New changes for 2017

[bridgetmkennitt]

2017 Schedule
April 5 to 15 - Nominations
April 15 to 18 - Corrections
April 19 to 30 - Sign ups
May 3 - Assignments go out by the latest
May 5 - Madness collection and prompts open
July 3 - Stories due
July 11 - Main collection goes live
July 12 - Madness collection goes live
July 14 - Author reveals

The new changes are as follows:

1) Announcements will no longer be on LJ, just the DW comm.

2) Nominations will be through platonic or romantic (/ or &) relationships instead of characters. That means matching will be done through OR matching and not AND matching.

3) If you want to nominate a single character, you can do so through nominating 'Character & None' as a tag (ie Derek Hale & None). Three or moresomes will be allowed if they're already AO3 canonical tags.

4) You can request minimum of 1 relationship and a maximum of 8 relationships in each fandom. You can no longer request Any, however you can still offer Any.

5) Requests will be visible midway through signups. The anonymous author period will be shorter as well.

See everyone in a month for nominations!

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I like especially #2.

About Three or moresomes will be allowed if they're already AO3 canonical tags. I'm confused, do you want us to use the canonical tags? No disambiguating fandoms in brackets at the end of the nominations to avoid tag migrations?

[bridgetmkennitt]

Nope, no disambiguating fandoms in brackets. So it'd be

Gotham (TV):
Alfred Pennyworth/Bruce Wayne

and if that tag travels to the Batman vs Superman movie fandom, that's fine.

Except for one year, NPT has been done through canonical tags for characters and now it'll still be canonical as much as possible, just with relationships. I understand some of the duo relationships may not be canonical, so that's fine as long as there's evidence of their existence in said fandom, but only three or moresome tags will be allowed if canonical, period. It's a compromise between when requests could have potentially allow a person to nominate for three or moresomes so I'll give a nod to that and these canonicals are less of a hassle for me during approvals/rejections.

[(Anonymous)]

My confusion is just that to handle all the tag migrations without disambiguation could be an hassle. But it's your decision, hopefully I'm just being too negative.

Another question, will be possible to nominate/request/offer pairings that share the same name across two or more fandoms? If, for instance, I want to request Scott & Jean under X-Men comics and Movieverse, will be still possible for me to do that without a disambiguation tag in place?

[bridgetmkennitt]

It's been less of a hassle for me to let the tags migrate, actually! The only time I've had to disambigulate was when a character was made canon in a fandom when they've never been there by a tag wrangler, like Kid Loki for Thor movies.

If you nominate Scott & Jean under X-men comics and the movieverse fandom already exists in the tag set (or if it doesn't exist yet, once it does), that relationship will migrate over once I approve it, no fuss from either of us for noms.

[(Anonymous)]

I actually meant to ask something else, sorry for my inability to explain.

Being there no disambiguation to make the ship tags unique, I was wondering whether we'll be allowed to nominate, request and offer the same ship tags more than once across the multifandoms. Will you set up the nomination and signup forms to allow us to do that?

[bridgetmkennitt]

When it comes to nomination, just one person has to nominate the relationship and it'll populate throughout whatever fandoms get approved that also has that relationship. So if there are 5 X-Men various fandoms in the tag set and you request Jean Grey & Scott Summers, it'll end up in those 5 fandoms without anyone else needing to nominate it.

Only the fandoms have to be unique for the signups so that shouldn't affect requesting or offering relationships since people in previous rounds were able to request and offer the same character across different fandoms without trouble.

[(Anonymous)]

Okay, thanks. :)

[swan_tower]

I understand some of the duo relationships may not be canonical, so that's fine as long as there's evidence of their existence in said fandom

I am very confused by this. In the past, if I wanted fic about two characters from the fandom teaming up for whatever reason, I could nominate A and B, and that was fine. But now I can only do that if A/B or A&B is a canonical fandom tag? Or I have to nominate A & None and B & None separately? If A/B and A&B are canonical tags, and somebody else nominates those, does that mean the tagset will include all four of A & None, B & None, A/B, and A&B? What do people do if A/B isn't canonical -- is it okay for them to request A & None and B & None, then ask for the ship? And if somebody offers A/B, can they be matched to people who asked for A & None or B & None, or only people who asked for the ship? What about vice versa?

[bridgetmkennitt]

NPT is no longer doing nominations, requests, or offers by characters. It'll only be through relationships (platonic or romantic). The line you quoted is in comparison to relationships that are threesome/moresomes. Those tags can be requested, but only if they're already AO3 canonical because that makes things easier on me. Duo relationships don't have to be already canonical on AO3, just like before when someone nominated a character to a fandom that may have never been written about, thus was never made canonical, which meant I had to go researching to see if said character even existed in said fandom.

NPT is will be matched on OR, not AND, and the matching is done on relationships, not characters. If you request Derek Hale & None as well as Stiles Stilinski & None for Teen Wolf fandom (example using an ineligible fandom), then you'll only be matched to someone who is only going to write you Derek gen or Stiles gen (depending on what they offered), not both character gen or Derek/Stiles ship.

You will only be matched on one relationship in one fandom. 'A & None' is a relationship tag, 'A/B' is a different relationship tag, 'B & None' is a third different relationship tag.

So in ineligible Teen Wolf fandom, the nominated relationship tags may be:
-Derek Hale & None
-Cora Hale/Derek Hale
-Derek Hale/Lydia Martin
-Derek Hale & Stiles Stilinski
-Cora Hale & Derek Hale
-Stiles Stilinski & None
-Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski

In the above, you have gen for one character, gen for two characters, het ship, slash ship, het incest ship. You will be matched to at least one relationship in one fandom and you can't be matched if someone hasn't offered what you requested. Vice versa.

[swan_tower]

I'm not sure there's a way to phrase this that won't come across as a flounce, so all I can do is say that I don't intend it to be a flounce. But it sounds to me like this change means that NPT isn't really the right exchange for me anymore, so I'll probably bow out.

[bridgetmkennitt]

I'm sorry to hear that and don't worry, it doesn't sound like a flounce.

[samuraiter]

Welcome back, and thank you for the changes and clarifications. :-)

[bridgetmkennitt]

Thanks!

[(Anonymous)]

Can we nominate the Crossover Fandom between eligible franchises?

[bridgetmkennitt]

NPT doesn't allow for nominated crossovers in either fandom or relationship.

[maidenjedi]

Yay!!! I was just yesterday wondering about NPT!

[bridgetmkennitt]

Yay! The past few months have been hectic for me, but I'm hoping the new changes will make things easier.

[(Anonymous)]

Why is the anonymous period so short?

[bridgetmkennitt]

The anonymous period has been cut 2 days since previous rounds mostly because people have suggested for a shorter period in previous years. I'm trying it out.

[desireearmfeldt]

Hi! I have participated in past years; I was following the LJ comm, and have now subscribed to this one. Do I also need to join it, or is subscribing sufficient?

[bridgetmkennitt]

Hello! Just subscribing is fine.