Franchise stuff

Nominator of Mass Effect - Various Authors (previously Mass Effect - All Media Types) One nominator for Mass Effect Trilogy is happy merging into the All Media Types tag. Do you also want to go back to using the All Media Types tag, or is there a specific reason you switched to the tie-in novel tag? If I do not hear from you before noms close, I will merge the tags into Mass Effect - All Media Types. Anon commenting is on.

Reread the instructions section

Nominator of:
Stargate SG-1
Do not nominate canonical character tags. Please read the instructions post and nominate accordingly. This means you need to nominate Character: Svetlana Markov (Stargate), not Svetlana Markov (Stargate).

Nominators of:
Ocean's Echo - Everina Maxwell
崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
Please disambiguate your nominations. This means that instead of nominating e.g. Character: Blade or Worldbuilding: Architects, you nominate Character: Blade (HSR) or Worldbuilding: Architects (Ocean's Echo).

Is there space in this?

This is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
不要在垃圾桶里捡男朋友 - 骑鲸南去 | Don't Pick Up Boyfriends From the Trash Bin - Qí Jīng Nán Qù

Franchise stuff

Nominator of Mass Effect - Various Authors (previously Mass Effect - All Media Types) The nominator for Mass Effect Trilogy is happy merging into the All Media Types tag. Do you also want to go back to using the All Media Types tag, or is there a specific reason you switched to the tie-in novel tag? Please reply to this post. Anon commenting is on.

Reread the instructions section

Nominator of:
Silo (TV)
The correct prefix for relationships is Relationship:, not Pairing.

Nominator of:
Stargate SG-1
Do not nominate canonical character tags. Please read the instructions post and nominate accordingly. This means you need to nominate Character: Svetlana Markov (Stargate), not Svetlana Markov (Stargate).

Nominators of:
Ocean's Echo - Everina Maxwell
Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon)
崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
Please disambiguate your nominations. This means that instead of nominating e.g. Character: Blade or Worldbuilding: Clone Culture, you nominate Character: Blade (HSR) or Worldbuilding: Clone Culture (SW:TBB).

Reread the instructions section

Nominators of:
Silo (TV)
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (TV)
The correct prefix for relationships is Relationship:, not Pairing.

Nominator of:
Stargate SG-1
Do not nominate canonical character tags. Please read the instructions post and nominate accordingly. This means you need to nominate Character: Svetlana Markov (Stargate), not Svetlana Markov (Stargate).

Nominators of:
Ocean's Echo - Everina Maxwell
崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
Please disambiguate your nominations. This means that instead of nominating e.g. Character: Blade, you nominate Character: Blade (HSR).

Nominators of:
Crossover Fandom
We are not taking Worldbuilding: noms under Crossover Fandom this year.

Franchise stuff

There are nominations for both Mass Effect - All Media Types (with trilogy & Andromeda characters) and Mass Effect Trilogy. Would the latter nominator be happy being merged, or the former nominator with splitting their noms between Mass Effect Trilogy and Mass Effect: Andromeda?

Is there space in this?

Bionicle (Generation 1)
Leif & Thorn (Webcomic)

(instructions)

Nominators of:
Silo (TV)
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (TV)
The correct prefix for relationships is Relationship:, not Pairing.

Nominator of:
Stargate SG-1
Do not nominate canonical character tags. Please read the instructions post and nominate accordingly. This means you need to nominate Character: Svetlana Markov (Stargate), not Svetlana Markov (Stargate).

Nominator of:
Prey (Video Game 2017)
Morgan Yu is a video game character with a user-selectable gender. Please nominate as either Character: Female Morgan Yu (Prey), Character: Male Morgan Yu (Prey), or both.

Nominators of:
Firefly (TV 2002)
崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
Major Tom (Coming Home) - Peter Schilling (Song)
Planets (Anthropomorfic)
rocketman - elton john (song) (please fix your caps also)
Starlight - Muse (Song)
Please disambiguate your nominations. This means that instead of nominating e.g. Character: Inara Serra, you nominate Character: Inara Serra (Firefly).

Read the instructions section

Nominators of:
Silo (TV)
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (TV)
The correct prefix for relationships is Relationship:, not Pairing.

Nominator of:
Stargate SG-1
Do not nominate canonical character tags. Please read the instructions post and nominate accordingly.

Nominator of:
The Mandalorian (TV)
The tag we're using this year is The Mandalorian & TBoBF, as per the franchise wrangling post.

Nominator of:
崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
Please disambiguate your nominations. This means that instead of nominating e.g. Character: Kafka, you nominate Character: Kafka (HSR).

Is there space in this?

Welcome to Night Vale
The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
Loki (TV 2021)

Noms will start today 26 Jan at 21:00 IST (in your timezone) and run until 4 Feb 21:00 IST (in your timezone | countdown). – NOW OPEN!

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 (offered by the dropdown) 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. Please add the fandom name (or easily understandable abbreviation thereof) in (brackets) after the tag you are nominating. If nominating a crossover between two space canons, that is allowed; nom it under Crossover Fandom. (Allowed kinds of crossover tags for 2024: Relationship: Shmi Skywalker (SWPT) & Aeryn Sun (Farscape), Character: Jean-Luc Picard (TNG) in Mass Effect: Andromeda)

( instructions )

Or: how do you want to subcategorize large franchises, so people can actually view and use the tagset without breaking out Excel.

All Media Types? Into subfandoms? By time period? By location?

Make a thread for your canon (unless there is one already), and then discuss in the subcomments.


The end result of the threads on 26 Jan at 21:00 IST (when nominations open) will be used to decide how nominations are approved.

So, you have a space fandom. However, other people might not have heard of it! Thankfully, there is a solution: Tell us why your canon is the best! Here's a nice format you can use to make it easier for people to find stuff: (copypasteable below)

The canon: The canon's name
What: The medium – TV, book, anime, RPF, 5-minute (posters/music video/etc), ... Some idea of the length would also be good. Is it one book/season/movie, or is it longer?
Where: where it can be found – is there a legal free download, is it on Netflix, an Amazon link, etc
Quick pitch: Give us a brief tagline! "Sentient ants get a space program", "Space Opera detectives chasing a priceless alien artwork", "Gritty asteroid mining RPG", ...
More: Tell us all the reasons why it's awesome! What do you like about the canon? The characters, the tone/outlook, the central concept, the relationship between hero and antagonist, the prose style, anything!


<b>The canon</b>: <b>What</b>: <b>Where</b>: <b>Quick pitch</b>: <b>More</b>:

Now, go forth and advertise and read the most space-y recs list this side of the Crab Nebula!

As always, works are revealed on Yuri's Night, the International Day of Human Space Flight. The fandom promo post will go up shortly, and the franchise wrangling post will go up on the weekend.

All times below are given as 24-hour times. IDT/IST is the time zone of Israel. Sign-ups and nominations may start ahead of the given time, but will close when stated.
Nominations start: 26 Jan 21:00 IST (in your timezone)
Nominations end: 4 Feb 21:00 IST (in your timezone | countdown)
Sign-ups start: 9 Feb 21:00 IST (in your timezone)
Sign-ups end: 18 Feb 21:00 IST (in your timezone | countdown)
Works due: 5 Apr 21:00 IDT (in your timezone | countdown)
Works revealed: 12 Apr 21:00 IDT (in your timezone | countdown)
Authors revealed: 19 Apr 21:00 IDT (in your timezone | countdown)

Authors have been revealed for the 2023 round! Thank you to all participants, signed up and pinch hitters alike – you are what keeps this exchange going.

While you are here, I'd like to hear your opinions on two things:

1. The canon promo post. This year, it was posted between nominations and sign-ups. Previously, it's been posted before either. Did you prefer the guarantee that the promoted thing would be in the tagset, or the extra time to check things out? Have you ever checked out anything based on the canon promo post, or is it just a bunch of people posting into the void?

2. The tagset. Currently, tags are nominated in the Character field and must be nominated like this:
Character: Leia Organa (OT)
Relationship: Leia Organa & Luke Skywalker (OT)
Worldbuilding: Bespin gas extraction (OT)

This format has several benefits: it allows matching on characters, relationships, or worldbuilding tags, the tags do not wander at all, and it is immediately obvious if someone has not read the nomination instructions. However, it means no canonical tags can be used, which means every association of tag to fandom has to be approved as well. The prefixes also eat from the 100-character maximum tag length, which might cause issues for poly relationship nominators in particular. Did you run into tag length issues?

The alternative would be to use the Relationship field and nominate the above like this:
Leia Organa & none (OT)
Leia Organa & Luke Skywalker (OT)
WB: Bespin gas extraction (OT)

The immediate issues with this would be that the tags might wander (so Luke & Leia (OT) might decide to visit the Sequel Trilogy fandom despite the disambiguation), and that someone who has not read the nominations instructions might think this is a purely relationship-matching exchange and fill up their nom slots before realizing they can nom and request single characters and worldbuilding.

If you have anything else you wish to talk about, I would be interested to hear as well! Anonymous commenting is on.

We've discovered one person doesn't have an acceptable gift! They thus need a replacement. This pinch hit is due ASAP; as I cannot give the assignment on AO3, please inform me once you've posted.

DONE! Thank you to our wonderful pinch hitter! ♥

The collection has been revealed with 51 works! I would like to thank all of you who made this possible, participants and pinch hitters alike. Go forth and dive into the collection!

Creators will be revealed 19 Apr 21:00 IDT (in your timezone | countdown)

Works will be revealed 12 Apr 21:00 IDT (in your timezone | countdown)

Now is a good time to give your works a last check for typos or formatting flubs in the title, summary, and work text, as well as check that any embedded media (images, audio, video) shows up properly.

If you are in a fast-moving fandom, it is also a good idea to redate your work so it shows on the first page of the fandom tag! Go to your work and press Edit. Find the Associations section and tick the tickybox next to Set a different publication date and then select 12 April 2023.

See you at reveals!

These pinch hits are now due on Tue 11 Apr 21:00 IDT (negotiable) (in your timezone | countdown).

To claim, please comment on this post with your AO3 username.

PH #1: Claimed!

These pinch hits are now due on Mon 10 Apr 21:00 IDT (negotiable) (in your timezone | countdown).

To claim, please comment on this post with your AO3 username and which PH you want to take. Comments are screened.

PH #1: ( Expanse - Corey, Expanse (TV), SW: Kenobi )

PH #8: Claimed!

The deadline has passed! Some creators have extensions. We have some returning and some new pinch hits.

These pinch hits are due on Sat 8 Apr 21:00 IDT (in your timezone | countdown). To claim, please comment on this post with your AO3 username and which pinch hit you are taking.

To claim, please comment on this post with your AO3 username and which PH you want to take. Comments are screened.

PH #1: ( Expanse - Corey, Expanse (TV), SW: OWK )

PH #8: ( Doctor Who '05, Venom, ST: AOS )

PH #9: Claimed!

#10: Claimed!

#11: Claimed!

#12: Claimed!

#13: Claimed!

(Regular assignments and all currently assigned pinch hits are due in less than 24 hours on Wed 5 Apr 21:00 IDT (in your timezone | countdown).)

These pinch hits are due on Sat 8 Apr 21:00 IDT (in your timezone | countdown). To claim, please comment on this post with your AO3 username and which pinch hit you are taking.

To claim, please comment on this post with your AO3 username and which PH you want to take. Comments are screened.

PH #1: ( Expanse - Corey, Expanse (TV), SW: OWK )

PH #8: ( Doctor Who '05, Venom, ST: AOS )

PH #9: ( Children of Time, KOTOR, SWTOR, SW PT, TCW, Uplift )

Assignments and all current pinch hits are due on Wed 5 Apr 21:00 IDT (in your timezone | countdown). Please note that if you live in the Americas, the deadline might effectively be on the previous evening.

We have two pinch hits currently available.

These pinch hits are due with the rest of the assignments on Wed 5 Apr 21:00 IDT (in your timezone | countdown)

To claim, please comment on this post with your AO3 username and which PH you want to take. Comments are screened.

PH #1: ( Expanse - Corey, Expanse (TV), SW: OWK )

PH #7: Claimed!

These pinch hits are due with the rest of the assignments on Wed 5 Apr 21:00 IDT (in your timezone | countdown)

To claim, please comment on this post with your AO3 username and which PH you want to take. Comments are screened.

PH #1: ( Expanse - Corey, Expanse (TV), SW: OWK )

PH #6: Claimed!