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nominations

Nominations Clarifications #3

Hello!

In preparation for signups opening today, the mods have gone ahead and cleaned up any lingering tags that could not be clarified with the nominator.

Relationships

All relationship tags missing a pining direction approved as "both pining".

Freeforms

Royalty Who Has to Make Political Marriage Despite Their Heart

Freeform tag approved as Character A Must Make Political Marriage to Another Despite Their Love for B.

Victim Held Captive for Science Experimentation/Researcher Who Can't Free Them

Freeform nomination rejected as this tag describes a relationship and not a pining trope. Relationship tag re-added and approved as Victim Held Captive for Science Experimentation/Researcher Who Can't Free Them (both pining) under Original Works.

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nominations

Nominations Clarifications #2

Dragon Age: All Media Types relationships have been moved to Dragon Age: Video Games.

Relationships

MCU:
Peter Parker/Wade Wilson (Peter pining)
Peter Parker/Wade Wilson (Wade pining)
Peter Parker/Wade Wilson (both pining)
Wade Wilson is not in the MCU. Did you mean these for Marvel 616 or Crossover Fandom? If you do not respond by 15 July (11:59PM UTC), we will move these to Crossover Fandom.

If you nominated relationships in the following fandoms, please indicate in your nomination which character is pining. If you do not respond by 15 July (11:59PM UTC), we will accept these nominations as (both pining).

Cats - Andrew Lloyd Webber:
Mr. Mistoffelees/Rum Tum Tugger (Cats)

Check Please! (Webcomic)
Chris "Chowder" Chow/Derek "Nursey" Nurse/William "Dex" Poindexter
Eric "Bitty" Bittle/Jack Zimmermann
Larissa "Lardo" Duan/Shitty Knight

Letterkenny (TV)
Daryl/Wayne (Letterkenny)
Katy/Betty-Anne/Mary-Anne (Letterkenny)
Roald/Stewart (Letterkenny)

Men's Hockey RPF
Mitch Marner/Auston Matthews
Sidney Crosby/Evgeni Malkin
Sidney Crosby/Marc-Andre Fleury
The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
Éowyn/Faramir (Son of Denethor II)

Critical Role (Web Series)
Beauregard Lionett/Yasha
Fjord/Caleb Widogast
Jester Lavorre/Beauregard Lionett

Doctor Who (2005)
Eighth Doctor/Rose Tyler
Jenny (Doctor Who: The Doctor's Daughter)/Clara Oswin Oswald
Ninth Doctor/Rose Tyler
Tenth Doctor/Rose Tyler
The Doctor/River Song/Rose Tyler
Thirteenth Doctor/Bill Potts
Thirteenth Doctor/River Song
Thirteenth Doctor/Rose Tyler
Twelfth Doctor/River Song
Twelfth Doctor/Rose Tyler

Star Wars Legends: The Old Republic (Video Game)
Arcann/Male Sith Inquisitor
Female Imperial Agent | Cipher Nine/Theron Shan
Lana Beniko/Female Sith Inquisitor
Lana Beniko/Female Sith Warrior
Male Imperial Agent | Cipher Nine/Theron Shan
Theron Shan/Male Sith Inquisitor
Theron Shan/Male Sith Warrior

Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
CC-2224 | Cody/Obi-Wan Kenobi
CC-5052 | Bly/Aayla Secura
CT-7567 | Rex/Ahsoka Tano
Obi-Wan Kenobi/Satine Kryze
Padmé Amidala/Anakin Skywalker

地縛少年花子くん | Jibaku Shounen Hanako-kun | Toilet-bound Hanako-kun (Manga)
Hanako | Yugi Amane/Yashiro Nene

Freeforms

If you do not respond by 15 July (11:59PM UTC), we will move these nominations to Original Work.

Royalty Who Has to Make Political Marriage Despite Their Heart
This seems to describe a character instead of a pining trope. Did you mean to nominate this under Original Works?

Victim Held Captive for Science Experimentation/Researcher Who Can't Free Them
This seems to describe a relationship instead of a pining trope. Did you mean to nominate this under Original Works?

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nominations

Nominations Clarifications #1

Relationships

Cats - Andrew Lloyd Webber:
Mr. Mistoffelees/Rum Tum Tugger (Cats)
Could you clarify which character should be pining?

Dragon Age: All Media Types:
In order not to split the fandom, would it be all right for us to move these nominations to be under Dragon Age: Video Games?

MCU:
Peter Parker/Wade Wilson (Peter pining)
Peter Parker/Wade Wilson (Wade pining)
Peter Parker/Wade Wilson (both pining)
Wade Wilson is not in the MCU. Did you mean these for Marvel 616 or Crossover Fandom?

If you nominated relationships in the following fandoms, please indicate in your nomination which character is pining.

Check Please! (Webcomic)
Chris "Chowder" Chow/Derek "Nursey" Nurse/William "Dex" Poindexter
Eric "Bitty" Bittle/Jack Zimmermann
Larissa "Lardo" Duan/Shitty Knight

Letterkenny (TV)
Daryl/Wayne (Letterkenny)
Katy/Betty-Anne/Mary-Anne (Letterkenny)
Roald/Stewart (Letterkenny)

Men's Hockey RPF
Mitch Marner/Auston Matthews
Sidney Crosby/Evgeni Malkin
Sidney Crosby/Marc-Andre Fleury

地縛少年花子くん | Jibaku Shounen Hanako-kun | Toilet-bound Hanako-kun (Manga)
Hanako | Yugi Amane/Yashiro Nene

Freeforms

Royalty Who Has to Make Political Marriage Despite Their Heart
This seems to describe a character instead of a pining trope. Did you mean to nominate this under Original Works?

Victim Held Captive for Science Experimentation/Researcher Who Can't Free Them
This seems to describe a relationship instead of a pining trope. Did you mean to nominate this under Original Works?

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nominations

Nominations Open!

Tag Set

Last year's freeform tags have been copied over.

Nomination guidelines:

You may nominate up to 10 fandoms, 10 relationships per fandom and 10 freeform tags.
Freeform tags should be in the form of general tropes and prompts related to pining.
Crossovers, RPF, and Original Works nominations are all acceptable.
How to nominate relationships:
- Please indicate in parentheses which character is pining. (Please use only (Character [A/B/C] pining) OR ([both/all] pining) and not (either pining).
- Please nominate romantic/sexual relationships as ‘Character/A Character B’, non-romantic relationships as ‘Character A & Character B’.
- Relationships involving multiple characters, or a mix of & and / relationships, are allowed. (E.g. Character A & Character B / Character C (A pining)).

Nomination clarifications will be posted to this community.

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faq,
rules

Rules & FAQ

Rules

Work Requirements

You will write, and receive, a fic of at least 1000 words which involves pining as a central plot element.
Fic created for this exchange must match your recipient's requested fandom, relationship, freeform, and requitedness tags as specified in the rules, and may not include recipient DNWs.

Nominations

You may nominate up to 10 fandoms, 10 relationships per fandom and 10 freeform tags.
Freeform tags should be in the form of general tropes and prompts related to pining.
Crossovers, RPF, and Original Works nominations are all acceptable.
How to nominate relationships:
- Please indicate in parentheses which character is pining. (Please use only (Character [A/B/C] pining) OR ([both/all] pining) and not (either pining).
- Please nominate romantic/sexual relationships as ‘Character/A Character B’, non-romantic relationships as ‘Character A & Character B’.
- Relationships involving multiple characters, or a mix of & and / relationships, are allowed. (E.g. Character A & Character B / Character C (A pining)).

Requests

You may request between 3 - 10 fandoms, 1 - 10 relationships per fandom, 1 - 20 freeform tags, and one or both of the requitedness tags.
You may request a fandom multiple times, as long as there are at least 3 unique fandom requests in your signup overall.
If there is content you do not wish to receive, please specify this content as a DNW in the optional details of your AO3 request. DNWs can include anything but may not be used to railroad your gifter into making one exact type of gift, and may not contradict your requests (e.g. requesting a / ship between a character and their canonical sibling, but DNWing incest and AUs). If you list a DNW that appears to be contradictory you will be required to elaborate by the mods.
If you request ‘Any’ in any category, this indicates you are willing to receive content for any nominated tags. You may not request 'Any' and then DNW certain tags.

Offers

You may offer between 3 - 10 fandoms, 1 - 10 relationships per fandom, 1 - 20 freeform tags and one or both requitedness tags.
You may offer a fandom multiple times, as long as there are at least 3 unique fandom offers in your signup overall.
If you offer ‘Any’ in any category, please note that you may be matched on any one tag in that category. Please do not select this unless you are willing to write any and all of the nominated tags.

Matching

You will match on one fandom AND one relationship AND one pining freeform tag AND one requitedness tag.
If your requests are unmatchable, you will go out as an initial pinch hit.
If your offers are unmatchable, with no possible recipient, we will contact you to add offers. If you cannot add offers or do not respond by the specified time, your signup will be deleted.

Defaulting and Pinch Hits

If you are unable to complete your assignment, please default (go to My Assignments on your AO3 profile and click ‘Default’ next to your pine4pine assignment).
There are no penalties for defaulting before the deadline, except the following: if your assigned writer also defaults, you will not be sent out as a pinch hit.
If you do not default on your assignment and do not submit a fic by the assignment deadline, you may be penalized or banned.
Pinch hits will be posted to this comm. To claim a pinch hit, reply to the post or email pine4pinemod@gmail.com.

Treats

Treats are not required to meet the minimum word count for gifts, but they must still match on one fandom tag AND one relationship tag AND one requitedness tag AND one freeform tag, as well as avoiding all the recipient's DNWs.
Treats should be posted to the collection on AO3 and gifted to the intended recipient. When posting your treat, remember to manually fill in your recipient’s name and the AO3 collection name (pine4pine 2021) on the New Work form.
You do not have to be signed up for this exchange in order to write treats!
Each year's collection will remain open after the official end of the round for additional treats.

FAQ

What do the requitedness tags mean?

These tags indicate whether the pining in the gift fic is eventually requited or not.

The choices are:

eventually requited (the requitedness must be clearly stated/realized in the fic)
never requited (the feelings remain ambiguous, are explicitly rejected, or are otherwise not returned on-screen)

You may request and offer either or both of these tags.

Do the feelings have to be romantic?

No, platonic pining is eligible for this exchange! Please nominate platonic relationships in the following format: Character A & Character B (A pining).

Can I ask my recipient to clarify a prompt or requested tag?

If you have questions about your assignment, we encourage you to ask! However, if you need to ask something of your recipient, please don't contact your recipient directly. Email the mods and we will relay the question to your recipient.

Please comment on this post or email pine4pinemod@gmail.com with any other questions you may have!

Pine4Pine 2020!

Hello! Pine4Pine is a pining-themed multifandom exchange, modeled on Pining Exchange 2019. Participants will receive a fic of at least 1000 words for a requested fandom, relationship, pining freeform and requitedness tag, and write a fic in return.

Links: AO3 Collection | Tagset | Rules and FAQ
Mod contact: pine4pinemod@gmail.com

2020 Schedule:
Nominations: 3-13 July
Signups: 15-22 July
Assignments go out: 24 July
Assignments due: 11 Sept
Work reveals: 18 Sept

All deadlines will be 11:59pm UTC.