worldbuildingex | Nominations Open

Nominations are now open here. Full nominations information is available in this section of this round's rules post; this post is intended to summarise the most important points, particularly where there are differences from what is typical in most other exchanges.

You can nominate up to five fandoms, with seven character slots and five "worldbuilding" slots (using the AO3 relationship fields) for each.

Fandom names used should make it clear what the scope of the source material intended is. This may mean using AO3 non-canonicals. It is OK in this exchange for nominated fandoms to overlap in whole or in part (e.g. "Star Wars - Movies Only", "Star Wars - Legends", "Star Wars - New EU" would have some elements in common and others not). Crossovers are OK if and only if the crossover happened in canon; in this case, nominate under both fandoms, divided by a / (e.g. "How To Get Away With Murder/Scandal").

Please do:

disambiguate all tags with the name of the fandom (please ignore the instructions on the nomination page itself to choose AO3 canonicals - these only occasionally have the disambiguations; unfortunately, this is standard AO3 text that I can't override)
nominate the two "default" character tags used in the exchange -- "Original Character(s) (name of fandom)" and "Any or No Characters (name of fandom)" -- in each fandom you nominate
preface all worldbuilding tags with "WB: "
double check that your character tags are in character fields and your worldbuilding tags are in relationship fields (on the approval interface, I have no way to see which tags were nominated as which)
be patient while waiting for your tags to be approved

Please don't:

nominate actual relationships (e.g. A/B, C&D) in the Relationship fields
nominate RPF, or worldbuilding tags for close-to-real-world canons that would similarly constitute solely RL research with no use of creativity to answer the questions
nominate AU ideas, unless the AU in question appears within the canon
(ETA) nominate fandoms without at least one worldbuilding tag

This post doubles as an evidence post and a brainstorming post. Feel free to comment here to provide extra information you think may help me deal with your nominations, or to discuss with other fans how best to organise your shared fandoms.

I will post clarifications posts regularly during the tag set sorting period; please keep an eye on the comm to see if any of your tags appear with issues or queries.

Nominations will close at 2155 UTC on Wednesday 16th January (countdown).

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For purposes of this challenge, I'm wondering if maybe it's better to nominate by era/continuity rather than series. I.e.:

Prime universe, TOS era
Prime universe, TNG era
Kelvin universe
Mirror universe, ENT era
Mirror universe, TOS era
Mirror universe, DIS era

That would allow for characters who would naturally crossover to do so, and also means that you're not locked into a specific series when an event crosses over.

My main concern is that there are so many ways that this could be sliced and diced, and obviously that wouldn't be good either if the various slices are too narrow. Any other Trek fans want to weigh in? Am I overthinking it?

My problem with that would be that ENT is canon for both Prime and Kelvin universe and wouldn't be covered by Prime universe, TOS era and being lumped in to Kelvin universe makes that category kind of unwieldy especially when you are differentiating TOS and DIS era Mirrorverse.

I'd also wonder about where Discovery fits in there. It's effectively TOS era but some people aren't keen on its retcons to that era, eg the very existence of the lead character. (And due to the way it's available in the US, not all Trek fans have access to it.)

Hmm, yeah. I'm thinking trying to play with this might cause more problems than it solves. I'll probably nominate by series, like usual.

There are now quite a few different Trek series nominated. I've approved AOS, and shopfront's AOS/DS9 crossover, which I think is quite a specific thing that wouldn't necessarily fit very well under "Kelvin timeline". As with some of the noms on the clarifications post, I'll give it 48 hours for the others, to see if there's any further discussion on this.

ETA: though it might be worth telling you that I've just seen "Star Trek" as a fandom on the approvals screen; this strikes me as very broad but I'm willing to be convinced by whoever nominated it. However, at present it only has the two default character tags and no worldbuilding tags attached ...

Edited (new info) 2019-01-08 20:01 (UTC)

Tossing around ideas! I want to nominate and request fic/art/meta about a near future with teleportation technology and how the world would adapt to said teleportation technology. Shall that fall under Original Works - Sci Fi, or Original Works - Near Future Sci Fi, or something else? Does anyone else have any ideas that might fall into this category?

Specifying "Near Future Sci-Fi" sounds good for that to me, as most SF stories with commonplace teleportation tend to be set further ahead with a lot of other advanced tech too. It sounds like what you're looking for is nearly modern day + a single major element.

Yes, I am. Thank you! Excited for other modern day + major sci-fi element ideas.

In the instructions above, you have Any or No Character(s) (name of fandom), but in last year's tag set, it's Any or No Characters (name of fandom) everywhere I can see - which is correct, Character(s) or Characters, or does it matter? (Sorry for all the questions)

Edited (making the difference between two choices more obvious) 2019-01-08 02:55 (UTC)

Good spot, thank you! Everywhere else is correct, this post is wrong (and indeed I've been correcting the ones that people have followed the instructions here as I approve). Will fix this post now.

I've nominated Harry Potter (Books 1-7), Harry Potter - Wizarding World (No Pottermore) and Harry Potter - Wizarding World (Including Pottermore) intending for those to limit the available canon to just the core books, everything but Pottermore and everything.

Edited 2019-01-08 11:06 (UTC)

This sort of division seemed to work well in previous rounds so I've gone ahead and approved it.

Hi, just flagging this in case there's any issues or it needs tweaking. I've used the same crossover tags under Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies)/Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as were approved last year. The intended scope of the requests are in the AOS verse but extrapolating into the future to DS9-era and worldbuilding for what changes AOS events might cause.

I've approved this (and AOS itself) but am holding off on how to subdivide the Prime universe to give time for more discussion.

Hey, it looks like something funny happened with the SCP Foundation fandom. There are a bunch of duplicate tags.

Thanks; there was an issue earlier today. I thought I had caught all the affected ones, but clearly not.

Dunno if this is old, but I've been nominating under Star Trek (regular TNG, DS9, TOS and AOS) fandoms, is that alright or should I edit and group my nominations under different fandom tags?

That's absolutely fine, and in line with what we've done in previous rounds and seems to have worked well; I've currently approved TOS, TNG and AOS (and AOS-projected-forward-to-DS9 as its own thing). I probably won't get to DS9 until the weekend (I'm focusing at the moment on tags that have been added to fandoms already approved, as letting too many of those build up hits a pretty severe limitation on the AO3 interface of only displaying the first 30) but the tags for that look fine as well.

Nominations Open

Star Trek

Re: Star Trek

Re: Star Trek

Re: Star Trek

Re: Star Trek

Original works - categories?

Re: Original works - categories?

Re: Original works - categories?

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Harry Potter

Re: Harry Potter

Star Trek AOS/DS9

Re: Star Trek AOS/DS9

no subject

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