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Snowflake Challenge #7, 9, 10
February sure went by in a flash... ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
phoenixdown_ex sign-ups close tonight (I am signing up to do art only -- about 60% done with my sign-up...) and there is also a Final Fantasy Kiss Battle going on, for those interested!
Huh... Remember how I was doing these? ^^; It is becoming increasingly unlikely I'll be able to do these, but maybe I'll try a couple more and call it a day (...a month, a year...).
Challenge #7: Make a list of fannish and/or creative resources.
I don't really have that many resources to give that I haven't mentioned before, so I'm just going to link my DW profile, where I link some Dreamwidth communities I think are neat. They range from fannish events, writing/art/icon support communities, and rec comms.
Challenge #9: Rec Us Your Newest Thing.
Very much NOT my newest thing, but this challenge mentioned that "You can absolutely use this space for that manifesto or fandom promo that you’ve always wanted to pen," so I decided to use it to try to finish up some fandom promos I've been writing up for my more obscure/hard-to-get-into fandoms and which I've been sticking in the bottom of my generic exchange letter. But they're NOT my newest thing because all the possible fandoms I could write a promo for are really old ones for me. And then unfortunately, doing just ONE of these promos took wayyy longer than I expected, so... here's my Bravely Default promo -- that's all I've got. It's... apparently 1558 words. I hope people looking to pick up new canons are willing to read mini-essays... (To be fair, most of it is just a list of things I tend to request in exchanges, which can be easily skipped.)
Challenge #10: Five Things! The five things are totally up to you.
I've decided to write up my top 5 ideas for a BFE (bangs, fests, exchanges) type multifandom event. These ideas are all too much for me to mod so I'm putting them up for adoption.
1) Telephone Fictionary:
This would be a multifandom fanwork version of the game Telephone Pictionary. In Telephone Pictionary, the game starts with someone writing a description of something that needs to be drawn. The more abstract and difficult to convey in art it is (e.g. "the mortifying ordeal of being known"), the funnier it is. After everyone writes their prompts, they pass it to the next person who has to do their best to draw whatever prompt they've been given. The next person after that then just gets the picture that was drawn and has to attempt to intuit what the original prompt must have been. They write down their guess, which gets passed on for the next person to attempt to convey in the form of a drawing, etc.
The fandom version of this would involve fic instead of art and freeform tags instead of written prompts. The first round would either be a fic round (each participant just writes a fic on whatever topic they want) or it would be a freeform round similar to Telephone Pictionary where someone somehow gets a list of freeform tags (it could be from a recent fic they've written themselves, with any fandom-specific tags deleted from the list, or maybe participants are allowed to just make up a freeform list to challenge the next writer). Either way, the game then goes on to alternate between people getting the fic produced in the previous round, reading it, and suggesting a list of freeform tags the fic should be tagged with, and people getting a list of freeform tags (non-fandom-specific) from the previous person and writing a fic that attempts to hit all of them. During the fic-writing stages, each creator has free choice of what fandom/characters/relationships they want to use for the fic.
In fandom, there is already an activity called Rolling Remixes that are similar in concept to this, but Rolling Remixes tend to have to be single-fandom by necessity. There are several differences in this Telephone Ficitonary idea that would make it suitable for a multifandom event. Basically, in Rolling Remixes, you get a fic and have to write a fic inspired by the previous fic in some way. By contrast, Telephone Fictionary inserts a canon-blind freeform tag summarization stage between fic-writing stages and so people don't actually need to understand (or see) the original fic in order to write the next fic, but instead just need to know the tropes or elements to include in their own fic. Similar to Telephone Pictionary, most of the fun of the game is seeing how much concept drift there was from the original fic/set of freeforms.
I was thinking that in order to run this, you'd probably need to sort participants into groups based on what kind of fic they'd be interested in reading and writing, so like there might be a gen circle, a darkfic circle and a lighter/fluff fic circle, one that is just an "anything goes" circle, etc. That would be to prevent participants from getting a list of tags they're just completely uninterested in writing. (However, note that there would also always be the "out" of you just writing to the tags to the best of your ability and that ability can absolutely be "bad" -- like for example, if you're an angst writer and you get a bunch of fluffy tags, you just attempt to write whatever story you can, trying your best to hit whatever tags you can, and if you fall far short of this goal or you end up twisting the meaning of the tags to fit the story you can write, that's all part of the fun, really. Or if you get a taglist with kinks that squick you, you can either choose to try them out anyway/do your best, just skip them, or do a nearby twist on or creative interpretation of the tag.)
In terms of timeline, I was thinking there would generally be 2 weeks (with an extra week of buffer) given for writing the fic and 1 week for reading a fic and submitting a list of tags. People could sign up to be a pinch hitter for either task; I was thinking that the 2 week period would be the official work deadline but if there are any missing/outstanding fics, then pinch hitters would be brought in to write something during the 1-week pinch hit period. The tagging phase works similarly except with less buffer time. This would involve a lot of people-wrangling -- a Discord and lots of emails and Google forms would probably be needed. There would be at least 3-3.5 cycles of writing + tag-generation (like tags - writing - tags - writing - tags - writing - tags, or writing - tags - writing - tags - writing - tags) to get a decent possibility for concept drift, but not let the event drag on too long. This means the writing part of the event (not counting sign-ups) would be roughly 12-13 weeks long (~3 months).
2) One Trope Only:
This is an exchange where the concept is basically: flash exchange themes on a full exchange timeline. It would basically be a freeform exchange that cycles each round through odd and unusual, sometimes hyperspecific, themes/tropes. The idea/motivation for this exchange is basically to be able to revive some older exchange themes that used to run but have since been discontinued. Some examples of exchanges/themes falling in this category would be Time Travel tropes (past_imperfect); Body Swap tropes (bodyswapswap); Sex Pollen/Heats/Omegaverse (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
heatficsummer and Heat Flash); and robot characters (turingfest). However, in One Trope Only, these exchange themes would not be run on a regular/annual basis, but merely occasionally/from time to time.
Completely new themes would be welcome too. In addition to the above examples, things that might make good themes for an exchange like this would include:
- Themes focused around specific character types: Doctors or doctor AUs; unnamed or offscreen characters in canons; mothers; asexual characters; etc.
- Themes focused around specific relationship types: Age gap relationships; mentor relationships; xenophilia/relationships featuring people of different species; etc.
- Very specific tropes or AUs: e.g. all the works in this exchange must be a Pacific Rim fusion; hanahaki; There Was Only One Bed setup; amnesia; etc.
- Unpopular themes hard to request/offer in other exchanges: Break-up fic, major character death, infidelity or dysfunctional relationships, unhappy endings, self-harm themes, etc.
I feel like the exchange calendar can't really support all the themes people would like to have a dedicated exchange to because there are just too many cool tropes and themes and not enough time in the year. With the exchange scene maybe a bit smaller and people maybe having less time for fandom, it seems to me to make sense to run some exchanges just less frequently, so I feel like this kind of "theme grab bag" exchange could help with that. This format would also be personally appealing to me because I'm kind of the person who is drawn to novel themes, and finds that hyperspecific themes (and tagsets based around those themes) tend to help me come up with fresh prompts for my fandoms and to remember different fandoms/characters I'd like to request. And for me, that tagset browsing and prompting part tends to be the most fun part of exchanges, so it tends to be the case that I only participate in a particular themed exchange once anyway, so this setup would suit the way I do exchanges better.
Why a full-length exchange? Flash exchanges can of course be quite fun especially for experimental and off-beat themes, and the short creation timeline often inspires flash-fiction-style productivity, and the low commitment allows a wide variety of themes to be packed into a modest portion of the calendar year. But sometimes you want a full-size exchange -- a longer nomination period to allow people to peruse and recall freeform tags they'd like to request; a longer sign-up period to allow more people to sign up, which means a larger set of fandom requests to choose from; a longer work period allowing more ambitious trope executions; etc.
Because there would be a lot of possible themes to choose from, I think what would be nice is if people can suggest themes and vote on what the next exchange theme would be. That way, you can get some creative exchange themes, build anticipation for next year's theme, and see how popular each theme is. Of course, popularity wouldn't be the only consideration here, because sometimes you WANT smaller and more niche exchange themes that might not be general-interest enough to sustain a full-blown yearly exchange (for example, if a theme is popular enough, it is probably viable to run an annual exchange for it (see dub/noncon, for example), so it WOULDN'T be a good fit for this event, so there is potentially an inverse relationship between popularity and aptness when it comes to themes for this exchange). This odd-format exchange would be well-suited to featuring these quirky and offbeat themes that only run once (in a blue moon). So maybe this One Trope Only event would have some people's choice themes (selected based on a vote result) and mod's choice themes (where the mod picks a theme based on (e.g.) personal preference, dissimilarity to recent themes, because this theme keeps on losing out to other themes and deserves its chance to shine, etc. etc.). Themes that have been done recently would not be eligible to be selected for the next theme for a while (2 years, say), to ensure a variety of themes.
There are a couple of issues with me running this event, though: one is that it would be a multifandom exchange with a brand new themed tagset each round, which seems like a lot of tag-modding work, and I am not very familiar with the tagset management backend. The second issue is that I feel like (because of the wide variety of tropes that it would probably be good to allow to repeat within a decent amount of time) this is an exchange that should run at least twice a year to allow some of the themes to cycle back again eventually -- if it only runs once a year, it could take forever for the theme you're interested in to come up again. But running a heavy-duty exchange at least twice a year with some unpredictable elements to it would be way beyond my newbie modding capabilities and would be a significant time commitment even for an experienced mod. But I think this would be a lot of fun, maybe with a large mod team that splits the burden of running different rounds. I could not run this myself but I would be very interested in running this with other people.
3) One True Character:
Another exchange idea: This is just the platonic version oflittleblackdressex. The concept of Little Black Dress is that people request characters that they're happy to see shipped with everyone (or nearly everyone), and it's the creator's choice which ship to feature. One True Character would be much the same but focus on platonic relationships. So participants request their favorite character(s), and get a gen work that focuses on the relationship between that character and another character of the creator's choice.
It's possible that the event could be platonic relationships only, or could combine Little Black Dress + One True Character elements and be something where you match on whether you want platonic relationships, romantic or sexual relationships, or either in the work you get.
4) Team-up Exchanges:
This idea is kind of half-baked and I have no idea if this kind of mechanic would be feasible. But basically, people have observed that some parts of exchanges appeal to some people more than others -- some people only like writing letters and aren't super interested in creating or even getting a present, some people hate doing sign-ups, or having to come up with prompts, some people are mainly in it for the gifts while for others, the gift is the least important part of an exchange. Perhaps there is a way to set up exchanges to allow people to split some of the work needed to participate in an exchange so that more people can participate. In particular, there are three main roles here:
By splitting the work of an exchange, a group of people would be able to sign up who wouldn't individually. For example, someone might see an exchange request they're excited to write for, but end up not signing up because it takes too long, while another person might not sign up because they can't create for any of the requests. As an example, I am probably much better at prompting for worldbuilding than I am at writing it, so this makes it hard for me to sign up for exchanges like Worldbuilding Exchange. Exchanges like these miss out on prompts that could be made by prompters who aren't good creators.
Teams would have to cover all of the aspects of (1), (3), and (4) in order to participate in an exchange, and these teams would have to be formed outside of the exchange itself through some area where people can advertise which parts they want to do, and for what exchanges. Complete teams would inform the mod and would be allowed to sign up if everything looks fine.
Whoever is taking care of (1) would be responsible for signing up to the exchange. If the person taking care of (3) is different, they need to send their offers to the person doing (1) so that those offers are reflected in the sign-up. Then assignments that would normally go to the person signing up would instead go to the person doing (3).
The people doing (1), (2), and (4) would likely need to share fandoms. It probably works best if they are the same person, in fact, but if the fandom overlap is high, this is not necessary and the work might be able to be delegated.
I haven't thought too much about how this might implemented (or if it could be implemented), but I'm guessing something like a friending meme or beta request/help wanted sort of activity where you can specify what parts of exchange you like to do and which ones you can't do and are looking for help with, and what fandoms you're interested/able to request/offer.
5) Reverse prompt/Prompting-for-prompts meme:
Nothing too special here, but this would be a prompt meme except the offers are made first, rather than the requests/prompts. So people would (anonymously? IDK) put broad fandoms/characters/ships/kinks/themes they are hoping to create for (bonus points for being pretty specific about their particular strengths as a creator, like "I am very good at writing creeping horror" or whatever), and then people reply with more specific prompts tailored to those offers. The OP could then choose which prompt(s) they would like to fill.
I was thinking this would be multifandom, but it could be applied to any single-fandom event as well. It would be pretty similar to a regular prompt meme, to be honest, but with slightly more focus on the creators fishing around for inspiration or ideas for the kind of thing they are already hoping to create.
phoenixdown_ex sign-ups close tonight (I am signing up to do art only -- about 60% done with my sign-up...) and there is also a Final Fantasy Kiss Battle going on, for those interested!Huh... Remember how I was doing these? ^^; It is becoming increasingly unlikely I'll be able to do these, but maybe I'll try a couple more and call it a day (...a month, a year...).
Challenge #7: Make a list of fannish and/or creative resources.
I don't really have that many resources to give that I haven't mentioned before, so I'm just going to link my DW profile, where I link some Dreamwidth communities I think are neat. They range from fannish events, writing/art/icon support communities, and rec comms.
Challenge #9: Rec Us Your Newest Thing.
Very much NOT my newest thing, but this challenge mentioned that "You can absolutely use this space for that manifesto or fandom promo that you’ve always wanted to pen," so I decided to use it to try to finish up some fandom promos I've been writing up for my more obscure/hard-to-get-into fandoms and which I've been sticking in the bottom of my generic exchange letter. But they're NOT my newest thing because all the possible fandoms I could write a promo for are really old ones for me. And then unfortunately, doing just ONE of these promos took wayyy longer than I expected, so... here's my Bravely Default promo -- that's all I've got. It's... apparently 1558 words. I hope people looking to pick up new canons are willing to read mini-essays... (To be fair, most of it is just a list of things I tend to request in exchanges, which can be easily skipped.)
Challenge #10: Five Things! The five things are totally up to you.
I've decided to write up my top 5 ideas for a BFE (bangs, fests, exchanges) type multifandom event. These ideas are all too much for me to mod so I'm putting them up for adoption.
1) Telephone Fictionary:
This would be a multifandom fanwork version of the game Telephone Pictionary. In Telephone Pictionary, the game starts with someone writing a description of something that needs to be drawn. The more abstract and difficult to convey in art it is (e.g. "the mortifying ordeal of being known"), the funnier it is. After everyone writes their prompts, they pass it to the next person who has to do their best to draw whatever prompt they've been given. The next person after that then just gets the picture that was drawn and has to attempt to intuit what the original prompt must have been. They write down their guess, which gets passed on for the next person to attempt to convey in the form of a drawing, etc.
The fandom version of this would involve fic instead of art and freeform tags instead of written prompts. The first round would either be a fic round (each participant just writes a fic on whatever topic they want) or it would be a freeform round similar to Telephone Pictionary where someone somehow gets a list of freeform tags (it could be from a recent fic they've written themselves, with any fandom-specific tags deleted from the list, or maybe participants are allowed to just make up a freeform list to challenge the next writer). Either way, the game then goes on to alternate between people getting the fic produced in the previous round, reading it, and suggesting a list of freeform tags the fic should be tagged with, and people getting a list of freeform tags (non-fandom-specific) from the previous person and writing a fic that attempts to hit all of them. During the fic-writing stages, each creator has free choice of what fandom/characters/relationships they want to use for the fic.
In fandom, there is already an activity called Rolling Remixes that are similar in concept to this, but Rolling Remixes tend to have to be single-fandom by necessity. There are several differences in this Telephone Ficitonary idea that would make it suitable for a multifandom event. Basically, in Rolling Remixes, you get a fic and have to write a fic inspired by the previous fic in some way. By contrast, Telephone Fictionary inserts a canon-blind freeform tag summarization stage between fic-writing stages and so people don't actually need to understand (or see) the original fic in order to write the next fic, but instead just need to know the tropes or elements to include in their own fic. Similar to Telephone Pictionary, most of the fun of the game is seeing how much concept drift there was from the original fic/set of freeforms.
I was thinking that in order to run this, you'd probably need to sort participants into groups based on what kind of fic they'd be interested in reading and writing, so like there might be a gen circle, a darkfic circle and a lighter/fluff fic circle, one that is just an "anything goes" circle, etc. That would be to prevent participants from getting a list of tags they're just completely uninterested in writing. (However, note that there would also always be the "out" of you just writing to the tags to the best of your ability and that ability can absolutely be "bad" -- like for example, if you're an angst writer and you get a bunch of fluffy tags, you just attempt to write whatever story you can, trying your best to hit whatever tags you can, and if you fall far short of this goal or you end up twisting the meaning of the tags to fit the story you can write, that's all part of the fun, really. Or if you get a taglist with kinks that squick you, you can either choose to try them out anyway/do your best, just skip them, or do a nearby twist on or creative interpretation of the tag.)
In terms of timeline, I was thinking there would generally be 2 weeks (with an extra week of buffer) given for writing the fic and 1 week for reading a fic and submitting a list of tags. People could sign up to be a pinch hitter for either task; I was thinking that the 2 week period would be the official work deadline but if there are any missing/outstanding fics, then pinch hitters would be brought in to write something during the 1-week pinch hit period. The tagging phase works similarly except with less buffer time. This would involve a lot of people-wrangling -- a Discord and lots of emails and Google forms would probably be needed. There would be at least 3-3.5 cycles of writing + tag-generation (like tags - writing - tags - writing - tags - writing - tags, or writing - tags - writing - tags - writing - tags) to get a decent possibility for concept drift, but not let the event drag on too long. This means the writing part of the event (not counting sign-ups) would be roughly 12-13 weeks long (~3 months).
2) One Trope Only:
This is an exchange where the concept is basically: flash exchange themes on a full exchange timeline. It would basically be a freeform exchange that cycles each round through odd and unusual, sometimes hyperspecific, themes/tropes. The idea/motivation for this exchange is basically to be able to revive some older exchange themes that used to run but have since been discontinued. Some examples of exchanges/themes falling in this category would be Time Travel tropes (
past_imperfect); Body Swap tropes (bodyswapswap); Sex Pollen/Heats/Omegaverse (heatficsummer and Heat Flash); and robot characters (turingfest). However, in One Trope Only, these exchange themes would not be run on a regular/annual basis, but merely occasionally/from time to time.Completely new themes would be welcome too. In addition to the above examples, things that might make good themes for an exchange like this would include:
- Themes focused around specific character types: Doctors or doctor AUs; unnamed or offscreen characters in canons; mothers; asexual characters; etc.
- Themes focused around specific relationship types: Age gap relationships; mentor relationships; xenophilia/relationships featuring people of different species; etc.
- Very specific tropes or AUs: e.g. all the works in this exchange must be a Pacific Rim fusion; hanahaki; There Was Only One Bed setup; amnesia; etc.
- Unpopular themes hard to request/offer in other exchanges: Break-up fic, major character death, infidelity or dysfunctional relationships, unhappy endings, self-harm themes, etc.
I feel like the exchange calendar can't really support all the themes people would like to have a dedicated exchange to because there are just too many cool tropes and themes and not enough time in the year. With the exchange scene maybe a bit smaller and people maybe having less time for fandom, it seems to me to make sense to run some exchanges just less frequently, so I feel like this kind of "theme grab bag" exchange could help with that. This format would also be personally appealing to me because I'm kind of the person who is drawn to novel themes, and finds that hyperspecific themes (and tagsets based around those themes) tend to help me come up with fresh prompts for my fandoms and to remember different fandoms/characters I'd like to request. And for me, that tagset browsing and prompting part tends to be the most fun part of exchanges, so it tends to be the case that I only participate in a particular themed exchange once anyway, so this setup would suit the way I do exchanges better.
Why a full-length exchange? Flash exchanges can of course be quite fun especially for experimental and off-beat themes, and the short creation timeline often inspires flash-fiction-style productivity, and the low commitment allows a wide variety of themes to be packed into a modest portion of the calendar year. But sometimes you want a full-size exchange -- a longer nomination period to allow people to peruse and recall freeform tags they'd like to request; a longer sign-up period to allow more people to sign up, which means a larger set of fandom requests to choose from; a longer work period allowing more ambitious trope executions; etc.
Because there would be a lot of possible themes to choose from, I think what would be nice is if people can suggest themes and vote on what the next exchange theme would be. That way, you can get some creative exchange themes, build anticipation for next year's theme, and see how popular each theme is. Of course, popularity wouldn't be the only consideration here, because sometimes you WANT smaller and more niche exchange themes that might not be general-interest enough to sustain a full-blown yearly exchange (for example, if a theme is popular enough, it is probably viable to run an annual exchange for it (see dub/noncon, for example), so it WOULDN'T be a good fit for this event, so there is potentially an inverse relationship between popularity and aptness when it comes to themes for this exchange). This odd-format exchange would be well-suited to featuring these quirky and offbeat themes that only run once (in a blue moon). So maybe this One Trope Only event would have some people's choice themes (selected based on a vote result) and mod's choice themes (where the mod picks a theme based on (e.g.) personal preference, dissimilarity to recent themes, because this theme keeps on losing out to other themes and deserves its chance to shine, etc. etc.). Themes that have been done recently would not be eligible to be selected for the next theme for a while (2 years, say), to ensure a variety of themes.
There are a couple of issues with me running this event, though: one is that it would be a multifandom exchange with a brand new themed tagset each round, which seems like a lot of tag-modding work, and I am not very familiar with the tagset management backend. The second issue is that I feel like (because of the wide variety of tropes that it would probably be good to allow to repeat within a decent amount of time) this is an exchange that should run at least twice a year to allow some of the themes to cycle back again eventually -- if it only runs once a year, it could take forever for the theme you're interested in to come up again. But running a heavy-duty exchange at least twice a year with some unpredictable elements to it would be way beyond my newbie modding capabilities and would be a significant time commitment even for an experienced mod. But I think this would be a lot of fun, maybe with a large mod team that splits the burden of running different rounds. I could not run this myself but I would be very interested in running this with other people.
3) One True Character:
Another exchange idea: This is just the platonic version of
littleblackdressex. The concept of Little Black Dress is that people request characters that they're happy to see shipped with everyone (or nearly everyone), and it's the creator's choice which ship to feature. One True Character would be much the same but focus on platonic relationships. So participants request their favorite character(s), and get a gen work that focuses on the relationship between that character and another character of the creator's choice.It's possible that the event could be platonic relationships only, or could combine Little Black Dress + One True Character elements and be something where you match on whether you want platonic relationships, romantic or sexual relationships, or either in the work you get.
4) Team-up Exchanges:
This idea is kind of half-baked and I have no idea if this kind of mechanic would be feasible. But basically, people have observed that some parts of exchanges appeal to some people more than others -- some people only like writing letters and aren't super interested in creating or even getting a present, some people hate doing sign-ups, or having to come up with prompts, some people are mainly in it for the gifts while for others, the gift is the least important part of an exchange. Perhaps there is a way to set up exchanges to allow people to split some of the work needed to participate in an exchange so that more people can participate. In particular, there are three main roles here:
- 1) Signing up: This role would involve doing the initial sign-up for the exchange. Things like choosing which fandoms/characters to request, perusing freeforms (if any) and selecting them, writing up request details, likes, prompts, and DNWs, possibly in the form of a letter.
- 2) Writing prompts: The task of signing up can be further split to delegate the task of writing prompts. Prompts are optional, but if Participant 1 wants to provide some prompts or refresh their prompt list, but doesn't know how, then Participant 2 would come in and look at the details that Participant 1 is requesting (fandom, characters, media requested, DNWs, likes, freeforms (if applicable)), and then write up some prompts for Participant 1 to include in their letter/sign-up.
- 3) Creating: This role would involve the creation of a gift. Offering this work would be similar to pinch-hitting except you or someone else who might not normally be able to sign up would be able to sign up and get a gift by teaming up. The person signing up and the person creating, if they are different, do not have to share fandoms, unless other constraints require them to.
- 4) Consuming and commenting on gifts: This role would involve looking at/reading the gift that is received and writing a comment to thank the creator. The work of commenting could be further delegated.
- 5) Comment beta: In this more narrow role than (4), Participant 1 writes the comment itself, but Participant 2 checks it for tone/appropriateness/etc. Can likely be done without the two participants sharing fandoms.
By splitting the work of an exchange, a group of people would be able to sign up who wouldn't individually. For example, someone might see an exchange request they're excited to write for, but end up not signing up because it takes too long, while another person might not sign up because they can't create for any of the requests. As an example, I am probably much better at prompting for worldbuilding than I am at writing it, so this makes it hard for me to sign up for exchanges like Worldbuilding Exchange. Exchanges like these miss out on prompts that could be made by prompters who aren't good creators.
Teams would have to cover all of the aspects of (1), (3), and (4) in order to participate in an exchange, and these teams would have to be formed outside of the exchange itself through some area where people can advertise which parts they want to do, and for what exchanges. Complete teams would inform the mod and would be allowed to sign up if everything looks fine.
Whoever is taking care of (1) would be responsible for signing up to the exchange. If the person taking care of (3) is different, they need to send their offers to the person doing (1) so that those offers are reflected in the sign-up. Then assignments that would normally go to the person signing up would instead go to the person doing (3).
The people doing (1), (2), and (4) would likely need to share fandoms. It probably works best if they are the same person, in fact, but if the fandom overlap is high, this is not necessary and the work might be able to be delegated.
I haven't thought too much about how this might implemented (or if it could be implemented), but I'm guessing something like a friending meme or beta request/help wanted sort of activity where you can specify what parts of exchange you like to do and which ones you can't do and are looking for help with, and what fandoms you're interested/able to request/offer.
5) Reverse prompt/Prompting-for-prompts meme:
Nothing too special here, but this would be a prompt meme except the offers are made first, rather than the requests/prompts. So people would (anonymously? IDK) put broad fandoms/characters/ships/kinks/themes they are hoping to create for (bonus points for being pretty specific about their particular strengths as a creator, like "I am very good at writing creeping horror" or whatever), and then people reply with more specific prompts tailored to those offers. The OP could then choose which prompt(s) they would like to fill.
I was thinking this would be multifandom, but it could be applied to any single-fandom event as well. It would be pretty similar to a regular prompt meme, to be honest, but with slightly more focus on the creators fishing around for inspiration or ideas for the kind of thing they are already hoping to create.
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