Star Wars Rare Pairs Exchange

Since 2016, the Star Wars Rare Pairs exchange has run annually on Ao3, celebrating the rarer pairs of the Star Wars Universe.

Our main information hub is on DreamWidth : Star Wars Rare Pairs Exchange Commumity.

You can also find us on discord!

@sassysnowperson is the current moderator of both the exchange, and this tumblr comm.

Thank you for bringing this to our attention. Unfortunately, this isn't a solution we currently have an easy answer for. The DreamWidth journal is the main information hub for updates, guidance for sign-ups, pinch hits, etc... We don't currently have that information anywhere else.

We are exploring some options for mirroring/moving the main page off of DreamWidth, including creating and publishing google docs with the information, but in all honesty, since this isn't something we prepared for in advance, we likely wouldn't be able to do it before sign-ups close. Here's a couple options I can think of:

If you have a fandom friend that can check the DreamWidth for you, they could c/p or send screenshots of the information.

If you use a VPN (Firefox and protonmail both have free ones that I'm aware of), the specific wording on what DreamWidth blocks is "any IP address that geolocates to the state of Mississippi" - if your VPN locates you outside of Mississippi, it looks like DreamWidth will let you access the site.

Thank you! ❤️❤️❤️

Good question! The important thing is three unique ships, it doesn't matter if they're all in one request box or spread out over three different ones.

Hello, it's nice to meet you! You're making perfect sense, these are common questions to ask when you're new to exchanges.

Good eye! There's a few reasons (ease of mod schedules, the creation period has always been sort of long for this exchange) but the biggest is that we're extending the period between works due and reveals. Why are we doing that?

Treatfest!

(name still pending)

Oh nooooo thank you so much for sending this in. You know what doesn't work? *When you save something to drafts and never push post*. It's posted now, check the info directly before this one. I'll queue it to go in the morning, too.

Good news, there's plenty of time left, sign ups run through *next* Saturday.

Lil reminder that the DreamWidth comm is the most accurate and updated source of information, and our exchange discord is also a good central place for information.

Signups are open!

Please read the signup instructions here.

And then

You can officially sign up here!

So excited to have you all for another exciting year of creating wonderful works for rare pairs!

Sign ups remain open through Saturday, October 4th, 11:59PM EST.

Great questions, we're excited to have you!

There's only one fandom allowed per request. So if you wanted, for example, both legends and crossover ships, you'd need to use more than one request. However, if everything you want is in one fandom, you are welcome to only submit one request. You do need to have three unique *ships* in your requests to guarantee you get a gift, but that can be across as many request boxes as you desire.

Your whole sign up is one gift to receive, one gift to make. When you match with someone, one of their fandoms/ships will match your offers. You are not obligated to write the ship you matched on, and you only need to make one work, no matter how many there are. Think of it like a buffet! You can make your buffet as big or as small as you like (with three unique ships if you want to make sure you get a gift) and no matter how big the buffet you are matched with, you only need to take one plate.

A DreamWidth post is up with some nominations that may need some more information. If you nominated, go check to see if we could use your help figuring stuff out!

(I'd have checked manually but I've been focused on QuinObi week orz)

Hi! Oh yes, I didn't think of doing that at all this year. Oops! I'm happy to do that when sign-ups start.

If you are talking about adding the (parentheses) after a ship - no, they'll be approved with (Any) attached to them.

If you did not actually submit them at all, we won't see them to be able to approve them.

Hello everyone, Noms are now closed.

What's next?

We'll finish reviewing the tagset (don't panic if your noms are not yet approved, we've got a backlog we're working through)

We'll post any lingering clarifications posts for things we're not clear on.

We'll clean up any duplicate nominations we find.

We'll open signups!

Thanks for asking about this! So, for this exchange, we've made the decision that characters that go by multiple names through canon are one character for eligibility. So, while Rex/Vader is rare, Rex/Anakin is not, even with all the eligibility filters.

Nominations are Open!

Time to nominate the elusive, the background, and the underloved, and give those pairs, triads, and moresomes some love!

Read this first! - make sure you understand our nominations guidelines.

Relationships must have fewer than 250 fics, in English, that are marked complete on Ao3

Relationships must be nominated in the fandoms already in the tagset (described in the nomination guidelines above - C/P is your friend). We will be rejecting nominations in incorrect fandoms, if your nomination gets rejected, please review the guidelines and try again.

Please use clone names, not their numbers.

And once you've done the reading, give us your ships here: https://archiveofourown.org/tag_sets/25126