2022 Sign-Ups Open!

[morbane]

2022 sign-ups are open at AO3! See the sign-up form on the sidebar.

The basics

• You need an AO3 account. You can request an invite here, or contact the mod directly.


• One sign-up only per person, please.


• If there are things that would ruin a gift for you, please enter them in the sign-up form, in your Requests, as "Do Not Wants" or "DNW"s.


• You can write prompts, if you want, but you don't have to. You can link to a longer document, a "letter", with more information about your prompts and preferences, if you want, but you don't have to. Letter links can't be added after sign-ups end. If writing a letter, aim to complete it by the end of June 28th. The preferences in your optional details can include characters and relationships, but your creator isn't bound by them, so a variety is best.


• You can organize your requests according to whether you'd like art or fic or both, and crossovers or fusions or both. Each request and offer must include at least one of the tags Art/Fusion, Fic/Fusion, Art/Crossover, and Fic/Crossover. Crossovers and fusions are defined at the collection.


• You can add notes about your preferences in the "Notes to Mod" field of your offers, or you can leave that blank. I'll try to accommodate your preferences. I can't guarantee you'll match on a specific fandom.


• You must sign up with 3 (min) to 10 (max) requests, and 3 (min) to 10 (max) offers.

How to combine fandoms

• Each of your requests and offers needs to include 2-10 fandom tags from the tag set.


• Your requests (in total) must include at least 5 different fandom tags.


• Your requests (in total) must include at least 5 different fandom combinations. (That is: Harry Potter and John Wick is one combination. A request for Harry Potter, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and John Wick includes 3 different fandom combinations: HPxB, BxJW, HPxJW.)


• Your combinations cannot all require knowledge of your one favourite fandom. Ie, the five requests AxB, AxC, AxD, AxE, and AxF would all require your creator to know fandom A.


• Don't put fandoms into the same request or offer if you aren't interested in all the combinations they could make. For example, if you want Harry Potter and Buffy, and also Harry Potter and John Wick, but you don't want Buffy and John Wick, putting those three in the same request would be a bad idea because your creator could have offered Buffy and John Wick but not Harry Potter. In that case, put John Wick and Buffy in two different request slots and put Harry Potter in both.


• Don't put fandoms into the same request if the combination they make wouldn't create a fusion or crossover. For example: don't put Discworld - Terry Pratchett in the same request as Discworld (Witches Series). It's okay to do that for offers, just not requests.

Please feel free to ask if you have questions!

When looking through the tag set, please keep in mind the Uncategorized fandoms in the tag set. Some of these may be fandoms you've never heard of - but some of them may just be sub-groupings of a fandom you know.

App!
As sign-ups progress, karanguni's app may make it easier to find requests by fandom. This is updated on request and will say when it was last updated. This was stalled; k has got it working again. Please go ahead and use it, but sing out if it seems to be stalled again.


Sign-ups will end at 11:59pm EDT on 25 June. A letters post will go up soon.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I'm asking about crossing over Titans and Doom Patrol? It's been confirmed that the TV shows are in entirely different universes but it's a bit of an edge case because Titans does contain one scene where they say doom patrol exist, but it's not the doom patrol in Doom Patrol. In Doom Patrol however they don't have a titans? or at least it's not mentioned. They've never crossed over or anything either.

[morbane]

That sounds fine.

[lielac]

Is Mass Effect Trilogy & Mass Effect: Andromeda a legit crossover? While they exist in the same universe, they have almost no character overlap (there's, like, an audio log cameo from Liara in Andromeda).

[morbane]

That's an interesting one. I think that's OK but please don't put them together in a fusion request.

[lielac]

Makes sense, thank you for the answer.

Same fandom request nomination

[casta_y]

Regarding: 'Don't put fandoms into the same request if the combination they make wouldn't create a fusion or crossover.'
I would love some Pokemon in Star Wars, but I am not fussed which Star Wars, can I put several Star Wars subfandoms in the same request with Pokemon (if I make at least 4 other requests to hit the 5 minimum)? Or do they all have yo be separate?

Re: Same fandom request nomination

[morbane]

Separate, sorry - so that someone else can put several different Star Wars canons in a offer, and match with you on a thing that's actually a crossover or fusion. You're welcome to pick one Star Wars canon for a request and then say in the optional details that you're keen on specific other ones as well.

Re: Same fandom request nomination

[casta_y]

One more thing please.
'Your combinations cannot all require knowledge of your one favourite fandom. Ie, the five requests AxB, AxC, AxD, AxE, and AxF would all require your creator to know fandom A.'
If my requests are, for instance SW PT + Pokemon, SW OT + Pokemon, SW ST + Pokemon, and then I have another reqeust that is FFVII + FFVIII + Creator's Choice + Pokemon, although I have Pokemon in every request, my understanding is that this includes non-Pokemon options (ie. FFVII + FFVIII + CreChoi), and therefore should be okay, yes?

Re: Same fandom request nomination

[morbane]

Absolutely. Thanks for asking!

[hiddencait]

Oof I swear the offers are harder than the requests. Like, I write for a LOT of different fandoms and pretty much am willing to mix and match almost all of them lol. I guess I'll just parcel them out as well as I can, maybe with a quick look at the requests summary and include the "Creator's Choice" on each and maybe a note to the mods in that section that I'm happy to mix and match as needed?

I almost wish we had a "bucket list" offer option for this one like Yuletide does. I feel like that might actually be easier with the idea behind this exchange.

We'll see what I come up with!

[morbane]

It is a bit tricky! I'm not totally sure I follow the reasoning for why adding Creator's Choice on each makes it easier to match?

[hiddencait]

I honestly ended up throwing my 29 fandoms or however many it was into a randomizer to finish out making sure I had as many offers as possible LOL

And I realized it doesn't after a minute - my brain just misunderstood for a second. It more just gives me more options to play with to match whatever other fandom they match with me on. But I'm excited regardless :D

[malinaldarose]

This is probably going to come across as a stupid question and I apologize but this particular exchange is new to me and I just want to make sure I've got it right. If I were to put, say, five fandoms into a single request, then the writer wouldn't have to fit all five into the assignment, but could make any combination based on those five and include only two or three or, if they're really ambitious, all five? I think that's what I'm understanding from the Buffy/John Wick/HP example above.

[morbane]

No, you have it exactly right. If you put five fandoms in a single request, the creator would expect to combine two of those five together. And if you say you're open to a larger crossover they might get ambitious and put more than two, but who knows.

[malinaldarose]

Thank you!!

[(Anonymous)]

Hello! I missed the chance to sign up last year and am now checking this comm every day for my chance to sign up this year, but I wanted to ask: can you still ask for a crossover if there was an actual canon crossover? Three examples that are on my "maybe" requests list:

1) MCU and the X-Men movies. These have canonically crossed over twice: with Evan Peters' version of Quicksilver on WandaVision (sort of- it turned out to be a magical illusion) and with Sir Patrick Stewart's Professor Xavier appearing in Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (but may have been a live action version of the 90s cartoon, judging by a musical cue and his wheelchair design).
2) Webb Spider-Man, Raimi Spider-Man, and MCU Spider-Man. Famously were all in Spider-Man: No Way Home, but each does have his own distinctive canon.
3) Deadpool and the X-Men movies. There are at least three timelines in the X-Men movies at this point (X1-X3, XMFC/DoFP/Apocalypse, Logan) and Deadpool might take place in one of them or a fourth one that only exists in his movies, but who knows- Colossus, Negasonic, and Yukio aren't in any X-Men movies and the better-known X-Men from those movies only appeared in Deadpool as a dialogue-free cameo in Deadpool 2 where they hide from him.

I can definitely forego any of these if it'd be against the rules, they just all seemed like kind of weird edge cases, so I didn't want to just assume it was a no without asking.

[morbane]

Hello, sorry for the late reply!

Yes, I'm happy with people requesting all of those crossovers. I'm sure there are some more complicated cases I'd need to consider more carefully, but if two canons are primarily treated as different universes, then even if they have an official crossover, it's fine to fuse or cross them over a different way. Or to put it another way: do you have to work hard to explain how the premise is NOT true to both canons? If not, you're probably good.