Frequently Asked Questions

What is a 'flash exchange'?

Inspired by an event from twitter user Gy, a 'flash exchange' is an exchange in which there is a short time period for sign ups, creation, and creator reveals, usually 72 hours. Word counts and art minimums and maximums are low to accomodate this.This is a centralized account to run monthly flash exchanges for various themes, characters or ships.

What are the requirements to participate?

Participants must have an AO3 account and meet the age requirements set by the exchanges mods (it may change by month)! There's no application, no experience requirement, no minimum follower count.

What are the rules?

The rules are simple!
1. Sign up, following the rules of a given month's exchange
2. Respect your giftee's wants & do not wants
3. Post your assignment on time
4. Communicate with the monthly mods if anything comes upNon-compliance with the rules will result in a 1-month ban on flash exchange participation. We know that life happens and that these events are fast turnaround — in line with rule 4, if you find yourself unable to complete your assignment by the due date, PLEASE communicate!We ask that you talk to the mods listed on the monthly event page — while the HQ Flash Exchange account mods do frequently check email and DMs, contacting the monthly exchange mods is best.

What content is allowed?

This will depend on the monthly theme and the wishes of the flash exchange mods. We are overall a group comfortable with dark/problematic material, but it may not be appropriate for each exchange. See the monthly exchange page for more details about what is and is not allowed in a given month.

What are treats?

Treats are extra fanworks created for a participant in the exchange, outside of your assignment, or works created for participants by people outside of the exchange.From the 'Request Summary' page of the AO3 collection, you can view all the requests and prompts by the exchange participants. To write a treat, simply follow the word count and/or art min/max guidelines, respect the recipients 'do not wants', and post it as a gift to the collection! If you have a question about how to post a treat, please DM the account or a mod.
How to post a treat can be found in our posting guide!

How do I sign up?

Sign ups will be through AO3 on the dates indicated on the monthly exchange page!

My question hasn't been answered...

If you have questions, you can email the account, DM the twitter or join our Discord! All links can be found in the footer below.

HQ Flash Exchange Resources

HQ Flash Exchange Mods

Candi

She/They
Candi is a fanfic writer and artist. She loves Kageyama Tobio and shoving him against everyone in HQ. They also enjoy crochet, archery, and yelling at her beloved friends 💜

Sapphire

All pronouns
Sapphire is a fanfic writer who highly enjoys torturing her favorites. They could never pick a favorite Haikyuu!! character (it’s Oikawa and Tsukishima). He also loves his dog and crocheting.

Retired Mods (that we deeply appreciate):
Eo, Rompers, Finny

Have a theme idea? Want to run a flash exchange of your own with our advertising?Fill out our form!Other themes/ideas currently proposed include: polyships, rarepairs, setters, aces, hybrids, omegaverse, aro/ace