Signups are Open!

[fangirlism]

 I just opened up signups, they close on January 26th.

You can request and offer 3 to 6 fandoms, 1 to 10 relationships per fandom.

Signup form is here and the tagset is here.

A few fandoms that haven't been wrangled and will be listed under Uncategorized Fandoms until they are. Also, if you're having trouble finding your pairing, check under Crossover Fandom (applies to a few DC, Marvel, and Doctor Who ships where one half of the pairing was primarily in one series and the other was primarily in another but met in canon crossovers/multiverse situations).

There is also a known glitch where certain fandoms/relationships won't auto complete on the signup page, even if they're in the tagset. If that happens, just copy directly from the tagset.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Hello, I was sifling through the tag set and I've noticed some pairings moved to the Crossover section that doesn't actually belong to the Crossovers and should be moved back to their respective canons, imo. The pairings are:

Ray Palmer (Arrow)/Caitlin Snow (The Flash): my nomination, it should be under The Flash, since Caitlin is a regular The Flash character and Ray showed up on The Flash show several times interacting with the regular characters.

Rip Hunter (LoT)/Sara Lance (Arrow) - not mine, but pretty sure it should belong to Legends of Tomorrow since they are both regular character thorough the Season 1, and Sara still is during the current season

Mick Rory (Arrow)/Caitlin Snow (The Flash) - my nomination, should be under The Flash, since Caitlin is a regular The Flash character and Mick was one of the main villains during the early seasons and the two of them interacted on at least one occasion

Barry Allen (Flash)/Felicity Smoak (Arrow) - not mine, could be either The Flash or Arrow since both the characters are regular on one TV show and often show up in the other TV show and have interacted on every occasion.

On a related note, there's a double ship tag under Dar Matter:
Three | Marcus Boone/Two | Portia Lin
Two | Portia Lin/Three | Marcus Boone


I wish I had caught up these earlier, I hope it's still possible to fix theme.

[fangirlism]

Those pairings were the some of the ones I was referring to in my post. I had a hard time with those because they were migrating tags, and I had to make a judgement call on those because it was really late at night when I was sorting those tags. I ended up tagging them as crossovers based on what research I did about what show these character were stated to be in primarily.

The Flash/Arrow/Legends of Tomorrow pairings were actually the hardest for me to work with because there is so much overlap between those three canons.

At this point because there are existing signups, the tagset can't be edited but next year I'll probably keep nominations open longer (and stay on top of making query posts) to allow myself more time to handle things like this better.

And shoot on that dupe tag. I thought I caught all of those.

[thisbluespirit]

Hi, thanks for all this! Will there be a post to link letters with any general likes, or more details beyond the basic request, or are you planning not to do that for this one? (Either way is fine, of course!)

[fangirlism]

Yes of course! :) I'm out right now but I'll put it up when I get home.

[thisbluespirit]

Thanks! I hadn't realised when I commented that we can see all the requests anyway, so it's all sorted really, whichever way. :-)

What am I doing wrong?

[sarren]

Hiya

I've offered three fandoms with a pairing under each one but am getting this error message?

Sorry! We couldn't save this challenge signup because:

Offer: Your Offer must include exactly 1 fandom tags, but you have included 0 fandom tags in your current Offer.
Offer: Your Offer must include between 1 and 10 relationship tags, but you have included 0 relationship tags in your current Offer.

Re: What am I doing wrong?

[fangirlism]

That is weird! I've never seen that before. :( I'll run that by more experienced exchange mods if there's anything we can do before submitting a bug report.

Re: What am I doing wrong?

[sarren]

Thank you :)

Re: What am I doing wrong?

[sarren]

I tried again today and it worked, yay! Must have been a glitch.

Re: What am I doing wrong?

[fangirlism]

Oh yay! Must have been! Silly AO3!

[(Anonymous)]

Sorry to bother you, but I nominated Kate/Clint for Hawkeye and it's listed under MCU. Uh, Kate doesn't exist in the MCU, she's comics only.

[fangirlism]

Huh man when I was fixing wandering tags I swore I read she was in movies somewhere.

I already know being more dilligent about tagset inquiries is something I will do better next year so I don't have to make last minute decisions and get it wrong again. Sorry about that. :(

[fangirlism]

I was able to add them back to the comics! :D Though they'll have to stay in MCU this year because it's easier to add than it is to delete.

[(Anonymous)]

(Not mod) Now I see why there's the Hawkeye Comics fandom tag and 0 ships under it. I'm sorry nonnie. :/

[sirvalkyrie]

Diana/Bruce Wayne has disappeared from DC Cinematic Universe in the tagset. I remember it being there earlier but it's gone now.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm pretty sure it's another mistakenly deleted double, since there's a Diana/Bruce under the Justice League cartoon with a weird disambiguation note in brackets. :(

[fangirlism]

Shoot. I did think it was a dupe because it was wandering. :(

[fangirlism]

I was able to add them back, just making the fandom association right now.

[shadowcat]

Uhm, one of the pairings that I nominated for Lord of the Rings (Movies) and was approved isn't showing up in the tag list:

Aragorn | Estel/Arwen Undómiel

[fangirlism]

:/ I was informed that tag fit better strictly under the book so it's disambigged there.

[shadowcat]

Whoever told you that was wrong as they ARE a pairing in the movies which is why I nominated them in the movies. In fact, in the movie Arwen is the reason for a lot of things that Aragorn does and it is because she is dying that Aragorn makes the choice to become the king he is supposed to be and save Middle Earth.

So, does this mean that to be able to request the pairing that I wanted and nominated that I have to request the books, instead?

[fangirlism]

Sorry. :(

Lemme get back to you on that. I'm going to see if I can safely add tags after signups open. (I've typically been told the tagset shouldn't be messed with after signups start but if we can make an exception here I will)

[shadowcat]

Oh. awesome, thank you! I'm sorry to cause trouble, but they were the main want for that fandom when I nominated them.

[fangirlism]

I know that feel, yo. I have a pairing that is the whole reason I started the exchange.

[fangirlism]

They've been added back to movies!

Edit: Also I got word back from who was helping me with that fandom and you are correct. That tag was showing up three times, once without any disambig and twice with one. They told me the wrong fandom to disambig the wandering one to (should have been disambigged to movies the entire time).

Again, sorry about that but we got it fixed. :)

[shadowcat]

Thank you so very much!!!

[fangirlism]

You're welcome!

[carlyinrome]

Hi! Apologies if this has been answered somewhere, but I couldn't find it. The sign-ups request fields include an option for prompt descriptions and URLs; should we write a Yuletide-esque letter and prompts, or...? I'm interested in how this will work from both the author and giftee sides. Thank you for your help.

[fangirlism]

They're there if you want to do that but just like Yuletide are completely optional so if you don't want to, don't feel pressured to. :)