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

[masu_trout]

Hey! I'm really sorry if this is a bothersome request, but would you consider not hardcoding font color when posting updates to this comm? I have my DW's text set to white-on-black for eye strain reasons, which means that when I try to read your updates from my reading page it looks like this.

Also, really excited for this fest! I'm hoping to see some more animanga and video game fandoms get in. Not quite sure which ones I plan to nominate just yet, though.

[morbane]

Are any particular animanga or videogame fandoms coming to mind?

I'll happily second Pokemon, for example.

[masu_trout]

Oh, yes, that would be awesome! I'd love to have Pokemon in.

Other than that, I'm open to a whole lot of things: my biggest right now are Fallout, Final Fantasy VII and IV, Undertale, Madoka Magica, and Baccano!, but I'm familiar with a whole lot of things and I'm willing to go a bit out of my comfort zone for this fest.

Are there any in addition to Pokemon you'd be interested in? Iin general, not just from what I listed.)

[morbane]

I can see the potential for Undertale! I've never played the game, but I sort of ended up being a style beta for my friend's fic in that fandom. And definitely Madoka.

[masu_trout]

Oh, that's awesome! That seems like it'd be really fun (and weird) to beta Undertale fic without having played the canon; so many random references and weird stylistic bits. And that sounds great--I'll definitely go for Pokemon and Madoka with you.

[sirvalkyrie]

I'll happily second Madoka Magica in nominations.

[masu_trout]

Wonderful! Sounds like we might have three for Madoka, then.

[weasleytook]

Sorry about that! I didn't even realize DW would do that when I copy/pasted from another thing, but now I know. Will be fixed in future posts. :)

[masu_trout]

Thanks so much! :) I really appreciate it.