The Early Bird Gets The Word Exchange

Hello again! We are almost to the end of nominations and are still having a blast discovering all these new & sleepy fandoms!
 

However, we still need some clarifications for the following:

• Fawx & Stallion (Podcast)

            We couldn’t find the character Charlotte Watson. Can you clarify this for us?

• 선의의 경쟁 | Friendly Rivalry (TV)

            We found over 100+ qualifying works after applying the relevant filters. Can you provide some clarification?

•  Inglourious Basterds (2009)
• Method (2017)
• Crossfire Trail (2001)
• North of North (TV 2025)

            We are not accepting original characters at this time. If you’d like to change this, you can reuse your relationship nomination slot. Otherwise these nominations will be rejected once nominations close.

• He-Man and the Masters of the Universe

• She-Ra: Princess Of Power (1985)

• Pride and Prejudice & Related Fandoms

We found over 100+ qualifying works after applying the relevant filters. Can you provide some clarification?

•  ‘crossover fandoms’

Please nominate these crossover relationships under the 'Crossover Fandom' fandom which is already in the tag set.

We have received many nominations without disambiguations. Please disambiguate your nominations. It prevents wandering tags and helps speed up the review process a lot.

Please reply to this comment if you have nominated any of the above fandoms or can help us out with regards to their eligibility. Please write the fandom in question as your reply subject. Alternatively, you can also use our evidence post here.

Additionally, please let us know if you catch any dupes or wandering tags or other oddities in the tag set. We'll fix that asap!

48 hours left to nominate! 

These are the guidelines for 2025.

Fandoms qualify if there have been less than 50 new works posted to AO3 from January 1st 2025 that are:

• In English
• At least 1000 words
• Complete at the time nominations open i.e. April 20th 21:00 Eastern Time.

To check if your fandom qualifies, you can add the following filters on AO3:

Under More Options, select >Completion Status. Click 'Complete works only'.

Select >Word Count. Input From: 1000.

Select >Date Updated. Input From: 2025-01-01 (or select from the calendar).

Under Language, select 'English' from the dropdown menu.

If your fandom comes up to more than 50, you can scroll back up the Filters menu to Sort By and select 'Date Posted' from the dropdown menu. There might be some works on the last page that were first published before 1st January 2025. These works will not count towards the total 50 tally.

Crossover fandoms will be accepted if both fandoms are eligible under the 50 rule. Please nominate Crossover ships under Crossover Fandom 

The following works will not be included in the 50 tally:

• Works marked as complete but are not actually complete (i.e. the author has explicitly stated that the work has been abandoned). Works with open or ambiguous endings will count towards the tally.
• Works posted to Yuletide related collections.
• Artworks, including artworks that are accompanied by less than 1000 written words. Artworks accompanied by 1000 or more written words will be included in the tally.

We will not be accepting Original Work, Original Characters, RPF, recursive fanwork, and meta at this time.

If you feel your fandom should qualify, please refer to the evidence post linked here. We will consider all replies to the evidence post on a case by case basis.

Come tell us about the fandom you’re yelling “awaken!” at! What about it do you love? What are you planning to request? We have a suggested template you may wish to use below, (thank you, Yuletide). However, you can promo in any way you want so long as it is clear what the name of your fandom is.

For ease of reference, please include the name of your fandom in the subject line of your reply to this post, and please use one reply per fandom you want to promo.

Suggested template below:

Title:
Medium:
Approximate length:
Official i.e. legal platforms it can be found on:
Description:
Your ship(s) (if applicable):
Your planned requests:
Content Warnings (if applicable):