NOMINATIONS: OPEN

[crantz]

Nominations are OPEN! Tagset here!

They will close: Wednesday 01 Feb - 11:59 PM CST

(What time is it right now in CST/CDT?)


I can't wait to see what you guys nominate!

Gudelines!

UPDATE: When doing group nominations, please put the characters in alphabetical order via surname.

From the rules:

Nominating:

You will be allowed to nominate 1-4 fandoms, and 1-5 single characters/groups per fandom.

Both single character and group nominations are permitted. We will be using the relationship field, so the nomination format is such:

Fandom: Fandom Name
Solo: Character Name (Fandom)
Character 1/Character 2 (Fandom) - You may nominate up to 4 people in a group nomination (single characters only, for example no Rita Repulsa/Power Rangers). Use / for romantic/sexual relationships and & for gen or platonic relationships. If a group has named canonical characters you must use those existing named canonical characters and not offer or nominate oc versions. (Rupert Giles instead of 'Original Watcher or The Watchers' in Buffy)

Crossovers of eligible fandoms should be nominated under the fandom label Crossover Fandom and should be formatted as:

Fandom: Crossover Fandom
Character 1 (Fandom)/Character 2 (Fandom)

Eligible Fandoms for Crossovers: Each fandom you nominate as part of a crossover must be an eligible 90s television show. However, those characters or that show does not need to be nominated individually in the rest of the tagset. It may be nominated only in your crossover tag.

You are allowed to nominate groups including those without named individual members in this category as well as individual characters. So instead of Giles (Buffy)/Joe Dawson (Highlander) you may instead choose Watchers (Buffy) & Watchers (Highlander). You may not nominate more than 4 characters or groups in a single relationship tag.

Original characters and worldbuilding:

Original characters are not to be nominated but you are allowed to suggest them in your signup or letter.

Worldbuilding is allowed as a character tag nomination. It should be formatted as Solo: Worldbuilding (Fandom) - it is not allowed under Crossover Fandom. This is permissible for all fandoms and I will leave it up to the discretion of the nominators. You may find it best to apply this tag where there's more fantastical elements at play.

Anthology Shows: Shows such as Outer Limits and Tales from the Crypt featured self-contained stories in their episodes. Please nominate anthology shows as individual fandoms by episode using the format, Show: Episode Name. Example: Are You Afraid of the Dark?: The Tale of the Phantom Cab


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Comments

[meinterrupted]

A question on a potential edge case: is Classic Doctor Who eligible? Technically part of it aired in the 90s, BUT that part was a TV movie, not a season or an episode.

[crantz]

Unfortunately not eligible BUT there's going to be a 90s movie exchange soon (in the plans anyway) so you could write the movie there! If you just wanted Classic Who, I'm afraid that the answer is no.

[meinterrupted]

Another (very, very) edge case: Miami Vice, eligible or not? This one's even weirder than Who, in that the series finale aired in 1989, but a "lost" episode that NBC refused to air was first broadcast only after the show went into syndication on cable. It premiered on January 25, 1990 on USA Network.

https://miamivice.fandom.com/wiki/Too_Much,_Too_Late

I swear I'm not trying to be annoying or go against the spirit of the exchange here! I have a personal database of media that includes original airdates, and one of the collections I have is "any show that had any episode that aired in X decade." I was surprised to see Miami Vice in the 90s collection, since it seems so quintessentially 80s, thus my question.

[crantz]

The answer is: Yes! It absolutely qualifies as it was a tv episode aired in the 90s, even if it was disjointed from the others.

[lomelinde_laurea]

That’s excellent news!

[klutzygirl]

There's a duplicate in Stargate SG1

Sam Carter/Jack O'Neill (SG1)
Samantha "Sam" Carter/Jack O'Neill (SG1)


And misspelled nominations in That '70s Show

Jackie Burkhardt/Michael Kelso (That '70s Show) should be Jackie Burkhart/Michael Kelso (That '70s Show)

Solo: Jackie Burkhardt (That '70s Show) should be Solo: Jackie Burkhart (That '70s Show)

[thedevilchicken]

The Samantha version has been removed, and the That '70s Show misspellings are fixed now. Thanks!

Promo this fest on the Fandomcalendar and/or Fandom-on-dw communities?

[brightknightie]

Hi! I may have just missed it, but it looks to me right now that this fest has not yet been posted in either fandomcalendar or fandom_on_dw. Might you be interested in promoting it in those places?

I believe they're the main DW fanwork-event-promo communities, with very wide visibility for DW users. Both have suggested (not required!) promo templates on their profiles for folks who like templates.

(I mention it because I found out about this fest only last night, and I see that you've been here all month!)

Good luck!

Re: Promo this fest on the Fandomcalendar and/or Fandom-on-dw communities?

[crantz]

Oh yes! I will be doing that - I just needed to work out some bugs with the launch first.

[ultra_fic]

Where do you stand on TV mini-series? I ask because one of my all-time favourite pieces of 90s television is the 1995 BBC mini-series version of Pride & Prejudice and I'm just wondering, does that counts as eligible for this exchange? :)

[crantz]

Miniseries are okay! Go for it.

[ultra_fic]

Excellent! Thank you :)

[meinterrupted]

Question re: The Pretender nominations. I nommed Solo: Caroline Parker, and it has not been approved. Just to confirm, Caroline Parker and Miss Parker (also nominated) are two separate characters, though they are played by the same actress. Caroline is Miss Parker's deceased mother, and we never actually learn Miss Parker's given name, so she is always referred to as "Miss Parker" or "Parker."

[thedevilchicken]

Thanks! I'd been leaving that one because Google was no help and the mod needed to make either a) a decision, or b) a query post. But you've saved them a job; I'll approve that now!

[(Anonymous)]

Hi there, I was wondering why one of my nominations was rejected? Here's my nomination page: https://archiveofourown.org/tag_sets/13638/nominations/272377

Fandom: Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? (TV 1991)
Relationship: The Chief/Greg Lee (WITWICS?)

Other relationships in the fandom were accepted so I was just wondering if the issue is that Greg Lee is the game show's IRL host? It's an unusual case because the actor's real name is also the name of his character inside the world of the show, in which he's introduced at the beginning of each episode as the "Special Agent in charge of training new recruits", working for the Chief of ACME to help the 'detectives' (the kid contestants) catch Carmen Sandiego. He interacts with the Chief both on video during the trivia rounds and by going into her office to banter and discuss the episode's case, and she calls him Greg or sometimes Gregory.

[crantz]

Ah, yes. I thought it was that he didn't have an 'ic' persona for the show. We will return him to the tagset. Thank you for commenting and elaborating!