Chopped: Holiday Trope Exchange!
Welcome to the Chopped: Holiday Gift Exchange! A Secret Santa style gift exchange, but with a Chopped Twist! If you’re new to this event, welcome!! We hope you choose to join in on our festive fun!!
The Chopped: Holiday Trope Exchange is a double blind fic exchange, meaning you wont know who you’re writing for, or who is writing for you! Here’s how it works:
Remember, this event is double blind!! This is to help preserve that truly quintessential Chopped experience, where any writer can take the tropes and make something unique and surprising! Because of this, you wont be able to reach out to your recipient for any more info, and that means what you give your writer is all they have to go on, so try to be clear! If there is something you really want, or really don’t want, make sure to tell them during this stage of the exchange!
- Then…wait! We will have a two week sign up period, so after you’ve signed up, just keep your ask box open and be prepared to get your prompt! We will send out your prompts between December 1st and December 5th to your ask box, and then the writing period begins!
Fics are due on December 24th at 11:59pm!!! Submit your fics to our AO3 collection, which can be found here! Please be sure to have them in on time, because we will be reviewing them to make sure all your tropes are included! This AO3 collection is unrevealed, which means once your fic is submitted, you won’t be able to see it until we reveal them! If you’re worried about whether we received it or not, you can always DM us to ask!
We will review all the fics and then we will reveal them all on December 27th! (We like to enjoy the holidays with our families too guys lol)!
Signs-ups can be found here:
Please remember that assignments will be delivered to your Ask Box, so please make sure you have those open, and please be sure not to post the ask you receive, so it can be kept anonymous.
Timeline:
- Sign Up Starts: NOW!
- Sign Up Ends: 11:59pm on November 21st!
- Trope Assignments Released: Between December 1st and December 5th
- Fics Are Due: 11:59pm on December 24th!
- Fics Revealed: December 27th!
All times are in Eastern Standard Time (EST).
Theme Explanation:
For this Holiday Theme, fics must be set sometime between November through January. They may be centered around certain holidays like, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza, Winter Solstice, Boxing Day, Las Posadas, Diwali, New Year’s Eve/Day, etc. Or they may be centered around holiday type activities like, Christmas Tree Lightings, Ice Skating, Polar Plunges, Family/Friends’ Gatherings, Work Parties, Traveling, Religious Celebrations, etc.
Rules:
Our rules from the previous iterations of this challenge have worked out really well for us, so we are going to stick to them! If you need a refresher, the rules are as follows:
The requirements for the fics entered into the competition will be:
- Must be The 100 Characters
- Must fit the theme
- Must use ALL of the tropes selected by your recipient. If you don’t use the tropes, we will contact you and ask you to remedy the issue. Please remember, these are a gift for someone else, and by signing up, you’re agreeing to include the tropes your recipient has asked for!
- There is no maximum word count, but your fics must be at least 2,000 words.
- All ratings G through M are welcome. E ratings are not permitted for this round. [M ratings are permitted to allow for sex scenes in your fics while also ensuring that people who do not enjoy smut fics won’t end up with a gift including smut. For sex scenes in an M rated fic, think of it like a pg-13 rom-com, where the scene starts, gets a little hot and heavy, but fades to black before any explicit sexual content occurs.]
You will be disqualified if you include:
- Rape!
- Underage! (This means no high school AU with sex, no teacher/student if the student is underage, zero adult/under 18 relationships!)
- Incest! (incest includes adopted siblings, parent/child, step siblings, biological siblings, or any familial relationship, blood related or not!).
- Negativity towards any character or ship! (This includes any sort of abuse perpetrated by a character intending to paint them in a negative light, negative statements about a character intended purely to express your dislike of a character, or things of that nature.)
- Smut! For this round only, smut is also not permitted. Sex scenes without explicit sexual content are permitted, but genitalia and the description of sexual acts are not permitted.
This event was created to help get creative and different fics out into the world, and to create a fun, positive fandom experience for everyone! In order to ensure that we achieve that goal of a positive experience, we reserve the right to disqualify anyone if we are reading and we think it violates any of our rules.
Please remember that we will reveal the fics all on the same day, and until then this is a secret gift exchange!! Please only submit your fics to the AO3 Collection, and do not post them on your personal blog or on your AO3 account until the fics have been posted by us, and do not reveal what tropes you were assigned before the reveal.
