Fandom/Relationship Slot Nomination Guidelines

[fic_in_a_box_mod]

This post is about nominations for tags that will be used in the fandom and relationship slots of your requests/tags. For opt-in medium nominations go to this post (link).

How To Nominate

There are three methods of relationship nominations this year!

1) Fandom Transfer

Since the format of relationship nominations are not changing, we've been transferring the relationships/characters in fandoms from last year's tagset to this year's tagset upon request. Just head over to the Fandom Transfer Post and follow the instructions there!

Fandom Transfer Post: https://ficinabox.dreamwidth.org/13914.html

2) Google form

All instructions are provided as you nominate, so you can look at our guidelines while inputting relationships! Go to the google form and follow the instructions provided to submit your nominations, filling the form out as many times as you want. (You don't need to disambiguate nominations when using the form except for a few cases that the instructions will mention; for most nominatioms our spreadsheet will do that for you!) Your nominations will eventually either wind up in the tagset or show up in a nominations clarification post — please check back at this comm in case we have questions about your nominations. The google doc is anonymous. You don't have to read the rest of this post.

Nomination Google Form: https://forms.gle/YY4mrzvSQkv9ay4Q9

3) AO3 tagset nomination

This is how most people are used to nominating! If you're confident that you understand the nominations guidelines (provided below!) Then proceed to the tagset and input your nominations as directed. You will have 10 fandoms with 20 relationship slots. We will automatically reject anything that doesn't follow the guidelines below, but will query for other problems/questions. Check your nominations page and this comm to keep up to date on the status of your nominations.

Tagset: https://archiveofourown.org/tag_sets/7471

Nomination Guidelines

Fandoms:

• All fandoms are allowed, including RPF, as long as all real people nominated are famous in their own right and over the age of 18.
• Crossovers: Should be nominated under Crossover Fandom
• Original Works: Should be nominated under Original Works
• Megafandoms, franchises, etc: See below.
• As a general rule, if your fandom already has subfandoms nominated, please contact us before nominating a AMT type fandom.

Relationships field:

• "/", "&", and "Solo:" relationship types are allowed, as well as worldbuilsing tags, which begin with "WB:"
  • "/" relationships are sexual and/or romantic.
  • "&" relationships are platonic.
  • "Solo:" relationships are for single characters
  • "WB:" worldbuilding nominations are for reasonably broad (what this means will vary by canon) worldbuilding topics for elements of canon you would like worldbuilding about. (Please don't nominate AUs, common fanon, etc)
• Please disambiguate your nominations. Your nominations should look like one of the following:
  • Character A/Character B (Fandom)
  • Character A & Character B (Fandom)
  • Solo: Character A (Fandom)
  • Solo: Ambiguous Group (Fandom)
  • WB: Topic (Fandom)
  • Character A (Fandom A) / Character B (Fandom B)
  • Character A (Fandom A) & Character B (Fandom B)
  • Solo: Character A (Fandom A) in Fandom B
• For crossovers, please disambiguate on the characters and nominate them within Crossover Fandom. For example: "Varric Tethras (Dragon Age)/Nick Valentine (Fallout 4)"
• Crossovers where a character from fandom A visit canon B should be nominated like this: "Solo: Shang Qinghua (SVSSS) in Lord of the Rings" If there's more than one version of the canon and you care about which version you receive, specify that version in parentheses, for example "Solo: Shang Qinghua (SVSSS) in Lord of the Rings (Movies)."
• Ships in Original Works should be nominated as Character Type/Character Type, with any additional details you see as essential for the ship included. If the gender of the characters is important to you, please include it in the character tags.
• If you request an ambiguous group (eg: The [fandom] ensemble) we will assume that any member(s) of that group fulfill that request.
• You may request "Any" of a character type. For example, "Mikhaila Ilyushin/Any Female Talos I Employee (Prey 2017)". Similar to original works, please make sure any important information is within the Any character tag.
• "WB: Any (Fandom)" will be added to all fandoms after nominations and should not be nominated.

Nomination info for specific fandoms:

• As a general rule, if your fandom/subfandom is already in the 2021 tagset please nominate in the fandom as it appears there.
• Marvel Cinematic Universe nominations may be nominated under the appropriate movie subfranchise (Thor, GotG, etc) or in Avengers. If nominating in a subfranchise (for example, Thor (Movies)), all characters in the nom should have appeared in a movie from that subfranchise. Agents of SHIELD, Agent Carter, Wandavision, Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Loki, and the Marvel Netflix universe of shows are also all separate fandoms. The Marvel Netflix shows should be nommed together under The Defenders (Marvel TV).
• Marvel comics may be nominated by title or under the name of the appropriate Marvel universe (Marvel 616, Marvel Ultimates, etc). Nominations for “Marvel (Comics)” will not be accepted.
• Star Wars nominations may be nominated under the appropriate movie, trilogy, TV show, etc (eg, Rogue One, Sequel Trilogy). “Crossover” noms between different parts of the Star Wars universe may be nominated under “Star Wars - All Media Types.”
• Star Wars Old EU: Books should go under "Star Wars: Legends Books" and be disambiguated with (SWL Books). Comics should go under "Star Wars: Legends Comics" and be disambiguated with (SWL Comics). Games should go into their individual games either combined or split depending on what is normal for that fandom.
• Naruto, Boruto, and Dreaming of Sunshine should be nominated separately. Please nominate Dreaming of Sunshine as "Dreaming of Sunshine - Silver Queen (disambiguated for exchanges)". Relationship nominations that involve one or more DoS character and one or more Naruto/Boruto character should be nominated under the fandom "Crossover Fandom".
• Buffy: The Vampire Slayer and Angel: The Series will both be nommed together under “Buffyverse (TV).”
• Buffy comics: Nominate this separately from the TV shows.
• Star Trek is divided by show and the Alternate Original Series is alone. Movie characters from the Original Series or Next Gen movies may be nominated under the respective shows.
• DC Comics: All DC Comics nominations can go under that fandom, but if you would like a specific version please disambiguate which version of the character you want in parenthesis after each character.
• DC's Arrowverse: Please nominate characters from Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, Legends of Tomorrow, Batwoman, Superman & Lois, and Black Lightning (plus the webseries tie-ins) under "DC's Arrowverse".
• Dragon Age: Please nominate under "Dragon Age (Video Games)"
• Final Fantasy VII: The original game and the remake should be nominated separately.
• Stargate: Please nominate under "Stargate - All Media Types"
• DC Extended Universe: DCEU movies should be nominated under "DC Extended Universe"
• Assassin's Creed: Please nominate Assassin's Creed under "Assassin's Creed - All Media Types"
• X-men Movies: Please nominate OTM and ATM under "X-men (Movieverse)" with disambiguation for the timelines. The other X-men movies should be nominated under their own series/movie title.
• Legend of Zelda: These should be nominated in their separate games, but please make sure that the disambiguation is unique to that game!
• The Witcher: Please nominate these in their individual fandoms, not AMT
• The Mechanisms: Please nominate under "The Mechanisms (Band)" with a disambiguation of either (The Mechanisms) or the specific album.
• Historical RPF: Please split these into subfandoms that indicates what timeperiod the nominated people are in. If there may be confusion about the identity of a nominated person, please be as specific as is reasonable.

Comments

Nominating a Recursive Fandom

[kryptontease]

I'd like to nominate a recursive fandom for Fic in a Box.

His Greatest Adversary Yet by architeuthis
work on ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/29080227
permission statement: https://oneiroteuthis.tumblr.com/permission-statement

I'm interested in requesting & creating for this fandom.

Re: Nominating a Recursive Fandom

[susiecarter]

+1! I would definitely be interested in creating for this, if it were in the tagset.

Re: Nominating a Recursive Fandom

[fic_in_a_box_mod]

Thank you! We will approve this nomination. Please nominate as "His Greatest Adversary Yet - architeuthis (disambiguated for exchange)"!

(It looks like there's a work for it in WDLF5, so it will probably be synned to Original Works soon, tragically, so I figure we should future proof this nom...)

[(Anonymous)]

Was wondering how quickly the google forms submissions show up in the tag set. I may have forgotten what I nommed. Oops.

[fic_in_a_box_mod]

Hi nonny! I should be putting a new batch in this afternoon along with the next nominations clarification post. I think everything waiting to be put in now If you want me to check on a specific fandom's submissions I can do that pretty easily!

[(Anonymous)]

That's fine, thanks. I'm used to nominating on ao3, so it didn't occur to me to make notes.

[aanje]

how would i nominate a group within the fandom, of which i wouldn't mind any character being chosen for works to be created for? would it be Solo: GROUP NAME or would it be Any: GROUP NAME?

[fic_in_a_box_mod]

Hi! Solo: is the correct modifier. You can go with "Solo: GROUP NAME" or, if the phrasing works, "Solo: Creator's Choice of GROUP"

[volpish]

Is there any chance we could nominate 'Creator's choice of fandom' or 'any fandom'? (Possibly dovetailing into OW ships as prompts or just tossing the dice on whatever your creator wants to make? Or anything, really.)

[fic_in_a_box_mod]

We've seen Creator's Choice of Fandom work really well in other exchanges, but we're extremely hesitant to allow it in an exchange where we might need to find people to produce 10k worth of PH gift(s) for a recip who doesn't know the fandom, so I'm afraid we're going to have to say no.

[volpish]

Alrighty, thank you!

double disambiguations

[mimsical]

Hi, like I said on discord, I found some things that were disambiguated twice!

Fandom: Magic Kaito

Hakuba Saguru & Original Character (Magic Kaito) (Magic Kaito)
Hakuba Saguru/Koizumi Akako/Kuroba Kaito | Kaitou Kid/Nakamori Aoko (Magic Kaito) (Magic Kaito)
Koizumi Akako & Kuroba Kaito (Magic Kaito) (Magic Kaito)
Solo: Hakuba Saguru (Magic Kaito) (Magic Kaito)

Re: double disambiguations

[fic_in_a_box_mod]

Thank you! These should be fixed now

A Note regarding nominating For The Wolf

[featheryminx]

Hi! Bit of a late nomination due to me not knowing exactly how to handle this situation but basically

For The Wolf - Hannah Whitten is a new fandom I want to nominate (recent release, no works on ao3 as of now); I'm going ahead and putting the noms in via the google form using just the character's first names, but I'm checking on the last names when I can get a copy of the book tomorrow, so fencesit told me to just drop a comment here to remind y'all not to finalize those noms until I get back to y'all about the last names.

Re: A Note regarding nominating For The Wolf

[featheryminx]

I am back! Not all the characters have last names but I will give you the ones I have for the ppl I nominated

Redarys -> Redarys Valedren
Neverah -> Neverah Valedren
Isla -> Isla Valedren
Gaya* -> Gaya Andraline

*I don't remember if I included a relationship tag with her in it so I am giving her name just in case.

Let me know if y'all have any questions! <3

Re: A Note regarding nominating For The Wolf

[fic_in_a_box_mod]

Thanks! We've accepted these. :) They should be in the tagset soon.