Nominations Brainstorming!

[weasleytook]

Nominations will begin in close to a week, running from June 24 through July 3.

The purpose of this post is to promote your smaller fandoms (to help ensure they make the cut), or to organize nominations for fandoms with multiple continuities (as in which fandoms can/should be combined as a larger umbrella fandom). Or, you can just chat with others about what fandoms you're nominating or hope will make it to see if you can drum up interest. 

For a refresher, here's how nominations will work:

• You can nominate up to eight fandoms.

• We will automatically approve the top 100 fandoms with the most nominations, though it is probable we will approve more than 100 fandoms. (Last year, we had 128 fandoms in the tagset, and will likely reach or surpass that number, based on participation.) While there is no magic number of nominations a fandom needs to make the cut, as we base it on participation, your fandom will likely need at least two nominations to make it

• Sign-ups will require a minimum of three fandoms that can be crossed with each other in each individual request, with six fandoms maximum. (You are required to make at least three requests, with five requests maximum.)

When nominations begin, we will post more detailed instructions about how to nominate on AO3. Until then, feel free to check out the FAQ.

Comments

[graycardinal]

I will certainly nominate Castle (which I wouldn't have thought of as small, although I'll grant that this last season has probably done a number on the organized parts of the fandom).

I will also likely nominate (as I have previously) Gargoyles and Diane Duane's "Young Wizards" series of books. I'm torn about NCIS (prime), which I followed not at all this past season given so much else running on Tuesday nights, and about Tomorrowland, which got some incredibly good stories last year but still strikes me as a very crossable fandom. And I will always think seriously about Baum's Oz books (I will get my Oz/Agent Carter story done for "Into A Bar" amnesty, though I grant that that one is proving unusually resistant to acquiring an actual plot).

I have also recently acquired a full set of original-series Star Trek DVDs, which is likely to bump my interest in that and other things Trek-ish...and I discovered just this past week that Legend (the RDA/de Lancie Western series, not the feature film) is now orderable on DVD as well.

[alatefeline]

I would be in favor of the works of Diane Duane as a suggested smaller fandom. Anybody suggested Lois McMaster Bujold yet?

(I don't know if I'll be signing up yet, but I am watching with interest.)

[morbane]

Eep! Including Door Into Fire / Door Into Shadow, etc?

And Chalion and Vorkosiverse are very different.

[alatefeline]

Oh it can easily be narrowed down from there. I am just stirring the pot.

My favorites are the obscurer ones, naturally.