Last nominations queries/fixes - and randomizer widget

[morbane]

We have over 1,000 fandoms nominated this year! I'm really looking forward to the combinations people dream up.

I have two remaining queries for AMT fandoms:

• Divergent - All Media Types - I've said I'd prefer not to approve All Media Types fandom labels without checking what you're interested in. Nominator, would either the books or movies work? What did you have in mind?


• Dungeons & Dragons - All Media Types - I've approved Dungeons & Dragons (Tabletop RPG) in the past. Would that suit you, nominator, or something more specific? What would you prefer?

Please also comment if you see a problem in the tag set, I approved your nominations wrong, or if there are some last minute fandoms you have a burning desire for.

And lastly before sign-ups begin (in the next 24 hours), please enjoy this randomizer widget for 2022's fandoms. I hope it amuses you and even inspires you.

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.