epidemfic | Entries tagged with nominations

Thank you for the nominations so far! We have several clarifications needed for nominated tags. If you are the nominator for any of these tags, please comment on this post or email the mod email with clarifications. Nominations can also be edited from the tagset nomination page if they have not yet been approved. Anon commenting is enabled.

If you notice any tags in the tagsets that are duplicate, wandering outside of their fandom, or missing a specified sick character, please let us know in the comments of this post or via email, thank you!

Please see the nominations post for more details on where and how to nominate tags. Nominations that are not in the proper formats may be cleaned up or rejected.

Freeform Nominations

Illness - G force related injuries

For the purposes of this exchange, injuries are not considered illnesses. An injury is a bodily harm resulting from an accident or a specific event, while an illness is a condition that arises from internal causes, such as disease or infection. Illnesses can cause injury (such as a connective tissue disorder causing dislocations), which is in the scope of this exchange. Is there a way to align this tag more with illness or symptoms of illness?

Illness - Mental Breakdown

As far as we can tell, this isn't an illness in itself. Would a scenario (ie Sick Character Experiences A Mental Breakdown) be more fitting?

Illness - Performance Anxiety

As far as we can tell, this isn't an illness in itself. Would a scenario (ie Sick Character Experiences Performance Anxiety) or a Symptom be more fitting?

Illness - Sharingan Sickness Which Mimics Lung Cancer

We aren't accepting fandom-specific illnesses as freeform tags, but they are welcome to be mentioned in optional details. Is there a non-fandom-specific wording for this tag?

Kink - Feedism

As far as we can tell, this isn't an illness-specific kink (such as sneezing kink or emetophilia). Would this be better as an optional detail?

Kink - Vorarephilia

As far as we can tell, this isn't an illness-specific kink (such as sneezing kink or emetophilia). Would this be better as an optional detail?

Scenario - Character loses a limb

For the purposes of this exchange, injuries are not considered illnesses. An injury is a bodily harm resulting from an accident or a specific event, while an illness is a condition that arises from internal causes, such as disease or infection. Illnesses can cause injury (such as a connective tissue disorder causing dislocations), which is in the scope of this exchange. Is there a way to align this tag more with illness or symptoms of illness, such as "Scenario - Character loses a limb due to illness"?

Scenario - taking care of an injured monster/enemy

For the purposes of this exchange, injuries are not considered illnesses. An injury is a bodily harm resulting from an accident or a specific event, while an illness is a condition that arises from internal causes, such as disease or infection. Illnesses can cause injury (such as a connective tissue disorder causing dislocations), which is in the scope of this exchange. Is there a way to align this tag more with illness or symptoms of illness?

Symptom - Burns

The mods are unaware of any illness with burns as a symptom, can the nominator please clarify?

Symptom - Going Berserk

The mods aren't sure what this means as a symptom, can the nominator please clarify?

Relationship Nominations

Sherlock Holmes (AMT)

Sherlock Holmes & John Watson & sick!child (SH)
Sherlock Holmes & sick!John Watson (SH)
Sherlock Holmes/sick!John Watson (SH)
sick!Sherlock Holmes & John Watson (SH)
sick!Sherlock Holmes/John Watson (SH)
Solo: sick!Sherlock Holmes (SH)

"All Media" tags are not accepted for this exchange. Can the nominator please specify a certain Sherlock Holmes fandom or adaptation they would like to nominate?

Spider-Man - All Media Types

Sick!Harry Osbom/Norman Osborn (Spider-Man)
Sick!Norman Osborn/Harry Osborn (Spider-Man)
Sick!Norman Osborn/Peter Parker (Spider-Man)

"All Media" tags are not accepted for this exchange. Can the nominator please specify a certain Spider-Man fandom or adaptation they would like to nominate?

Stranger Things (TV 2016)

Robin Buckley/Chrissy Cunningham (Stranger Things)

Relationship tags must specify one or more sick characters. Please adjust your nomination to include one or more sick characters using S! or Sick! before the character name.

jamez

Nominations are now open for the 2025 round. Please refresh yourself on the nomination guidelines before nominating. The freeform tagset has rolled over from last year, while the relationships tagset is new for this round. Happy nominating!

jamez

Signups are open for the 2024 round. For more information about requests, offers, and matching, please see the Rules and FAQ post.

Requested and offered tags must come from the Relationships Tagset and the Freeforms Tagset. If a tag doesn't appear in the dropdown menus in the signup form, but does appear in the tagset, please copy and paste it over from the tagset.

All nominations have been reviewed and nominations for both tagsets are now closed. If you have any outstanding concerns about nominations, please send an email to jamezbranwen+epidemfic@gmail.com.

Can't wait to see what everyone requests!

jamez

Hey, folks. Thanks for nominating so far! As a reminder, nominations close tomorrow (June 17th) at 11:59 Eastern US time. We have some outstanding clarifications needed from the previous post. If you have submitted nominations that have not yet been approved, please check that post as well as this one.

After nominations close, participants may no longer add or edit nominations. After that point, please contact mods here or by email regarding any issues with nominations.

Finally, If you notice any tags that are duplicate, wandering outside of their fandom, or missing a specific sick character, please let us know in the comments of this post or via email, thank you!

Relationship Nominations

Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened (Video Game)

~~Sherlock Holmes/John Watson (SH:TA 2023)~~

Relationship tags must specify one or more sick characters. Please adjust your nomination to include one or more sick characters using S! or Sick! before the character name. If no changes are made, this nomination will be rejected at the end of the nomination period.

Fairy Tales & Related Fandoms - Addendum

Belle/Sick!Beast (Fairy Tales)

Prince/Sick!Cinderella (Fairy Tales)

Prince/Sick!Sleeping Beauty (Fairy Tales)

Sick!Belle/Beast (Fairy Tales)

Sick!Little Red Riding Hood/Big Bad Wolf (Fairy Tales)

In the previous nominations post, it was asked for these relationships to be nominated with a specific version of canon. After a clarification, it was decided nominating a general fairy tale is okay, as long as the nominator is okay with potentially matching on any version of that fairy tale. Still, “All Media Types” fandoms such as Fairy Tales & Related Fandoms are generally not accepted. Can the nominator please nominate these relationships under a specific fairy tale or a specific version of a fairy tale, depending on what will be offered/requested? If no changes are made, these nominations will still be rejected at the end of the nomination period.

Freeform Nominations

Illness - Supernatural/Unexplained Disease

Supernatural Disease and Unexplained Disease seem like distinct tags on their own rather than tags with the same meaning. Did the nominator have a specific scenario in mind, such as “Unexplained Supernatural Illness”, or could this be split into two tags? Without clarification, this nomination will be accepted as two tags, Illness - Supernatural Disease and Scenario - Sick character’s illness is unexplained

jamez

Thank you for the love for the exchange so far! We have several clarifications needed for nominated tags. If you are the nominator for any of these tags, please comment on this post or email the mod email with clarifications. Nominations can also be edited from the tagset nomination page if they have not yet been approved. Anon commenting is enabled.

If you notice any tags in the tagsets that are duplicate, wandering outside of their fandom, or missing a specified sick character, please let us know in the comments of this post or via email, thank you!

Please see the nominations post for more details on where and how to nominate tags. Nominations that are not in the proper formats may be cleaned up or rejected.

Relationship Nominations

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (TV)

La'an Noonien-Singh/Number One | Una Chin-Riley

Relationship tags must specify one or more sick characters. Sick!La'an Noonien-Singh/Una Chin-Riley, S!La'an Noonien-Singh/S!Number One | Una Chin-Riley, and La'an Noonien-Singh/Sick!Una Chin-Riley already exist in the tagset. If you would like another variation on this pairing, please comment. If no changes are made, this nomination will be rejected at the end of the nomination period.

Star Trek: Lower Decks (Cartoon)

~~Brad Boimler/Beckett Mariner/Sam Rutherford/D'Vana Tendi/T'Lyn (ST:LWD)~~

Fairy Tales & Related Fandoms

Belle/Sick!Beast (Fairy Tales)

Prince/Sick!Cinderella (Fairy Tales)

Prince/Sick!Sleeping Beauty (Fairy Tales)

Sick!Belle/Beast (Fairy Tales)

Sick!Little Red Riding Hood/Big Bad Wolf (Fairy Tales)

In general, canons with multiple versions should be nominated with the version of the canon the nominator would like to offer/request. Fairy Tales & Related Fandoms is a broad category of widely retold stories which could include anything from a Disney movie to a horror retelling. As such, can the nominator for these relationships please specify a certain version or versions of canons they would be interested in offering/requesting?

Examples of acceptable fandom nominations for Cinderella, for example, would include (but are not limited to) Cinderella (Disney Animated Movies), Cendrillon ou La petite Pantoufle de Verre | Cinderella - Charles Perrault, and Cinderella - Rodgers/Hammerstein/Beane. If no changes are made, these nominations will be rejected at the end of the nomination period.

Freeform Nominations

Illness - Magic Deficiency/Overuse of Magic

These seem like distinct enough conditions that they could be accepted as their own tags. Is there a reason from the nominator for tying them together? Without clarification, this nomination will be accepted as two tags, Illness - Magic Deficiency Syndrome/Disease and Scenario - Overuse of Magic causes Illness.

Pregnancy

For the purposes of this exchange, pregnancy on its own is not considered a disease or period of sickness. However, works focusing on characters experiencing illness and negative symptoms due to pregnancy are within the scope of the exchange. Can the nominator of this tag please clarify a specific illness (ex - Illness - Preeclampsia), scenario (ex - Scenario - Pregnant character is sick), or symptom (ex - Symptom - Morning Sickness) related to pregnancy? If no changes are made, this nomination will be accepted as Illness - Pregnancy Related Illness.

Scenario - Dealing with fresh scars

For the purposes of this exchange, scars on their own are not necessarily illness-related. Can the nominator for this tag please reword this tag to be specifically related to illness or illness symptoms? Some examples could be “Scenario - Dealing with virus-related scars” or “Scenario - Dealing with self harm scars.” If no changes are made, this tag will be rejected at the end of the nominations period.

Scenario - Quarantine

Especially in the past few years, “Quarantine” could refer to many scenarios. Can the nominator for this tag please reword this tag to be more specific to the scenario they would like to offer/request? Some examples could be “Scenario - Global Quarantine”, “Scenario - Sick character must self-quarantine”, or “Scenario - Sick character is quarantined in the hospital.” If no changes are made, this tag will be accepted as Scenario - Global Quarantine

Scenario: Fuck or Die

For the purposes of this exchange, “Fuck or Die” as a trope is not necessarily illness-related. Can the nominator for this tag please clarify a specific, illness-related scenario? Some examples could be “Scenario - Sick character must have sex or die”, “Scenario - Sex is the cure to sick character’s illness” or “Scenario - All sick characters must have sex or die.” If no changes are made, this tag will be accepted as Scenario - Sick character must have sex or die.

jamez

Epidem-Fic will have two tagsets, one for Freeform tags, and one for Fandom and Relationship tags. If this event runs again in the future, the Freeform tagset will be carried over, while the Fandoms/Relationships tagset will reset.

Relationships
2025 Relationship Tagset

You may nominate 1-10 fandoms with 1-10 relationships.

You must specify which character(s) in the relationship are sick using sick! or s! before the character name. Please do so in the following format. All other specifications (type of sickness, caretaking roles, etc) must be requested in freeform tags and optional details.

Character A is sick, Character B may or may not be sick: Sick!Character A/Character B (Fandom)
Character A is sick, Character B is also sick: S!Character A/S!Character B (Fandom)

You may nominate multiple versions of a relationship tag with differing sick characters.

Romantic relationships should be denoted with a slash (/) symbol between the names. Example: S!Link/Zelda (BotW).

Platonic relationships are allowed and should be written in the above format with an ampersand (&) instead. Example: Sick!Phoenix Wright & Pearl Fey (AA).

Solo characters are allowed and should append “Solo:” to the front of the tag. Please nominate solo characters in the relationships field. Example: Solo: Sick!Harry Potter (HP).

If nominating a canon with multiple versions, please choose the version you specifically want to request. Example: Instead of Hunger Games - All Media Types, please nominate Hunger Games Series - Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games (Movies), The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - Suzanne Collins, or The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (Movie 2023).

If you have a good reason to seek an exception to this guideline, please comment here.

RPF is allowed if the nominated persons are over the age of 18 years old and famous in their own right.

Crossover relationships are allowed. Please nominate crossover relationships in the fandom “Crossover Fandom” and specify the characters’ fandoms in parentheses after their names. Example: S!Jack Frost (RotG)/Elsa (Frozen).

Original works are allowed. Please nominate original works relationships in the fandom “Original Work” and specify the types of characters you would like to request. Genders of characters can be specified in the tag, otherwise it is up to the creator’s discretion. Examples: Sick!Schoolgirl/Her Female Teacher, The King/S!Faithful Knight (gender of the knight would be up to the creator’s interpretation).
Original Works may not be used to box your creator into writing/drawing their recipient's specific OCs.

Please disambiguate all relationships by appending the fandom at the end of the tag in parentheses. This can be an acronym. Piping can be removed from character names to fit the 100 character limit for tags. Examples: S!Dr. Robotnik/Agent Stone (Sonic Movies), Catra/Sick!Adora (SPoP).

Nominations that do not follow the above specifications may be cleaned up or rejected at mod discretion.

Please note that, while characters specified as sick in relationship tags should be sick in the gifted fanwork, characters without specification may or may not be sick, it is up to the creator to decide what is best based on the requested relationship, medium, and freeform tags.

Freeforms:
Freeform Tagset

Your creator will match on one freeform tag in addition to a relationship tag, a fandom, and a medium. Freeforms must be related in some way to illness or illness symptoms. You can nominate 5 freeform tags this round. Freeforms will be split up into categories for ease of organization and these categories may be subject to change in the future. If you know what category your tag should fit in, please nominate it with the format Category - Freeform Tag, otherwise mods will do it for you. The categories are outlined below:

Scenario - A short plotpoint or outline.
   Scenario - A makes soup for B.
   Scenario - A takes care of pregnant!sick!B.
Kink - A concept or fantasy, usually sexual in nature. For the purposes of this exchange, broader than a scenario.
   Kink - Emetophilia
   Kink - Contagion Kink
Illness - A specific type of illness, a disease or period of sickness affecting the body or mind.
   Illness - Common Cold
   Illness - Breast Cancer
Symptom - A physical or mental feature as a result of an illness.
   Symptom - Sneezing
   Symptom - Depression

Freeforms may not generally be fandom-specific. If you can make a good case for your fandom-specific freeform, please comment on this post.

Mods may clean up, combine, or reject freeforms at their discretion. If clarifications need to be made on any freeform tags, they will be asked on this DW comm.