Narnia Fic Challenge

The first thing we do to get the NFE rolling is tag nominations. The tag set can be found HERE.

We’ve pre-loaded with tags (both character and additional) that are used yearly. Be sure to go over it, so if you see that some of your favorites are missing, you can add them, and to make sure you’re not adding duplicates.

Things about tags to remember:

* If you want a relationship, you have to nominate it as "Group: character A/character B." If you want romance or a sexual relation, use the /. If you want platonic or friendship in your grouping, use the &. This is also how you would nominate crossovers, and I put a couple of examples of those in the tag set so you can see how those work. Remember, we don’t use the “relationship” tag in this exchange.

* Additional Tags are not the same as Freeform tags. Think of additional tags as helping you request/prompt - they should be something that anyone in the exchange will clearly understand. Freeform tags are what you use when you're tagging your story when posting - these can be whatever you want to describe your story. We ran into a lot of confusion with this last year, so please feel free to leave a question here if you have any, or send to narniaficexchange@gmail.com.

* Use "Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis" as the fandom for all character/pairing nominations. Only nominations using this fandom will be accepted. That doesn’t mean that you can’t nominate a movie verse character (Oreus, for example), just that we’re not using multiple fandoms for the exchange.

* Individual Characters: Please nominate with the character's full name (as far as it is known).

* Character AND platonic or sexual/relationship nominations should go in the "Character" field of the tagset.

* Romantic/Sexual Ships: please put the word "Group:" in front of the pairing. Nominate using characters' full names, separated by a "/". Only nominate, request and offer using the / version if you want a sexual or romantic take. If you only intend to request ships, you do NOT need to nominate the individual characters as well. Signups for ship requests should only have the pairing, NOT the individual characters as well.

* Platonic Pairings or Groups: Please put the word "Group:" in front of the pairing. Please nominate using characters' full names, separated by a "&". Same note as above about not needing to nominate individual characters if you only intend to request gen groups.

* If you want a crossover, you should nominate your crossover characters as a group, with the Narnia character you want to see them interact with. Make sure you include the fandom for the crossover character. For example: Group: Susan Pevensie/Dream of the Endless (The Sandman)


This year, we’ve pre-approved several characters since in the past, people have assumed certain characters would be in the tagset. We’ve also pre-approved a few extra character options to optimize matching for people who want worldbuilding and/or who don't care much which specific characters appear in their fic. Ex. "Original Female Character", "Original Non-Binary Character", "Original Non-Human Character."

Additional Tags

We’ve also added several standard additional tags, such as time periods and worldbuilding. While the periods are defined by what happened in the country of Narnia, requests for these tags can be for anywhere in that world at that time.

Narnian World Time Periods (taken from the Narnia wiki)
— Age of Conquest: Birth of Narnia through right before White Witch seizes power
— Age of Winter: White Witch’s reign
— Golden Age: Pevensies’ reign
— Dark Age: Narnia in anarchy
— Telmarine Age: Telmarine conquest through right before Caspian X’s coronation
— Age of Exploration: Caspian X’s reign
— Later Ages: Rilian’s reign onwards
— Post-Canon - Earth: set on Earth after TLB

As usual, not all additional tags will get approved, since we want to keep the tagset small, focused on Narnia-specific concepts, and understandable to everyone without explanation.

Seriously, we know it’s fun to just throw out random additional tags, but they have to make sense in a Narnia-related context. For example:

Narnian Astrology (good, will be approved)
Shotgunning (bad, no idea what this means, will be rejected)


Remember, tags are there to help with your requests and offers. If a character or group hasn't been nominated, you can't be matched on it.

Hello NFE folks! It's time to get this party started, and you know how we start? With tag nominations!

The tag set is open, HERE, now through July 2nd!

Important Notes:
* Use "Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis" as the fandom for all character/pairing nominations. Only nominations for the book fandom will be accepted.
* Individual Characters: Please nominate with the character's full name (as far as it is known).
* Character AND platonic or sexual/relationship nominations should go in the "Character" field of the tagset.
* Romantic/Sexual Ships: please put the word "Group:" in front of the pairing. Nominate using characters' full names, separated by a "/". Only nominate, request and offer using the / version if you want a sexual or romantic take. If you only intend to request ships, you do NOT need to nominate the individual characters as well. Signups for ship requests should only have the pairing, NOT the individual characters as well.
* Platonic Pairings or Groups: Please put the word "Group:" in front of the pairing. Please nominate using characters' full names, separated by a "&". Same note as above about not needing to nominate individual characters if you only intend to request gen groups.

If you want a crossover, you should nominate your crossover characters as a group, with the Narnia character you want to see them interact with. Make sure you include the fandom for the crossover character. For example: Group: Susan Pevensie/Dream of the Endless (The Sandman)

This year, I've pre-approved several characters since there was some confusion about it last year. I've also pre-approved a few extra character options to optimize matching for people who want worldbuilding and/or who don't care much which specific characters appear in their fic. Ex. "Original Female Character", "Original Non-Binary Character", "Original Non-Human Character."

Additional Tags

I've also added several standard additional tags, such as time periods. While the periods are defined by what happened in the country of Narnia, requests for these tags can be for anywhere in that world at that time.

Narnian World Time Periods (taken from the Narnia wiki)
— Age of Conquest: Birth of Narnia through right before White Witch seizes power
— Age of Winter: White Witch’s reign
— Golden Age: Pevensies’ reign
— Dark Age: Narnia in anarchy
— Telmarine Age: Telmarine conquest through right before Caspian X’s coronation
— Age of Exploration: Caspian X’s reign
— Later Ages: Rilian’s reign onwards
— Post-Canon - Earth: set on Earth after TLB

As usual, not all additional tags will get approved, since we want to keep the tagset small, focused on Narnia-specific concepts, and understandable to everyone without explanation.


Remember, tags are there to help with your requests and offers. If a character or group hasn't been nominated, you can't be matched on it.