Tagset is open!

[weasleytook]

The tagset for this year's challenge is officially viewable. Check out the default view for a list of all fandoms eligible for this year's exchange.

We had a record number of nominations this year, so we ended up approving 205 fandoms, including all fandoms that had 2 or more nominations. Please check the list even if your fandom was rejected, because it may have been approved under a related tag. We did have to reject many fandoms, but hopefully there are still plenty available for everyone to formulate their requests and offers.

This year's most nominated fandoms were:

1. Revolution (TV) - 14 nominations
2. Harry Potter - 13 nominations
3. Marvel Cinematic Universe, Killjoys (TV), Buffy the Vampire Slayer - 10 nominations
4. Hamilton - Miranda, Forever (TV) - 8 nominations
5. Young Wizards, Person of Interest, Veronica Mars, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Leverage - 7 nominations

A few important things to note: 

We approved a tag (currently under Uncategorized Fandoms) for Final Fantasy (Video Games). If requesting or offering this fandom, please keep in mind that the following entries in the series were the ones nominated and will likely be what the nominators are requesting: 

Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy X & Final Fantasy X-2
Compilation of Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy XIII

We also have two Star Wars related tags: Star Wars - All Media Types and Star Wars: Rebels. Star Wars - All Media Types should only contain requests for the movies in the series, not animated series, comic books, video games, books etc. None of those were nominated, so they are not eligible. You may specify in your requests which movies you'd like to read about if necessary.

If you have any questions or there are any issues with the tagset, please let us know ASAP. Otherwise, watch this space for a lot more activity as sign-ups will begin soon!

 

Comments

[masu_trout]

Yes, I am! I nominated it under 'Final Fantasy VII' just because I can never remember that AO3 also uses the 'Compilation' bit. (I can give you a screencap of my noms if you'd like confirmation, though it looks like it was changed to 'Final Fantasy (Video Games)' on my end too when the alternate tag was approved. I only didn't step forward before because the specific FF nominations weren't mentioned in the last post; I assumed I'd been the only one to nominate FFVII and it wasn't getting in no matter what.

That said, I don't want to ruin it for anyone else in the larger fanbase--if FFVII staying out of the tagset is the only way the FF franchise can stay in somehow, I'd be hesitant to ask for a change.

[weasleytook]

We definitely would prefer to keep the one tag, for this year at least, and just ask people requesting it to specify which games/characters they're requesting. We apologize for any confusion on our end, but as you can see, we're confused ourselves! (With such a vast franchise as this one, it all starts to get complicated and especially so when our own familiarity with it is pretty vague.)

We definitely are going to put a new plan in place for next year to help everything get sorted out better though, particularly since this is an issue that keeps recurring.

Thank you for your input and understanding! :)