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wafflelate ([personal profile] wafflelate) wrote in [community profile] worldbuildingex 2020-01-07 06:17 pm (UTC)

Dreaming of Sunshine eligibility

Hi! I'd like to nominate the fandom Dreaming of Sunshine by Silver Queen but it's a fanfiction for which we'd be creating recursive works, so I wanted to check that that was okay before trying to nominate. Some relevant information:

  • We've got permission from Silver Queen to write fic of her fic! See here.
  • Dreaming of Sunshine is a 700k Naruto fanfiction that was started in 2011. There are over over 300 DoS fics on AO3. We're a community! We have our own fandom events and have also been participating in other multifandom exchanges.
  • Most importantly for this exchange, Dreaming of Sunshine has its own extensive worldbuilding. It explores magic systems, the organization and logistics of the primary location, foreign and domestic politics, socio-economic divides, the implications of Naruto filler/one-off movies/video games, and a bunch of other stuff in ways Naruto does not. It has a day-by-day calendar that our recursive works usually stick to.
  • When it comes to WB tags, there are things I'd love to nominate for DoS that straight up have little to no basis in Naruto canon. For example, Dreaming of Sunshine has recently introduced a new Police Department to the primary location as well as a significant number of educational reforms.
  • For purposes of character matching, a vast majority of characters in Naruto are so different from their DoS counterparts that requesting them with the same tags doesn't feel right. Eg, "Haku (Naruto)" and "Momochi Zabuza (Naruto)" would be characters who died early in Naruto canon as mercenaries who took jobs outside of the established military system, while "Haku (DoS)" and "Momochi Zabuza (DoS)" would be characters who survived and went on to participate in a successful revolution in their country of origin which has given them stability, political power, and other wildly different circumstances. The revolution happened in both Naruto and Dreaming of Sunshine, but the way one would worldbuild about it with these two characters would obviously be very different depending on which fandom one was writing for.


In addition to just wanting to make sure it's okay for us to nominate in this fandom, "Dreaming of Sunshine - Silver Queen" is synned to "Naruto" so we'll need to pick a different tag to nominate under unless you want to associate everything directly behind the scenes /o\ "Dreaming of Sunshine - Silver Queen (fanfic)" and several other version have been used previously.

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns!

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