Just Married - A Marriage Trope Exchange

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.

This pinch hit is due August 8, 11:59 pm UTC (countdown).

CLAIMED - ( PH 11 [art, fic] - DCU (Comics), Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (Anime & Manga), Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle, Mystery Science Theater 3000 )

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.

These pinch hits are due August 8, 11:59 pm UTC (countdown).

CLAIMED - ( PH 1 [fic] - Fairy Tail, Anne of Green Gables - L. M. Montgomery, Baby-Sitters Club - Ann M. Martin, Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys Super Mysteries - Franklin W. Dixon & Carolyn Keene, Vorkosigan Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold )

CLAIMED - ( PH 2 [fic, art (some requests), podfic] - Katekyou Hitman Reborn!, Bleach, Howl Series - Diana Wynne Jones )

CLAIMED - ( PH 3 [fic] - The Magicians (TV), Crossover Fandom (Magicians x Firefly, Star Trek: Picard x Firefly), The Wilds (TV 2020), Discworld - Terry Pratchett )

CLAIMED - ( PH 4 [art, fic] - Cyberpunk 2077 (Video Game), SK8 the Infinity (Anime), Dragon Age - All Media Types, Mass Effect: Andromeda, Mass Effect Trilogy, Vampyr (Video Game), Final Fantasy XV, Marvel Cinematic Universe )

CLAIMED - ( PH 5 [fic] - Once Upon a Time (TV), Doctor Who (2005), X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies) )

CLAIMED - ( PH 6 [fic] - Fiddler on the Roof (1971), Seraphina - Rachel Hartman, Shadow of the Moon - M. M. Kaye, Spinning Silver - Naomi Novik, Life with Derek, Original Work, The Queen's Thief - Megan Whalen Turner )

CLAIMED - ( PH 7 [fic] - Crossover Fandom, Marvel 616, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018), Sofia the First (Cartoon), The Spectacular Spider-Man (Cartoon) )

CLAIMED - ( PH 8 [podfic (some requests), fic (some requests), art (some requests)] - Marvel Cinematic Universe, Venom (Movie 2018), Crossover Fandom (MCU x Venom Movies), The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV) )

CLAIMED - ( PH 9 [fic (some requests), art (some requests)] - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Original Work, Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle )

CLAIMED - ( PH 10 [fic] - Lupin III, One Piece, さらざんまい | Sarazanmai (Anime) )

Matching has run!

There is currently 1 participant who is unmatchable on offers. If your username starts with N, please double-check the email associated with your AO3 account. We have contacted the unmatchable participant, and will re-run matching as soon as we hear back from everyone or at 11:59pm UTC 8 June (~2 days from now), whichever is earlier.

If everyone is matchable after this, assignments will still be sent out by 8 June.

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.

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Nominations for Just Married 2021 are open! Find the tagset here: https://archiveofourown.org/tag_sets/4366.

Nominations will close 11:59pm UTC on the 24th of May. To convert UTC to your time zone, click here, adjust the date as necessary, and click “add a city or time zone.”

Organized Freeforms (New for 2021):

As per poll results, we will be using the organized freeform tagset this year. This tagset consists of last year's freeforms with added broad category prefixes, and some tags have been reworded. The organized tagset is open to new freeform nominations. When nominating new tags, please include categories.

To help you browse and find tags, there is a spreadsheet with all current categories and freeforms here. 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.

If you are looking for a tag as it appeared exactly in last year's tagset, you may not find it. We suggest browsing the broad category or ctrl-fing for keywords. If no current tag fits the concept you want, please re-nominate your tag.

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.

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

Specific fandom notes: Based on feedback from last year: All Dragon Age nominations go under Dragon Age: All Media Types. All of the associated movies go under Marvel Cinematic Universe, and 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.