smut4smut | 2025 Schedule & Rules

Welcome to Smut 4 Smut, a multifandom gift exchange for smutty fic and art! The schedule for 2025:

Feb 8-15, 8pm: nominations
Feb 16-17: tagset cleanup
Feb 18: sign-ups open
Mar 1, 8pm: sign-ups close
Mar 4: assignments out by this date
Apr 11, 8pm: works due
Apr 18, 8pm: work reveals
Apr 25, 8pm: creator reveals

All times in UTC. You can contact the mod at [email protected], or comment on this post with questions.

2025 Collection | 2025 Ships Tag Set | S4S Permanent Kink Tagset

The Basics

Smut 4 Smut is a gift exchange dedicated to smutty fanfic and fanart. All works in the collection must be rated E (Explicit) for sexual content. Fic must be a minimum of 1000 words, and fanart must be at minimum clean, finished lineart on unlined paper. Matching is on fandom, relationship or character, archive warning, and kink freeform.

Ground rules: Don't be an asshole. No kinkshaming. Participants must be 18 or older. We reserve the right to update the rules if needed.

Nominations

The pairing tag set is here: https://archiveofourown.org/tag_sets/22576
The kink tagset is here: https://archiveofourown.org/tag_sets/9985
You can nominate up to 10 fandoms with up to 10 relationships each, plus 3 kink tags.
Solo characters can be nominated in the relationships field with the format "Solo: Character Name."
RPF nominations must be for famous people 18 years old or older. Non-famous relatives or associates of famous people are not allowed.
Nominate crossovers under Crossover Fandom, with the tag format "Character A (Fandom A)/Character B (Fandom B)."
Original works nominations should be split by relationship category. Nominate under "Original F/F", "Original F/M", "Original M/M", and "Original Other or Solo".
Tags with "&" will not be accepted.
The kink list will get reused each year, with some editing. Please no fandom-specific kink tags.
Kink tags should be kinks, sex acts, or otherwise clearly sex-related. These are not intended as general freeforms.

Requests

You must request 3-10 fandoms. Each request can have 1-20 relationships, 1-5 archive warnings, and 4-20 kinks.
You can request the same fandom multiple times, as long as you have at least three unique fandoms.
The archive warnings you request are topics you want to see in your gift. If you select "graphic violence", that means you actively want to receive graphic violence. You are only guaranteed ONE of the archive warnings you've selected.
Note: not selecting an archive warning is NOT the same as opting out of receiving it. You are guaranteed a gift containing a selected warning; you are NOT guaranteed a gift without unselected warnings. If you do not want to receive e.g. noncon, please make sure noncon is in your Do Not Wants.
Optional details: All Do Not Wants must be included in the signup form in order to be enforceable. You may also add prompts/likes in your signup, or create a separate "dear creator" letter.

For Do Not Wants, "enforced" means that if your gift accidentally contains one of these DNWs, we will get you a replacement gift if you request one. We consider the following DNWs too broad and limiting for this exchange, and won't enforce them:

- "DNW unrequested kinks"
- "DNW PWP"
- "DNW sex"

You can sign up more than once with well-behaved sock accounts.

Offers

You must offer 3-10 fandoms. Each offer can have 1-20 relationships, 1-5 archive warnings, and 4-20 kinks.
You can offer the same fandom multiple times, as long as you have at least three unique fandoms.
You may offer "any" tag or "any" relationship, but make sure you mean it. Your assignment could be anything from the tagset.
The archive warnings you select are topics you are willing to create. If you select "graphic violence", that means you are willing to create a graphically violent work. Your work must contain a warning requested by your recipient.

Assignments

Assignments will be out by March 4, and will be due by April 11, 8pm GMT. This is a hard deadline. For the 2025 round, we will not be granting extensions.

To fulfill your assignment, a work must be complete, newly created/posted for this exchange, and rated explicit for sexual content. It must be about one of the recipient's requested fandoms, relationships, kink tags, and archive warnings, in one of the media they requested. It cannot include any of their Do Not Wants. Additionally:

Fic must be at least 1000 words long and complete. At least 500 words must be sexual in nature.
Art must be at minimum clean, finished line art. Complete nudity isn't required, but the art should be clearly sexual in nature. Edits/graphics do not fill the art requirement for assignments.
Your gift may have only one recipient.
AI-generated content is not allowed in either fic or art gifts.

If you have a question about your assignment, please email the mod at [email protected].

Defaulting & Pinch Hits

If you cannot complete your assignment, please hit the "default" button on your assignments page as early as possible. This gives us more time to find a pinch hitter.

If you are "no show" at deadline, or we find you with an incomplete placeholder after the deadline, you will be banned from participating in Smut 4 Smut next year.

Pinch Hits will be posted to this community.

Treats

Extra treats are welcome! You can treat whether or not you've signed up to the exchange. Treats can be given to a specific recipient or given to the collection at large either by specifying no recipient or gifting it to the mod account. Treats can be of any length but should still be complete works. If given to a specific recipient, the treat must follow their requested fandoms, ships, archive warnings, kinks, and Do Not Wants.

Other Rules

Do not post about your assignment in public/semi-public spaces before creator reveals.
Do not repost artwork from the exchange on twitter/tumblr/discord etc. Linking to it is fine, reposting is not. (Exceptions made for actual artists after creators have been revealed, of course)
All gifts (even treats) may have only one recipient.