Nominations Clarification 5

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Nominations Clarification 5

This is the last Nominations Clarification post.

All tags nominated on AO3 should now be either accepted or rejected. All tags nominated via google form should now be either accepted or queried.

If you can't find your tags in the tagset, first check this post and the other 4 clarification posts to see if we queried or rejected them and you just missed it. (You should be able to just ctrl+f on the comm's front page for your fandom.) If they're not there, then please comment on this post or email. AO3 nominators should include a link to their nominations page. Google form nominators should give us as much specific tag information as they remember.

If your AO3 tagset nominations were rejected and you don't understand why, we're happy to explain! Please comment on this post or email. Include a link to your AO3 nominations page so we can look at that.

If you were previously queried you might still be waiting for a reply because I prioritized getting this clarifaction out so everyone would have time to view it before the tagset clean up phase ends. I will catch up on replying to all of you tomorrow!

If you missed nominations or all your nominations were rejected, like in previous years we will open up a post for late nominations once sign ups open. We will require you to format your tags for that perfectly, though, so if you had your tags rejected and don't understand why you should probably ask us to explain! Comment on this post with a link to your nominations page, or email us with your link.

Find tagset errors? Right after this post goes up, we'll put up a post for tagset fixes, like duplicate tags and mispellings and other errors.

Here is a little FAQ about Nominations Clarification posts for those of you who haven't run into them before, hidden under a details tag now:

Here is a little FAQ about Nominations Clarification posts for those of you who haven't run into them before:

What/why is a Nominations Clarification post?

Nomination clarifications are queries about tags we find confusing and updates about tags or the tagset in general. The goal of nominations is to create a tagset of unambiguous, easy to understand tags that will be useful to participants and solidly within the scope of the exchange. The goal of a clarifications post is to keep all of our participants up-to-date regarding our nominations work and solicit feedback where necessary to create the most useful tagset we can.

Do I need to read the whole post?

No. You can just skim each clarification post to see if a fandom you're interested in requesting or offering has been mentioned. We recommend doing this even if you don't care very much how the tagset is organized in case we make some kind of huge blunder with your favorite fandom or OTP.

How do I reply to a Nominations Clarification post? Do I need a Dreamwidth account?

You don't need a Dreamwidth account because we have anonymous commenting turned on. If you comment anonymously, remember to check back for our reply! You can also email us at ficinaboxmod@gmail.com if you'd prefer.

There's a query about a fandom I'm familiar with, but I'm not the nominator. Can I tell you what I think?

Yes! If you are not the nominator but have relevant fandom knowledge about something, please speak up. Nominators don't always reply to our queries, so answers from other people in the fandom are often very helpful.

Why haven't you processed my nomination(s) yet?

Nominations can't be processed in a strictly first-in, first-out manner because of various backend reasons, so most likely we just haven't yet had a chance because of the large volume of submitted nominations. Double check our nominations clarification posts for your tag. If sign ups open and one or more of your tags is mysteriously still missing, please reach out.

My AO3 tagset nomination(s) were rejected but aren't discussed below, why did you reject them?

Most likely you failed to disambiguate your nominations, or made some other error — we reject incorrect tags rather than fixing them. You're welcome to post a link to your nominations slate if you'd like us to tell you why the tag(s) were rejected. You can attempt to re-nominated tags either on AO3 or via the form if you'd like.

However, there is a delay between us rejecting and us posting nominations clarifications! Literally as I post this post, other people on the tagmod team are approving/rejecting new tags. So your rejected tag might show up in a future clarification post

I have a nominations question not answered here or on the Nomination Guidelines. Can I ask on this post?

Yes! You can ask nominations questions on whichever nominations clarification post has been most recently posted, or you can ask on the Nomination Guidelines, or you can use the mod contact post, or you can email us. We're happy to help no matter how you get in contact!

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New Mediums

We got a lot of new medium opt-in nominations this year! Also, one length opt-in nomination! Here's a list for you to gaze at, to help you get excited for sign ups.

There are 40 new mediums, so they're getting a details tag too. Click here to view!

• Length Opt-In: 900 words exactly
• Medium Opt-In: Art - Papercraft - Fanart
• Medium Opt-In: Art - Body Pillow Cover Style Art
• Medium Opt-In: Art - Character Possessions
• Medium Opt-In: Art - In-Universe Stage Performance Poster
• Medium Opt-In: Art - Medieval Illumination-Style Art
• Medium Opt-In: Art - Medieval Illumination-Style Illustration of a Scene From the Recipient's Fic
• Medium Opt-In: Art - Phone Wallpaper
• Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - Astrology Birth Chart Reading
• Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - Dating App/Dating Site Profile
• Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - Illustrated Fic
• Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - In-Universe Stage Performance Playbill Page
• Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - Tarot Card with Interpretation
• Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - Tarot Card Reading
• Medium Opt-In: Writing - Astrology Birth Chart Reading
• Medium Opt-In: Writing - In-Universe Transcript of Sports Match Commentary
• Medium Opt-In: Writing - Not!fic
• Medium Opt-In: Typographic Design - Calligraphy & Handlettering
• Medium Opt-In: Typographic Design - Calligraphy & Handlettering - In-Universe Longform
• Medium Opt-In: Typographic Design - Calligraphy & Handlettering - Epistolary
• Medium Opt-In: Typographic Design - In-Universe Style Guide
• Medium Opt-In: Typographic Design - Zine Page
• Medium Opt-In: Typographic Design - In-Universe Zine Page
• Medium Opt-In: Poetry - Double Abecedarian
• Medium Opt-In: Poetry - Cinquain
• Medium Opt-In: Audio - Filk Set To Public Domain Music (A Capella)
• Medium Opt-In: Audio - First Person In-Character Narration
• Medium Opt-In: Audio - Podfic with Freetalk
• Medium Opt-In: Audio - Podfic with Interjections & Narration Stumbles
• Medium Opt-In: Audio - Recorded Meta - Scripted
• Medium Opt-In: Audio - Recorded Meta - Unscripted
• Medium Opt-In: Instructions - Mocktail Recipe
• Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Craftwork - Pressed Botanicals
• Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Fanmix with Liner Notes
• Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Printable Dress-up Paper Doll
• Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Web Weave - Collage Style
• Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Crossword Puzzle
• Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Crossword Puzzle with Cryptic Clues
• Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Nonogram Logic Puzzle
• Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Raddle Puzzle

Queries

Google Forms nominations

• DC Extended Universe: Hartley Rathaway | Pied Piper & Wally West (Kid Flash) (DCEU) — Nominator, this seems to be a nomination for the Flash TV show. Is that the case? That TV show isn't part of the DCEU. If it is for the Flash TV show, we will accept under DC's Arrowverse.
• DC Extended Universe: Hartley Rathaway | Pied Piper/James Jesse | Trickster (DCEU) — Nominator, this seems to be a nomination for the Flash TV show. Is that the case? That TV show isn't part of the DCEU. If it is for the Flash TV show, we will accept under DC's Arrowverse.
• DC Extended Universe: Hartley Rathaway | Pied Piper/Wally West (Kid Flash) (DCEU) — Nominator, this seems to be a nomination for the Flash TV show. Is that the case? That TV show isn't part of the DCEU. If it is for the Flash TV show, we will accept under DC's Arrowverse.
• DC Extended Universe: Solo: Hartley Rathaway (DCEU) — Nominator, this seems to be a nomination for the Flash TV show. Is that the case? That TV show isn't part of the DCEU. If it is for the Flash TV show, we will accept under DC's Arrowverse.
• DC Extended Universe: Solo: The Rogues (Flash) (DCEU) — Nominator, this seems to be a nomination for the Flash TV show. Is that the case? That TV show isn't part of the DCEU. If it is for the Flash TV show, we will accept under DC's Arrowverse. Also, this was nominated with the label "Group:" which isn't allowed per our nomiantion guidelines, so we switched it to "Solo:"
• DCU (Comics): WB: Gotham vs. Metropolis (DC Comics) — Nominator, we can't figure out what this WB: tag means! Can you explain it for us?
• Sinkhole (Podcast): Solo: Original Character Thrown Out Of The Sinkhole (Sinkhole) — Nominator, could you let us know what the sinkhole is and if there are canonically people who are thrown out of it?
• 烈車戦隊トッキュウジャー | Ressha Sentai ToQger: WB: Rainbow Line (Ressha Sentai ToQger) — This seems like it might be a group of characters, which would make it more appriate for a Solo: tag. Is it a group?
• 烈車戦隊トッキュウジャー | Ressha Sentai ToQger: WB: Shadow Line (Ressha Sentai ToQger) — This seems like it might be a group of characters, which would make it more appriate for a Solo: tag. Is it a group?

Ao3 tagset nominations

• Dead by Daylight (Video Game): WB: Surviving In Between Trials (Dead by Daylight) — Nominator, we're not totally sure what this means but it reads like a prompt to us. Could you elaborate on what you meant by this and/or help us rephrase?
• Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim : Female Dragonborn/General Tullius (Elder Scrolls: Skyrim) — We pulled these to query but solved our own questions, so they should be in the tagset now!
• Haikyuu!! : WB: Bouncing Ball Corp. (Haikyuu!!) — We pulled these to query but solved our own questions, so they should be in the tagset now!
• Kingsman: The Secret Service (Movie): WB: Behind the scenes of the Kingsman organization — Nominator, we can't figure out what this WB: tag means! Can you explain it for us?
• Original Work: Female General Who Returned/Female Childhood Friend He Wants to Marry/Hostage Princess General Has To Marry (OW) — Nominator, is it okay if we accept this as "Female General Who Returned/Female Childhood Friend She Wants to Marry/Hostage Princess General Has To Marry (OW)" or did you want the Female General to use he/him pronouns? If you did, we should probably rephrase the tag for clarity.
• Original Work: WB: Cyberpunk Dystopia (OW) — We pulled these to query but solved our own questions, so they should be in the tagset now!
• Schmigadoon! (TV): WB: Other Musical Lands (Schmigadoon!) — We pulled these to query but solved our own questions, so they should be in the tagset now!
• Slow Damage (Visual Novel): Madarame Kei/Towa (Slow Damage), Shiro/Towa (Slow Damage) — We pulled these to query but solved our own questions, so they should be in the tagset now!
• Smosh: Bit City Host/Sarah Christ (Smosh) — We pulled these to query but solved our own questions, so they should be in the tagset now!
• Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms - Mercedes Lackey: Alexander & Elena (Five Hundred Kingdoms), Alexander/Elena (Five Hundred Kingdoms), Solo: Elena (Five Hundred Kingdoms) — We pulled these to query but solved our own questions, so they should be in the tagset now!
• The Hundred Line -Last Defense Academy- (Video Game): WB: Actions of Anti-Exodus Faction (Hundred Line) — Nominator, we can't figure out what this WB: tag means! Can you explain it for us?
• The Hundred Line -Last Defense Academy- (Video Game): WB: Cryptoglobin memory sharing (Hundred Line) — Nominator, we can't figure out what this WB: tag means! Can you explain it for us? (We also want to check if "Cryptoglobin" is the correct spelling because we did keep misreading it as "Cryptogolbin" although we're not sure what that would mean either.)
• The Magnus Archives (Podcast): Solo: Slaughter Avatar (The Magnus Archives) — We pulled these to query but solved our own questions, so they should be in the tagset now!
• Video Games: Devil May Cry (Gameverse): Dante/Vergil (DmC) — The "DmC" abbreviation is apparently specific to a different reboot so for extra clarity we've replaced this tag with "Dante/Vergil (DMC Gameverse)"—if you actually meant the Devil may Cry reboot from 2013, please let us know, but we think the capitalization situation was a tagset system whoops and not your actual intent.
• ウルトラマンブレーザー | Ultraman Blazar: Solo: SKaRD (team) (Ultraman Blazar) — Nominator, we're confused about why this is disambiguated with "(team)", could you please explain?
• 暴太郎戦隊ドンブラザーズ | Avataro Sentai Donbrothers: Solo: Donbrothers (team) (Avataro Sentai Donbrothers) — Per the wiki, "Donbrothers" may refer to several subsets of characters. Is the nominator sure this description will get them the characters they want? Also, it looks like there are only five in the main Donbrothers team, so would the nominator prefer to just nominate the five as an explicit group, so they can get a gift about all of them?

Rejected Tags

Ao3 tagset nominations

• Bandom: Bob Bryar/Brian Schechter (Bandom) — Unfortunately, we've decided that Brian Schechter doesn't meet our "famous in their own right" requirements, so we can't accept this tag.
• DCU (Comics): Trisana Chandler & Daja Kisubo & Briar Moss & Sandrilene fa Toren (Emelan) in Gotham City (DC Comics) — This was accepted in error. It has been replaced with the tag "Trisana Chandler & Daja Kisubo & Briar Moss & Sandrilene fa Toren (Emelan) in Batman (Comics)"
• Dead Boy Detectives (TV) : Jenny Green (Dead Boy Detectives)/Night Nurse (DCU) — This was rejected because it should have been nominated under Crossover Fandom. You're welcome to re-nominate it when late nominations open.
• Dead Boy Detectives (TV) : Kashi (Dead Boy Detectives)/Night Nurse (DCU) — This was rejected because it should have been nominated under Crossover Fandom. You're welcome to re-nominate it when late nominations open.
• Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling : WB: How do portraits work? (HP - JKR) — This was rejected because it's in the form of a question. We would like to rephrase it as a specific worldbuilding topic, although "WB: Portraits" is probably too close to a group. Maybe something like "WB: Creation of Magical Portraits (HP - JKR)"?
• Invisible Inc. (Video Game): WB: Agency operations post-canon (Invisible Inc) — WB: tags need to be phrased in an in-universe way. What's different about post-canon agency operations that you want worldbuilding about, or what event happened at the end of canon that might have impacted the agency?
• Men's Hockey RPF: Celeste Desjardins/Leon Draisaitl/Lauren Kyle/Connor McDavid (Men's Hockey RPF) — Two of the characters in this ship aren't ellibile. Celeste Desjardins is married to a men's hockey player, but isn't famous for men's hockey and so can't be nominated in the Men's Hockey RPF fandom. Lauren Kyle is married to a hockey player but does not seem to be famous in her own right, and so can't be nominated at all. If our research has failed us, please let us know.
• Midsomer Murders - All Media Types: All tags — Your tags were rejected because we don't accept All Media Types and other umbrella fandoms without discussion beforehand. When late nominations open, you can re-nominate your tags under a more specific fandom.
• NCIS (TV 2003): WB: HR and employees complaint management (NCIS 2003) — Sorry, nominator, but WB: tags need to be about fictional things instead of things that require research, and NCIS is a real thing with a real HR department. If I'm mistaken and there's something fictional about this, please let us know.
• Newsflesh Series - Mira Grant: WB: Orphans of the Rising (Newsflesh) — We think this is a little too close to a Solo: nomination and would like to ask the nominator what kind of worldbuilding they would specifically be interested in. We're happy to help you phrase one or several tags to cover your worldbuilding interests or, alternately, to accept this tag as a Solo: tag.
• Ordem Paranormal (Web Series): WB: Typical Missions for the Pre-Canon Order (Ordem Paranormal) — WB: tags need to be phrased in an in-universe way. How was the order different pre-canon, or what pre-canon event changed the order such that missions would have been different then?
• Original Work: WB: Lovecraftian Horror (OW) — Nominator, this seems like a genre instead of a worldbuilding topic, could you elaborate about what you want? (Alternatively, you might find that what you want is covered under the fandom "Cthulhu Mythos - H. P. Lovecraft")
• Star Trek: The Original Series: WB: Rumors about Roddenberry's footnote (ST: TOS) — Nominator, we're not totally sure what this means but it definitely seems metatextual. All WB: tags need to be phrased in an in-universe way. What kind of worldbuilding were you hoping for?
• The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien: WB: In-world historians seeking primary sources about the Elder Days (LotR Books) — All WB: tags are required to be phrased in-universe so this tag doesn't need that clarification, but also this seems more like a prompt than a worldbuilding topic. Would something like "WB: Primary Sources About The Elder Days (LotR Books)" suit your needs?

Comments

烈車戦隊トッキュウジャー | Ressha Sentai ToQger

[box_of_doom]

The Rainbow Line and Shadow Line are much more similar to… two different train companies than a group of people, if that makes sense?

Thinking about the Rainbow Line in particular, the trains and the rails themselves (and maybe, admittedly, its president) more than I do a group of people.

Shadow Line is a bit more ambiguous, but as there are still trains, routes, and literally taking over towns and making them essentially dark places that can no longer be remembered… I’d say there’s worldbuilding to be done with this line as well.

In case it helps, here’s wiki pages for both the Rainbow Line and Shadow Line

Re: 烈車戦隊トッキュウジャー | Ressha Sentai ToQger

[27twinsister]

Another thing to consider about the lines and if they should count as groups is Zaram | Akira Nijiro has worked on both so it would be slightly ambiguous, though I guess people could mention if they have a preference for where he should be in prompts.

Re: 烈車戦隊トッキュウジャー | Ressha Sentai ToQger

[fic_in_a_box_mod]

Thank you for this information! We'll accept as-is

[violet_pencil]

Star Trek: The Original Series: WB: Rumors about Roddenberry's footnote (ST: TOS) — Nominator, we're not totally sure what this means but it definitely seems metatextual. All WB: tags need to be phrased in an in-universe way. What kind of worldbuilding were you hoping for?

Not the nominator but I could see this being an in-universe prompt. Roddenberry's footnote says: "However, because t'hy'la can be used to mean lover, and since Kirk's and Spock's friendship was unusually close, this has led to some speculation over whether they had actually indeed become lovers" and then includes an in-universe fictional "statement from Captain Kirk" where he says basically "love is love and everyone is valid but I (mostly) like women and besides I wouldn't date someone who only wants to have sex once a decade." So when exactly in canon did these "rumors" occur and in what context was this statement given, did it really quash the rumors or did people in universe point out "hey he didn't say he ONLY likes women, maybe K/S was still a thing" & so on.

edit: I might suggest a rephrase of "WB: Rumors about Kirk and Spock's relationship - as described in Roddenberry's Footnote" ?

[(Anonymous)]

Also not the nominator, but seconding the explanation above.

If the WB tag is supposed to be entirely in-universe without meta references, it could perhaps also be something like:

"WB: Rumors about Kirk and Spock's relationship due to t'hy'la meaning both friend and lover"?

[fic_in_a_box_mod]

Unfortunately, any mention of Roddenberry in the tag means that the tag still isn't phrase in an in-universe way, because Gene Roddenberry isn't part of the universe of Star Trek. Also, a WB tag like "WB: Rumors about Kirk and Spock's relationship" is probably better served as a prompt under a Kirk/Spock tag. This information is still very helpful and interesting, but I think we'll need to hear from the nominator about what kind of worldbuilding they're hoping for before we can formulate a replacement tag.

[lemniskath]

Sinkhole is a podcast in which a big portion of the city fell into "the sinkhole" including a lot of people, and the narrator is (as they admit in episode 5) one of 112 people who were thrown back out. Those 112 people suffered "deep sink," a disability where some parts of their body only sort-of exist (as explained in detail in the podcast) which prevents the narrator from using the NEV.

In the final episode of season two, more people are thrown out of the sinkhole.

Transcripts of all episodes can be found here: https://sinkholepodcast.com/index.php/episode-transcripts/

podcast itself is available in the usual places, including here on spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1VRO6g5s3WOC6VjpYSNPWO

[fic_in_a_box_mod]

Thank you, this was really helpful! We'll accept as-is.

WB: Typical Missions for the Pre-Canon Order (Ordem Paranormal)

[echotunes]

Hi! Not the nominator for the Ordem Paranormal tag, but this tag could be rephrased to "WB: Typical Pre-Nostradamus Order Missions (Ordem Paranormal)". Nostradamus is the name of the high school that the first season's mission takes place at, and it's the chronologically first mission we see in canon (there is a whole spinoff season set several decades earlier than the Nostradamus mission, but that one doesn't involve any Order missions, so the point still stands). The way missions look and the Order is set up changes significantly after Nostradamus and the mission that follows it in season 2 (both because the danger the Paranormal presents increases, and because the way the Order decides to approach dealing with it changes significantly due to a character who was recruited into the Order after being involved in Nostradamus), so this rephrase should cover what the nominator was getting at. (Though if they see this and have their own suggestion to add, then of course please take theirs over mine!)

Re: WB: Typical Missions for the Pre-Canon Order (Ordem Paranormal)

[fic_in_a_box_mod]

Thank you, this is really helpful! This change seems relatively straightforward, so with sign ups starting so soon, I think we'll take this change. If the nominator sees this later and would prefer something else, they can reach out for a new tag, of course.

Newsflesh

[(Anonymous)]

So there isn't a single character group that Orphans of the Rising refers to. It's a description made up by Michael Mason in "All the Pretty Little Horses" when referring to the post-zombie apocalypse state ward/orphanage/fostering crisis that resulted from parents going out to seek help and never coming home. In a news report trying to gain publicity for their situation, he described these children, who are all across the country with more being found by the day, as orphans of the Rising, and the story says the name stuck. I'd like to request worldbuilding regarding these kids and their experiences/trauma and the state system being formed around them post zombie apocalypse. We get some really great legal and organizational and ethical consideration people are trying to keep in mind when taking care of these children and implement a massively scaled up department of children's services system.

Re: Newsflesh

[fic_in_a_box_mod]

Hi, thank you for replying! Even though the kids are unnamed, they still count as characters who would be covered under a "Solo: Orphans of the Rising" request. We require that worldbuilding nominations like this be more specific because we don't want you to be in a position where you think you're going to get juicy worldbuilding about the creation of a new state system etc but instead get, say, fluffy kidfic that technically counts as worldbuilding because it has some backstory in it.

Some examples of more specific worldbuilding tags (although you're welcome to suggest your own) would be:

WB: Media Coverage & Public Opinion Of The Orphans of the Rising (Newsflesh)
WB: Ward/Orphanage/Fostering Crisis (Newsflesh)
WB: Institutionalized Childcare During The [canonical in-universe term for the zombie apocalypse] (Newsflesh)

[(Anonymous)]

Dead Boy Detectives nominations: Jenny Green/Night Nurse and Kashi/Night Nurse

Not the nominator, but I am fairly certain that these are not meant to be crossover tags, because "Night Nurse" is a character who appears both in "Doom Patrol" (DCU) and in "Dead Boy Detectives," and she is played in both series by the same actress, Ruth Connell, so effectively this is the same version of the same character in both series.

I am of curse guessing, but I would assume that nominator simply used a canonical tag for the character but means Ruth Connell as night nurse in her appearance in Dead Boy Detectives. Again, this is the same character played by the same actress, regardless of whether it's disambiguated with DCU or Dead Boy Detectives.

[fic_in_a_box_mod]

Hi, thanks for this info! I think our quick googling mixed her up with a minor Marvel comics character of the same name. Unfortunately, these tags are still not formatting correctly because they should only be disambiguated with the fandom they're being nominated into. They can be renominated during Late Nominations.

Midsomer Murders nom

[(Anonymous)]

I probably had a brain misfire when I realised the only canonical fandom tag is AMT. Would Midsomer Murders (TV) be okay, or would I need to be more specific? I could narrow it down to Midsomer Murders (TV series 14-21) based on the nominated ship tags if needed.

Re: Midsomer Murders nom

[fic_in_a_box_mod]

Yes, "Midsomer Murders (TV)" would be fine!

Form got eaten I guess?

[(Anonymous)]

Hello hello! I had submitted 2 tags through a form at some point and neither seemed to make it into the tagset but also hasn't been included in any of these posts?

They were both for She-Ra, with one being "WB: Upbringing in the Horde (She-Ra)" and the other being "WB: Prime hivemind chips (She-Ra)". I'd be happy to explain for either of these tags if needed as well!

Thank you in advance whenever you get around to responding to this!!

Re: Form got eaten I guess?

[fic_in_a_box_mod]

Oh no! I'm sorry that happened. We'll see if we can figure out where the heck they went, but I'll also make sure to pop them in the tagset before sign ups start even if we can't find them.

Re: Form got eaten I guess?

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you so much!!

The Hundred Line -Last Defense Academy- (Video Game)

[27twinsister]

I’m not the nominator of these but hope to provide context!

The Exodus Project is the group who recruited the teens to fight (stated vaguely to avoid spoiling it). The Anti-Exodus Project is a group of people who are against the actions of the Exodus Project. The Exodus Project is mentioned in a fair amount of routes (particularly 2nd Scenario) but the Anti-Exodus Project is only mentioned in the Conspiracy Route. Gotoh is a virus that was hidden inside of Nigou with the intent of taking control of his body and recruiting the teens for the Anti-Exodus Project. For more information (and spoilers) you can read TvTropes under "The Leaders" for the Exodus Project and "The Third AI" for Gotoh.

Cryptoglobin is the correct spelling (my brain always wants to read it cryptogoblin). Cryptoglobin is Hemoanima. It’s a blood-based power that allows the characters to fight and summon their Class Weapons and Class Armor.

In the Multiple Eitos Route, Takumi kills Eito and absorbs his cryptoglobin, setting you on this route, and then he starts seeing everyone else as Eito. He also does this late in the first playthrough (First Scenario) but obviously didn’t start seeing everyone as Eito. I think it’s a mix of absorbing Eito’s hemoanima more than once and Eito somehow managing to stay alive in Takumi’s brain idk this route is weird. Basically Eito isn’t successfully killed and is sharing a brain with Takumi and purposely altering his perception to make him miserable. I think Eito also technically has access to the rest of Takumi’s brain but chooses not to do much with it. Personally I’d assume the requester wants something to do with the Multiple Eitos route but again I’m not the nominator of the tag.

Re: The Hundred Line -Last Defense Academy- (Video Game)

[(Anonymous)]

Nominator here -- I'm not looking for cryptoglobin ghosts (which is what is going on with Eito in Multiple Eitos: he is a cryptoglobin ghost haunting Takumi, with additional power due to the double absorption leaving more of his original cryptoglobin to him latch on to). I'm looking for cryptoglobin memory sharing (most prominent on the Killing Game route). These are two distinct uses of cryptoglobin in the game, with clear differences in consent, number of people surviving the encounter, and end result (sharing all your memories vs. a ghost that hates you lives in your blood and makes you hallucinate).

Re: The Hundred Line -Last Defense Academy- (Video Game)

[fic_in_a_box_mod]

Thank you, this is really helpful! We'll accept both as-is.

NCIS (TV 2003): WB: HR and employees complaint management (NCIS 2003)

[lilibel]

(I had to laugh because being a non-US person who only know NCIS thru the show, I always forget that they are a true and real entity to begin with)

The WB referred to the fictional aspect of NCIS as portrayed thru the TV show and more specifically the 2003 serie.

Maybe "WB: HR and employees complaint management as it relates to the NCIS 2003 TV-show" ?

Looking at the tagsets submitted that were approved, I am fine of you decide to fully reject the WB tag request as they relate to one on one relationship between specific characters of the show and the fictional NCIS HR departement.

Re: NCIS (TV 2003): WB: HR and employees complaint management (NCIS 2003)

[fic_in_a_box_mod]

Yeah, I think HR management of specific NCIS characters is probably better covered by your other nominated tags. I do really hope you get that worldbuilding though, the tags are delightful!

[(Anonymous)]

Hundred Line nominator here!

WB: Actions of Anti-Exodus Faction (Hundred Line)

In Hundred Line, the Exodus Project is the primary goal of the current political regime, calling for an exodus of the human population from their current artificial satellite home and the colonization of the planet Futuran. The Anti-Exodus Faction revealed in the game's Conspiracy Route. It is a human political faction that opposes the Exodus Project, and argues for the eventual extinction of the human species. Very little is known about the Anti-Exodus Faction at this time, but they are confirmed to have been secretly and actively sabotaging the current military action the characters are involved in. At minimum, they have inserted a sleeper agent AI, Gotoh, into one of the team's commanding officers; Gotoh overtakes Nigou in the Conspiracy Route. It's also heavily implied that the Anti-Exodus Faction attempted to tamper with the main cast's implanted backstories; in particular, Eito Aotsuki's goals line up far too well with the stated beliefs of the Anti-Exodus Faction.

I'm interested in worldbuilding around the actions the Anti-Exodus Faction has taken. What other ways have they tampered with the current mission? Did they actually alter the cast's backgrounds, and if so, how successful were they in this? We see the fake "truth" about the past the Anti-Exodus Faction gives Kurara -- what did the other characters recieve? Is the promise of an escape to the Artificial Satellite offered on the Conspiracy Route true, or is the cast working with them a trap?

I'm not interested in content about the Anti-Exodus Faction itself -- given that we only have one canonical member, that would ask for a lot of speculation. Rather, I'm looking for the ways the actions they've undertaken and continue to take impact the lives of the main cast.

WB: Cryptoglobin memory sharing (Hundred Line)

Firstly, yes, cryptoglobin is the correct spelling. "Crypto-" as a prefix for hidden or strange, "globin" for hemoglobin, a protein found in blood. This is the term used by the Futuran people; the human faction instead uses "hemoanima". Hundred Line is a game that largely revolves around magic blood, and cryptoglobin/hemoanima is that magic blood.

When I say it is magic, I mean "it can do whatever the writers need it to do at the time." There are seemingly no limits placed on what cryptoglobin can theoretically do. However, some of its most interesting known properties relate to memory. Within the game, we see that cryptoglobin is able to preserve memories as ghosts, boost someone's powers enough to unlock repressed memories, and, most relevant to my prompt, share memories between two people. In the Killing Game route, the consensual oral consumption of cryptoglobin allows two characters to share a lifetime's worth of memories between them.

For this tag, I am specifically nominating memory sharing (as seen in the Killing Game Route), as opposed to haunting by cryptoglobin ghosts (as seen in Multiple Eitos and in Box of Calamities). While both involve a transfer of cryptoglobin, these are two different processes with two extremely different end results.

I have left this tag open-ended, because I'm interested in both the possible history of cryptoglobin memory sharing in Futuran society and in the mechanics of memory sharing. We know that the sharing of cryptoglobin is taboo in Futuran society because of the risk of cryptoglobin users choosing to sacrifice themselves -- but was this practiced before the taboo? Does memory sharing have to come from the circumstances that Nozomi and Eva shared, or can memory sharing be triggered in other ways? How would memory sharing be impacted by someone busy being haunted by a cryptoglobin ghost -- whose memories are transfered?

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Thank you, this is very helpful! We'll accept as-is and have them in the tagset for you by the time sign ups open.

[(Anonymous)]

Hello! I'm the nominator for "Dead by Daylight (Video Game): WB: Surviving In Between Trials (Dead by Daylight)".

I'm interested in worldbuilding for the entity's realm beyond the trials themselves (i.e. what is happening outside of the 10-15 minutes of game time, what is it like to 'live' in that environment). I've nominated WB: The Entity's Realm instead, which has been accepted - I think that's close enough! Don't worry about this nom.

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Thank you for the reply!

ウルトラマンブレーザー | Ultraman Blazar

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In the series "SKaRD" is the acronym to the unit called "Special Kaiju Reaction Detachment", a group of people in charge of managing, researching, and solving situations involving kaijus, whose members would be "Aobe Emi & Bando Yasunobu & Hiruma Gento & Minami Anri & Nagura Teruaki", therefore why it's tagged as "team", hope that clears it up. There is also another relationship tag involving the members plus the character "Ultraman Blazar"

Re: ウルトラマンブレーザー | Ultraman Blazar

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Sorry, I'm still confused! It doesn't sound like there's something that's not a team that can be nominated as SKaRD, so I'm still unsure why it would need to be disambiguated. If your intent was to indicate that you want all 5 characters, I'm sorry to say that that's not how groups work in FIAB; you'd only be guaranteed one member of any group you nominate. If you want to be sure to get all five, you'll need to request a tag with all five characters listed. We will accept as "Solo: Special Kaiju Reaction Detachment (Ultraman Blazar)" — if the tag with all 5 characters isn't already in the tagset, you can nominate it during late nominations if you want it!

暴太郎戦隊ドンブラザーズ | Avataro Sentai Donbrothers

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I assume the tag would be enough to direct to the main members (the initial five with or without either of the other members that have participated), any mix of characters involved from the team would be welcomed, but if it simplifies and makes the nomination more direct it "Donbrothers (team)" can be replaced by the relationship tags "Momoi Tarou & Kitou Haruka & Saruhara Shinichi & Inuzuka Tsubasa & Kijino Tsuyoshi" and "Momoi Tarou & Kitou Haruka & Saruhara Shinichi & Inuzuka Tsubasa & Kijino Tsuyoshi & Momotani Jirou & Don Murasame"

Re: 暴太郎戦隊ドンブラザーズ | Avataro Sentai Donbrothers

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When you request a tag that has a group in it, you're only guaranteed one member of that group, and it can be any member of the group that your creator reasonably thinks is a member of the group. It sounds like you'd prefer some pretty specific characters, so I'll accept "Momoi Tarou & Kitou Haruka & Saruhara Shinichi & Inuzuka Tsubasa & Kijino Tsuyoshi (Avataro Sentai Donbrothers)" in its place. The other tag you suggested has more than 6 characters, so we can't accept it, sorry!