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Original Works

I'm still holding off on making a final decision about this for another day or so, but it seems that most people are in favour of subdividing into different fandom tags that give more specificity about genre.

It was (very sensibly) suggested that it might help nominators to know what subdivisions there were. I am very much in favour of nominators choosing for themselves rather than me dictating anything, but it obviously doesn't make sense to have a situation where people have to use multiple fandom slots for the exact same ideas under marginally different names.

So far in the tag set I have seen the following used, as further clarification within the disambiguations in the main Original Works fandom and/or as separate fandoms:

(in alphabetical order)
Alpha/Beta/Omega
Fantasy
Fantasy/Sci-Fi
High Fantasy
Low Fantasy
Omegaverse
Post-Apocalyptic
Superheroes
Supernatural
Urban Fantasy

This is definitely not an exhaustive list, just what's currently been put forward by nominators, and if people do want to preserve fine distinctions then that's absolutely fine. The most obvious example of things that could come together are "Alpha/Beta/Omega" and "Omegaverse", unless I'm missing something?

Silmarillion

I have now approved this! Nominators, please take a look to make sure it's come through OK and I didn't mess anything up, whether calling a character by the wrong name or just misspelling Silmarillion in a disambiguation. (I took screen shots of everything before I hit submit, so I should be able to reconstruct anything that did go awry.)

Comments

[alexseanchai]

What I mean by "low fantasy" is something historical or contemporary with some small but significant fantastic elements in; in a city setting, confusion with "urban fantasy" is kind of to be expected. I would expect "high fantasy" to have far more prominent fantastic elements, and likely to involve a created world instead of what purports to be, or is very obviously modeled on, our own. (And while I do like both, if I were expecting the former, I would definitely be annoyed to receive the latter!)

I'm happy to redo my noms if anyone can suggest a more universally understood term than "low fantasy" for me to use here.

[fadeaccompli]

"Historic Fantasy" would exclude modern low fantasy, but might be more easily understood as "Queen Elizabeth has a secret deal with the hidden fairy world" and not "Every child is assigned a dragon at the age of ten, to help fight the vampire squid invasion." I admit I haven't read much that I would call 'low fantasy' that includes a modern setting, so I automatically associate that term with low-magic second world or historical fantasy already.

[sheliak]

Original Fantasy - Our World Setting? Something purely descriptive like that?

[alexseanchai]

hmmm maybe? should work, I think, but I don't know if it'd convey the thing right to anyone else?

(if I could get it into eleven characters tops counting spaces, that'd rock; "low fantasy" is eleven characters and if it's that length or shorter then I don't have to rephrase any of my WB tags!)