Jul. 25th, 2021

It's almost that time of year again! The Short August Medieval Exchange will be opening soon. You can see the full schedule here.

Nominations


Nominations will open on or before August 1st. See the tag set here.  Nominations close at 10:00pm EDT on August 7th.

Everyone will have 8 fandoms to nominate and 10 characters or relationships per fandom. Nominations will be open throughout the sign-up period.

SAME will use the Fandom and the Relationship tag slots for nominations. Characters and relationships can both be nominated in the Relationship slot. In the Fandom field, you can enter a canonical or non-canonical fandom. You may add a fandom if there's no fic for it yet on AO3.

If you want to nominate a relationship, please format it as: 
Character/Character (Fandom)  (for romantic or sexual relationships) or 
Character & Character (Fandom)  (for platonic relationships).

The punctuation / and & indicate what sort of relationship it is. Adding the fandom at the end of the nomination helps stop the tags from showing up in odd locations!

Larger groups are fine for this exchange. For example, a nomination of "Character/Character & Character/Character (Fandom)" means you're asking for two sets of pairings who are doing something together or otherwise relate to each other. You can also nominate groups like so: "Knights and Ladies in King Arthur's Court (Arthurian)" if it makes sense for your canon! 

If you want to nominate a character, please use the Solo: Character Name (Fandom) format. Original characters may be nominated under fandoms, but please make sure to describe how that character would exist in canon.

For example:
Solo: Original Female Character (Merlin TV) is too generic and will not be approved
Solo: Original Female Page to Sir Gawain (Merlin TV) will be approved!

Some fandom notes

  • Please nominate Medieval and Early Renaissance RPF under their respective centuries. If people are split across centuries, pick the most salient century to nominate them in. Julian of Norwich would go under 14th Century CE RPF. Cesare Borgia would go under 15th Century CE RPF.
  • Certain characters will turn up in multiple fandoms. This is especially true of historical persons and Arthurian characters. Please be sure you're nominating the right character into the right fandom!
  • Arthurian romances can be nominated both as "Arthurian Mythology" and to a specific author/cycle. This will allow you to be as specific or general as you want to be. For example, if you want a specific character from the Lais of Marie de France but only as Marie de France wrote that character, please nominate that character under the Lais. If you want a specific character that occurs in the Lais, but you don't mind if the character has qualities that show up in later adaptations, you can nominate that character under "Arthurian Mythology". 
  • You may nominate trailers for films that have not been released yet--or that you will be personally unable to see--due to COVID-19 nonsense. For example, the Green Knight (2021) trailer will be eligible for this exchange. 

For relationships between characters who appear in different fandoms, please nominate them under Crossover Fandom and include the fandom for each. For example: Margery Kempe (14th CE RPF)/Nimue (Cursed TV).

You can also nominate characters and groups under Original Work. Please indicate the genders of the characters if that is important to you. If you need to, please ask the mod to add a more gender-specific version to the tag set during sign-ups if it becomes an issue!

Questions, comments, concerns? Please ask here.
If you're new to the exchange, let me please invite you to read over SAME flash's rules.

If you participated in SAME flash last year, you may notice these swanky improvements!
  • Medieval period now roughly defined as 400 CE to 1600 CE. Include those early Medieval works/settings at your pleasure.
  • One week longer writing period.
  • Exchange now matches on medium as well. You may request fic, art, or maps.
  • No DNW maximums or opt-in list this round. Use your DNWs to craft the sign-up you'd like!
  • Letters can be linked this round. This is still a flash exchange in spirit, so prompt accordingly.
  • More time between deadline and work reveals. That 24 hour turn-around was killer for me last time. This year, there will be a 48 hour turn-around between the deadline and work reveals.
And those are the major changes; I hope that you will join up with us this year! I'm looking forward to making some medieval works with you. :D

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