crossovering

We have three pinch hits remaining, due 10/19 at midnight ET, so that we can open the collection on time this weekend and get to reading all the great crossovers and fusions! Details on the links below. To claim without joining the pinch hit list, send an email to crossoveringmods on gmail with the number and your AO3 name.

If you can’t take one of these pinch hits, maybe someone you know can! Feel free to signal boost on Tumblr or share with friends on Discord or Twitter.


Pinch hit #009: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/crossovering-ph/vJJfnNuN_RA
Fandoms include
1. Fairy Tail, Dungeons and Dragons (Cartoon)
2. G.I. Joe (Cartoon), Jem and the Holograms (Cartoon)
3. Hart to Hart, Murder She Wrote, Dallas (TV 1978)
4. Dungeons and Dragons (Cartoon), He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, G.I. Joe (Cartoon), Voltron: Lion Voltron
5. Fairy Tail, Clue (1985)


Pinch hit #010: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/crossovering-ph/FSUokG-fmVo
Fandoms include
1. American Gods (TV), Star Wars - All Media Types
2. Killing Eve (TV 2018), The X-Files
3. Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Velvet Goldmine


Pinch hit #013: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/crossovering-ph/nT0JdcqF6qk
Fandoms include
1. Logan Lucky (2017), Superstore (TV), The Good Place (TV)
2. Superstore (TV), The Good Place (TV), Veronica Mars - All Media Types
3. Star Trek: Discovery, The West Wing

The AO3 collection will close at 8pm ET on 10/14! That's about an hour from now, so get those last assignments in :)

The 2018 Crossovering AO3 collection will close at noon Eastern time today, 10/14! Last chance to get your completed work posted!

Remember to sign up for the pinch hit list if you haven't already. Pinch hits will go out after the collection closes and be due on 10/19. We will not reveal the collection until all participants in the exchange have a story or art in the collection in return. Hopefully that will be on 10/20 as scheduled, but may be later if pinch hits are not completed and posted on time.

Please let us know via PM or email if you need anything! If you've already reached out to us, we will follow up with you after the collection closes, if we haven't already.

Crossovering 2018 stories and art are due 10/13 @ midnight Pacific time! (How much longer is that?)

You can post your stories and art to the AO3 collection here.

Please also sign up for the pinch hit list if you haven't already. There's always a possiblity of a few last-minute pinch hits being needed. We will not reveal the collection until every participant has a gift, so please keep an eye out for a prompt you might be able to fill!

Please let us know via PM or email if you need anything. Can't wait to see what everyone's created!

Quick update! We're going to keep sign-ups open through the weekend, so they will now close on 8/26 at 11:59pm Pacific Time.

Signups open a little over an hour! That's a perfect amount of time to start sharing your Dear Crossovering Creator Letters!

These letters are 100% optional but highly encouraged (particularly due to the nature of this exchange). If you've never participated in an exchange like this before, a Dear Creator Letter is a post at your DW or Tumblr, etc. detailing your requests and giving your assigned creator ideas for possible art or fic. These letters also include your likes, dislikes, and any triggers you might have. You can link them here, as well as in your sign-up form. How you format or write them is entirely up to you.

If you have any triggers (things that may cause you harm if you read about them), we highly recommend that you make that clear in your letter as well as in the optional details on your signup. Not every participant clicks through to letters, and this is the best way to cover your bases so that your creator will not unintentionally use your triggers.

For more info and great examples of what we mean check out the following links: The Yuletide FAQ or letters from previous years.

Keep in mind that letters are completely optional, which also means that creators are in no way required to follow the optional details. The only requirements are that they use the fandoms you matched on and that they respect your DNWs. Essentially: Optional details are optional. However, works intentionally including the recipient's stated triggers will be removed from the collection and the creator may be barred from future participation at modly discretion.

If you are posting a link to your letter here, we ask that you copy/paste the following when you comment:

<b>Link to letter</b> <b>Your AO3 username:</b> <b>Request 1</b>: List all fandoms requested <b>Request 2</b>: List all fandoms requested <b>Request 3</b>: List all fandoms requested (Optional) <b>Request 4</b>: List all fandoms requested (Optional) <b>Request 5</b>: List all fandoms requested

Hey, we're really close on finalizing the tagset for this year's Crossovering exchange, but we have a few questions on fandoms before we can do that.

(If clearing these up takes us past the scheduled start of sign-ups, we will extend the sign-up period as needed to make up the time.)

First, this year we did approve individual installments in a series, and separate "chunks" of related canons where there is a sufficient quantity of non-overlapping characters and/or settings to warrant individual tags. So, you'll see things like: Star Wars Original Trilogy and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and Star Wars Legends: Thrawn Trilogy - Timothy Zahn and Star Wars - All Media Types.

Now for the outstanding items:

If you're the person who nominated any of the following, please let us know your answers in the comments below or via email at crossoveringmods@gmail.com.

Discworld - Terry Pratchett / Monstrous Regiment - Terry Pratchett
The archive wants us to put Monstrous Regiment through under the Discworld canonical tag and no mods are familiar enough to make a judgement call on this one. Are these the same fandom, or do the characters/settings diverge enough that they should remain separate?

Dragon Age - All Media Types
Does this nomination include non-video game elements (such as the Hard in Hightown novelization)? Both DA2 and DAI are nominated and approved separately. If those together suffice for your crossover/fusion requests, is the All Media Types still required?

Robot & Frank
This has apparently never been entered as a tag or fandom in the archive, so anyone using it this year will be the very first! To better match with archive nomenclature, this is approved in the tagset as Robot & Frank (2012).

ETA: We're all set! Nominations will open later today, once I can get on a network that doesn't have the archive blocked as porn ;)

Nominations are now open on AO3!

We're so excited for this year's exchange, we're getting started a little early: you will have until August 5 @ 11:59 PM PDT to nominate up to 8 fandoms you might want to request or offer for Crossovering. (What time is that for me?)


Don't worry, we'll give warnings here and on Tumblr multiple times before we close nominations, and we'll make sure everyone has plenty of time to get them in.

Now, here's how it works:

• If you've done nominations for Yuletide or another exchange, this will be very familiar. You'll go here under your AO3 account and select up to 8 fandoms.
• If the Archive provides you with a fandom tag while you're typing, please use that. It will make the process run much more smoothly.
• Once you've filled all of the slots, just click on submit at the bottom of the page and you're done! (Of course, you aren't required to use all 8 slots.)
• For fandoms with multiple continuities, you have the option of using the umbrella fandom tag (Fandom X - All Media Types, or Fandom Y and related fandoms, for example), or nominating each continuity separately (Final Fantasy X, Final Fantasy VIII, &c.). Please check in at the Brainstorming Post to see if you have any overlap with another participant. 
• Nominating fandoms is not a commitment to participate in the exchange itself! We'd love to have you, but if you just want to make sure the bases are covered for friends or to make sure there is something you're interested in if you do sign up, go right ahead! No one can write it or request it if it isn't nominated.
• If you're still unsure about how the exchange works, make sure you take a look at our FAQ page.
• If you need to let the mods know information about your fandom that will help it get approved or tagged properly, please leave that info in the comments so we can refer to it when we review nominations. Any other questions or comments or discussion of nominations can take place here as well.

As always, if you have any questions or need any assistance, do not hesitate to ask! Happy Nominating! 

Nominations will run from July 23 – August 5. As a reminder, here's how nominations work and how they affect signups:

• You may nominate up to 8 fandoms. At least for this year, we do not plan to change this maximum, since we've dropped the 2+ nominations requirement.


• If a fandom you nominated has been rejected, it's likely because that fandom was nominated with a slightly different title. (More likely to happen with newer fandoms without canonical tags on AO3.) If you feel a fandom has been rejected in error, please let us know.


• Signups require a minimum of 3 requests with a maximum of 10. For each one, you must request at least 2 fandoms and up to 10.


• Signups require a minimum of 3 offers with a maximum of 10. For each one, you must offer at least 2 fandoms and up to 10.

When nominations begin, we will post more detailed instructions about how to nominate on AO3. (You can also review the FAQ.)

To pass the time until nominations: brainstorming post! Previously, participants used brainstorming posts to plan their nominations around the 2+ nominations requirement. But as of this year, that requirement no longer applies.

So instead, you can use this post to discuss which fandoms you plan to nominate, to share your ideas for crossovers, or to get suggestions for crossovers from other participants. You can also promote fandoms here, if you'd like.