Jukebox Fanworks Exchange

All works at the collection now show their creator's names. You are welcome to widely promote what you wrote or drew.

Thank you so much to everyone for participating! This exchange is a joy to me every year. In particular, thank you to the pinch hitters: AlexSeanchai, Deifire, karrenia_rune, mtgat, LadyBrooke, goosecathedral, weakinteraction, Supertights, Measured_Words, ExtraPenguin, and higuchi.

Feedback is welcome! How'd the timing work (length of creation time, length of anon period, point in the week that deadline & reveals were)? Anything else you'd like to comment on? If there are songs you'd like to nominate in future, maybe mention them here so that future!you has a note to come back to...

All else equal, I expect to run Jukebox in 2018 at around the same time - nominations in March, reveals early June.

I've not even checked out half the collection, so expect more comments from me in the coming weeks/months.

The collection is set to moderated if you want to squeeze in a late treat for anyone.

Final note: If you defaulted, and you did not comment on the gift(s) you received, you may not take part in future. (One of those conditions is fixable.) This penalty does not apply to people who defaulted and then didn't get any gifts - you are in the clear.

Reveals are in twelve hours, or at 4:59pm EDT Friday 2 June.

Treats are still welcome!
Direct link for posting to the collection (remember to include your recipient's name)
Letters
Requests on AO3
Tables of canons


A warm thank you to all pinch hitters and participants who have ensured we will be able to open as scheduled.

I will update the songs-created-for playlist when the collection goes live, and fandoms will appear on the collection page shortly after that.

Direct link or see below.



As well, not on YouTube:
These and More Than These - Jason Webley (Song)

Enjoy! I will add to it as pinch hits or treats come in. Some songs have more than one work! This may be a spoiler to what you're getting as a gift: click advisedly.


Regarding the fandom page at the collection
You may notice that the collection presently reads 49 works, 12 fandoms. Current AO3 wrangling policy is that unrevealed works are not wrangled. However, one of our participants who is also a wrangler has kindly agreed to wrangle the fandoms immediately at the time of reveals. I am also happy to consider any suggestions for additional aides to provide to ensure you can find what you're looking for. Meanwhile, please check that your work's fandom tag follows Archive standard for songs/music videos, i.e., Song - Artist (Media).

Please see previous posts for outstanding pinch hits. Treats are also very welcome.

Your assignment is due in ~6 hours, or according to this countdown.

There are two new pinch hits. Please email jukebox.mod@gmail.com or reply in a comment (please include your AO3 name and your email) to claim them:

( Pinch hit #8 - CLAIMED )

( Pinch hit #9 - CLAIMED )

Pinch hits #5 and up are due at 11:59pm EDT Thursday 1 June. (Countdown).

Treats can be posted freely until reveals (collection will then be set to moderated).

I have two pinch hits one pinch hit outstanding, for fic. See previous entry for pinch hit #5.

( Pinch hit #6 - CLAIMED )
Please either email jukebox.mod@gmail.com or comment on the relevant post to claim one of these pinch hits.

Deadlines
Original assignments and pinch hits #1-4 are due at 11:59pm EDT Saturday 27th May. (3 days from now).

Pinch hits #5 and up are due at 11:59pm EDT Thursday 1 June (8 days from now).

Tagging your canon
For most canons it is appropriate to enter the fandom as it appeared on your assignment. If you're not sure how to tag your work, please contact me. Consistent tagging will speed things up for wranglers processing the tag.

Most works should appear as Song Name - Artist (Media).

This pinch hit is due at the regular deadline of 23:59PM EDT on 27 May.

To claim, please provide your AO3 name, either by commenting on the journal post or in an email to jukebox.mod@gmail.com. Comments are screened. If the pinch hit is yours, I will reply to your comment and you will see the assignment appear on AO3. If the pinch hit is marked here as claimed but it does not show up on your AO3 account, you did not get the pinch hit.

( Pinch Hit #4 - CLAIMED )

Youtube playlist
By order of sign-up summary. All 288 videos at this link or see (abridged) below.



Bonus tracks
Songs that are not on Youtube include:

The Damp Foggy Midnight - Guante and Big Cats (Song) | Bandcamp | Lyrics

Earthquake Weather - Seanan McGuire (Song) | CD Baby | Lyrics

If it Bleeds It Leads - Guante and Big Cats (Song) | Bandcamp | Lyrics

Keep Your Heart - TV on the Radio (Music Video) | Vimeo | Lyrics

Life’s Flame - Heather Alexander (Song) | Bandcamp (with lyrics)

Mary Mary - SJ Tucker (Song) | Artist's site (with lyrics)

Mother of the Crows - Seanan McGuire (Song) | CD Baby | Lyrics

Nijikan Dake no Vacance - Utada Hikaru feat. Shiina Ringo (Music Video) | Vimeo | Lyrics

Red States - Guante and Big Cats (Song) | Bandcamp | Lyrics

These and More than These - Jason Webley (Song) | Tumblr | Lyrics

This Is the Opposite of a Suicide Note - Guante (Song) | Bandcamp | Lyrics

Tomb of the King - Damh the Bard (Song) | Pagan Music UK (with lyrics)

Wild Maiden - Kellianna (Song) | Bandcamp (with lyrics)


These are drawn from the tables of all nominated songs, with some adjustments. Only songs with requests are included. If you have any further additions or corrections to make to those tables, please comment to the tables post and I'll do another correction sweep by the end of the month.

This year's requests are available on AO3.

Enjoy!

You should now be able to access your assignment from your Archive of Our Own account. Thanks to CJ for sorting out the assignment interface problem with a handy tip.

I will post initial pinch hits tomorrow my time. Also upcoming: beta posts, and a playlist of all requested songs.

Assignments are due at midnight EDT between the 27th and 28th of May (Sat/Sun), or 4am UTC 28th May, or 4pm NZST 28th May. If your assignment does not seem to match what you offered, please email jukebox.mod@gmail.com as soon as possible, and I'll look into it. Otherwise, please submit a work to match one of your recipient's songs in a medium they requested for that song, taking note of their Do-Not-Wants, before the deadline.

Have fun!

A note: since I've had 3 similar conversations on this topic recently, it seems like a general post would be useful.

When writing your requests, please treat each piece of music as its own fandom.


What does that mean?

The FAQ currently says:

...The piece of music must be able to stand on its own without reference to a longer work. You can nominate songs from musicals or operettas or other media – but if it would be necessary to understand the whole musical, or the whole operetta, etc, in order to appreciate the piece, then that piece of music is not appropriate for this exchange.

Songs should be considered separately from their artists. Prompts should include musician RPF only if the song or music video can be considered to have an autobiographical or self-referential element. People who appear in music videos are generally to be treated as characters, not as their real-life or RPF selves...

and,

Songs and music videos are the only canons you can nominate or request in this exchange. Just as a song can include a whole world, participants are encouraged to focus on those worlds.



So: please don't ask for works in other fandoms that use the song video or lyrics in some way. If a piece of music from a larger work (opera, movie, concept album with an official story behind it) has been nominated, please don't ask your creator to create a work that requires understanding of the larger specific work - you are pretending that the nominated piece stands on its own.

If you ask for another fandom or for a larger fandom, you are essentially asking your writer to produce a crossover. In general exchange etiquette, those are the VERY optional kind of optional details. Here, they contradict a goal of the exchange: ideally, when works are revealed, anyone should be able to see and appreciate a work with no more background knowledge than the requested song.

I am making this post not because people are wilfully breaking rules, but because the existing rules are perhaps providing insufficient guidance.

Here is the sign-up form. Welcome to this year's challenge! Sign-ups will close at 11:59PM EDT 5 April (see what time that is for you).

Please skim the rules and schedule before signing up. The rules are a little different every year.

You can request 3-10 canons, and offer 4-10 canons. If a canon doesn't appear in the drop-down menu when you go to enter it, you can copy and paste it from the tag set and press enter.

Each of your requests and offers must be tagged with 1-3 of the labels "Fanfic", "Podfic", and "Fanart".

If you are offering podfic, you are pledging to create both text and recording (500-5000 words). You are welcome to team up with a friend to create a work, whether you're the recording artist or the writer, but if that's what you intend, please contact me at jukebox.mod@gmail.com to let me know of the arrangement and to provide a contact email for your friend.

Your requests have a space for optional details. Go ahead and use them to talk about how you understand the song and what kind of art/fic/podfic you might like. However, your gift creator doesn't have to follow your prompts. They do have to respect clear and specific Do-Not-Wants listed in the sign-up (like "no pregnancy" "no scat" "no rainbows").

Your requests have a space for a letter link, if you want to provide one. You must include the link before sign-ups are closed. A letter is NOT required for this exchange, but it is a traditional way of telling your creator in detail about your preferences / advertising the exchange. I will put up letter posts shortly. If you are writing a letter, please have it complete and unlocked by the end of 11 April.

Requests are not visible now. I will make all requests visible on AO3 when the assignments go out.


Corrections are still welcome to the tables of sources for all canons.

If you have any trouble signing up, I would like to know & help - contact me at jukebox.mod@gmail.com.