Medium Nomination Post 2025

[fic_in_a_box_mod]

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Nominating Mediums

Nomination is how you add things to the tagset! Mediums aren't matchable via AO3, but participants can opt into mediums other than fanfiction. If you're someone who wishes to match on one of those mediums as a creator you'll be able to email us (ficinaboxmod@gmail.com) or contact us here on DW via the screened mod contact post

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

If you're nominating a new length opt-in, another form of something already in the tagset, or something that fits easily into the Rulesets, anyone can nominate.

If 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.

You may also nominate a medium with Unique Rules instead of a ruleset. In the interest of avoiding rules creep, new Unique Rules mediums should only be mediums that absolutely cannot fit into a ruleset and which have multiple people interested in creating them, or which can either be added to an existing set of Unique Rules or added as a variation to that section

View Rulesets here!

When nominating a medium, please include the following categories:

Medium: Ruleset(s): What is it: Other Info:

Comments

[fic_in_a_box_mod]

We need any mediums to be defined in such a way that the mods and participants know what can be made for that medium, so we'll have to reject this one. If Craftwork grows to a lot more tags we'll add an "Any nominated mediums" type umbrella.

[(Anonymous)]

Sounds fair! Would a group of nominations like:

Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Craftwork: Embroidered Item
Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Craftwork: Sewn Item
Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Craftwork: Woven Item
Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Craftwork: Carved Item
Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Craftwork: Clay Sculpture

work? Or does it need to be more specific?

[fic_in_a_box_mod]

For the ones that are "Item", it would need to be more specific.

For clay sculptures, and any other more specific versions of the other nominations, we'll also need to have a conversation with a intended creator about them to make sure that what the creator is thinking of making is in scope for the exchange. This is especially important for craftwork as the flat equivalent is set at 2k per piece (no matter how big or complicated) and there are no scaling options, so it's important to us that we aren't adding anything there that wouldn't work under that setup.

[(Anonymous)]

I guess the question is at what point are you splitting hairs? A nomination set like:

Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Craftwork: Cross stich sampler
Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Craftwork: Cross stitch on clothing item
Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Craftwork: Embroidered sampler
Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Craftwork: Embroidered scene in hoop
Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Craftwork: Embroidery on clothing item

Seems unpractical. What exactly do you want defined about "item"? Type of item? Size of item?

For the scope, well you could leave that up to the artist. Similar to how artists making drawings know they shouldn't try to hard because it's always 1k I think you can trust sculptors to limit themselves to what they feel is fairly 2k.