Post-Deadline Pinch Hits for Sakura Exchange (Due June 27)
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pinchhitssakuraexchange, a spring exchange for relationships in Japanese media. Minimums are 1000 words or clean lineart on unlined paper.Event link: AO3 Page
Pinch hit link: https://sakuraexchange.dreamwidth.org/14733.html
Due date: June 27 at 11:59 PM UTC (7:59 PM EDT)
To claim, please comment on the pinch hit post linked above.
PH 4 - 爆上戦隊ブンブンジャー | Bakuage Sentai Boonboomger (TV), 魔法つかいプリキュア！ | Mahou Tsukai Pretty Cure! | Mahou Girls PreCure!, 仮面ライダーギーツ | Kamen Rider Geats, Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne | Phantom-Thief Jeanne (manga), Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne | Phantom-Thief Jeanne (Anime) PH 5 - Grandia III (Video Game), Top o Nerae! Gunbuster, チョコボと魔法の絵本 | Chocobo to Mahou no Ehon | Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo Tales (Video Game), 機動戦士ガンダム | Mobile Suit Gundam (TV 1979), Final Fantasy XII PH 10 - わんだふるぷりきゅあ! | Wonderful PreCure! (Anime), Crossover Fandom, Show By Rock!! (Video Games), 美男高校地球防衛部HAPPY KISS! | Binan Koukou Chikyuu Bouei-bu Happy Kiss!, Tokyo Mew Mew Olé (Manga), Fairy蘭丸~あなたの心お助けします~ | Fairy Ranmaru: Anata no Kokoro Otasuke Shimasu (Anime) PH 16 - 終ノ空 remake | Tsui no Sora Remake, Tsukihime (Visual Novel & Anime), Kara no Kyoukai | The Garden of Sinners
Schedule
Tag claims: through June 25
Tag suggestions: June 21–25
Nominations: June 23–ongoing (please nominate before the game as much as possible; nominations will be checked once daily during the game)
Prompting: June 30–ongoing
Sign-ups: June 30–July 9 (or until the cap of 280 sign-ups is reached)
Team assignments: no later than July 11
Game begins: July 12
There is no set schedule for the game; it all depends on how quickly the teams surmount their challenges. We estimate it will last about three weeks.
After one team wins the game and another comes in second by accomplishing all their board 3 goals, there will be a 48-hour editing period, and then works will be revealed. Authors will remain anonymous for two weeks.
Links
Battleship Discord Server (not required to play, but strongly encouraged)
Freeform Tag Claims and Suggestions | Fandoms and Ships Tagset
Sign-Up Form (coming when sign-ups open)
Prompt Collection (AO3) | Prompt Collection (Automagic App)
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Mod contact email: battleshipexchange@gmail.com
Go to this page to view the rules with the expanding sections collapsed.
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Community tag suggestions
Each round of Battleship has a set list of freeform tags that must be used to win the game. To help build this list, we need your help! If you won a tag claim last year, please use it now. If not, or if you want to suggest more tags in addition to the ones you're claiming, please do that too. Both tag claims and tag suggestions close June 25.
Tags won last round
Tag choices were won in one of five ways last round:
- Member of Team Tunnel
- Member of Team Crystal
- Member of Team Volcano/Mermaid AND posted 2+ treats during anon period
- Posted 2+ works for giftless/treatless people
- Correct guess in Battleship 2024 Board 2 logic puzzle
Tags that were won are guaranteed to appear in the game, as long as they follow the guidelines below.
If you aren't sure whether you won a tag, please file a ticket on Discord.
Tag requirements
Requirements for a freeform tag:
- It is either a canonical OR 1 to 3 words long.
- It is a freeform tag (not a category or an archive warning).
- It is not fandom-specific.
- It does not refer to the format (e.g. "podfic" "works in English") or structure ("POV 2nd Person" "Readerfic") of the work.
- It is equally applicable to fic, podfic, and art.
Try to avoid tags that would require longer fic to fill (e.g. casefic).
"Canonical" means that AO3 has marked the tag as commonly used. To check whether a tag is canonical, go to https://archiveofourown.org/tags/search, enter the tag in Tag Name, and select "Freeform" under Type and "Canonical" under Wrangling Status. If this search doesn't bring up that exact tag, it's not canonical. Please check all tags of 4 words or more before putting them in the spreadsheet.
All freeform tags must meet these requirements, whether they're won tags or community-suggested tags.
How to suggest or claim a tag
Please put community-suggested tags in the 2025 tag suggestion spreadsheet. You can add as many tags as you like. These tags are not guaranteed to get into the final tagset, and we may add tags that aren't in this list, but we're likely to take a lot of tags from this list as we build the boards.
Please claim won tags on the won tag choices spreadsheet. Enter your AO3 name, tag choice, and tag claim reason. If you have multiple claims, put in one tag per line. Tags without a corresponding name will not count, so make sure to enter your name on the same line as the tag. If your AO3 name has changed since last year, please let us know!
Hello hello! The post deadline pinch hit deadline has passed, and we still expect to reveal the collection on Sunday, June 22nd at 10pm EDT. We still have one pinch hitter hard at work but their work should be in in the next 24 hours.
We're almost ready to feast on all the wonderful iddy works in the collection - nearly 200 of them! - just make sure to put the finishing touches on before the works reveal deadline. All edits should be complete ahead of works reveals.
femgiftboxes . Due June 28 at 8PM EST.writtenworldsaloud's box: Hazbin Hotel, Golden Sun, YuYu Hakusho (Fic, Art, Comics, Podfic of any of my applicable fics)
Flaim_Ita's box: Kamen Rider Geats, Mahoutsukai Precure, Hana no Asuka-Gumi, Kamen Rider Decade, Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne (fic, vid)
Thanks!
It's Friday, and still two days to go until week six is over. Posting for this week officially ends Sunday, June 22 17.00 UTC. There is a grace period until the week is finally called 'close'.
You can earn 15 regular weekly points + some extra points when using the lucky color.
You can use a wildcard at any time, to grab any prompt from your promptlist. The connected color prompt won't change!
You can post two fills for the team challenge. Even if you haven't signed up, you can participate as a joker to support a team. Joker fills can't earn any individual points!
DCU: not far from the apples by susiecarter
Jun. 20th, 2025 09:33 amsinesofinsanity posting in fancakePairings/Characters: Martha Kent, Atlanna
Rating: T
Length: 2,909 words
Creator Links: susiecarter
Theme: Female Relationships, Female Friendship, Gen, Minor Characters, Superpowers
Summary: There's a very unusual woman on the train, when Martha boards just outside Metropolis.
Reccer's Notes: I love depictions of Martha Kent where she is no-nonsense and kind, but ultimately human. She is out of her depth in the superhero shenanigans but perfectly suited to handle any and all human things before and after. I love how she immediately clocks Atlanna as "strange and possibly dangerous" and so decides to strike up a conversation. It's lovely to see these two women bond over their sons even before they really know who each other is. Also Alfred cameos at the end which is always fun.
Fanwork Links: not far from the apples on AO3
Thank you so tremendously much to all of our hard working pinch hitters! All pinch hits are now claimed, with a due date of June 20th, 10pm EDT.
The collection should be on track to open at 10pm EDT on June 22nd, however, we'll keep you all posted after the current pinch hit deadline passes, as we still have 11 assignments due tomorrow night before the collection can safely open.
Let's all get our edits in and cheer on the pinch hitters!
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Pinch hits are assignments in search of a creator! We have 2 pinch hits that are due on June 20th, 10 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, one being necessary to open the collection.
This is the most recent pinch hit post. All others are now no longer being updated.
Check the rules post for information on work minimums and requirements. Fic must be at least 2000 words. All works must be wholly original and created for this exchange.
In order to pick up a pinch hit either email the modmail or comment on this post (all comments on this post are screened) with:
- The number and or username of the pinch hit you would like to pick up
- Your ao3 username
- An email where we can reach you
If you pick up a pinch hit and are not signed up to the exchange, you can post treat requests here.
Characters/Pairings: Eddie Redcliffe/Dulcie Collins
Rating: Teen
Length: 2518
Content Notes: Internalised homophobia, unreliable narrator, political correctness and Eddie aren't even in the same universe
Creator Links: pintpotjudas on AO3
Themes: Female relationships, Backstory, Ambiguous relationships
Summary: Just Eddie, musing on hair. And lesbians. And herself, a bit. (She's meant to be thinking about the case.)
Set in a lull (???) in episode five, or thereabouts.
Reccer's Notes: The detective partnership of Eddie and Dulcie is central to Deadloch, and it's "enemies to friends" in canon, but with a tantalising hint of maybe-polyamory at the very end of the show. In this story, Eddie thinks about lesbians in general (Deadloch's full of lesbians), her odd fascination with Dulcie's long, thick, hair, and remembers a female friendship from her teens. It's a believable character study where we understand a bit more about Eddie and see the beginnings of her attraction to Dulcie, even if Eddie's still mostly in denial. Interesting, and well written, with great characterisation and Eddie's usual hilarious and colourful turns of phrase.
Fanwork Links: Horsehair
Link Click: Link Click Exchange Sign-ups CLOSE TODAY
Jun. 19th, 2025 08:50 amlanternglass posting in fandomcalendar
Transfic Exchange Post-Deadline Pinch Hits Due June 21st
Jun. 16th, 2025 10:54 pmtransficex posting in pinchhitsA fanwork exchange for works focusing on transgender, genderqueer, and gender diverse characters. Minimums are 1000 words for fic and one completed piece for art (mediums vary by request).
Pinch hit link: Active pinch hit post. See comm for more details and to claim.
Due date: June 21st/ASAP
PH 2 - Degrassi the Next Generation, Psych (TV 2006), Roseanne (TV 1988)
PH 4 - Haikyuu!!, Wind Breaker (Anime), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime)
PH 6 - Doctor Who (2005)
PH 10 - Yellowjackets (TV)
PH 11 - Live A Live (Video Game), Breath of Fire IV, Chrono Trigger, Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga, 英雄伝説 黎の軌跡 | Kuro no Kiseki | The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak Series (Video Games), 英雄伝説 クロスベル編 | The Legend of Heroes: Crossbell Arc (Video Games), NieR Gestalt | NieR Replicant | NieR (Video Games)
PH 14 - Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon)
PH 16 - Team Fortress 2, Mouthwashing (Video Game), Scream (Movies), The Venture Bros, Gravity Falls
PH 19 - Black Sails
PH 21 - Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021), Supernatural (TV 2005)
PH 22 - 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga), NoPixel (Web Series), Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure (Cartoon), 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs, 斉木楠雄のΨ難 | Saiki Kusuo no Sai-nan | The Disastrous Life of Saiki K., 鴨乃橋ロンの禁断推理 | Kamonohashi Ron no Kindan Suiri | Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective (Manga), ここは今から倫理です。| Koko wa Ima Kara Rinri Desu | From Now On We Begin Ethics (Manga)
PH 23 - ダンジョン飯 | Dungeon Meshi | Delicious in Dungeon, Yellowjackets (TV), Men's Hockey RPF
If there's anything wrong with your gift (for example, it hits a DNW), do no hesitate to send a e-mail to eifemod@gmail.com so that we can check it and arrange an emergency PH if necessary.
The list of current pinch hits is below. The deadline for these PDPHs is July 2, 2025, 11:59 AM CST (Timezone Conversion).
The collection will now open on July 5, 2025, 11:59 AM CST (Timezone Conversion).
All PH fills must meet all Pick Me Up 2025 Fanwork Minimum Requirements (1000 words of fic). Please be mindful that there is a rating selection for each request as well.
To claim any one of the following, please respond to this post (all comments are screened) or email ao3modball+pickup@gmail.com with your AO3 username to claim. We encourage all pinch hitters that did not originally sign up for Pick Me Up to sign up under our Pinch Hitter Requests post!
The collection will not open until every participant guaranteed a gift has one.
2025 Links
| Tagset | AO3 Collection | Dreamwidth Community | Sign-up | App Exchange Page | Pinch Hitter Requests |
Pick the next theme of fancake:
Books & Writing
32 (29.6%)
Protest & Revolt
30 (27.8%)
Working Together
46 (42.6%)
This was our second year running this exchange, and we really appreciated all the work everyone, new and returning, put in!
- Art Medium. This was our first year allowing art as a medium. For those who made use of this option as a recipient or creator, any feedback would be appreciated.
See you next year!