nominate on the AO3

[brightknightie]

I submitted my nominations for the everywoman exchange last night. (D&DC, FK, HL, YB, BSG78, and Pokemon GO.)

I've never nominated on the AO3 before, and I ran into what seemed to me a conflict between the letter of the instructions on the community and what I could do on the AO3. The instructions say to put all noms in the form "Name (Fandom)," so I did. But for many -- including Tessa, Janette, and Natalie -- the AO3-canonical form of the character tag doesn't include the fandom on the end. This morning, I posted a question to the mod, in case she'd prefer the canonical tag form, no matter what.

Separately, I decided to not also nominate in the "Rarest of Rare" event on rarepairficexchange, even though nearly all my own favorite pairs qualify. If I'm going to try to make a treat for fandom5k and also participate in everywoman, that's really a lot for me.

Are any of you planning to play in any of these events?

Comments

[skieswideopen]

If you write the fic that you want to read, I promise to read it very eagerly!

That's an exceedingly generous offer for fandoms you may not know! Thank you.

That's the biggest looming peril of exchanges: no one offering what you want to read, no one requesting what you want to write. Yuletide is so very big that this is less a danger, but all the middling and small exchanges put it out there every time.

That is exactly the problem. At least with the exchanges I mentioned, requests are visible all the way through, so I can tailor my offers to things I think I can write. But they aren't necessarily the things I want to write right now.

I would enjoy Yuletide so much more if I could reliably finish my story well in advance of the deadline, rather than spending Christmas Eve editing. I've managed it once or twice--I even managed a treat a year or two--but there are so many years when I don't. Maybe if I set up a schedule...

The spam issue might also be because I was using a Yahoo! email address. I do have Gmail, but I had Yahoo! first for fandom, and I'm too lazy to change it everywhere. But like you, I rarely check my spam. It was pure chance that I happened to check it today--I don't even remember why now.

I hope you have excellent luck with everywoman, with a request you delight in writing, and people offering exactly what you want to read.