Nominations are open

[dhampyresa]

Nominations are now open and will close on April 6.

The tagset is here.

You can nominate four fandoms and five characters or relationships from each.

Please use the following format when nominating relationships: "Relationship: Yoko Tsuno/Khany" for romantic and/or sexual relationships and "Relationship: Hannibal Barca & Scipio Africanus" for platonic relationships. These example relationships are already in the tagset, under Yoko Tsuno (Comics) and Ancient History RPF, for ease of reference.

Characters can be nominated as is, for example "Shuri (Marvel)" under "Black Panther (2018)". Disambiguation might be needed to avoid confusion or tag drift, however.

What qualifies a fandom?

Small fandoms should have no more than 500 fics on Ao3 that are completed, in English and over one thousand (1k+) words. All characters and relationships in a small fandom are eligible in that fandom for this exchange.

Fandoms can be included in the exchange even if they don't meet the above requirements. Large fandoms for media released between Yuletide sign-ups and Night On Fic Mountain nominations will still be considered (sometimes new fandoms blow up unexpectedly). These fandoms will only be eligible once.

Inactive fandoms can also qualify. Inactive fandoms may not meet the above requirements, but if they have had fewer than 24 new stories on AO3 for at least the past three years posted per year (not counting any stories posted to Yuletide collections), they will be eligible. (Exceptions to this may be made if there is a spike in posting due to someone uploading old fic, or if a fandom-specific archive is being backed up to AO3. This will be determined on a case-by-base basis.)

Edit: My apologies, Ao3 seems to have glitches on me. Noms now open. Nomination formatting and fandom rarity required also clarified.

Comments

[kore]

ARGH the Black Panther (2018) movie just barely doesn't qualify (517 works) if I did the sorting right (I have trouble with sorting by wordcount/date on AO3, which makes me feel incredibly stupid). Is it possible to appeal for that fandom? (If not, totally fine! I was just wondering.)

(I also think a lot of that is Civil War fic, since when I reverse sorted it, it starts at 2016? And I'm more interested in Black Panther-specific fic. Again, sorry if this is out of line.)

[muccamukk]

Fandoms can be included in the exchange even if they don't meet the above requirements. Large fandoms for media released between Yuletide sign-ups and Night On Fic Mountain nominations will still be considered (sometimes new fandoms blow up unexpectedly). These fandoms will only be eligible once.

[kore]

Oho. So Yuletide signups are....September, is that right? Sweet!

[muccamukk]

*waves Not A Mod flag*

but I hope so.

[morbane]

I get 517 works too, and am boggling just as much at the number of works posted in 2016 and 2017!

[kore]

I think Boseman REALLY made an impression on people in CW. I know he did on me!

[morbane]

Absolutely - it's not the fannish involvement I'm questioning...

[dhampyresa]

muccamuk is right. Black Panther is eligible for this round of NoFM. I have edited this post to show this.

[kore]

YAY, that's awesome! Thank you! (and thanks Mucca!)