May the 4th Be With You Fanworks Exchange

We will be running matching shortly. If you are unmatchable (as in you have no one to create for who has requested what you are offering) we will contact you via the email associated with your AO3 account to ask you to add offers.

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Signups for May the 4th Be With You 2025 are a go! You may make a minimum of three and a maximum of ten requests, with up to five relationship tags per request. (Relationship tags are defined as "Character: Name (SW)," "Character A & Character B," or "Character A/Character B" and so on per the nominated tags.) You may offer a minimum of three and a maximum of ten offers, with up to five relationships per offer. This means a total of fifty possible requests and fifty possible offers.

Please note that AO3 is being especially robust right now. Tags are not autocompleting as usual which has also delayed some of the tag nomination approvals. You may experience trouble signing up but that is not something we can fix from our end.

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Signups will go until 11:59 PM UTC (8 PM Eastern Standard Time) Saturday, March 1, 2025. We will put up a timer closer to the end. You may edit your sign-up until then.

The full FAQ can be found on the May the 4th 2025 profile on AO3. You can comment here with any questions about signups or matching, or you can send an email to maythe4thmod@gmail.com.

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Signups for May the 4th Be With You 2024 are a go! You may make a minimum of three and a maximum of ten requests, with up to five relationship tags per request. (Relationship tags are defined as "Character: Name (SW)," "Character A & Character B," or "Character A/Character B" and so on per the nominated tags.) You may offer a minimum of three and a maximum of ten offers, with up to five relationships per offer. This means a total of fifty possible requests and fifty possible offers.
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Signups will go until 11:59 PM UTC (8 PM Eastern Standard Time) Saturday, March 9, 2024. We will put up a timer closer to the end. You may edit your sign-up until then.

The full FAQ can be found on the May the 4th 2024 profile on AO3. You can comment here with any questions about signups or matching, or you can send an email to maythe4thmod@gmail.com.

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Nominations have closed. We can still manually add last minute tags to the tag set if you reply to this post with the tags in the requested format.

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Now is a great time to look through the Sign Up Summary to browse requests to offer. If you have specific matching needs, you can email the mods at maythe4thmod@gmail.com.

A few reminders:

- We can only enforce Do Not Wants in your AO3 signup, not DNWs which solely appear in your letter. Do Not Wants are a brief (or not) list of things you do not want to appear in your gift. Listing things you like in your gift in a separate Likes list is optional but can be helpful to your creator.

- Do not use your Do Not Wants as "railroading" your writer or artist (ex: "Do Not Want anything except E-rated AU where Anakin is a catboy").

- Please remember to state if you are open to treats and have treating enabled on your AO3 profile.

Sign ups are now closed! We have a total of 69 signups this year. We will be running matching and contacting unmatchable participants shortly.

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Update: Apologies, there was a glitch with the sign up form that should be fixed now.

Signups for May the 4th Be With You 2022 are a go! You may make a minimum of three and a maximum of ten requests, with up to five relationships per request. (Relationships are defined as "Character: Name (SW)," "Character A & Character B," or "Character A/Character B" and so on per the nominated tags.) You may offer a minimum of three and a maximum of ten offers, with up to five relationships per offer. This means a total of fifty possible requests and fifty possible offers. You can link to a Dear Yoda letter but please do not link to a placeholder letter or a locked letter.

Nominations are still ongoing and will continue through March 11th. (Note this is a day before signups close.) Please check the nominations post for formatting guidelines. There will be a delay between submitting your nominations and being able to select it in your signup so please be patient.

Please list your DNWs in the Optional Details field. Your creator will be asked to abide by your Do Not Wants but we can only confirm those listed in the AO3 signup fields.

NEW THIS YEAR: please note in your optional details box for each request if you are open to receiving treats and have the "Allow anyone to gift me works" setting enabled in your preferences (https://archiveofourown.org/users/YOURUSERNAMEGOESHERE/preferences) or state "No treats please".

If you have preferences about how to refer to characters with multiple names or about specific eras you're interested in (e.g. Legends, prefer Clone Wars era for this character, etc.) you should consider listing these in your signup or letter. Character tags are in their current format to make our lives easier wrangling the tag set. If you prefer "Din Djarin" being referred to as "Mando" or "Ben Solo | Kylo Ren" being referred to as "Ben" please say so to give your artist or writer a hand in creating a gift you want.

Double-check your requests and offers. Selecting "Leia Organa/Luke Skywalker" when you intended to select "Leia Organa & Luke Skywalker" will result in very different matches.

By signing up, you agree to to write a story of no less than 500 words, or to create a piece of fan art no smaller than 500 x 500 pixels that can stand as a completed work. Works will be due no later than 11:59 PM UTC (8 PM Eastern Daylight Time) on April 27, 2022. Due to frequent AO3 glitches, we strongly encourage you to upload early. Note that works in Draft mode will not be accepted as fulfilling your assignment, and that the Archive software automatically deletes unposted drafts after a certain time. ("Certain" in this case is usually defined as "the worst possible.")

Keep in mind that Star Wars is a large and varied fandom, and there is room for everyone. Your squick is another fan's kink, your NOTP is someone else's OTP, your most hated film is someone's favorite movie of all time, and your most despised character is the next fan's woobie. Avoid character bashing, kinkshaming, and ship wars in your sign up and when creating your fanworks. Try to abide by the "be excellent to each other" credo, or at minimum, the "don't be a dick" standard.

There is a known bug in the AO3 software that will not display all tags. If your tag does not autopopulate, you can copy and paste it directly from the tag set, which can be found here. If you have a problem signing up, let us know as soon as possible.

Signups will go until 11:59 PM UTC (7 PM Eastern Standard Time) Saturday, March 12, 2022. We will put up a timer closer to the end. You may edit your sign-up until then.

The full FAQ can be found on the May the 4th 2022 profile on AO3. You can comment here with any questions about signups or matching, or you can send an email to maythe4thmod@gmail.com.

Countdown to end of signups

As a reminder, we can only enforce Do Not Wants in your AO3 signup, not DNWs which appear in your letter. Thanks!

Sign ups are now closed. Matching is running now. We will contact anyone who does not have any potential recipients. After that, assignments will be sent out. While you're waiting, now is a great time to make sure your letter isn't locked to private or friends-only viewing, or to revisit last year's collection and check to see you remembered to say thanks for your previous gift. (The answer may surprise you!)

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Signups for May the 4th Be With You 2020 are a go! You may make a minimum of three and a maximum of ten requests, with up to five relationships per request. (Relationships are defined as "Character: Name (SW)," "Character A & Character B," or "Character A/Character B" and so on per the nominated tags.) You may offer a minimum of four and a maximum of ten offers, with up to five relationships per offer. This means a total of fifty possible requests and fifty possible offers. You can link to a letter but please do not link to a placeholder letter or a locked letter.

Please list your DNWs in your signups. Your creator will be asked to abide by your Do Not Wants but we can only confirm those listed in the AO3 signup fields.

If you have preferences about how to refer to characters with multiple names, or about specific eras you're interested in, you should consider listing these in your signup or letter. Character tags are in their current format to make our lives easier wrangling the tag set. If you prefer "The Mandalorian" being referred to as "Mando," or "Ben Solo | Kylo Ren" being referred to as "Ben," please say so to give your artist or writer a hand in creating a gift you want.

Double-check your requests and offers. Selecting "Leia Organa/Luke Skywalker" when you intended to select "Leia Organa & Luke Skywalker" will result in very different matches.

By signing up, you agree to to write a story of no less than 500 words, or to create a piece of fan art no smaller than 500 x 500 pixels that can stand as a completed work. Works will be due no later than 11:59 PM UTC (8 PM Eastern DST) on April 26, 2020. Due to frequent AO3 glitches, we strongly encourage you to upload early. Note that works in Draft mode will not be accepted as fulfilling your assignment, and that the Archive software automatically deletes unposted drafts after a certain time.

Keep in mind that Star Wars is a large and varied fandom, and there is room for everyone. Your squick is another fan's kink, your NOTP is someone else's OTP, your most hated film is someone's favorite movie of all time, and your most despised character is the next fan's woobie. Avoid character bashing, kinkshaming, and ship wars in your sign up and when creating your fanworks. Try to abide by the "be excellent to each other" credo, or at minimum, the "don't be a dick" standard.

There is a known bug in the AO3 software that will not display all tags. If your tag does not autopopulate, you can copy and paste it directly from the tag set, which can be found here. If you still have a problem signing up, let us know as soon as possible.

Signups will go until 11:59 PM UTC (8 PM Eastern DST) Saturday, March 14, 2020. We will put up a timer closer to the end. You may edit your sign-up until then.

The full FAQ can be found on the May the 4th 2020 profile on AO3. You can comment here with any questions about signups or matching, or you can send an email to maythe4thmod@gmail.com.

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