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Announcement and Schedule
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soulstonedCollection: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/StorkSwap2021/profile
Tag Set: https://archiveofourown.org/tag_sets/5907
Schedule
Nominations: Sunday, Feb 28th- Thursday, March 11th (12 days)
Sign Ups Open: Saturday, March 13th
Sign Ups Close: Thursday, March 25th (13 days)
Assignments: out by Saturday, March 27th
Due: Saturday, May 22nd (8 week writing period)
Reveals: Saturday, May 29th
Author Reveals: Saturday, June 5th
All times are 11:59 PM EST
If Unusual Bearings is happening this year and the announcement goes up before the start of nominations, I will reschedule this exchange for the fall.
Stork Swap is an exchange for fic and art focusing on pregnancy or babies under the age of one.
What qualifies?
The fic or art piece must be about pregnancy or parenting a baby under the age of one.
For pregnancy, anything from the moment of conception to the moment of birth qualifies. If you want to receive a gift focused on a specific part of the pregnancy (for example, you are only interested in impregnation smut, or you want to be sure the character is far enough along to have a baby bump) you can indicate that through your chosen freeform tags and optional details.
Any type of pregnancy counts, mpreg, fpreg, natural, magical, eggpreg, etc.
For baby focused fic, the baby must be under a year old for the majority of the fic. The baby can come from anywhere, birth, adoption, wishbabies, the stork, a cabbage patch, accidental baby acquisition, a weird egg you found in the backyard, etc. If you have a preference for where the baby came from, you can indicate that through your tags and optional details.
The parents and baby don't have to be the same species as long as a reasonable person can see the baby as their child, not their pet. (So something like kitten acquisition is fine if the caretaker is also an animal, but not if they're a human)
For baby focused fic, the requested characters must be or plan to be the baby's parents. This isn't for babysitting or looking after a temporarily aged down friend.
Nominations
For pregnancy focused relationship tags, please use the following format:
Peter Parker/Pregnant Tony Stark ( MCU)
Pregnant Tony Stark/none (MCU)
Peter Parker & Pregnant Tony Stark (MCU)
Pregnant Peter Parker/Pregnant Tony Stark (MCU)
For parenting focused relationship tags, please use the following format:
Loki/Thor & Baby (MCU)
Loki & Thor & Loki's Baby (MCU)
Loki & Baby (MCU)
Please disambiguate all nominations. Keep in mind / indicates a romantic or sexual relationship and & indicates a platonic relationship. For pregnancy focused fic, you must indicate which partner should be pregnant (even for M/F pairings with a pregnant woman). You may indicate if you want both to be pregnant.
For freeform tags, they must tie in to some aspect of pregnancy or parenting.
Examples:
Accidental oviposition
Feeling first kicks
Difficult birth
Decorating the nursery
Finding an alien baby in the woods
Baby delivered by stork
Breastfeeding difficulties
Changing a diaper for the first time
Adoption application approved after a long wait
Character parents their own clone
Postpartum body worship
Opt Ins
The following things are opt in only:
Abortion
Miscarriage
Child death
Minimums
Fic must be 1000 words or longer, art must be a clean sketch on unlined paper. They must include at least one fandom, relationship, and freeform tag from the same request.
Treats can be any length
Requests and offers
Edited: There is no minimum requirement for requests or offers. You must be able to match as a creator, if you can do that with a single tag, go for it.
If you request fewer than three fandoms and your pinch hit lingers until the day works are due (or one week if you were defaulted on less than a week before the due date) you will be asked to add additional fandoms. If you are unable or unwilling to add additional fandoms, your pinch hit will stay up, but I won't hold up reveals for you. I will hold reveals until everyone who requests three or more fandoms has a gift.
It is a risk, but I think it might be a risk worth taking for some people who are more monofandomish. This is an experiment, it may change next year if it doesn't work out or makes things significantly harder.
Contact
If you have any questions or comments, you can contact me by commenting here or emailing me at storkswapmod@gmail.com
Tag Set: https://archiveofourown.org/tag_sets/5907
Schedule
Nominations: Sunday, Feb 28th- Thursday, March 11th (12 days)
Sign Ups Open: Saturday, March 13th
Sign Ups Close: Thursday, March 25th (13 days)
Assignments: out by Saturday, March 27th
Due: Saturday, May 22nd (8 week writing period)
Reveals: Saturday, May 29th
Author Reveals: Saturday, June 5th
All times are 11:59 PM EST
If Unusual Bearings is happening this year and the announcement goes up before the start of nominations, I will reschedule this exchange for the fall.
Stork Swap is an exchange for fic and art focusing on pregnancy or babies under the age of one.
What qualifies?
The fic or art piece must be about pregnancy or parenting a baby under the age of one.
For pregnancy, anything from the moment of conception to the moment of birth qualifies. If you want to receive a gift focused on a specific part of the pregnancy (for example, you are only interested in impregnation smut, or you want to be sure the character is far enough along to have a baby bump) you can indicate that through your chosen freeform tags and optional details.
Any type of pregnancy counts, mpreg, fpreg, natural, magical, eggpreg, etc.
For baby focused fic, the baby must be under a year old for the majority of the fic. The baby can come from anywhere, birth, adoption, wishbabies, the stork, a cabbage patch, accidental baby acquisition, a weird egg you found in the backyard, etc. If you have a preference for where the baby came from, you can indicate that through your tags and optional details.
The parents and baby don't have to be the same species as long as a reasonable person can see the baby as their child, not their pet. (So something like kitten acquisition is fine if the caretaker is also an animal, but not if they're a human)
For baby focused fic, the requested characters must be or plan to be the baby's parents. This isn't for babysitting or looking after a temporarily aged down friend.
Nominations
For pregnancy focused relationship tags, please use the following format:
Peter Parker/Pregnant Tony Stark ( MCU)
Pregnant Tony Stark/none (MCU)
Peter Parker & Pregnant Tony Stark (MCU)
Pregnant Peter Parker/Pregnant Tony Stark (MCU)
For parenting focused relationship tags, please use the following format:
Loki/Thor & Baby (MCU)
Loki & Thor & Loki's Baby (MCU)
Loki & Baby (MCU)
Please disambiguate all nominations. Keep in mind / indicates a romantic or sexual relationship and & indicates a platonic relationship. For pregnancy focused fic, you must indicate which partner should be pregnant (even for M/F pairings with a pregnant woman). You may indicate if you want both to be pregnant.
For freeform tags, they must tie in to some aspect of pregnancy or parenting.
Examples:
Accidental oviposition
Feeling first kicks
Difficult birth
Decorating the nursery
Finding an alien baby in the woods
Baby delivered by stork
Breastfeeding difficulties
Changing a diaper for the first time
Adoption application approved after a long wait
Character parents their own clone
Postpartum body worship
Opt Ins
The following things are opt in only:
Abortion
Miscarriage
Child death
Minimums
Fic must be 1000 words or longer, art must be a clean sketch on unlined paper. They must include at least one fandom, relationship, and freeform tag from the same request.
Treats can be any length
Requests and offers
Edited: There is no minimum requirement for requests or offers. You must be able to match as a creator, if you can do that with a single tag, go for it.
If you request fewer than three fandoms and your pinch hit lingers until the day works are due (or one week if you were defaulted on less than a week before the due date) you will be asked to add additional fandoms. If you are unable or unwilling to add additional fandoms, your pinch hit will stay up, but I won't hold up reveals for you. I will hold reveals until everyone who requests three or more fandoms has a gift.
It is a risk, but I think it might be a risk worth taking for some people who are more monofandomish. This is an experiment, it may change next year if it doesn't work out or makes things significantly harder.
Contact
If you have any questions or comments, you can contact me by commenting here or emailing me at storkswapmod@gmail.com
