Prisoner's Exchange Returns for 2025
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Nominations: April 12-18
Nominations Cleanup: April 19
Signups: April 20-May 4
Assignments: No later than May 7
Fanwork Deadline: June 15
Fanwork Reveals: June 29
Creator Reveals: July 6
All deadlines are 10 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time.
Links for the 2025 round:
AO3 Collection
Relationships Tag Set
Freeform Tag Set
The rules and FAQ can be found in the exchange profile or on Dreamwidth.
Signups are open!
Apr. 20th, 2025 10:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Requests
You will have 10 fandom slots for requests. You may repeat fandoms with different ships/tags. For each fandom slot, you may request 1-20 relationships and 2-20 freeforms. The minimum number of required fandoms is one, but if you request fewer than three unique fandoms, you are not guaranteed a gift and the mod will not delay reveals for you. Fandoms that are clearly different adaptions of the same thing, such as "Cats - Andrew Lloyd Webber," "Cats - 1998 Movie" and "Cats - 2019 Movie" will NOT be considered unique fandoms for this purpose. If you go to pinch hits with fewer than three fandoms, you may contact the mods to add extra requests if your pinch hit lingers for more than a week or more than 24 hours after the work deadline.
You may request either fic, art, or both.
If you have a letter at an external site (Dreamwidth, Tumblr, Google Docs, etc)., provide a link to it in the relevant box. Please ensure that your letter is complete by the time signups close.
If you have any Do Not Wants (DNWs) that you wish your creator to respect, they must be in the Optional Details box of your signup. DNWs that are only contained in an outside letter cannot be enforced by the mods.
The mods encourage all participants to use clear, specific, and reasonable DNWs for this exchange. If you have questions about the best way to phrase your DNWs, please contact prisonerex.mod@gmail.com for assistance.
You may request "any" ship or freeform. If you choose this option, you may be matched to someone offering any ship (in that fandom) or freeform in the tagset. Please be sure that you really are okay with receiving anything in the tagset; mods will not enforce DNWs for ships or freeforms that contradict tags in the tagset. If you are creating for a recipient who requests "any" ship or freeform, you only need to be able to create for one fandom/ship/freeform combination from the tagset.
Offers
The minimum number of required fandoms for offers is one as long as you are matchable. You will have 10 fandom slots for offers. You may repeat fandoms with different ships/tags. For each fandom slot, you may offer 1-20 relationships and 2-20 freeforms. You may offer "any" for relationships and/or freeforms. If you choose this option, please be sure that you are prepared to create for whatever relationship and/or freeform your recipient has requested.
You may offer either fic, art, or both.
Relationships Clarification #1
Apr. 17th, 2025 05:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Dishonored
- Captor!Corvo Attano/Prisoner!Guard He Keeps Choking Out In Different Locations
Marvel Cinematic Universe
- Prisoner!Loki & rescuer!Avengers
Captive Prince - C.S. Pacat
- Damen/Kastor
- Kastor/Laurent
General Formatting Note
There are multiple fandoms nominations that cannot be approved right now for one or more of the following reasons:
- The characters are not listed in the following order: Captor! -- Prisoner! -- Rescuer! -- Visitor!
- The exclamation marks are missing or in the wrong place
- The spacing around & or / is incorrect
Nominations are open!
Apr. 12th, 2025 11:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
You may nominate up to ten freeforms and five fandoms, with twenty relationships per fandom. Please use canonical tags for fandoms where possible.
Creator's Choice of Fandom - You may nominate ships under Creator's Choice of Fandom (for example, "C!Any Villain Character/P!Any Hero Character"). You may be as specific with nominations as you like. Creator's Choice of Fandom refers to any fandom in existence, not just any fandom in the tagset. If you request Creator's Choice of Fandom, mods will enforce DNWs for up to three specific fandoms, but mods will not enforce DNWs for whole genres (for example, "DNW: Yuri!!! on Ice" is enforceable, "DNW: anime fandoms" is not).
Relationships
Please include whether the characters in your nominated relationships are captors, prisoners, rescuers, or visitors. Both romantic ( / ) and platonic ( & ) relationships are eligible for this exchange.
Captor is anyone who impedes or is in a position to impede the freedom of the prisoner(s).
Prisoner is used here as a generic term for the sake of simplicity; as previously stated, all types of captivity scenarios are welcome.
Rescuer is anyone who works to free the prisoner(s).
Visitor is anyone that is not a part of holding the prisoner captive, nor working to free the prisoner, but is present while the prisoner is confined. Visitors are not prohibited from coming and going.
Remember to note each character's role (Captor, Prisoner, Rescuer, Visitor) in the scenario. Please use that order when nominating relationships to help keep duplicates down.
- Captor!Alice/Prisoner!Bob
- Prisoner!Alice/Rescuer!Bob
- Captor!Alice/Captor!Bob/Prisoner!Charlie
- Prisoner!Bob & Prisoner!Charlie
- Prisoner!Bob/Visitor!Charlie
You may also include original characters or groups in your nominations, e.g., Captor!Original Guard(s)/Prisoner!Alice. Please be sure to assign a role (e.g. Captor/Prisoner/Rescuer), even if the descriptor feels self-evident. This is to make sure that everyone has the same expectations for that relationship.
- Captor!Original Guard(s)/Prisoner!Alice
- Prisoner!Alice/Rescuer!Original Character(s)
You may also nominate specific groups of "any" character, e.g., Captor!Any Canon Villain(s)/Prisoner!Alice. Please be sure that you really do mean "any"! DNWs for specific characters in "any" ships will not be enforced.
You may also nominate single prisoner characters. Use the format Solo - Prisoner!Alice. We will not accept solo captor/rescuer/visitor nominations.
If your relationship tag is too long to comfortably include the full words for their roles, you may abbreviate, e.g., C!Alice/C!Bob/P!Charlie/R!Daphne.
Freeforms
Please nominate only specific kinks and scenarios related to some type of captivity. Most freeforms will need to fall under a category to make the tagset easier to read and prevent duplicates. Categories will be updated as nominations progress, and a list of categories with a brief description of what they mean can be found here. Examples include:
- Abduction — For Ransom
- Alternate Universe — Prison
- Attitude — Stockholm Syndrome
- Captor — Succubus
- Prison — Abandoned Warehouse
- Prisoner — Captor's Worst Enemy
- Rescue — Rescuer Poses As Guard Successfully
- Rescue — Rescuer Poses As Guard Unsuccessfully
- Rescuer — In Love With Prisoner
- Slavery — Forced Into Gladiator Fights
- Slavery — Sex Slaves
General kinks, such as Overstimulation, will be rejected. However, a tag such as Torture — Overstimulation would be accepted. If you need assistance with relating your favorite general kink to the captivity theme, you can comment on the nominations Dreamwidth post and receive help.
The moderators reserve the right to reject any scenarios and tags that are related to controversial real-world themes; for example, Nazi concentration camps.
Creator Reveals!
Jul. 21st, 2024 02:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Work Reveals!
Jul. 13th, 2024 09:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
The collection is still open for late treats, and is no longer moderated.
Thank you so much to the amazing pinch hitters who helped us get everyone a gift!
Comments aren't required, but we encourage you to leave kudos and an appreciative comment on your gift.
If you received a gift that goes against your DNWs or is otherwise rule-breaking or inappropriate, please email the mods at prisonerex.mod@gmail.com to let us know. Comments on this post are NOT screened.
Creators will be revealed one week from today, July 20th.
Last Pinch Hit! + Further Delay
Jul. 3rd, 2024 07:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
This pinch hit will be due Weds 10 July 2024 at 10:00PM EDT. Please reply to this post to claim (all comments are screened). You can also send an email to prisonerex.mod@gmail.com to claim. If you think you can take the pinch hit but need more time, please also reach out and we can discuss a different due date.
CLAIMED - PH 9 - 神さまのいない日曜日 | Kamisama no Inai Nichiyoubi | Sunday Without God (Anime & Manga), Octopath Traveler II (Video Game), Octopath Traveler II (Video Game), よるのないくに | Yoru no Nai Kuni | Nights of Azure (Video Games)
Pinch Hits 1-14
Apr. 28th, 2024 02:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Signups closed; matching in progress
Apr. 27th, 2024 11:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Signups are now open!
Apr. 16th, 2024 10:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Requests
You will have 10 fandom slots for requests. You may repeat fandoms with different ships/tags. For each fandom slot, you may request 1-20 relationships and 2-20 freeforms. The minimum number of required fandoms is one, but if you request fewer than three unique fandoms, you are not guaranteed a gift and the mod will not delay reveals for you. Fandoms that are clearly different adaptions of the same thing, such as "Cats - Andrew Lloyd Webber," "Cats - 1998 Movie" and "Cats - 2019 Movie" will NOT be considered unique fandoms for this purpose. If you go to pinch hits with fewer than three fandoms, you may contact the mods to add extra requests if your pinch hit lingers for more than a week or more than 24 hours after the work deadline.
You may request either fic, art, or both.
If you have a letter at an external site (Dreamwidth, Tumblr, Google Docs, etc)., provide a link to it in the relevant box. Please ensure that your letter is complete by the time signups close.
If you have any Do Not Wants (DNWs) that you wish your creator to respect, they must be in the Optional Details box of your signup. DNWs that are only contained in an outside letter cannot be enforced by the mods.
The mods encourage all participants to use clear, specific, and reasonable DNWs for this exchange. If you have questions about the best way to phrase your DNWs, please contact prisonerex.mod@gmail.com for assistance.
You may request "any" ship or freeform. If you choose this option, you may be matched to someone offering any ship (in that fandom) or freeform in the tagset. Please be sure that you really are okay with receiving anything in the tagset; mods will not enforce DNWs for ships or freeforms that contradict tags in the tagset. If you are creating for a recipient who requests "any" ship or freeform, you only need to be able to create for one fandom/ship/freeform combination from the tagset.
Offers
The minimum number of required fandoms for offers is one as long as you are matchable. You will have 10 fandom slots for offers. You may repeat fandoms with different ships/tags. For each fandom slot, you may offer 1-20 relationships and 2-20 freeforms. You may offer "any" for relationships and/or freeforms. If you choose this option, please be sure that you are prepared to create for whatever relationship and/or freeform your recipient has requested.
You may offer either fic, art, or both.
Freeforms clarification post #3
Apr. 15th, 2024 12:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
All nominated freeforms have been accepted as given (other than typo fixes), except the following:
Rejections
Scenario - Caring for Wounds Inflicted During Imprisonment
Rejected, as we already have Rescue - Rescuer tending to Prisoner's wounds and Scenario - Captor tends to prisoner's wounds. We prefer specific tags over general ones in this case.
Scenario - Prisoners on bad terms with each other must cooperate to escape
Rejected, as we already have Scenario - Antagonistic prisoners work together to free themselves.
Changes
Scenario - Something causes (or attempts to cause) prisoners to turn on each other
Split into two tags: Scenario - Something or someone causes prisoners to turn on each other and Scenario - Something or someone tries and fails to make prisoners turn on each other.
Scenario - Prisoner captive in Hell
Moved to Prison - Hell.
Queries
All queries must be addressed by 10 p.m. Eastern Time on April 15.
Coercion - Prisoner Must Pretend Their Situation Is Voluntary
It's not clear what's meant by the coercion category here. Is the imprisonment coercive? (That's generally assumed.) Is there coerced sex happening? Should this be in Attitude or Scenario instead? If the deadline passes without the tag being edited or discussed, we'll move it to Scenario.
Noncon - Wanted It Once But Not Like This
Do you mean "once" as in "a single time" or "once" as in "in the past"? If the deadline passes without the tag being edited or discussed, we'll change it to Noncon - Wanted It But Not Like This.
Scenario - Alpha parent claims omega child so no one else can have them
Is the claiming meant to be a type of imprisonment, or in addition to imprisonment? Is it specifically omegaverse-type claiming, such as with a bite or other mark? If the deadline passes without the tag being edited or discussed, we'll change it to Scenario - Omegaverse - C!alpha parent claim-marks P!omega child so no one else can have them.
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Ship Nominations Clarification/Reminders
Apr. 13th, 2024 01:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
-There have been a lot of unnecessary spaces in nominations, especially after the exclamation mark. Please try to notice those.
-Please try to nominate characters in this order: Captor / Prisoner / Rescuer / Visitor. This helps to cut down on duplicates.
If you have questions about how to nominate megafandoms, please reply here.
There is one fandom which needs attention:
Our Flag Means Death
Currently nominations are about evenly split between Blackbeard|Edward Teach and Edward Teach. Please use "Edward Teach" in nominations to save space.
There are also a few nominations without all the characters appropriately tagged:
- Captor!Original Pirate Captain & Prisoner!Edward Teach/Stede Bonnet & Rescuer!Israel Hands (OFMD)
- Captor!Original Pirate Captain & Prisoner!Edward Teach/Stede Bonnet & Rescuer!Revenge Crew (OFMD)
Please consider using C! / P! / R! if space is an issue.
Freeforms clarification post #2
Apr. 11th, 2024 01:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Rejections
You have 24 hours to reclaim these freeform slots before we reject the nominations.
This tag appears to have been intended for another tagset.
Rescue - Prisoner is Very Unimpressed With Rescue Attempt
This tag is redundant with Attitude - Prisoner not impressed with quality of rescue.
Scenario - Posing as Master/Slave Awakens Hidden Fetish
All captivity situations for Prisoner's Exchange must be real, not roleplay.
Changes
Attitude - Gloating Captor or Visitor
Split into Attitude - Gloating Captor and Attitude - Gloating Visitor.
Omegaverse - Alphas Are Sex Slaves
Omegaverse - Omegas Are Sex Slaves
Omegaverse - Alphas Kidnap Omegas For Forced Mating Ritual
Omegaverse - Feral Alpha Kidnaps and Mates Omega
Omegaverse - Pack Of Alphas Hunt Down One Omega To Keep Together
We don't have an Omegaverse category. Moved to Scenario - Omegaverse Where....
Rescue - Prisoner Complains Over How Long Rescue Took
Moved to Attitude.
Scenario - Sold Into Slavery By Trusted Partner
Moved to Slavery.
Queries
If capture is avoided, there's no imprisonment. Please edit to specify that this ruse is unsuccessful.
Possession - Unexpectedly befriending / caring about thing possessing loved one
It's unclear who this tag refers to—a rescuer, a visitor, someone else? Please clarify, and rewrite as a Scenario, since we don't have a Possession category.
Restraint - Surgically Attached
Please specify whether the prisoner is surgically attached to another person or an object.
Restraint - While Impaled
"While" is confusing; do you mean Restraint - Impalement or Restraint - In Addition to Being Impaled?
Please revise to remove gendered language, and specify whether the person is being kidnapped for the purposes of marriage or being kidnapped during/just before their ceremony to marry someone else.
Freeforms clarification post #1
Apr. 8th, 2024 09:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Three general notes:
1) Please format nominations with " - " between the category and the freeform. That is a hyphen, not any other kind of dash.
2) Please avoid using "they" in freeforms when multiple people are mentioned, as it's often unclear. "Captor Tells Prisoner How Much Captor Loves Prisoner" is clunky, but clearer than "Captor Tells Prisoner How Much They Love Them."
3) Please do not use gendered terms to refer to people mentioned in the freeform.
Rejections
This is a delightful idea but not right for this exchange. All captivity situations for Prisoner's Exchange must be real, not roleplay. You have 24 hours to reclaim this freeform slot before we reject the nomination.
Changes
Dubcon - Captor promises to free the prisoner if they have sex with the captor
Dubcon - Rescuer promises to free the prisoner if they have sex with the rescuer
Moved to Coercion and rephrased as "if prisoner has".
Queries
This is so broad that it may lead to a significant mismatch between requester and creator expectations. Please specify an era and place, such as Alternate Universe - Cod-Medieval Fantasy.
Attitude - Prisoner brainwashed into believing they want to work for their Captor
Attitude - Prisoner is falsely told by Captor that another character approves of them being hurt
Please move these to Scenario if you want to keep them as phrased, or rephrase them to describe the attitude of a character if you want something like Attitude - Brainwashed Prisoner Happily Works for Captor. If you don't edit or discuss them within 24 hours, we'll move them to Scenario.
We already have Torture - Forced to drink piss; if the difference is that this is sexual in some way, please specify that.
Please clarify whether the ex-prisoner and ex-captor are working together on a rescue of some kind, this is intended to be an aftermath scenario, or something else. Note that we will not accept a freeform that focuses on non-immediate aftermath, such as the ex-prisoner and ex-captor being forced to work together many years after the prisoner's rescue.
We already have Scenario - Captor Lobotomises Prisoner to make them more docile; will that suffice?
Torture - Unwanted Immortality
The granting of immortality doesn't itself fit the definition of torture; do you mean something like Torture - Prisoner Granted Unwanted Immortality; Captors Test Its Limits? If not, Scenario - Prisoner Horrified to Be Granted Unwanted Immortality might be a better fit.
Nominations are open!
Apr. 6th, 2024 10:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
You may nominate up to ten freeforms and five fandoms, with twenty relationships per fandom. Please use canonical tags for fandoms where possible.
Creator's Choice of Fandom - You may nominate ships under Creator's Choice of Fandom (for example, "C!Any Villain Character/P!Any Hero Character"). You may be as specific with nominations as you like. Creator's Choice of Fandom refers to any fandom in existence, not just any fandom in the tagset. If you request Creator's Choice of Fandom, mods will enforce DNWs for up to three specific fandoms, but mods will not enforce DNWs for whole genres (for example, "DNW: Yuri!!! on Ice" is enforceable, "DNW: anime fandoms" is not).
Relationships
Please include whether the characters in your nominated relationships are captors, prisoners, rescuers, or visitors. Both romantic ( / ) and platonic ( & ) relationships are eligible for this exchange.
Captor is anyone who impedes or is in a position to impede the freedom of the prisoner(s).
Prisoner is used here as a generic term for the sake of simplicity; as previously stated, all types of captivity scenarios are welcome.
Rescuer is anyone who works to free the prisoner(s).
Visitor is anyone that is not a part of holding the prisoner captive, nor working to free the prisoner, but is present while the prisoner is confined. Visitors are not prohibited from coming and going.
Remember to note each character's role (Captor, Prisoner, Rescuer, Visitor) in the scenario. Please use that order when nominating relationships to help keep duplicates down.
- Captor!Alice/Prisoner!Bob
- Prisoner!Alice/Rescuer!Bob
- Captor!Alice/Captor!Bob/Prisoner!Charlie
- Prisoner!Bob & Prisoner!Charlie
- Prisoner!Bob/Visitor!Charlie
You may also include original characters or groups in your nominations, e.g., Captor!Original Guard(s)/Prisoner!Alice. Please be sure to assign a role (e.g. Captor/Prisoner/Rescuer), even if the descriptor feels self-evident. This is to make sure that everyone has the same expectations for that relationship.
- Captor!Original Guard(s)/Prisoner!Alice
- Prisoner!Alice/Rescuer!Original Character(s)
You may also nominate specific groups of "any" character, e.g., Captor!Any Canon Villain(s)/Prisoner!Alice. Please be sure that you really do mean "any"! DNWs for specific characters in "any" ships will not be enforced.
You may also nominate single prisoner characters. Use the format Solo - Prisoner!Alice. We will not accept solo captor/rescuer/visitor nominations.
If your relationship tag is too long to comfortably include the full words for their roles, you may abbreviate, e.g., C!Alice/C!Bob/P!Charlie/R!Daphne.
Freeforms
Please nominate only specific kinks and scenarios related to some type of captivity. Most freeforms will need to fall under a category to make the tagset easier to read and prevent duplicates. Categories will be updated as nominations progress, and a list of categories with a brief description of what they mean can be found here. Examples include:
- Abduction — For Ransom
- Alternate Universe — Prison
- Attitude — Stockholm Syndrome
- Captor — Succubus
- Prison — Abandoned Warehouse
- Prisoner — Captor's Worst Enemy
- Rescue — Rescuer Poses As Guard Successfully
- Rescue — Rescuer Poses As Guard Unsuccessfully
- Rescuer — In Love With Prisoner
- Slavery — Forced Into Gladiator Fights
- Slavery — Sex Slaves
General kinks, such as Overstimulation, will be rejected. However, a tag such as Torture — Overstimulation would be accepted. If you need assistance with relating your favorite general kink to the captivity theme, you can comment on the nominations Dreamwidth post and receive help.
The moderators reserve the right to reject any scenarios and tags that are related to controversial real-world themes; for example, Nazi concentration camps.