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The Annual Interdimensional Haixing-Dixing 520 Day Reverse Exchange is coming back for 2026!

520 sounds like "I love you" in Mandarin, so May 20th is a bit like Valentine's Day. To celebrate, we're back with the eighth annual 520 Day Reverse Exchange. As the name says, this is a reverse exchange: instead of making your request and that request being assigned to a writer/artist/fanwork creator, here:

You sign up with the kinds of things you enjoy creating.

You choose three writers/artists/fanwork creators based on anonymised ads.

You make a request of each of them based on what they enjoy creating.

You are assigned one request to create for, based on your offer.

You receive a gift from one of the creators you chose.

(An updated rules/info post will go up before sign-ups open, but here is last year's for reference.)

This year's schedule

Sign-ups part 1 - offers: Sunday 15 March - Friday 27 March Sign-ups part 2 - requests: Saturday 28 March - Friday 3 April Assignments out: Wednesday 8 April at the latest Deadline: Wednesday 13 May Work reveals: Wednesday 20 May (there is no anon period)

While full Guardian Bingo might not be returning in 2026, here is a bingo card to provide inspiration to those who might want it.

Fill as many (or as few) of the squares as you'd like. If you post your creations on tumblr, @ this account for a reblog. You're also welcome to add your creation to the Ao3 collection. Creations can include dramaverse, novelverse, RPF, and derivatives based on other Zhu Yilong and Bai Yu characters. All ratings are fine; just tag appropriately for reblogs.

Whether you participate or not, I hope 2026 treats you kindly!

- mod @tehfanglyfish