auexchange | Nominations Open!

Nominations are now open. You can find the tag set here.

The tag set will close for nominations at 19:59 UTC on Saturday 30 June. View the countdown here.

Notes on nominations:

Each participant may nominate up to 6 fandoms with 1-10 characters/relationships in each, plus 20 AUs as freeforms.

Do not nominate 'All Media Types' fandoms.
- Please be as specific as possible to avoid confusion.
- If your fandom's most fitting tag is an 'All Media Types' fandom, please comment here to discuss.

Character and Relationship Tags:
- Characters and groups all go in the Characters slots
- Single character format: Character Name (e.g. Natasha Romanov)
- Gen ship format: Group: Character 1 & Character 2 (e.g. Group: Brienne of Tarth & Sansa Stark)
- Romantic/sexual ship format: Group: Character 1/Character 2 (e.g. Group: Amilyn Holdo/Leia Organa)
- Crossovers: Group: Character 1 (Fandom)/Character 2 (Fandom) (e.g. Group: Tony Stark (MCU)/Bruce Wayne (DCEU))
- Worldbuilding: if you want to request worldbuilding, please nominate Worldbuilding (fandom name) (e.g. Worldbuilding (Harry Potter))
- Example here

AU Tags:
- All go in the Freeform slots
- If applicable to any fandom: ALL: AU here (e.g. ALL: Coffeeshop AU; ALL: Everyone Lives Nobody Dies)
- If fandom-specific: FANDOM ABBREVIATION: AU here (e.g. HP: Harry is sorted into Hufflepuff; LotR: Boromir lives)
- Example here

You can view the full rules post here.

Franchises:

If in doubt, please comment to query or email thedevilchicken+auex@gmail.com.

Arrowverse
- Please nominate the Arrowverse shows together under DC's Arrowverse.

DCEU
- Please nominate the movies together under DC Extended Universe.

MCU
- Please nominate the movies together under Marvel Cinematic Universe; each of the shows should be nominated separately.
- In-universe MCU/show crossovers (e.g. Steve Rogers/Robbie Reyes, not Steve Rogers/Mace Windu): I'm happy for you to nominate those under whichever MCU canon you think fits best, or under Crossover Fandom.

Star Wars
- Star Wars should be split into Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars Original Trilogy, Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016), Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018), and then individual properties (e.g. Star Wars: Rebels, etc.). If in doubt, please ask!
- TCW: please nominate as "Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types" (please do not use All Media Types for anything else)
- In-universe SW crossovers (e.g. Mace Windu/Thrawn, not Mace Windu/Steve Rogers): I'm happy for you to nominate those under whichever SW canon you think fits best, or under Crossover Fandom.

X-Men Movies
- Please nominate both timelines under X-Men (Movieverse).
- Please specify timeline (Original Timeline or Alternate Timeline); add this in brackets, e.g. Scott Summers (OT); Scott Summers (AT); Group: Scott Summers (OT) & Scott Summers (AT).
- Please nominate the Wolverine-specific movies under Wolverine (Movies).
- Please nominate the Deadpool movies under Deadpool (Movieverse).

If you run out of freeform nomination slots, apologies - 20 is the max as determined by AO3. If you have a sock account, please feel free to use it, or comment here with extras you want. Please ensure they're properly formatted and fit within the AO3 character limit so I can copy-paste. Max 10 per comment, please, for ease of reading!

If any nominations require clarification, I'll ask questions in a separate post.

If you spot any duplicates, feel free to let me know! I'm not watching the freeforms super closely. My intention is to weed out obvious freeform duplicates once signups close.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask them here or email thedevilchicken+auex@gmail.com. Anon commenting is on.

Threaded | Top-Level Comments Only

From: (Anonymous)

How would you like Doctor Who subdivided?

Into Classic Series, Modern Series, and separate noms for Big Finish, or by Doctor, or some other configuration?

From:

thedevilchicken

I'm more than happy with Doctor Who (1963), Doctor Who (2005), and Doctor Who (Big Finish Audio), if that works for you!

From: (Anonymous)

That's fine with me! Thanks.

From:

shopfront

Should we split by show/era, eg. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine or Star Trek AOS movies? Also, if I wanted to request an AOS timeline version of DS9 canon does ALL: Star Trek AOS fusion AU seem clear or should I come up with a more specific fandom only tag?

From:

thedevilchicken

Please do split by individual show plus reboot! movies! So, TOS, DS9, etc. separately, plus AOS.

"ALL: Star Trek AOS fusion" seems clear to me as an AU.

From: (Anonymous)

Are & crossover relationships (like "Harry Potter (HP) and Luke Skywalker (SWOT)") ok?

From:

thedevilchicken

Yes! That would be under Crossover Fandom, in the format Group: Harry Potter (HP) & Luke Skywalker (SWOT)!

From: (Anonymous)

So, for example, would "ALL: ST:TOS crossover" be acceptable if one wanted characters from say Harry Potter on the Enterprise interacting with the usual crew?

From: (Anonymous)

In one of the swst freeform tags, I think the spelling should be "Armitage".

From:

thedevilchicken

If you were planning to request HP as the fandom and All: ST:TOS crossover" as the AU: that's fine if you're happy with literally any of the characters from TOS being involved. The only way you would be able to specify your TOS characters in this example would be in your optional details, which your gift creator is not bound to follow - hopefully they would, but optional details are optional.

If you have specific characters in mind, it would be best to nominate those HP and TOS characters as a crossover group (under "Crossover Fandom").

Hopefully that makes sense!

From:

thedevilchicken

Thanks! Apparently I glossed over the typo when approving. I'll sort that out when I'm next logged in.

From:

ultra_fic

If I want to nominate an AU tag which is a crossover how do I write that? Would it be:

Crossover: Character A (Fandom 1) & Character B (Fandom 2) are brothers

or would it be:

Fdm1Fdm2: Character A & Character B are brothers

...or something else? I've confused myself! lol

From:

snickfic

I wondered if you could talk a little bit about the no RPF rule. Most of the RPF I read is some form of AU, from "like our world but bowerbirds" all the way through to "they're all space pirates." Especially given that old RPF is fine, I wondered why RPF of people still alive isn't allowed, and if perhaps you would reconsider that.

Edited Date: 2018-06-26 05:01 pm (UTC)

From:

thedevilchicken

You could use Crossover, or you could use Fdm1Fdm2 - I'm totally happy with either, as long as it's clear from the tag which fandoms are involved!

From:

thedevilchicken

Totally happy to reconsider that!

I'll edit the rules to reflect modern RPF being in when I'm back on a sensible computer later on this evening - feel free to nominate all the RPF you want in the meantime.

From:

snickfic

Awesome, thank you so much!

From:

ultra_fic

Thank you :)

From: (Anonymous)

Some duplicates I've noticed in the noms so far:

Dragon Age (Video Games):
group: Dorian Pavus/Iron Bull
Group: Iron Bull/Dorian Pavus

Freeforms:

ALL: Firefly AU
ALL: Firefly AU/Fusion

ALL: Alignment Swap AU
ALL: Good guys are bad guys/Bad guys are good guys
ALL: Hero(es) Become the Villain(s)

ALL: High Fantasy
ALL: High Fantasy AU

ALL: Role reversal
ALL: Roleswap AU

ALL: Soulmark AU
ALL: Soulmate-identifying marks

ALL: Time Loop
ALL: Groundhog Day timeloop

From:

thedevilchicken

Thanks very much! I'll make a note and have a look at duplicates when nominations close.

From:

slightweasel

Timeloop and Groundhog Day timeloop are not duplicates, imo. Groundhog Day implies a timeloop that is only 1 day, as in the movie it's named after; other timeloops could be much longer (or even shorter).

From:

luvbarryfefe

Hi. My nominations submitted before I was actually done lol I am captainamergirl. I am done now though. Hope they work. Thank you!

From:

meatball42.livejournal.com

Hey, sorry if this isn't the right post for this. I'm going through the tagset and I've found a few duplicates:

All: Animal transformation/All: Animal Transformation AU
All: BDSM/All: BDSM Club (which aren't the same thing, but I'm not sure how close you're cutting it)
All: Daemons/All: His Dark Materials fusion
All: Leverage AU/All: Leverage Fusion
ALL: Everything Is the Same Except Some People Have Resurrecting Genitalia/All: Like canon but some people have magical resurrection cock powers
ALL: Characters as fantasy creatures/ALL: Mythical Creatures AU
All: Like canon but oviposition is the norm/ALL: Oviposition is a part of everyday life
ALL: Cryptid Hunters/All: Monster Hunters (I don't actually know how close these are, YMMV)
All: Space/All: Space AU
ALL: Space Opera AU/ALL: space opera singer AU
ALL: Soulmark AU/ALL: Soulmate-identifying marks

From: (Anonymous)

But wait, there's more:

Group: Bucky Barnes & Steve Rogers (MCU)/group: Steve Rogers & Bucky Barnes

Okay I think I'm done now

From:

thedevilchicken

Thanks! I've removed the duplicate Steve & Bucky, and I'll consider the AU tags.

From:

tigerlily

BTVS: Buffy is a witch
BTVS: Buffy and Faith switch roles
BTVS: Buffy succeeds in killing all her friends during Normal Again
BTVS: Tabula Rasa memory loss lasts longer
BTVS: Wesley is waiting for Buffy in Sunnydale instead of Giles
BTVS: Giles is Buffy's first Watcher instead of Merrick
SW: Ahsoka Tano is Asajj Ventress' apprentice
SW: Ahsoka is a Nightsister
SW: The Son's influence makes Ahsoka and Anakin vampires
SW: Ahsoka continues to work with the future Fulcrums

From:

tigerlily

ALL: Nancy Drew AU
ALL: Ocean's 8 AU
BTVS: The Key is a cosmic horror
BTVS: Maggie Walsh takes an interest in making Buffy her best asset
BTVS: The First Evil haunts Buffy after her resurrection
BTVS: Satsu is one of the potentials sent to Buffy in season seven
SW: Ahsoka goes to Jedha to commune with the Force after Malachor
SW: Ahsoka Tano works to take down the Crimson Dawn
SW: Ahsoka Tano takes Q'ira from Corellia
SW: Ahsoka Tano trains Hedala Fardi in the ways of the Force

From:

thedevilchicken

All of those should be in the tagset for you now!

From:

tigerlily

ALL: My Little Pony Fusion
ALL: Pirates of the Caribbean Fusion
ALL: Phantom of the Opera Fusion
BTVS: Wishverse Buffy and Tara Maclay meet after leaving their respective home towns
BTVS: Tara is Buffy's only witch friend
BTVS: Jenny Calendar | Janna of the Kalderash is Buffy's Watcher
SWTheLastUnicorn: The Last Unicorn is set and true in Star Wars
NancyDrew1931SatLoP: Nancy investigates at an expedition where Sadie is working or studying
SW: Kalifa lives
SW: Steela Guerrera lives

From:

thedevilchicken

Done! :D

From:

tigerlily

I experienced some kind of brain fart and nominated these under Star Wars: Rebels when they belonged under Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types.

Group: The Son/Ahsoka Tano/Anakin Skywalker (SW: Rebels)
Group: Anakin Skywalker/Ahsoka Tano/Asajj Ventress (SW: Rebels)
Group: Count Dooku/Anakin Skywalker/Ahsoka Tano (SW: Rebels)

Also, I was checking to make sure this had been nominated and I think it should be spelled "eldritch": SW: The Force is an Eldrich Horror