MDZS Seasonal Exchange Events

a MDZS Exchange

For this exchange, the sky's the limit! We’ll be creating fic, art, and podfics set in an alternate universe to the original MDZS or The Untamed canons.

Schedule:

Nominations: May 8 - 15

Signups: May 16 - 23

Assignments by: May 25

Works Due: July 6

Works Revealed: July 13

Creators Revealed: July 20

Nominators, we have some tag edit notifications and queries for you!

I get it now. You rock.

It's been a quick minute since we posted about this, so let's talk about Tagset Nominations and how they fit into the sign-up and assignments process.

If you've participated in our exhanges before — or even just thought about it — you'll notice that we typically have a phase for tag nominations prior to sign-ups. This is a common step for exchanges run using AO3's exchange tools. The overall process goes like this:

Step 1: Tagset Nominations

This step consists of a form on AO3 where you can suggest the tags that you might like to receive or create. For our MDZS Exchanges, you are usually able to nominate a combination of Relationship/Character tags + Additional Tags, also known as freeforms, that correspond to our exchange theme.

Nominating does not obligate you to sign up! Mods can't see who nominates what, and if you nominate something you are not limited to only requesting/offering those things later.

This creates one big list of tags, called a tagset, that everybody will use for their sign-ups in Step 2.

Step 2: Sign-ups

This is a second form on AO3 where you officially join the exchange! When you sign up, all the tags from the tagset will be available for you to request and offer, not just the ones you nominated.

On the sign-up form, you will make one or more requests with a combination of relationships & freeform tags from the tagset that you're interested in receiving.

On the same form in a different box, you'll make offers of things you would be happy to make. Again, this will be a combination of ships and tags from the tagset. Your offers can match your requests or be totally different — it's up to you!

Step 3: Matching & Assignments

Once everyone has signed up, we'll run AO3's matching tool which compares all the offers to all the requests, and finds the ones that have tags in common.

Your assignment for the event will be one person who had at least one request with matching tags to at least one of your offers. You'll receive an email from AO3 showing your assigned person and all their requests.

Your recipient may also have a bunch of other requests that do not match your offers! You can ignore these, or base your gift on them if they look interesting. You're not obligated to make exactly what you matched on.

So the reason for using a tagset is twofold:

It helps to make sign-ups and matching smoother because everybody will be requesting and offering from the same set of event-specific tags.

It lets us use tags that aren't already ao3 canonical tags, such as freeforms like AU - Wei Wuxian turns into a bunny when he gets mad or special relationship formatting like Adult Jiang Cheng & Child Jin Ling for our Kidfic Exchange.

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Lan Zhan | Lan Wangji/Wei Ying | Wei Wuxian Characters: Lan Zhan | Lan Wangji, Wei Ying | Wei Wuxian Additional Tags: MerMay, Mer AU, Burial Mounds Settlement Days (Modao Zushi), except its underwater, Little bit of angst at the end, and now the yarn tags:, mermaid, siren of the sea, violent affection (because they fuck in a rowboat in a thunderstorm), (they’re both gonna be bruised to hell in the morning), Evening at the beach (sort of), sex on the beach (sort of), STAY OUT OF THE (KELP) FOREST Summary:

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Jin Ling | Jin Rulan & Wei Ying | Wei Wuxian Characters: Jin Ling | Jin Rulan, Wei Ying | Wei Wuxian Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Merpeople, mermaids on display, rip xuanli and jiang cheng, mermaids are real reveal, Uncle-Nephew Relationship, Uncle Wei Ying | Wei Wuxian Summary:

The world had changed last month. People who’d never cared about the ocean before were suddenly paying attention; scientists were flocking to the city as quickly as they could, from all over the world.

Everyone in attendance this night was not just rich, they were elite. To get into this show—the first of its kind—was astronomically pricey.

A hush went over the crowd, full of whispers of agreement. Some people were so excited to witness the show they hollered, “Get on with it!”

There was a bit of muffled, nervous laughter. Water splashed ominously, unseen.

Chapters: 5/5 Fandom: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Lai Bingyun (Baixue Temple Shifu) & Song Lan | Song Zichen Characters: Song Lan | Song Zichen, Lai Bingyun (Baixue Temple Shifu) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, mermaid au, frankencanon, Child Song Lan's mysophobia is bc of a plague, Baixue Shifu is Song Lan's grandfather, Angst with a Happy Ending, Hurt/Comfort, Plague Summary:

After Song Lan's village all perished in a plague, he's found by the shifu of Baixue Temple.

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Lan Zhan | Lan Wangji/Wei Ying | Wei Wuxian Characters: Lan Zhan | Lan Wangji, Wei Ying | Wei Wuxian Additional Tags: Aquariums, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Swimming, Doing Each Other's Make up, Fluff, mdzsxchange's Close Quarters Exchange 2024 (Modao Zushi), Pre-Relationship, Alternate Universe - Shapeshifters, Pining Summary: