Nominations Queries Post Time!
Oct. 1st, 2022 10:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
violsvaIt is October, which means it is my favourite time of year: Nominations Queries Post time!
For those of you who don't pay much attention to fanworks exchanges, a nominations queries post is a post made during the tagset approvals portion of an AO3 exchange, where the mod(s) of the exchange ask the nominators exactly who they meant by "Vampire Chick (Twilight)" and whether there's a better fandom name than "Two Books From This Series But Not the Third One Which I Hate - Author Name".
Usually it starts a bit earlier, but neither Trick or Treat Ex nor FemslashEx (signups still open!) had much in the way of noms queries this year. Which is good for the mods, of course, but means I had to wait until Yuletide noms closed to get my fix. Reading nominations guidelines and the evidence post work too, although not quite as well.
I'm not sure why I love these posts so much. It has very little to do with whether I've heard of the fandom or not. There's the putting-things-into-little-boxes impulse, and the watching-people-being-really-interested-in-really-specific-things enjoyment. And also there's sentences like
I have had a good time reading the evidence post and having strong irrelevant opinions over whether [fandom X] should qualify for Yuletide, and I expect to have another good week enjoying the results of modly tag approvals.
For those of you who don't pay much attention to fanworks exchanges, a nominations queries post is a post made during the tagset approvals portion of an AO3 exchange, where the mod(s) of the exchange ask the nominators exactly who they meant by "Vampire Chick (Twilight)" and whether there's a better fandom name than "Two Books From This Series But Not the Third One Which I Hate - Author Name".
Usually it starts a bit earlier, but neither Trick or Treat Ex nor FemslashEx (signups still open!) had much in the way of noms queries this year. Which is good for the mods, of course, but means I had to wait until Yuletide noms closed to get my fix. Reading nominations guidelines and the evidence post work too, although not quite as well.
I'm not sure why I love these posts so much. It has very little to do with whether I've heard of the fandom or not. There's the putting-things-into-little-boxes impulse, and the watching-people-being-really-interested-in-really-specific-things enjoyment. And also there's sentences like
Nominator of Elder Gods, we don’t accept group nominations if the group contains distinct characters. Could you pick an Elder God, please?and
Nominator, for 'The Snake', which snake did you want? The snake who enters the crypt first, or the second snake, who brings the first snake back to life?which really remind me exactly what I love about fandom in specific and human creativity in general. It's like getting a peek into dozens of different tiny little worlds.
I have had a good time reading the evidence post and having strong irrelevant opinions over whether [fandom X] should qualify for Yuletide, and I expect to have another good week enjoying the results of modly tag approvals.