once_upon_fic | NOMINATIONS: OPEN

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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.

Nominations guidelines can be found here in the FAQ, resources (such as links to the text of various stories) 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 29th) to see if we have questions for you! And then, Feb 5th, SIGN-UPS!

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From:

lady_ragnell

Source links for my nominations!

Diamonds and Toads | Les Fées : https://fairytalez.com/fairies-diamonds-and-toads/ (Note: in this translation the elder daughter is called "Fanny," but I defaulted to the original Perrault/AO3 tag name of Fanchon.)

The False Prince and the True: https://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/lfb/li/lifb04.htm (I don't believe anyone has written for this fairy tale on the AO3 before, so I went with my best judgment on character tags.)

The Goose-Girl: https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm089.html

Prince Lindworm: https://www.worldoftales.com/European_folktales/Norwegian_folktale_3.html#gsc.tab=0 (Note: I am doing my best to nominate this version, what this post refers to as the Folio Version, but I don't know much about Danish or Norwegian as languages so couldn't do better with tags than the AO3 already had, feel free to disambiguate as liberally as necessary.)

From:

crantz

Thank you! Really appreciated!

From:

daisyninjagirl

I nominated Reynardine.
There's a Wikipedia page here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynardine
but I was also thinking of the Fairport Convention cover: https://genius.com/Fairport-convention-reynardine-lyrics and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3RMut_8IxQ

My other two were also nominated last year, so I figure you'll reuse the sources. ;-)

Thank you lovely mods!

From:

crantz

Thanks! Those two versions are very different. We're okay with using the 1814 version at the Wikipedia link since it's a text in the public domain, but that would mean the narrator and Reynardine are not separate characters. You're welcome to either find another version that's out of copyright that has lyrics closer to the Fairport Convention one, in which case we will re-add the Narrator to the tagset, or if we go with the 1814 version, you're welcome to link your recipient to the Fairport Convention one as well as a further inspiration.

From:

daisyninjagirl

Thanks! Here's a webpage with some more variants, although the one that's closest to Fairport Convention has a book publication date of 1974.
http://www.bluegrassmessengers.com/reynardine-a-broadside-ballad-of-seduction.aspx

I might go the route of talking about the later version in my letter. (It's a really spooky song!)

Take care

From:

crantz

We'll go with this one. I'll re-introduce the narrator to the tagset!

From:

morbane

Hello, really sorry about the confusion here! I suspect some of Reynardine's tricksiness is bleeding through. 1974 is not old enough to count as public domain purposes for taking the "narrator is separate to Reynardine" versions as a source text so back out they go again. We really hope that having the maiden and Reynardine still allows sufficient flexibility.

From:

i_wouldnt_be_one_of_them

The Griffin and the Minor Canon, which no one on ao3 has written about, can be read here: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/12067/pg12067-images.html#chapter2 (and fwiw the whole collection is quite enjoyable!) Note that my submission appears to have done something weird with one of the characters, trying to automatically link it to a canonical tag when there aren't any - he's just the Griffin, there's no connection to Tortall.

I’m not picky about translations for the Odyssey – I see you’ve previously linked to this version http://classics.mit.edu/Homer/odyssey.html and that’s fine, but if you’d like a secondary source, here’s an older version in verse https://www.gutenberg.org/files/48895/48895-h/48895-h.htm (I’m also partial to both Emily Wilson and Richmond Lattimore, but as far as I’m aware those aren’t available online.)

I was trying to nominate Cupid/Psyche and wasn’t really sure about the right “fandom” tag to use, so hopefully what I landed on makes sense. And the sources you’ve used in past years for that work!

From:

crantz

Emily Wilson's is lovely but unfortunately not available!

Thank you very much for the sources!

From:

venndaai

Sources for my nominations:

The Story of Conn-Eda: https://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/yeats/fip/fip78.htm From Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry.

Kate Crackernuts: there's two versions, I nominated this Joseph Jacobs one.

Tam Lin: there were already canonical tags for this, so I just used them, but now that I'm thinking about it I'd like to specify Child Ballad 39I, if that's possible. https://tam-lin.org/versions/39I.html Edit: I see that past years' tagsets have just used 39A, which I would be totally fine with!

Edited Date: 2023-01-22 03:57 am (UTC)

From:

crantz

Thank you! I'll edit that in for you!

From:

daisyninjagirl

Dear Mods,

I have just nominated "The Banks of Sweet Primroses" because it always makes me happy.
A public domain source from the 19th C is here: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Banks_of_Sweet_Primroses_(Such)

I hope tag wrangling is going well!

Daisy