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[longficmod]

Signups are open here! Go forth and request fic! They will close on 10 April.

As you do, please take a moment to familiarize yourself with the rules and the FAQ. Please let us know if they need any clarification. You can comment here or shoot us an email if you have any questions.

There are more details at the FAQ, but here are the basics:

You’ll request between 4 and 10 fandoms, with between 1 and 20 characters or relationships and between 3 and 20 genre tags per fandom. Fandoms can't be repeated between different requests.

You’ll offer between 5 and 10 fandoms, with between 1 and 20 characters or relationships and 3 and 20 genre tags per fandom. Fandoms can't be repeated between different offers.

Characters and relationships will both be in the Characters field, and you’ll receive a story focused on any one of the items you select in that field.

If you'd like a story about Character A, select Character A in this field. If you'd like a story about either Character A or Character B, select Character A, then select Character B.

If you'd like a story about Character A and Character B in a romantic or sexual relationship, select Group: Character A/Character B. If you'd like a story about Character A and Character B in a gen relationship, select Group: Character A & Character B.

You'll be matched to a recipient who requested at least one of your offered fandoms and at least one of the offered characters or relationships in that fandom. However, you can choose to write a story in any one of your recipient’s requested fandoms, focused on any one of the items (character or relationship) they requested for that fandom, even if you didn’t offer it.

The genres in the Additional Tags are intended to give a general sense of what kind of story you’d like to read or write for a given fandom. We’re going to attempt to assign offers and requests that share a genre. If that results in too many initial pinch hits, AO3’s matching code will still prioritize matches by genre. These aren't required parts of your assignment and aren't intended to be the same as detailed freeform matching in other exchanges, just to provide a general indication of tastes along with whatever you put in your optional details.

Here is the list of Additional Tags available for genres.

Here is the full tag set. This year, we have 3,123 characters and relationships in 627 different fandoms.

To help you navigate, keep in mind that Marvel live-action nominations are under the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., or The Defenders (Marvel TV), with groups combining them in Crossover Fandom. DC fandoms may be under the DC Extended Universe (films) or DC's Arrowverse (TV), with groups combining the two under Crossover Fandom.

For those interested in Original Works and Crossover Fandom tags, I've created a filterable spreadsheet for each that might help with finding tags you can offer or request.

Please let me know if there are errors in the spreadsheet. There was a lot of copy/paste, and some of the tags are ambiguous.

Comments

[sandy79]

The genres in the Additional Tags are intended to give a general sense of what kind of story you’d like to read or write for a given fandom. We’re going to attempt to assign offers and requests that share a genre. If that results in too many initial pinch hits, AO3’s matching code will still prioritize matches by genre.

I can't find any additional tags in the tag set :((

[longficmod]

We keep that in a separate tag set since it carries over year to year, but I hadn't included a link--thanks for pointing that out! I've updated the post.

You can also see it in the signup form by clicking "List 22 Additional Tags".

Genre request

[lacommunarde]

Could Epic or Worldbuilding be accepted genres in future years, for verses that cross-over between historical, fantasy and scifi genres, or where you don't care which traditional genre it is provided it is epic and/or has a lot of worldbuilding (which can be very, very similar between those three - the differences between the writing style of Masters of Rome (historical genre) and Illium/Olympos (scifi genre) are not that many)?

Re: Genre request

[longficmod]

We do currently have a Worldbuilding tag available. Does that suit your needs?

[(Anonymous)]

Hi! Is there a way to incorporate a "any" button for "additional tag"? Thanks!

[chocolateboxmod]

Unfortunately not - once someone has signed up mods can't change the form.

[(Anonymous)]

Got you! Thank you so much for answering!

[sandy79]

Hi, me again XD I read the rules and FAQ twice, but I couldn't find an answer to this question: Are we allowed to repeat fandoms in the requests/offers? In my case, it would be maximal 2 fandoms that have too many favorite pairings XD

[(Anonymous)]

Not the mod, but I tried to offer repeat fandoms (different pairings) and my sign up failed to submit. Got a notice that I submitted the same fandom twice and had to merge them.

[longficmod]

Hi! We do require each fandom to be unique. I've updated the FAQ and the signup form to make this clearer.

[(Anonymous)]

Hi Mods, could you please put up links to the sign up and request summaries?

[longficmod]

Sure, added to the sticky post!

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks!

Misdirected link

[morbane]

Hello!

Just a heads-up that in the 2021 collection profile, where it says:

If I sign up, what am I agreeing to do?
You are agreeing to the the rules specified here. Please let us know if they need any clarification.

the 'rules specified here' links to the 2020 rules at the moment.

Re: Misdirected link

[longficmod]

Thank you for catching that! It should be fixed now.

[azulina]

Is there a list of the actual requests that we can find anywhere in case we want to do a treat?

[longficmod]

Yes, you can see that here:

https://archiveofourown.org/collections/Fandom5K2021/requests?sort_column=fandom&sort_direction=ASC

At some point after assignments go out, we'll also post a searchable spreadsheet of all requests, but that may not happen right away.