King of Exchanges

We're now open for nominations for King of Exchanges 2021! We've carried over last year's tag-set, so there's already a lot to explore.

The tagset is here.

We'll also be keeping the nominations open throughout the sign-up period.


And we've tweaked the schedule a little bit this year:

Aug 9: Nominations Open
Aug 14: Sign-Ups Open
Aug 21: Sign-Ups & Nominations Close
Aug 23 (or earlier): Assignments Go Out
October 1: Assignments Due
October 8: Work Reveals
October 15: Creator Reveals

Everything at 8:00 PM EST.

Nominations are now open!

Using the AO3 form, submit up to five fandoms with up to six characters and/or character combinations per fandom. Character combinations or relationships will be entered into the Characters field as Group: Character A & Character B or Group: Character A/Character B. You can also nominate Group: Character A & Any or Group: Character A/Any.

We will allow “Character” nominations that are “Fandom - No Character” or “Fandom - Worldbuilding.”

Crossover characters and relationships are nominated as their own fandom: “Crossover Fandom.” These must be crossovers between King-related canons. If you are nominating a character from one canon as a solo character in another canon--like Danny Torrance from The Shining in the world of Lisey’s Story--please include the relationship the character has with the non-origin canon. If you’re requesting a relationship of some sort between characters of different canons, it’s helpful but not necessary to include the characters’ canons in the nomination.

So this:

Fandom: Crossover Fandom
Characters: Group: Danny Torrance & Lisey’s Story, Group: Danny Torrance & Bill Hodges, Group: Danny Torrance/Carrie White, Group: Louis Creed/Alan Pangborn, Group: Johnny Smith (The Dead Zone TV) & Danny Torrance (Doctor Sleep), Group: Randall Flagg & Gerald’s Game.

If the name of the character is also the name of a canon, mods may ask you to disambiguate platonic relationships. We need to know if you mean Randall Flagg & Cujo the book vs. Randall Flagg & Cujo, the touching story of a man and his rabid dog. If you nominate Randall Flagg/Cujo, on the other hand, we’ll get it.