Fandom Growth Exchange is Happening!

[scribblemyname]

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The Fandom Growth Exchange is a multi-fandom rare relationships exchange for relationships which have fewer than ten complete fics (or fewer than five contributing authors) on AO3. Check out our tagset!

Nominations close: August 7th at 11:55 PM UTC
Sign-ups open: August 10th at 11:55 PM UTC
Sign-ups close: August 23rd at 11:55 PM UTC
Assignments sent: August 29th at 11:55 PM UTC
Assignments due: October 31st at 11:55 PM UTC
Works revealed: November 6th at [TO BE DECIDED]
Authors revealed: November 11th at 11:55 PM UTC


ETA: And geckoholic, we've got Hawkeye. :grins:

Comments

[vikingprincess]

I went and looked at the tags because curiosity, and WOW, but you guys have done a ton of work! I'm not going to try to claim anything, because I already have too many partially completed things to count with ease, but that list is IMPRESSIVE!

[scribblemyname]

Thanks! :warm fuzzies:

This is the pinch modding gig that has eaten my nonwork life. No seriously. Free time went poof! Same with most of my free brainspace. But it's a great experience and I think it'll be a great exchange.

[clarahow.livejournal.com]

I AM VERY EXCITED ABOUT THIS OMG

[vikingprincess]

I can totally see how it would have eaten every spare minute!

[scribblemyname]

:squees with you:

I have no idea how I'm going to request only 10 things. Bucket offer will be a savior.

[clarahow.livejournal.com]

(http://imgur.com/0hgrrT7)

OKAY IT LITERALLY TOOK ME OVER AN HOUR TO NARROW THAT SHIT DOWN THIS IS RIDICULOUS

[geckoholic]

YES GOOD, I've been waiting for this to go up. :D

[scribblemyname]

:D back

[scribblemyname]

:D I think I've figured out the 10 fics I probably couldn't get anywhere else. It leaves off three fandoms I desperately want.

[hiddencait.livejournal.com]

Ugh I heart exchanges, but I really don't think I can afford to put anything else on my plate. Le sigh!

[clarahow.livejournal.com]

hahahah yeah. yeah, there are a lot of things to want.

side note: I'm always willing to field potential requests. Idk what fandoms those are but if you wanted to run any of them by me I could see about it.

[scribblemyname]

That is sweet of you! I'll get back to you once I've finished hammering out. I just went methodically through the tagset and wept over all I want to read and write (more than 20 fandoms of each!).

[clarahow.livejournal.com]

I love filling prompts and requests! Especially for friends! (Interwebs ones included)

That's how I went through it too. There were so many fandoms that's really the only way it made sense! There were a bunch, too, that I might have requested but the pairings I would have suggested didn't come up. (And for a couple of them, it is because there are literally no works on ao3. One pairing, there is one work. 250w. T. AND IT'S MINE so I'm just putting that in my Dear Creator letter so that if the person who gets my request wants to include that they can, welp.)

[scribblemyname]

Well, turns out I get one more request and these gorgeous fandoms to choose from (of most wanted):

The Unusuals
Nashville (TV)
Marvel Cinematic Universe
Awake (TV)
Anne of Green Gables (1985)
Andromeda (TV)
Unusual Dragon Hoards - iguanamouth
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011)
Hawkeye (Comics)
Luann (Comics)
Anne of Green Gables - L. M. Montgomery
Abrahamic Religions
Divergent Series - Veronica Roth
Starwalker - Melanie Edmonds
The Secrets of Jin-Shei - Alma Alexander


It's horrible how badly I want some of these. I wanted science bros + Jane in MCU. I want fic to exist for Jin-Shei (chosen sisters!). I want Starwalker fic soooo badly. I want Jonas Blake/Philippa Gordon fic to exist. And everything else I have in mind for the various fandoms, I want a lot, so I guess that means MCU, Jin-Shei, Starwalker, and Anne are topping my last request candidate list. But which one, which one...?

[scribblemyname]

I should probably go with the one I could NEVER write, but that still only narrows it down to two: MCU or Anne of Green Gables.

[clarahow.livejournal.com]

I could totally write some science sibs for you ;)

(side note, because I don't know how else to inform you guys) - one of the pairings that's been nominated, you know how some of them have the fandom in the relationship, like in parentheses after the ship? well, one of the ones I chose the fandom listed is supposed to be ASOIAF but the nominator put ASOIF. Is there a way to change that? It irks me.

[scribblemyname]

You are sweet and wonderful and I may throw prompts your way.

As for ASOIAF, as the parenthetical is pretty much only used in exchanges, I went with the disambiguation acronym as best I could remember and in traditional grammar rules, the prepositions don't get capitals, so I missed that. Nevertheless, we are out of the nominations phase and into sign-ups and I would have to literally redo the entire fandom's relationships, reassociate them, and hope I didn't break any sign-ups that already have it. Therefore, I'm not willing to risk making a mess by fixing them. Sorry.

[clarahow.livejournal.com]

...no lies. I am indeed.

Well, that makes sense. I've never seen it differently than ASOIAF, though, but I get why it would have been that way. I'll survive, though. If it irks me too much before sign-ups are over I'll just take it off or trade it for something.

[scribblemyname]

Yeah, my mistake. Not my fandom, and an imperfect memory.

[scribblemyname]

I UNDERSTAND.

Don't feel pressured. And I'm saying this entirely unironically, don't look at the tagset. It's a horrible temptress that has me tied up in knots.

[clarahow.livejournal.com]

It's fine, really. :)

[hiddencait.livejournal.com]

LOL yeah I almost did that and then was like "Abort abort abort" LOL

[scribblemyname]

Wise person, you. :D