Jukebox Fanworks Exchange

Welcome back to the Jukebox Exchange for its 12th year.

This is a fanwork gift exchange. Creators exchange art, fic, or podfic, taking songs and music videos as the canon for inspiration. Your mods are morbane and minutia_r and we hope you have a great time!

Schedule (times and time zones to be added):
Nominations: 30 March - 7 April
Sign-ups: 11-19 April
Assignments out by: 21 April
Assignments due: 9 June (11:59pm EDT)
Works revealed: 16 June (8am EDT)
Creators revealed: 23 June (8am EDT)

Current phase: This round is over! Please continue to enjoy works here. There is also a feedback post here.

Links
Tag set
Tables of songs and music videos
Collection including rules
In-browser app showing requests
YouTube playlist of all requested songs

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The recent Dime in the Jukebox fest - enjoy the works!

Hello! Last year I said I wasn't sure I'd run a 2022 round of Jukebox, but I'm pleased to announce there will be a round this year. That is partly because minutia_r has agreed to help me run the exchange this year. Minutia_R is a longtime participant and has other modding experience of their own and I am very grateful for their help.

Schedule
Nominations: Fri April 1 to Sun April 10
Sign-ups: Thurs April 14 to Mon April 25 (updated)
Assignments out by: Mon April 25
Assignments due: Sun 5 June
Work reveals: Sun 12 June
Creator reveals: Sun 19 June

Please check back - the times for deadlines and reveals have not yet been set, and some or all are likely to be different from times of day Jukebox has used before.

Happy new Gregorian year, all! Sorry to be a little late putting up my suggestions for this year's schedules.

Which of the following two options would you all prefer? Assume roughly US Eastern times here.

Longer: - OK, this one seems like a clear preference, going with this one.
Nominations: Tues 24 March to Thurs 2 April
Sign-ups: Sat 4 April to Sun 12 April
Assignments out by: Mon 13 April
Assignments due: Sat 23 May
Work reveals: Sat 30 May
Creator reveals: Sat 6 June

Or, shorter:
Nominations: Tues 31 March to Wed 8 April
Sign-ups: Fri 10 April to Thurs 16 April
Assignments out by: Fri 17 April
Assignments due: Sun 24 May
Work reveals: Sat 30 May
Creator reveals: Sat 6 June

This post on LJ

Welcome back! Well, nearly.

Here's what I'm thinking for Jukebox's 2018 schedule, roughly in EST:

Nominations: Tuesday 20 March through Friday 30 March
Sign-ups: Sunday 1 April through Wednesday 11 April
Assignments out: 12-13 April
Assignments due: Sunday 27 May
Works go live: Saturday 2 June
Creator reveal: Friday 8 June

To anyone wishing to do both Jukebox and Fandom5k, good luck :P - their new schedule is very similar to ours, but assignments for Fandom5k should go out before sign-ups for Jukebox close, so you can hopefully see how easy or difficult your Fandom5k assignment will be before fully committing to Jukebox.

This schedule gives just over 6 weeks for writing/drawing/recording. If enough people prefer 7 weeks, I'll adjust the schedule accordingly. The due & live dates won't be changed - I'm fitting them around existing commitments, holidays, and other exchanges (for example: Night on Fic Mountain, Once Upon a Fic).


Other change: this year I would like to make requests visible all through sign-ups. I know that some participants like to be able to edit and tweak requests invisibly during sign-ups, and so this won't suit everyone. I'm sorry for the inconvenience. But I think it is necessary to allow people to match confidently on the media they've offered, rather than blindly guessing which requests may be for fic, art, or podfic.

Please post your fics to the collection before 11:59pm EDT on Saturday 28 May.

See time in your timezone
Countdown to deadline

If you don't think you can complete your work, please default (you can press Default next to your assignment on AO3) and I will ask pinch hitters to cover the assignment you are relinquishing. People default for many reasons; you don't need to let me know yours. I am concerned only with where pinch hits are needed.

However, I hope that applies to very few people, and that most participants are either done, nearly done, or convinced they will be very soon be nearly done. ^!^ (I am in the latter category.)

Please contact me at jukebox.mod@gmail.com if you have problems submitting your work or if you have any other questions.

Hello! It is not quite Jukebox time again, but nearly!

Schedule
This is what I'm thinking for Jukebox's 2016 schedule.

Brainstorming post: before 15 March
Nominations: 18-26 March
Sign-ups: 28 March to 6 April
Assignments due: Sat 28 May
Works go live: Sat 4 June
Creators are revealed: Wed 8 June

Unless people point out significant problems with these dates, I don't plan to adjust any of them by more than a day in the final schedule. (For example, I may make go-live 3 June rather than 4 June.) These dates are mostly geared to my public holiday schedule, allowing me to put together the table of songs over Easter weekend, and to read works over Queen's Birthday Weekend. I realise that some periods of participant activity overlap religious dates - please let me know if you think that the overlap isn't workable.

Structure of requests & types of media
Art and podfic seemed to go pretty well last year, and did not cause any additional difficulty for pinch hits. Because of this, I am inclined to relax the rules about media in your offers and requests. You can request or offer whatever combination you want. If you want to request only podfic, you can. If you want to request only art, you can. I suspect that many participants willl want to continue asking for & offering fic only. That's fine too.

I don't plan to include vids.

More about podfic
My rules for podfic were complicated last year. Hagar_972, in particular, persuaded me that instead of my previous system, which went:

-Sign up offering (or requesting) "No Fandom"
-Create (or request) a podfic out of the existing pool of song-based fic with appropriate permissions, possibly to a theme suggested by the recipient

it would make more sense for a podfic gift to consist of 1 new story, in both written and podficced form, so that you would request and offer it as follows:

-Sign up offering songs or music videos from the tag set, and the freeform tag "podfic"
-Create (either by yourself or as part of a team) a story for that song or music video, with a minimum of 500 words, both written and recorded. (The minimum length for a fic-only gift would still be 1,000 words.)
-A writing/podficcing team counts as one participant, in the sense that such a team would receive one gift, not one per person.

Would you all prefer that? AND, if we switched to that, for podfic, should I keep the no-fandom version from last year's rules? I'm inclined to ditch it - for matching, anyway; you could still indicate in your prompts/letter that you'd be open to a podfic of an existing story as a gift.

Visibility of requests
More and more exchanges are making requests visible from the moment you sign up. I am tempted to do this for Jukebox - especially since it could be very useful to know which media people are requesting for their songs & music videos. How do people feel about that?



Please let me know any thoughts you have, or just let me know if what I have written isn't clear. You don't have to have participated before to have a say - though of course I'm very glad to hear from previous participants.

Everyone has a gift! The collection will open in half an hour, on the hour. Please finish any edits to your work by then.

Here is a playlist of all the songs that were written/drawn/recorded for, that are available on YouTube:





Or, use a direct link to YouTube.

In addition, there are works for:

How Much Salt - Seanan McGuire (Song) - link on artist's site
Fire in the Head - Sharon Knight (Song) - link to artist's bandcamp
September's Rhyme - S. J. Tucker (Song) - link on artist's site

Finally, if you are looking for lyrics to any of the songs, they can be found through the tables posted earlier:

Songs ordered by song title
Songs ordered by artist name

Whoops - I'm 20 minutes late, but the point is, the Jukebox 2014 collection will open at the time on this widget, or 17:00 EDT on Friday 20th June, or 09:00 NZST on Saturday 21st June.

Thank you to the pinch hitters still working, and to everyone, really.

Our deadline is in, very nearly, 168 hours.

You know the drill:

Countdown to the deadline

The deadline according to your time zone

Link to the collection

Thanks to all past, present & future pinch hitters. We might need a few more - if you think you can pitch in, email jukebox.mod at gmail to be added to the list. ^!^

I've fixed on a 2014 schedule, as follows:

Nominations open: Thursday 17 April 17:00 EDT / Friday 18 April 09:00 NZST
Nominations close: Friday 25 April 23:59 EDT / Saturday 26 April 16:00 NZST

Sign-ups open: Sunday 27 April 17:00 EDT / Monday 28 April 09:00 NZST
Sign-ups close: Sunday 4 May 23:59 EDT / Monday 5 May 16:00 NZST

Assignments will go out by: Monday 5 May 17:00 EDT / Tuesday 6 May 09:00 NZST

Assignments are due: Monday 16 June 23:59 EDT / Tuesday 17 June 16:00 NZST

Stories will be revealed: Friday 20 June 17:00 EDT / Saturday 21 June 09:00 NZST

Authors will be revealed: Wednesday 25 June 17:00 EDT / Thursday 26 June 09:00 NZST

Thanks to seekingferret for proofreading those; any remaining errors are mine.


I have also updated the FAQ, below the cut. The main changes from the 2013 FAQ are as follows:

-You have 5, not 8 nominations
-Betas will volunteer in comments to a post, and writers will contact them directly rather than going through me
-Programmatic music (aka instrumental but with clear narrative) is OK but you have to request at least 1 song with lyrics
-Art will be next year if there's enough interest (you can do art treats though, if the requester wants them)


( Full updated FAQ )

So... see you in April!