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Entry Policy

A community for the Five Figure Fic/Fanwork Exchange.

Nominations are open! See the tag set. Nominations close at 11:59pm EDT on July 22.

Everyone starts with 8 fandoms to nominate and 5 characters or relationships per fandom. When nominations close on July 22, I'll tidy up the tag set, then re-open nominations with a smaller slate, during sign-ups, so that you can nominate things you forgot. Basically: I don't want to drown under a flood of nominations (plz have mercy), but I also don't want people to get to sign-ups and feel like they can't sign up because crucial things are missing.

Please check this community before nominations end, because I'm bound to have questions about the nominations. If I don't get answers, I may mess up and approve them wrong.

FFFX is using the Fandom and the Character tag slots for nominations. Characters, relationships, and a Worldbuilding option can be nominated in the Character slot - please read further for how to format them.

In the Fandom field, you can enter a canonical or non-canonical fandom (yes, it's okay if there's no fic for it yet on AO3).

If you want to nominate a relationship, please enter it as Group: Character/Character (Fandom) (for romantic or sexual relationships) or Group: Character & Character (Fandom) (for platonic relationships).

The Group: part is is really important and helps future tag users.

The punctuation / and & is very important to indicate what sort of relationship it is.

Putting the fandom at the end of the nomination is really helpful to stop the tags misbehaving.

Larger groups are OK - ie, "Group: Character/Character & Character/Character" means you're asking for two sets of pairings who are doing something together or otherwise relate to each other.

If you want to nominate a character, just enter their name with the (Fandom) at the end. Some may even autocomplete. Original characters are also OK as long as you describe a character who could have existed in canon, such as "Original Force-sensitive Character (Star Wars Original Trilogy)".

If you want to nominate Worldbuilding for a canon, to offer or request it, please nominate it as "Other: Worldbuilding (Fandom)" (filling in the relevant fandom).

Some fandom notes:
Please separate out Marvel movies and separate TV shows - ie, Iron Man (Movies) rather than MCU.

Please nominate the Star Wars movies according to trilogy - no "Star Wars (All Media Types)".

Arrowverse TV shows and DCU and Marvel comics are discussed here.

"All Media Types" fandoms will probably be approved last, overall, because I'll want to see if there's a more specific version of the fandom that's in conflict. And I don't know many fandoms. So if you already know that All Media Types is what's right for your fandom, consider dropping me a comment to clarify so that I can confidently approve it faster.

Where you want to nominate a relationship between characters who appear in different fandoms, please nominate them under Crossover Fandom and include the fandom for each. For example: Group: Arya Stark (ASoIF)/Elsa (Frozen).

You can also nominate characters and groups under Original Work. Please indicate the genders of the characters if that is important to you. If someone requests Original Work characters or relationships with ambiguous genders, the preference of the person requesting takes precedence over the preference of the person offering. (But you can ask to add a more specific version to the tag set during sign-ups if that is an issue.)

Questions:
-Would there be interest in a generic Worldbuilding tag for any fandoms? - OK, there is interest! Including that
-Do you have any questions about how specific fandoms should be handled? Please bring them up soon so we can get them sorted out.

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I would be interested in a worldbuilding tag, especially if it can be used either in combination with, or alongside fanfiction or comics!

If someone nominated comics & worldbuilding, that would give me some pretty different ideas than just comics alone (which usually tend to default to character-oriented pieces). Same for fanfiction & worldbuilding.

I'd like the primary Arrowverse shows grouped together: Arrow, Flash, Supergirl, Legends of Tomorrow, Black Lightning, and Batwoman.

I'd also like Power Rangers (TV) be grouped together. This is all the seasons of the show plus Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie. The other two movies are different continuity.

I'd like Final Fantasy VII Remake to be separated from Compilation of Final Fantasy VII since it is still vague how related the two are, but there are significant plot changes between Remake and the original game.

For the X-Men Movies, merged but able to specify timeline in nomination or split between OTM and ATM?

Finally, how do you want DC and Marvel comics to be handled?

Yes please to a worldbuilding tag!

I would appreciate a worldbuilding tag. Other exchanges used 'Any or No Characters' or 'None' to facilitate, if info that helps (though I can understand not wanting an 'any character' tag).

Thanks! I will expand the guide to include worldbuilding tags.

Thanks for these clear suggestions. Sure to Power Rangers and Final Fantasy and I'd prefer split between OTM and ATM for X-Men if that's OK with you.

I will get back to you about the Arrowverse and comics. Do you have a preference for comics? I will look at how other exchanges have handled it.

OK!

OK! I think I'll use something like "Other: Worldbuilding (Fandom)" but will shortly update the guidelines. I agree that 'Any or No Characters' or 'None' can be effective but is also possibly more confusing in this context than it is, say, in the Worldbuilding Exchange.

The X-Men split doesn't impact me either way for this exchange. I just wanted to know which way you wanted it.

My only preference for DC comics is being able to specify which Kara Zor-El I mean when nominating her. Due to retcons and such there are three distinct versions of her in the main continuity comics. If it's merged into DCU (Comics) and I can just specify Kara Zor-El (DCU Comics Prime Earth) that is fine with me.

For Marvel, it's usually either all lumped together or split by universe. I don't have a strong preference for this as either way I'm nominating Felicia Hardy.

Thanks for your patience. I am okay with either DCU (Comics) or split further by title. Obviously I'm happy with you distinguishing a distinct character that way. I would prefer DCU comics outside main continuity are nominated by title. I would prefer Marvel 616 for those comics and otherwise by title. Does that work? Sorry, I know little about comics.

After thinking about it I'm okay with Arrowverse as an umbrella label for those TV shows.

I think being able to distinguish by character is a good way to handle
comic nominations, since many of the DCU favs have multiple versions (like Doctor Fate). As long as we can add a little tag that specifies which version of the character we're talking about during nominations, I'm good with that!

I figure that now's a good time to talk about Assassin's Creed nominations! There's usually back-in-forth over how the series should be nominated. In Press Start, after a lot of input from other AC fans, broke it down as:

Assassin's Creed 1
Assassin's Creed: Ezio Trilogy (includes AC 2, AC: Brotherhood, AC: Revelations)
Assassin's Creed 3, etc

And any of the ships with characters between those games were nominated under crossovers.

Are there going to be genre or similar tags to match to? Like, romance, adventure/mission, hurt/comfort, etc.?

Hi! Will you allow original characters in fandom nominations, either very generic (OFC) or more specific (ex: Original Female Death Eater in Harry Potter)?

Not the mod, but part of the post addresses this:

'If you want to nominate a character, just enter their name with the (Fandom) at the end. Some may even autocomplete. Original characters are also OK as long as you describe a character who could have existed in canon, such as "Original Force-sensitive Character (Star Wars Original Trilogy)".'

So it looks like only the OFDE example would be allowed.

Hey, it looks like one of my nominations was edited to be a duplicate of another one - I tried to nominate both Menolly & Mirrim and Menolly/Mirrim in Dragonriders of Pern, and they've both been edited to Menolly & Mirrim.

Thanks for catching that. I've re-added Menolly/Mirrim.

Yes. Please put some indication of role, as in your second example of the Death Eater. Relationships are also all right, such as, I guess, "Original Male Squib/Original Female Grindelwald follower (HP - JKR)".

Thanks for answering!

Thanks for the heads up! So far there is an Ezio trilogy nomination and the rest are All Media Types. I'll bring it up in the next post.

Thanks for the question. I wasn't planning to include them.

Thank you!

Hi, not sure if this should go here, but thought you should know about it. There's a duplicate in the tagset under The Untamed (TV)

Group: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian (The Untamed)
Group: Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn/ Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī (The Untamed)

I don't particularly care which one you keep, but the canon tag is the one with both their courtesy and personal names. Please could you delete one of these?

I want to nominate a character for Sky High (2005) who AO3 will automatically try to turn into a different version of the character. There's a character whose backstory involves having been regressed to infancy and having grown up without the memories of that first life. I want story about anything before the regression but nothing at all after.

The character has a different name to either side of that event. Sue Tenny before and Gwen Grayson after. I've run into trouble with this disambiguation issue before, so I wanted to ask-- What would be the preferred way to handle it?

Writing Sue when Gwen was requested or requesting only Sue when Gwen was nominated/offered seems extremely unfair to the party on the other side, and I'd rather just omit the characters from nominations altogether than smash the two together.

Okay. Please nominate the character as Sue Tenny (Sky High). If AO3 autocorrects it when I approve it, I'll edit the name back in with some junk text to make it stay where it should.

I will fix this. Thanks!

One more that's going to look weird and possibly make AO3 choke...

I plan to nominate Phineas and Ferb but to mostly request characters from the 2nd Dimension which is an AU that the characters from the main canon visit in a movie and that later gets an episode within the primary canon. Because the characters have the same names in both universes, disambiguating normally involves putting '(2nd Dimension)' for the versions of the characters from that world.

The movie exists as a separate, searchable fandom tag on AO3 (I think it's under the main series, but I'm not clear on how that works), and normally, I'd just nominate the movie separately and use only 2nd Dimension characters, but I would like to request at least one set of characters with the mainline version interacting with the 2nd Dimension version. It's not a crossover, but it may need to be disambiguated as if it was. Something like Vanessa Doofenshmirtz (2nd Dimension) & Vanessa Doofenshmirtz (Phineas and Ferb).

Because of the same name thing, I need to be clear whether any single character is from mainline Phineas and Ferb or the 2nd Dimension. For example, Candace Flynn/Jeremy Johnson (2nd Dimension) leaves it up in the air as to which Candace I'm asking for. Would something more like Candace Flynn (2nd Dimension)/Jeremy Johnson (2nd Dimension) be acceptable? Something else?

Would it be clearer in both cases if I used '(Phineas and Ferb: 2nd Dimension)' for the 2nd Dimension characters instead? I think that either version would make sense to anyone requesting or offering, and I'm not sure anyone would request or offer but me, but... Better to do it consistently and not confuse the mods.

Please use "2nd Dimension [Name]" for the character names of the alternate universe characters and continue to use (Phineas and Ferb) for the fandom and disambiguation.

So Group: 2nd Dimension Vanessa Doofenshmirtz & Vanessa Doofenshmirtz (Phineas & Ferb).

Or, I suppose, if you think anyone reading the tag set would immediately know what you mean, just Group: 2nd-D Vanessa Doofenshmirtz & Vanessa Doofenshmirtz (Phineas & Ferb) to save space.

Can we nominate collectives of characters, e.g. "Group: Harry Potter & any Hogwarts student(s)" if we have no preferences about which Hogwarts students we want to see Harry interact with?

Thanks for the question. No, I'd prefer tags indicate definite character preference. My philosophy is that that's what's most effective to ensure that a person who offers a tag and a person who requests that tag have the same expectations.

My issue is mostly with the 'any', though. Please feel free to nominate, say, "Harry Potter & Other Hogwarts Students". Perhaps that seems like quibbling, but if so, I hope it's close enough to work for you. Or, if you simply nominate Harry Potter as a character by himself, and give prompts involving other Hogwarts characters as well, I expect that would work. In 10,000 words of story or a long comic it's certainly possible to write Harry interacting with no characters who were or are students at Hogwarts with him, but it seems as if it would be harder to do that than to include them.

Thanks for your response! I'll keep that in mind.

To clarify for crossover pairings, would the nominations "Group: Donna Noble (DW) & Atlantis expedition members (SGA)" and "Group: Martha Jones (DW) & Atlantis expedition members (SGA)" be OK if I want a story with Donna or Martha in Atlantis, since nominating single characters and giving prompts involving characters from the crossover universe wouldn't really be appropriate in this case?

One of the sets of characters I want to nominate for Phineas and Ferb is a group of seven characters. I haven't been able to trim things down to a point where I don't go over the character cap, but they have a group name-- Firestorm Girls.

That group name is unique to the 2nd Dimension setting, but the members aren't unique to the setting and so have to be tagged 2nd Dimension or some variant if I list them all. I got down to 204 characters, but that's still more than twice the maximum.

I've put them in as Firestorm Girls, but I'm willing to edit if there's a better way to structure the group.

Yes, that's fine.

Yes, if there's a group name, use that.

Brilliant, thanks!

I also noticed that "Lucy Pevensie (Narnia - Lewis)/Brienne of Tarth (GoT)" has managed to slip in without the Group prefix. It should be "Group: Lucy Pevensie (Narnia - Lewis)/Brienne of Tarth (GoT)".

Thank you!

Hi, I was thinking of signing up.

A friend told me she had nominated a favorite fandom, but I don't see it on the tag set: Saiyuki (Anime & Manga)

I don't want to duplicate characters if I don't have to.

Thanks!

Hi! Welcome. I've just approved some Saiyuki nominations. See if the updated tag set gives you more information!

In general, new fandom nominations appear to moderators at random in a selection, and new characters in an approved fandom appear depending on how many other similar characters there are yet to approve. So it's not possible for me to keep you updated on this, unfortunately.

Thank you!

Heads up, Superman & Lois is an Arrowverse entry.

Heads up again. They have retconned Superman & Lois to not being Arrowverse, despite being a spinoff of Supergirl, being set up by Supergirl, and having a crossover with the other shows. They claim it is its own universe and was never part of the Arrowverse. Take that how you will.

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