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

[simplecoffee]

Super excited! 💛

[elrhiarhodan]

Thanks for the info - will be important for planning my writing next year.

[sholio]

Yay! I'm so excited this is running again. :D

[eglantiere]

ohhhh yeah i'm so here for that.

[booksarelife]

Did you mean 11:59pm EST?

[hurtcomfortexmod]

No, it's correct, 4:59 pm UTC. We changed the time from last year to better fit the mods' schedules.

[prixmium]

I started my nomination form a little while ago while the link was still available but while typing you closed to tagset. I assumed that the nominations would close later during the day on the deadline. Is it possible that you could reopen the tag set until midnight eastern time or just for another couple of hours?

[prixmium]

Sorry I misread the deadline time. Oh well. I wish you could have made a warning post given the unusual time.

[chomiji]

Help! It's still about 90 minutes to shutdown but my nominations aren't being accepted! It says

"hurtcomfortexchange2020 is not currently accepting nominations."

[hurtcomfortexmod]

If you send us an e-mail we can help you out. hurtcomfortexmod@gmail.com

[(Anonymous)]

Is there a date set for when the collection will be open for posting? (I finished my assignment, but I'm getting told the collection isn't open yet.)

[hurtcomfortexmod]

Apologies! With everything going on mods forgot to open it. It's open for posting now.

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you!

[alessandriana]

Just to double check, story reveals will be at 11:59 am (i.e., noon) 22 May?

[marycrawford]

I thought the author reveal was supposed to happen an hour ago, but maybe I calculated it wrong?

[hurtcomfortexmod]

Sorry about that, since the collection opening was pushed back we pushed back reveals too, we just missed editing the post.

[marycrawford]

Ah, I see, thanks for clearing that up!

[eratoschild]

Can the same ship not be nominated under two fandoms? This might be a little weird, but I tried to put Wallace Bardias/Gaius Worzel (hurt Gaius) under Sen no Kiseki and Hajimari no Kiseki but it told me I was trying to nominate the ship more than once.

This is technically all the same fandom, but it's different parts of one coherent series, with different titles to each part. Hajimari is very new so most people won't even look at that one, but a few will so I'd like to have the ship available under both.

[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)

[(Anonymous)]

Will requests be visible during the sign up?

[hurtcomfortexmod]

Yes they will be.

[(Anonymous)]

A bit of a random comment, but did you mean UST for the timezone or did you mean UTC? (Freudian slip, maybe? XD)

[hurtcomfortexmod]

Yes, just a bit of a typo!

[(Anonymous)]

Hello! Just wondering (1) what's the exchange policy on re-dating works once works are revealed and (2) is there a deadline for treats? Thank you!