May the 4th Be With You Fanworks Exchange

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!

As a reminder, today is the early default deadline. Your works are due at 2359 UTC on April 28. Countdown to assignment deadline. Many gifts have already been submitted!

With Bad Batch S2 and The Mandalorian S3 finishing, and information from Celebration coming out, there are a lot of new canon developments to chew over that weren't present during signups. If you would like to leave a note for your creator how you'd prefer various new canon details to be handled, you can do so in the comments of this post. Please note you cannot add any DNWs that were not present in your original signup and this will not be considered binding in any way. This is an opportunity for you to say how you'd like new spoilers addressed if your creator is wondering how you'd prefer things to be addressed. Please do not go into detail in the comments past "I would like the new revelation that Jar-Jar was a droid all along to be ignored." Please leave your AO3 name as a part of your comment.

There will be spoilers in the comments of this post. Do not click on the comments of this post unless you are ready to read spoilers.

May the 4th 2023 Archive

Grab Bag Post: For those requests you didn't think of when you were signing up, or for tags you forgot to nominate, or for pinch hitters or anyone else who didn't sign up originally.

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

We are running matching now and will be contacting anyone without potential recipients. Please check the email associated with your AO3 account. Assignments will be sent out after we hear back from everyone.

May the 4th 2023 Tag Set
May the 4th 2023 Sign Up Form

Nominations and signups are still ongoing. If your nominations have not been approved yet, please check that you have read the nominations guidelines.

If you are having trouble, you can email the mods at maythe4thmod@gmail.com and we can help you get your nominations in.

Welcome to the 2023 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 tomorrow.

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

May the 4th 2023 Tag Set

We will be accepting nominations from now until 23:59 UTC (8PM EDT) on March 24th. (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
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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 116 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 Kenobi watch parties!

It's 24 hours to reveals! Countdown. Also, PLEASE check your Drafts to see if you have posted your work to the collection. There are items caught in Drafts in the queue and I can't approve them until you hit Post.

We have one more pinch hit. This is due asap! To claim, please reply with your AO3 user name and when you think you can have it completed. Claimed! We're on target to open 0001 UTC on May 4th!

( Pinch Hit #13 CLAIMED )

All claimed! Thanks so much, pinch hitters! We have five new pinch hits up for grabs. You can claim by replying in the comments of this post with your AO3 name. (Comments are screened.) These pinch hits are due on or before 2359 UTC on May 2nd.

( Pinch Hit #5 CLAIMED )

( Pinch Hit #6 CLAIMED )

( Pinch Hit #7 CLAIMED )

( Pinch Hit #8 CLAIMED )

( Pinch Hit #9 CLAIMED )

Countdown

If you have not requested an extension, your work is due just under 24 hours from now. If you are already finished, thank you! You can check out our Treat Tracker to see the progress as the archive fills up, and maybe go by the App to browse treat requests. The archive will be open to posting treats until author reveals.

As a reminder, works that are still Drafts at the due date will not count as fulfilling your assignment. Please check your drafts and post prior to the deadline. Thanks!