RelationShipping is a gift exchange for incest ships. Gifts are art, fic, or podfic that feature at least one of a recipient's requested ships.

2023 Schedule

Nominations: July 14–28
Sign-ups: July 31–August 7
Assignments: No later than August 9
Deadline: October 11 (countdown)
Work reveals: October 25
Creator reveals: November 1

All times are 10PM Eastern Time.

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This year's mods are emeraldsandrubies and magnadoodle. Contact us at modsrelationshipping@gmail.com

Please note that this is a NEW EMAIL ADDRESS. Messages sent to the old mod email address will not be seen or answered by this year's mods. Please use this email address, not Discord DMs or other methods, to contact us about exchange-related things.

Nominations

Each participant may nominate up to 5 fandoms, with up to 10 relationships per fandom.

Any fandom of any size is eligible for nomination.

Only / ships (romantic and/or sexual) are permitted for this exchange.

The following qualify as incest for this exchange: DNA relation (including cloning), legal relation (including step-family and adoption), characters who clearly consider one another family, selfcest, and related AUs (giving characters a family relationship they don't have in canon).

Formatting: Please nominate the canonical tag for your pairing, if there is one, with the fandom name in parentheses. If the fandom has multiple formats/adaptations, please specify:

Daphne Bridgerton/Eloise Bridgerton (Bridgerton TV)
Daphne Bridgerton/Eloise Bridgerton (Bridgerton Series - Quinn)

Please remove diacritics and piping, and put characters in alphabetical order by family name and then by given name.

Selfcest: All characters are eligible for selfcest (e.g. Victor Nikiforov/Victor Nikiforov (Yuri!!! On Ice)). If you want versions from a specific point in canon or a specific adaptation or canon version, please indicate that:

Pre-Serum Steve Rogers/Post-Serum Steve Rogers (Marvel CU)
Spock/Mirror Spock (ST:TOS)
Leia Organa (SWOT)/Leia Organa (SWST)

Related AUs: All characters are eligible for related AUs, including those already related in canon if you wish to change that relationship. Crossovers must be related AUs. You MUST specify how you wish the characters to be related. This year the format for that is Relationship!Name/Relationship!Name (Fandom).

The following abbreviations of common relationships are permitted to save space: P = parent, C = child, G = grandparent, GC = grandchild, S = sibling, A = aunt or uncle, N = niece or nephew. All abbreviations should be considered gender-neutral when applied to a character whose gender is not otherwise specified. Other relationships can be spelled out. For example:

P!Luke Skywalker/C!Rey (SWST)
S!Ezra Bloom (Imposters)/S!Neal Caffrey (White Collar)
Biological father!Ewan Roy/Biological son!Connor Roy (Succession)

Crossovers: Crossover fandoms are eligible in the case of:

cross-fandom selfcest, e.g. Steve Rogers (MCU)/Steve Rogers (Marvel 616)

related characters who appear in separate canons, e.g. Vincent Vega (Pulp Fiction)/Vic Vega (Reservoir Dogs)

related AUs involving characters from different fandoms, e.g. S!Rey (SWST)/S!Natasha Romanov (MCU)

These should be nominated under Crossover Fandom, with the fandom name for each character in parentheses.

Original Works: Original ships must clearly indicate family relationships, e.g.:

Werewolf Brother/Vampire Sister (OW)
Surly Hermit/His Granddaughter Who's the Only One Allowed to Visit Him (OW)
A!Head of Wealthy Family/N!Spoiled Brat (OW)

RPF: No non-famous family members. No under-18 people born after 1900. No 20th-century or 21st-century Nazis or fascists.

Threesomes and moresomes: Only / ships are permitted (no combined / and & ships). Ships containing any number of characters may be nominated, provided two or more characters involved are related, e.g.:

Supervillain Father/Superhero Son/Sidekick Non-Relative (OW)

Signups

All participants must be 18+.

You can request 1–10 fandoms with 1–20 ships and a choice of fiction, art, podfic, or a combination. You must request at least 3 unique fandoms to be guaranteed a gift. Two unique fandoms plus a crossover between those fandoms does not count as three unique fandoms.

You can offer 1–10 fandoms with 1–20 ships and a choice of fiction, art, podfic, or a combination.

If no offers match your requests, your requests will go out as a pinch hit.

If no requests match your offers, the mods will contact you to see if there is anything else you can offer. If you do not reply within 24 hours or there is nothing else you can offer, your signup will be deleted.

Dear Creator letters may be linked to in your signup in order to give your gifter further details on your likes and dislikes. These are optional.

Please include anything you absolutely don't want to receive (Do Not Wants) in the Optional Details field in your AO3 signup. In the event that a DNW is included in your gift, only reasonable DNWs in your signup will be enforced. DNWs that contradict a requested ship will not be enforced. (Please bear in mind that DNWs cannot be used to box your creator into producing a very specific work.) If you list incest as a DNW, please note that your signup will be deleted.

Assignments

Assignments are only guaranteed to match on one fandom, one ship and one medium.

Fanfic requirements: A completed work with a minimum of 500 words. Fic should be created entirely by you to fulfill a specific request by your recipient, and must omit your recipient's DNWs. Generative text/AI is not permitted.

Fanart requirements: A clean sketch on unlined paper. Art should be created entirely by you to fulfill a specific request by your recipient, and must omit your recipient's DNWs. Generative art/AI and manips are not permitted.

Podfic requirements: One complete and edited podfic of a text that is at least 500 words. Podficcers may produce podfic of a pre-existing work (with the author's permission) OR write and record a fic for this exchange. In the latter case, the minimum is only 250 words, but both the text and audio must be posted (either separately or in the same work). Podfic should be created entirely by you to fulfill a specific request by your recipient, and must omit your recipient's DNWs. Text-to-speech digitally created narration is not permitted.

Your assignment must focus on a requested ship, and it must include romantic and/or sexual content involving that ship, such as romantic or other non-platonic love, pining, kissing, or sex.

You only have to produce one work for your recipient. It does not need to be about the fandom/ship you matched on, but it must be something they requested, and must omit their DNWs for that request.

Please refrain from discussing your assignment in public/namespace until creators are revealed. Creators may not include any identifying information in their fanwork, with exceptions for: (1) artists, who may sign or watermark their work, and (2) podficcers who may wish to record their username in their introduction. In addition, podficcers are not expected to alter their voices to preserve anonymity.

If your assignment does not match the fandoms/ships you offered, contact the mods as soon as possible. If you would like to swap your assignment for an open pinch hit, contact the mods. It will not be possible to change assignments for any other reason.

Posting

Navigate to your AO3 dashboard, click on 'Assignments', find your RelationShipping assignment, and click 'Fulfill'.

The collection is moderated. However, the mods are only checking works to make sure they are complete and meet minimum standards. It's the creator's responsibility to ensure their work matches a request and does not include any of the recipient's DNWs for that request.

Fics containing excessive spelling or grammar errors will not be accepted. Please have someone beta-read your work for typos.

To maintain anonymity, do not post your work elsewhere before creator reveals.

You can edit your work after posting it, but your gift must be complete enough to stand as is by the deadline. Works that end abruptly mid-scene are considered incomplete. Works labeled with more chapters than they have (e.g. "Chapter 1/2" and only one chapter is posted) are considered incomplete.

Saved drafts do not fulfill assignments. Please ensure that you post your gift!

Defaulting

If you cannot finish your gift, please default.

To default: navigate to your AO3 dashboard, click 'Assignments', locate your RelationShipping assignment and click 'Default'. You do not need to email the mods or explain why you defaulted.

There is no penalty for defaulting before the deadline. However, if you default and your creator also defaults, you will not be assigned a pinch hitter.

If you have not posted a complete, acceptable gift by the deadline, the mods will default you. You will need to post a full gift for any request in the 2023 exchange (excluding your own) before you will be permitted to participate in any further rounds.

Pinch Hits

Pinch hits will be posted to the Dreamwidth community.

Please reply to the pinch hit post to claim a pinch hit, giving your AO3 name as well as the AO3 name of the person whose pinch hit you want; if you are successful, the mods will officially assign the pinch hit to you through AO3.

You can claim a pinch hit even if you aren't signed up for the exchange, but you will need an AO3 account.

You don't need to specify which of the person's requests you intend to fulfill.

If you have an open assignment and would like to swap it for an open pinch hit, please contact the mods.

Treats

You can create additional gifts for other participants and post them to the exchange collection as treats.

To do this, navigate to the collection and click 'Post to Collection'. You will need to manually add the name of your intended recipient - please check this carefully!

Treats do not have to fulfil the minimum word count but must fulfil a recipient's request (including a requested fandom/relationship/medium, and excluding all DNWs).

You are welcome to post a treat to the collection without specifying a recipient, so long as it features a nominated pairing. Simply follow the steps above but leave the recipient field blank.

You are welcome to create treats even if you aren't signed up for the exchange.

Treats will not become main gifts for this exchange.

If you do not wish to receive treats and/or you do not have treating enabled in your AO3 preferences, you must clearly state this in your signup. To enable treats, go to this link (substituting your username): https://archiveofourown.org/users/YOURUSERNAMEHERE/preferences and check the box next to 'Allow anyone to gift me works.'

Comments

Participants are expected to comment on the gifts created for them. Participants who do not comment by the start of the next round will be banned from that round and future rounds of this exchange.

If you default, you are still expected to comment on any gifts created for you.

If you receive a gift that contains one of your DNWs, doesn't match any of your requests, or otherwise goes against the exchange rules, you are not obliged to comment. However, if this happens, please contact the mods as soon as possible.

Misc.

The aim of this exchange is to create gifts that the recipients will enjoy. If you break the rules above or are found to be participating in bad faith (e.g. signing up with multiple accounts in bad faith, acting spitefully toward the mods or other participants), you will be banned from participation.

Thanks to thedevilchicken for the original version of these rules, and to thedevilchicken and ictus for creating and previously running this exchange!