Crossworks: Fic and Art Crossover Exchange

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.


• 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 9 June, 11:59pm EST. I will post questions about nominations as they come up.

( The following sign-up requirements may help you decide what to nominate )

Previous use of wildcards - Creator's Choice of Fandom, Any Other Fandom I've Requested in Crossworks, etc - seems to have been successful, so I have added those to the tag set again. However, this year I am clarifying that these wildcards do not "stack" - ie, the tag "Creator's Choice of Fandom" will not itself count as a "fandom" for the purposes of the "any other fandom" tag. This will be explained in more detail in the 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!

Thanks for your nominations so far! Nominations will end at 11:59pm EDT, Monday 12 June.

Nominations queries

Please help me out with clarifications if you nominated any of the following fandoms:

Any Requested Fandom - I'm not sure how this is meant to work. Could the nominator please expand on what you had in mind? Creator's Choice of Fandom is in the tag set.

Creepypasta - Fandom - This is very broad and I foresee different points of view about what counts (especially if picking creepypasta characters to fuse into another canon). Nominator, could you please clarify what you were thinking? If something like 'Creator's Choice of Creepypasta', what do you consider part of the canon?

Get Smart - All Media Types - Just checking the All Media Types label is preferred? Last year just the 1965 TV series was nominated. This label includes all the spinoffs including the 2008 movie. All good if that's what you want.

Historical RPF - As this is fairly broad, could I please check what you had in mind? Thanks!

Original Work - Crossworks is an exchange for combining specific canons with each other, so I'm not sure how this will work. Please either let me know your thoughts or change this nomination.

Star Wars Legends: The Old Republic (Video Game) Imperial Agent Storyline Level 1-50 and Star Wars Legends: The Old Republic (Video Game) Sith Inquisitor Storyline Level 1-50 - I appreciate the care taken in labelling these! Could I please get more information about how these work as stand-alone canons?

XCOM (2012 Reboot) - I have already approved XCOM (2012 Reboot Series). Did you want something different or does the first label cover what you were looking for?

Rules updates

Treat settings - last year, AO3 gave users a new feature to block gifts other than those given through an exchange assignment or prompt claim. New accounts are set up with extra gifts disabled by default. This is an anti-harassment feature for users who have previously received unwanted and unpleasant "gifts"-that-aren't, or for users who are concerned they might get them in future.

Extra gifts are a familiar part of exchanges, but this feature makes it hard to know if someone would like treats or has treating turned off. Because of this, please say in your requests if you are happy to receive treats, and if you therefore have extra gifts enabled in your settings. (That is, in your AO3 preferences, the box next to "Allow anyone to gift me works." is ticked.) That helps to give treat creators confidence when browsing prompts.

Similarly, if you choose not to enable extra gifts, please say in your requests that you are not open to treats. It is okay to either disable or enable extra gifts, but more information helps everyone.

Blocking feature - even more recently, AO3 has also implemented a blocking feature - see news posts here, here, and here. This does not affect challenge matching. Please do what you can to avoid matching to someone who has blocked you or whom you have blocked. If you are in this situation with another participant, please use your offers and requests, the Notes to Mod field, emailing me, or some combination to help me help you avoid undesired interactions.

Work must be original - no AI - Artificial writing and art creation has developed in interesting ways in the last year. However, Crossworks is a challenge where creators exchange original works that they have made themselves. Please do not submit art or fic created with the help of AI tools, or start with an existing story or image not your own & edit it to give as a gift.

Lastly, comments are not mandatory in this exchange but they are strongly encouraged. If you default and receive a gift, you must comment on the gift (or discuss it with me) before signing up again. This is an existing rule but I've tried to make it clearer on the profile.

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 discuss them - I will not approve them without discussion.


• 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.


• Questions/discussion welcome!

You can edit each 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 16 June, 11:59pm EDT. I will post queries here as I go.


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


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!

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.


• Please do not choose tags that include the words "All Media Types" or "& Related Fandoms" - I will not approve them unless we've discussed them.


• 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.


• Questions/discussion welcome!

You can edit each 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 9 June, 11:59pm EDT. Apologies: I am likely to be a little slow approving nominations for the first half of the nomination period. I will post queries here as I go.


NB
Thanks for the suggestions about how to phrase sign-up requirements. I'm still working on those but, importantly, the actual rules haven't changed from last year. ( So please keep in mind the following for your sign-up, in case it helps you decide what to nominate )


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!

Hello! I'm excited at the breadth of nominations so far.

I'm a little stuck on the nomination for:

LOVECRAFT H. P. - Works

I realise that's a canonical tag, but it seems a broad range of works that aren't necessarily in continuity. Nominator, is there a narrower label we could use? Or help me see why it should go through as-is.

Thank you!

Nominations close at 11:59pm EDT on June 10.

Nominations open in a few days at the tag set.

Everyone can nominate up to 8 fandoms. I will not approve fandoms that have the words "All Media Types" or "& Related Fandoms" in them unless specifically agreed on.

If you have a fandom that's usually split up a particular way, and you want it combined (or split differently), or you want to ensure a fandom is split instead of combined, this is a post for discussing your preference - or just coordinating nominations with other participants.

Relevant sign-up requirements
-You have 3-10 requests and 3-10 offers
-Each request and offer must contain at least 2 fandoms
-Your requests must include at least 5 fandoms and at least 5 possible combinations of fandoms
-You cannot put two fandoms from the same continuity into the same request
-You cannot structure your requests so that a gift for you has to contain your favourite fandom (ie, you can't have just 5 requests in the combinations AxB, AxC, AxD, AxE, AxF)
-You cannot have 2 or more requests with identical tags.