Nominations are closed!

[hauntedshadow]

Nominations are closed!

I will make a final post for any clarifications after I've gone through all the nominations. Hopefully that will be in a few hours.

Some people had issues where AO3 wouldn't let them nominate anymore. I'll be adding your nominations after I've gone through the other nominations. If I forget anything, let me know.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

A few potential duplicates I've noticed:

Kink - kink discovery/exploration
Kink Exploration

Alternate Universe - Bad Guys Win
Alternate Universe - Villain Wins

Canonically Dead Character Survives
Alternate Universe - Canonically dead character lives

Bedside Vigils - Deathbed Vigil with Much Anguish but a Happy Ending
Deathbed Vigil with a Happy Ending

Face-Fucking
FaceFucking

First Time - first time with partner of the same gender
first time with partner of same gender

Grooming - hair brushing
Hair Stuff - Character Brushes Another Character's Long Hair

Hurt/Comfort - Rape Recovery
Noncon - Rape Recovery
Rape Recovery
Hurt/Confort - rape recovery <- typo

Noncon - Villain Forces Pining Couple to Fuck
Mutual Pining - characters forced to have sex for entertainment of third party

Pining - Character thinks they aren't good enough for the object of their pining
Pining - A is convinced they don't deserve B

Pining - Characters develop (mutual) romantic feelings while having a casual sex arrangement
Mutual Pining - characters are having sex but still pining

Hurt/Comfort - Character being protected isn't used to being cared about
Protectiveness - Character being protected isn't used to being cared about

Bondage and Discipline - Rope Bondage
Rope Bondage

Coping with Violent Urges Through Violent Sex
Rough Sex to Stave Off Other Violent Urges

"Oh No They're Hot Now"
Sudden Realization - Oh No They're Hot

Touch-Starved Stoic Character Falling Apart Under Someone's Touch
Touch Starvation - Stoic character breaks down on being touched

Werewolves
Alternate Universe - Werewolf

And typos:

Big Though Man is a Mommy's Boy -> should presumably be "tough" not "though"

Codependecy - A can't handle B being missing/unconscious but their friends take care of them -> should be "codependency"

[hauntedshadow]

Thank you so much!!

Some of these will remain in the tagset. I explained the reasoning in the Clean Up post:
https://idproquo.dreamwidth.org/2756.html

[(Anonymous)]

Just to make sure, as the nominator for some of those (and who'd like the tags to stay if at all possible), which ones -- if any -- will you be changing/merging? Thanks!

[hauntedshadow]

I'm currently debating these!

Alternate Universe - Bad Guys Win
Alternate Universe - Villain Wins

Canonically Dead Character Survives
Alternate Universe - Canonically dead character lives

"Oh No They're Hot Now"
Sudden Realization - Oh No They're Hot

Touch-Starved Stoic Character Falling Apart Under Someone's Touch
Touch Starvation - Stoic character breaks down on being touched

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Great, none of those were mine or ones I was worried about. Thank you for answering!

[aurilly]

I nominated the sex for entertainment of third party one, and I’m fine deleting it! The other version suits my needs just the same. https://archiveofourown.org/tag_sets/3515/nominations/139036

There's also a third version of a very similar concept (the only difference might be if the requester actively didn't want the victims to be into each other, in which case should we have 2 final versions, one where they're pining and one where they're not? IDK):
Noncon - Forced to have sex for entertainment of third party

[hauntedshadow]

Ohh! I was thinking on keeping your tag since, at least from my understanding, it could be seen from uniques angles. But if you want to remove it, I can.

[aurilly]

I’d like to keep it, too! I was just offering in case you were set on deleting something, and I wanted to try to help. But if it’s okay to have all, that’s great! Thank you!

[(Anonymous)]

Can I ask why there's a maximum of 6 requests/offers per sign-up (as opposed to 10)? It's your decision, obviously, and I understand if there's a reason for limiting them that I'm not thinking of, but it seems like it would make signing up & matching easier if people could request/offer more things - especially in a freeform exchange where people are likely to want to make multiple requests per fandom since the tropes they find iddy for A&B and for C/D in the same fandom could be very different.

[(Anonymous)]

Strongly seconding this suggestion! I can't think of any benefits to limiting requests and offers, but I can think of several benefits to increasing the number to 8 or 10. That said, I am also open to keeping it at 6 if it's easier/necessary for the mod! But my preference would definitely be at least 8, if possible.

[hauntedshadow]

I'm open to increasing it for future rounds, but for 2020, it will remain at 6 fandoms. At this moment in time, I am only comfortable moderating for 6 fandoms.

Participants are allowed to repeat fandoms after they've requested/offered 3 initial, unique fandoms. If they wanted A/B and C&D with different tropes, that is possible.

[(Anonymous)]

(One of the AYRT, I think?)

That's totally fine! I've appreciated the great modding so far, so I understand wanting to keep the rules as-is. I feel like I'm still missing how it makes things easier, though? I have modded a few exchanges, and we allowed 10 fandoms for offers and requests to make our lives easier, not harder. Letting people go wild with fandom offers and requests should theoretically result in fewer PHs and unmatchable participants. Does it make life difficult in some other way I haven't considered? Just curious if I have accidentally been making my life harder!

Also, just to clarify, we will have 6 fandom slots total and a minimum of 3 unique fandoms, correct? Not 10 fandom slots with a minimum of 3 unique fandoms and a maximum of 6 unique fandoms? I'm assuming the former, but I've assumed wrong before.

Thanks again for modding this! I'm really excited about it and have had a lovely experience so far.

[hauntedshadow]

That sounds reasonable. Right now I'm comfortable with 6 fandoms, but I might feel differently by the end of the exchange. Maybe I'll be converted to wanting 10 fandoms. haha :D

Participants will have 6 fandoms slots total with a minimum of 3 unique fandoms.

eta: ksahflk Idk on second thought, I'll contemplate maybe adding it to 10.

[(Anonymous)]

I would love more slots, but whatever you're comfortable with is okay! Like I said, all the veteran exchange mods I've asked have advised me that more fandom slots = easier modding. But I'm a fairly new exchange mod, so I definitely don't fully understand how AO3 works yet.

Either way, as a participant, I also love extra slots for freeform exchanges. Even if I only request three fandoms, my ships are usually so different I have to split them into at least two or three groups. The iddier and broader the exchange, the more slots I need—and this is a fantastically iddy and broad exchange! Six slots definitely feels tight for this exchange IMO. Like I said, I'm excited for the exchange and will make it work regardless, but more fandom slots would definitely let our ids run wilder. :D

[hauntedshadow]

Ha! You persuaded me. I feel bad for limiting people's ids like that. I raised it to 10. xD

[(Anonymous)]

Different anon

Yay, this is amazing. I was really struggling with narrowing my requests down to six :D

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks, mod! That's awesome news.

As a fairly frequent exchange mod, I've always found it easier if people can request and offer the max, so you're probably doing yourself a favour here as well as everyone else. ;)

[(Anonymous)]

Subthread OP:

Thank you so much! That's great to hear! :D

[soulstoned]

This is completely my own fault for not double checking my own nominations to make sure I didn't forget anything, but is there any way you would be willing to add Otabek Altin/Yuri Plisetsky (Yuri!!! on Ice)

[hauntedshadow]

Can you link to your nominations?

[soulstoned]

https://archiveofourown.org/tag_sets/3515/nominations/138949

[hauntedshadow]

Thank you! I've added it.

[soulstoned]

Thanks!