Unconventional Fanworks Exchange

Thank you to everyone who has nominated so far, and especially to those who realized their nominations were formatted incorrectly and then fixed them! I have some queries on both the fandom/character side and the medium side. The mediums will be queried in a separate post.

In all cases, unless otherwise specified, I will reject these nominations if I don't hear from the nominator in 24 hours.

Some general reminders:
- Per nomination guidelines, ALL nominations must be disambiguated.
- Per nomination guidelines, ALL nominations must have piping eliminated unless absolutely necessary. SQQ and Fate/ characters are currently the only nominations that I will accept piped, unless I hear from the nominator as to why their character must remain piped.
- Per nomination guidelines, please remove all tone marks. If it autocorrects, try disambiguating as "[fandom name] DFE" or similar.

( Fandom and Characters )

Keep those nominations coming! Here's the countdown to close.

( Fandom & Character Queries )

First, the good news: thank you to everyone who has nominated medium tags! All of them have been accepted. If you have already used your nom slot and need one more, you can leave a comment here with that medium tag and I'll add it in.

However, I do have a couple queries on the fandom and characters tagset:

( Clarification questions )

Anonymous comments are enabled.

Below are some questions about tags waiting to be approved. If you are the nominator, or have relevant information (e.g. if it is a question about a fandom you're in), please comment to respond. Anonymous commenting should be on. For individual actions I will take for each of the tags I address here, please see the note on that specific tag.

A few general notes:
- Please remember to disambiguate with large fandoms or fandoms that overlap with others! If you are confused about whether you need to disambiguate or not, you can contact me if you wish, but for this exchange, it's safe to assume that more disambiguation is better than less: if you're not sure, disambiguate.

- Please remember to preface your freeform nomination(s) with one of the general categories detailed in the nomination guidelines post here.

- If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please feel free to comment on the rules post, direct message me here on Dreamwidth, or email me at flowersforgravesfics (at) gmail (dot) com. If you message me on Discord, I may forget, and if you comment on an ffa thread or similar I guarantee you I won't see it. I would like to fix any problems you have, and I can't do that if you don't contact me in a place where I can be organized about trying to help!

( Fandom and Character Clarification )

( Freeform Clarification )

Below are some questions about tags waiting to be approved. If you are the nominator, or have relevant information (e.g. if it is a question about a fandom you're in), please comment to respond. Anonymous commenting should be on.

A few general notes:
- Please remember to disambiguate with large fandoms or fandoms that overlap with others! If you are confused about whether you need to disambiguate or not, you can contact me if you wish, but for this exchange, it's safe to assume that more disambiguation is better than less: if you're not sure, disambiguate.

- Please remember to preface your freeform nomination(s) with one of the general categories detailed in the nomination guidelines post here.

- If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please feel free to comment on the rules post, direct message me here on Dreamwidth, or email me at flowersforgravesfics (at) gmail (dot) com. If you message me on Discord, I may forget, and if you comment on an ffa thread or similar I guarantee you I won't see it. I would like to fix any problems you have, and I can't do that if you don't contact me in a place where I can be organized about trying to help!

( Fandom & Character Questions )

( Freeform Questions )

Fandom and Character:

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Freeform:

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Nominations are closed! Barring catastrophe, the signups will open in approximately 24 hours. I will make another post when that happens.

A question for everyone: Would it be valuable to categorize the freeforms by media type (f'ex "twitter thread" becomes "Image: Twitter Thread" or "in-universe RPF" becomes "Written Work: In-Universe RPF"), categorize by 'genre' (f'ex "twitter thread" becomes "Social Media: Twitter Thread" or "in-universe RPF" becomes "In-Universe Text: RPF"), or leave freeforms as they are currently?

And the final bit of tagset cleaning:

Freeforms

- Incorrect Quotes

I'm not sure how to quantify this item for a minimum, nor how to ensure honesty in terms of popular fandoms that have incorrect quotes pages on other sites like Tumblr. If the nominator would like to clarify, that would be great; if I do not hear from the nominator in 24 hours I will reject this nomination.

- mind-reading

What does this entail as a format? If the nominator would like to clarify, that would be great; if I do not hear from the nominator in 24 hours I will reject this nomination.

Star Wars

Mara Jade -- since All Media Types is not a fandom in the tagset, the nominator may wish to specify a sub-category. If not, she will remain under "Star Wars Legends."

Freeforms:

- Filk, Fan songs
- In-universe homework assignment, In-universe completed homework assignment

Can either of these pairs of tags be merged?

- paper doll
- trading cards
- papercraft

For these tags, I don't want to accept fanwork media that would require physical items. I know all of these have a way to work digitally - could these tags be edited to clarify (like "papercraft template(s)" or "trading card art")?

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I will hold all of these until the end of the nominations period if I do not hear from the nominator(s).