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



Important Links
Challenge and FAQ | Tagset | Schedule | Betas | Resources/Sources

email: onceupon@fandom.exchange

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

Comments

[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.