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[idficmod]

Thank you for your patience. Signups are open! Go to the AO3 collection to sign up.

A big hearty THANK YOU to flowersforgraves, whose tagmodding assistance was absolutely invaluable in keeping our delay to a single day.

The new deadline for signups is March 7 at 10 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Convert that to your local time here.

As a reminder:

• You must be 18 or older to participate in this exchange.
• Signups with unmatchable offers will have 24 hours after the close of signups to add offers that match existing requests. Please check the requests and make sure you're offering at least one thing that at least one person has requested. Also please make sure that the email address linked to your AO3 account is working, and whitelist email from idficmod@gmail.com.
• Well-behaved socks are welcome. If you use a sock, please adjust your offers and requests so you don't risk being assigned to create for yourself. You commit to creating one work per signup for someone who is not you. Serial sock-matchers and sock-defaulters will be banned from future exchange rounds.

If you spot any lingering duplicates or other issues in the tagset, please let us know right away. If one of your nominations was rejected and you think it shouldn't have been, please email us at idficmod@gmail.com.

Overwhelmed by all the freeforms? Here are some tools to help.

• cheju has kindly put together a spreadsheet of all the tags that are new this year or changed from last year.
• We've adapted Asymptotical's Battleship tag picker to use the IPQ 2024 tagset. This may help you narrow your selections down to 20.
• You can download a CSV of all (yes, all) the tags in the tagset from karanguni's automagic app.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Sorry for not bringing it up earlier, but I just found a couple of duplicates in the MCU category:

James "Bucky" Barnes/Sam Wilson (MCU)
James "Bucky" Barnes/Sam Wilson (Marvel Cinematic Universe)

James "Bucky" Barnes/Natasha Romanov (MCU)
James "Bucky" Barnes/Natasha Romanov (Marvel Cinematic Universe)

Steve Rogers/Tony Stark (MCU)
Steve Rogers/Tony Stark (Marvel Cinematic Universe)

[idficmod]

Thanks, dupes deleted!

[(Anonymous)]

Also sorry for bringing it up late, i saw while choosing tags the duplicate of outsider pov and pov outsider

[idficmod]

At this point it's too late to make further deletions, because the risk of a tag already being used is quite high and we don't want to mess up anyone's signup, but we'll make a note for next year. Thanks!

[(Anonymous)]

I’m getting the following error:

“Sorry! We couldn't save this request because:

These additional tag tags in your request are not allowed in this challenge: "Age Difference - "Morally I am horrified but politically I can't afford to pass this opportunity up"”

[(Anonymous)]

And now it’s working— sorry to bother you!

[idficmod]

Ah, AO3. Glad it's fixed now!

[sandy79]

I know, people have already signed up, but I still have found some wandering tags and doublettes:

Wandering Tags
Cartoons - DC Extended Universe (+ Movies - Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies)
Diana (Wonder Woman) (DCEU)/James T. Kirk (ST:AOS)
(is also, correctly, in Crossover Fandom)

Movies - Marvel Cinematic Universe
Steve Rogers/Tony Stark (Ultimates)
Tony Stark/Tony Stark (616)
(both seem have wandered over from the Marvel Comics section; and there's already a Steve/Tony pairing with the MCU ambigation)

TV Shows - Stargate SG-1
Rodney McKay/John Sheppard (SGA)

Doublettes
Cartoons - DCU (Comics)
Bruce Wayne/Clark Kent (DC Comics)
Clark Kent/Bruce Wayne (DCU)

Movies - Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
Armitage Hux/Poe Dameron (SWST)
Poe Dameron/Armitage Hux (SWST)
(I might request this pairing, so I would like to know which one I should use)

Movies - Tombstone (1993)
Wyatt Earp & Doc Holliday (Tombstone (1993))
Wyatt Earp & Doc Holliday (Tombstone)
Wyatt Earp/Doc Holliday (Tombstone (1993))
Wyatt Earp/Doc Holliday (Tombstone)

TV Shows - Sherlock
Sherlock Holmes/Jim Moriarty (Sherlock (TV))
Sherlock Holmes/Jim Moriarty (Sherlock TV)

TV Shows - Supernatural (2005)
Claire Novak/Dean Winchester (SPN)
Claire Novak/Dean Winchester (Supernatural)

Castiel/Dean Winchester (SPN)
Castiel/Dean Winchester (Supernatural)

[idficmod]

Thanks, but unfortunately it's too late for us to make further changes.

Art sign up question

[(Anonymous)]

Hi, I couldn't find this in the FAQ: if I check both art and fic on an offer, does that mean I am offering both fic and art, or either fic or art? There are offers where I would be fine responding with art or with fic, so I am inclined to check both, but I will likely not have time to make both for one request.

Thanks!

Re: Art sign up question

[idficmod]

Offering both means you could match with someone who requests either. So if you offer [Star Wars, Han/Leia, Kissing, Art or Fic] you could match with someone who wants [Star Wars, Han/Leia, Kissing, Art] or [Star Wars, Han/Leia, Kissing, Fic]. You're only required to make one work to fulfill your assignment.