Rules Updates & Nominations Open

[modzilla]

Nominations

Nominate HERE at the tag set. Nominations close at 11:59pm EDT on August 27.

Everyone may nominate up to 8 fandoms and 6 characters or relationships per fandom. Limited further nominations can be added during sign-ups. (I recommend keeping a record of what you nominated.)

After you've nominated, please check this community again before nominations end. We may need more information about what you've nominated, and we will post questions here.

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FFFX uses the Fandom and the Relationship tag slots for nominations. You can nominate relationships, single characters, and a worldbuilding option. Please read further for how to format each of these.

In the Fandom field, you can enter a canonical or non-canonical fandom (it's okay if there's no work for it yet on AO3). There are tips on labelling new fandoms here.


What to enter in the Relationships field
To nominate a relationship, please enter 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 tag misbehaviour.

Multiple relationships in one tag 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.

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).

All nominated characters should explicitly exist in the fandom where they're nominated. Original characters are also fine as long as you describe a character who could have existed in canon, such as Char: Original Force-sensitive Character (Star Wars Original Trilogy).

To nominate Worldbuilding for a canon, enter it in the format "Oth: Worldbuilding (Fandom)" (filling in the relevant fandom), e.g. Oth: Worldbuilding (Narnia - Lewis). Not "Other".

Group nominations (ie "The Marauders") should be formatted as follows:

• Nominations with a character and a group, like "Lily Evans & Marauders (HP JKR)" (where "Marauders" means four characters, namely Peter Pettigrew, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, and James Potter) means that at least two members of the group must feature prominently in the gift. which two is up to the creator.


• "Creator's Choice of [GROUP]" means that one member of the group must feature prominently in the gift - the creator, not the recipient, gets to decide which.


• "All: [GROUP]" means that all members of the group must feature.

If a group is quite large (10+), if it is subjective who belongs in the group, or if it is hard to know who belongs in the group without having canon knowledge, I am less likely to approve that group. For example - much as I can appreciate why you might want to nominate a set like "Canonical DILFs", I will not approve it, as it adds work and ambiguity.

I will check throughout nominations about who might appear in a particular group. If you want to speed up the approval of your nomination, please drop me a line when nominating to explain which characters are included in a group.


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 an allowed exception. Please nominate The Acolyte as its own canon.

DC's Arrowverse includes (at least?): Arrow, Flash, Supergirl, Legends of Tomorrow, Black Lightning, and Batwoman.

"All Media Types" fandoms will probably be approved last, overall, because if someone else wants a more specific version of canon, we'd prefer to approve that. If you believe All Media Types is what's right for your fandom, please comment so we can discuss that. Assassin's Creed - All Media Types is fine.

Where possible, we will not approve a larger set of fandom and a subset that is covered by the larger set.

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.)


Sign-up requirements
The following information about sign-ups may help 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

-Offer minimums are set as low as possible - 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 (so you can divide up your art/fic requests/offers with different tags)


Other
Please feel free to use the comments to ask questions or brainstorm with others.

If you find it helpful to keep a record of your own nominations, please save that information off AO3, because we will clear personal nominations during sign-ups to make it easier to add things at that time.

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Rules updates

-There is still a deadline for completing any letter (aka any external document describing your prompts and preferences that you link to in your AO3 sign-up). That deadline is September 21. Previously, the consequence when someone failed to complete their letter in time was that their letter link would be deleted. Specific deadlines and consequences are useful, but I wasn't happy with that consequence because I didn't think it actually helped anything. So, going forward, the consequence will be different. If you are matched to a recipient whose letter is incomplete, you may request to swap to another recipient at any time before the January deadline while the letter is still incomplete.

I will also encourage letter-writers to include a date of completion at the top, but this is not mandatory.

-I will continue to hold a check-in week on Dreamwidth; this year it'll be between 23 and 30 November. However, this year I will also send an email reminder of the check-in to the email associated with everyone's AO3 account. Further, if you find check-ins very difficult, and you have successfully completed at least one previous round of FFFX, you are welcome to discuss with me during sign-ups whether you can be excused from checking in.

-Last year I was asked if there were any particular rules about the proportion of your requests that are recursive fandoms (ie, you've nominated someone else's fanfic to request, because it includes a permission statement allowing you to do so). There weren't, so let's try the idea that at least two of your requests must NOT be recursive fandoms.

-Reminders rather than new rules, but: If you defaulted in round 4 or earlier, you are now welcome to sign up again (Exception: if you posted a placeholder and were banned for that reason). However, participants who failed to comment on gifts are not welcome while that requirement remains unfulfilled. This is an excellent time to check if your comment went through on a previous gift. Try plugging your AO3 name in here:

https://archiveofourown.org/collections/fffx/gifts?recipient=Modzilla

to quickly bring up all gifts from previous rounds.

Comments

Species as Group

[mimihylea]

Clarification for group nominations: would "[Character] & [Species]" or "Creator's Choice of [Species]" be eligible? Specifically I'm interested in nominating the tag "Piper & Gnoles", where gnole is an established species within the canon, and I'd be happy with any of the canonical gnole characters or original ones.

Re: Species as Group

[modzilla]

Hello,

Yes, eligible, but I suggest spelling that out as "Piper & Creator's Choice of Canonical or Original Gnole(s)" to make it clear it's not strictly "Piper and any two canonical gnoles". Or you could nominate as "Piper & Gnoles" for simplicity and then state in your request optional details that original gnoles are fine as well as canonical ones.

[toothpastepancake]

Hi! Are [Character]/Original Character requests allowed?

[modzilla]

Yes.

[toothpastepancake]

Thank you :)

[annapods]

Hi!
I would like to request a few tags that are getting close to creator's choice of fandom and/or creator's choice of character. Would that be allowed?
The worst offenders I had in mind:
Creator's Choice of Original Character (Original Works)
K-pop, Creator's Choice of Idol (K-pop), Creator's Choice of MV Character (K-pop)
Creators Choice of Canonical Character (Honkai: Star Rail)
Thanks for modding this exchange, it looks like a lot of fun!

[krzeslicko]

Hello,
would Batman - All Media Types be accepted, or would a specific version of those characters be better? Ex. DCU, Batman (Comics), DC (comics) etc? Personally, I don't have specific character(s) in mind when reading/writing, but if it's more convenient for the exchange, I'll choose one version :)

[modzilla]

Hello,

I'm sorry, no, none of those are within scope. Because of the very slow pace set for the exchange, I'm generally cautious about tags that leave most of the choice up to the creator: I feel that knowing you are creating something specific a recipient wants is a better guarantee of motivation. This exchange already presents the risk that people will fall out of love with what they requested before they get it, and in my experience that factor increases for "idk, surprise me!"

I'm sorry for a potentially disappointing answer, and I hope there are other nominations you're interested in.

[modzilla]

Thanks for the question! Since we've often had a strong showing in DCU (Comics), I'd recommend that, and yeah, we're unlikely to approve Batman ATM.

[krzeslicko]

Thank you!

[kitsunerei88]

May I ask for the rules regarding recursive fandoms? Do we need a evidence post, etc?

Permission Statement for Recursive Fandom

[witchoil]

Hi!

I'm nominating a recursive fandom for a fic written for me (after the zero hour - adastreia). Here is the author's blanket permission statement on their AO3 profile!

Let me know if there's any additional info I can provide/anything else I need to do for this nom.

Nom Correction

[(Anonymous)]

Hi, sorry I forgot there was 2 versions.

Would it be possible to update the fandom 흔한 빙의물인 줄 알았다 | Not Your Typical Reincarnation Story (Webnovel) to 흔한 빙의물인 줄 알았다 | Not Your Typical Reincarnation Story (Webcomic)?

The ships have characters that are webcomic only.

Thanks!

[rovermaelstrom]

Just dropping in here that I nominated Superstition by Superstition_hockey and wanted to link to the permission statement: https://archiveofourown.org/users/Superstition_hockey/profile

Thanks! :D

[saturn92103]

Hi! Under crossover fandoms, I have:

“‘Character A & Character B’ and ‘Character A/Character C”

So two characters in a platonic relationship and one of those two with a third in a romantic relationship. (Characters A & B are the crossovers, if that matters.)

Is that allowed? Thanks!

[modzilla]

Hello,

Sorry for the late reply! If nominating a recursive fandom, please comment here or whatever nominations post is most recent, and include the label you've nominated it under + a link to the permission statement, which should cover permission for both art and fic fanworks.

Re: Permission Statement for Recursive Fandom

[modzilla]

Thank you, that's sufficient!

[modzilla]

Thank you!

Re: Nom Correction

[modzilla]

Can do.

[modzilla]

Thanks! Please instead nominate Character A/Character C & Character B, and if requesting, specify in your optional details you're more interested in the platonic relationship between A & B than in how B relates to A/C as a couple.

[annapods]

Hi!
One of my nominations was changed from "Dai-nana-han | Team 7 (Naruto)" to "Chars: Dai-nana-han | Team 7 Ensemble (Naruto (Anime & Manga))". I just wanted to make sure I understood correctly, that would mean 2 or more members of the group, right?
And in the future, should I use "Chars: " for groups? I could also stick to "Creator's Choice of" if that's clearer, that would work just as well for my own purposes. Some of my other nominations have already been approved without the Chars:, I can point them out if that'd be useful?
For the nominations that haven't been approved or rejected yet, will there be a new post here?
Thanks for modding this exchange!

[saturn92103]

Will do, thanks!

[kitsunerei88]

Thanks so much! I see that my nom (Revolutionary Arc - kitsunerei88 (DFE)) was already approved but closing the loop, here is my permissions post.

https://archiveofourown.org/users/kitsunerei88/profile

[saturn92103]

These are duplicated under Top Gun (Movies):

* Pete “Maverick” Mitchell/Tom “Iceman” Kazansky (Top Gun (Movies))
* Tom "Iceman" Kazansky/Pete "Maverick" Mitchell (Top Gun (Movies))
* Tom "Iceman" Kazansky/Pete "Maverick" Mitchell (Top Gun)

Based on the canonical tag, I recommend using: Tom "Iceman" Kazansky/Pete "Maverick" Mitchell (Top Gun (Movies))

Editing to add one more. Under crossover fandoms:

* Michael Robinavitch (The Pitt (TV))/Andrew “Pope” Cody (Animal Kingdom (TV))
* Andrew "Pope" Cody (Animal Kingdom (TV))/Michael Robinavitch (The Pitt (TV))

[ambiguouslydisordered]

There's duplicates under Breaking Bad:

Todd Alquist/Jesse Pinkman (BB)
Todd Alquist/Jesse Pinkman (Breaking Bad)

Tagset Duplicates

[dontstophernow]

Locked Tomb Trilogy:
Gideon Nav/Harrowhark Nonagesimus (Locked Tomb)
Gideon Nav/Harrowhark Nonagesimus (TLT)


Harry Potter:
Hermione Granger/Viktor Krum (Harry Potter)
Hermione Granger/Viktor Krum (HP)


Men's Hockey RPF:
Sidney Crosby/Evgeni Malkin (Men's Hockey RPF)
Sidney Crosby/Evgeni Malkin (Men’s Hockey RPF) *curly ' in Men's


Coffin of Andy and Leyley:
Andrew "Andy" Graves/Ashley "Leyley" Graves (TCoAaL)
Andrew "Andy" Graves/Ashley "Leyley" Graves (TCoAL)

[adastreia]

Duplicate: Bucky Barnes/Sam Wilson appears three times: once under Captain America - movies, and twice under The Falcon and The Winter Soldier (TV 2021).

The two ways it appears under The Falcon and The Winter soldier are:
Bucky Barnes/Sam Wilson (TFATWS)
James “Bucky” Barnes/Sam Wilson (FatWS).

These canons are both in the same continuity so the ship might not need to appear under both! Your decision of course, just wanted to give you a heads up.

[modzilla]

Hello!

Yes; you had the fortune to nominate something not well accounted for in the guidance. /o\. Since an ensemble set of characters would be canonized by AO3 in the character tag field, we need some sort of prefix in order to accept it into the relationships tag field. Either Chars or CCoF would work for us if they would work for you - thanks!

Yes, we'll hope to have a query post up within the next 24 hours, though it may not cover all outstanding nominations.

[(Anonymous)]

There's a stray duplicate nomination under Saiyuki (Anime & Manga): "Kami-sama (Saiyuki) & Tenar (Earthsea)" is a crossover nomination and is also approved under Crossover Fandom.

[annapods]

Ah, sorry! Here are the two other tags in the same situation, both in the KPop Demon Hunters fandom:
Saja Boys (KPDH)
Huntrix (KPDH)

I'll keep it in mind for my last nominations!

[marquisguyun]

Hi! I nominated a recursive fandom (No Paths Are Bound - Cataclysmic_Calamity (DFE))

The author's permission statement isn't on his AO3 profile, but it can be found on his carrd, in the FAQ section, which is linked on his twitter profile.

It says:
Can I create fanart or fanfiction inspired by your work?
Yes! As long as I am credited, I am always flattered.

Duplicate entries

[krzeslicko]

Hi!
There is double Dick Grayson in the DCU tag:

DCU (Comics)
Char: Dick Grayson (DCU Comics)
Char: Dick Grayson (DCU)

Re: Species as Group

[modzilla]

Hello,

Sorry to be unclear! After reflection we'll probably break this into two nominations, Creator's Choice of Canonical Gnoles and Original Gnoles. Unfortunately this sets too difficult a precedent in some other canons. I hope the result is workable for you!

[modzilla]

Thank you! That should be fixed.

[modzilla]

Thank you! Looks like one of the people helping me has fixed that.

Re: Species as Group

[mimihylea]

That's fine! Thank you for all of your mod work! Do I need to do anything in terms of resubmitting?

Re: Species as Group

[modzilla]

No, you don't. Thank you!

[modzilla]

Thanks!

Re: Tagset Duplicates

[modzilla]

Thank you for all those! Looks like they're fixed now.

[modzilla]

Thank you, I think that's fixed! I think we'll keep CA Movies & TFatWS both in the tag set.

[modzilla]

Thank you - fixed!

[modzilla]

Thanks for providing that!

Re: Duplicate entries

[modzilla]

Thank you! Dicks fixed.