Welcome!
Welcome to rarewomen, a winter fic exchange for rare women in big fandoms and rare women in small fandoms. Each participant will write a fic of at least 1000 words and receive the same.
Schedule
- Now thru January 7: Enjoy existing holiday exchanges, discuss eligible/non-eligible LARGE FANDOM women
- January 7 thru January 21: NOMINATIONS PROCESS. Each participant may nominate FIVE FANDOMS. One must be a LARGE fandom*, followed by up to four SMALL fandoms. In each fandom, up to FIVE CHARACTERS may be nominated.
- January 25 thru February 8: SIGN UP PROCESS. Each participant may request THREE FANDOMS. One must be a LARGE fandom, followed by up to two SMALL fandoms. In each fandom, up to FIVE CHARACTERS may be requested**. Characters will be treated as AND/OR selections rather than a full match. ANY is a viable selection for both requests and offers. Each participant must offer at least ONE LARGE fandom, and other than that offers are limitless. Participants may specify
characters they would like to offer***.
- Around February 15, possibly earlier: ASSIGNMENTS GO OUT
- April 30: STORIES DUE
*Large fandoms will be nominated based on previous eligibility discussion. Large fandoms are determined by in-eligibility for yuletide, and in-eligible women in large fandoms are determined by having either 20%+ of fic or 500 or more stories.
**Sign ups will ONLY choose from nominated fandoms and characters. Please refrain from requesting a fandom or character that has not been nominated!
***Sign ups will include OPTIONAL DETAILS where pairings, situations may be suggested, however the only REQUIRED element is a story of at least 1000 words about one of the recipient's requested women.
Questions:
What makes a big fandom?
Check out the list of ineligible fandoms list for Yuletide. Any of those entails a large fandom.
What makes a rare woman in a big fandom?
Less than 20%, or in larger-still fandoms, less than 500 stories in any given archive of the fic in a given large fandom (as best we can calculate) includes this woman in a major role.
What makes a small fandom?
Again, following Yuletide rules here whether the fandom was nominated/written for or not. Yuletide fandoms are eligible here.
What makes a rare woman in a small fandom?
Two rules: character must be a woman. Character must be in a small fandom. :)
How do you define "woman" for the scope of this challenge?
During the scope of the canon (or author's explanation) the character self-identifies as female.
How will sign-ups work?
See above.
What can I request?
Optional details are optional, but you may request gen, femslash, het, poly, incest, RPF... it's all good. You can request your rare woman/women be paired with NON-rare women, or men, as long as the rare woman is the center of the request and resulting fic. Background men and slash is also welcome, as long as, again, the woman is the central focus of the story.
Do I need a LJ to sign-up/participate?
No. You may send sign-ups via email, use an open-id account, or a proxy poster.
Need to contact a mod?
Do that here.
Schedule
- Now thru January 7: Enjoy existing holiday exchanges, discuss eligible/non-eligible LARGE FANDOM women
- January 7 thru January 21: NOMINATIONS PROCESS. Each participant may nominate FIVE FANDOMS. One must be a LARGE fandom*, followed by up to four SMALL fandoms. In each fandom, up to FIVE CHARACTERS may be nominated.
- January 25 thru February 8: SIGN UP PROCESS. Each participant may request THREE FANDOMS. One must be a LARGE fandom, followed by up to two SMALL fandoms. In each fandom, up to FIVE CHARACTERS may be requested**. Characters will be treated as AND/OR selections rather than a full match. ANY is a viable selection for both requests and offers. Each participant must offer at least ONE LARGE fandom, and other than that offers are limitless. Participants may specify
characters they would like to offer***.
- Around February 15, possibly earlier: ASSIGNMENTS GO OUT
- April 30: STORIES DUE
*Large fandoms will be nominated based on previous eligibility discussion. Large fandoms are determined by in-eligibility for yuletide, and in-eligible women in large fandoms are determined by having either 20%+ of fic or 500 or more stories.
**Sign ups will ONLY choose from nominated fandoms and characters. Please refrain from requesting a fandom or character that has not been nominated!
***Sign ups will include OPTIONAL DETAILS where pairings, situations may be suggested, however the only REQUIRED element is a story of at least 1000 words about one of the recipient's requested women.
Questions:
What makes a big fandom?
Check out the list of ineligible fandoms list for Yuletide. Any of those entails a large fandom.
What makes a rare woman in a big fandom?
Less than 20%, or in larger-still fandoms, less than 500 stories in any given archive of the fic in a given large fandom (as best we can calculate) includes this woman in a major role.
What makes a small fandom?
Again, following Yuletide rules here whether the fandom was nominated/written for or not. Yuletide fandoms are eligible here.
What makes a rare woman in a small fandom?
Two rules: character must be a woman. Character must be in a small fandom. :)
How do you define "woman" for the scope of this challenge?
During the scope of the canon (or author's explanation) the character self-identifies as female.
How will sign-ups work?
See above.
What can I request?
Optional details are optional, but you may request gen, femslash, het, poly, incest, RPF... it's all good. You can request your rare woman/women be paired with NON-rare women, or men, as long as the rare woman is the center of the request and resulting fic. Background men and slash is also welcome, as long as, again, the woman is the central focus of the story.
Do I need a LJ to sign-up/participate?
No. You may send sign-ups via email, use an open-id account, or a proxy poster.
Need to contact a mod?
Do that here.