Little Black Dress Exchange

We're less than a day into signups and we're so excited to see how many people have already signed up! We also now have a letters post for anyone wanting to share their own letter or browse others'.

We'd like to take this moment remind everyone that if you have already signed up or are planning to, please read the signup guidelines even if you regularly participate in exchanges.

In particular, we've noticed this part is being overlooked by many participants:

IMPORTANT: Characters should only be in the same request or offer if you are requesting/offering the same relationship for all of them. For example, if you are requesting Tony Stark and Steve Rodgers for MCU and you are hoping to receive a M/M, M/M/M or M/F fanwork for both of them, then they may be requested together. However if you also wish to request Natasha Romanoff for whom you would like F/F or F/Other, you should make a separate MCU request for her.

This is essential as it will affect matching. For instance, if I requested Harry Potter and Hermione Granger with the categories M/M and M/F, and someone else offers Draco Malfoy and Hermione Granger with the categories M/M and F/F, they could match on Hermione Granger + M/M, but may be unwilling to write her in an M/F pairing. This is why it is essential to separate these requests for both requests and offers.

Please keep this in mind when signing up, and if you've already signed up, then please review your signup to ensure everything is correct. A number of participants have made this error, but we would prefer to give you a couple of days to correct this before we start emailing participants. Please note that while we will be reviewing signups, the canon gender of the requested character is not always clear just from their name, so we appreciate your cooperation here.

Note on Rule 63: if you are opting into Rule 63 versions, please do not indicate this in the relationship category, rather state this in your optional details. For example, if I am requesting Harry Potter with M/M and I'm opting into Rule 63, I shouldn't also request F/F.

Note on Offering "Any": It causes no problems to offer any, for pairings, category, or both. This shouldn't cause any problems with matching. But it is very important you actually click the "any" button as opposed to putting all the options in, because it looks different to us on the backend and it will be more of a headache for us to confirm that matching will still be fine.

We hope this clears up a few things! We look forward to seeing those signups continue to roll in.

Little Black Dress is a ship-based multifandom exchange premised on creating fanworks for "Little Black Dress" characters, which is to say characters that "go" with anything. In an exchange context, this means characters you ship with anyone. For this exchange, you request only characters, and it's up to your recipient to select which ship they would like to write from your requested canon. Matching is done on fandom, character, ship category (i.e. LBD/F, LBD/M etc.) and medium (fic, art, or podfic). Participants will be required to create a ship-based fanwork that meets their recipient's requests for all of these aspects.

( Schedule )
( General Rules )
( Nomination Guidelines )
( Signups )
( Exchange Requirements )
( Little Black Dress Madness )
( FAQ )