recursiveexchange | Nominations open! (Reply)

Due to the complexity of nominations, we will be nominating via a google form, and clarifications will primarily happen via email rather than announcement on the comm. If you can't use google forms, please email us at recursiveexchange@protonmail.com

(Nominating directly to the tagset won't be allowed because we need lots of information and it's better if we collect it all at once. Also, this way you won't have to format your own tags!)

If you have any questions about nominations, please ask! We will answer comments on this post & by email.

Nominating tags from last year's tagset

The google sheet will ask you to provide the exact tag that was used last year (the easiest way to get that is to copy it from the "Full AO3 Tag" column on last year's tagset airtable here)
We'll look up last year's info about the tag, saving you a bundle of time!
Nomination clarifications will be done via email. For things nominated last year, you'll probably only get emailed if something is wrong — like if the permission statement was on a tumblr that no longer exists, that kind of thing.

Tagset organization and tag formatting

Specific fanworks that participants want recursed will be tags in the relationships slot using this format:

Author: Title (Medium)

For example, a fic by wafflelate would look like:

wafflelate: Introductions (fic)

We're using the relationships slot so that the fanwork tags will be organized in the tagset under their parent fandoms, which will make browsing the tagset and browsing requests easier! We've also provided an Airtable grid for browsing nominated fanworks, complete with links and other information. It's searchable and sortable and stuff!

The title of a work should be the title as it is on AO3/FF.net, or a short description of the work if the work is untitled. If you are nominating a non-fic work that has a medium note in a bracket, please remove note this when you are nominating. For example, TKodai has artwork titled like this on AO3:

[Art] Time to Hit the Books!

Remove the bracketed medium, and nominate the work as:

Time to Hit the Books!

(Otherwise we'll just end up with tags that are like "TKodai: [ART] Time to Hit the Books! (art)" and that's just silly.)

Parent Fandom Eligibility

All parent fandoms are eligible, including:

Original Works
RPF (of people who are famous in their own right and 18+)
Recursive fandoms (fandoms that are themselves based around a fanwork, like Down to Agincourt)
"All Media Types" and "& Related Fandoms" fandom tags

Ideally works to be recursed will be nominated under the canonical AO3 tag that fits them best, assuming there is a canonical tag that fits best. We may query the community or specific nominators about merging parent fandoms, but in most cases we will be happy to go with what the nominator thinks is best. Accurate parent fandoms will be most helpful for browsing nominations and requests, since the actual fandoms that works will be created for will be the nominated fanworks.

Crossovers

Crossover works should be nominated with the format "Fandom A/Fandom B" where plausible or "Multi-Fandom" where the list is simply too long. All crossover works will be put in the "Crossover Fandom" fandom on the tagset (so that you don't have to use a request slot for each crossover fic you want!) but we will use the Fandom A/Fandom B format in a searchable spreadsheet of nominations. "Multi-Fandom" works will be listed separately.

Fanwork Eligibility

Participants will be requesting recursive fic or art of specific fanworks. Eligible fanworks for this exchange must be produced in a non-professional context, and nominators must provide proof that the creator has given permission for further transformation. Any digital medium is fine!

Ineligible works:

Professionally or commercially produced works, at the mods' discretion.
- This includes things like Pride & Prejudice & Zombies and The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
Single works from a fanwork series. You need to nominate the whole series.
- For example, you would not nominate A Thousand Lights in Space, Book 3 of Down to Agincourt; instead, you would nominate the full series as seperis: Down to Agincourt (fic series).
Whole anthologies/collections of unconnected work.
- You may nominate specific works from anthologies/collections.
Commissioned fanworks that weren't posted in a fannish context.
- E.g. if you bought an artwork from an artist alley, or commissioned a fic and the work was gifted to you privately, that fanwork would be considered ineligible.
- (If the commissioned fanwork was posted in a fannish context and the creator gave you wide discretion about what to do with the fanwork, those works would be considered eligible, even if you don't have a blanket transformative work statement.)
Anything that's inaccessible/that you can't link to.
- For example, fanfiction published only in a zine several decades ago that was never published online.
Non-fannish original fiction/art/etc.
- Anything posted on AO3 automatically counts as fannish enough.
- For original fiction/art posted elsewhere, we might query you about if it's fannish enough.

Special Note About Incomplete Works and Incomplete Series

For this exchange, you are allowed to nominate incomplete fanworks and incomplete fanwork series. However, requests that ask for "complete this fanwork" or "write the final chapter of this incomplete fanwork" are banned.

Standards for Permission

Our ideal is a permission statement posted on the same account used to post the work. For example:
- a blanket statement on the creator's AO3 profile
- a logged-in reply to a comment on the nominated work
We will also accept permission statements posted from an account that's publicly associated with the account used to post the work, but you may need to provide additional details.
- Example: For a work posted on AO3 with a permission statement is an answer to a tumblr ask, you should provide a link to a place on AO3 where the creator has linked to their tumblr.

What to put in the 'Main Pairing/Characters' field

We aren't matching on what you put in the main ship/characters field, so we're just asking that you put down what you think will be helpful for participants browsing the nominations.

You should use the format Character A/Character B for romantic/sexual relationships.
For gen works, you can use the format Character A & Character B or you can just provide a list of characters.
If you are nominating original works, please provide the pairing category at the beginning of the tag, and then the descriptive version of the ship tag. A properly formatted OW ship would look like "(F/F) Ghost/Nun" or "(Gen) Ghost & Nun"

You can find an explanation about the character category tags we'll be using to match in the rules/info post.

Information required to nominate:

Your email — If you don't want us contacting you for nominations clarification or if you're commenting signed-in, you can leave this blank.
Fanwork title — what is the fanwork called? For series you can use the series name. If the fanwork is untitled, a brief description or summary is fine, keeping in mind the tag we create will need to be 100 characters or less.
Fanwork creator — What username was the fanwork posted under?
Fanwork medium — Is it fic? Art? Vid? Gifset?
Fanwork link — Where can the fanwork be found?
Parent fandom — What fandom was the fanwork created for? Please try to use AO3 canonicals. Crossovers should be given in the format Fandom A/Fandom B, although they'll go under "Crossover Fandom" in the tagset.
Fanwork permission link — We need a link to a place where the creator has publicly said they're okay with further transformation of their work, preferably on the same site the work is posted on or on an account the creator has linked. (The permission link will not be included in any public tagset information, it is only used for verification.)
Main ship/characters — You will be matching on if you want fic about the main ship/characters or side characters, and also this will help people know if they're interested in the work. If you provide just a pairing, we will assume the characters in the pairing are the main characters. If you are nominating original works, please provide the pairing category at the beginning of the tag, and then the descriptive version of the ship tag. A properly formatted OW ship would look like "(F/F) Ghost/Nun" or "(Gen) Ghost & Nun"
Additional information — Any other information you think mods need about this nomination. On the google form information put in this category is only visible to the mods.

Link to nomination google form

Nominations open!

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