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2018: Swap! in the Name of Yuletide || SIGN-UPS ARE OPEN.
If you are new to swaps, or to Yuletide, and curious: FAQ here. If you are old to swaps, read on!
YULESWAPS 2018 SCHEDULE:
+ Sign-up forms are open now and will close on Thursday, October 18, 2018 at 9:00 PM PDT. Click here for a countdown, as always! Tell your friends! Tell your enemies! Tell yourself to set a reminder on your phone!
+ Match-ups will go out in late October, personal life and technology permitting. Probably over a 2- or 3-day period, because of mail merge sending limits.
+ This year's SENDING DEADLINE (for now) is Monday, November 12, 2018. Before signing up, please do a reality/calendar check to make sure you will have the money and time!
REMINDERS, ALWAYS REMINDERS:
+ Swaps Central: our all-in-one check-in form! You remember it. Still a thing.
+ Email: if you are new, we strongly suggest emailing us at yuleswaps at gmail dot com, just so your email will know we're not spam when we send match-ups.
+ DW/LJ: we will post here after match-ups go out, so everyone knows they definitely did. Please see the FAQ for instructions on how to track the various yuleswaps tags!
+ Sign-ups: PLEASE read instructions carefully, and take particular care not to typo your AO3 name or email! There's always someone whose poor sender is like, "gmail.co????" #yes really
+ Defaulting: look. If anything untoward (money, anxiety, life) should happen to you AT ANY POINT in the swapping process, please don’t just disappear. Tell us, and we’ll work it out! Promise. We are very nice.
And now...
Swap! in the Name of…
CANDY || BOOKS || DRINKS
Questions? Comments? First check out the FAQ, and then, if that doesn’t sort you, feel free to comment either here or there, or email us at yuleswaps at gmail!
(Us = me andanialove, who has very kindly agreed to help again.)
YULESWAPS 2018 SCHEDULE:
+ Sign-up forms are open now and will close on Thursday, October 18, 2018 at 9:00 PM PDT. Click here for a countdown, as always! Tell your friends! Tell your enemies! Tell yourself to set a reminder on your phone!
+ Match-ups will go out in late October, personal life and technology permitting. Probably over a 2- or 3-day period, because of mail merge sending limits.
+ This year's SENDING DEADLINE (for now) is Monday, November 12, 2018. Before signing up, please do a reality/calendar check to make sure you will have the money and time!
REMINDERS, ALWAYS REMINDERS:
+ Swaps Central: our all-in-one check-in form! You remember it. Still a thing.
+ Email: if you are new, we strongly suggest emailing us at yuleswaps at gmail dot com, just so your email will know we're not spam when we send match-ups.
+ DW/LJ: we will post here after match-ups go out, so everyone knows they definitely did. Please see the FAQ for instructions on how to track the various yuleswaps tags!
+ Sign-ups: PLEASE read instructions carefully, and take particular care not to typo your AO3 name or email! There's always someone whose poor sender is like, "gmail.co????" #yes really
+ Defaulting: look. If anything untoward (money, anxiety, life) should happen to you AT ANY POINT in the swapping process, please don’t just disappear. Tell us, and we’ll work it out! Promise. We are very nice.
And now...
CANDY || BOOKS || DRINKS
Questions? Comments? First check out the FAQ, and then, if that doesn’t sort you, feel free to comment either here or there, or email us at yuleswaps at gmail!
(Us = me and
anialove, who has very kindly agreed to help again.)
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(Anonymous) 2018-10-13 03:02 pm (UTC)(link)no subject
I do prefer not to constantly re-match people to the same people (though occasionally people have requested it if they really enjoy each other :)), but it's kind of too much for me to go back and check who's had whom before, after all these years. However, I'm very aware this happens, so there IS space in the sign-up sheet to tell me who you had last year and that you'd like to change it up.
I do tend to make particular effort to check who non-US people had last year, if I'm matching them in-country, because of the odds. But sometimes there just aren't enough people. Like, I'll get literally only one Canadian who wants to send in-country only, and I'll match them to the one Canadian who offered in-continent only, and since they're both longtime swappers they'll probably have had each other in one direction or the other at some point. :| I tend to match geographically limited people together, because often other people in that country REALLY want somebody far away, and it seems unfair to ask them to send to the far reaches of the globe and then receive from, like, the next town over. So to speak.
Which is all to say, I can definitely make an effort to give you different people than last year/previous years, but depending where you are and who else signs up, you might have to match out of the country. You can tell me on the sign-up sheet what your preference would be! Also, please give me the AO3 names of the people you'd like to NOT get. :)