This issue cropped up in the nominations for last year’s exchange. I just wanted to check it would still be acceptable for this year.
I would like to nominate 18th Century CE RPF. As of writing this message, the number of works in that category stands at 1217. When filtered using your other criteria (English, completed, >1000 words), this number falls to 741, which is still too high to qualify.
However, this category is also bulked out by a lot of fic for the musical Hamilton (AO3 tag “Hamilton - Miranda”), which presumably features the fictionalised figures from the show, rather than being straightforward historical RPF. Once those fics are omitted, and your other criteria are taken into account, that leaves just 290 fics in the 18th Century CE tag.
Like the poster who made the same query last year, the historical figures I would like to nominate don’t feature in Hamilton, are not from American history, and their character tags on AO3 contain fewer than 10 works. Would that still be acceptable?
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I would like to nominate 18th Century CE RPF. As of writing this message, the number of works in that category stands at 1217. When filtered using your other criteria (English, completed, >1000 words), this number falls to 741, which is still too high to qualify.
However, this category is also bulked out by a lot of fic for the musical Hamilton (AO3 tag “Hamilton - Miranda”), which presumably features the fictionalised figures from the show, rather than being straightforward historical RPF. Once those fics are omitted, and your other criteria are taken into account, that leaves just 290 fics in the 18th Century CE tag.
Like the poster who made the same query last year, the historical figures I would like to nominate don’t feature in Hamilton, are not from American history, and their character tags on AO3 contain fewer than 10 works. Would that still be acceptable?