Friends with Benefits (Without Penetration) Fest

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Title: Friends with Benefits (Without Penetration) Fest
Links: Twitter | AO3

Schedule/Timeline
Podficcer sign-up date/s: none
Podfic submission date/s: May 15th, 2021

Podficcer Requirements
Minimum: 2,000 words (podfic) or 20 minutes of audio (oral not!fic)
Maximum: none
Other: Podfics can be of already posted works, as well as excerpts from already posted works.

Additional Info
The general prompt for this event is “non-romantic/platonic physically intimate interactions between friends that don’t involve penetration.” This means no “and then they fall in love during their experiences together” or “unrequited love/pining from one of them” - the purpose of this fest is to explore how physical intimacy can be explored between people who are not experiencing romantic attraction to each other, without penetration being involved.

Fic, podfic (of pre-existing or new fics), translations and art/comic (traditional and digital) are allowed. Works in all languages are welcome. Original works (non-fandom works) are allowed.
Graphics, vids, and other works not mentioned thus far are not allowed.

The works will be posted to AO3 under an AO3 collection and thus must also fit the rules of AO3.

All participants must be 18+. While not every work will contain NSFW content, the AO3 collection will contain NSFW content.

Please see the Twitter page for the link to a Google doc with more information, as well as the link to the event's Discord server.

镇魂 | Guardian 520 Day Reverse Exchange

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Title: 镇魂 | Guardian 520 Day Reverse Exchange 2021
Link: https://sid-guardian.dreamwidth.org/340526.html

Schedule/Timeline
Sign-ups part 1 - offers: Saturday 20 March - Friday 26 March
Sign-ups part 2 - requests: Saturday 27 March - Friday 02 April
Deadline: Thursday 13 May
Work reveals: Thursday 20 May (there is no anon period)

Podficcer Requirements
Minimum: 3 minutes
Maximum: none
Other: You can offer and/or request fanfic, fanart, icons, vids, podfic, meta, a remix of an existing fanwork, or fanart for an existing fanwork. Or any combination of the above! (Note that meta will need to be sufficiently transformative to meet AO3's rules, i.e. not a collection of canon facts.)

Additional Info
520 sounds like "I love you" in Mandarin, so May 20th is a bit like Valentine's Day, and we're celebrating. As the name suggests, this is a reverse exchange: instead of making your request and that request being assigned to a writer/artist/fanwork creator, here:

1. You sign up with the kinds of things you enjoy creating.
2. You choose three writers/artists/fanwork creators based on anonymised ads.
3. You make a request of each of them based on what they enjoy creating.
4. You are assigned one request to create for, based on your offer.
5. You receive a gift from one of the creators you chose.

(An updated rules/info post will go up before sign-ups open, but here is last year's for reference.)

The 520 Day Reverse Exchange covers the Guardian drama, the novel, and real person fanworks about the actors.

Participants who are under 18 must request and offer works rated General or Teen And Up only.

The Comeback Challenge

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Title: The Comeback Challenge
Link: https://story-works.dreamwidth.org/150166.html

Schedule/Timeline
Podficcer sign-up date/s: none
Posting date/s: March 15th - April 30th, 2021

Podficcer Requirements
Minimum: none
Maximum: none
Other: none

Additional Info
The comeback can be big or small, mental or physical, a crucial element or a thing that passes almost unnoticed, until it has happened. It may mean overcoming an obstacle that once held you back, or making a return to a place you once left. It can be a cause for celebration, or a cause of woe. A comeback can be all of this and so much more! You are free to interpret the theme as you wish, just set your imagination free :)

The challenge is multifandom and multimedia, so all kinds of creations are welcome!

Warnings for major issues/triggers are a must (like dub/non-con, graphic violence/torture, etc.)

You may post your creation elsewhere, but you must put up a post linking to it on Story Works, either on LJ or DW.

You do not have to be on LJ or DW to take part, the mods can post for you, you just need to give us the link to your work and the header information.