Battleship Exchange

Nominate fandoms and ships at our AO3 tagset. Nominations will continue through the sign-up period. After sign-ups and nominations end, if you really need a fandom added so you can create a late prompt, message the mods and we'll add it.

This year's mods have a "tagset anarchy" policy. If you nominate a fandom, we assume you want it to be in the tagset the way you nominated it.

Fandoms

All fandoms may be nominated, including All Media Types, Original Work (including subtypes such as Original F/F as their own fandoms), Creator's Choice of Fandom (which includes original work and any fandom at all, not just nominated fandoms), and Any Fandom I've Requested Before. If a fandom has multiple formats, please make sure you nominate the particular format you want.

Nominate all crossovers under Crossover Fandom. The instructions on the nomination page say to do something different; ignore those instructions.

Ships, characters, groups, and worldbuilding

Use the format A & B to nominate ships that are non-romantic and non-sexual. Use the format A/B for ships that are romantic or sexual. If your ship doesn't fall clearly into either category, use your best judgment or nominate it in both & and / forms. Combined ships such as A/B & C are permitted, but be aware they may be interpreted differently by different people (are both A and B friends with C, or is only B friends with C?). Other ship formats, such as "Werewolf!A/Vampire!B" or "A xcons B", are not permitted.

Please put characters in alphabetical order by family name (like Lan Zhan/Wei Ying) or only name (like Jay-Z & Alicia Keys). You don't need to use the AO3 canonical form of a name or a ship. Feel free to omit piping, special characters, etc. if it makes your ship easier to read.

All solo characters and non-shipped groups may be nominated in the relationship field in the format 1: Character or 1: Group. Groups should be finite and clearly defined. The mods will not arbitrate disputes about who is or isn't in a group.

Significant objects and places can be nominated with the 1: prefix: 1: The Shire (The Hobbit), 1: Daniel da Silva's Nipple Ring (England Series - KJ Charles). This can be useful for art and worldbuilding prompts. 1: Worldbuilding may be nominated in any fandom.

You may nominate OCs, solo and in relationships, with or without specification (Original Character, Original Nonbinary Character, Original Elf Character, etc.); "Any" with or without specification (Any Character, Any Female Character, Any Villain, etc.); and "Reader" with or without specification (Character/Reader, Character/Non-Op Trans Male Reader, etc.).

Disambiguation

Please put the fandom name in parentheses after the ship or character. This is called disambiguating and helps us reassociate ships with their fandoms if they get separated. If the fandom has multiple formats, the disambiguation should reflect the format you want. For example, Dorothy Gale & The Scarecrow (Oz) is not a useful disambiguation because there are multiple Oz works featuring those characters. Dorothy Gale & The Scarecrow (Oz Books - Baum) is clearer and will help us put the ship where it goes.

Limitations

RPF: No non-famous family members of 20th/21st-century famous people. No living people under 18. No 20th/21st-century Nazis, fascists, or white supremacists.

Recursive fanwork: Nominations must have the original creator's approval in writing. Please provide approval evidence to the mods before nominating.