May the 4th Be With You Fanworks Exchange

Creator reveals will happen twenty-four hours from now. If you have not already received an email about your gift, you should also check your Gifts tab (https://archiveofourown.org/users/YOURUSERNAMEGOESHERE/gifts) on your AO3 dashboard. Emails can get lost and providers such as Gmail will sometimes miss or collapse items when you have multiple gifts. Try to take some time and read or look at your gifts; a simple "Thanks, I liked this a lot!" can go a long way when thanking your creator for what they made for you.

The archive will remain open for treats until the end of the anonymous period.

May the 4th 2024 Archive | May the 4th 2024 Tag Set | Sign Up Form | Requests Summary | Dear Yoda Post | Grab Bag | Automagic App List of Requests | Treat Tracker Spreadsheet

As we barrel towards reveals like we're zooming through a trench on the Death Star, please take the time to do one last read-through of your works. Check your tags, check your summaries, and for those who got a last minute beta, please make sure you have uploaded the correct draft of your document.

If you're done and ready, consider browsing the Grab Bag post (pinch hitters especially welcome to make requests here!), the Automagic App List of Requests, or the Treat Tracker Spreadsheet. The May the 4th 2024 Archive is open for all your treating needs.

Countdown to Reveals

The deadline has passed. If you did not request an extension, and you did not submit a complete story/artwork that fulfilled one of your recipient's requested tags, you have been defaulted. We will be checking through works again to confirm completion. Please remember to check the email associated with your AO3 name. If you have any questions, you can reply in the comments to this post, which will be screened, or email the mods at maythe4thmod@gmail.com.

Pinch hits will be posted shortly!

Assignments have been sent. You can check the email associated with your AO3 account, or look at your assignments page here:
https://archiveofourown.org/users/YOURUSERNAME/assignments

If you have questions or think you have been assigned something you didn't offer, please contact the mods in the comments of this post (comments are screened) or email us at maythe4thmod@gmail.com. Please do NOT discuss identifying details of your assignment in public: this is a secret exchange. Any questions for your recipient can be asked via the mods. We are happy to pass along questions.

Assignments are due on or before 23:59 UTC on 27 April 2024. The minimum requirement is 500 words or a 500 x 500 pixel artwork on unlined paper matching one of your recipient's tags and not containing any of their listed Do Not Wants.

If you missed signups, pick up a pinch hit, or have an extra request you'd like to make, the Grab Bag post is open for all requests.

We have one initial pinch hit. Please reply to this post if you want to claim it. (Comments are screened.) The pinch hit is due 27 April 2024. Claimed! Thanks, pinch hitter!

( Pinch Hit #1 CLAIMED )

Nominations are closed but 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.

Countdown to end of signups

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. A set of prompts and a list of things you like in your gift are both optional but can be helpful to your creator especially as this is what will be sent to them for their assignment.

- Make sure your letter is visible and unlocked if you have one. Also remember that sometimes letters hosted on an external site may not be available to everyone. All important information should be in your AO3 signup.

- 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.

If you'd like to link your Dear Creator letters, please post the links in the comments to this post. All assignments and treats go into the main archive. We support and recommend re-dating all fills on May 4th in order to increase your work's visibility on Star Wars Day.

AO3 Name
Letter URL
Requesting Fic, Art or Either?
(optional but suggested) List of Requested Characters and Relationships

Welcome to the 2024 edition of May the Fourth Be With You! The schedule may be found in this year's schedule sticky and also on the AO3 Community Profile. Nominations are now open for this year's round. Sign ups open March 1st.

Please read this post before you nominate. Incorrectly submitted nominations will take more time to approve and may be rejected.

May the 4th 2024 Tag Set

We will be accepting nominations from now until 23:59 UTC (8PM EDT) on March 7th. (Note this is one day before signups close to allow us to close the tag set.) As always, any character in any permutation of Star Wars is in, with Wookieepedia and Starwars.com as final arbiters. Do not nominate groups as groups (Ex: "Kanjiklub" "Stormtroopers" "Banthas" "Force Ghosts") and do nominate them as individual characters in & or / relationships. Do not nominate objects such as lightsabers, trees, helmets, or holocrons; "Bor Gullet" is a character, "tentacles" is not.

Use the Fandom dropdown field to select "Star Wars - All Media Types" for each individual nomination to help expedite nom approvals. If you nominate twenty things, you must select "Star Wars - All Media Types" individually as the fandom for all twenty. If you do not add this step, your nominations will not be associated with the correct fandom and they may take longer to be approved.

You may nominate up to twenty relationships. This is the maximum number of nominations allowed by the Archive's software. The Relationships field may also be used to nominate individual characters. To nominate a platonic relationship, use the "&" symbol. To nominate a romantic relationship, use the "/" symbol. (Ex: The nomination "Leia Organa & Luke Skywalker" is very different from the nomination "Leia Organa/Luke Skywalker") You should not automatically select the suggested canonical tag that drops down.

To nominate individual characters, use the format "Character: Name (SW)" or the submission form may not accept your nomination. For relationships, when possible please remove the (SW) or (Star Wars) from the suggested field. (Ex: "Finn/Rey" NOT "Finn/Rey (Star Wars)")

You may mix and match relationship types in a single nomination. (Ex: "Ben Solo | Kylo Ren/Rey & Grogu")

Use the following formats for all nominations:

Luke Skywalker/Han Solo
Leia Organa & Luke Skywalker & Han Solo
Leia Organa/Luke Skywalker/Han Solo
Leia Organa/Han Solo & Luke Skywalker
Character: Luke Skywalker (SW)

Conversely, "Luke Skywalker/Han Solo (Star Wars)" will not be accepted and may delay approval of your nominations.

We are not providing differentiation between character versions in Legends, the canon EU, the films, the TV series, the comics, the cereal boxes, or Robot Chicken. Go into as much detail as you want in your signup or letter.
( Guidelines, please read )
Any questions or problems getting the Archive to accept your nomination can be emailed to us at maythe4thmod@gmail.com or left as a reply to this post.

The fine print: AO3 sees "Finn/Rey" "Finn(SW)/Rey" "Finn/Rey(SW)" and "Finn/Rey (Star Wars)" as separate relationships, and our spreadsheet sees them as different characters. If you request the "Finn/Rey" tag and Random Participant Ben Solo offers the "Finn/Rey (Star Wars)" tag, he won't be matched to your request. Many Star Wars characters have multiple piped canonical names, some of which have all the pipes included in their canonical ship tags and some which have random (Star Wars) stuck in the middle or at the end. Stripping the extra information out as you nominate, and adding "Star Wars - All Media Types" as the fandom for each nominated tag, makes the rest of the process easier on the back end to expedite approvals and eliminate duplicates. We can and will be cleaning up errant nominations to adhere to the formatting; this may lead to a delay in accepting your nominations.


A special note for those of you into customizing your own AO3 experience: you can add a piece of code to your site skin to list all approved nominations on separate lines:

body,
#main
.tagset .fandom.listbox .tags.index.group li {
display: block;
margin-top: 0.4em;
line-height: 1;
}

.tagset .fandom.listbox .tags.index.group li::after {
content: none;
}

All creators are revealed!

Thank you all for participating, be that by making gifts, posting treats, pinch hitting, commenting, or all of the above! We ended up with a grand total of 71 works this year! Great job, everyone! For those of you who haven't had a chance yet to check out your gift, there's no time like the present. You can view your own Gifts tab at http://archiveofourown.org/users/yourusernamegoeshere/gifts in case the AO3 announcement missed your inbox.

See you at the Ahsoka watch parties!

We have one more pinch hit available. This is due by 2359 02 MAY. Please reply to this post with your AO3 user name (comments are screened) if you'd like it: Claimed! Thanks, pinch hitter!

( Pinch Hit #4 CLAIMED )

We have two post-deadline pinch hits up for grabs! These are due by 2359 UTC on 01 May. Please reply to this post with the pinch hit you would like (comments are screened): Both claimed, thanks, pinch hitters!

( Pinch Hit #2 CLAIMED )

( Pinch Hit #3 CLAIMED )