chocolateboxcomm | Schedule

Welcome to Chocolate Box, a low pressure, low commitment multifandom gift exchange run on AO3. For 2021-2022 the AO3 community can be found here.

The schedule for this year is:

Nominations: 20- 28 December

Signups: 1-7 January

Assignments go out: by 10 January

Posting deadline: 7 February

Story reveal: 14 February

Author reveal: 21 February

All deadlines are at 11:59pm EST with the exception of reveals which are at 6am EST.

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From:

dreamiflame

The rules say: You have to offer to write in at least four fandoms. You can add two more for a total of ten fandoms, if you want.

Is it six in total, or ten in total?

From:

chocolateboxmod

It's ten; I just can't add.

From:

shadowcat

I hope this is a good place to ask a question?

Are you going to have a pinch hit list of some kind?

I ask because I really want to participate, but am having a problem doing the sign up from my tablet. I broke my ankle and had to have surgery the day before Christmas. It’s difficult to get situated to use the laptop due to having to work around my leg.

If I am not able to get a sign up done in time, I would still love to be able to write for someone.

Edited Date: 2017-01-03 09:19 am (UTC)

From:

chocolateboxmod

Pinch hits are posted to this community, with comments screened. If you add this post to your friends list, you should see the pinch hits. Keep an eye out for posts tagged "pinch hit"!

From:

shadowcat

Awesome, thank you!! I'll track the community, too.

I'm going to keep trying to sign up, but this way I can still gift others if I don't. :)

From:

meatball42.livejournal.com

I have been trying to convince my friend to participate in exchanges for a while, and finally convinced her that Chocolate Box is a good place to start, but now the wait list for an account is past the end of sign-ups here. Are you able to get her an account faster? I know other exchanges are capable of this, but I don't know how hooked in you are to Ao3.

From:

chocolateboxmod

Could I ask your friend to email me? I'll see what I can do with Support but I can't make any promises on their behalf.

From: (Anonymous)

Hi. I feel like I'm telling tales out of school, but in the interests of avoiding trouble later can you check out these sign ups please:

anna -- has requested "any" for Fast and Furious but then says "any gen" in her request, which given only four out of twenty of the nominated relationships are gen seems like asking for trouble

outruntheavalanche -- has requested "any" for Phantom of the Opera but then has preferences in her request, which probably won't go well given there's only one ship nominated

the_other_lutece_sister -- seems to currently be requesting Orphan Black three separate times

piggy09 -- has requested Orphan Black twice

I feel like an ass for pointing this out, but I really wouldn't want to match with the first two. (The other two just caught my eye.)

From:

chocolateboxmod

Hi there!

I'm not going to contact anyone about their requests during the signup period as what a person requests is subject to change during this period. If upon being assigned a participant has concerns about their assignment's prompts, I would recommend that they contact me by email to discuss.

In terms of the duplicates, I will be reviewing all signups and making contact with all participants with duplicate fandoms on signups closing.

I hope this helps!

From:

anoyo

I actually have an invitation to offer. Let me know if this is still an issue.

From:

chocolateboxmod

It's been sorted out, but thank you for the offer!

From: (Anonymous)

Hi! I'm wondering, are there any rules for treats? I want to write a treat or two, and I know that the fest minimum words is low as it is, but would treating a 100-word drabbles be a no-go?

From:

chocolateboxmod

No rules whatsoever in terms of treats. Go nuts!

From:

coaldustcanary

Quick question - will the collection close for posting on 7 February? If so, what time? And if not, for how long will treat posting be allowed? Up to story reveals? Up to author reveals? Thanks!

From:

chocolateboxmod

The collection will not close! I will hit the button to default all outstanding assignments after 12:01am on the 8th, but the collection is open for treats indefinitely.

From: (Anonymous)

Perhaps I can use this discussion to further clarify one thing.

If I post a treat before the person has their main gift, do they still go to the pinch-hit list if their assigned writer defaults? In other words, is there a risk of my treat becoming their main story?

Thank you - can't wait to read all the stories soon <3

From:

chocolateboxmod

If a person turns in their assignment and is defaulted in, they will go to pinch hits! If a person defaults and is defaulted on, then they will not go to pinch hit. In the latter, your treat may be their only gift but that's the only circumstance where that would happen.

From: (Anonymous)

Wow, you replied fast :)

Thank you so much for clarifying!

From: (Anonymous)

Hi, so I feel deeply pathetic, b/c I'm writing in a pretty damn large fandom, but it's not one I'm really in, and I'm having a hard time finding a beta. Does the challenge have anyone who is essentially a "pinch beta"? If not, no worries, I can always prevail on someone to just do a SPAG and not worry about other stuff, but I thought I'd check in any case. Best!

From: (Anonymous)

Hi!
There's the beta post and the comments, where a lot of fandoms are listed, here:
https://chocolateboxcomm.dreamwidth.org/12895.html#comments
Also, I volunteer as tribute, if you don't mind me eventually not knowing canon, and you can contact me at hubdidingle@gmail.com

From:

sunspot

I can edit my posts up until works go live on the 14th, right? I feel like I need to clean up the ending to my assignment, but I need another day or so to do it (it's like, workable now. If I explode tomorrow, my recip will still get a complete work, I just feel like I could do better, you know?).......

From:

chocolateboxmod

You can edit works until then, yes! I will be checking works over the weekend, but that's more to make sure that the work is not one sentence repeated 86 times, or text c+ped from a fic in another fandom entirely, or other things like that.