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Nomination is how you add things to the tagset! Mediums aren't matchable via Ao3, but participants can opt into mediums other than fanfiction and then if you're someone who wishes to match on one of those mediums you'll be able to email us (ficinaboxmod@gmail.com) or contact us via a google form (to be posted later).

This post is where you should nominate any mediums you want added to the tagset!

If you're nominating a medium where the equivalent needs to be discussed you should only nominate if you are someone who intends to create the medium within the exchange. If it's a new length opt-in, another form of something already in the tagset, or something that fits easily into the Rulesets anyone can nominate.

When nominating a medium, please include the following categories:

Medium: Ruleset(s): Unique Rules: (only add if "Unique Rules" was chosen in Rulesets) What is it: Other Info:

There is an example (and by example I mean a real medium the mods are nominating) below for reference!

Other Info

*Animatics
*Board Game
The Bookshelf Limbo' style book preview
*Card Game
*Conspiracy Board (Simpler Art/Comic Rules version left in!)
*fate/Stay Night (visual novel) style Heroic Spirit status screen
*In-Universe Social Media (Simpler Art/Comic Rules version left in)
In-Universe Wedding Reception Menu
Shopping list
*Tabletop Campaign
*Translation notes
*Translation notes: In-Universe translation notes
Typeface Design
Untitled Goose Style To-Do List

All of these can be renominated by someone who intends to create them, including those which may be out of scope! Those with stars will need further discussion (either due to scope issues or due to the addition of templates and the rulesets possibly changing how they should be equated), those without can be renominated directly. If the list style mediums are renominated I have a draft of a ruleset for those.

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Medium: Field Reports
Rulesets: Writing, Template, Illustrated Text
What is it:
Reports about measurements taken or experiments done in the field, usually routine and usually in relation to natural sciences. May also have crossover into other fields but that's what I'm used to!

Usually has set sections for observations to ensure all relevant data is recorded and may contain small area maps, photos (should be art or supplemental canon images!), or drawings. The amount of polish/professionalism can vary widely by purpose, who the report is being submitted to, and whether the report itself is the end product or not.

Other Info: It's very similar to other mediums already in the tagset such as Mission Reports (except science!).
Since maps don't always appear in field reports I think it's best to just leave it as the three rulesets I suggested and then if someone has also requested maps an artist can choose to make a multimedia fill with related maps added. (This can technically apply to the illustrated text option as well, but I think photos/drawings are much more common additions than maps in real world field reports and that's a built in multimedia option so I added it!)

Medium: Isometric Rooms/Cityscapes
Ruleset(s): Art
What is it: Small, individual isometric rooms or parts of cities that are drawn or built with voxels.
Other Info: These kinds of artworks are often gen artworks, and even more often than that, don't involve any human figures at all (especially true in voxel ones). Anyone who is thinking of nominating this medium would likely need to think about how they'd like this tag to intersect with the characters and/or ships they're requesting, since there is a strong default assumption of "environemental art only".

Examples of this style of medium:

Drawn
https://twitter.com/evergreenqveen/status/1243567050791976962
https://www.deviantart.com/cleomigadon/art/Cute-Isometric-Room-860275737
Voxel
https://dribbble.com/shots/3760609-Isometric-Neon-City
https://www.cgtrader.com/free-3d-models/exterior/cityscape/sci-fi-city-voxel-scene

Medium: Card Game Reskin
Ruleset(s): Unique Ruleset (includes Art (+Instructions) (+Template) elements)
Unique Rules: This medium may or may not include different rulesets.

There will be an art component, and possibly an instruction or template component in the reskinning of a card game. The amount of k this medium would be worth would be equal to the number of cards that are reskinned (plus any rewritten rules). This would make this medium flexible in terms of what the creator is willing to make. (E.g. one would not have to reskin the entire game. The creator can reskin as much or as little as they feel comfortable with).

What is it: Instead of someone making up an entirely new card game, the card game reskin takes a game that already exists and skins it to fit a fandom.

Other Info: For this medium, games that use instructions and cards would qualify. For example, Werewolf and other Social Deduction games that only use cards; or Hand Management hard games that use a base deck. The reskinner will be making as many cards as they like. That would allow games with large decks to be eligible for reskinning, since it would not be expected for the reskinner to make the full deck/game. Other games that use a card as a game board would also qualify (like Coin Age), since the board design is still card-sized and fits in the spirit of the medium.

Games like Cards Against Humanity would qualify for reskinning too, but those kinds of games would fit under the rules for Templates/Writing rather than art.

Examples of games eligible:
Werewolf (and One Night Ultimate Werewolf)
Gloom* https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/12692/gloom
Sushi Go! https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/133473/sushi-go
Fluxx* https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/258/fluxx
How to Human* https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/154085/how-human
Coin Age https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/146130/coin-age

*these cards have their rules written directly on them.

Medium: Online Dress-up Game

Ruleset(s): Unique Rules
Unique Rules:
I think the wordcount minimum equivalent for this needs to be bigger than 1k simply because of all of the work involved and because a dress up game without several dress up options doesn't make any sense. I think a minimum of 3k equivalent would be about right for an acceptable but not very complex dress up game:

- 500 words for the effort involved in sorting out all the individual parts and getting them up on the website of the artist's choosing in a manner that can be used as a dress up game*
- 500 words for the base/mannequin of the character being dressed up
- 250 words for each unique (no recolors) clothing piece, hair style, accessory, etc. for a minimum of at least 8 unique dress up items.
- 500 words for a detailed background, but this is optional and the dress up game still needs at least 8 items, so a dress up game with detailed background would wind up 3500 words minimum.

* Like the Twine ruleset, it would probably make sense to give a full 1k of credit for dress up games that are otherwise worth 5k+, since the more pieces you have to wrangle the harder it is.

What is it:
Online dress-up games are a style of online game where the player gets to select clothing, hair styles, background images, etc from a selection of premade assets to make their own picture. Most people will probably be familiar with picrew, a Japanese site that allows users to make their own dress up games for others to play.

I would like this opt-in medium tag to cover picrew, meiker.io, and any other website that lets people upload their own art to turn it into a dress up game — I think the artist should get to pick the site, since picrew is in Japanese and meiker.io requires .PSD files. I also found what looks like a good tutorial for coding a dress up game from scratch in html/css/javascript. I realize that interactive fiction lets people specify twine vs not twine but I don't think people have, uh, gifted enough dress up games in exchanges for us to need that option?

Other Info:
I would definitely welcome input from other artists about the minimums and stuff! Also I haven't specifically looked for this info but I suspect that making an erotic dress up game on picrew/meiker.io might be against the terms of service...

Finally we might also want to think about extra/different credit for:
- multiple backgrounds
- items in multiple colors (eg, the same hair style but several colors, the same base but a variety of skin tones)
- multiple bases/poses
- dress up games with two characters

Edited 2021-07-31 18:55 (UTC)

Medium: Typeface Design
Ruleset: Unique Rules
What it is: Designs of letterforms to create a typeface that someone can use in their own work. Typeface designs can be for any language with a defined glyphset, including fictional languages.

Unique Rules:

Minimum of 26* designed letterforms, and three type specimen images (including at least one image that shows off the full letterset). This would allow someone to, at minimum, design a font that only has uppercase or lowercase letterforms in English. The font must be converted/presented as an installable form (.otf, .ttf).

Minimum wordcount equivalent for typeface design is 2k.

+ 500 word bonus for numerals or their equivalents
+ 500 word bonus for 20 punctuation marks (or the full punctuation mark set is for that language, if it has less than 20 punctuation marks)
+ 500 word bonus if letter pairings of the font have been adjusted so that the glyphs fit nicely together when typed.
+ 1k bonus for an additional 26 letterforms (e.g. a font with a lowercase and an uppercase; or just an uppercase and Latin-A extended characters; or an uppercase and printers' ornaments; or if the language has 52 or more base glyphs; or if the font has been provided in multiple alphabets, such as English and Arabic, or Cyrillic and Greek, etc.)

Maximum of 4k per typeface.

Other Info:

Programs to make fonts

Calligraphr. Best used for turning hand-drawn fonts or handwriting into fonts. This is one of the friendliest points of entry if you've never made a font before. Highly recommended! Free, web-based.
https://www.calligraphr.com/en/

Glyphr. Best used for someone already familiar with font design. Free, web-based, desktop-based.
http://www.glyphrstudio.com/

Fontself. Best used for people who draw and/or are already familiar with Photoshop and/or Illustrator. Really great point of entry for someone who already does digital art, and would like to try making a font. Paid, Adobe Plugin.
https://www.fontself.com/

FontStruct. Best used for grid-based font drawing and design. Free, web-based.
https://fontstruct.com/

*Note: If the language that you are designing for has a smaller base glyph count than 26, than whatever number that is will suffice for the minimum!

Medium: Gifset

Ruleset(s): Unique Rules

Unique Rules: I think it would make sense to have a distinct ruleset for graphic edits/manips separate from the Art category, and if that were the case I suggest including A Softer World-style edits in the graphic edits/manips category. For gifsets specifically, I would suggest a minimum of ten gifs without colouring/image edits, or six gifs with colouring/image edits.

What is it: A set of moving images curated from canon to focus on a character, actor, pairing, or theme. The images can stand alone with no supporting text or visual flourishes, or contain overlaid text to embellish, clarify or generally enhance the gifset's theme. They are often sharpened, coloured and cropped to enhance coherence in the set, rather than simple replications of clips from canon.

Other Info: I'd be delighted to hear from other gifmakers with respect to minimums, especially if people feel they should differ for large vs small gifs - large gifs are generally 540px in width and displayed one per row, while small gifs are 268 px in width and displayed two per row. There are also effort considerations for text/animations that are timed or precisely placed, rather than simply overlaid.

Examples:

Gifset with no overlaid text and minimal colour enhancement, widescreen gifs (540px width).

Gifset with no overlaid text and minimal colour enhancement, small gifs (268px width).

Gifsets with overlaid text and plenty of sharpening and colour enhancement, widescreen gifs (540px width), example 1 example 2 example 3.

Gifsets with overlaid text and minimal colour edits for consistency, small gifs (268px width), example 1 example 2

Gifset with overlaid text, colour edits and high-effort timing/text placement, small gifs (268px width).

Finally, a gifset that features small gifs and minimal colouring, but took a lot of effort due to the tracking of the overlaid emoji: link. I think it's safe to say this super high level of effort would generally be an outlier and can be left out of consideration when deciding minimums, but in the interests of full information, it is indeed possible for gifsets to take this level of effort to create.

Medium: Unreliable Narrator

Ruleset(s): Writing

What is it: A work told by a narrator whose credibility is doubtful, ie. the narrator is biased, contradictory, or otherwise potentially untrustworthy.

Medium: Non-Linear Narrative

Ruleset(s): Writing

What is it: A work which is told (completely or partially) out of chronological order.

Medium: Fancomic of Recipient's Fic
Ruleset(s): Art (specifically the rule for comics)
What is it: Someone opts into receiving a comic of a fic they've written in that fandom.
Other Info: Like the fanfic or fanart of recipient's fic tags, this tag would have similar restrictions/limitations. The author would need to have a permission statement opting into recursive works, and/or guidance about what fics in that particular fandom aren't open to being recursed.

Medium: Infographic

Ruleset: Unique Rules

Unique Rules: An infographic is neither a fully written medium, nor a fully art-based one. It's closer to comics. As such, I propose that 1 page of infographic = 1k.

What it is: An attractive visual presentation about some curated facts that tells a story, explains a topic, provides extra information, or offers a visual path through a decision-making process. Often uses charts, graphs, tables, flowcharts and other kinds of data tools in conjunction with artistic design flourishes.

Other Info: This is a pretty broad medium, so you may also consider adding more focused mediums such as:
+ In-Universe Infographic
+ Meta Infographic or Infographic Explanation of Requested Character(s)/Pairings.

Not a nomination, but a heads up: there appear to be two a softer world tags under unique rules ("Medium Opt In: Unique Rules - A Softer World style panels" and "Medium Opt In: Unique Rules - A Softer World' style art")

Medium: In-Universe TTRPG Campaign
Ruleset(s): Writing
What is it: The selected characters from any fandom come together to play a Tabletop Role-Playing Game. The game itself is played by the characters in the fanfiction. Actions in fic can be decided by in real-life dice rolls, or not, depending on how chaotic the writer prefers their fanfiction. Specifications on what type of TTRPG played strongly recommended, but not a requirement, I don't think.

Medium: Ghazal
Ruleset(s): Poetry
Unique Rules: (only add if "Unique Rules" was chosen in Rulesets)
What is it: type of poem consisting of a series of couplets; other restrictions vary, but usually there is a formal rhyme scheme
Other Info: In my experience, the complexity is similar to a sonnet, so I think having 1 ghazal equivalent to a 1k fic (the same as sonnet/villanelle/sestina) is appropriate. (I'm mostly interested in creating for the formal rhyming kind, heh!)

Medium: Buzzfeed Unsolved Episode
What is it: two guys (Ryan & Shane) talk about weird supernatural or true crime happenings. Usually in a jokey kind of way.
Other Info: Buzzfeed Unsolved can be found on YouTube!

Meant to add- ruleset is writing.

Added as:
Medium Opt In: Writing - Field Report
Medium Opt In: Template - Field Report
Medium Opt In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - Field Report

(It might take a couple hours to show up in the tagset/spreadsheets, I'm updating everything at once)

Added as:
Medium Opt In: Art - Isometric Rooms/Cityscapes

Let me know if you want it to be added specifically as any of the art subcategories! (e.g. Drawn and Point)

(It might take a couple hours to show up in the tagset/spreadsheets, I'm updating everything at once)

How does this look for a ruleset? I stole from your wording a bit but I'm not sure I got the terminology correct in all cases. I added in an equivalent for the back of a card (the side that doesn't show info and is (usually?) standard per deck) since I know for some games those can be full illustrations as well, but if that's confusing I'll pull it and leave it at the card fronts.

I ended up leaving out the wordcount count for rewritten rules since to me it looks like in a lot of cases that would be mostly the original words with some terms/names changed out, but I can add that back in with a requirement for fully rewritten rules if you think that's what would be happening!

Tagset Tag:
Medium Opt In: Unique Rules - Card Game Reskin

Ruleset under Unique Rules as:
"
Card Came Reskin

A card game reskin takes a card from a game that already exists and reskins it to fit a fandom/OW prompt. Cards should have complexity similar to what you would post for a single image art fill. "Card" in these rules could refer to the game cards or other card size/style game pieces that fit the spirit of the mediums such as a card sized game board.

Tags for reskins of specific games should follow these rules.

Photos, manips, ect, are not allowed in this category. Minor supplemental images such as images from the canon, the original game, or CC licensed images may be used but must be credited in the author's notes.

Minimum

One finished reskinned card.

Equivalents

Each reskinned card is equivalent to 1k.
One reskin for the back of a card supplemental to reskinned card(s) is equivalent to 1k.

That sounds great! I like all of your additions, and I agree about the ruleset(s), since any game that would require rule re-writes would probably already be like 9 or 10k deep into the equivalents territory.

I think I was able to get that pretty neatly into a ruleset and I don't have anything to edit/add about it! The only thing I didn't address were recolors (I think just having everything extra modular will cover the extra bases/poses/backgrounds/characters while keeping it fairly simple for me to count up). Let me know how this looks!

Tagset Tag:
Medium Opt In: Unique Rules - Online Dress-up Game

Ruleset under Unique Rules as:
"
Online Dress-up Game

Online Dress-up Games should be playable games uploaded to a site or coded in html/css/javascript. You may include a download option but that cannot be the only option.

Minimum

A minimum of 8 unique dress up items and one base mannequin

Equivalents

Base mannequin: 500 each
Unique dress up item (not recolors): 250 each
Detailed background: 500 each
For Dress-up games otherwise equivalent to between 1k and 5k, a 500 word credit is added. For Dress-up games otherwise equivalent to over 5k, a 1k credit is added. (This is for the work of getting it up onto a site or utilizing a coded template)

We talked about this on discord so I'm going to post the ruleset we ended up with. If this looks alright then I'll get it added! (Also let me know if glyphs is the right term!)

Tagset Tag:
Medium Opt In: Unique Rules - Typeface Design

Ruleset under Unique Rules as:
"
Typeface Design

Typeface designs must be posted both a type specimen visible within the work on AO3 and with a linked installable form (.oft, .ttf).

Minimum

26 glyphs

Equivalent

26 glyphs are equal to 1k.
Additional glyphs are equal to ~38 words each up to a maximum of 3k per typeface design.

Edited 2021-08-10 00:48 (UTC)

I want to keep most of the gifset medium how you proposed it, but one change I'll need to make is to not include gifs that are only sharpened/color enhanced unless they're otherwise transformative (since I know that sometimes the transformative nature of gifs is less in the editing and more in the composition, e.g. storyboard type gifsets that tell an AU or are juxtapositions with images and quotes to hit emotional beats).

My thoughts is to have the two minimums/equivalents
1 - Giftsets comprised of gifs that have been only minimally edited (color/sharpening only, simple text, etc) that tell an AU, juxtapose images and quotes to hit emotional beats, juxtapose images to point out parallels, ect: minimum of 10 gifs
2 - The more obviously edited gifsets (text with timing or placement, gifs with transitions, collages, ect): minimum of 6 gifs

I'm not sure if what I mean is clear, so please let me know if it isn't and I'll try to reword! I want to make sure that I'll be able to tell with a quick check that they're edited or otherwise transformative without any familiarity with the canon or source medium, but I don't want to focus just on text as an indicator of that since there are a lot of obvious non-text-based ways to edit gifs. It think wording it in a way that's clear to any gifmakers will be really important with this one, since I'm drawing a line that might not be otherwise intutive.

Added as:
Medium Opt In: Writing - Unreliable Narrator

(It might take a couple hours to show up in the tagset/spreadsheets, I'm updating everything at once)

Added as:
Medium Opt In: Art - Fancomic of Recipient's Fic

(It might take a couple hours to show up in the tagset/spreadsheets, I'm updating everything at once)

Added as:
Medium Opt In: Writing - Non-Linear Narrative

(It might take a couple hours to show up in the tagset/spreadsheets, I'm updating everything at once)

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