hitmanexchange | Hitman Snow Festival 2023 Announcement

Welcome to Hitman Snow Festival, an end-of-year gift fic exchange for the Hitman fandom! ❄️

This year is almost over, and what better way to celebrate than to share stories about the characters we love?

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2023 Links: 2023 Collection | 2023 Tag Set

Schedule

November 19 – Sign-Ups Open

November 26 – Sign-Ups Close

November 27 – Assignments Out

December 18 – Assignments Due

December 25 – Gift Reveals (16:59 UTC)

December 30 – Creator Reveals (16:59 UTC)

All times are 23:59 UTC unless otherwise specified.

The Basics

Hitman Snow Festival is a gift exchange for the Hitman fandom inspired by the Yuletide Exchange.

Assignments are required to have a minimum wordcount of 500 words. Longer works and additional gifts (treats) are welcome.

What is a gift exchange?

Each participant offers to write a story about characters or pairings of their choosing, and in return gets to request to receive a story about characters or pairings of their choosing.

Requests

How many requests can I add?

You can add up to three requests to your sign-up. If you want to only request a more rare pairing, please make sure to also request at least one of the characters individually, to make matching possible.

Characters and Ships

You may add up to five single character and one relationship to each of your requests. If you absolutely want to see the character interacting with a specific other character, make sure to request ship tags — A/B for romantic or sexual interactions, A & B for platonic or familial interactions.

To make matching possible for the more rare ships in our fandom, please make sure to additionally request at least one of the characters individually.

DNW and Letters

You also have the option to add a link to a letter. These can be very useful to give your writer ideas for possible tricks and treats. It can also be invaluable for telling them what you do not want at all.

If you have anything you Do Not Want (DNW), it must be in the request directly to be enforceable. Authors should respect the Do Not Want list; however, the requester should not abuse it to try and force the author into a corner. Do Not Wants that appear only in an external letter will not be enforced.

Am I guaranteed a gift?

Yes, this is a gift exchange. Each participant will write one story and receive one story in return.

Assignments

Minimum Requirements

Since this is a busy time for fanfic writers, the minimum requirements are intentionally low: 500 words. If you want to write more, you can.

Assignments need to include the requested character(s) and character dynamics. They don’t have to include the scenario suggested in your recipient’s request, but it is highly encouraged. You only need to write one story according to one of your recipient’s requests.

Works need to be newly published for this exchange and created by you.

Posting

Either go to your Assignment page on AO3, which you can find under the "Assignments" link on your Profile page, or go to the Hitman Snow Festival subcollection page and click on "Your Assignment". You should see two buttons at the top right of your Snow Festival assignment: "Fulfill", and "Default".

Click "Fulfill", and you'll be taken to a posting form. This will automatically post your story into the current year's Snow Festival challenge. It also has your recipient's name already filled in. All you need to do is fill in the rest of the form, preview it to make sure it looks okay, and post.

If you're posting a treat, you won't have an assignment or "Fulfill" button. Instead, go to the subcollection and click on "Post to Collection" under the collection title. This will take you to a form with the challenge collection name already filled in. Fill in the recipient's name manually, then fill in the rest of the form, preview it to make sure it looks okay, and post.

Deadline

Assignments are due December 18, to make sure there’s enough time to find pinch hitters if needed.
If you feel like you can't fulfil your assignment for whatever reason, please default as early as possible. If you need an extension, don't hesitate to contact the mod via email at hitmanexchange+snow@gmail.com or on Tumblr at hitmanexchange.

Work Reveals

The works will be revealed on December 25, as soon as every participant has at least one gift.

Anonymity

Works are anonymous until creator reveals, the weekend after work reveals. Please do not add anything to your work that gives away your identity, including adding the work to a non-anonymous series.

Additional Gifts (Treats)

If you’d like to write an additional story for your recipient or for another participant in the exchange, you may do that. Please make sure that the recipient of your treat has additional gifts enabled and is open for treats.

If you’re open for treats, make sure that you have additional gifts enabled in your user settings, and leave a note about it in your requests.

Be friendly!

Make sure that your prompts and your fanworks do not contain any hostile elements towards people you disagree with in any part of the fanwork (title, tags, summary, author's notes, body text). Refrain from adding DNI notes.

If you shame or harass other participants, or if there are signs that you have deliberately caused problems in multiple exchanges, the mod will delete your signup.