Signups must include 3-5 fandoms from our list of nominated fandoms and participants must pick 2-5 relationships from each fandom. NO EXCEPTIONS. Does this apply to offers as well? (So participants must offer at least 2 pairings in each of at least three and up to only five fandoms?)
I've got a question about the X-Men universes. I see that if you nominate a pairing for one of the sub fandoms (say, X-Men: Evolution), it starts appearing in the lists of the other X-Men fandoms as well (Movieverse and First Class - nothing seems to have migrated to Comicverse?). Those requests are probably meant to be rather specific though; in at least one case, a pairing transforms into incest once you move it into another sub fandom (I actually first noticed this when I saw Xavier/Logan as a First Class pairing and thought that was rather hot. Then I saw it in the Movieverse section and... not so much anymore). Plus, I, for starters, haven't watched X-Men: Evolution and can't sign up to write it. So how is this going to be handled at the sign-up?
Of course it's rather possible that all these pairings were added separately or something, and I got it wrong. But I'd still wanna know how the sign-up works for the X-Men. :)
One pairing is showing up under Marvel (comics). Xavier/Logan was actually nominated for XMFC. The problem with the tags on AO3 seems to be that they're connected to more than one fandom and if someone nominates the other fandom, the tags magically appear there. We have a support ticket in because this is affecting multiple fandoms (Marvel, X-Men, DC, Angel/Buffy so far that we've seen), but have yet to see a response.
If someone requests XMFC they will be paired with someone that offered the same (and will have matched on at least one pairing). The same will be said with the other fandoms. Someone that requests a pairing from XMFC won't be paired with someone that offered to write for X-Men Evolution.
For the sake of this, we will consider the X-Men (Movies) all movies outside of XMFC.
ETA: Not quite sure if that was what you were looking for. We'll put a post up explaining the categories if we can't get the tags straightened out on AO3's end before signups go out.
Just a passing nonnie who hasn't decided if she'll participate yet, but if Ao3 doesn't get it straightened out, I think it'll probably be okay. Some pairings might be cracky in other universes, but they'll still be rare so, hey, maybe someone will be inspired to read/write them :)
The works can come from any single archive (AO3, FF.net, fandom specific sites, etc.).
So just for clarification: if a fandom has only 700 stories on AO3, but enough on ff.net and other sites to push it over the 1000 stories mark, is it eligible or not? (I'm not clear on whether all 1000 stories have to be on the same archive.)
There has to be 1000+ stories on a single site to be eligible. A lot of sites tend to have cross-posting done between them, so there are bound to be a number of duplicates between archives.
Sadly we don't have a way to accommodate artists as much as we wish we could, sorry. Maybe by the next round, AO3 will have implemented a more flexible system for signups, but with the way they are now, there's just no real way to fit it in. If you'd like to create art to accompany a story that's fine, but we don't have a way to do art on it's own right now.
Opps, so sorry. When we'd written the original rules we hadn't planned on using AO3 (and had made allowances for art), but we realize that this could quickly grow to something larger than we were comfortable matching by hand. We seemed to have missed that mention.
If we can offer 3+ fandoms with 2+ pairings each, could we include additional offers with 1 pairing per fandom? There's one fandom I'm eyeing, but I only know the characters for one of the pairings, I'd be hard-pressed to write the other one.
Sadly no. AO3 doesn't really allow for that type of if/then type situation. We'd have to only make one pairing mandatory instead of the two, and I think it would be easily abused (and make matching harder).
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Does this apply to offers as well? (So participants must offer at least 2 pairings in each of at least three and up to only five fandoms?)
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You may offer between 3-10 fandoms with at least two pairings per fandom.
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Of course it's rather possible that all these pairings were added separately or something, and I got it wrong. But I'd still wanna know how the sign-up works for the X-Men. :)
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If someone requests XMFC they will be paired with someone that offered the same (and will have matched on at least one pairing). The same will be said with the other fandoms. Someone that requests a pairing from XMFC won't be paired with someone that offered to write for X-Men Evolution.
For the sake of this, we will consider the X-Men (Movies) all movies outside of XMFC.
ETA: Not quite sure if that was what you were looking for. We'll put a post up explaining the categories if we can't get the tags straightened out on AO3's end before signups go out.
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So just for clarification: if a fandom has only 700 stories on AO3, but enough on ff.net and other sites to push it over the 1000 stories mark, is it eligible or not? (I'm not clear on whether all 1000 stories have to be on the same archive.)
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