Hello! We’re updating the wording of some freeforms so they’re more easy to find in the tagset, and hunting down duplicates!

Below is the list of tags that we’ve removed because we didn’t find the substantially different from another tag in the tagset (When picking which tag to keep, we went with what felt the most clear):

• ALL: Star Trek fusion has been deleted in favor of keeping All: Star Trek AU.
• ALL: Werewolves has been deleted in favor of keeping ALL: Werewolves AU
• All: Actor AU has been deleted in favor of keeping ALL: Actors AU
• ALL: All characters except one are Muppets has been deleted in favor of keeping ALL: All But One Character is Played by the Muppets
• ALL: BDSM Dynamics are biological has been deleted in favor of keeping ALL: BDSM - Dominance/Submission/Switch are biologically innate
• ALL: Firefly AU has been deleted in favor of keeping ALL: Firefly (2002 TV) Fusion
• ALL: Horror has been deleted in favor of keeping All: Horror AU
• ALL: Loveless fusion has been deleted in favor of keeping ALL: Loveless AU (anime/manga)
• ALL: Modern with Magic has been deleted in favor of keeping ALL: Modern with Magic AU
• ALL: SCP Foundation AU has been deleted in favor of keeping ALL: SCP Foundation Fusion
• ALL: College AU has been deleted in favor of keeping ALL: University/College AU
• ALL: Hogwarts AU has been deleted in favor of keeping ALL: Harry Potter AU
• ALL: Ghost Hunters has been deleted in favor of keeping ALL: Ghost Hunter AU
• ALL: Secretly married all along AU has been deleted in favor of keeping ALL: A and B are secretly married the whole time
• ALL: Ice Skating AU has been deleted in favor of keeping All: Figure skating AU
• ALL: Magical Girl AU has been deleted in favor of keeping All: Magical Girls/Boys AU
• ALL: Alternate First Meeting has been deleted in favor of keeping ALL: Different First Meeting AU
• ALL: Role Reversal AU has been deleted in favor of keeping ALL: Roleswap AU

If anyone feels strongly that one of the deleted tags should be added back into the tagset because it’s substantially different than the one that’s been kept, please comment on this post to let us know!

In addition, we’ve made the following freeform formatting updates to ensure that tags for the same fandom appear near each other and are easy to search for while browsing the freeform tagset:

• ST (DS9): Ro Laren is the station's Bajoran representative has been changed to Star Trek Deep Space Nine: Ro Laren is the station's Bajoran representative
• ST SNW: The Doomed Romulan War Timeline has been changed to Star Trek Strange New Worlds: The Doomed Romulan War Timeline
• TMA: Jonathan Sims becomes the avatar of a different fear entity has been changed to The Magnus Archives: Jonathan Sims becomes the avatar of a different fear entity
• Following: It takes longer for Ryan to figure out Joe's a killer; they get even closer than in canon has been changed to The Following: It takes longer for Ryan to figure out Joe's a killer; they get even closer than in canon
• All: ALL: Fantasy/Magic Organized Crime AU has been changed to ALL: Fantasy/Magic Organized Crime AU
• All: ALL: Fantasy/Magic Royalty and Palace Intrigue AU has been changed to ALL: Fantasy/Magic Royalty and Palace Intrigue AU
• AU: One or more characters has amnesia has been changed to ALL: One or more characters has amnesia
• The Goblin Emperor: One of Maia's brothers brings him to court has been changed to Goblin Emperor: One of Maia's brothers brings him to court.
• TGE: Maia is made The Great Avar's heir before Varenechibel dies has been changed to Goblin Emperor: Maia is made The Great Avar's heir before Varenechibel dies
• TGE: Varenechibel Dies Another Way & Nemolis Becomes Emperor has been changed to Goblin Emperor: Varenechibel Dies Another Way & Nemolis Becomes Emperor

 

Thank you to everyone who’s been helping us track down dupes! Please feel free to keep commenting on ones you locate on the tagset cleanup post here.

Hello Hello! We have some nominations that need clarifications!

Relationships and Characters:

• Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
• Caitlyn/Jinx (League of Legends)
• Claggor (Arcane) & Ekko & Jinx (League of Legends) & Mylo (Arcane) & Vi (League of Legends)
• Ekko & Jinx & Vi (League of Legends)
• Ekko & Vi (League of Legends)
• Felicia (Arcane: League of Legends) & Silco (Arcane: League of Legends) & Vander (League of Legends)
• Nominator(s), I’m not sure if you meant to nominate these ships (and other ships) as crossovers (within League of Legends), or if you meant for them to be part of Arcane (Cartoon 2021). Please let me know in the comments below which fandom they ought to be in, and I can fix them for you! If you don’t get back to us within 48 hours, they will be adjusted to be disambiguated to Arcane 2021 and accepted under the nominated fandom.
• Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
• Aang & Korra (Avatar)
• Nominator, I’m not sure that Korra is a character that appears in Avatar: The Last Airbender (my understanding is that she’s a sequel only character!). Would it be acceptable to accept this under Crossover Fandom as Aang (Avatar) & Korra (LoK) or would you prefer Aang & Korra (LoK)? If you don’t get back to us in 48 hours, this nomination will be accepted under Crossover Fandom.
• NoPixel (Web Series)
• Yuno Sykk (NoPixel) & Everyone
• Nominator, I appreciate your enthusiasm! However, this exchange does not accept “& Everyone” or “/Everyone” type nominations because that would be too vague for a creator to fulfill! Please let me know which character(s) you would like in your tag, (up to approximately 6 characters total which is close to the ao3 tag length limit) within 48 hours, otherwise I will reject this nomination to keep things moving with tagset cleanup.
• The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
• Aragorn & Dúnedain Characters (Tolkien)
• Nominator, would it be possible to clarify which Dunedain Characters you mean in your nomination? My understanding is that we don’t actually see any specific Dunedain characters in Lord of the Rings, but my memory could be failing me, especially with a cast this large! If you mean for the creator to create some Dunedain characters for Aragorn to interact with in fic, we could adjust this to Aragorn & Original Dúnedain Characters (Tolkien). Otherwise, if I don’t hear back from you in 48 hours, I will reject this nomination.
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
• The Clones have been stricken of their numerical piping for tagset clarity and disambigs have been added. In future, please nominate them with their names and disambiguate!
• Beauty and the Beast (DAM) has been accepted as Beauty and the Beast (Disney Animated Movie) for clarity!
• These nominations were accidentally accepted as mixed &/ ships! This relationship nominations configuration is not accepted by the tagset this year, and these tags have been deleted from the tagset. However, since they were originally accidentally accepted, if the original nominators would like substitute noms that are not mixed platonic and romantic, I would be happy to add them!
• Bones (TV)
• Jack Hodgins/Angela Montenegro & Michael Staccato Vincent Hodgins
• Russ Brennan/Amy Hollister & Emma Hollister & Hayley Hollister
• Seeley Booth/Temperance Brennan & Christine Booth & Hank Booth Jr.
• Seeley Booth/Temperance Brennan & Parker Booth
• Fafner
• Makabe Kazuki/Minashiro Soushi & Minashiro Soushi (II)
• Genghis Khan - Miike Snow (Music Video)
• Gold Nose Villain/Secret Agent & GNV's Son & GNV's daughter
• Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
• Armand/Louis de Pointe du Lac & Claudia/Madeleine
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
• Keiko O'Brien/Miles O'Brien & Molly O'Brien & Kirayoshi O'Brien
• Star Trek: The Next Generation
• Beverly Crusher/Jack Crusher & Wesley Crusher

Freeform Nominations:

• ALL: Touch-Starved Protagonist/Physically Affectionate Love Interest
• Nominator, I’m not sure that this is an alternate universe nomination so much as a ship dynamic nomination. It might work better as a specific fandom nomination instead! If you had a specific ship in mind, please let me know what the specific fandom would be and how to format this nomination! If not it will be rejected.
• ALL: Sudden Twin Acquisition (having twin not having twin children) has been rephrased as: ALL: Sudden Twin Acquisition (discovering a twin not having twin children) for clarity!
• The Freeform nominations below that do not have prefixes, either ALL: [freeform here] or [Fandom Specific Prefix]: [Freeform Here] have been rejected. If this has happened to your nominations, please feel free to comment them correctly formatted down below within 48 hours and I’ll add them to the tagset!
• Alternate Universe - Authors
• Alternate Universe - Beauty and the Beast Fusion
• Alternate Universe - Cinderella (Disney Movies) Fusion
• Alternate Universe - Fairy Tale
• Alternate Universe - Tam Lin Fusion
• Alternate Universe - Tangled (2010) Fusion
• au: fairy tale
  

Hello Hello! We have some nominations that need clarifications!

Relationships and Characters:

• CritRole:
  • Caduceus Clay/Jester Lavorre/Beauregard Lionett/Nott | Veth/Yasha Nydoorin/Fjord Stone/Caleb W has been accepted as Caduceus Clay/Jester Lavorre/Beau Lionett/Nott | Veth/Yasha Nydoorin/Fjord Stone/Caleb W. (CR)
  • Jester Lavorre/Beauregard Lionett/Nott | Veth/Yasha Nydoorin/Fjord Stone/Mollymauk Tealeaf/Caleb W. has been accepted as Jester Lavorre/Beau Lionett/Nott | Veth/Yasha Nydoorin/Fjord Stone/Mollymauk Tealeaf/Caleb W. (CR)

Freeform Nominations:

• Adjustments:
  • Star Trek Voyager: Voyager winds up in the Delta Quadrant has been adjusted to Star Trek Voyager: Voyager winds up in the Gamma Quadrant as per the intentions of the original nominator
• Corrections Needed:
  • Dick Grayson is the only omega in the Batfamily
  • Dickbats vs Joker!Jason
  • Female Dick Grayson
  • Jason Todd is the only alpha in the Batfamily
  • The Robins met before they meet Bruce
    • We do not accept freeform nominations without a prefix of some kind, either ALL: (applicable to all fandoms) or a fandom specific prefix. These will be held for 48 hours as of the posting of this clarifications post for the nominator to return and adjust with either DCU, DCEU, DCU Comics or some other kind of applicable fandom prefix before they’re rejected. If this happens, the nominator is still welcome to comment with the correctly formatted tags on any nominations post before tag nominations end to get them added to the tagset.

Hello Hello! We have some nominations that need clarifications!

Relationships and Characters:

• Buffyverse
  • The Angel Investigations Polycule - Please renominate this nomination as characters with their full names written out and a disambiguation such as “Character A/Character B/Character C (Buffyverse)” or something similar so that it is clear who is in this group.
• 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
  • We don’t accept nominations with piped names such as Jin Ling | Jin Rulan for this exchange! Please edit the nominated tags such as Jin Ling | Jin Rulan/Lan Yuan | Lan Sizhui (MDZS) → Jin Ling/Lan Sizhui (MDZS). This really improves the readability of the tagset. Thank you!

Freeform Nominations:

• Make sure to include a prefix to denote whether or not your nomination is meant to be applied to a specific fandom (fandom specific prefix such as MDZS: or ATLA: or ASOIAF: etc) or to any fandom (ALL:).
  • For example, edit Alternate Universe - Superheroes/Superpowers to ALL: Superhero/Superpowers AU.
  • The lingering freeform nominations that do not have a prefix of some sort will be rejected after the next 24 hours.
  • If this happens to your freeform nominations and you run out of nominations slots because of the rejections, please feel free to comment the nominations you would like to see in the tagset properly formatted as a comma separated list on any of the nominations posts and I can add up to 20 into the tagset for you.
• ALL: One character thinks the other is a hallucination
  • I think I need a bit more clarification on the wording of this one! As it stands it feels more like (1) very specific scenario in a scene than something that would be in scope for an AU of 5k or more.
• ALL: A System exists and is guiding at least one character (for better or worse)
  • Has been updated to: ALL: Transmigration-Style System exists and is guiding at least one character (for better or worse) ← “a” was excised due to freeform tag limit of 100 or fewer characters.

Nominations Open!

Relationships Tagset | Freeforms Tagset | Nominations Guidelines | Recursive Fandom Evidence Post | AU Promo Post

Nominations are open a little early! Please see the links above for nominations guidelines and where to nominate.

In addition, please feel free to nominate or check out the recursive fandoms proposed for the tagset here.

Also please feel free to promote your AU ideas here.

Tag Nominations Guidelines:

General Nominations Information:

We have two tagsets, one for characters and relationships and one for freeforms. This will allow us to reuse the freeform tagset for future years so we don’t have to nominate all our AUs again as well as keep the fandoms/characters/relationships up to date and current.

Each participant can nominate up to 20 AUs as freeforms in the freeform tagset, and 10 fandoms with 10 characters/relationships each.

There are no rarity requirements to nominate a fandom, ship, character, or type of alternate universe freeform.

Original Work and Creator’s Choice of Fandom (CCOF) will not be allowed.

Real Person Fiction (RPF) is allowed. All people nominated for RPF must be famous in their own right and 18+ for modern RPF. The mod reserves the right to remove any tags they feel would be out of scope for a fanwork exchange.

Crossovers are allowed. Please nominate them under “Crossover Fandom” so that they are easily locatable, except for crossovers that take place entirely within the Star Wars Universe. In that case, as per the franchise post, please nominate them under Star Wars - All Media Types.

Franchises will be accepted into the tagset based on the Franchise post, found here. If you have a fandom that is a large and sprawling franchise of many parts, check the post to see how to nominate, or inquire on that post or with the modmail if you don’t see your franchise there and think it should be split up in some way.

Nominating Characters and Relationships:

The tagset interface to nominate characters and relationships is here.

Please disambiguate your relationship and character nominations with the relevant fandom in parentheses. This helps us to track down wandering tags and reassociate any tags that fall out of their correct associations.

Nominate single characters with the prefix: 1: such as 1: Jiang Cheng (MDZS - MXTX). This assumes that the work you receive will primarily be about the nominated character, but does not mean that they will not have significant relationships! Please DNW any specific characters or ships you would not like to have in a gift. 

Nominate platonic relationships with & and romantic/sexual relationships with / such as: Aziraphale & Crowley (Good Omens TV) or Sherlock Holmes/John Watson (ACD).

Please alphabetize your nominations by family name/surname (or only known name, if a character has no family name/surname) for both platonic and romantic/sexual relationships to prevent duplicate tags such as: Wei Wuxian & Jiang Cheng (CQL) and Jiang Cheng & Wei Wuxian (CQL) from getting into the tagset. If this does happen and you spot it, please comment on any nominations clarification post, or this post and I will get it during tagset cleanup!

Please reduce piping whenever possible to improve tagset readability. For example, nominate: 1: Wei Yingluo (Yanxi Palace) instead of 1: Empress Wei of Qing | Wei Yingluo (Yanxi Palace). If you have reason to believe that piping is essential for your fandom, please feel free to contact the mod either on the dreamwidth comm or by modmail to discuss!

Please also do not purposefully add diacritics to your nominations as this makes it harder for other participants to use the dropdown. For example, nominate: 1: Lan Xichen (MDZS - MXTX) instead of 1: Lán Huàn | Lán Xīchén (MDZS - MXTX). This might be unavoidable as some fandoms are plagued with ao3 canonicals with diacritics, but please don’t nominate like this on purpose! I will do my best to reduce the number of diacritics we find in our tagset to keep things tidy and also findable, but there may be some that slip through.

Nominating Freeforms:

The tagset interface to nominate freeforms is here.

Nominate fandom specific freeforms (ie. canon divergence AUs) with the fandom prefix, such as: MDZS: No Golden Core Transfer or Good Omens: Different Antichrist so that they are easily searchable. These should only be requested and offered with the specific fandom, or very closely related fandoms such as Game of Thrones (GOT) and A Song of Ice and Fire (ASOIAF) or Modao Zushi (MDZS) & The Untamed (CQL). 

Nominate non-fandom specific freeforms with the prefix “ALL” such as ALL: 1920s AU or ALL: Vampire AU or ALL: Rule 63 AU. These can be requested with any fandom.

Also nominate fusion AUs such as a Hunger Games fusion in this format: ALL: Hunger Games AU. Fusion freeform nominations are assumed to be "I would like an alternate universe based on the setting or character dynamics of what's in the nominated freeform tag" and not meant to be full crossovers with the characters of one story interacting with another. For crossovers, please nominate the character(s)/relationships(s) in the characters and relationships tagset under "Crossover Fandom." 

Freeforms without some kind of prefix (either fandom specific or ALL) will not be accepted. Freeforms not related to an alternate universe of some kind will not be accepted. The mod will assume good faith when it comes to freeform nominations, and will reach out to query in a clarifications post if anything appears unclear.

Is one of your fandoms part of a large franchise? Do you have a case for why your fandom should appear in the tagset in a specific way? (All Media Types, Split by Specific Movie and TV Show, Some Combination of These?)

Please comment below to let me know how you and other fans of this franchise would like your fandom to appear in the tagset! (If there's already a thread for your fandom please comment there!)


I will be taking suggestions until the 10th of November, at 10pm EST (Countdown Here) and posting the formal nominations guidelines by the 15th of November at 10pm EST so we can start nominations on time!