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Here we are again! Time is truly the most fearsome kaiju of all. I will have the sticky post & the full collection rules up soon.
For now:
Everyone starts with 8 fandoms to nominate and 5 characters or relationships per fandom. You can ask me to make a limited number of additions to the tag set during sign-ups. (Note: If you find it helpful to keep a record of your own nominations, I recommend noting your initial nominations elsewhere, because personal nominations will be cleared early in the sign-up period.)
Please check this community before nominations end, because I'm bound to have questions about the nominations. If I don't get answers, I may mess up and approve them wrong.
FFFX uses the Fandom and the Relationship tag slots for nominations. Relationships, single characters, and a worldbuilding option can be nominated in the Relationship slot - please read further for how to format each of these.
In the Fandom field, you can enter a canonical or non-canonical fandom (yes, it's okay if there's no work for it yet on AO3). There are tips on labelling new fandoms here.
If you want to nominate a relationship, please enter it as Character/Character (Fandom) (for romantic or sexual relationships) or Character & Character (Fandom) (for platonic relationships).
Do NOT put "Group" or another prefix in front of a relationship nomination.
The punctuation / and & is very important to indicate what sort of relationship it is.
Putting the fandom at the end of the nomination is really helpful to stop the tags misbehaving.
Larger groups of names are OK - ie, "Character/Character & Character/Character" means you're asking for two sets of pairings who are doing something together or otherwise relate to each other. Please also see discussion question at the bottom of this post for larger groups*.
If you want to nominate a character, enter them in the format "Char: Name (Fandom)" - that is, actually type out "Char: ", but swap in the appropriate name and fandom, such as "Char: Lucy Pevensie (Narnia - Lewis)". Nominated characters should explicitly exist in the fandom where they're nominated. Original characters are also OK as long as you describe a character who could have existed in canon, such as "Char: Original Force-sensitive Character (Star Wars Original Trilogy)".
If you want to nominate Worldbuilding for a canon, to offer or request it, please nominate it as "Oth: Worldbuilding (Fandom)" (filling in the relevant fandom). Not "Other".
Some fandom notes:
Please separate out Marvel movies and separate TV shows - ie, Iron Man (Movies) rather than MCU.
I will not approve "Star Wars (All Media Types)". Trilogies are fine. Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types is fine.
Arrowverse TV shows and DCU and Marvel comics will be approved as discussed in a previous post.
"All Media Types" fandoms will probably be approved last, overall, because I'll want to see if there's a more specific version of the fandom that's in conflict. And I don't know many fandoms. So if you already know that All Media Types is what's right for your fandom, consider dropping me a comment to clarify so that I can confidently approve it faster. For example, I'm happy to approve Assassin's Creed - All Media types.
I'd prefer not to approve both a larger set of fandom and a subset that is covered by the larger set, but am open to discussing specific examples.
Where you want to nominate a relationship between characters who appear in different fandoms, please nominate them under Crossover Fandom and include the fandom for each. For example: Arya Stark (ASoIF)/Elsa (Frozen - Movies). Please be specific if the fandom name could refer to different versions and adaptations. You can ask for general crossovers between fandoms by nominating "Oth: Worldbuilding (Fandom 1 & Fandom 2)"
You can also nominate characters and groups under Original Work. Please indicate the genders of the characters if that is important to you. If someone requests Original Work characters or relationships with ambiguous genders, the preference of the person requesting takes precedence over the preference of the person offering. (But you can ask to add a more specific version to the tag set during sign-ups if that is an issue.)
When it comes time for the offers and requests of sign-ups, the following factors may be relevant to how you plan your nominations:
-You need to request at least 4 separate fandoms with at least 1 relationship in each - so every nominated fandom needs at least one character, or one relationship, or one worldbuilding tag nominated underneath it
-There is no minimum requirement on what you have to offer, you just have to be able to offer for someone else's request
-It's fine to request or offer a fandom more than once using different tags.
Please feel free to use the comments to ask questions or brainstorm with others.
I can see benefit where:
-you don't have strong preferences about the internal relationships within a group, or just want canon-typical
-you want to include a lot of characters who are a recognizable unit, but you don't want to type them all out or they won't fit
-you want to combine two such groups in a flexible way
-you want one specific character interacting with some or all members of a group (often in a crossover)
-you want one member of the group to be the focus but for the rest of their crowd/family/colleagues/?? to be involved
-you want to ship a character with any [character who is part of X category].
I want:
-to enable people to make & match on requests that inspire them
-to have a clear idea of what each tag covers, first so that different people selecting a tag are likely to be on the same page about what is meant, and second so that I can adjudicate fairly and constructively if there's a misunderstanding
-to make it easy for myself to check tags, while not putting unreasonable limits on people's fun
-to deal with tags in a consistent way.
Some questions that have arisen for me in the past:
-Does [random set label] have an agreed-on meaning within the fandom?
-If you're asking for X Group & Y Group & Z Group, would one person from each suffice? Or do you mean all characters in each of those groups?
Some possible ideas:
-If you nominate a group that has 6+ members, I could ask you to also comment to say who those members are
-Use Creator's Choice of... labels where those suit your needs. Ie, "Tom Riddle (HP books)/Creator's Choice of Pevensie Sibling (Narnia books)" or "Falkor (Neverending Story movie) & Creator's Choice from the Gaang (Avatar)"
-Potentially use something like "ALL: " when you really want all members of the set to appear
-Something else?
I'd love to hear from people who might request or offer nominations of this type. I see it as my job to remove unnecessary ambiguity from tags, because tags set the requirements for gifts. But I also don't want to make unnecessary rules.
For now:
Nominations
Nominations are open! See the tag set. Nominations close at 11:59pm EDT on July 21.Everyone starts with 8 fandoms to nominate and 5 characters or relationships per fandom. You can ask me to make a limited number of additions to the tag set during sign-ups. (Note: If you find it helpful to keep a record of your own nominations, I recommend noting your initial nominations elsewhere, because personal nominations will be cleared early in the sign-up period.)
Please check this community before nominations end, because I'm bound to have questions about the nominations. If I don't get answers, I may mess up and approve them wrong.
FFFX uses the Fandom and the Relationship tag slots for nominations. Relationships, single characters, and a worldbuilding option can be nominated in the Relationship slot - please read further for how to format each of these.
In the Fandom field, you can enter a canonical or non-canonical fandom (yes, it's okay if there's no work for it yet on AO3). There are tips on labelling new fandoms here.
If you want to nominate a relationship, please enter it as Character/Character (Fandom) (for romantic or sexual relationships) or Character & Character (Fandom) (for platonic relationships).
Do NOT put "Group" or another prefix in front of a relationship nomination.
The punctuation / and & is very important to indicate what sort of relationship it is.
Putting the fandom at the end of the nomination is really helpful to stop the tags misbehaving.
Larger groups of names are OK - ie, "Character/Character & Character/Character" means you're asking for two sets of pairings who are doing something together or otherwise relate to each other. Please also see discussion question at the bottom of this post for larger groups*.
If you want to nominate a character, enter them in the format "Char: Name (Fandom)" - that is, actually type out "Char: ", but swap in the appropriate name and fandom, such as "Char: Lucy Pevensie (Narnia - Lewis)". Nominated characters should explicitly exist in the fandom where they're nominated. Original characters are also OK as long as you describe a character who could have existed in canon, such as "Char: Original Force-sensitive Character (Star Wars Original Trilogy)".
If you want to nominate Worldbuilding for a canon, to offer or request it, please nominate it as "Oth: Worldbuilding (Fandom)" (filling in the relevant fandom). Not "Other".
Some fandom notes:
Please separate out Marvel movies and separate TV shows - ie, Iron Man (Movies) rather than MCU.
I will not approve "Star Wars (All Media Types)". Trilogies are fine. Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types is fine.
Arrowverse TV shows and DCU and Marvel comics will be approved as discussed in a previous post.
"All Media Types" fandoms will probably be approved last, overall, because I'll want to see if there's a more specific version of the fandom that's in conflict. And I don't know many fandoms. So if you already know that All Media Types is what's right for your fandom, consider dropping me a comment to clarify so that I can confidently approve it faster. For example, I'm happy to approve Assassin's Creed - All Media types.
I'd prefer not to approve both a larger set of fandom and a subset that is covered by the larger set, but am open to discussing specific examples.
Where you want to nominate a relationship between characters who appear in different fandoms, please nominate them under Crossover Fandom and include the fandom for each. For example: Arya Stark (ASoIF)/Elsa (Frozen - Movies). Please be specific if the fandom name could refer to different versions and adaptations. You can ask for general crossovers between fandoms by nominating "Oth: Worldbuilding (Fandom 1 & Fandom 2)"
You can also nominate characters and groups under Original Work. Please indicate the genders of the characters if that is important to you. If someone requests Original Work characters or relationships with ambiguous genders, the preference of the person requesting takes precedence over the preference of the person offering. (But you can ask to add a more specific version to the tag set during sign-ups if that is an issue.)
When it comes time for the offers and requests of sign-ups, the following factors may be relevant to how you plan your nominations:
-You need to request at least 4 separate fandoms with at least 1 relationship in each - so every nominated fandom needs at least one character, or one relationship, or one worldbuilding tag nominated underneath it
-There is no minimum requirement on what you have to offer, you just have to be able to offer for someone else's request
-It's fine to request or offer a fandom more than once using different tags.
Please feel free to use the comments to ask questions or brainstorm with others.
*Character group handling
In previous rounds, there has been enthusiasm and interest for nominations that describe sets of characters rather than naming individuals. I'm talking about "[W] Siblings", "Crew of [X]", "[Y] Gang", etc. Those nominations have also engendered creative requests and fills.I can see benefit where:
-you don't have strong preferences about the internal relationships within a group, or just want canon-typical
-you want to include a lot of characters who are a recognizable unit, but you don't want to type them all out or they won't fit
-you want to combine two such groups in a flexible way
-you want one specific character interacting with some or all members of a group (often in a crossover)
-you want one member of the group to be the focus but for the rest of their crowd/family/colleagues/?? to be involved
-you want to ship a character with any [character who is part of X category].
I want:
-to enable people to make & match on requests that inspire them
-to have a clear idea of what each tag covers, first so that different people selecting a tag are likely to be on the same page about what is meant, and second so that I can adjudicate fairly and constructively if there's a misunderstanding
-to make it easy for myself to check tags, while not putting unreasonable limits on people's fun
-to deal with tags in a consistent way.
Some questions that have arisen for me in the past:
-Does [random set label] have an agreed-on meaning within the fandom?
-If you're asking for X Group & Y Group & Z Group, would one person from each suffice? Or do you mean all characters in each of those groups?
Some possible ideas:
-If you nominate a group that has 6+ members, I could ask you to also comment to say who those members are
-Use Creator's Choice of... labels where those suit your needs. Ie, "Tom Riddle (HP books)/Creator's Choice of Pevensie Sibling (Narnia books)" or "Falkor (Neverending Story movie) & Creator's Choice from the Gaang (Avatar)"
-Potentially use something like "ALL: " when you really want all members of the set to appear
-Something else?
I'd love to hear from people who might request or offer nominations of this type. I see it as my job to remove unnecessary ambiguity from tags, because tags set the requirements for gifts. But I also don't want to make unnecessary rules.
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