Schedule 2025

[hurtcomfortexmod]

Welcome to the Hurt/Comfort Exchange, a pairing and freeform matching multifandom gift exchange run on AO3.

The schedule for this year is:
Nominations: 7 - 23 Feb
Signups: 1-16 March
Posting deadline: June 1
Work reveal: 13th June 4th July
Creator reveal: 20th June 11th July.

All deadlines are at 23:59 UTC What Time Is That For Me?

Collection
Nomination Guidelines for Tagset
Tagset
Rules and Guidelines

The mod e-mail is hurtcomfortexmod@gmail.com

Work requirements are a story of at least 1000 words, or a piece of artwork that is not on lined paper and is at minimum clean linework that is at least 500x500 pixels

Comments

[hurtcomfortexmod]

Sorry for the late reply! If the characters are the same people, they can't be nominated in two fandoms. But if there's significant difference they can be.

So Link and Zelda can be in multiple Zelda games when they're different people, but Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa are the same people in Star Wars OT and Star Wars ST.

You can ask for the characters to be any age and at any point in canon (or AU and nothing related to canon) no matter what fandom it's under in the tagset. Are they essentially the same characters and it's just a matter of time passing?

[eratoschild]

Yeah they’re the same characters in a continuous story, but Ao3 treats it as separate fandoms.

My thing is that if they’re nominated under the newer installment a lot of folks won’t even look at requests for that because of spoilers. But if they’re nominated under the other, then you’re forced to put potential spoilers in with the older stuff if you want to request it. (It’s a JRPG series where the most recent installment isn’t localized)