#capimexchange2020

It’s the fifth day of reveals! Each day we will be revealing gifts created by 2020 Cap-Iron Man Holiday Exchange and Community Gifts Event participants. The gifts will remain anonymous until January 11th, giving everyone a chance to enjoy the works and guess the identities of creators. (Remember, if you've got a work in the collection, please remain anonymous until after creator reveals!)

Here are today’s gifts!

Yes — the Cap-Iron Man Holiday Exchange has arrived!

The Cap-Iron Man Holiday Exchange is our annual fanwork exchange for Steve/Tony art and fic. Participants will be matched to one another to secretly create a Steve/Tony fanwork for another participant. Gifts may be fic (minimum 1000 words) or art (traditional or digital medium).

At the end of December the gifts will be revealed anonymously in batches, and then in early January the creators will be revealed!

Community Gifts are also back! Don’t miss out on some low pressure Steve/Tony fun this winter!

★ SCHEDULE ★

October 10: Exchange sign-ups and Community Gifts prompt submission open

October 25: Exchange sign-ups close at 17:00 UTC (what time is it for me?)

October 26-30: Matching period

October 31: Assignments sent out at the latest

November 7: Community Gifts prompt submissions close at 17:00 UTC (what time is it for me?)

November 7: Community Gifts prompts list is posted

December 19: Finished exchange assignments are due at 22:00 UTC (what time is it for me?)

December 27 : Community Gifts are due at 22:00 UTC (what time is it for me?)

December 27: Start of gift reveals

January 9: (approximately) Creator Reveals

Find everything you need to know on the…

2020 Cap-Iron Man Holiday Exchange & Community Gifts Information Masterpost

All works have now been revealed — this year we received a total of 102 fanworks between the exchange and community gifts! We'd like to extend a warm thank you to all of our incredible participants!

The gifts will remain anonymous until January 11th. Until then, it’s time to GUESS THE CREATORS!

Feel free to share your guesses and discuss your ideas in the comments on our Dreamwidth Guessing Post (anonymous comments are turned on, and you don't need an account to comment), or discuss your thoughts in our Cap-IM Challenges Discord server.

Please remember not to give away your own gift if you took part in the event.

All the works in our AO3 Collection

All the reveals posts on Dreamwidth

All the reveals posts on Tumblr

The list of everyone signed up for the gift exchange is available in the AO3 collection profile, but remember it's not a complete list of all the creators: some of the Comm Gifts creators weren't signed up, and some created more than one work!

The Cap-IM Holiday Exchange (HE) and Community Gifts make up our end-of-year joint event.  In the exchange, each participant is matched to create work — either art or fic — for their giftee. For Community Gifts, prompts are submitted by anyone who has them, and after the list is revealed, everybody can create fills for the prompts as a ‘gift’ to the Cap-IM Community. Mod activity begins in Sept/Oct and extends into mid-January 2021.

If you are over 18 and would be interested in teaming up with the comm mods to help mod this year’s Holiday Exchange and Community Gifts, please send us an email at [email protected] expressing your interest and any experience and skills you bring to the table.

Whether you have previous experience with taking part in or modding a fandom challenge or community, or are just looking to get more involved with the Cap-IM comm, we’re happy to hear from you!

Potential responsibilities:

Answering emails and other questions/comments about the event

Advertising for the event, including posting on LJ, DW, Pillowfort, Tumblr, Discord and Twitter (note that we have mod accounts so you don’t need to personally be on the platform).

Co-ordinating sign-ups, matching, prompt collation and participant posting

Encouraging participants in their work, including creating inspiration posts

Managing the event’s AO3 Collection

Posting round-ups of submitted fanworks

Ready to deck AO3 with boughs of fanworks? The first day of reveals for the Cap-Iron Man Holiday Exchange is only a month away!

A friendly reminder that finished HE assignments are due at 22:00 UTC on December 19th (what time is it for me?). You can find all the information links, including the FAQ and exchange guidelines, here in our main post.

Meanwhile, Community Gifts are due at 22:00 UTC on December 27th (what time is it for me?). You can check out the prompt list here, and create community gifts right until the deadline, as there’s no sign-up required!

Don't forget to submit your exchange and community gift fanworks to the Cap-IM Holiday Exchange Collection on AO3.

Calling all holiday homies - there is one week to go until the Cap-Iron Man Holiday Exchange assignment deadline!

Please post your finished exchange fanworks to the Cap-IM Holiday Exchange Collection on AO3 by 22:00 UTC on December 19th (what time is it for me?). You can find all the information links, including the exchange guidelines and a how to post fanworks to an AO3 Collection, here in our main post.

Whether you’re battling blizzards or hellish heat, we’re here for you this holiday season as we close 2020 with some joy. Remember, if something happens and you do need to drop out, you can do so without penalty before the HE deadline.

If holiday music is unavoidable every time you turn the radio on or step into a store, then you know the Cap-Iron Man Holiday Exchange assignment deadline is coming up! Like Mariah Carey, all we want for Christmas is you(r finished fanwork submitted by the deadline)!

Your HE assignments are due at 22:00 UTC on December 19th (what time is it for me?). You can find all the information links, including the FAQ and exchange guidelines, here in our main post.

If you finish early or aren’t taking part in the exchange, don’t forget that we have over 500 prompts you can fill as Community Gifts! You have until 22:00 UTC on December 27th (what time is it for me?) to pick prompts and create fills - no sign-up required, and fills can be any format.

Don't forget to submit your exchange and community gift fanworks to the Cap-IM Holiday Exchange Collection on AO3.

Hi there,

It depends what level of anonymity you are after.

If you don’t want the Community Gifts fill directly connected to your username, you can post it to the 2020 HE AO3 Collection AND the AO3 Anonymous Collection.

This means that even after we reveal and de-anon all the HE and Community Gift works, your work will remain anonymous for as long as the AO3 Anonymous Collection is set to “Anonymous” (the collection is specifically for this, but ultimately you’re not able to change the setting of the Collection so you’re relying on that stay the same. Having said that, the collection has been running since 2010).

Be aware that people looking at your profile will be able to see that you have a work or works in the "Anonymous" collection, and could deduce the fandom from your list of fandoms and potentially link the work back to you.

You have two other options:

You can email your work to the mods and we can post it on your behalf using our AO3 Cap-Iron Man mod account. This means that you will not be associated to the work in any way, but you also won’t get any notifications on kudos etc.

You can post and then orphan your work before the creator reveals. Please note that this is permanent and irreversible—you are giving up control over the work, including the ability to edit or delete it, and you are unable to reclaim it.