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 Hi and welcome to the 2019 round of Het Swap! Due to some real life work stuff that's come up, I'll have limited free time over the weekend, so I'm opening nominations a few days early. Nominations will still close at 11:59pm MST on June 10th.
You are allowed 8 fandoms, with 10 relationships in each. Here are the nomination guidelines:
  • All relationships must be het. 
  • For the purposes of this exchange, het relationships are defined as a relationship between a partner who is male or genderqueer/non-binary, and a partner who is female/genderqueer non-binary. Both cannot be genderqueer non-binary. So for example: Ace is canonically male, Bee is canonically female, and Cam and Dex are both genderqueer/non-binary. The only pairing that would not be allowed in that situation would be Cam/Dex.
  • NEW 2019: Poly ships are now allowed. Relationship must be romantic sexual - the "/" cannot be combined with "&" (i.e., you can nominate Ace/Bee/Cam but not Ace/Bee & Cam.)
  • The het requirement in poly ships still applies - as long as there is at least one "angle" of the ship that qualifies under the definition listed above, it will be allowed.
  • Genderswap is not allowed unless you are nominating an aspect of canon where the character has always been another gender (such as the Earth-3490 verse in Marvel, where Tony Stark has always been canonically female.)
  • Pairings nominated with the "&" sign will not be allowed.
  • Crossover relationships are allowed; please nominate under Crossover Fandom and include the fandom each character is from.
  • Original Work relationships are allowed; please nominate under Original Work and include the genders of each character.
  • Original characters are allowed in relationships with canon characters. Please include gender, i.e. Poe Dameron/Female Original Character, or James Kirk/Genderqueer Original Character, etc.
  • Self-insert "reader" characters and RPF is also allowed. All nominated "characters" in RPF ships must be over 18 and famous in their own right.

The allowance of poly ships is the most notable change from 2018. Any questions, please comment on this post or get in touch via DM or at hetswapex@gmail.com.

Another point of order: podfics, fanvids, and fanart are now allowed this year! When you sign up, you will choose what mediums you wish to offer and request in your sign up form. You will then be matched to someone based on: one fandom, one relationship, and one fanwork medium.

Updated minimum requirements for these fanwork mediums are:
  • Fanart: one completed illustration or two sketches on unlined paper. A completed illustration includes color/shading OR background. Line art counts as sketches.
  • Fanvids: completed, at least one minute in length.
  • Podfic: completed recording of a story at least 1,000 words long that fulfills your recipient's requested fandom/character. If recording someone else's story, you must obtain permission from the original creator. If writing your own story, the minimum word length is lowered to 600 words to account for the extra work.
I'm aware that anonymity is more difficult for podficcers; rest assured that I will not be requiring anyone to go above and beyond. We'll be working on good faith here! A more complete post on this will go up once we get closer to the posting process. 

Questions or comments, leave them here! My email again: hetswapex@gmail.com. While I'll be away from my laptop until Tuesday-ish, I'll still have my phone on me, so I'll be available to discuss any concerns or questions you have. Have fun!

Date: 2019-05-30 08:35 pm (UTC)
colls: (Default)
From: [personal profile] colls
So excited about the inclusion of vids and other mediums! :D :D And poly ships as well.

Date: 2019-05-30 08:35 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
How are you looking at Marvel Netflix/Marvel movies? Are the netflix just in with the MCU, or separate?

Date: 2019-05-30 09:39 pm (UTC)
sholio: sun on winter trees (Default)
From: [personal profile] sholio
If a group tag is going to be used, I suggest using "Defenders (TV)" as the general grouping, because it's a canonical tag - otherwise they synn to the general MCU tag and people can get locked out of their nomination panel because it throws up a "fandom nominated twice" error if you have tags approved in both Marvel Netflix and MCU. (This has happened to me in two exchanges now.)

My preference as someone in a couple of the subfandoms would be to have them separated out, as (for example) the Star Wars trilogies usually are despite character overlap. I get why it might be logistically easier to group them together to avoid tag duplication, however.

Date: 2019-05-30 10:19 pm (UTC)
sholio: sun on winter trees (Default)
From: [personal profile] sholio
I don't know why disambiguating doesn't seem to fix it, but it doesn't, or at least it hasn't been.

The other problem with "Marvel Netflix" as an umbrella tag is that the tag itself floats around, so, for example, in an earlier exchange this year, "Marvel Netflix" was showing up in "Movies" instead of TV. It's also not usually how the shows are referred to in the fandom (people usually just call it Defenders if they refer to it as a group at all; at least that's been my experience), so it makes it harder to find. I think most people tend to look under the individual show names; that's how these shows used to be handled in exchanges, but there was a sudden switch to grouping them late last year, and there's still not a consensus group tag for it.

If a group tag is going to have to be used, I think "Defenders (TV)" is the closest to one that everyone would think to look for it under. Personally, I would prefer to have them separated out - Punisher, Daredevil, etc.
Edited Date: 2019-05-30 10:20 pm (UTC)

Date: 2019-05-30 10:53 pm (UTC)
sholio: sun on winter trees (Default)
From: [personal profile] sholio
Thank you! :)

Date: 2019-06-01 12:08 am (UTC)
dirty_diana: old-fashioned typewriter (typewriter)
From: [personal profile] dirty_diana
It's not technically tag drift that I can tell, it's the AO3 being coded to not acknowledge Marvel Netflix (and several variants) as a real thing. If you click on that tag in a fic, it will take you to the MCU page, and the noms page treats it the same - as a series of letters that really means MCU. You can try and force it on your end as each nom comes in, but that seems like a pain for you? I also vouch that either using The Defenders as a catchall or keeping it separate will be less of a struggle.

(You could also call it something weird the archive won't have seen before to trick it, like Marvel Netflix AO3 Don't Eat This or something, but I agree that in general people in the fandom are not actually that attached to calling it that.)
Edited Date: 2019-06-01 12:15 am (UTC)

Date: 2019-05-30 09:07 pm (UTC)
artabria: (Default)
From: [personal profile] artabria
I have about the Fire Emblem fandom. If I want to nominate a ship involving two characters from two different Fire Emblem games, would that count as Fire Emblem fandom or as Crossover Fandom?

Date: 2019-05-30 09:11 pm (UTC)
artabria: (Default)
From: [personal profile] artabria
Thanks for the quick reply! :D

Date: 2019-05-30 11:05 pm (UTC)
sirvalkyrie: (Default)
From: [personal profile] sirvalkyrie
https://archiveofourown.org/tag_sets/3088

Hey mods, by rejecting Arrowverse on my nominations instead of changing it to the correct fandom you have made it so that I can’t nominate anything else in that slot without AO3 automatically rejecting it.

Date: 2019-05-31 12:57 am (UTC)
sirvalkyrie: (Default)
From: [personal profile] sirvalkyrie
https://archiveofourown.org/tag_sets/3088/nominations/109792

I was trying to copy and paste on my phone before.

In the future, if you instead change the duplicate fandom to something like "Arrowverse - Duplicate Bug", accept it, deal with the ships involved, then manually delete the extra fandom, it will allow the same effect without using the reject button and preventing the participant from using the rest of their slots and will prevent auto rejecting someone else hit by the same typo/bug. It will show up again if the individual adds more ships, but that seems preferable to having something you see rather than something nominators need to tell you about.

I'd like Kara Danvers/Laurel Lance/Oliver Queen (Arrowverse) added. I'm undecided on the rest of my Arrowverse slots.

Date: 2019-05-31 01:14 am (UTC)
sirvalkyrie: (Default)
From: [personal profile] sirvalkyrie
"Original timeline" refers to the events of First Class, the original past part of Days of Future Past, X-Men, X2: X-Men United, X-Men: The Last Stand, and the bad future of X-Men Days of Future Past. "Alternate timeline" refers to the events of First Class, the past portions of Days of Future Past after Logan's conscious has been sent back in time, X-Men: Apocalypse, Dark Phoenix, and the new future at the end of X-Men: Days of Future Past. First Class is canon to both timelines and parts of Days of Future Past are canon to the original and parts are canon to the alternate.

Date: 2019-05-31 01:51 am (UTC)
sirvalkyrie: (Default)
From: [personal profile] sirvalkyrie
That's completely understandabe, especially since it's a fandom where a good case can be made for both merging and separating. I would prefer them to remain merged, which is why I nominated it that way. The biggest reasons I'd like them to be merged is because with a few original timeline ships I was considering requesting I want to draw on First Class and the bad future of Days of Future Past. If they are split between Original Timeline movies and Alternate Timeline movies then that cuts those parts of the original timeline out. However, my alternate timeline nominations would not be impacted by splitting the movies.

Date: 2019-05-30 11:20 pm (UTC)
greatandgrey: My birds ♥ (Voltron - Allurance)
From: [personal profile] greatandgrey
It looks like Siiri Harmonsuo/Kari Tapio was rejected (for fandom Year in Hereafter) although they are a canon het couple: http://www.yihcomic.com/cast.php

Date: 2019-05-30 11:26 pm (UTC)
greatandgrey: My birds ♥ (Voltron - Pidge)
From: [personal profile] greatandgrey
No problem! Happy to help out! XD And thank you so much! <3

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