Just Married - A Marriage Trope Exchange

Initial pinch hits #16-21 are as follows, due August 17, 11:59PM UTC at the regular assignment deadline:

( PH 16 - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Shoujo Kakumei Utena | Revolutionary Girl Utena, Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia (1990), Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, The Gilded Age (TV 2022) )

( PH 17 - Doom (Video Games), Warframe, Warhammer 40.000, Warhammer 40.000, Warhammer 40.000 )

( PH 18 - Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, Noctilucent: Before Dawn (Video Game), 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game), 너의 스탯이 보여! | Show Me Your Stats! (Webcomic), Valdemar Series - Mercedes Lackey )

( PH 19 - Yellowjackets (TV), Doctor Who (2005), Agatha All Along (TV), WandaVision (TV) )

( PH 20 - Oxventure (Web Series), The Dark Pictures: House of Ashes (Video Game), Split Fiction (Hazelight Studios Video Game), Band of Brothers (TV 2001) )

( PH 21 - Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon), Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon), 黄金の太陽 | Golden Sun Series, Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (Anime & Manga) )

Comments on this post are screened. To claim a PH, please comment here or email marriageex@gmail.com with your AO3 name and the number of the PH.

We may not be able to immediately respond to pinch hit claims, but will get to them as soon as we’re able.

RSVPs to this year's weddings close in just over 4 hours! This is a good time to update any WIP requests, link your Dear Creator letters, or check that you are matchable on offers. All requests are visible at the Requests Summary page, or at the AutoAO3App.

Sign up here: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/justmarried2025/signups/new

Sign ups for Just Married are open!
Sign up here.
See the tag set here.

We have a google spreadsheet of freeform tags for browsing (thank you to the sheet creator). To use the spreadsheet, make a copy, and use the arrows on the left hand side to expand individual categories.

Sign ups will close 11:59 pm UTC on June 22. To convert that your time, click here and add a city/time zone. Or, see the countdown clock.

Requests will be visible as they come in. Watch the sign up summary for numbers of requests/offers per fandom (note: fandoms with 0 requests will not appear). Watch the requests summary for details on requests, including requested ships, freeform tags, and media types.

Detailed instructions (copied from guidelines) are below. Some quick notes:

Please be careful when selecting Any Relationship/Any Freeform. Do not request Any Relationship unless you are sure you are fine with receiving any relationship in the fandom in the tagset; same with Any Freeform. Do not request Any and then DNW certain relationships or tags. If your DNWs contradict the signup, the signup takes priority.


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( Offers )

( Sign Ups, Assignments, and Requirements )

Note on tag categories: Just Married is multifandom, so please take all tags as fandom agnostic and at face value. E.g. the Marriage Laws category refers generally to laws about marriage, and not specifically the Harry Potter postcanon fic premise; the Soulbonds category refers generally to the psychic link trope, and not specifically Star Trek's Vulcan bonds or Loveless's fighter-sacrifice bonds.

If you are creating for a fandom where the category or tag does refer to a more specific thing, it's fine to use the narrower interpretation, but this is neither required nor expected.

Gentle reminder to disambiguate relationship nominations (add the fandom name in parentheses behind your nomination). This will help us approve your tags faster.

The tagset currently has nominations for both North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell and North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell|UK TV. Nominators, would you rather keep book nominations and TV nominations separate (in which case I will duplicate nominations currently under the umbrella tag into both sub-fandoms), or would you rather combine them under the single Gaskell|UK TV tag?

I've already heard from the book-only nominator (thank you).


The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
Celeborn/Galadriel (Tolkien)
Celebrían/Elrond Peredhel
Elrond Peredhel/Ereinion Gil-galad
Frodo Baggins/Rose Cotton/Sam Gamgee

Please nominate under a specific media type (books, movies, animated series?)

Star Wars - All Media Types
Obi-Wan Kenobi/Anakin Skywalker (SW)
Obi-Wan Kenobi/Darth Vader (SW)

Please nominate under the specific instalment (Original Trilogy, Sequel Trilogy, Clone Wars, Rogue One?).

The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
Nominations have been accepted under Marvel Cinematic Universe.

X-Men (Movieverse)
Erik Lehnsherr/Charles Xavier (X-Men Movieverse)

Please nominate under Original Timeline Movies or Alternate Timeline Movies.

Creator's Choice of Fandom
Male Character/Male Character (CCoF)
Any Female Character/Any Male Character (CCoF)

Sorry, we aren't accepting Creator's Choice of Fandom in this exchange.

La Nonne Sanglange (opera) - Charles Gounod
Google search turns up an opera named 'La Nonne Sanglante'. Is that what you meant?

The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
Link/Mipha (Legend of Zelda)
Link/Zelda (Legend of Zelda)

Please nominate under a specific media type (individual game, manga, movie?).

Doctor Who
The fifteenth doctor/Rouge (Doctor Who)

Please nominate under Doctor Who (1963) or Doctor Who (2005).

Nominations for Just Married 2025 are open! Find the tagset here: https://archiveofourown.org/tag_sets/23587.

Nominations will close 11:59pm UTC on Jun 10. To convert UTC to your time zone, click here, adjust the date as necessary, and click “add a city or time zone.”

Please disambiguate relationship nominations (add the fandom name in parentheses behind your nomination). This will help us approve your tags faster.

Last year's freeforms have been copied over to this year's tagset, and we will also be accepting new tags. Please add category prefixes when nominating! A list of prefixes can be found here - thank you to the spreadsheet creator.

Tagset update for 2025: By request, the A/B/O category has been renamed Omegaverse. One tag had to be shortened to fit the character limit (A/B/O - Alpha/Alpha mating bond assumed impossible but A&B accidentally do it; considered married -> Omegaverse - Alpha/Alpha mating bond assumed impossible; A&B accidentally do it; considered married.) All other tags remain the same aside from the category change.

Nomination Guidelines:

You may nominate up to 7 fandoms, 7 relationships per fandom, and 10 freeform tags. Mods will approve nominations throughout the time range, and clarification questions will be posted to this community.

For relationship tags, please nominate in the format 'Character A/Character B' for romantic relationships and use 'Character A & Character B' for non-romantic relationships. You may nominate more than two characters in a relationship.

Please disambiguate all relationship tags by adding "(Fandom Name)" at the end. Examples: Jake Peralta/Amy Santiago (Brooklyn Nine-Nine), Confused Male Demon & The Male Prime Minister He Accidentally Possessed (Original Work).

Freeform tags are for trope or situation matching. Examples include: arranged marriage, accidentally married, sedoretu, etc. Feel free to get creative but please aim for clarity. For example, “soulbond marriage” is ambiguous, “marriage with forced soulbonding” is clearer.

Please include a category when nominating freeforms! This is to help us keep the tagset organized. A list of categories can be found here (thank you to the sheet creator). To use it, please save or download a local editable copy. You can then browse the categories, or click into individual categories to see the freeforms within that category. The public spreadsheet will be updated from time to time as new freeform tags are accepted.

Please nominate only marriage tropes and situations! Freeforms unrelated to marriage will be rejected.

Specific fandom notes:
All Dragon Age nominations go under Dragon Age: All Media Types.
Update: Dragon Age game nominations go under Dragon Age (Video Games). All other nominations should go under the tag for their specific media type (books, comics, movies, etc).
All of the associated movies go under Marvel Cinematic Universe. Please nominate Marvel TV shows on their own.
All of the associated movies go under DC Extended Universe.

Original Works are welcome. Please nominate under the Original Work fandom tag. If you have specific genders in mind, include those in your nomination. Example: “Female Soldier/Male Assassin (Original Work).”

Crossovers are welcome. Please nominate crossover relationships under the Crossover Fandom tag. List the character name followed by their canon. Example: “Tony Stark (MCU)/Bruce Wayne (DCU).” Crossover nominations that do not follow this format may be rejected.

We have one post-reveals pinch hit. No formal assignment will be given via AO3, but it would help if you let me know you’re working on it (comments on this post are screened).

CLAIMED - ( PH 22 - fic, art, podfic - Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Bridgerton (TV), Mass Effect Trilogy, Hawkeye (TV 2021), The Vampire Diaries (TV), The Walking Dead (TV), Crossover Fandom, Dragon Age - All Media Types, A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, Baldur's Gate (Video Games) )

We also have a pinch hitters' prompt post! Some prompts have been added since collection reveals.

(Update: The pinch hit has been claimed! Thank you very much, pinch hitter.)

As we still have one unclaimed pinch hit, the collection opening will be delayed by 4 days (to August 22 11:59pm UTC). We will extend the delay if necessary until the pinch hit has been filled, and will post updates as they're available.

This pinch hit is due August 21, 11:59 PM UTC (countdown), or negotiable. This is 24 hours before the new collection opening time.

CLAIMED - ( PH 3 - fic - The Equalizer (TV 2021), Highway to Heaven, Honest Thief (2020) )

Thank you to all pinch hitters who have turned in gifts! We have a pinch hitters' prompt post.

The assignment deadline has passed! Thank you to all our creators so far. If you currently do not have a gift, your creator may have an extension (or, if you were a pinch hit, they may have had a later assignment due date).

Post-deadline pinch hits will be posted within the next day.

Assignments are due August 11 (countdown), a little under a week from now.

These pinch hits are due August 15, 11:59 pm UTC, four days after the assignment due date.

( PH 3 - fic - The Equalizer (TV 2021), Highway to Heaven, Honest Thief (2020) )

CLAIMED - ( PH 13 - fic - Original Work, Naruto (Anime & Manga), Baldur's Gate (Video Games), House of the Dragon (TV), Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005) )

CLAIMED - ( PH 14 - art, fic - Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle, One Piece (Live Action TV 2023), The Mummy (Movies 1999-2008), 大逆転裁判 | Dai Gyakuten Saiban | The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles (Video Games) )

Comments on this post are screened. To claim a PH, please comment here or email marriageex@gmail.com with your AO3 name and the number of the PH.

We may not be able to immediately respond to pinch hit claims, but will get to them as soon as we’re able.