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Welcome to the 2022 GIFT EXCHANGE!!!!!  Did you know, we’re nearing 22 years since this show first aired! It’s amazing how our love for the Liberty Avenue Gang keeps on going!  
Full details on the 2022 xchnge can be found HERE.
Sign-up HERE.
🎄timetable
NOVEMBER 5th — Sign-ups open
NOVEMBER 15th — Sign-ups close
NOVEMBER 20th — Assignments will be sent. You will receive a neat email with all the information regarding your recipient. If you don’t receive it, please let us know so we can fix it.
DECEMBER 4th — First check-in. Just a quick email to keep in touch and see how you’re doing. At this time we'll also coordinate preferred posting date - you'll chose your top three dates for posting and then I'll let you know which one you'll be assigned.
DECEMBER 8th — Final check-in. By now you should be finishing your creations and almost ready for posting! If you aren’t and need an extension or need to drop out, please let us know.
DECEMBER 30th —Posting begins and will continue until January 7th, 2022.
‘Tis the time to celebrate! Go on full Holiday mode and share with everyone in fandom your creations on your posting date.
🎅rules
Before the exchange
•    Apply and let me know your preferences in all things QAF! •    I will make every effort to match requests with talent. I will also make every effort to fulfill each request. However, if for some reason, your request cannot be fulfilled, I would hope that whatever is substituted will be accepted with gratitude and dignity and with the spirit in which is was intended.
•    Please don't sign up if you may not be able to fulfill your gift. IF an emergency happens and you can't participate, please let me know as soon as possible so I can beg someone to stand in so that no one goes giftless.
•    Please, NO Brian/Michael, no MPREG, no RPS. Everything else is fine.
•   All submissions have to be new and complete, everything else would be just plain rude.
•    Wait for me to send you the details on your recipient and what they want to receive.
•    Need clarification about those details or want to spread the holiday love before the actual exchange? Email me qafgiftxchnge @ gmail.com and I'll pass along the question!
•    Keep in mind your recipient’s preferences regarding the things they don’t want to see in their gifts. Be respectful at all times, and spread the love!
•    There is no minimum for what you are able to create for your recipient. Go wild and bask in all the Holiday Spirit! However, fic gifts do not need to be epic multi chaptered sagas. 10,000 words MAXIMUM. Drabbles are welcome.
•    Should you have questions or suggestions, please feel free to send an email!
During the exchange
•    You can post your creations to your platform of choice! (see notes on submitting your work)
•    Gifts are to be posted December 30, 2022 to January 7, 2023
•    Participate! Comment, reblog, share, like! Enjoy the QAF Holiday Spirit!
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qafgiftxchnge · 3 years
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Full details on the 2021 xchnge can be found HERE (LJ) or on tumblr.
Sign-up HERE.
🎄timetable
NOVEMBER 1st — Sign-ups close TONIGHT!! please consider joining us this year!
NOVEMBER 6th — Assignments will be sent. You will receive a neat email with all the information regarding your recipient. If you don’t receive it, please let us know so we can fix it.
NOVEMBER 26th — First check-in. Just a quick email to keep in touch and see how you’re doing. At this time we’ll also coordinate preferred posting date - you’ll chose your top three dates for posting and then I’ll let you know which one you’ll be assigned.
DECEMBER 13th — Final check-in. By now you should be finishing your creations and almost ready for posting! If you aren’t and need an extension or need to drop out, please let us know.
DECEMBER 30th —Posting begins and will continue until January 7th, 2022.
‘Tis the time to celebrate! Go on full Holiday mode and share with everyone in fandom your creations on your posting date.
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qafgiftxchnge · 3 years
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Welcome to the 2021 GIFT EXCHANGE!!!!!  Did you know, this is the TENTH gift exchange I’ve organized! It’s amazing how our love for the Liberty Avenue Gang keeps on going!
Full details on the 2021 xchnge can be found HERE.
Sign-up HERE.
🎄timetable
OCTOBER 18th — Sign-ups open
NOVEMBER 1st — Sign-ups close
NOVEMBER 6th — Assignments will be sent. You will receive a neat email with all the information regarding your recipient. If you don’t receive it, please let us know so we can fix it.
NOVEMBER 26th — First check-in. Just a quick email to keep in touch and see how you’re doing. At this time we’ll also coordinate preferred posting date - you’ll chose your top three dates for posting and then I’ll let you know which one you’ll be assigned.
DECEMBER 13th — Final check-in. By now you should be finishing your creations and almost ready for posting! If you aren’t and need an extension or need to drop out, please let us know.
DECEMBER 30th —Posting begins and will continue until January 7th, 2022.
‘Tis the time to celebrate! Go on full Holiday mode and share with everyone in fandom your creations on your posting date.
🎅rules
Before the exchange
•    Apply and let me know your preferences in all things QAF! •    I will make every effort to match requests with talent. I will also make every effort to fulfill each request. However, if for some reason, your request cannot be fulfilled, I would hope that whatever is substituted will be accepted with gratitude and dignity and with the spirit in which is was intended.
•    Please don’t sign up if you may not be able to fulfill your gift. IF an emergency happens and you can’t participate, please let me know as soon as possible so I can beg someone to stand in so that no one goes giftless.
•    Please, NO Brian/Michael, no MPREG, no RPS. Everything else is fine.
•   All submissions have to be new and complete, everything else would be just plain rude.
•    Wait for me to send you the details on your recipient and what they want to receive.
•    Need clarification about those details or want to spread the holiday love before the actual exchange? Email me qafgiftxchnge @ gmail.com and I’ll pass along the question!
•    Keep in mind your recipient’s preferences regarding the things they don’t want to see in their gifts. Be respectful at all times, and spread the love!
•    There is no minimum for what you want to create for your recipient. Go wild and bask in all the Holiday Spirit! However, fic gifts do not need to be epic multi chaptered sagas. 10,000 words MAXIMUM. Drabbles are welcome.
•    Should you have questions or suggestions, please feel free to send an email!
During the exchange
•    You can post your creations to your platform of choice! (see notes on submitting your work below)
•    Gifts are to be posted December 30, 2021 to January 7, 2022
•    Participate! Comment, reblog, share, like! Enjoy the QAF Holiday Spirit!
Please feel free to pimp away…and beg all fans to come and participate. Questions? Ask away!
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qafgiftxchnge · 3 years
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Welcome to the 2021 GIFT EXCHANGE!!!!!  Did you know, this is the TENTH gift exchange I've organized! It's amazing how our love for the Liberty Avenue Gang keeps on going!
Full details on the 2021 xchnge can be found HERE.
Sign-up HERE.
🎄timetable
OCTOBER 18th — Sign-ups open
NOVEMBER 1st — Sign-ups close
NOVEMBER 6th — Assignments will be sent. You will receive a neat email with all the information regarding your recipient. If you don’t receive it, please let us know so we can fix it.
NOVEMBER 26th — First check-in. Just a quick email to keep in touch and see how you’re doing. At this time we'll also coordinate preferred posting date - you'll chose your top three dates for posting and then I'll let you know which one you'll be assigned.
DECEMBER 13th — Final check-in. By now you should be finishing your creations and almost ready for posting! If you aren’t and need an extension or need to drop out, please let us know.
DECEMBER 30th —Posting begins and will continue until January 7th, 2022.
‘Tis the time to celebrate! Go on full Holiday mode and share with everyone in fandom your creations on your posting date.
🎅rules
Before the exchange
•    Apply and let me know your preferences in all things QAF! •    I will make every effort to match requests with talent. I will also make every effort to fulfill each request. However, if for some reason, your request cannot be fulfilled, I would hope that whatever is substituted will be accepted with gratitude and dignity and with the spirit in which is was intended.
•    Please don't sign up if you may not be able to fulfill your gift. IF an emergency happens and you can't participate, please let me know as soon as possible so I can beg someone to stand in so that no one goes giftless.
•    Please, NO Brian/Michael, no MPREG, no RPS. Everything else is fine.
•   All submissions have to be new and complete, everything else would be just plain rude.
•    Wait for me to send you the details on your recipient and what they want to receive.
•    Need clarification about those details or want to spread the holiday love before the actual exchange? Email me qafgiftxchnge @ gmail.com and I'll pass along the question!
•    Keep in mind your recipient’s preferences regarding the things they don’t want to see in their gifts. Be respectful at all times, and spread the love!
•    There is no minimum for what you want to create for your recipient. Go wild and bask in all the Holiday Spirit! However, fic gifts do not need to be epic multi chaptered sagas. 10,000 words MAXIMUM. Drabbles are welcome.
•    Should you have questions or suggestions, please feel free to send an email!
During the exchange
•    You can post your creations to your platform of choice! (see notes on submitting your work below)
•    Gifts are to be posted December 30, 2021 to January 7, 2022
•    Participate! Comment, reblog, share, like! Enjoy the QAF Holiday Spirit!
Please feel free to pimp away...and beg all fans to come and participate. Questions? Ask away!
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qafgiftxchnge · 4 years
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Don’t forget, sign-ups close soon!!
–>QAF_GIFTXCHNGE Signup Form
*Sign ups close on NOVEMBER 1st, 2020 - 11:59pm Eastern (but if they trickle in by midday on the 2nd, go for it!)
*Assignments will be sent out by end of November 5th, 2020. I will make assignments and pair you up with your gift recipient.
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#two kinds of people on novemeber 1st
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qafgiftxchnge · 4 years
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IT’S THAT TIME OF YEAR…YOU KNOW THE ONE…THE GIVING TIME
Welcome to the 2020 GIFT EXCHANGE!!!!!
Calling all writers, drawers, photoshoppers, vidders, layout makers, fanmixers, giffers, cartoonists, or whatever other medium you work best in. Sign-up to give a Queer as Folk gift and get (at least) one in return! Plus everyone benefits from all these contributions to our fandom!
—–>QAF_GIFTXCHNGE Signup Form
*Sign ups close on NOVEMBER 1st, 2020 - 11:59pm Eastern
*Assignments will be sent out by end of November 5th, 2020. I will make assignments and pair you up with your gift recipient.
*Entries are due December 30, 2020 - 11:59pm Eastern (emailed to qafgiftxchnge @ gmail.com)
**If entries are received early, I’ll start posting on the 27th of December
*Find submission guidelines below the cut. Let me know if you have any questions!
TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS!
Please follow this tumblr to get updates on check-ins and reminders.
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qafgiftxchnge · 4 years
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Banner by kitkatbyte
IT’S THAT TIME OF YEAR...YOU KNOW THE ONE...THE GIVING TIME
Welcome to the 2020 GIFT EXCHANGE!!!!!
Calling all writers, drawers, photoshoppers, vidders, layout makers, fanmixers, giffers, cartoonists, or whatever other medium you work best in. Sign-up to give a Queer as Folk gift and get (at least) one in return! Plus everyone benefits from all these contributions to our fandom!
----->QAF_GIFTXCHNGE Signup Form
*Sign ups close on NOVEMBER 1st, 2020 - 11:59pm Eastern
*Assignments will be sent out by end of November 5th, 2020. I will make assignments and pair you up with your gift recipient.
*Entries are due December 30, 2020 - 11:59pm Eastern (emailed to qafgiftxchnge @ gmail.com)
**If entries are received early, I'll start posting on the 27th of December
*Find submission guidelines below the cut. Let me know if you have any questions!
TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS!
Please follow this tumblr to get updates on check-ins and reminders.
~ All gifts must be submitted to me at qafgiftxchnge @ gmail.com with the subject line: 2020 GIFT, screen name, gift for: [name] - on or before 11:59pm Eastern December 29th, 2020. (this will give everyone a little extra time around the holidays)
~ Gifts will be posted December 30, 2020 to January 7, 2021
**If entries are received early, I'll start posting on the 27th of December -- or maybe even before Xmas!
~Fic gifts do not need to be epic multi chaptered sagas.
10,000 words MAXIMUM.
Drabbles are welcome.
I hope many of you will participate. Last year there were 19 gifts given, so come out, come out wherever you are, old fans and new! In the last few years, we've had double sign-ups from the start, as in people are sent 2 gifts to create if they've previously agreed. If you've struggled with this in the past, please don't choose that as an option.
This exchange will be held on Livejournal and Dreamwidth, and promoted by me on Tumblr. 
Reminder that some fic has been posted to AO3 by the authors after the xchnge - check it out at qaf_giftxchnge collection
RULES
Please don't sign up if you may not be able to fulfill your gift. IF an emergency happens and you can't participate, please let me know as soon as possible so I can beg someone to stand in so that no one goes giftless.
Please, NO Brian/Michael, no MPREG, no RPS. Everything else is fine.
Gifts cannot be posted in your own LJ, DW, tumblr, AO3, or elsewhere until one week after they are revealed here.
All submissions have to be new and complete, everything else would be just plain rude. Find more rules about submitting your works here: [Submission Rules] If you're going to skim over any section of these rules, do not make it this one. Below you will find requirements for your submission according to what type of fanwork you'll be submitting. Please read your section carefully! Some are more detailed than others due to the unique nature of each fanwork.
All submissions must be stand alone pieces created specifically for this fest. You may not submit a part of a work-in-progress as your submission, nor can you include fic/art/graphics that you've already posted elsewhere.
Submitting Your Work
All submissions should emailed to qafgiftxchnge @ gmail.com by the due date (Dec 30th). You can also share fics via google drive if that is more convenient.
In the subject line of your email, please include 2020 GIFT, your screen name, gift for: [name]. This makes it so much easier for us to find and organize your work.
Please remember to copy, paste, and fill this out to include in your email along with your submission:
<b>TO:</b> <lj user="username"> <b>FROM:</b> <lj user="username"> <b>TITLE:</b> <b>GIFT REQUEST:</b> <b>NOTE:</b>
Adapt this to fit your needs, such as word count/length.
Please also ensure straight quotes are used when adding links and usernames for LJ!!
When submitting a fic:
Please be sure that it's been saved as an ".rtf", ".doc", or ".docx" format - or share it with me on google drive. Also, please include all html coding (bold, italic, underline) in your finished fic. If you're not familiar with html or don't know what the code is for a specific one, check it out here. I WILL be sending back fics that are not html coded as there have been some nightmares trying to break up posts for fics with giant character counts.
There is no maximum or minimum for the gift exchange, but the mods ask that you keep your plot bunnies in control. 100,000 word fics will probably make us cry because we scan each fic for glaring spelling/punctuation errors. If you exceed 8,000-9,000 words (please please don't), the mods will have to break your fic into parts due to LJ character restrictions, and we will need to know where you want those breaks to occur.
Multi-chaptered fics will still be accepted, but nothing will be posted until the fic in its entirety is received. So please don't get in over your head if you're not going to be able to finish it by the due date.
Please make sure that you spell all character names and places according to their canon spellings. Just ask if you're uncertain.
While having your fic beta read is not a requirement, it is always encouraged.
The mods reserve the right to ask you to correct any spelling, punctuation, or grammar issues before your fic is posted.
If you are using Word to prepare your manuscript, please make sure to turn off smart quotes! Tools >> AutoCorrect >> AutoFormat As You Type >> Uncheck "straight quotes with smart quotes"
Please ensure automatic spaces before and after paragraphs are not a part of the document. These spaces should be put in by you manually. This helps when the doc is pasted into the LJ/DW html editor.
If you have a banner header for the fic, please upload to your own graphic hosting location (ie LJ scrapbook) and only provide the link.
When submitting a fanart/graphics:
Please include your art/graphic as an attachment in the email. OR the links to where you're hosting them.
When submitting a fanmix:
Please include a link to your fanmix in the email.
Please include any information (artists, titles, featured lyrics) that you'd like to be included with your download link in the body of the email or in a text document.
When submitting a fanvid:
Please include a link to your fanvid in the email. Please post it 'secretly' to youtube or another video hosting site you use.
Please include any information (artists, titles, featured lyrics) that you'd like to be included with your download link in the body of the email or in a text document.
***If these formatting guidelines are not followed, you will be contacted and requested to make required changes.***
I will make every effort to match requests with talent. I will also make every effort to fulfill each request. However, if for some reason, your request cannot be fulfilled, I would hope that whatever is substituted will be accepted with gratitude and dignity and with the spirit in which is was intended.
Please feel free to pimp away...and beg all fans to come and participate. Questions? Ask away!
If you're a non-writer and non-graphic maker, leave a prompt in the ask box and artists/writers may choose to claim your prompt after other assignments are sent out! -no guarantees though!
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qafgiftxchnge · 4 years
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QAF-GIFTXCHNGE masterpost
Happy New Year! Here's the masterpost with links to most of the gifts. As many links as I could find go to AO3 or tumbr, while others take you to the original LJ posts. Thank you to all who participated and went the extra mile to share TEH LOVE! And as long as there's continuing interest, I'm definitely happy to carry on the tradition - It's a bit of an annual reunion!
Checkout everything HERE on LiveJournal (yes it still exists and some people still use it!)
Gift #2 - Top Five Mishaps in 1,000 Fucks by TrueIllusion -  The funny flipside of Brian's Season 4 line, "Of all the times we've fucked -- and by now it has to be well into the quadruple digits -- that has to rank in the top five." Five times when things didn't quite go as planned...
Gift #3 - Ode to Uncle Vic by sfscarlet -  Brian's thoughts about why he rode in the Liberty Ride
Gift #4 -  Jealous of Your Cigarette (fanvid) by kitkatbyte/kitzeproductions - on AO3
Gift #5 -  A Christmas (Cookie) Story by PrettyTheWorld (asm614) - A semi-forced Christmas assignment gives Brian a little more satisfaction than he originally imagined...
Gift #6 -  Not So Bad by addict_writer/addict_writer
Gift #7 -  After the Storm by wren_kt7oz/ineffable_wren -  Set during the period where Justin is living with Brian after the bashing. After zucchini man and even after Michael’s “he just feels guilty” speech, but before Vance takes over at Ryder and definitely before Ethan. 
Gift #8 - Happy Christmas 2019 by netlagd - Christmas 2019. What that looks like for Brian and Justin together.
Gift #9 - It’s Back by addict_writer/addict_writer
Gift #10 - Every Storm Makes Us Stronger by PrettyTheWorld (asm614) - Brian gets some unexpected and difficult news and turns to his usual coping strategies. Justin knows better.
Gift #11 -  Wren’s Café by netlagd
Gift #12 - Let's Hear It For the Boy (Picspam) by chamilet - alt link
Gift #13 - Need by galeandrandy - I tried my best to write without a plot, but there sort of is one. It has been far too long since I have written and I hope you enjoy this gift.
Gift #14 - Everything I Ever Wanted by TrueIllusion - Justin and Brian surprise the family with big news on Christmas Eve.
Gift #15 - Christmas Sparkle by - mander3_swish/@mander3-swish - Justin needed to take a meeting with an actor they were looking at to play Rage in the next installment in the movie franchise Rage: Forever Night. He and Brian were headed to Santa Fe a week before Christmas to see if Tyler Blackburn would be a good fit for the part and the franchise.
Gift #16 - What are BFFs for? by sfscarlet - Colleagues to lovers AU - Justin gets Brian's name during secret santa at work and uses the same wrapping paper for his gift to his friend Daphne, so…sorry about all the sex toys.
Gift #17 - Panic Attack by wren_kt7oz/ineffable_wren - Justin thinks he has an STD but doesn't want to tell Brian as they are supposed to be monogamous.  
Gift #18 - Viagra Rainbow (Picspam) by chamilet - alt link
Gift #19 - Christmas Eve Striptease by mander3_swish/@mander3-swish​ - (PWP) "Is this my Christmas present or something? A little Christmas Eve striptease?" Brian asked, the tease evident in his tone.
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qafgiftxchnge · 4 years
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Christmas Eve Striptease
Prompt:  Queer as Folk. PWP. There are so many missing scenes or a new situation BJ find themselves in that leads to sexy times. Not too much much plot.
Read on AO3
Justin walked into the living room to find logs crackling in the fireplace and a bottle of bubbly chilling on ice.
It was Christmas Eve, and he and Brian had the whole house to themselves until sometime tomorrow afternoon when all their guests would arrive. They had spent the day getting everything ready so that they could take the evening to relax before their house became a barrage of well-meaning Debbies and overly excitable children.
“Brian, when did you have time to get this all ready?” Justin asked when Brian strolled in.
“You just spent 10 years in the shower. I had plenty of time.”
Justin laughed off Brian’s over exaggeration, but he wasn’t wrong.
He was feeling warm standing so close to fire, so he pulled off his festive Christmas sweater, the one Ted had got him last year featuring some reindeer games - aka humping - and tossed it at Brian on the sofa.
“Is this my Christmas present or something? A little Christmas Eve striptease?” Brian asked, the tease evident in his tone.
“Hadn’t thought about it, but we could totally add it to the list,” Justin agreed. “Just as long as you promise you’ve been naughty - this is gonna get anything but nice,” Justin said with a wink.
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qafgiftxchnge · 4 years
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Christmas Sparkle
Prompt:  Queer as Folk. Brian/Justin; Post-canon, the guys take a vacation somewhere for the holidays. 
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Justin needed to take a meeting with an actor they were looking at to play Rage in the next installment in the movie franchise Rage: Forever Night. He and Brian were headed to Santa Fe a week before Christmas to see if Tyler Blackburn would be a good fit for the part and the franchise. “He’s around the age you were when we met.” “So that makes him…” Brian’s question lingered in the air. “I think he’s like 32?” “Fuck you. I was 29 when we met the night Gus was born.” “Still so sensitive about your age? I thought you stopped caring when said son graduated from high school.” Justin was enjoying the tease.
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qafgiftxchnge · 4 years
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QAF_GIFTXCHNGE masterpost
I’m expecting 44 gifts in total, 37 have been posted so far. I’ll update this post when the rest come in. 
This is the TENTH, yes TENTH year of the gift exchange (as far as I can tell, unless it existed elsewhere before 2006)
So please enjoy and leave some love for all the QAF santas this year! :)
When/if the creators post to tumblr, I’ll reblog them here too.
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qafgiftxchnge · 4 years
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QAF Gift Exchange - Gift #4
TO: mander3_swish FROM: kitkatbyte (Wendy) TITLE: Jealous of Your Cigarette GIFT REQUEST: Vid, angst, canon-compliant, humor, crack, sexy fun times, Song: Jealous of Your Cigarette by Hawksley Workman. I think there should be lots of reference material for that! Feel free to include any and all characters partaking in the bad habit. NOTE: Happy Holidays, mander3_swish! Thanks for organizing! Vimeo link: https://vimeo.com/381707982
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qafgiftxchnge · 4 years
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QAF Gift Exchange - Gift #4
TO: mander3_swish FROM: kitkatbyte (Wendy) TITLE: Jealous of Your Cigarette GIFT REQUEST: Vid, angst, canon-compliant, humor, crack, sexy fun times, Song: Jealous of Your Cigarette by Hawksley Workman. I think there should be lots of reference material for that! Feel free to include any and all characters partaking in the bad habit. NOTE: Happy Holidays, mander3_swish! Thanks for organizing! Vimeo link: https://vimeo.com/381707982
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QAF Gift Exchange - reminder to get your butt in gear! <3
I hope everyone's gifts are going well and the elves are working away!
Just a reminder that gifts are due by end of day on the 30th! (I already have 3 waiting in my inbox)
Good luck finishing up [I know I need it!], and I can't wait to see everyone's gifts!!
Feel free to check in and let me know how you're doing. 
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qafgiftxchnge · 5 years
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2019 QAF Gift Exchange assignments have been sent out! If you haven't noticed receiving yours, check your inboxes, or junk and spam folders. If they're not there, let me know! I haven't recieved any bounce backs, and only 5 people have let me know they're received theirs.
Have fun writing! I'll check in at the end of the month!
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qafgiftxchnge · 5 years
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Don't forget to get in on the 2019 qaf_giftxchnge!! Sign ups will remain open until November 1st, 2019 11:59pm Eastern QAF_GIFTXCHNGE Signup Form
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