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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.

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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

[morbane]

Not asking for changes, but the situation with Hunger Games & Pokemon will be interesting for me. It seems likely that trying to work with the current set-up will furnish me with opinions in time for next year.

I'm not sure whether to ask for Pokemon (All Media Types) since I'd be open to receiving fic with anime & movie characters & fic about Pokemon Go, or Pokemon (Main Video Game Series), which is possibly safer - even though I don't know all the games. (Does anyone who might offer or request those have any suggestions, please?)

And it doesn't seem like a good idea to put both versions of Hunger Games, or both versions of Pokemon, in a request or offer, since I could match to someone also requesting/offering both (while not matching to anything else), which would not produce an actual crossover.

Hm. Curious!

Thanks for all your work approving the nominations so quickly.

[(Anonymous)]

"Avengers Movies", "Captain America Movies", "Thor Movies", "Guardians of the Galaxy Movies", and "Marvel Cinematic Universe" are all in the tagset.

On the one hand, having the sub-franchises separate is nice because it helps people match on the characters they actually care about in this sprawling universe (assuming you delete the MCU tag, which is completely redundant if you have the individual franchises). But on the other hand, if people request the individual ones together, that's not actually a crossover, as the characters all overlap. (Most of the Avengers cast was in the latest Captain America movie, and there is less than six degrees of separation between anyone in the entire MCU.)

I think either we need only Marvel Cinematic Universe OR all the different franchises, but it doesn't make sense to have both.