Updates for 2018!

[thedevilchicken]

Hello, AUEx! thedevilchicken here. You may know me as the suspiciously silent partner in last year's inaugural Alternate Universe Exchange, but silent no more!

I have a couple of announcements to make, and a question to ask.


Announcement the first:

Last year's much less silent mods, crantz and morbane, will be stepping down - that means I'll be running things this year. Huge thanks for your hard work last year, both of you! Nothing caught fire and we have you to thank for that.

I might be looking for a co-mod a bit closer to the time, but for now it's just me.


Announcement the second:

The intention is that AUEx will run again this year, with amended rules.

The major change is AUs won't be tied to specific fandoms - they'll be nominated as freeform tags, independent of fandoms, meaning they can be used when requesting/offering any fandom in the tagset.

Basically: AUs only need to be nominated once in total, not once per fandom. That doesn't mean you can no longer request specific points of canon-divergence, etc. however!

I'll also be allowing crossovers and canon AUs this year, and abolishing last year's megafandom groupings. Hopefully this will make things more straightforward for everyone.


Question:

Would there be any interest in bringing AUex forward this year? It would help my schedule to run this sooner rather than later!

I'm more than happy to take suggestions for dates.

Dates will be roughly the same as last year to avoid clashes with major exchanges.


If anyone has any suggestions/questions, please feel free to leave/ask them here!

Comments

[meatball42.livejournal.com]

I really like that idea, just because- checking my tags from last year- many of them were fandom specific and I think a lot would fall through the cracks if there wasn't some additional navigation tool.