autisticexchange | Autistic Exchange 2018 (Reply)

This exchange is for autistic people and autistic characters, by autistic people.

Nominate characters who are canonically autistic, such as Kevin Blake from Eureka or Lou Arrendale from The Speed of Dark, or who you think of (or want to read fic about) as autistic, such as Belle and Beast in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (1991) or the Grinch in Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966). Nominate their canons, too. We are open to RPF under the condition that all real persons portrayed are dead. We are also open to Original Work under the condition that any nominated character (for instance, Pirate Captain, Princess, or Paladin) be intended to be written and read as autistic.

Request canons and characters who you would like to see more of in fic.

Offer canons and characters you are familiar enough with that you think you can competently write a complete story of at least 500 words about them.

Keep in mind while nominating, requesting, and offering characters that those characters must be autistic in the fic. Self-diagnosis is acceptable. Medical diagnosis is acceptable. Some canons do not have the concept (being speculative settings, or historically set and predating the coinage of the term), but the character(s) must think or behave in one or another manner that demonstrates they are autistic. See this post on scriptAutistic for suggestions.

scriptAutistic is a valuable resource in general.

The 2018 Autistic Exchange AO3 collection.

Signup here.

Tagset here.

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Notes on signups:

OPTIONAL DETAILS ARE OPTIONAL.

Please include Do Not Wants in your signup, either in your (optional) letter or in the body of your signup. Respect your recipient’s Do Not Wants! Because we understand about it sometimes being hard to avoid DNWs (or they slip one’s mind or whatever), there is a two-strikes policy in place: if a writer posts a fic including any of its recip’s DNWs, they get a warning and an opportunity to replace the fic with one that is DNW-less. If the writer does not comply, they will be banned.

Just in case a writer and a recip don’t ship the same ships, we advise that you include a gen prompt alongside any shippy prompt.

Letters are optional, but can be found on this Dreamwidth community post. We encourage participants to write letters in order to elaborate on their requests, prompts, wants, DNWs, and whether they are open to treats in media other than fic. Participants who write letters are (naturally) more likely to receive treats than participants who do not.

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In numbers:

Nominate 1-4 fandoms and 1-4 characters for each fandom.

Request 3-5 fandoms and 1-4 characters for each fandom.

Offer 4-7 fandoms and 1-6 characters for each fandom.

Keep in mind that this exchange uses OR matching, which means that you’ll match with someone who has offered or requested a minimum of 1 fandom and 1 character in that fandom that you have requested or offered. Tailor your optional details accordingly.

Write a complete fic with a minimum of 500 words about the characters(s) you and your assigned recipient match on.

You may also write any treats you choose to write for any other participant, which may be of any length. Treats may also be in other media, if the recipient expresses openness to receiving treats in that medium; if the recipient says they are okay with podfic treats, you may record them a podfic treat, or if the recipient says they are okay with art treats, you may draw or manip them an art treat. Your assignment, however, must be a fic. (But if you want to multimedia it and the recipient has expressed openness to treats in those other media, then as long as there’s 500+ words of fic you wrote somewhere in there and the final gift is a complete story, it’s cool.)

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Schedule:

Nomination Period: Jun 1 - Jun 10 11:59pm EDT

Sign Ups: Jun 11 - Jun 21 11:59 pm EDT

Assignments out: no later than Jun 23

Deadline: ~~Jul 21 11:59 pm EDT~~ EXTENDED to Jul 23 11:59 pm EDT

Archive Goes Live: Jul 28 no earlier than 8:59 am EDT, possibly later

Anon Period Ends: Aug 4 no earlier than 8:59 am EDT, possibly later

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