Casefic Exchange 🔎

Did you hear the buckling of belts, the zipping of zippers, and the unsilencing of iPhones and Androids? Our detectives are on the case! Assignments have been sent! Check your cubby holes, letter boxes, under your doormats, and wherever else you happen to receive your mail for your assignment packet.

If your assignment does not match your offers, please get in touch ASAP at gumshoeagency@gmail.com with your AO3 name, your recipient's AO3 name, and a description of the issue so I can sort this out for you.

Assignments are due on Friday 11 July at 11:59pm EST [ In your timezone + Countdown ].

Please ensure you post to our AO3 collection and that your work has a recipient!

A few reminders:

• If you need a refresher, please review the rules/guidelines. I recommend reviewing about assignments, our medium requirements, posting, extensions, and defaulting. If you're interested in treating, please review the treating section of our guidelines for minimum requirements.


• Please unlock and complete letters by Monday 5 May so your creator and anyone looking to treat you can access your additional information. I will not be deleting letters from sign-ups or emailing participants about these.


• Please email gumshoeagency@gmail.com with your recipient questions. Be sure to remember your AO3 username, your recipient's AO3 name, and your question. You are welcome to be as detailed a possible in your question and provide decoy questions. (I am the type of mod who endeavours to try not to give away what fandom your recipient may be getting as I want them to be surprised, so please feel free to let me know your preferences regarding that.)


• Please do not include any self-deprecating comments in your author's note and any identifying information, such as social media links. I will not be accepting works into the collection that contain any of these. Be proud of your work! Such notes negatively impact the recipient's experience and set a tone for the work that is not true!
  
  You can add your social media links once the exchange is over! (I highly encourage you to do this! Just don't do it now.)


• The collection is moderated. I cannot access drafts, so please be sure to press "submit" when your work is completed. I will review these to ensure that they match the request and meet the bare minimum requirements. If you find your work is sitting in the moderation queue for more than three days, please email me your AO3 name and the title of your work so I can check to see if I have simply misread it as a draft.
  
  Once your work has been accepted, you are welcome to continue editing it until the assignment deadline. Please ensure you do not accidentally delete half your assignment as I may not be able to catch this at the time of reveals. (Save a copy of your assignment somewhere!)


• You are allowed to gift to the collection a work that fits a fandom and relationship that was nominated but not requested. (If you are aware of my AO3, please do not add me as a recipient to it.) Please make sure to leave a comment in your author's note that this is a gift for the collection so I know not to email you asking if you forgot to add your recipient. (Once accepted, feel free to remove your author's note.)


• We have a no-penalty default deadline on Friday 27 June (Eastern time) [ In your timezone. ]. You can read more about this on the rules and guidelines page.


• If you are a pinch hit and you find that you have remained unclaimed for a few weeks, you are more than welcome to email me at gumshoeagency@gmail.com with additional requests. Please remember that if you did not request three unique fandoms at minimum, you are not guaranteed a gift if you are a pinch hit and remain unclaimed when all works have been submitted.
  
  I ask that the Casefic Exchange community remains positive about pinch hits; being a pinch hit is a great opportunity to be selected by a sleuth who didn't have time to sign up for the round, but still wishes to craft you a deliciously creative case to solve!


• Please whitelist gumshoeagency@gmail.com as my emails are finding themselves getting cosy in some junk folders! If your creator has a question, you'll definitely want to answer!

What's coming up next:

• Initial pinch hits will be posted tomorrow.


• A beta post.


• A pinch hitter's treats post.


• A treatless list. If anyone would like to create this to hand off to me, I'm more than happy to leave this in the hands of a competent participant, otherwise I will do my best to organise this over the next few weeks.


• I intend to put out an interest check regarding something I'd like to run to foster a bit of community/excitement since we have long creation and anonymous periods, so to keep this post about assignments, I'll be posting about that sometime in the next two weeks.

Thank you again to everyone for being so enthusiastic about the exchange! Please have fun creating. I can't wait to see what you all come up with. 🩷

- Commissioner Clawseau, your mod who has had way too much fun writing these posts.