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chocolateboxcomm It's a bit early, but I figured "why not?"
You can find the tag set here! Nominations close at 11:59pm EST on December 29.
In terms of nominations:
You can find the tag set here! Nominations close at 11:59pm EST on December 29.
In terms of nominations:
- just about any fandom is eligible;
- Please remember that "Character A/Character B" is shipfic while "Character A & Character B" is genfic
- There is no limit on the number of characters that can be in a combination other than the AO3 character limit;
- Crossovers must be nominated in "Crossover Fandom", which is already nominated. Crossovers that are not nominated in this fandom will be deleted.
- Original Works are okay and I have nominated that fandom for you already;
- You will be required to offer two tags per fandom on signups (unless only one relationship tag is nominated), so please keep that in mind when nominating.
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Date: 2016-12-20 01:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-12-20 02:02 am (UTC)Which one is correct?
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Date: 2016-12-20 02:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-12-20 02:15 am (UTC)I have kind of a weird question. Do all of the characters have to be sentient? Are non-sentient "characters" fine as long as they're nominated with the understanding that the pairing tag implies that the more typical character is literally romantically or sexually involved with the non-sentient "character"?
For example, something like Dean Winchester/The Impala (his car) from Supernatural.
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Date: 2016-12-20 02:18 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2016-12-20 04:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-12-20 03:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-12-20 04:34 am (UTC)(That's just an example from a not so obscure canon. I want to nominate the Gentlemen Bastards from Scott Lynch's Gentlemen Bastard Sequence.)
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Date: 2016-12-20 04:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-12-20 04:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-12-20 06:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-12-20 05:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-12-20 11:34 am (UTC)Thank you for doing this again <3
I have a question. What if I want world-building fic set in a special location (like, a mall or a library) and the people working/visiting there? What do I put in the tags?
Or is this like "original work" and put these places as characters?
Thank you!
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Date: 2016-12-20 09:05 pm (UTC)If I've misunderstood your question, please let me know!
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Date: 2016-12-20 08:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-12-21 12:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-12-22 12:17 am (UTC)Is this really necessary? I believe someone already asked this question last time, but that was after signups had already opened, so I hope this is bringing up the issue in time. Is it supposed to help with matchability? Because for me this would just mean that I could offer fewer fandoms than I otherwise would because I can only write one ship in them and it's not like I can stop other people from requesting other ships in these fandoms.
And the main appeal of this exchange for me is the possibility to be guaranteed shipfic, so offering the gen version of my ships isn't really interesting to me.
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Date: 2016-12-26 04:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-12-26 10:28 pm (UTC)I'm requiring participants to offer two tags so that across the exchange as a whole there's an increased chance that requests for tags that are less popular, as it were, are covered and thus reducing the number of people who have no recipient to gift to, or no person gifting to them. I appreciate that this is less than ideal if you only can write one thing in the tagset! This is why I reminded people this time around to make it unambiguous that you would be required to offer two things and participants could choose to nominate accordingly. That's also why the word count is so low for this exchange!
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Date: 2016-12-27 01:55 am (UTC)I have to admit that I don't really understand this logic. I'm in enough fandoms that I won't have trouble hitting the minimum number of fandoms. Forcing me to offer two pairings per fandom won't make me offer additional things I'm not really all that excited about. It will make me unoffer a large number of pairings I would love to write because I'm not going to risk being matched on a pairing I don't like and which I was forced to add. So this rule makes matching harder, because quite a few people who might have someone who can write for them will end up with no writer because the people who could write for the pairing they requested would have had to offer a different pairing someone else requested, too. And sure, the word count is low, but I'm not going to sign up for an exchange to write something I hate. Nor is it in the interest of any participant if a bunch of people end up writing 300 half-assed words for a pairing they didn't want to offer in the first place.
It just puts non-multishippers in a ridiculous position where they can't offer half their pairings unless only one pairing is nominated for that fandom. Or you have to offer the gen version instead - but if I have no guarantee to get matched on Bob/John rather than Bob & John, what's the point of doing an exchange that matches on ships as opposed to an exchange that matches me on the characters Bob and John?
Wouldn't it be easier and also more efficient to up the minimum number of fandoms people have ot offer? Rather than the number of tags per fandom?
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Date: 2016-12-27 10:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-12-28 12:04 am (UTC)participants could choose to nominate accordingly
That doesn't really work, though. If my fandom right now only has A/B nominated, my ship, that's great for me and there's no reason for me to nominate a second ship like A&B. However, I have no way of knowing what other people may still nominate. Someone might well nominate my NOTP B/C an hour before nominations close and I wouldn't know. Then the two nominated ships for that fandom would be A/B and B/C and I couldn't offer the fandom anymore. Someone whose only match might have been me writing A/B for them would not have a possible writer anymore, because I couldn't offer A/B without also having to offer B/C.
TLDR: Making it harder for people to offer the pairings they want to write makes matching harder, not easier.
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Date: 2016-12-23 08:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-12-24 10:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-12-24 02:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-12-26 04:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-12-26 10:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-12-26 11:27 pm (UTC)Since I posted that comment all of them have been reviwed and accepted as before only a few had been.
I tried to add a few more pairings to the existing fandoms or to add another new fandom, but neither has worked.
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Date: 2016-12-26 11:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-12-27 12:31 am (UTC)Everything I entered was done in one session, and I clicked back to edit straight away (I needed to check a name), but it didn't let me make any changes afterwards.
Is there a glitch, or am I just mdoing something wrong? *flails arms*
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Date: 2016-12-27 01:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-12-27 02:49 am (UTC)I want to add:
The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman
Nobody "Bod" Owens & Silas
Nobody "Bod" Owens/Silas
Hockey RPF
Brandon Bollig/Andrew Shaw
Mitch Marner/Auston Matthews
Price and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Jane Bennet/Caroline Bingley
Thanks. Sorry for the bother.
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Date: 2016-12-27 12:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-12-27 03:07 pm (UTC)Sorry for the inconvenience, dear.
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Date: 2016-12-27 08:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-12-20 06:02 pm (UTC)When I look at my nominations page, I see some that have been approved, but they're not showing up in the tag set, including in "Unassociated Characters & Relationships" (presumably the unwrangled-tag holding bin). Also, one canon that was in the tag set last night is now gone (Doctrine of Labyrinths). Is this just AO3 being glitchy? Thanks in advance.