Good Omens Holiday Exchange

A handful of you, whether by one-on-one explicit arrangement with a mod or owing to the fact you said you were flexible enough to pinch-hit, will be getting a prompt-set assigned to you that is not on your list of preferences. We thank you for your willingness and patience, as we had two or three prompts this year that appeared on nobody's preference lists (this does NOT mean you made a bad prompt; besides, one of those prompts was made by a mod, so it just goes to show even people who have been doing this for years sometimes end up in that position), which meant we had to re-calibrate and start looking for things similar to what people asked for. We're lucky in that, as the assignments list stands right now, there's a one-to-one correspondence: nobody will be stuck writing/drawing more than one gift right from the start; doubling up will only happen if we have drop-outs later in the process and have to start asking people for pinch-hits.

This new system of sign-ups is several years in practice now; I personally have only been a mod since last year, which means this is my second year experiencing this new system from the inside rather than from the outside. The old system was simpler; people left a screened comment giving broad-strokes ideas of things they like and things they don't like, and then assignments were given at random. It meant you had no specific prompts, just guidelines for what your recipient might like to get and what definitely not to give.

We're beginning to think that reverting back to the old system for next year might save everyone grief, and we want your thoughts on this. The mod team is now a completely different set of people than it was in the beginning (minus one, Vulgarweed, who's been a mod from the start; the other two of us who are currently mods have participated every year since the beginning, however, and can honestly say that neither of us particularly prefers the new system over the old one, at least from the standpoint of long-term-participants-turned-mods).

We really want to hear back from you, even at this early stage, as many of you will make up next year's body of participants as well. We want this to run smoothly, and we also want the spirit of the thing to be what matters!

ETA: ASSIGNMENTS WILL BE SENT OUT AROUND / SHORTLY AFTER 7 PM EST.

This is where you will find a continuously updated list of anonymous prompts. After the initial sign up period (which ends on October 13th at midnight EST; click on the preceding link to read the instructions and to sign up), you'll have five days to select the gifts that you would like to create from this list. Check back frequently to see what your fandom peers are thinking about!

Prompt claiming will remain open until MIDNIGHT, SATURDAY OCTOBER 19th.

( The sign-up requests so far . . . )

Several hours ago, Aziraphale and Crowley were so drunk they fell off the London Eye. Don't worry, they're fine: they remembered in the nick of time that they both have wings.

Your mods, on the other hand, are well past remembering how to HTML-code. MODS' NIGHT OFF.

And some good news! We have several wonderful gifts still in the coffers, and we have some late arrivals impending and some pinch-hits, so we're going onwards til Twelfth Night.

Relax, celebrate, enjoy (and comment on) the gifts so far, and we'll see you in 2013 (which is tomorrow) with a lot more still to come.

This is where you will find a continuously updated list of anonymized prompts. After the initial sign up period, you'll have five days to select the gifts that you would like to create from this list. Check back frequently to see what your fandom peers are thinking about!

( A Wild Prompt List Appears! )

Be sure to keep checking back during the signup period - this list will be updated continually.

Dear 2011 Good Omens Exchange Participants,

The deadline approaches! Please be sure to have your gifts to us by next Weds, Nov 30. Send them to goodomens.exchange@gmail.com. 

Should you need an extension, the time to tell us is now. 

Should you need to gracefully back out, tell us now. We have a host of pinch hitters standing by but we need to be able to give them some time to create a gift, too. 

best to all of you,
Waxbean