.

What is the maximum number of assignments you would like?

This is the maximum number of people you will be assigned to create for, including your initial assignment.

What is the minimum amount of your current assignment that you want to keep?

If all your swapping dreams come true, we'll make sure you have this amount of your original assignment still assigned.

You can keep as much as 10k (if you picked a max of over 10k) or as little as 0k. If you have no preference, put 0k. You can only keep wordcount in 1k increments, even if your assigned recip has shorter length opt ins.

What other participants would you like to create for, how much would you like to create for them, and do you have any special notes?

We need the exact AO3 username of the participant(s) you would like to create for as it appears on their FIAB requests.

We need to know the amount of wordcount (in increments of 1k) that you would like to create for each participant listed.

If you have any special notes, we need those too! For example if you want to swap to someone to make them a map, we'd need to know you need to swap for a minimum of 2k, not 1k.

Please format the swap request information in the following way:

New Recip's AO3 name, Max amount you want to be assigned to this recip, Special Notes

Example:

Asymptotical, 2k
fencesit, 5k
tuesday, 5k, I need at least 2k to make a map

Please copy the tiny form in this text box to your email to ficinaboxmod@gmail.com

Your AO3 username: (exactly as it appears on your sign up) Maximum Total To Be Assigned: (10k-20k) Minimum Amount of Original Assignment to Keep: (0k-10k) Maximum Number of Recips Including Initial Assignment: (1-20) Swap(s) Request Information:</b> (format: new recip, max amount, special notes)

Initial Pinch Hits

Initial pinch hits are first-come-first-serve and will be assigned ASAP. However...initial pinch hits can be offered and requested for swaps! This includes if a non-participant picks up an IPH — they can come straight to this post after they confirm they've been assigned all or part of an IPH and enter into swaps like a participant would.