Nominations Open for Round 3

[modzilla]

Nominations

Nominations are open! See the tag set. Nominations close at 11:59pm EDT on August 3.

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.

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.

Please note that the nominations format has changed from previous years, as follows -

FFFX is using 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" in front of a relationship nomination this year.

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 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.

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 generally 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 character 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.

As previously mentioned, I expect to be quite slow in approving nominations at first and possibly even through the end of the month. I'm sorry about that - thank you for your patience.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

How would you recommend nominating if you're not picky about which version of a character who exists in multiple media? Like if I'm asking for Sherlock/Watson but don't have a particular Sherlock and Watson in mind?

[modzilla]

Thanks for the question! I would recommend seeing if anyone else nominates one of the properties in which versions of these characters appear and going with that. Or maybe nominating two or three so that you can request all of them, and stressing that you don't mind which one you get in optional details (as long as you are definitely happy with, and have some knowledge of, the specific ones you have picked to request). I would prefer not to approve "Sherlock Holmes - All Media Types" or similar, and "Any Holmes/Watson". I believe that you really don't mind, but in my experience, knowing that a recipient wants the specific thing that a creator is creating for them is an important part of motivation over the very, very long creation period of fffx.

[(Anonymous)]

If you want us to separate out the MCU, what about MCU characters that maybe haven't appeared in the same movies but still appear in the MCU together. I really don't think that counts as a crossover, but I'm unsure where you want them?

[modzilla]

Hm - could you suggest a couple of examples?

[(Anonymous)]

Things like Bruce Banner/Sharon Carter, Loki/Gamora, Clint Barton/Shang-Chi...

[sholio]

In different exchanges, I've seen this done as crossover fandom, the MCU umbrella fandom, or Avengers (Movies), if it helps.

[modzilla]

Thanks. On further thought, if there isn't a group of movies that suits what you're going for, I would prefer Crossover Fandom, please. I know that's a little weird, and it can get hard to parse the very long list in Crossover Fandom, but nominations like Loki (Loki TV)/Rhodey (Iron Man Movies) can help ensure people are confident about what parts of the fandom they're drawing from.

[(Anonymous)]

Also, what about relationships with multiple people that don't all appear in the same movies? Like "Loki & Thor & Sylvie". Loki & Thor both appear in Thor, and Loki & Sylvie both appear in Loki. All of it is MCU, not a crossover, but where would you want that?

[modzilla]

Useful examples, thanks. I answered more fully above:

https://fffx.dreamwidth.org/30606.html?thread=417166#cmt417166

[box_of_doom]

* waves * I've just nominated Wotakoi (ヲタクに恋は難しい | Wotaku ni Koi wa Muzukashii | Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku) under "all media types". The anime and manga are very faithful to each other and I'd just rather not take up two slots if possible for my requests/offers if people end up nominating both Anime and Manga separately.

If you end up changing these to one or the other, that's fine (anime is where most of the fics and tags actually live, for what it's worth) but I do think that it's more worthwhile just to have AMT for nominating and requesting purposes.


I've also nominated Ouran High School Host Club as AMT -- that's the canonical tag on AO3 and again not AGAINST going more specific but honestly I'm fine with any and there's no fundamentally huge differences between them.

[modzilla]

Okay, I'll approve both. Thanks for the heads-up.

[zabbers]

Would it be all right under Crossover Fandom to do something like:

Character (Fandom 1) & Oth: Worldbuilding (Fandom 2)?

Basically, I'm interested in a specific character from one fandom visiting the world of another, but don't need to limit the potential stories to interactions mainly with any specific characters from that world.

Thank you!

[modzilla]

All right.

[meinterrupted]

It appears that George Vane Vandeleur/George Vane has wandered off from My Mysterious Mademoiselle and into Unassociated tags. Could you send it back to where it belongs?