Nominations 2025

[morbane]

Nominations are open at the tag set.

Please submit up to 12 choices for fandoms to be crossed over.

• New fandoms, and fandoms that already have tags on the Archive of Our Own, are both welcome.


• If you want tags that include the words "All Media Types" or "& Related Fandoms", please comment here to confirm, yes, you really meant to choose that label.


• You can nominated different parts of a universe as separate choices (for example: Guardians of the Galaxy (Movies) and Captain America (Movies)) even if they share a universe and continuity. However, they must already be discrete parts of a storyline, and you will not be able to put them in the same request.


• I will approve nominations that overlap with other nominations. For example, I will approve Marvel Cinematic Universe and I will also approve Captain America (Movies).


• Questions/discussion welcome!

You can edit each nomination choice until it's approved or rejected or until nominations close. You don't have to choose all twelve at once.

Nominations will end on 8 August, 11:59pm EDT. I will post questions about nominations as they come up.

Please keep in mind the following for your sign-up, in case it helps you decide what to nominate:

• You have between 3 and 10 requests, and between 2 and 10 offers


• Each request and offer has to have between 2 and 10 fandoms in it


• You need to ask for at least 5 distinct fandoms across your requests.


• You need to ask for at least 5 unique combinations of fandoms across your requests (ie, AxB and AxC are 2 unique combinations


• If all of your requests are Fandom A x One Other Fandom, I'll ask you to come up with more requests, because I can't guarantee a pinch hitter specifically for your favourite fandom


• If you put two fandoms in the same request, you're interested in seeing them crossed over. Please make sure this makes sense (ie don't put a subfandom and an umbrella fandom in the same request, because they aren't a crossover)


• You can also specify whether you're interested in fic, art, or both, and fusions, crossovers, or both, using tags


• Crossworks does not match on characters or relationships. You can mention preferences and you can DNW some proportion of characters and relationships but if you only want specific characters to appear, consider another fandom or another exchange.

In the last round, we tried using wildcards (Creator's Choice of Fandom, Any Other Fandom I've Requested in Crossworks, etc). I think that was successful so have added those to the tag set again - more info to come in sign-ups post.


If you have questions about sign-ups or nominations or anything else, or want to ask someone to nominate a fandom for you, or want to discuss how to format a fandom - please feel free to leave a comment!

You may also be interested in ships_crossing, an exchange for crossover relationships! Nominations are open now.

Comments

[bluerosekatie]

I just nominated some fandoms, including Tron - All Media Types, and Bionicle - All Media Types. Yes, those are the tags I want to use, since that's the only tag for Bionicle, and I think the Tron one is most accurate to what I might request.

[morbane]

Got it, thank you!!

[pinkygrocket]

If I wanted to request the Mario games, including game spinoffs (Luigi's Mansion, Paper Mario, etc.), but NOT including the non-game materials (the films, comics, etc.) would "Super Mario & Related Games" be clear enough, or is there a different format I should use? My concern is that "Super Mario (Video Games)" alone may confuse people into that I'm only requesting for the mainline platformers.

[morbane]

That label sounds reasonable, thanks!

[lacommunarde]

I would like to nominate an All Media Types for Daomu Biji| Graverobbers Chronicles|The Lost Tomb series of dramas + book series. (Otherwise, I'll have to create a really specific Daomu Biji book tag (plus technically drama tag) for the parts I want crossed over!)

[morbane]

All right! Could you let me know roughly what that label would cover, please?

[lacommunarde]

The ones I want would under Daomu Biji - All Media Types would be Mystic Nine | Old Nine Gates -drama and book and extras, Ultimate Note - drama, Tomb of the Sea | Sand Sea | Sha Hai - drama and book, Graverobber's Chronicles | The Lost Tomb | Daomu Biji -novels, Wu Xie's Private Notes -novel.

[morbane]

All right, thank you!

Nominations Longlist

[graycardinal]

Just turned in a set of nominations, severely whittled down from a longer list. This being the case, I'm taking the liberty here of posting the leftovers from the long-list, in hopes that someone else will then be motivated to add one or more of these to their nominations. In most cases, these are fandoms I'd be willing both to write for or request. (My signup for this exchange nearly always covers an absurdly sizeable amount of territory....)

Neither my noms nor this list are exhaustive; there are a number of fandoms already nominated that I'd happily request and/or write for, and (as might be deduced from a glance at my AO3 works list) a great many fandoms of varying degrees of popularity, large and infinitesimal, in which I'd also be happy to receive or produce new works.

Books_
Amelia Peabody - Elizabeth Peters
Jacqueline Kirby - Elizabeth Peters
Mary Russell - Laurie R. King
Nancy Drew - Carolyn Keene (yellow-spine editions)
Velveteen - Seanan McGuire

Cartoons, etc.
Gargoyles
Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century
Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego
Zeta Project

Movies
Candleshoe
Finian's Rainbow

TV Series
Batman '66
Ellery Queen (Jim Hutton)
Elsbeth
High Potential
Power Rangers (Lightspeed Rescue, Dino Thunder, Time Force, Operation Overdrive)
Tracker

Re: Nominations Longlist

[morbane]

Good luck! I'll throw Batman '66 and Gargoyles in out of my own fondness. When you say "yellow-spine editions" for Nancy Drew, does that relate to particular publishing dates, or something else?

Re: Nominations Longlist (Nancy Drew)

[graycardinal]

The answer to the "yellow-spine" question is a trifle complicated.

[tl/dr: There were 56 "official" yellow-spine novels published from 1959-1979; the series continued in a variety of physical formats and under several different publishers all the way up to 2003]

In her original form, Nancy debuted in 1930, with a sizeable number of adventures published over the next three decades. These were not yellow-spined, but straight hardcovers with relatively plain covers. In recent years, many to most of these earliest books have been republished in facsimile editions. (Wikipedia's entries are a reasonably good summary of the series' overall history, but there are also a number of worthwhile fannish sites available.)

The yellow-spined editions are the core of the second incarnation of the series, debuting at the start of the 1960s and appearing through 1985; these are arguably the most widely-read books and most familiar versions of the Nancy Drew characters. The catch is that several dozen of them are rewritten versions of the original Depresson-era books, commissioned to remove material seen as racist and/or sexist.

In 1985, things get complicated. In absolute terms, the "yellow spine" continuity keeps running all the way up to 2003 for a total of some 175 titles, but the actual books are spread out over several publishing imprints and appeared in a variety of physical formats. (The last several years are marked by significant problems with internal continuity, arguably due to the loss of the series' long-term editor.)

For AO3 purposes, the umbrella tag for the main series is "Nancy Drew - Carolyn Keene"; there are separate tags for some of the parallel series. "Carolyn Keene" is of course a house name shared by a number of ghostwriters (this has been the case from Day One; it amuses me no end that, when I put an actual Carolyn Keene into one of my own Nancy Drew fics, the wranglers initially included "Carolyne Keene (RPF)" as one of the fandoms; I note on rechecking now that that's finally been fixed).

A much-different Carolyn Keene appears in the Chelsea Cain novel Confessions of A Teen Sleuth, which purports to be Nancy's autobiography. (It's a worthwhile book although I have issues with some of Cain's creative choices.)

Re: Nominations Longlist (Nancy Drew)

[morbane]

Thanks for explaining that!

[(Anonymous)]

The pregenerated dropdowns had me pick between “Interspecies reviewers” manga and anime. They’re pretty closely one to one as far as the anime covers, and I have no preference between the two. I picked manga just because it’s longer, but Could they be combined as one fandom category?

[(Anonymous)]

異種族レビュアーズ | Ishuzoku Reviewers | Interspecies Reviewers (Manga) Vs 異種族レビュアーズ | Ishuzoku Reviewers | Interspecies Reviewers (anime)

[morbane]

Sorry for the late reply! Yes, certainly, I'm happy to put that through as (Anime & Manga).

[(Anonymous)]

I nominated Hades I (Video Game 2018) because there's a sequel that and most other AO3 Hades Game tag nominations are synned together. The sequel has a different protagonist and different NPCs, and spoilers so I would prefer to keep them separate.

[morbane]

Absolutely, I'll approve that! Thanks