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All creators should now be revealed! Thank you all for your participation, and I look forward to seeing you all next year. If you have any feedback, now is the time!

One of the things I am considering is running a fest either later on in the year or after Chocolate Box next year, where you post prompts and other people (or yourself) fill them in an archive that would go live at a certain time. Would that be something that would interest people?

One lingering and one new pinch hit! Please take a look at them and if you can pick them up, leave your AO3 name in a comment along with the pinch hit you want to claim. All comments are screened!

( CLAIMED - Pinch Hit #3: Death end re;Quest, Final Fantasy XIII series, Wild Arms 2 )

( CLAIMED - Pinch Hit #7: Compilation of Final Fantasy VII, Dragon Age, Final Fantasy VI, Fire Emblem: Awakening, Octopath Traveler, Oxenfree, Pyre, Seiken Densetsu 3, Transistor, NieR: Automata )

One lingering pinch hit and one new pinch hit! Please take a look at them and if you can pick them up, leave your AO3 name in a comment along with the pinch hit you want to claim. All comments are screened!

( Pinch Hit #3: Death end re;Quest, Final Fantasy XIII series, Wild Arms 2 )

( Pinch Hit #5: Horizon: Zero Dawn, Heaven's Vault, Destiny )

We are now out of character creation and into the prologue of the game itself ... aka assignments are out! This year, we have 65 (!!) signups, which is the most ever. Congratulations! If there are any mistakes or issues with your assighment, please let me know at press.start.mod[at]gmail.com as soon as possible so that I can fix this up for you.

There will be a post with a spreadsheet of all requests and also beta offers in the near future, so watch this space!

Finally, we have four initial pinch hits. If you are interested in picking these up, please comment with your AO3 name. All comments are screened!

( Pinch Hit #1: Obduction, Sword and Sworcery EP, Kentucky Route Zero - CLAIMED )

( Pinch Hit #2: Banjo-Kazooie, Dishonored, Psychonauts - CLAIMED )

( Pinch Hit #3: Death end re;Quest, Final Fantasy XIII series, Wild Arms 2 )

( Pinch Hit #4: Dragon Age, Assassin's Creed, Pillars of Eternity - CLAIMED )

We are into my second favorite period of the exchange: signups!

Important links:
Sign up form
Tag set!
Achievement List - help us fill this out!

You are required to request at least three fandoms (and up to 10) and offer four fandoms (up to ten). You must offer two tags for each fandom (or "Any" if there is only one tag nominated in the fandom). If you request or offer "Any" it means "any character or relationship tag in our approved tagset", so please keep that in mind when requesting or offering. Requests are visible from the beginning, so you can offer confident in what will be requested this year!

Matching is OR. If you request a fandom and request two tags in the fandom (such as group: A/B, and A), your artist/vidder/writer only has to include one "set" (in this case, either A/B or A on their own). Please keep this in mind when signing up!

Finally, a reminder if you defaulted after the no-penalty default deadline in previous years, you have until signups close to finalize your makeup work and get a link mailed to me. You are not eligible to participate until you do so. If you don't know whether you fall into this category please contact me!

Now have at and merry signupmas! Signups close 11:59pm EST on 17 July.

First round of queries:

• Star Wars nominators - AO3 is doing some odd things on the approval screen with these games. Please put at the end of each tag what game the tag belongs to, and I will separate them all out after approval.
• Assassin's Creed - in the past this has been nominated as one fandom, including this round. I've also been told that there's interest in splitting the games up. Please let me know your thoughts, including how you think the games should be split up if you think they should be.
• Shin Megami Tensei - you've nominated as a fandom the entire SMT franchise. Do you mean the first game?
• The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms - this is far too broad. Please nominate a particular continuity of Zelda.
• Unassociated characters - does anyone know which games these tags belong to: Group: Blaze|Razgriz 1/Kei Nagase|Razgriz 2, Group: Isaac Clarke/Nicole Brennan, Group: Trigger|Strider 1/Avril Mead

Any duplicates, changes, missing tags, let me know!