Het Swap Exchange

 Two days left for nominations! Here's a countdown.

Remember: if you are nominating original characters, you must specify gender. There are several nominated pairings worded ambiguously enough that I wasn't sure. If you do not edit these before the close of nominations, I will edit them for you. 

Please remember also that if you are nominating pairings from two different canons, the pairing must be in Crossover Fandom. This gets confusing in the case of related canons (such as Star Wars) - please double check your noms to make sure you've got these nominated correctly. Thank you!

TAGSET

If you see that I've rejected a pairing, it's because the tag was already nominated in a disambiguated format. Rejecting the duplicate is the simplest option, so check the tagset, it's probably in there! I haven't rejected any pairing so far on merit or eligibility. That being said, if I do make a mistake and you can't figure out why I rejected something, please do get in touch. 

Remember when nominating pairings for Original Works, you have to specify gender in the tag! There are a few that are ambiguous enough that I couldn't tell what the nominator's intention was. I'll leave those alone for now so that people can edit them if they so choose, but if they aren't changed by the end of the nomination period I'll put them in a query post. 

Also, if you see that I've changed a tag and it's now incorrect, or if you catch typos, duplicates, or tag drifting, please let me know and I'll fix it ASAP. With fandoms I'm unfamiliar with, I'm taking most pairings on faith. 

Please bear with me in regards to the bigger fandoms such as MCU and Star Wars - it takes a while to modify the tags to prevent tag drifting. It's easier for me to leave them alone for now and take care of the smaller fandoms with less tags - rest assured I will get to them eventually!

TAG WRANGLING: Speak now or forever hold your peace!

• X-Men will be accepted under "X-Men Movies," with the timeline specified in parentheses.
• Marvel Netflix should be nominated under The Defenders (TV).
• DC Movies should be nominated under "DC Extended Universe."
• Marvel comics will go into one fandom - "Marvel (Comics)" with the specific verse in parentheses.

KEEP IN MIND: if you don't wish to specify a specific timeline for fandoms where this is applicable, be aware that your writer/recipient may only be familiar with one. 

PERSONA SERIES: "Persona 5 Protaganist/Kujikawa Rise" will be accepted under Persona 5, unless I hear differently from the nominator before the tagset closes. 

ALL MEDIA TYPES FANDOMS (The Hobbit, Assassin's Creed, Dangan Ronpa, etc): I will accept these if that's how you intended to nominate them. Be aware that your writer/recipient may only be familiar with one version. 

DC'S ARROWVERSE: If your ships are rejected automatically, let me know. Likely a bug rather than a mod rejection.

 Hi and welcome to the 2019 round of Het Swap! Due to some real life work stuff that's come up, I'll have limited free time over the weekend, so I'm opening nominations a few days early. Nominations will still close at 11:59pm MST on June 10th.
You are allowed 8 fandoms, with 10 relationships in each. Here are the nomination guidelines:

• All relationships must be het. 
• For the purposes of this exchange, het relationships are defined as a relationship between a partner who is male or genderqueer/non-binary, and a partner who is female/genderqueer non-binary. Both cannot be genderqueer non-binary. So for example: Ace is canonically male, Bee is canonically female, and Cam and Dex are both genderqueer/non-binary. The only pairing that would not be allowed in that situation would be Cam/Dex.
• NEW 2019: Poly ships are now allowed. Relationship must be romantic sexual - the "/" cannot be combined with "&" (i.e., you can nominate Ace/Bee/Cam but not Ace/Bee & Cam.)
• The het requirement in poly ships still applies - as long as there is at least one "angle" of the ship that qualifies under the definition listed above, it will be allowed.
• Genderswap is not allowed unless you are nominating an aspect of canon where the character has always been another gender (such as the Earth-3490 verse in Marvel, where Tony Stark has always been canonically female.)
• Pairings nominated with the "&" sign will not be allowed.
• Crossover relationships are allowed; please nominate under Crossover Fandom and include the fandom each character is from.
• Original Work relationships are allowed; please nominate under Original Work and include the genders of each character.
• Original characters are allowed in relationships with canon characters. Please include gender, i.e. Poe Dameron/Female Original Character, or James Kirk/Genderqueer Original Character, etc.
• Self-insert "reader" characters and RPF is also allowed. All nominated "characters" in RPF ships must be over 18 and famous in their own right.

The allowance of poly ships is the most notable change from 2018. Any questions, please comment on this post or get in touch via DM or at hetswapex@gmail.com.

Another point of order: podfics, fanvids, and fanart are now allowed this year! When you sign up, you will choose what mediums you wish to offer and request in your sign up form. You will then be matched to someone based on: one fandom, one relationship, and one fanwork medium.

Updated minimum requirements for these fanwork mediums are:

• Fanart: one completed illustration or two sketches on unlined paper. A completed illustration includes color/shading OR background. Line art counts as sketches.
• Fanvids: completed, at least one minute in length.
• Podfic: completed recording of a story at least 1,000 words long that fulfills your recipient's requested fandom/character. If recording someone else's story, you must obtain permission from the original creator. If writing your own story, the minimum word length is lowered to 600 words to account for the extra work.

I'm aware that anonymity is more difficult for podficcers; rest assured that I will not be requiring anyone to go above and beyond. We'll be working on good faith here! A more complete post on this will go up once we get closer to the posting process. 

Questions or comments, leave them here! My email again: hetswapex@gmail.com. While I'll be away from my laptop until Tuesday-ish, I'll still have my phone on me, so I'll be available to discuss any concerns or questions you have. Have fun!