NOMINATIONS: OPEN

[crantz]

NOMINATIONS! ARE! OPEN!

Tagset is HERE!

Your nominations create the set of stories that can be offered and requested when signing up. The tagset is user-chosen and changes from year to year. You don't need to nominate to sign up, but you do need to nominate to ensure that what you want is in the tag set.

You can nominate up to 4 fandoms and up to 4 characters each.

Guidelines can be found here in the FAQ, resources can be found here, and of course feel free to ask the mods anything at: onceupon@fandom.exchange

Please be specific when nominating - narrow your tale down by author or origin. Many fairytales have multiple versions and we only allow specific versions so everyone is working from the same variation.

Good: Beauty and the Beast - Joseph Jacobs
Bad: Beauty and the Beast (Fairytales)

We welcome comments on this post to clarify which version you mean. Links are great, especially if you think we may have difficulty finding the source.

Nominate! Check back before the end of nominations (Jan 30th) to see if we have questions for you! And then, Feb 6th, SIGN-UPS!

Important Dates, all times in CST/CDT:

Nomination Period: January 16th, Sunday to January 30th, 11:59 PM Sunday
Sign Ups: February 6th, Sunday to February 16th, 11:59 PM Wednesday
Assignments out: February 18th, Friday
No-Fault Deadline: April 17th, 11:59 PM Sunday
Deadline: May 8th, 11:59 PM Sunday
Archive Goes Live: May 13th, 4:59 PM Friday
Anon Period Ends: May 20th, 4:59 PM Friday



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email: onceupon@fandom.exchange

We absolutely accept and appreciate links to your chosen canons for the final spreadsheet.

Comments

[reflectedeve]

Hello! I think my nominations are mostly single-source (or at least a very specific iteration of a tale type), apart from the one we discussed previously. However, I’ve collected links, for the convenience of the mods! Thank you for running this exchange. <3)

The Snow Queen
Belle-Belle, or the Fortunate Knight
The Velvet Ribbon (Version 2)
Fitcher’s Bird

[crantz]

Thank you! Letting you know that the first two links are reversed but it's also not a problem because they still lead to the right sources.

Anyway! Thank you again, we always appreciate sources.

[reflectedeve]

Oh dear, how embarrassing. Apologies!

[fhionnuisce]

This year I'm nominating Sheath and Knife because I'm living dangerously.

This is the source page on it:

https://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/ch016.htm

It includes variations. Right now as I write this I'm very tired and have no preference on the specific version used (i.e. 16A or 16B etc.) Basically I just assume this means this is child ballad 16.

I did a bit of an approximation in terms of characters--I looked at the archive and found 2 fics for this, one of which used OMC/OFC format and one listed no characters. Apologies if this leads to any confusion, I just went with brother, sister, father. I am happy to change it. It seems it hasn't been nominated in a previous year.

[crantz]

That source works fine, as does your nomination! Thank you for sourcing it!

[fhionnuisce]

Awesome! Thank you!

[(Anonymous)]

Hi, I'm DaisyNinjaGirl (but on my work computer which doesn't log me in)
Sources for my nominations:
Scarborough Fair: https://genius.com/8728227, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarborough_Fair_(ballad)

The Sparrow Parable (Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica): http://www.oodegr.com/english/istorika/britain/sparrow_in_hall.htm, https://thijsporck.com/2020/07/27/from-bede-731-to-bone-1991-2004-a-sparrows-flight-through-the-ages/

Gold Tree and Silver Tree: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold-Tree_and_Silver-Tree, https://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/cft/cft14.htm

Venus and Adonis (Ovid): https://www.theoi.com/Text/OvidMetamorphoses10.html#7 (sections 298-717)

[crantz]

Thank you so much for the sources! There was some sort of error (I'm not sure if it was mine or ao3's) and the sparrow's parable got a little messed up during approvals but that'll be fixed soon.

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks!

DNJ

[laufire]

I want to nominate a few stories, including The Sealkskin, an Icelandic Folktale that can be found here. It doesn't have official ao3 tags whatsoever (for characters either), so let me know if there are any issues or if I should change something (or if there are similar options with tagsets available).

I've also tried to nominate Madame de Villeneuve's version of Beauty and the Beast, but it gives me an error message (that, weirdly, tells me another user has nominated "BATB (Fairy Tale)" so I should be more specific and say "La Belle et la Bête | Beauty and the Beast (Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve)"... which I'm already doing lol).

[crantz]

How you're picturing with Sealskin works! We've had it before back in 2018 with these tags if you want to use that:

The Sealskin (Fairy Tale)
The Fisherman (The Sealskin (Fairy Tale))
Human Child (The Sealskin (Fairy Tale))
Selkie Child (The Sealskin (Fairy Tale))
Selkie Woman (The Sealskin (Fairy Tale))


As for Beauty and the Beast, specific is king in this exchange due to cultural drift for fairytales. So please nominate the exact version (Villeneuve!) you want.

[laufire]

The thing is that it keeps giving me this error message:



Even when this is what I'm tagging it as:

[crantz]

That is... extremely weird.

But! I see that Villeneuve is NOW in the tagset so I'm going to approve it!

[laufire]

That's good to hear ^^

I have space for another fandom then. Would Euripides' Medea be eligible, for example?

[crantz]

It would be!

[laufire]

Perfect! It's done thene.

[morbane]

That's happening because every nominated tag needs to be unique. So your characters will go through fine if they're nominated as things like

Beauty (Villeneuve)
Beast (Villeneuve)

rather than choosing what comes up in the auto-complete.

[(Anonymous)]

Hi, I'm peristeronic on AO3 and I nominated Matty Groves and Geordie.

Matty Groves: http://www.contemplator.com/child/mattie.html
Geordie: https://genius.com/Anais-mitchell-geordie-child-209-lyrics

Sorry, now that I'm looking back on it, should I have specified that I really want the Anaïs Mitchell version in parentheses, like "Geordie (Mitchell & Jefferson)"? Or is that not how this works?

[crantz]

Hm. Kind of a edge case with it being a modern version of a child ballad, but the source is there clear as day AND it is a child ballad so we'll take it! I'll amend it to say the version you want (EDIT: I see you haven't nominated it yet? If/when you do, please put it in as such with Mitchell and Jefferson)

Thank you for the sources!

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you so much! I thought I did nominate it, and it was approved. I went and added it to my nomination again with the singers' names.

[flo_nelja]

Hello! If I want to nominate a source in French, do I need to translate it, or would a detailed summary be enough?

[crantz]

A detailed summary will be sufficient!

[daisyninjagirl]

Are you guys up to checking the tag set?

Cupid and Psyche (Metamorphoses - Apuleius) - should be (The Golden Ass - Apuleius)
The Dog Bride (Indain Folk Tale) - I think this should be (Indian Folk Tale)

Thank you wonderful mods for all your hard work making this run!

[crantz]

Ah, thank you for the correction about the dog bride! As for Cupid and Psyche, Metamorphoses (By Apuleius) is the same as The Golden Ass but thank you for catching that! I'll put in a correction for the dog bride.

[daisyninjagirl]

My bad :-) I'd assumed it had been mixed with Ovid's Metamorphoses.

[crantz]

I had the same 'wait, what?' myself when it came up.

[flo_nelja]

I translated a source for The Green Mountain.

[flo_nelja]

And for the Encantado / Pink Dolphin, the links from last year still work

https://www.savacations.com/myths-legends-amazons-pink-river-dolphin/
https://www.rainforestcruises.com/jungle-blog/the-legend-of-the-pink-river-dolphin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_dolphin#South_America

[crantz]

Thank you very much! You're a star.

[crantz]

Thank you very much! We'll use this in the source sheet!

Story Nomination

[(Anonymous)]

Hello!
I nominated two characters from Arthurian legend, specifically, Lancelot and Galehaut. Text from which I nominated them-Lancelot-Grail- has two names, that one, which I used, but also is called often Vulgate Cycle. Is it okay to nominate it like that, or should I change it to Vulgate, or maybe La Morte'd Arthur ( as itereation of characters appears there too)?
Thanks a lot!

Re: Story Nomination

[crantz]

There's a slight problem - I think you should absolutely only request the exact ones you want, except I can't seem to find the Lancelot-Grail in english free and online, only the French. If you could create a detailed summary for your writer to work from, that would work great. Otherwise, yes, you should probably change to Morte.

Re: Story Nomination

[(Anonymous)]

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1mxF6FMDNGQYTuuHQKpHOCgQOclIzdUuy

I have scanlated English translation of Vulgate here, but I am absolutely ready to change it to Morte. Would probably be easier on tags too. Will do so now, thanks a lot!

Re: Story Nomination

[crantz]

And accepted!

Re: Story Nomination

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks!

[reflectedeve]

I've only just realized that one of my nominations for "Belle-Belle, ou Le Chevalier Fortuné" is misspelled. "Florida" should be "Floride." I think autocorrect got one past me there; apologies!

[crantz]

Got it! We'll fix it! Thanks for catching it.

[regshoe]

Hello! Here are some source links for my nominations:

Twa Corbies (Traditional Song): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Ravens#The_Twa_Corbies
The Hurlers (English Folklore): https://www.cornwallheritagetrust.org/our_sites/the-hurler-stone-circles/
The Trinity Flower - Juliana Horatia Ewing: http://hermitary.com/literature/ewing.html

[crantz]

Thank you!

[water_bby]

Here are sources for my nominations:

Eliduc: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lays_of_Marie_de_France/The_Lay_of_Eliduc

Lanval: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lays_of_Marie_de_France/The_Lay_of_Sir_Launfal

[crantz]

Thank you very much!

[flo_nelja]

Hello! A conversation on discord made me wonder:
* can minors sign up?
* if they can, if there a policy ensuring they won't write or be offered smut?

[crantz]

Hi! Once Upon is assumed to be a 18 and above only exchange simply because there's no way to moderate for age appropriateness in getting gifts without a whole lot of privacy violation.

[flo_nelja]

Thank you! It was my default assumption, and then I noticed that it was not in the rules ^^