Nominations Queries 2 - noms closing soon

[modzilla]

Thanks for your nominations and adjustments! The main nomination period closes TODAY at 11:59pm EDT 26 July. Please get your nominations in!

Please also help with our queries.

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Misplaced tags including DNWs - Nominator of Alex Rider and Malevolent, you seem to have included nominations for your preferred medium and DNWs. Please remove those. Please either comment here or email me at mod.modzilla@gmail.com so we can check in about what I'm looking for in nominations.

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Crossover Fandom
Lieutenant Columbo (Columbo) & Creator’s Choice of Batfam (Wayne Family Adventures - webcomic) - Please specify who is included in Batfam?

Dangan Ronpa Series - we've already approved Dangan Ronpa 2. Could you please expand on what you're looking for here? Ideally we'd split this but we haven't made a final decision.

Dead Boy Detectives (TV) - Nominator of Edwin Paine tags, could you help us understand what you want, please? Paine seems to be the comics spelling, and we're not sure we understand what you're looking for from the Paine/Payne relationship tag.

Le Fantôme de l'Opéra | Phantom of the Opera & Related Fandoms - This is an All Media Types nomination. Nominator, were you thinking of any particular version, or if you really want All Media Types, please give more detail about why you'd prefer that?

Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three Houses Please clarify which characters are meant by the Blue Lions.

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga - Nominator of additional tags, something weird is happening with your submission. From our interface, it looks like you nominated nothing - a blank space - as a relationship?? I'm honestly impressed. Please supply your nominations page and let us know what you were hoping to add.

Good Omens (TV) - there are nominations for Nanny Ashtoreth and Brother Frances. These seem to be nominations for Aziraphale and Crowley. Please clarify? I will not approve nominations for characters at particular points in their lives/appearances if it's all the same character.

Marvel Cinematic Universe - Please check what has already been approved and split your nominations into movie sets.

Original Work
down-on-his-luck scholar/female general looking for a ruzhui husband (OW) - Could you please clarify what tropes you are expecting for a ruzhui husband or if this indicates any particular time period?

Dragon/Royal They Kidnapped/Knight Warring With Themself (OW) - Could you please clarify what you're looking for with the last character?

Royal Order (Visual Novel) - could we please get more information on Henry Seress and Nils Nerea? These characters are difficult to track down.

Star Wars Legends: Republic Commando Series - Karen Traviss - we have already approved Star Wars Legends - All Media Types. We will fold your nominations into this, or please let us know if you have an alternate suggestion.

陈情令 | The Untamed (TV) - for Lan Qiren/Wen Ruoban/Madam Wen (The Untamed), we can't seem to find Madame Wen. Please help us out?

Where is Trevor (ow comic) – sarriathmg - this original work is locked to users of Archive Of Our Own; could we please get direct confirmation that nomination into a fandom exchange is welcome?

Comments

[nemainofthewater]

Hello! I'm both the Untamed nominator (for Lan Qiren/Wen Ruohan/Madam Wen) and the down-on-his-luck scholar/female general looking for a ruzhui husband (OW) nominator.

For a ruzhui husband, this tends to indicate imperial-ish China setting. A ruzhui (or matrilocal) marriage was historically when a man would marry into a woman’s family (where they would live with the woman’s family, their children would get their mother’s family name) instead of the other way around.

This would often happen if there was a powerful or noble family (or just a rich one) who only had daughters, who would then recruit a son-in-law (often a younger son from a poorer or lower status family) to marry into the family and so continue the family name.

Tropes associated with it are mainly exploring societal expectations of different genders, namely how the ruzhui husband is able to navigate society and his family when he is the one in the 'wife's' position, linked here with the female general's implied unusual status in society compared to a normal woman of the time (as they would not be soldiers, let alone generals).

For the Untamed, as Shadaras said above, Madam Wen does not appear on screen in the tv series, but is implied to have existed as she would be the mother of two of the antagonists (Wen Xu and Wen Chao) and Wen Ruohan's wife.

Thank you for all your work, and please let me know if you want me to clarify further!

[modzilla]

Thanks for the explanation!

Will ponder this - I do have the rule All nominated characters should explicitly exist in the fandom where they're nominated. to avoid this tension for character who are-and-aren't OCs or where people may be uncertain about how much they get to make them up.

Thanks for explaining about ruzhui! It sounds as though anyone offering or requesting this could have the same level of confidence in the tropes involved as, say, someone offering "dragon & knight", so that sounds fine.

[modzilla]

Hello - on further thought I'll put through Implied Madame Wen, if that's okay.

[nemainofthewater]

Thank you!