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[galfridian]

This year's tagset is now visible. (Alphabetical view.)

We approved 534 nominations this year. That's 329 more than last year! Please check the list even if your fandom was rejected, as it may have been approved under a related tag.

For those who like to keep track year-to-year, this year's most nominated exchange was Leverage with 9 nominations.

We rejected only 3 fandoms:

Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Star Trek Beyond — As they're installments in a series. We view these like nominating one book in the Harry Potter series. However, we're open to accepting installments next year.

The Hunger Games - All Media Types — As we've approved The Hunger Games films and novels separately. Because participants can choose both in a request or offer, we felt All Media Types was superfluous. Again, we're absolutely open to discussion on this next year.

Signups open Tuesday, July 18th @ 8:00 AM PDT. (Compare to your time. See the current time in Los Angeles.)

If you have any questions or concerns about the tagset, please comment here or email crossoveringmods@gmail.com.

Otherwise, we'll see you at signups! We look forward to taking advantage of all the changes to this year's exchange—and we hope you are, too!

Comments

[weasleytook]

I just want to second what Jess is saying here and really direct it at everyone concerned about this post. No matter how you request something, you are always going to run the risk of not getting exactly what you want. HOWEVER, that's why we're offering optional details fields and an optional character field this year. (And you can always write a letter.) The majority of writers and artists are going to want to create what YOU want. Yes, there are occasionally some people who don't do that, but for the most part, whoever gets matched to you is going to want to make you happy.

In this exchange, even more than others, it has always been really useful to use those optional details and it's paid off pretty well even in years with less fandoms and less options for matching.

As for specific MCU and other franchise concerns, I look at it in a lot of different ways. For example, if I want a fic where Peggy Carter, Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes meet Diana Prince, then I'll request Captain America/Wonder Woman. If I request MCU, I run the risk of someone writing me Doctor Strange hanging out with Diana Prince which I definitely do not want. (I was going to use DCEU as an example, but no one nominated that. But conversely, if they had, I wouldn't give two figs about other DCEU characters in a fic, I ONLY want characters from Wonder Woman.) All that said, I still run the risk of someone writing me Red Skull/Ludendorf fic because that's how exchanges work. But I would put in my optional fields that I DNW that and what I do want instead.

We also allow fusions in this exchange, which I think makes the larger umbrella tags extremely useful. I might want to know what happens if the characters from Buffy were Avengers and ran SHIELD, but I don't want Tony Stark or Phil Coulson popping in. So I'd request an MCU/Buffy fusion, using MCU as a more generic tag.

And boy is this comment probably getting boring. I could give a MILLION examples if you gave me all night.

The important thing for everyone to remember is:

1) Use those optional details to your advantage! Write a letter if you can! Put things in your DNWs if they would truly ruin the exchange for you.

2) Requests are going to be visible all through the sign-up period this year. Tailor your offers to fit the requests of others to avoid things you don't want to write. And make your requests clear in your sign-up so that potential matches know what to expect from you.

We know there will ALWAYS be bumps in the road, particularly in this type of exchange with so many complexities, and we do work hard to make it fun for as many people as we can. We apologize that we can't always please 100% of you 100% of the time, nor can we always anticipate everyone's concerns, but know that we do listen to everything our participants have to say and make adjustments where we see fit. (This year in particular brought us several new changes, hence the several new bumps.)