Sign-ups for round nine

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Sign-ups are now closed.

The deadline for your completed fic/art is Sunday, March 16th.

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- obligatory check-in post on March 1st
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Sign-up form:

Active email address:
Have you read (all) the books? Have you seen the show? Do you have any book vs. show preferences?


What kind of gift can you make?
Fic and/or fanart?

Preferred characters and/or pairings:

Characters and/or pairings you will NOT draw/write about:

What kind of genres can you write/what kind of pictures can you draw?

Anything else I should know when I assign prompts to you?


What kind of gift do you want to receive?
Fic and/or fanart?

Preferred characters and/or pairings:

Characters and/or pairings you do NOT want to see/read about:

What genre of fic/art do you generally want? (Gen, slash, het, angst, fluff, romance, smut, character studies, AUs, future fics etc.)

Give at least four and up to six prompts you would like to see written/drawn:

Your pet peeves and other things you DO NOT WANT in your story/art:


Are you willing to pinch hit? (This is just a theoretical question; if you say yes, it only means that I may ask for your help if I need to. You can still say no then if you don't have the time or don't like the prompts.)

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If you're okay with receiving both fic and art, please make sure to write prompts that also work for art. Either phrase your prompts in a way so they can be used for both fic and art, or write separate prompts (i.e. 4-6 fic prompts AND 4-6 art prompts). That's far easier for artists than getting fic prompts and only an added "I like art, too."

If your sign-up includes spoilers (prompts like "what happened after character X did this or that in ADWD?"), please warn for them so the other participants don't get spoiled accidentally while reading through the sign-ups.

Please try to have a little bit of variety in your prompts. It's perfectly okay to want only fic about a certain character or group of characters, but if all your prompts are smut for the exact same pairing, it may get really hard for your writer. Also, please don't request six incredibly rare pairings. Rare ships are very welcome, but I will have huge trouble finding someone who can write for you if you have six prompts with ships that literally no other participant offered to write. The same goes for extremely detailed prompts: one or two of those are okay, but not six of them. A prompt should not be a plot outline. As a general rule, please remember that someone has to write one of your prompts. Don't make their life unnecessarily difficult.

If you don't want to post your email address here, just fill in the rest of the form and send me a PM with your address. Please sign up with an email address which you check regularly so I can reach you.

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Send your finished fic/art to gotexchange[at]hotmail[dot]com by March 16th. If you need an extension or if you have to drop out, please contact me as soon as possible. Don't just disappear. I reply to EVERY email I get on the exchange account. If I do not reply to your email after a day or two, please assume that I did not get your message and resend it.

Please only send me fics as text files (.txt), or if that's not possible as .doc, .docx or .odt. Please include html tags for italics etc. in your file and check if your formatting works properly. Also, either use a beta reader or at least proofread your fic thoroughly. I have neither the time nor the patience to proofread every single fic before posting it. If you don't know anyone who could beta for you, please contact one of the people who signed up on this beta reader post.

Any other questions, comments, suggestions, problems? You can ask in the comments or PM me. Please read the FAQ first, though, maybe your question has already been answered there.

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Have you read (all) the books? Have you seen the show? Do you have any book vs. show preferences? Read the books, seen the show. I don't like the show much, so please stick to the books.


What kind of gift can you make?
Fic and/or fanart? Fic

Preferred characters and/or pairings: Stannis, Davos, Jon, Sansa, the other Baratheons, the Greyjoys except Theon, Tywin, Kevan, Roose, the older generation of Starks. Stannis/Davos, Stannis/Jon, Stannis/Sansa, Victarion/Asha, Balon/Victarion, Victarion/just about anyone he's related to, Aegon I./Orys., Maegor/Aenys

Characters and/or pairings you will NOT draw/write about: Melisandre, Littlefinger, Varys, Jaime, Cersei, Tyrion, Daenerys and most other Targaryens, Brienne, the Martells.

What kind of genres can you write/what kind of pictures can you draw? mostly slash and gen, het is okay, no femslash. I can do angst, violence, fluff, romance and smut, as long as it's IC for the characters. no good with crackfic/humour/crossovers/AUs.

Anything else I should know when I assign prompts to you? -


What kind of gift do you want to receive?
Fic and/or fanart? Fic

Preferred characters and/or pairings: Stannis, Davos, Jon, Sansa. Stannis/Davos, Stannis/Jon, Stannis/Sansa. the Greyjoys (although I'm not a huge fan of Theon), especially Victarion, Asha and Balon, Victarion/Asha, Balon/Victarion, Victarion/Euron, Victarion/Asha/Theon. Aegon I./Orys Baratheon, Maegor the Cruel, Maegor/Aenys. I also like Tywin and Kevan, Ned and the other Starks, the other Baratheons, the Boltons and other Northern houses, and I'm perfectly fine with any of these characters appearing as well.

Characters and/or pairings you do NOT want to see/read about: I don't want Melisandre anywhere near my fic (unless you plan to kill her off). No Stannis/Melisandre. I'm not particularly interested in Daenerys, Brienne, Littlefinger, Varys, the Martells, Jaime, Cersei and Tyrion. I don't mind them getting mentioned or even appearing if it's somehow important for the plot, but I don't want them to take up half the fic. I don't ship Jon with anyone except his duty and Stannis, so I'd rather not have a lot of Jon/Ygritte, Jon/Robb, Jon/whoever else he's shipped with in the background of any Jon fic.

What genre of fic/art do you generally want? slash or gen. het only for Stannis/Sansa and Victarion/Asha. smut is great, but only if there's also some sort of plot and it's IC. I like character analysis and interaction and explorations of how relationships develop over time. I find the political elements of ASOIAF more interesting than the magical stuff. Angst and dark themes are good (I don't mind violence and non-con in fics if it suits the plot and the characters), but no pure tragedy. I love some UST & repressed desires even in gen fic (especially if you write about Stannis anywhere near Davos or Jon). I enjoy in-verse AUs and what-if scenarios, but I don't like out-of-Westeros AUs (modern AUs etc.). I absolutely love Kingsguard!Jon, but I'm also fine with Jon staying at the Wall so he and Stannis can angst about not seeing each other anymore.

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Give at least four and up to six prompts you would like to see written/drawn:

1) Stannis/Jon or Stannis/Davos or Stannis/Sansa: post-war, Stannis has won the throne and someone tries to assassinate him. Up to you whether he is injured or just shaken up, up to you how he survived the assassination attempt (sheer luck? did his Kingsguard save him?). I mostly want to see Stannis' reaction to the whole thing as well as the person of your choice (Jon or Davos or Sansa or all three of them) fretting/taking care of him/feeling guilty for not being better at protecting him (in Jon's case, mostly) or however else they react to almost losing him.

2) Stannis/Jon. AU in which Jon squires for Stannis. Instead of sending Jon to the Wall, Ned sends Jon South to become a squire, and Robert thinks it would be hilarious to let Ned's bastard squire for Stannis. I'd love to see some development from them being unhappy about the arrangement (Stannis feels insulted, Jon is lonely and feels unwelcome) to them learning to trust and rely on each other. Slash with grown-up/knighted Jon would be appreciated, but it isn't necessary if it doesn't fit into your fic.

3) Stannis/Jon. Stannis takes Jon to see Storm's End. I suppose this would work best in a post-war fic with Kingsguard!Jon, but if you prefer a different scenario, that's fine by me.

4) Victarion in his younger years. His childhood/youth with his brothers. Or going reaving with Balon when they were young. Or his relationship with Euron over the years. Or something about his first wives. Or the first Greyjoy Rebellion. Anything about pre-canon!Vic. Bonus if you include Balon/Victarion (or creeptastic Victarion/Euron, or troll!Aeron hitting on Victarion, or even Victarion/Asha if you write something set shortly before the books happen).

5) Victarion/Asha, ruling the Iron Islands together post-canon. How did that happen? What does their shared rule look like? I'd love if you also included some smut or sexual tension in this because we all know the Greyjoys are for porn.

6) Aegon I./Orys Baratheon. I would love to read a background fic about Aegon/Orys: how they first met (I doubt they were raised together), how they grew so close, how they became friends and lovers. But if you'd rather write something about their relationship later on in their lives, I won't complain. (In that case, I will love you forever if you also include Aegon's relationship with his sons and/or Maegor/Aenys (one-sided or not, consensual or not, with Aegon's knowledge or not). Or just a fic about Maegor or Maegor/Aenys, that's cool, too.) I'm fine with Aegon's sisters appearing, but I'd rather the focus of the story wasn't on them.

--> Feel free to combine these prompts in any way you like, or to include any of the pairings and characters I like even if I didn't explicitly mention them in the prompt.

Your pet peeves and other things you DO NOT WANT in your story/art: While I love some of the historical Targaryens, I don't care for House Targaryen by the time ASOIAF happens, so please no secret Targaryens (no R+L=J), Targaryens and/or dragons saving Westeros from the Others etc. I hate what the show has done with Stannis, so please stick to the books. Actually that goes for all characters, including their looks. And I unironically love Victarion, no bashing the poor guy please.