Five Hours to Deadline!

[equusgirl]

Hello hello!

As of posting, there’s a little over five hours to our deadline! Are you excited? We are! We also have a couple reminders for you and info on what comes next. There’s still time to ask for an extension if needed; please just reach out to either mod (SassySnowperson or nightingalesighs on discord) or leave a comment down below with your AO3 username. Comments are screened. The same goes for defaulting! If you need to, you can still default without a penalty right up until the deadline. To do so, you don’t even need to contact one of the mods—there’s a “default” button on your assignments page in the upper right corner. If you need an extension or to default please please please do so before the deadline. We don’t need a reason for either, nor will we be mad; we just want to make sure we can help where we can.

However, if you do not default or contact us and you have not fulfilled your assignment by the deadline, in other words: you’re a “no show”, you may be suspended from the next round of the exchange. Please, we would much rather work something out <3

Speaking of extensions, we have already granted a number of them and as such, if you don’t see a work under your “gifts” tab, do not fret! Your creator just needed a little more time to finish theirs up. We also see a lot of gifts roll in in the hours before the deadline so rest assured we will get you a gift.

These next few hours are also a great time to check your assignment—make sure it isn’t a draft (unpublished drafts do NOT count as a fulfilled assignment and we may mark you down as a no-show if you don’t publish your draft!) or that you have published the correct draft (and deleted the others!). Change those placeholder titles. Add any extra tags you thought of after hitting ‘post’. Just give everything a general once over to make sure it’s all in order!

What’s next?

Mods will start our checks to make sure everything meets requirements.

For you all though: Treats and Community Bingo! We lengthened the time between the deadline and reveals after everyone had such a great time with our Community Bingo last year and Senket has been hard at work on it this year. What is Community Bingo? Glad you asked! There will be another post with more details following this one. But these two weeks are the perfect time to go trawling through requests (AutoAO3 link here) and create some treats. As a reminder: treats do not have the minimum requirements of assignments, however they MUST still respect the recips DNWs. You may also treat the collection if you want to make something but there’s no one to gift it to. To post a treat to the collection, you may either use the “post to collection” button on the collection’s “dashboard” or “profile” tabs (this will bring up the “post new work” form) OR post a new work and use the “post to collection” field under the “associations” box. The collection name is ‘swrarepairs2025’ (if you use the “post to collection” option, the collection’s name will already be filled in.)

For our post-deadline pinch hits, those will be posted to the comm either later tonight after the deadline has passed or early tomorrow so please keep an eye out for those if you’re interested in picking up a pinch hit.

And lastly: a huge thank you to all of our participants thus far. As Sassy and I have been checking works, we’ve always been so blown away by all the things you all think up and all the enthusiasm y’all have for this exchange every year. We wouldn’t be doing this without you guys. So, thank you for being such a great community <3

- Rares Mod Team

Community Challenge 2025

[equusgirl]

Hey hi!

The past two years, you may remember that we did a community challenge to try to complete a bingo board. Well, we're bringing it back for 2025 with a neat new twist: there are levels! So far we have completed our Padawan level, and have unlocked Knight; how many levels can we unlock? Gotta keep making treats to find out!

Below is our 'Knight' BINGO board filled with tropes and tags that will show up in the works we create together. Our lovely Bingo mod, Senket, will keep track, and working together, let's see how far we can go! There are more regular challenge updates over on our Discord server so if you have been thinking about it, maybe now is the time to pop in!



All works turned into the collection will count, including treats and gifts to the collection.

One work can count for multiple squares.

Please include the tag you wrote on the fic itself. We won't be reading all the works to figure out if it includes a particular tag!

• 75 fics - At least 75 fics in the collection
• 15 Art Pieces - At least 15 art pieces in the collection
• 50 M/M Works - 50 works where the main ship is an M/M pairing
• 25 M/F Works - 25 works where the main ship is an M/F pairing
• 15 F/F Works - 15 works where the main ship is an F/F pairings
• 5 Polyamory Works - 5 works where the main ship involves three or more people
• 3 'First in the tag' works - at least three works in the collection were the first in the ship tag
• 30 Rated T - 30 works rated 'Teen'
• 15 Rated M - 15 works rated 'Mature'
• 15 Getting Together - 15 works tagged with 'Getting Together'
• 10 Established Relationship - 10 works tagged with 'Established Relationship'
• 10 Pre-Relationship - 10 works tagged with 'Pre-Relationship'
• 20 Fluff - 20 works tagged with 'fluff'
• 15 Hurt/Comfort - 15 works tagged with 'Hurt/Comfort'
• 10 Angst - 10 works tagged with 'angst'
• 5 AU - Setting Change - 5 works with the 'AU - Setting Change' tag
• 2 Crossover Eras
• No Order 66 - 1 work tagged with 'AU - No Order 66
• 5 Fake Relationship - 5 works tagged with 'Fake Relationship'
• Mystery/Exploration Mission
• Master/Padawan - 1 work tagged with 'Master/Padawan'
• Force Bond - 1 work tagged with 'Force Bond'
• 3 Inappropriate Use of the Force - 3 works tagged with 'Inappropriate Use of the Force'
• Treats for 50% of participants - At least half of participants have more than one gift in the collection

FAQ

Isn't this kinda a lot for one person to do? - Yes, it's a community challenge, all things will be counted collectively.

What if I already turned in a work but I didn't tag it the way the board shows? - That's fine! Feel free to go back and edit your fic to include the tag.

Help! I wrote a treat for someone and then couldn't gift it to them! - Sometimes this is a setting for newer accounts. Unless the participant has publicly said in their sign-up they don't want treats, ping the mods and we'll reach out to see if that's intentional.

I have a work I want to write, but I don't have anyone to gift it to :( - You can gift things to the collection without assigning a recipient by going to the collection page and clicking "Post to Collection."

If you have any other questions, please comment down below! Now, let's see what kind of cakes we can make together!