Nominations closed!

  • Feb. 14th, 2021 at 7:00 PM
Nominations are now over! I'll go through and approve the final things in the queue. Expect one more clarifications post.

In the meanwhile, please go over your fandoms in the tag set and comment on this post if you spot any duplicates, your nominations have transformed into something they should not be, or you spot any other problem. Sign-ups open at 19:00 EET on Friday.

Nominations Clarifications #5

  • Feb. 13th, 2021 at 9:41 PM
Nominators of Crossover Fandom and 승리호 | Space Sweepers (2021): please read the instructions and change your nominated tags to match. (E.g. Character: Tae-ho, not Tae-ho.)

Nominator of Always Forgetting With You - Spiritualized (Song): The characters Constantine and Kaley aren't mentioned in the song or on any of the other songs on the album. Consider nominating Character: Narrator (Always Forgetting With You) instead.

Nominator of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983 Cartoon): I am not sure Worldbuilding: Eternia makes contact with Earth is a worldbuilding tag – it sounds like a plot prompt. Does Eternia make contact with Earth in canon?


All tags mentioned in this post will be deleted if they haven't been corrected by the end of nominations.

Nominations Clarifications #4

  • Feb. 12th, 2021 at 10:41 PM
Nominators of Crossover Fandom and 승리호 | Space Sweepers (2021): please read the instructions and change your nominated tags to match. (E.g. Character: Tae-ho, not Tae-ho.)

Nominator of Always Forgetting With You - Spiritualized (Song): The characters Constantine and Kaley aren't mentioned in the song or on any of the other songs on the album. Consider nominating Character: Narrator (Always Forgetting With You) instead.

Nominations Clarifications #3

  • Feb. 10th, 2021 at 8:47 PM
Nominators of Star Trek: Discovery, The Cat from Outer Space (1978), The Mandalorian (TV), 승리호 | Space Sweepers (2021), and World of Warcraft: please read the instructions and change your nominated tags to match. (E.g. Character: Din Djarin, not Din Djarin.)

Nominators of Star Wars Legends: Thrawn Trilogy - Timothy Zahn and Star Wars: Thrawn Series - Timothy Zahn (2017): as per the franchise wrangling post, these would go under Star Wars Legends - All Media Types and Star Wars New EU - AMT respectively. Is there a compelling reason to keep them separate, or should I merge them?

We also have one wandering character – which fandom does Character: Megumi Reinard belong to?

Lastly, if you spot any duplicates, tags which are in the wrong place, or tags that are unexpectedly missing, please comment below.

Nominations Clarifications #2

  • Feb. 9th, 2021 at 10:37 PM
Nominators of AKB0048, Warhammer 40.000, and 機動戦艦ナデシコ | Martian Successor Nadesico: please read the nominations guidelines and reformat your noms to match the template. (E.g. Character: Megumi Reinard instead of just Megumi Reinard.)

Nominator of Captain Marvel (2019): Found family is not worldbuilding. Please change your nommed tag.

Nominations Clarifications #1

  • Feb. 7th, 2021 at 9:22 PM
Nominator of Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect: Andromeda and Star Wars Legends: The Old Republic (Video Game) – please change your solo character noms to match the template. (E.g. Character: Miranda Lawson instead of just Miranda Lawson.) Otherwise, they will be rejected.

Nominations Instructions

  • Feb. 5th, 2021 at 10:04 AM
Noms will start today 5 Feb at 19:00 EET (in your timezone) or a few minutes earlier and run until 14 Feb 19:00 EET (in your timezone).

Tags that do not conform to these instructions will not be approved.


Please disregard everything AO3 says on the "nominate" page. Do NOT choose the canonical versions of whatever tag you're nominating. Tags are NOT restricted to characters only. Thank you. (AO3 doesn't let mods adjust what's on the nominations page.) If you have questions, please ask!


Please check what was agreed for your fandom on the franchise wrangling post. Write the fandom's name based on what was decided there. If your fandom has not been discussed on the franchise wrangling post, use the AO3 canonical. Please do not use "- All Media Types" tags unless decided on the franchise wrangling post. If you're nominating a character who's found in many canons (eg. Superman), has many versions, or who has a very common name, or a relationship with such a character, please add the fandom name in (brackets) after the name(s). If nominating a crossover between two space canons, that is allowed; nom it under Crossover Fandom.

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Nominations Queries 3

  • Feb. 11th, 2020 at 7:30 PM
(If you haven't yet, please vote in the poll about IF in Space Swap, and comment on it if you find the poll questions imprecise.)

Original Work: The following tags are too generic (and for Original Characters, violates the nominations instructions). Please nominate more specific things.
Original Characters
relationship: original character & original character
relationship: original character & original characters
relationship: original character/original character
worldbuilding: original planet
worldbuilding: transport and traveling

Good Omens (TV): Is there space (travel)?

Alien Quadrilogy: Is this the same thing as Alien (Prequel Movies)?

Star Wars - All Media Types: Please renominate under the fandoms decided at the franchise wrangling post. (We also have a separate Star Wars Crossovers fandom.)

Marvel Cinematic Universe: This wasn't discussed at the franchise wrangling – is this umbrella fandom OK, or do people want to chop it up? Use the umbrella.

Lost tags: The following tags have lost their association. Where do they belong?
Relationship: Isaac Clarke/Ellie Langford
Worldbuilding: Sangheili Culture

Nominations Queries 2

  • Feb. 8th, 2020 at 8:19 PM
If the nominations for
  • Escape From Pleasure Planet (Video Game)
  • Obduction (Video Game)
  • Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
  • Tacoma (Video Game)
  • Treasure Planet (2002)
aren't reformatted according to the nominations instructions by the end of nominations, they will be rejected.

AO3 continues to not understand that tags need associations. I've tried only approving small batches to see if it'd keep the associations, but the following tags remain unassociated:
Character: Atria Nine Character: Delaney Pilar Character: Greg Li Character: Jacqueline “Jax” Zhou Character: Mars Sojourner Rover Character: Ralen Character: Thomas Ross Relationship: Jacqueline “Jax” Zhou & Atria Nine Relationship: Jacqueline “Jax” Zhou & Delaney Pilar Relationship: Jacqueline “Jax” Zhou & Delaney Pilar & Atria Nine Relationship: Jacqueline “Jax” Zhou/Greg Li Relationship: Thomas Ross/Atria Nine Worldbuilding: Clones and their place in the galaxy Worldbuilding: Historical accounts of the war between Zatar and Earth Worldbuilding: History of the Earth Space Training Academy Worldbuilding: Zatarian homeworld and culture
Where do they go?

Nominations Queries 1

  • Feb. 7th, 2020 at 9:46 PM
  • A bunch of tags lost their associations while being approved. I managed to recover most of them, and am going through the Steven Universe ones, but some still remain unassociated. Please tell me which fandoms these ones belong to:
    Character: Centauri | Relationship: Alex Rogan & Centauri | Relationship: Alex Rogan & Grig | Relationship: Alex Rogan & Louis Rogan | Relationship: Alex Rogan/Maggie Gordon | Worldbuilding: Alex and Maggie’s life post-movie | Worldbuilding: Centauri’s other adventures | Worldbuilding: Dream recorders and how they’re used | Worldbuilding: Other Starfighters | Worldbuilding: Other total immersion video games | Worldbuilding: Rebuilding the Star League | Worldbuilding: The continuing adventures of the holoship

  • Does Phantasy Star III contain space in the game itself, or is all the space elsewhere in the series?

  • Does Super Hydlide contain space?

  • For the Friends at the Table podcast, it seems from the summary on the webpage that they have several unrelated storylines, some of which don't contain space. If this is correct, please update the fandom to be Friends at the Table (name of space storyline)

Nominations Instructions

  • Feb. 6th, 2020 at 7:38 PM
Noms will start tomorrow 7 Feb 11:30 am EET (in your timezone | countdown) or a few minutes earlier.

Tags that do not conform to these instructions will not be approved.


Please disregard everything AO3 says on the "nominate" page. Do NOT choose the canonical versions of whatever tag you're nominating. Tags are NOT restricted to characters only. Thank you. (AO3 doesn't let mods adjust what's on the nominations page.) If you have questions, please ask!


Please check what was agreed for your fandom on the franchise wrangling post. Write the fandom's name based on what was decided there. If your fandom has not been discussed on the franchise wrangling post, use the AO3 canonical. Please do not use "- All Media Types" tags unless decided on the franchise wrangling post. If you're nominating a character who's found in many canons (eg. Superman), has many versions, or who has a very common name, or a relationship with such a character, please add the fandom name in (brackets) after the name(s). If nominating a crossover between two space canons, that is allowed; nom it under Crossover Fandom.

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Nominations Instructions

  • Jan. 25th, 2019 at 5:33 PM
Noms are open! Here are the instructions.

Tags that do not conform to these instructions will not be approved.


Please disregard everything AO3 says on the "nominate" page. Do NOT choose the canonical versions of whatever tag you're nominating. Tags are NOT restricted to characters only. Thank you. (AO3 doesn't let mods adjust what's on the nominations page.) If you have questions, please ask!


Please check what was agreed for your fandom on the franchise wrangling post. Write the fandom's name based on what was decided there. If your fandom has not been discussed on the franchise wrangling post, use the AO3 canonical. Please do not use "- All Media Types" tags unless decided on the franchise wrangling post. If you're nominating a character who's found in many canons (eg. Superman), has many versions, or who has a very common name, or a relationship with such a character, please add the fandom name in (brackets) after the name(s). If nominating a crossover between two space canons, that is allowed; nom it under Crossover Fandom.

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Noms closed!

  • Feb. 7th, 2018 at 2:02 PM
Nominations are over! Currently approving the final last-minute squak-ins, then we'll do tagset cleaning, making sure everything's in the same place, etc.

If you spot anything in the tag set that's misspelled, in the wrong place, or otherwise bothersome, comment here. Otherwise, see you at sign-ups!

ETA: Where do Character: Ael t'Rllaillieu and Character: Praetor H'daen tr'Khellian belong?

Nominations Clarification #3

  • Feb. 6th, 2018 at 2:02 PM
The final 24h stretch! After nominations close, we'll look for any typo'd Characte:s, Realtionship, and the like. ETA: All resolved! <3

Star Trek - Various Authors
This fandom is not acceptable in its current scope. Please split into series instead. Note that the tag used doesn't have to be canonical on AO3.

Star Wars Legends: X-wing Series - Aaron Allston & Michael Stackpole
Is it acceptable to merge this with the Star Wars Legends: X-wing Series - All Media Types tag we seem to have already?

Star Wars Legends - All Media Types
The nominator(s) of Relationship: Exar Kun/Ulic Qel-Droma and Relationship: Jagged Fel/Jaina Solo/Zekk may suggest migrating the tags to beneath a new, different fandom tag, for ease of offering. (As a reminder, to offer a fandom, one must be able to offer two tags in it – or all of them. People might be able to write about Exar Kun/Ulic Qel-Droma, but not any of the Thrawn stuff, leading them unable to offer it.)

Nominations Clarification #2

  • Feb. 5th, 2018 at 6:23 PM
Wiedźmin | The Witcher (Video Game)
Does this contain space?

Lion's Gate Gundam (Canceled Movie)
Does this canon exist as more than speculation (trailer, three scenes on YouTube, complete screenplay, etc)? Does that extant canon material contain space?

Nominations Clarification

  • Feb. 2nd, 2018 at 7:37 PM
So, time for the first nominations clarifications post of the season!
ETA: More stuff added!

Fandoms that need Character/Relationship/Worldbuilding tags:


EVE Online
Magical Starsign (video game)

We won't accept "empty" fandoms. Please find at least 1 specific aspect that interests you and nominate that as a tag.

Fandoms whose nominators need to resubmit tags in acceptable format:


Mugen Kouro | Infinite Space
Phantasy Star (Video Games)
Xenosaga
Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies)
Star Wars: Rebels
Tales of Graces
Star Ocean: Till the End of Time
Warchild Series - Karin Lowachee

To reiterate: If you wish to receive a Thing centered on a character, nominate your character tag as Character: Charactername. If you wish to receive a Thing centered on a relationship between two or more characters, nominate your tag as Relationship: Character A/Character B. If you wish to receive a Thing centered on worldbuilding, nominate your tag as Worldbuilding: A Clear Description.

Fandoms with other issues:


Star Wars Legends - All Media Types: could the nominator please be more specific about the fandom they want the nominated relationship under?

Franchise wrangling & misplaced characters

  • Feb. 23rd, 2016 at 4:45 PM
Hello Spacers!

As of now, the tag set is only waiting on two fandoms finished, so it's time for the "is anything misplaced" check. If you spot a character who's misplaced or duplicated, shoot us a comment.

There are several multi-installment franchises and the like in the tagset. Are Gundam, Star Trek, and Star Wars (and any multi-installment things I may have missed) split up correctly?

The lovely [personal profile] taichara has helped with splitting up the Gundams, but I might've missed something. Is the current split satisfactory?

Based on my limited experience with Star Trek, the fandoms seem to be correctly divided, but characters may still be in the wrong place.

With Star Wars, the split is into the Original Trilogy, Prequel Trilogy, The Force Awakens, and All Media Types, plus spin-off media. Should some of these be consolidated?

Nominations close tomorrow!

  • Feb. 21st, 2016 at 2:35 PM
If you've been waiting on nomming things for whatever reason, know that noms close tomorrow!

https://archiveofourown.org/tag_sets/1125


Nominations clarification post for clarifying fandom space-levels and telling the mods if something's misplaced:
https://space-swap.dreamwidth.org/17156.html


Round Three schedule:

Nominations: 8th Feb - 22nd Feb
Sign Ups: 26th Feb - 11th March
Assignments out: 14th March
Assignments due: 14th May
Fic reveals: 21st May
Author reveals: 28th May