Nominations Guidelines 2022

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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).

Before nominating, please read the "Nominations Guidelines" section of this post, even if you also read it last year. After you nominate, please keep an eye on the comm in case we need clarification from you before accepting a nomination.

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/27546.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; 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/m9cxg6P2cKemY8RV7

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 12 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/12306

Nomination Guidelines

All nominations should be correctly spelled and punctuated. If you are disambiguating (especially on AO3) then make sure your disambigs are correctly capitalized, too. We prefer Original Works and Original Characters be in title case ("A Really Hot Vampire/A Wizard" not "a really hot vampire/a wizard") but we will accept sentence case as well ("A really hot vampire/A wizard").

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 Work
• Megafandoms, franchises, etc: See below.
• Recursive fandoms: You will need permission from the fanwork creator to nominate unless the work was already nominated as a fandom in a past round. If the work does not have an established fandom you'll need at least two people who intend to request and/or offer it.
• Fandoms with - All Media Types, fandoms with & Related Fandoms, and fandoms that function as such: We prefer specific, clear fandoms that cover a concrete canon or section of canon because this both makes it easier to mod and makes it easier to offer/pinch hit. As a general rule, if your fandom already has subfandoms nominated, please contact us before nominating a AMT type fandom and expect to be queried if you nominate an AMT type fandom without talking to us first. (Which you can do! We don't mind querying you.).
• "Creator's Choice of Fandom" will not be accepted in this exchange.

Relationships field:

"/", "&", and "Solo:" relationship types are allowed, as well as worldbuilding tags, which begin with "WB:"

• / relationships are sexual and/or romantic.
• & relationships are platonic.
• Solo: tags are for single characters and groups.
• WB: tags are for non-ship/character/group worldbuilding concepts.

If nominating via AO3, 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: Group (Fandom)
• WB: Worldbuilding Topic (Fandom)
• Character A (Fandom A) / Character B (Fandom B)
• Character A (Fandom A) & Character B (Fandom B)
• Character A (Fandom A) in Fandom B

Tag examples:

• Elmo/Big Bird (Sesame Street) — these characters will be dating, having sex, etc.
• Elmo & Big Bird (Sesame Street) — these characters will be friends, neighbors, family, acquaintances, enemies, strangers, etc.
• Solo: Elmo (Sesame Street) — you will receive a work about/centered around Elmo, but other characters can appear.
• Solo: Muppets (Sesame Street) — you will receive a work about/centered around one of literally any Muppet, but potentially more than one.
• WB: Sesame Street City Planning & Zoning Ordinances (Sesame Street) — you will receive a work about city planning and zoning on Sesame Street, which could include any or no characters

Group tag and "Any" or "Creator's Choice" guidelines:

• Just to reiterate above, Solo: Group tags mean "One or more of this group" whether or not they have "Any" or "Creator's Choice of" in front of them.
• If you request an ambiguous group (eg: Solo: The [fandom] ensemble or Solo: The Avengers) we will assume that any possible 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". Similar to original works, please make sure any important information is within the Any character tag.
• Where there is ambiguity created by a nomination, we will likely side with the creator. If you want to be sure that you'll get specific characters, please nominate them by name.

Worldbuilding tag guidelines:

Worldbuilding nominations are for reasonably broad worldbuilding topics for elements of canon you would like worldbuilding about.

• What "reasonably broad" means will vary somewhat by canon, but in general worldbuilding tags should be applicable or related to more than one character.
• Worldbuilding topics should be concrete facets of the canon world (so, not fanon, not a trope, not a plot or conflict, not a mood or vague concept) that cannot be covered under a relationship, character, or group nomination.
• If you nominate something like "WB: Council of Mages" we will tell you to either switch it to a group nomination ("Solo: Council of Mages") or ask you to help us refine it to point more at the worldbuilding you actually want (WB: Council of Mages International Politics, say, or WB: Public Opinion & Rumor About The Council of Mages)
• Don't nominate "WB: Any". We'll be adding this tag to every fandom after nominations close, so any early nominations of this tag will be rejected to avoid duplicates.

Original works:

• 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, for example, please include it in the character tags.
• You may nominate other kinds of tags in Original Works, for example ambiguous groups like "Solo: Cute Forest Animal(s) (Original Works)"
• Where there is ambiguity created by a nomination, we will likely side with the creator. If you want to be sure that you'll get specific characters, please nominate them by name.
• We prefer Original Works and Original Characters be in title case ("A Really Hot Vampire/A Wizard" not "a really hot vampire/a wizard") but we will accept sentence case as well ("A really hot vampire/A wizard").

Crossovers

• 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)."
• We know the actual AO3 nom page says you can put crossover tags in either fandom but please don't!

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 (Fanfic Disambiguation)". Relationship nominations that involve one or more DoS character and one or more Naruto/Boruto character should be nominated under the fandom "Crossover Fandom".
• Harry Potter, Rigel Black Chronicles, and Revolutionary Arc should be nominated separately. Please nominate Rigel Black Chronicles as "Rigel Black Chronicles - murkybluebatter (Exchange Disambiguation)", and nominate Revolutionary Arc as "Revolutionary Arc - kitsunerei88 (Fanfic Disambiguation)".
• 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 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)(OTM)" and "X-men (Movieverse)(ATM)". 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

[kryptontease]

I would like to nominate the Forsaken and Forsworn (fic series) by aliatori. It was nominated for Recursive Exchange, and it gets lots of works on tumblr!

Series link: https://archiveofourown.org/series/2327717
Permission statement: https://archiveofourown.org/users/aliatori/profile

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Thank you for the links! Since it's OW I'm not adding it to the recursive section of the google sheet but when you nominate it please use "The Forsaken and the Forsworn - aliatori (Exchange Disambiguation)"