Hellaverse Exchange

What A Hellish Summer Exchange 2026

2026-04-06T18:53:41Z

AO3 Collection • Tagset

A casual exchange where you create and receive either at least 666 words, a clean sketch on unlined paper, or an uncoloured one panel comic of any relationship of your choice.

Tagset nominations open: Now
Signups open: Saturday, April 25
Signups close: Saturday, May 9
Assignments out by: ASAP
Assignments due: Saturday, June 13
Works revealed: Saturday, June 20
Authors revealed: Saturday, June 27

Everything closes/is due/is revealed at 20:00 PST.

FAQ For It's a Hellaverse Exchange!s

These are exchanges for Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss run through the Archive of Our Own. Participants sign up to write a story or create artwork using characters and/or pairings which have been requested. In return, they receive a story or art featuring characters and/or pairings they have requested.

These exchanges will occur in four different stages: Nominations, Sign-ups, Assignments, and Reveals.

- During Nominations, people use a form on AO3 to submit pairings (either / or &) or solo characters (also nominated as relationships by going "Solo: Character") in either the Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon) fandom, Helluva Boss (Web Series) fandom, or Crossovers fandom.

- During Sign-ups, people use a form on AO3 to request and offer to write stories one to three fandoms from the nominated list. Participants must offer and request multiple pairings.

- After sign-ups, participants are matched up based on what they offered and requested, and Assignments are sent out. Participants have a set amount of time to create fic or art for one of the relationships their recipient has requested.

- Stories must be posted to their collection by the deadline, where they will automatically appear as anonymous "Mystery Work" gifts for the recipients.

- Then the stories shall be Revealed while author names are hidden for about a week or two, depending on the exchange. Afterwards, the author names shall be revealed.

If you have questions or need clarifications, you may always use the veesevents@proton.me email. This is the most reliable and fastest way to contact the mods. The mods are here to help - don't be afraid to email us.

You should email the mods immediately about problems like these:

- You want to participate, but are not sure you are eligible - possibly due to a previous ban.

- Your assignment does not include anything you actually signed up to write.

- You posted your assignment, but it showed up on the pinch hit list as if you had defaulted.

- The reveal has just taken place and the story written for you is missing/not complete/does not include the characters you requested.

- The reveal has just taken place and the story you wrote is missing.

If you have difficulties with your assignment, you are encouraged to contact the mods. We may be able to help with the following problems:

- The subject matter of your recipient’s request is tricky/possibly squicky/includes things that someone might find upsetting, and you require more information.

- The request details don't match the fandom, or concern characters that the recipient did not request. (In this case, depending on the details, it may be that the recipient is breaking the rules and the mods will work with you to find a solution of some sort.)

Be warned, however, that not all recipients will reply to requests for information - in these cases we encourage you to go ahead and write a story limited to the fandom requested and including all the requested characters. Optional details are optional. Anonymity is important in exchanges - please don’t contact your recipient yourself.

Nominations

The mods create a nominations form on AO3 for every challenge. Participants can nominate a certain amount of pairings that they want to be available for that exchange.

"Tagmods" work behind the scenes to check each nomination after nominations close. They approve correctly formatted nominations and reject any which have characters which are not involved in any of the approved fandoms. We eliminate duplicates and fix typos. Once clean-up has been completed, the list is ready for sign-ups.

There will be a relationship tagset which will last between exchanges, but different exchanges might have separate "additional tags" and therefore you may have to nominate the same additional tag in multiple exchanges.

Sign-Ups

Anyone aged 18 or older with an AO3 account can sign up. You are only allowed to sign up or nominate with one account.

You are required to request at least three different relationships. We use "Or" matching. This means the person assigned to you must only write one of your requested relationships to match with your request.

You must offer to write at least three different relationships. You can also offer "Any" characters in HH, HB, or Crossovers, but that means you are willing to write any of the nominated characters, in any combination.

You can change your mind at any point during the sign-up period by editing your sign-up form. You can find your sign-up form on your AO3 profile page: click on "Sign-ups" in the left-hand navigation pane.

"Optional details" is the space on the form where you can give extra information about the kind of story you want to receive.

This information is optional for both you and your writer. You don't have to write anything here, and your writer doesn't have to include any of the details listed as “optional details" in their story. Please only include text in this box, with very minimal formatting, as rich media can cause problems in the mods’ interface and won't appear if you are sent out as a pinch hit. No images or heading tags please.

A good use of the optional details space is providing prompts for your writer. Other helpful things to include are: why you chose the characters you did and what you like about them; whether you’re a fan of crossovers or AUs; favourite genres or tropes; and so on.

An inappropriate use of the optional details space would be to demand a very specific story or relationship between the characters; to provide a prompt and declare or imply that this is the only story you want; to make a request for a story that does not match either the fandom or the characters you matched on; and/or to demand a crossover/fusion with another fandom with no other options offered. As a writer, if you are assigned a prompt like this, you can contact the mods for help.

It must include a list of Do Not Wants (DNWs) if there are things that will ruin a gift for you. However, these will not be enforced in cases where the mods feel a requester is being unreasonable to their writer. They will also not be enforced if they appear only in the requester's letter.

We require writers to make note of the squicks, triggers, and other DNWs their recipient has put in the "Optional Details" fields and make a good-faith effort to avoid those. This includes brief mentions of DNWs as well as DNWs for things that appear in canon. If a writer isn’t sure how a DNW applies to a particular request, it is the writer’s responsibility to check with the mods. Mods can contact recipients privately to clarify a DNW’s meaning or potential exceptions.

“Optional details" are meant to allow a writer to understand some of their recipient’s favorite things so they can better craft a story for that person.

Your story must be your own work. Do not use genAI to create content. If you're unsure how much of another source (e.g. quotes) can be included in your work, please check with the mods.

Posting Assignments

Either go to your Assignments page on AO3, which you can find under the "Assignments" link on your Profile page, or go to the event's page and click on "Your Assignment". You should see two buttons at the top right of your assignment: "Fulfill", and "Default".

Click "Fulfill", and you'll be taken to a posting form. This will automatically post your story into the current challenge. It will also have your recipient's name already filled in. All you need to do is fill in the rest of the form, preview it to make sure it looks okay, and post.

If you're posting a Treat, you won't have an assignment or "Fulfill" button. Instead, go to the collection and click on "Post to Collection" under the collection title. This will take you to a form with the challenge collection name already filled in. Fill in the recipient's name manually, then fill in the rest of the form, preview it to make sure it looks okay, and post.

AO3 allows editing at any time. Please note that your story must be complete when it is uploaded. You may still make edits until the reveal, but the story itself must be finished: every version of the story that you upload must be something that could go live as a gift if you weren't able to update any more. Uploading an unfinished story is against the rules. Your story must also stand on its own. Do not give it a cliffhanger with the intention of expanding it or adding more later.

You can add author's notes, but they will be visible as soon as the stories are revealed. You must not reveal your identity or link to social media in your author's notes. Please also don't use author's notes to apologise for your story. We bet it's great!

Do not add your work to an existing series until after Creator Reveals. If you are writing your work with an existing series in mind, please get a second opinion on whether it stands alone.

Defaulting

If you can't finish in time, you can default. This lets the mods know they need to find a pinch hitter to write a story for your recipient.

Things happen. Life happens. Defaulting is often out of your control. An earlier default is better than struggling against a deadline you won’t be able to meet. After defaulting, if you manage to finish your work anyway, it can still be uploaded and your recipient will have an extra story. An earlier default is better than a later one, as it gives the pinch hitters longer to work.

Simply follow the steps outlined below and everything will be fine.

To default, go to your Assignments page on AO3, which you can find under the "Assignments" link on your Profile, or on the exchange's subcollection page as "Your Assignment". You should see two buttons at the top of your assignment: "Fulfill", and "Default".

Click the Default button, then click the confirmation on the popup that appears. The mods will be notified and will find a pinch hitter to fulfill your assignment.

If you default, and your own writer defaults, your requests will not be sent to the pinch-hitters list. While defaulting does not disallow you from receiving a story, it means you are no longer guaranteed a story in the exchange.

You may be restricted from signing up in future. Whether you get a penalty for defaulting depends on how and when you default.

- Before the assignment deadline: If you default using the AO3 button before, you'll be flagged as a defaulter. However, if it’s your first default, you are free to participate in the next exchange. If you have done so more than once, you might be expected to write and post another story to participate again.

- Default via Placeholder: If you upload an unfinished story, or a placeholder (for example, gibberish, or repeated paragraphs to make wordcount), you will be marked as a defaulter. You may also be marked as a defaulter if, upon reading their story, the recipient tells us that it does not deal with their requested relationships. This will result in a ban from the next several exchanges.

- No-show default: If you default by simply failing to post your story, without using the Default button or contacting the mods in advance, you will be expected to either write a treat or be banned from the next several exchanges.

- Multiple defaults: If you default twice in a row, but want to participate in future, please talk to the mods.

If you are banned in any of these cases, you may get yourself unbanned by talking to the mods, although you may be required to write additional stories.

Pinch Hits

Pinch hits are assignments that the original author has had to default on, or assignments that weren't matched to any authors. As people default, the mods will post the assignments to the Hellaverse Exchange's Dreamwidth community, where they're available for anyone to claim.

Every year, people who did not sign up for the main challenge will write pinch hits in order to help out those who otherwise might not get a story. These pinch hitters are encouraged to leave prompts at a post on the Dreamwidth admin journal. There is no guarantee of a story, but we encourage participants to check these prompts and see if there is anything they can write.

Treats

Treats are just that: unassigned extra stories (or other works) created for the fun of it. You don't need to be signed up to the challenge to give a treat. People whose requests go out to the pinch hit list in the last week of the challenge are the most likely to get treats written for them, as people scramble to make sure everyone is covered. But anyone may find an extra gift in the archive for them on story reveal day.

There's no way to differentiate an assigned story from a treat in the main collection. Some treat writers put something in the tags or the author's notes about the work being a treat, so the recipient will know which is their official gift. They are not required to do so.

If you're writing a Treat, you won't have an assignment or "Fulfill" button. Instead, go to the collection on AO3, and click on "Post To Collection" under the challenge title. This will take you to a form with the challenge collection name already filled in. Fill in the recipient's name manually, then fill in the rest of the form, preview it to make sure it looks okay, and post.

AO3 released a setting that allows users to choose whether or not they can receive extra gifts. If a person has the setting "Allow anyone to gift me works" selected in their preferences, then AO3 users can give extra gifts to that person. If this setting is not checked, only a user who has an exchange assignment for that person, or who has claimed their prompts in a prompt meme, can give them gifts.

Because of this setting, we have encouraged people to state in their sign-up or profile page if they're open to treats. Mods can also check who's able to receive treats (especially because users could choose to change this setting during the event). If you're not sure if someone would like treats, you are very welcome to ask the mods.

Reveals

Reveals come in two stages: story reveals, and author reveals. For story reveals, the mods switch all the regular stories from hidden to visible. Participants are notified by email that they have a gift waiting for them, with a direct link to their gift story. Participants can also look on their AO3 profile under "Gifts" to find their gift story. Author names are still hidden at this point.

Authors can reply to comments on AO3; these will automatically appear under the name “Anonymous Creator" until author reveals. However, authors must be logged in for this to work.

For author reveals, the mods switch all the stories from anonymous to showing author names. Everyone can see who wrote the stories. Once author names have been revealed, participants can crosspost their stories to other platforms and can respond to comments un-anonymously.

This is an anonymous exchange. Do not:

- Contact your recipient directly for information (even anonymously) - any requests should go to the moderators, who will act as an intermediary;

- Publicly discuss details of your story that would identify what you are writing, or for whom;

- Upload your story to any other site or link to it saying you've written it until after Creator Reveals;

- Mark your story as part of a collection known to belong to you, or as part of a series;

- Or any other action that will publicly identify what you are writing or who it is for.

You are not allowed to delete your story or remove it from the collection once it has been uploaded. The mods may grant exceptions on a case by case basis upon request.

The mods reserve the right to ban any participant who participates in inappropriate behaviour, or for other significant disruptive behaviour on a case-by-case basis.

Please comment to thank your creator for their gift!

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SSS&S EX 2025 Creator Reveals!

2025-11-01T02:19:46Z

We have reached the end of our Spooky Scary exchange! Thanks to everyone who participated. We had lots of fantastic works for the autumn season.

I haven't decided if I am doing a Hellaverse Exchange for the winter, but there is time to decide on it.

If you have any suggestions, comments, or critiques on this exchange, you can leave them in comments here. Anonymous comments are allowed if you're more comfortable with doing it that way. I'm hoping our next exchange will be even better!

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SSS&S PDPH!

2025-10-11T17:27:06Z

Those who have not submitted their assignments and haven't asked for an extension have been defaulted.

A reminder about defaulting in Hellaverse Exchanges (and in many AO3 exchanges):

If you manually default before the assignment deadline, you'll be flagged as a defaulter. However, if it's your first time, you can participate in the next exchange. If you've done so more than once, contact the mod to find out how you can participate in future exchanges.
If you don't post, don't use the default button, or don't contact the mods in advance of the deadline, you will be banned from the next several exchanges. If you wish to be unbanned, contact the mod to find out how you can become unbanned so you can participate in future exchanges.

Now, the PDPHs!

~~( PDPH1 - Hazbin Hotel, Crossover (art, comic, fic) )~~

Either email the mod or leave a comment here with your AO3 name and which pinch hit you want to take. It is first come, first served. All assignments are due on October 18th, 20:00 PDT.

For everyone else, this is the time to write treats!

Treats don't have assignments or "Fulfill" button. Instead, go to the collection on AO3, and click on "Post To Collection" under the challenge title. This will take you to a form with the challenge collection name already filled in. Fill in the recipient's name manually, then fill in the rest of the form, preview it to make sure it looks okay, and post. Check which requests have asked for treats. Treats should still contain requested relationship, medium and freeform tags an avoid all DNWs.

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SSS&S Deadline!

2025-10-11T17:13:46Z

The deadline has hit! I will be posting the Post Deadline Pinch Hits soon. We now have two weeks for making any treats our hearts desire! (And editing, for those who want to further polish or add to their assignment.)

Thanks everyone who submitted on time!

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SSS&S EX Deadline Soon!

2025-10-06T01:03:12Z

Five more days until assignments are due! If you are unable to finish your assignment, please default as soon as possible to give the mod time to find a pinch hitter!

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SSS&S Pinch Hits

2025-08-23T09:16:47Z

Please leave a comment with what pinch hit you would like to claim, and your ao3 username, or e-mail us at veesevents@proton.me with the same information. All rules which are relevant for regular assignments also apply to pinch hits.

Edit: No current PHs!

( PH 1 - Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon) )

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SSS&S EX Assignments Out!

2025-08-23T03:59:27Z

Assignments have been randomized and sent out!

If there is a problem with your assignment, please contact veesevents@proton.me.

Initial pinch hits will be posted within a day.

Assignments are due on October 10th. For helping people with treats, here is the Auto AO3 App for the exchange. You can use it to sort for the pairings and characters you want to create for.

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Spooky, Scary Sins & Sinners Exchange 2025 Rules & FAQ

2025-07-28T23:21:10Z

AO3 Collection • Relationship Tagset • Optional Freeform Tagset

A casual exchange where you have two months up to create and receive either at least 300 words, a clean sketch on unlined paper, or an uncoloured one panel comic of any relationship of your choice.

Tagset nominations open: Now
Signups open: Friday, August 8
Signups close: Friday, August 22
Assignments out by: Saturday, August 23
Assignments due: Friday, October 10
Works revealed: Friday, October 24
Authors revealed: Friday, October 31

Everything closes/is due/is revealed at 20:00 PST.

FAQ For It's a Hellaverse Exchange!s

Nominations

Sign-Ups

Anyone aged 18 or older with an AO3 account can sign up. You are only allowed to sign up or nominate with one account.

You are required to request at least three different relationships. We use "Or" matching. This means the person assigned to you must only write one of your requested relationships to match with your request.

You must offer to write at least three different relationships. You can also offer "Any" characters in HH, HB, or Crossovers, but that means you are willing to write any of the nominated characters, in any combination.

You can change your mind at any point during the sign-up period by editing your sign-up form. You can find your sign-up form on your AO3 profile page: click on "Sign-ups" in the left-hand navigation pane.

"Optional details" is the space on the form where you can give extra information about the kind of story you want to receive.

This information is optional for both you and your writer. You don't have to write anything here, and your writer doesn't have to include any of the details listed as “optional details" in their story. Please only include text in this box, with very minimal formatting, as rich media can cause problems in the mods’ interface and won't appear if you are sent out as a pinch hit. No images or heading tags please.

A good use of the optional details space is providing prompts for your writer. Other helpful things to include are: why you chose the characters you did and what you like about them; whether you’re a fan of crossovers or AUs; favourite genres or tropes; and so on.

An inappropriate use of the optional details space would be to demand a very specific story or relationship between the characters; to provide a prompt and declare or imply that this is the only story you want; to make a request for a story that does not match either the fandom or the characters you matched on; and/or to demand a crossover/fusion with another fandom with no other options offered. As a writer, if you are assigned a prompt like this, you can contact the mods for help.

It must include a list of Do Not Wants (DNWs) if there are things that will ruin a gift for you. However, these will not be enforced in cases where the mods feel a requester is being unreasonable to their writer. They will also not be enforced if they appear only in the requester's letter.

We require writers to make note of the squicks, triggers, and other DNWs their recipient has put in the "Optional Details" fields and make a good-faith effort to avoid those. This includes brief mentions of DNWs as well as DNWs for things that appear in canon. If a writer isn’t sure how a DNW applies to a particular request, it is the writer’s responsibility to check with the mods. Mods can contact recipients privately to clarify a DNW’s meaning or potential exceptions.

“Optional details" are meant to allow a writer to understand some of their recipient’s favorite things so they can better craft a story for that person.

Your story must be your own work. Do not use ChatGPT or other generative tools to create content. If you're unsure how much of another source (e.g. quotes) can be included in your work, please check with the mods.

Posting Assignments

Defaulting

Pinch Hits

Treats

Reveals

Reveals come in two stages: story reveals, and author reveals. For story reveals, the mods switch all the regular stories from hidden to visible. Participants are notified by email that they have a gift waiting for them, with a direct link to their gift story. Participants can also look on their AO3 profile under "Gifts" to find their gift story. Author names are still hidden at this point.

Authors can reply to comments on AO3; these will automatically appear under the name “Anonymous Creator" until author reveals. However, authors must be logged in for this to work.

For author reveals, the mods switch all the storiesr from anonymous to showing author names. Everyone can see who wrote the stories. Once author names have been revealed, participants can crosspost their stories to other platforms and can respond to comments un-anonymously.

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WAHS EX 2025 Creator Reveals!

2025-06-23T02:57:53Z

...and with creator reveals, we are done with WAHS Ex for this year! Thank you everyone who has participated, it has been a blast and we have tons of Hellaverse works that are amazing!

There will be another exchange for the fall. So watch this space for the announcement!

If you have any suggestions, comments, or critiques on this exchange, you can leave them in comments here. Anonymous comments are allowed if you're more comfortable with doing it that way. I'm hoping our next exchange will be even better!

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WAHS EX Reveals!

2025-06-16T03:02:11Z

Our collection is open!

Enjoy the spoils and make sure to comment! Commenting on the story gifted to you is mandatory (unless it isn't to your taste and you refuse the gift, which is fine, there are id mismatches sometimes). If you don't end up doing so before the next Hellaverse Exchange Event, you won't be able to sign up.

The collection will remain open for treats all throughout the anon period. So if there is still someone you want to make a gift for, you have a week before creator reveals close the collection.

Thank you to all our creators who have made us a collection almost twice as big as our amount of signups!

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WAHS EX On Track For Reveals!

2025-06-09T20:59:21Z

All assignments are in! That means there won't be any delays. Here are the next steps of the exchange:

We can spend this week editing our assignments, until works reveals on June 15th 8pm PDT. Then we feast on everything. And comment! Especially on your gifts, as commenting on your gift is necessary to take part in future Hellaverse Exchanges. During this time, additional treats can be posted.

The week after that, creators are revealed and you can take credit for all the hard work you've put in! The collection will be closed to new entries, but don't worry. If you enjoyed how this exchange went, there's one being prepared for the fall~

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WAHS EX Post Deadline Pinch Hits

2025-06-02T03:20:25Z

The deadline has passed! Those who have not submitted their assignments and haven't asked for an extension have been defaulted.

A reminder about defaulting in Hellaverse Exchanges (and in many AO3 exchanges):

If you manually default before the assignment deadline, you'll be flagged as a defaulter. However, if it's your first time, you can participate in the next exchange. If you've done so more than once, contact the mod to find out how you can participate in future exchanges.
If you don't post, don't use the default button, or don't contact the mods in advance of the deadline, you will be banned from the next several exchanges. If you wish to be unbanned, contact the mod to find out how you can become unbanned so you can participate in future exchanges.

Now, the PDPHs!

~~PH2 - (All: Art, Comic; Some Requests: Fic) Hazbin Hotel, Helluva Boss~~

https://autoao3app.firebaseapp.com/#/hellishsummerex2025/user/rainbowextravaganza

Request 1 by rainbowextravaganza
Fandom: Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon)
Alastor/Angel Dust, Alastor/Lucifer Morningstar, Alastor/Zestial (Hazbin Hotel), Angel Dust/Lucifer Morningstar (Hazbin Hotel), Alastor/Angel Dust/Lucifer (Hazbin Hotel)
Formats: Art, Fan Comic, Fic
Assassination Attempt(s), Emotional Manipulation, Established Relationship, Festival, Fireworks, Forced Proximity, Forest Sex, Hurt/Comfort, Intercrural Sex, Language of Flowers, Mistaken for Being in a Relationship, Overstimulation, Picnics, Secret Relationship, Sharing a Bed, sharing ice cream, Toxic Fluff, unexpected rainstorm, gazebo, Bondage

Summary
DNW: underage, non-con (dub-con encouraged), Human AUs

Request 2 by rainbowextravaganza
Fandom: Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon)
The Egg Bois & Sir Pentious (Hazbin Hotel), Solo: Egg Boiz, Solo: Fat Nuggets, Solo: Lucifer Morningstar
Formats: Art, Fan Comic
Any Additional Tag

Summary
DNW: underage, non-con, Human AUs

Request 3 by rainbowextravaganza
Fandom: Helluva Boss (Web Series)
Asmodeus/Fizzarolli (Helluva Boss), Blitzo/Stolas Goetia (HB)
Formats: Art, Fan Comic, Fic
Assassination Attempt(s), Bondage, Body Worship, Established Relationship, Festival, Fireworks, Intercrural Sex, Sex in a Car, Hurt/Comfort, Language of Flowers, Overstimulation, Picnics, Secret Relationship, Sharing a Bed, sharing ice cream, gazebo, unexpected rainstorm, Forest Sex, Underwater Sex, Location: Carnival

Summary
DNW: underage, non-con, Human AUs

Request 4 by rainbowextravaganza
Fandom: Helluva Boss (Web Series)
Millie & Sallie May (Helluva Boss), Solo: Fizzarolli
Formats: Art, Fan Comic

Summary
DNW: underage, non-con, Human AUs

~~PH3 - (All: Art, Comic, Fic) Hazbin Hotel~~

https://autoao3app.firebaseapp.com/#/hellishsummerex2025/user/WinterWolf649

Request 1 by WinterWolf649
Fandom: Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon)
Alastor/Vox, Alastor & Vox (Hazbin Hotel), Solo: Vox, Vark & Vox (Hazbin Hotel), Charlie Morningstar/Vaggie, Solo: Lilith Morningstar
Formats: Art, Fan Comic, Fic
Emotional Manipulation, Fish Puns, Language of Flowers, Merpeople, Secret Relationship, Road Trips, AU: Humans, unexpected rainstorm, Typhoon, Hurt/Comfort, Forced Proximity, Hell Cicadas, Self-Esteem Issues, Overdosing, Sharing a Bed, Body Worship

Summary
DNW: long term established relationships, too much fluff (some is ok, but I prefer angst)
other additional things: I am a huge radiostatic shipper, but am a huge fan of the dynamic moreso than the relationship itself. I love Vox. I've also been really fond of yuri/wlw content lately. I love toxic yuri and non-toxic yuri as well. ALSO, Lilith is pretty.

Either email the mod or leave a comment here with your AO3 name and which pinch hit you want to take. It is first come, first served. These are due on June 8th, 20:00 PDT.

For everyone else, this is the time to write treats!

Treats don't have assignments or "Fulfill" button. Instead, go to the collection on AO3, and click on "Post To Collection" under the challenge title. This will take you to a form with the challenge collection name already filled in. Fill in the recipient's name manually, then fill in the rest of the form, preview it to make sure it looks okay, and post. Check which requests have asked for treats. Treats should still contain requested relationship, medium and freeform tags an avoid all DNWs.

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WAHS EX Deadline Info!

2025-05-29T17:43:09Z

In a few days, the deadline for all What A Hellish Summer Exchange words will hit. For those not familiar with exchanges, this is what happens then.

Any assignment which has not been completed will be defaulted on.
Anyone who has turned in their assignment, but has not received something in exchange, will go out as a Post Deadline Pinch Hit (PDPH).
There will be a week for those Pinch Hits to be picked up and completed, with a due date of June 8th.
A week after that, we get work reveals! For a week, the creators will all be anonymous. Please read and comment on your gift at this time! (And maybe others?)
Finally, a week later, creator's will be revealed and the event will be over~

I'm looking forward to all of the Hellaverse works we'll have created!

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WAHS EX Two Week Notice!

2025-05-18T20:59:10Z

We have two weeks left until the due date! We have a handful of delightful submissions already and I know many are chomping at the bit with excitement for their gifts.

If you have any problems with your assignment, do not forget you can message the mod at any time for help.

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WAHSEX 2025 Pinch Hits

2025-04-07T20:21:55Z

~~PH 1 - (All: Art, Comic, Fic (HH & HB))~~

Request 1 by Shiveagit
Fandom: Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon)
Alastor/Angel Dust/Lucifer (Hazbin Hotel)
Medium Format: Art Medium Format: Fan Comic Medium Format: Fic
Treasure Hunting, "It's too hot to do anything.", Fishing, Too much sand, A Brushing Sand Off B's Feet/Clothes/Etc, Pirates, Message in a bottle, Festival, Road Trips, Poly: "How am I supposed to survive the summer with the both of you living in sundresses?"

Summary
♦Something soft to show that they care for each other.

*gifts enabled and are open to treats
Platonic, Romantic, Nsfw or Sfw
Any Prompts, Any tags. Free to do anything.

Request 2 by Shiveagit
Fandom: Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon)
Alastor/Vox, Alastor & Vox (Hazbin Hotel)
Medium Format: Art Medium Format: Fan Comic Medium Format: Fic
Headaches & Migraines, unexpected rainstorm, Sharks, Swimming, Pool Party, Underwater Sex, Sex in a Car, Hurt/Comfort, Communication Failure, Sharing a Bed, Established Relationship, Fakes Public Proposal For Free Drinks/Dessert

Summary
♦Anything that has Alastor riling up Vox ending how ever you want it.

*gifts enabled and are open to treats
Platonic, Romantic, Nsfw or Sfw
Any Prompts, Any tags. Free to do anything.

Request 3 by Shiveagit
Fandom: Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon)
Alastor/Lucifer Morningstar, Alastor & Lucifer Morningstar (Hazbin Hotel)
Medium Format: Art Medium Format: Fan Comic Medium Format: Fic
dancing around a bonfire, Fireworks, Is Suddenly on Fire, Forest Sex, Sex in a Car, Summer Snow - Freeform, Merpeople, Sea Monsters, unexpected rainstorm, Secret Relationship, Communication Failure, Hurt/Comfort, Sharing a Bed, Established Relationship Fakes Public Proposal For Free Drinks/Dessert

Summary
♦Old men just vibing.

*gifts enabled and are open to treats
Platonic, Romantic, Nsfw or Sfw
Any Prompts, Any tags. Free to do anything.

Request 4 by Shiveagit
Fandom: Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon)
Alastor/Valentino (Hazbin Hotel), Alastor & Valentino (Hazbin Hotel)
Medium Format: Art Medium Format: Fan Comic Medium Format: Fic
Fireworks, Festival, gazebo, Footprints in the Sand, A Brushing Sand Off B's Feet/Clothes/Etc, Matching Swimsuits, cocktails, sharing ice cream, Sunburn, Sunscreen, Sharing a Bed, Road Trips

Summary
♦Exploring Valentino and Alastor if they wound up hanging out. Chatting of the things they have in common or not so common or just having some sweet moments

*gifts enabled and are open to treats
Platonic, Romantic, Nsfw or Sfw
Any Prompts, Any tags. Free to do anything.

Request 5 by Shiveagit
Fandom: Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon)
Solo: Lucifer Morningstar
Medium Format: Art Medium Format: Fan Comic Medium Format: Fic
Barbecue, Is Suddenly on Fire, Movie Night

Summary
♦Lucifer gets some "Me Time"

*gifts enabled and are open to treats
Platonic, Romantic, Nsfw or Sfw
Any Prompts, Any tags. Free to do anything.

Request 6 by Shiveagit
Fandom: Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon)
Velvette & Vox (Hazbin Hotel), Velvette/Vox (Hazbin Hotel)
Medium Format: Art Medium Format: Fan Comic Medium Format: Fic
Sex in a Car, Forest Sex, Underwater Sex, Sharing a Bed, Body Worship, Location: Beach, Festival, gazebo, Pool Party

Summary
♦Just Vox and Vellette enjoying a vacation break

*gifts enabled and are open to treats
Platonic, Romantic, Nsfw or Sfw
Any Prompts, Any tags. Free to do anything.

Request 7 by Shiveagit
Fandom: Helluva Boss (Web Series)
Solo: Vassago
Medium Format: Art Medium Format: Fan Comic Medium Format: Fic
Message in a bottle, hottest day of the year, Pirates, lemonade, Pool Party, AU: Humans, Paradise, Seashells

Summary
♦Enjoy the views

*gifts enabled and are open to treats
Platonic, Romantic, Nsfw or Sfw
Any Prompts, Any tags. Free to do anything.

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Assignments Out!

2025-04-07T03:09:58Z

Sign ups that didn't have the required three minimum relationships were deleted and assignments have been randomized and sent out!

If there is a problem with your assignment, please contact veesevents@proton.me.

There are no Initial Pinch Hits! Hooray!

Assignments are due on June 1st. For helping people with treats, here is the Auto AO3 App for the exchange. You can use it to sort for the pairings and characters you want to create for.

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Signups Open for Hellish Summer!

2025-03-17T00:10:44Z

AO3 Collection • Relationship Tagset • Freeform Tagset

It's time to sign up for What A Hellish Summer Exchange!

As a reminder, you can only sign up with things that are in the tagset and you need at least two platonic or solo requests to be guaranteed a gift. If a relationship (/ or &) is not in the tagset, you can still nominate! Also, every signup requires three additional tags. One will be matched on.

The freeform tagset is also open for nominations still. So even if you don't want to add anything, keep an eye if a freeform is added during the sign up period that you might want or that other people will be requesting.

Click here to sign up!

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What A Hellish Summer Exchange 2025 Rules & FAQ

2025-03-02T08:05:28Z

Tagset nominations open: Now
Signups open: Sunday, March 16
Signups close: Sunday, April 6
Assignments out by: Monday, April 7
Assignments due: Sunday, June 1
Works revealed: Sunday, June 15
Authors revealed: Sunday, June 22

Everything closes/is due/is revealed at 20:00 PST.

FAQ For It's a Hellaverse Exchange!s

Nominations

Sign-Ups

Anyone aged 18 or older with an AO3 account can sign up. You are only allowed to sign up or nominate with one account.

You are required to request at least three different relationships. We use "Or" matching. This means the person assigned to you must only write one of your requested relationships to match with your request.

You must offer to write at least three different relationships. You can also offer "Any" characters in HH, HB, or Crossovers, but that means you are willing to write any of the nominated characters, in any combination.

You can change your mind at any point during the sign-up period by editing your sign-up form. You can find your sign-up form on your AO3 profile page: click on "Sign-ups" in the left-hand navigation pane.

"Optional details" is the space on the form where you can give extra information about the kind of story you want to receive.

This information is optional for both you and your writer. You don't have to write anything here, and your writer doesn't have to include any of the details listed as “optional details" in their story. Please only include text in this box, with very minimal formatting, as rich media can cause problems in the mods’ interface and won't appear if you are sent out as a pinch hit. No images or heading tags please.

A good use of the optional details space is providing prompts for your writer. Other helpful things to include are: why you chose the characters you did and what you like about them; whether you’re a fan of crossovers or AUs; favourite genres or tropes; and so on.

An inappropriate use of the optional details space would be to demand a very specific story or relationship between the characters; to provide a prompt and declare or imply that this is the only story you want; to make a request for a story that does not match either the fandom or the characters you matched on; and/or to demand a crossover/fusion with another fandom with no other options offered. As a writer, if you are assigned a prompt like this, you can contact the mods for help.

It must include a list of Do Not Wants (DNWs) if there are things that will ruin a gift for you. However, these will not be enforced in cases where the mods feel a requester is being unreasonable to their writer. They will also not be enforced if they appear only in the requester's letter.

We require writers to make note of the squicks, triggers, and other DNWs their recipient has put in the "Optional Details" fields and make a good-faith effort to avoid those. This includes brief mentions of DNWs as well as DNWs for things that appear in canon. If a writer isn’t sure how a DNW applies to a particular request, it is the writer’s responsibility to check with the mods. Mods can contact recipients privately to clarify a DNW’s meaning or potential exceptions.

“Optional details" are meant to allow a writer to understand some of their recipient’s favorite things so they can better craft a story for that person.

Your story must be your own work. Do not use ChatGPT or other generative tools to create content. If you're unsure how much of another source (e.g. quotes) can be included in your work, please check with the mods.

Posting Assignments

Defaulting

Pinch Hits

Treats

Reveals

Reveals come in two stages: story reveals, and author reveals. For story reveals, the mods switch all the regular stories from hidden to visible. Participants are notified by email that they have a gift waiting for them, with a direct link to their gift story. Participants can also look on their AO3 profile under "Gifts" to find their gift story. Author names are still hidden at this point.

Authors can reply to comments on AO3; these will automatically appear under the name “Anonymous Creator" until author reveals. However, authors must be logged in for this to work.

For author reveals, the mods switch all the storiesr from anonymous to showing author names. Everyone can see who wrote the stories. Once author names have been revealed, participants can crosspost their stories to other platforms and can respond to comments un-anonymously.

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