Heavy Artillery

SCHEDULE Tuesday, October 7 - Tuesday, October 14: Nomination period. Wednesday, October 15: Sign ups open! Friday, October 24: Sign ups close! Saturday, October 25: Assignments out. Tuesday, November 18: 1st check in. Tuesday, December 9: 2nd check in/dropout deadline. Saturday, December 27: Fic due! Thursday, Jan 1: Collection opens!

We're very glad to have y’all here! Full details about the exchange can be found on the HA Dreamwidth. If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, feel free to reach out to our mods @prettypaprika or

You might wanna get your foxholes some extra cover and start on that pre-flight checklist 'cause it's time for the annual Heavy Artillery Holiday Exchange!

Spread the love (or angst) this holiday season and sign-up to swap with another mystery member of the HBO War Fandom. (Band of Brothers, The Pacific, Masters of the Air, Generation Kill)

This year we're trialling AO3 matchups. Never done an AO3 matched fic exchange or a bit rusty on the inner workings? Check out our FAQs for more info.

HEAVY ARTILLERY RARE PAIR EXCHANGE 2025 ASSIGNMENTS ARE OUT!!!

Check your email or DW—whichever you signed up with—for your assignment, gang. If you didn't receive one, or if something doesn't make sense, let me know! I did my best but I am only human and sometimes I skip over or incorrectly copy/paste things.

You should have at least one option from your recipients list of requests that jives with what you were willing to offer. If that's not the case, PLEASE GET IN TOUCH WITH ME BEFORE 2PM UTC-7 ON APRIL 2, 2025. Any issues raised after that point, I may not be able to adjust for.

I'll open the AO3 collection for this exchange in a couple of weeks and will alert y'all when it's open. Once the collection is open, you're welcome to upload your fic to it. Do not post your fic anywhere but the collection until author reveals have happened! (If you want to crosspost it elsewhere after reveals, go wild.)

Also, please do not discuss your assignment with other participants. If you have friends outside of the event, go ham, or if you have a beta-reader that needs to be sworn in, that's totally fine. The name of the game is discretion until author reveals.

If you have any questions or need any clarification from your recipient, please DM me on Discord (thrillingdetectivetales) or email me (thrillingest at gmail) and I'll act as a middleman to get you the info you need.

Thank you so much to everyone who signed up to participate this year! Happy writing! I'm so proud of all of you!

Hoo, boy! We might've skipped this lovely event last year, but we're back in force in 2025, y'all. That's right, 'tis the season to spread the love around our small but mighty HBOWar fandom by turning the spotlight toward those pairings we don't see enough of on screen. Load up your low-key faves and get ready to celebrate the secondary—and tertiary—characters that make these shows special.

If you’ve never participated in our Rare Pair Exchange before, you can check out the info post here on Tumblr, or over on Dreamwidth.

Sign ups are currently open! You can find the form here. The sign-up form will close at 5 PM (UTC-7) on Saturday, March 29, 2025.

Hooray, hooray! It's officially the season for the annual Heavy Artillery HBO War Holiday Fic Exchange. Sign up to swap a fic with another mystery member of the HBO War fandom on and revel in the gift provided to you in exchange on December 25, 2024! If you're unfamiliar with how a fic exchange works, check out the FAQ section of the expanded info post over on Dreamwidth.

SCHEDULE Tuesday, October 15: Sign ups open! Wednesday, October 23: Sign ups close! Thursday, October 24: Assignments out. Monday, November 11: 1st check in. Monday, December 9: 2nd check in/dropout deadline. Friday, December 20: Fic due! Wednesday, December 25: Collection opens!

I'll send follow up e-mails/DMs to anyone who hasn't posted by end of day on the 30th.

The tag for the Heavy Artillery Holiday Exchange 2023 is now closed, which means sign ups are officially open! There are some detailed (but fairly straightforward) instructions this year so please be sure to read them before filling out your form.

If you have any questions, please reach out to your friendly neighborhood moderator, thrillingdetectivetales, at any time. You can find me here on Dreamwidth, or under the same username on Tumblr and Discord.

Click here to sign up!

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We're building the AO3 tag set in preparation for the Heavy Artillery Holiday Exchange 2023, and we want you to weigh in! If you're planning to participate in this year's exchange, please click the link below and submit any characters or pairings you'd like to request/offer*. (I recommend taking a peek at the existing tag set first, so you can see which of your faves have already been nominated by other people.)

If you don't nominate a character or pairing, there's a chance it may not end up in the tag set, so please be thorough!

Click here for the tag set!

It's that time of year again, y'all! We're gearing up for the Heavy Artillery Holiday Exchange 2023. If you've never participated before, I encourage you to check out the info post, which you can find linked at the top of our Tumblr page or read over on Dreamwidth.

Here's the projected schedule:

November 5, 2023: Tag set nominations open. November 10, 2023: Tag set nominations close. November 11, 2023: Sign-ups open at 8AM Eastern Time (UTC-4). (Link will be provided in a separate post on November 11th.) November 18, 2023: Sign-ups close at midnight Eastern Time (UTC-4). November 20, 2023: Assignments go out. (The extra day is to make sure we have time to adjust if anyone comes up as unmatchable.) December 1-3, 2023: Check in #1/writing weekend. December 15-17, 2023: Check in #2/writing weekend; default deadline. December 22, 2023: Fic due by 8PM Eastern Time (UTC-4). December 24, 2023: Collection goes live. December 27, 2023: Author reveals.