Nominations are Live!

[chocolateboxmod]

Chocolate Box lives and is now accepting nominations! You are able to nominate up to seven fandoms and seven relationships in those fandoms.

You can find the tag set here!

In terms of nominations generally:

• just about any fandom is eligible;
• Please remember that "Character A/Character B" is shipfic, "Character A & Character B" is genfic, and "Character A/Character B & Character C" is shipfic that also has a gen component;
• Please put the fandom name in brackets at the end of the tag - this saves us having to do it 10,000+ times and if a tag wanders we can find where it should go very quickly.
• There is no limit on the number of characters that can be in a combination other than the AO3 character limit;
• Objects can be nominated in tags;
• Crossovers must be nominated in "Crossover Fandom", which is already nominated. Crossovers that are not nominated in this fandom will be deleted.
• Original Works are okay and we have nominated that fandom for you already;

You will be required to offer two tags per fandom on signups (unless only one relationship tag is nominated), so please keep that in mind when nominating.

For specific fandoms:

• Dragon Age - please nominate as "Dragon Age (Video Games)"
• Marvel Cinematic Universe - please only nominate characters who have appeared in the movies into this fandom.
• Marvel Netflix series - these should all be nominated under one name based on your feedback from last year. What name's been used in other exchanges?  We've been told "Defenders (TV)" works well.
• Star Wars - please nominate in terms of "Star Wars Prequel Trilogy", "Star Wars Original Trilogy", "Star Wars Sequel Trilogy" etc.
• Arrowverse - please nominate into "DC's Arrowverse" and not individual titles.
• Angel and Buffyverse - is there a fandom tag you would like used? We're not sure whether they should be merged together or kept apart.
• Stargate - please nominate as "Stargate - All Media Types"
• Marvel and DC Comics - We'd like a consistent approach, so please in this post let us know whether you want them by individual titles or "Marvel (Comics)" and "DC Comics"

Please watch this comm for updates about clarifications, merging of fandoms, and general administrative enquiries! If you have any questions, drop them here!

Finally, all anonymous comments are screened unless they include your AO3 name. Thank you!

Comments

[chicago_ruth]

Hi! I just wanted to give a heads up re: two issues.

1. Greedfall fandom -- AO3 has synned male/female versions of the main character (de Sardet) to each other. These are NOT the same though, for obvious reasons. I just wanted you to be aware that AO3 might attempt to merge them.

2. MoDao ZuShi -- AO3 has decided to include all the pinyin diacriticals in the ship names, and to pipe every single character name. This is nearly unreadable in most cases. I've nominated my ships in the uncanonical form (and some others have decided to do the same) in order to make it more readable in the exchange interface. Otherwise it'll be a huge mess of long, piped tags that nobody can even type into the drop-down when sign-ups roll around.

(sorry for all the edits!)

[chocolateboxmod]

Thanks for letting us know!