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If your recipient included a link to a letter but that letter is unfinished, please give it a couple of days before asking me to contact them--I was able to get assignments out early this year, and your recipient may have expected to have a little more time.

I'll be posting pinch hits soon! As last year, I will offer the option for you to request a swap from your current assignment to any open pinch hit.

Just over 24 hours until signups close! Here is a countdown.

If you'd like to see our current list of signups, check these links:

Signups are open here! Go forth and request fanworks! They will close on 11 May.

As you do, please take a moment to familiarize yourself with the rules and the FAQ. Please let us know if they need any clarification. You can comment here or shoot us an email if you have any questions.

In the meantime, there's still some tagset cleanup in progress--please double-check all your tags, and see if I have questions about your nominations here.

I have cleared all existing nominations and reopened the tagset. You may nominate an additional 3 fandoms with 4 relationships for each fandom, but I'd ask that you please only do so for tags that you are planning to offer or request.

Please note that this year I am allowing you to repeat fandoms in multiple requests and offers, but you must still have at least 3 unique fandoms in your requests and 4 unique offers. AO3 doesn't support those exact requirements, so it's up to you to make sure you have enough unique fandoms. I'll be checking regularly and getting in touch with anyone who needs to add fandoms, but at the point that signups close, you'll have a limited time to fix the problem, so please make sure you only submit your signup once it meets the minimum!

There are more details at the FAQ, but here are the basics:

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Here is the list of Additional Tags available for genres.

Here is the full tag set. You can also view tags and signup information on the app.

Nominations closing in about an hour! I'll reopen the tagset when signups start. That will happen 3 May at the latest.

Please leave a comment if you see any errors, duplicates, misspellings, etc. in the tagset. If you're commenting about your own nominations, please include a link to your nominations page.

Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon | Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon:

• We already have Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon | Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon (Anime & Manga) in the tagset. Is it okay to combine your nomination into the Anime & Manga version? If not, what version are you looking for?

House of the Dragon (TV):

• For Aegon Targaryen/Aemond "One-Eye" Targaryen (HotD) and Aegon Targaryen/Aemond "One-Eye" Targaryen/Helaena Targaryen (HotD), is this specifically Aegon II Targaryen and not Aegon III?
• Character: Cannibal the Wild Dragon (HotD): Can someone confirm that Cannibal has appeared in the show?

Hunger Games Series - All Media Types:

• We already have nominations for the book trilogy and for Sunrise on the Reaping as their own fandoms. Can you please specify whether you're looking for the books or the films?

Marvel Cinematic Universe, WandaVision, Agatha All Along:

• We have nominations for Wanda/Vision under both MCU and WandaVision. Can both nominators comment on whether they're hoping to draw on both the films and the TV show?
• We have a nomination for Agatha Harkness & Wanda Maximoff under MCU, as well as separate nominations for the fandoms WandaVision and Agatha All Along. My understanding is that Agatha doesn't appear in the films. Can the nominators comment on what they're hoping for?

Original Work:

• Character named Jake/Character named Bradley - I try not to be too prescriptive about OW nominations, but I don't think character names without any descriptions are enough for this fandom! Can you explain what you're going for here?
• Exasperated Male Vampire & Reckless Male Firefighter (OW) and Exasperated Vampire & Reckless Firefighter (OW) - are these the same nominator? Does the nominator of the second tag have a gender preference?

Star Trek: Discovery

• We have nominations for Original Universe Gabriel Lorca and also for Gabriel Lorca | Mirror Gabriel Lorca. These are the canonical tags. I don't know the fandom--does Gabriel Lorca refer only to the mirror version, or would it be clearer to have the second set of tags just say Mirror Gabriel Lorca?

The Transformers (IDW Generation One)

• We already have Transformers Generation One in the tagset. Are these separate fandoms?

Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types:

• Due to the differences between the different media types, please specify whether you're looking for the books, the games, or the TV show.

Welcome to Fandom 5K nominations, 2025 edition!

Nominations are open over here. They will close on May 1st for cleanup, but this year I am planning to re-open the tagset for nominations during signups as well.

There are no restrictions on what can be nominated in terms of fandom size, type, and so forth, and we also allow crossovers and original fandoms to be nominated. Please nominate crossover relationships into the Crossover Fandom tag, and original characters and relationships into the Original Work tag.

In terms of how to nominate characters versus relationships, please follow the format below:

• "Character: Character A (fandom)" - this means that you are nominating Character A on their own. AO3 may suggest a tag to you - please do not use it for nominations and instead nominate as above. 
• "Character A/Character B" - this means that you are nominating Character A/Character B in a ship, inside their own fandom.
• "Character A & Character B" - this means that you are nominating Character A and Character B in a gen configuration, inside their own fandom.
• "Character A (Fandom)/Character B (Fandom)" - this means that you are nominating Character A/Character B shipfic, and that it is a crossover. Please be specific about fandoms, especially if there are a lot of adaptations featuring Character A and/or Character B.
• "Character A (Fandom) & Character B (Fandom)" this means you are nominating Character A and Character B in a gen configuration, and that it is a crossover. Please be specific about fandoms, especially if there are a lot of adaptations featuring Character A and/or Character B.

For complicated franchises, please nominate according to the following guidelines. If you have concerns about any of these guidelines, or questions about other franchises, please comment:

• Dragon Age - nominate as "Dragon Age (Video Games)" or "Dragon Age: Absolution".
• Marvel Cinematic Universe - please only nominate characters who have appeared in the movies into this fandom. Relationships between movie-only and TV-only characters should be nominated as crossovers.
• Marvel Netflix series - these should all be nominated as "Defenders (TV)"
• Star Wars - please nominate in terms of "Star Wars Prequel Trilogy", "Star Wars Original Trilogy", "Star Wars Sequel Trilogy" etc.
• X-Men films - as "X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies)" and "X-Men (Original Timeline Movies)"
• Arrowverse - use "DC's Arrowverse" for Arrow, Flash, Supergirl, Batwoman, Black Lightning, Legends of Tomorrow and Superman & Lois
• Marvel and DC Comics - as "Marvel (Comics)" and "DC Comics"

I am not familiar with every fandom or up-to-date on the needs of every franchise, so I will be taking guidance from you as to how your fandoms work in terms of fandom tags, etc. Please watch this space for queries!

Authors are revealed, but the collection is still open for late treats, of which we've had several already! And, of course, you can continue to read and comment to your heart's content.

Find more to read here!

Thank you to everyone who participated this year, and especially to O. for helping with story checking. And, as always, thanks go out to everyone who wrote pinch hits and got us across the finish line.

I'd like to open this post up for any feedback you have about the exchange, and especially about a couple of new rules under consideration for next year. These are just ideas, and they may not be implemented regardless of responses, but it would be helpful to know if there's interest one way or another.

Ideas under early consideration:

• Implementing a commenting rule along the lines of FFFX, where recipients must comment on their gift, refuse it, or contact the mod before signing up for the following year
• Allowing participants to offer and request comics at least 5 panels in length, also along the lines of FFFX's comparable requirements. Would you be interested in offering or requesting comics?