Nominations Open!

[chocolateboxmod]

Hello, everyone! Welcome to our exchange and, more importantly, welcome to nominations!

Nominations are open over here. We do not have any restrictions on what can be nominated in terms of fandom size, type, and so forth, and we also allow crossovers and original fandoms to be nominated. Please nominate crossover relationships into the Crossover Fandoms tag, and original characters and relationships into the Original Fandom tag.

In terms of how to nominate characters versus relationships, please follow the format below:

• "Character A (fandom)" - this means that you are nominating Character A on their own. AO3 may suggest a tag to you - please do not use it for nominations and instead nominate as above. Save your mods and help prevent tag migration!
• "Group: Character A/Character B" - this means that you are nominating Character A/Character B in a ship, inside their own fandom.
• "Group: Character A & Character B" - this means that you are nominating Character A and Character B in a gen configuration, inside their own fandom.
• "Group: Character A (Fandom)/Character B (Fandom)" - this means that you are nominating Character A/Character B shipfic, and that it is a crossover. Please be specific about fandoms, especially if there are a lot of adaptations featuring Character A and/or Character B.
• "Group: Character A (Fandom) & Character B (Fandom)" this means you are nominating Character A and Character B in a gen configuration, and that it is a crossover. Please be specific about fandoms, especially if there are a lot of adaptations featuring Character A and/or Character B.

We are not familiar with every fandom! As such, we are taking guidance from you, our participants, on how you want fandoms to be split up. Please comment below if your fandom is a little different to “one tag relates to one self-contained instalment of canon”. We are especially interested in how tags should be split up or combined for the following fandoms:

• Star Wars;
• Tolkien;
• DC and Marvel’s television and cinematic franchises;
• Gundam;
• Doctor Who;
• Star Trek;
• X-Men (Movieverse);
• Stargate;
• Power Rangers;
• Pokemon;
• Kamen Rider.

Finally, there has been some discussion about whether genre tags are necessary and whether it makes more sense to require people to fill in optional details. Thank you for your feedback! Requiring participants to provide a prompt would necessitate going through every fandom for every signup and checking that letters are complete and unlocked, which is too much micromanagement. On the other hand, we don’t want anyone to be assigned a blank signup or a locked/incomplete letter and have nothing to go on for a 5,000-word story. We’re happy to listen to suggestions about the number of genre tags required or whether other genres should be added, but we’ve decided requiring genre tags is a necessary compromise. Based on how things go in the first round and on your feedback, we’ll consider changing things up next time.

All that done, nominations are open! Go forth, nominate, get excited about writing and receiving longfic for your fandoms, and tell all your friends!

EDIT: Could the nominator for Pretty in Pink please confirm what characters you nominated? We lost your character noms during the approval process. Thanks! Never mind, found them!

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I think you might have posted this using the wrong account?

[badass_tiger]

According to the last post, we need to offer a minimum of 5 fandoms, but the sign-up form only lets you nominate 4 fandoms? Is that intentional?

[craterdweller]

Sorry I get a little confused by Ao3's nomination form -

It complained when I used crossover as a fandom so I submitted as no media (crossover) was that correct?

[(Anonymous)]

Hello! Two quick questions:

-Will requests be visible on AO3 during the sign-up period?

-Will there be an anon period after works are revealed? I was assuming there would be, since the collection seems to be anonymous, but the rules say stories must remain anonymous until the authors are revealed (May 13th) and May 13th is also listed as the story reveal date.

Thank you!

[muccamukk]

Do you want to do comics by universe (DCU and Marvel 616) or by title (Batman (comic) and Avengers (comics))?

And what ARE you doing with DCTV?

[slightweasel]

I'd suggest splitting X-Men movies into Original Timeline Movies and Alternate Timeline Movies.

[(Anonymous)]

I've just put some nominations in for Marvel Secret Wars Battleworlds* as its own fandom, since it's its own distinct (albeit shortlived) universe rather than part of any ongoing Marvel. Hope that's all right.

*I hate the plural, but that's the canonical

[sirvalkyrie]

I'd prefer if the X-Men movies are combined. People can still specify in their nominations if they want it to be a specific version of the character and then the crossover section isn't filled up with characters from the same movie franchise. It also makes it confusing to figure out what to do with the future portion of Days of Future Past if you split it up. Do those characters go under Original Timeline Movies because they are from the same timeline as the original movies and it is after Last Stand or do you put them in Alternate Timeline Movies for being part of the new trilogy? Where do the characters from the Wolverine movies fall? By combining them you also allow the possibility of someone requesting an relationship between the original and alternate version of the same character.

I personally think Power Rangers should be combined. Most of the seasons are explicitly in the same universe and there are a lot of crossover episodes.

[craterdweller]

Is there a limit to how many characters or pairings per fandom on Ao3? If not, since unlike doctor who or the star treks - I think all three stargate could be lumped under one fandom because

1. There isn't a lot of time between the series (Star Trek: tos ran late 60s where as Star Trek: TNG ran twenty years later -- the three stargate series ran either concurrently or close enough)

2. Sharing of characters among 3 stargate shows -- for example Jack O'Neill, Sam Carter appeared in all 3 (even if briefly)

Mind you I am not at all opposed to having them all separate- because some might strongly favor or exclusively watch one or two.

Guess it depends on what will likely give better matches.

[(Anonymous)]

For pairings are threesomes allowed? A/B/C? What is the limit on the number of characters in a pairing (if more than two are allowed?)

You might want to link the most current or important Dreamwidth posts to the AO3 profile since some people will find the event through AO3 first but won't necessarily look for a Dreamwidth.

[jiokra]

For Star Trek, I think the TV shows as their own fandom and the Alternate Original Series (AOS) as its own thing is good. Separate it into The Original Series, The Next Generation, DS9, AOS, etc. I don't know for the movies besides AOS.

For Star Wars, I thought the Chocolate Box separation was good. :)

[soundandcolor]

I nominated Romy and Michele's High School Reunion. It's a movie, but it's been sorted under Uncategorized Fandoms. Could that be because I forgot to put the 'h' in School in the title? Sorry about that by the way, there should definitely be an 'h' there.

[(Anonymous)]

are you going to advertise on fandomcalendar?

[shadowcat]

With Tolkien, I have seen things caregorized in exchanges as The Hobbit (Jackson Movies), The Hobbit (All Media Types), The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings (Movies), Lord of the Rings (All Media Types), Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien and The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien.

The way that Hobbit and LotR are separated can be confusing, but I have found that it is easier to specify whether I want/offer movie canon or book canon since in more than a few ways, things are different between the two.

[(Anonymous)]

It might be too late to ask this (and if it was already answered, apologies for the inconvenience!) but - do we need to write one 5k fic? Or can it be interconnected drabbles/one-shots, that together reach 5k?

[abluestocking]

Hi! I'd like to nominate Lady Justice/Lady Liberty from the group of cartoons in this Tumblr post. What would be the best way to do that? Currently I'm leaning toward nominating them as a fandom called ""Justice Girlfriends" (group of cartoons)", but I could also just put "Group: Lady Justice/Lady Liberty" under Political RPF - US 21st c. if that would be better. (My hesitation there is that they aren't really "real people".)