2016 Information & Nominations

[pumpkinkingmod]

General Exchange Faq by bridgetmkennitt

Every Woman is a fanfic and fanart exchange for works involving women. We take a rather broad approach on women. This exchange allows:
-Cis women
-Trans women
-Canon female versions of canonical male characters
-Characters from video games where you choose the gender
-Characters that exist but canon doesn’t reveal their gender
-2nd person works where it is not clearly stated what gender the character is
-RPF of people who identify as female
-Characters that aren’t necessarily women in canon but that a person could make a case for where a reasonable person would understand why they could be interpreted as female.

For modern RPF there are four guidelines:
-Must be over 18
-They can be removed at the request of the individual
-Must not be in horrendously bad taste. I am the sole arbitrator of horrendously bad taste
-Non-famous family and friends are not eligible

Each participant must make either a fanfic of at least 500 words or a fanart at a minimum of nice sketch stage. Lined paper killed my father. I hate it. So fanart should not be on lined paper.

Allowance into this exchange is not meant as a final definitive statement that a character absolutely, 100% female. However, all characters that are nominated should be treated as women in fanworks produced for this exchange.

Schedule
May 1 - May 8 Nominations
May 9 - 11 Clean up
May 12 - May 19 Sign-up
June 23 Assignments due
June 27 Pinch hits due
June 30 Stories revealed
July 7 Authors revealed

Everything ends at 23:59 Zulu time on the date.

Nominations
-4 fandoms and 4 “characters” each
-You may nominate a clearly defined group of up to 4 women in a character slot. These should be in the format of “Group: Emily & Victoria”. The ampersand does not state what type of relationship there is between the characters. It doesn’t matter if you want friendship, romance, hate, etc. use an ampersand. You should only nominate characters in a group if all of them would fall under that fandom if separated out. Otherwise it must go to Crossover Groups.
-You may nominate crossovers under the fandom Crossover Groups
-You may nominate original characters under Original Works
-I will not be accepting umbrella fandoms for Lord of the Rings – All Media Types, The Hobbit – All Media Types, Tolkein – Works, etc. If nominating something that falls under one of these then be specific about which version.
-If you are nominating a character that is not a clear cut case of being female then post and explain it
Nominations are open now.

Extensions
Yes, you can have an extension if you ask me before gifts are due. There is a catch. If you ask for an extension you must complete a penalty gift for any request in this year of the exchange, except yourself, before May 1, 2017 or else you will not be allowed to participate for one round.

Contact
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Comments

[saturnofthemoon]

Your new icon is awesome!

[pumpkinkingmod]

Thank you! I couldn't find one of Sally or Emily that I liked so I had to make it myself

[snickfic]

I nominated the Downton Abbey tag "group: Mary Crawley & Levinia Swire," but I made a spelling error - it should be "Lavinia" with an A, not an E.

/o\

[(Anonymous)]

Are Original (Female) X Characters in specific fandoms acceptable? e.g., I have some fandoms that are primarily about the worldbuilding and where OCs are frequent, and I'd like to nominate Original [Alien Species] Character.

[pumpkinkingmod]

That is fine but use the ampersand instead of the X.

[pumpkinkingmod]

Sorry, I misinterpreted your question as asking for a group with an OC and a canon. Yeah, you can nominate stuff like Original Vulcan Character or Original SHIELD Agent.

[raininshadows]

Two questions.
1) Can series from the Transformers franchise be nominated as separate series like in Trick or Treat?
2) What do I need to do to prove that nominated Transformers characters are female? Do I just need to find something with them being referred to with female pronouns, or do I need more than that?

Thanks for answering! (Also, I love your new icon.)

[pumpkinkingmod]

1) I prefer they be separated out.
2) As long as it is pretty obvious on Transformers wiki that they identify as female then that is good enough for me.

I'd really love it if you could save me some time by disambiguating the specific fandom for each character.

And thank you!

[schlitzie_ramone]

Hi - I nominated Schlitze in the movie Freaks (1932), and would like to point out that while the real life Schlitze was biologically male, the character s/he plays in the movie is definitely female and is always addressed and regarded as female throughout the film and/or referred to as "she". There is some speculation, also, that Schlitze may have even udentified as female IRL due to a strong preference for feminine attire, though this remains uncornfirmed.

[tide_ms]

Excited to join \o/

One question, what is the purpose behind nominating four characters as one in a group if they're in the same fandom?

[pumpkinkingmod]

When doing matches on characters for exchanges there are typically two ways that mods run them. Either you match on a single character and are only guaranteed a work with only one or they match on all characters for a specific fandom and then would get a work using all the characters requested. Some participants like just the single character matching, some like matching on the whole set, some feel differently depending on the exchange/fandom. It is impossible to let people choose which using the settings on AO3. By allowing people to nominate groups in a single character spot we can cheat and have both.

So, if you were to request the fandom Corpse Bride if you liked both Emily and Victoria and would be happy getting just one in a work you would nominate them separately. If you really wanted a work to include both then you'd nominate them as Group: Emily & Victoria in a single slot. That way only someone offering the group would be matched to you and not someone that just wanted to do one or the other. If you wanted something with either Emily or Emily & Victoria, but not Victoria by herself then you could do Emily and then Group: Emily & Victoria. You'd be matched to someone offering Emily by herself, or the group, but not someone offering just Victoria.

So the short version is it lets us use OR type character matching on the AO3 end but effectively do either AND or OR.

[pumpkinkingmod]

I'm going to let Schlitze in as the character in Freaks. However, I would reject them if nominated under RPF since based on your comment it sounds like speculation and not confirmed. I like it to be a bit more confirmed when it comes to RPF of people within the past 100 years or so.

[(Anonymous)]

I've nominated a character from Forever (TV) called "The Frenchman" who's a woman with a male nickname (and who never got a real name). :)

[schlitzie_ramone]

Fair enough, I understand where you're coming from there. :) I was aiming more for the movie character than the real person, so thank you for approving them! :)

[tide_ms]

That is really great! Thank you.

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe I've missed it, I've been looking for this but I couldn't find it. Can we nominate pairings like Lady Character/Canon Husband? With this tag I'd take for granted the focus would be Lady Character, but are we allowed to nominate male characters as secondary of a in relationship or we're better to avoid/it's not allowed?

[pumpkinkingmod]

No. I did ask before this round if people would be okay with groups that included male characters but the overwhelming voting was for not allowing it. Because the vote was no I'm not allowing relationships to be nominated in general. Multiple characters can only be nominated with an ampersand which in this exchange does not indicate any articular relationship. Maybe next year the consensus will change and I'll be able to allow relationships involving women and not just female characters.

What you can do is nominate Lady Character and in your optional details express desire for Lady Character/Canon Husband. That is totally fine.

[(Anonymous)]

I see, I wasn't here during the voting so I missed it.

I thought I saw a couple of & relationships between two women in the tag set, that prompted my question above. Clearly I saw wrong or something. :/

[(Anonymous)]

Wait, is ampersand this: '&'? So I saw correctly and it's allowed, but only if they're both women?

[(Anonymous)]

Well, just to be on the safe side, I've nominated only single characters for the time being. But if & relationships are allowed (only between two ladies though, correct?) I'd like to edit my nominations and add some & relationships, if that's OK?

[pumpkinkingmod]

Relationships aren't nominated at all. The & is being used just to indicate that you want Character A and Character B in your gift. It does not indicate relationship of any type in the context of this exchange

[the_wavesinger]

(Reposted in the proper thread)

I want to nominate Adi Gallia, Shaak Ti, Depa Billaba, and Stass Allie. They all have brief cameos in the prequels, but also appear in the Clone Wars TV series (and Adi especially has a much larger role), and the majority of material about them would come under Legends (but the fandom would be Legends - AMT, which I'm not sure is allowed). What should I do?

[pumpkinkingmod]

Prequels, Clone Wars or Legends AMT are all fine. The only AMT fandoms I don't want are the Tolkien ones.

[merryghoul]

Is it too early to ask how many characters/groups can be requested and how many characters/groups can be offered for signups?

[pumpkinkingmod]

Same as last year.

Requests 3-10 fandoms, no repeats, 1-10 characters.

Offers 4-10 fandoms, no repeats, 2-10 characters.

[merryghoul]

Thank you! :)

[(Anonymous)]

I have questions about two characters I nom'ed:
1) I nominated Alluka from HxH, she is canonically a trans girl (her brother, person closest to her, always uses female pronouns towards her and calls her his sister, but other family members misgender her) but because of other characters misgendering her on some websites Alluka is listed as male, is that fine?

2) I also nominated Kyuubei from Gintama, they're assigned female at birth non-binary person (fandom widely uses female pronouns towards them). I'm not sure if they're allowed?

[pumpkinkingmod]

Based on what you have said Alluka would be fine. Kyuubei sounds like someone that I will need to look into. Does Kyuubei view themself as being female?

[(Anonymous)]

um in the story arc where Kyuubei was introduced they do say they "wanted to become a strong girl" like her best friend but later on they identify as non binary gender only ;;

[pumpkinkingmod]

If they specifically identify as non binary gender only then it sounds like they would not qualify for this exchange. If you want to you can make an argument on how they could be interpreted as a female character and if it is something that a reasonable person could see how that character could be interpreted as a female character I would allow them in, but it would be specifically and only as a female character.

[(Anonymous)]

Ahh, I don't think I could make that argument;; I see Kyuubei doesn't qualify then. Sorry for the trouble but thank you for answering!

[meatball42.livejournal.com]

Sorry if this is the wrong place for a question; if you're writing a story for which someone has nominated, say, three characters, do you have to write a fic with all three, or just at least one? I've been in exchanges that go both ways.

[pumpkinkingmod]

This exchange only requires fic for a minimum of one character or group. Groups are nominated in the format of "Group: Character A & Character B"

[(Anonymous)]

(Different user, not logged in.)

Mod, I think you should clarify somewhere that if people are requesting groups, they're asking for all the characters in that grouping. Some people are signing up, requesting groups, and thinking that offering a group means they're asking for any of the characters in the group and not all the characters in a group.