Recursive Exchange

We're underway with nominations, and we've emailed a few nominators with clarifications. Most of our issues have focused on permission statements. Specifically, what we've seen are permission statements that don't fully cover the kinds of transformative work people may be requesting in this event.

If you are nominating a work for this event, the transformative work statement from the creator needs to say yes to a minimum of fanart and fanfic. Even if you plan to request only fanfic, or only fanart, you may not be the only person who requests a specific nomination. Therefore, everything in the tagset must have permission granted for both mediums. And that permission needs to be granted without any caveats about needing to contact the fanwork creator before making transformative works.

Types of statements that are okay:

Someone says blanket yes to all transformative works.

Yes to fic of fic, to fanart, and to other mediums.

Someone says "do whatever, just link me! :D".

Someone says, "I'm excited to see what you make. Credit me please!"

Someone says, "I believe in the give me credit, don't seek permission model of fandom."

Someone says, "you can make recursive work of my fic, but finishing my WIPs is not allowed." This is acceptable for this event, because we ban requests to "write the end of the fic" for incomplete works.

Types of statements where we will ask for further clarification:

Someone says yes to "remixes" and fanart. Remixes and recursive fanfic aren't always the same thing. We will usually ask for the nominator to reach out and ask about whether transformative fic or "fic of fic" is okay.

Someone says yes to fanart, podfics, and translations but no mention of fic.

Someone says yes to fic of their work, with no statement about fanart.

Types of statements where we may reject the nomination:

Someone says people have to specifically contact them before making a fanwork to seek their permission for transformation.

Someone specifically bars people from making fanart of their work.

Someone specifically bars people from writing fic set during their series.

We're happy to talk things through with you if we find a permission statement may not cover everything that this exchange needs! (One of the reasons the nomination period is so long is that we knew that we'd likely need time for people to contact creators to seek clarifications about permission statements.) Good luck and happy nominating!

Due to the complexity of nominations, we will primarily be nominating via a google form, and clarifications will primarily happen via email rather than announcement on the comm. If you don't want to or can't use google forms we have also provided instructions for submitting your nominations via Dreamwidth at the bottom of this post.

(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.

Links

• Tagset
• Nominations form
• List of accepted nominations in order of acceptance
• Airtable grid of accepted nominations (can be filtered, sorted, and searched!)
• Opt-in/Promo post

( Tagset organization and tag formatting )

( Parent Fandom Eligibility )

( Fanwork Eligibility  )

( Standards for Permission )

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

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

Or, if you would prefer to nominate via Dreamwidth comment, fill out the following form as many times as you want and post it in the comments of this post. Processing these will take a little longer because data entry, but please go absolutely hogwild on your nominations.

</p> <p> <strong>Your email:</strong> (can leave blank if signed in/would prefer handling any clarifications via DW comment) </p> <p> <strong>Fanwork title:</strong> </p> <p> <strong>Fanwork creator:</strong> </p> <p> <strong>Fanwork medium:</strong> </p> <p> <strong>Fanwork link:</strong> </p> <p> <strong>Parent fandom:</strong> </p> <p> <strong>Fanwork permission link:</strong> </p> <p> <strong>Main ship/characters:</strong> </p> <p> <strong>Additional information:</strong> </p> <p>

(Nominations open May 9th. Early nominations to the gform or on this post are fine, but we won't start processing nominations until May 9. Comments with nominations will stay screened until nominations open.)