Enemies to Lovers Exchange 2024 Schedule and Rules

[sasheneskywalker]

Enemies to Lovers Exchange is a multifandom gift exchange focused on the "enemies to lovers" trope.

2024 Schedule

Nominations: July 6th - July 13th
Sign-ups: July 15th - July 22nd
Assignments out: July 25th
Works due: September 1st
Works revealed: September 8th
Authors revealed: September 15th

All deadlines are at 22:00 UTC.

2024 Links

Collection | Tag Set | Sign-ups | Dreamwidth Community

General rules
Enemies to Lovers Exchange is a gift exchange for fanfic and fanart focused on the "enemies to lovers" trope. Participants must create a story that is at least 1000 words long or a piece of artwork that is at least a clean, finished line art on unlined paper. Each work must match the recipient's requested combination of fandom, work medium, relationship, and an additional tag and respect their DNWs.

You must be 18 or older to participate, as requests may include content not suitable for minors.

AI generated fanworks are not allowed.

Please be respectful toward other participants and keep things civil and polite.

The mods reserve the right to update the rules if needed.

To contact the mods, please email: sasheneskywalker+exchange@gmail.com

Nominations
- You can nominate up to 10 fandoms with up to 10 relationships each and 20 freeform tags.
- All relationships must be romantic and/or sexual. Please only nominate relationships with the "/" symbol.
- Every romantic and/or sexual relationship is eligible, no matter what the characters are to each other in canon. The relationship is just going to be portrayed as enemies to lovers in the fanwork.
- Solo characters are not allowed.
- Please disambiguate all relationships with the full or abbreviated canon name.
- Nominate crossover relationships under Crossover Fandom, with a fandom disambiguation after each character's name. Example: Bob (Fandom 1)/Alice (Fandom 2)
- Nominate original relationships and characters under Original Work. You can specify genders of the characters in the tag. Example: Non-binary Prince/Female Knight (OW)
- You can nominate "Any" character in the relationship tag. You can specify the category and gender of the character if you want. Example: Any Male Villain/Bob (Fandom)
- RPF nominations must be for famous people 18 years old or older. Non-famous relatives or associates of famous people are not allowed. The mods also reserve the right to reject RPF nominations in bad taste (Nazis, contemporary political and religious leaders, etc.).

Freeform tags
- Freeform tags must include some reference to enemies to lovers dynamic and they cannot be too general in nature.
- Freeform tags may include a particular trope, situation, feeling, relationship dynamic, and more.
- Examples of freeform tags: "arranged marriage between enemies must be consummated to avert a war", "resenting their own romantic feelings for someone they should hate", "enemies trapped together; reluctantly rely on each other to survive a blizzard", "secret identities - enemies dating without realizing".
- Fandom-specific freeform tags are not allowed.
- We understand that "enemies to lovers dynamic" is a very broad category. We encourage people to nominate tags in the spirit of the exchange. The mods will be as inclusive as possible when accepting tags. Freeforms that are unclear will be rounded up in clarification posts where participants can post comments clarifying the meanings of the tags.

Requests
- You must request 3-10 fandoms. Each request can have 1-20 relationships, 1-2 mediums (fanart and fanfic), and 1-20 freeform tags.
- You can request the same fandom multiple times, as long as you have at least three unique fandoms.
- A DNW is a thing you Do Not Want to get in a fic. All DNWs must be included in the optional details of the request in order to be enforceable. DNWs should be clear, free of judgement, and not box your creator in or be in conflict with the request.
- You can add prompts and likes in the optional details, or create a separate "dear creator" letter.
- You can sign up more than once with well-behaved sock accounts.

Offers
- You must offer 1-10 fandoms. Each offer can have 1-20 relationships, 1-2 mediums (fanart and fanfic), and 1-20 freeform tags.
- If your offers are unmatchable you'll be contacted after signups close and asked if you wish to drop out or add more offers. Please check the requests and make sure you're offering something at least one person has requested.
- Make sure that the email address linked to your AO3 account is working and remember to check your AO3 email during the exchange.

Assignments
- To fulfill your assignment you must create a new, complete work for this exchange, and post it in the exchange's collection. It must be about one of the recipient's requested fandoms, relationships, freeform tags, in one of the media they requested. It cannot include any of the recipient's Do Not Wants.
- Fanfic must be at least 1000 words long and in English.
- Fanart must be at minimum clean, finished line art. Edits/graphics are not allowed as gifts.
- Your work must be focused on one of the requested relationships and include the "enemies to lovers" dynamic.
- Your gift may have only one recipient.
- Treats are optional additional fanworks. They are given to a specific recipient based on their requests. Treats can be of any length but they should still be complete works and respect the recipient's DNWs.
- Works without a recipient but using tags/pairings in the tag set and following the theme are allowed and considered gifts to the collection.
- Please do not post about your assignment in public/semi-public spaces before creator reveals.
- If you have a question about your assignment, please email the mods.

Defaulting and pinch hits
- If you cannot complete your assignment, hit the "default" button on your assignments page on AO3. Please try to do it as early as possible, so your former assignment can go out for pinch hit.
- Pinch hits will be posted to this community.
- If you default and your creator also defaults, your assignment will still go out for pinch hit but we will not delay reveals if you don't get a gift.
- If you are "no show" at deadline, or the mods find you with an incomplete placeholder after the deadline, you will be banned from participating in the Enemies to Lovers Exchange next year.
- If you need additional time to finish your assignment, you can email the mods and ask for a 3-day extension.

Reveals
- Works will not be revealed until everyone who fulfilled their assignment has a gift.
- Please leave kudos and comments on your gift(s). If you aren't sure what to say, a simple "Thank you for the gift!" is fine.

Comments

[cricketdust]

If characters were best friends in the primary film canon, but there's a supplementary book prequel in which they were enemies, do I need to nominate the prequel? Or can I nominate the primary canon and just explain in my sign-up?

[sasheneskywalker]

Every romantic and/or sexual relationship is eligible, no matter what the characters are to each other in canon. The relationship is just going to be portrayed as enemies to lovers in the fanwork. If you want the fanwork to be focused on the book prequel (the events, characters, relationships from it), nominate that. If you want the fanwork to be focused on the film canon (ex. a story exploring the characters' relationship if they stayed enemies or a look at their history over the years and through the film events), then nominate the primary film canon. And you can of course add additional details and explanation in your sign-up.

[sweetsorcery]

Every romantic and/or sexual relationship is eligible, no matter what the characters are to each other in canon. The relationship is just going to be portrayed as enemies to lovers in the fanwork.

Oh! Okay, this is important. It's not stated in the rules, unless I keep overlooking it, and I was actually wondering how everyone else manages to request canonical enemy pairings in 3 unique fandoms. :)

[fencesit]

Wandering tags!

in both Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV) and Angel: the Series

Angel/Angelus (BtVS)
Angel/Spike (BtVS)

[sasheneskywalker]

Thank you for noticing, I've corrected it.

[marquisguyun]

Hi! There is a repeat tag in 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù. These two are the same ship:

Original Luo Binghe/Shen Jiu (SVSSS)
Original Luò Bīnghé/Shěn Jiǔ | Original Shěn Qīngqiū (SVSSS)

[sasheneskywalker]

Thank you for noticing, I've corrected it.

[facethestrange]

I just saw that I made an oops and put Lucy Gray Baird/Coriolanus Snow (TBOSAS Movie) under the book version. If you could fix it, it would be awesome; sorry for the trouble. :)

[sasheneskywalker]

Thank you for noticing, it's fixed now.

[facethestrange]

Thank you! ♡ (Now it's under both fandoms, as it should be, but the book tag one still has the movie disambiguation - it's probably not super important, but potentially confusing?)

[sasheneskywalker]

Alright, it should be good now :)