Stork Swap Exchange

Nominations: Saturday March 9th - Sunday March 17th

Sign Ups Open: No later than Wednesday March 20th

Sign Ups Close: Sunday, March 31st

Assignments out by: Tuesday, April 2nd

Due: Friday, May 31st

Reveals: Friday, June 7th

Author reveals: Friday, June 14th

Tag Set: https://archiveofourown.org/tag_sets/18991
Collection: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/StorkSwap2024
Change from previous years:
There has been a lot of interest in previous years in opening this up to parenting older children instead of limiting it to babies. Since there isn’t a more general multi-fandom kidfic exchange that I know of, I’m adding additional age categories:

Baby 0-1
Toddler 2-4 (I know 4 year olds aren’t really toddlers, it’s easier than calling the category Toddler-preschool)
Child 5-9
Tween 10-12
Teen 13-17

For non-human characters, go with whatever age would have roughly the maturity of the age group you are matching on.

You may not dnw an age that is in the range you requested, but you may nominate and request freeforms that are more specific (Like “First Day of Kindergarten” or “Sweet 16 party”)

Nominations Guidelines:

For pregnancy focused relationship tags, please use the following format:

Peter Parker/Pregnant Tony Stark (MCU)

Pregnant Tony Stark/none (MCU)

Peter Parker & Pregnant Tony Stark (MCU)

Pregnant Peter Parker/Pregnant Tony Stark (MCU)

For parenting focused relationship tags, please use the following format:

Loki/Thor & Tween (MCU)

Loki & Thor & Loki's Baby (MCU)

Loki & Toddler (MCU)

Thor & Child

Loki/Thor & Teen

If you want a specific child, you can nominate it like:

Tenzin/Pema & Baby Rohan (Legend of Korra)
I don't have an encyclopedic knowledge of every fictional baby or child, so make sure to label them.

Keep in mind / indicates a romantic or sexual relationship and & indicates a platonic relationship. For pregnancy focused fic, you must indicate which partner should be pregnant (even for M/F pairings with a pregnant woman). You may indicate if you want both to be pregnant.

For Original Works, please nominate Original Works ships under Original Work (F/F), Original Work (F/M), Original Work (M/M), or Original Work (Other/Multi)

For freeform tags, they must tie in to some aspect of pregnancy or parenting.

Examples:
Accidental oviposition
Feeling first kicks
Difficult birth
Decorating the nursery
Finding an alien baby in the woods
Baby delivered by stork
Breastfeeding difficulties
Changing a diaper for the first time
Adoption application approved after a long wait
Character parents their own clone
Postpartum body worship
Parents deal with teen rebellion
First day of Kindergarten
Adopting a younger sibling

Rules

The following things are opt in only:

Abortion

Miscarriage

Child death

Minimums

Fic must be 1000 words or longer, art must be a clean sketch on unlined paper. All works must include at least one fandom, relationship, and freeform tag from the same request.

Treats can be any length

Requests and offers
You can sign up with one fandom, medium, ship, and freeform, but I will only hold reveals for people who have requested at least three fandoms by the time the writing period ends, or a week after they went up for pinch hit if they were a post-deadline pinch hit. You can send me a message to add additional requests at any point during the writing period. I will only add fandoms for people who are currently a pinch hit, and no sooner than a week after assignments go out. If you choose not to add additional fandoms, your pinch hit will stay up, but I will reveal the collection whether you have a gift or not.

For offers, as long as you're matchable, one offer is fine. I'm leaving the details box open on offers instead of allowing people to tick a box to offer "any" so if you really want to offer any you can just leave me a message in that box and I'll make sure you match to someone. You can also use that box to offer things like "any fpreg in this fandom" or "any smut tag that isn't noncon." Anyone who isn't matchable either through their own offers or through anything they have allowed me to add will be contacted after matching runs and have 24 hours to get back to me with additional offers before their sign up is deleted.

Contact
If you have any questions or comments, you can contact me by commenting here or emailing me at storkswapmod@gmail.com. I'm also in discord (Talsong or Soulstoned in most servers).