Spring 2026 Round Signups Open!
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seasonsofdrabblesSignups are now open! They will remain open until Sunday, April 12 @ 11:59pm Eastern Daylight time (Countdown). You can browse the requests in the app!
The tagset will remain open for nominations through the end of signups. Please disambiguate your nominations to make the approvals process faster.
Is AO3 not letting you sign up for a character that you know is definitely in the tagset?
Requests:
Offers:
Do Not Wants:
Other:
The tagset will remain open for nominations through the end of signups. Please disambiguate your nominations to make the approvals process faster.
Reminder: We have a new rule that crossovers do not count towards the minimum of 3 fandoms per sign-up if they contain a fandom you're already requesting/offering. For instance, if you're requesting Fandom A and Fandom B, a Fandom A/Fandom C crossover would not count towards the minimum of 3.
GENERAL SIGNUPS REMINDERS:
Is AO3 not letting you sign up for a character that you know is definitely in the tagset?
- If it is simply not appearing in the dropdown, try copy-pasting it from the tagset itself. This is a known AO3 bug.
- If that does not work, please comment here or email us with the exact fandom and character(s) you were trying to request/offer. A mod will then batch load it for you on the backend, and you will be able to request it. This is a caching issue with AO3.
Requests:
- You can request 3-10 fandoms with 1-20 characters each. Fandoms in your requests must be unique, but may be related (e.g., three Star Wars requests would be fine, as long as it was three separate Star Wars fandoms).
- Each request must include at least one freeform (Drabble, Double Drabble, Triple Drabble, Drabble Series/Sequence (Various)).
- Blank signups are allowed, but prompts, likes, and a list of DNWs are strongly encouraged.
- If you wish, you may request Any for the character section, but please note that Any = any character in the canon (NOT just the tagset). Please do not request Any unless you really are open to receiving any character from that canon. If you have character DNWs, requesting Any might not be the best idea, as this could end up with a bad match with someone who had only offered that character. We will be checking for this before we send assignments, but it's possible we could miss something, which would lead to us having to re-assign your writer and send you to pinch hit. (Note that the character DNW would still be upheld in this situation.) If you are requesting Any and do not wish to receive fic about objects, etc., you should DNW that as well.
- Due to modly error: if you wish to request Any for drabble type, you will need to select all 7 drabble types individually, as opposed to the usual "Any" ticky box. This does not affect matching.
- Please note that you cannot opt out of single drabbles. In other words, you are still welcome to request other drabble types, but you cannot exclude single drabbles from your requests.
Offers:
- You can offer 3-10 fandoms with 1-20 characters and 1-7 drabble types each. Fandoms in your offers must be unique, but may be related (e.g., three Star Wars offers would be fine, as long as it was three separate Star Wars fandoms).
- If you wish, you may offer Any character. This means any character in the tagset (i.e., if your recipient has requested specific characters, you must write one of them). Please do not offer Any unless you really are open to writing any character in the tagset for that fandom (including any last-minute additions to the tagset). (If your recip requested Any, y ou may write any character from their requested canon.)
- Due to modly error: if you wish to offer Any for drabble type, you will need to select all 7 drabble types individually, as opposed to the usual "Any" ticky box. This does not affect matching.
- You cannot opt out of single drabbles. In other words, you are still welcome to offer other drabble types, but you cannot exclude single drabbles from your offers.
Do Not Wants:
- Only reasonable DNWs in your AO3 signup will be enforced.
- A reasonable DNW is a DNW that is clear and does not attempt to box your writer into writing just one thing.
- Confused about what a DNW is? See this Fanlore article.
Other:
- If you encounter any issues while signing up that are not noted above, please let us know ASAP, as AO3 bugs can sometimes hit exchanges.
- If you need to let us know something about your signup (such as not wanting to be assigned to a specific other participant), please contact us via email (seasonsofdrabbles AT gmail) or the mod contact post.
