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

[littlestclouds]

For Star Wars, what if you want to nominate a pairing that doesn't appear together in a movie/trilogy. Like Padmé/Kylo or Obi-Wan/Finn for example. Would something like that go into crossovers?

[chocolateboxmod]

It does!

[klutzygirl]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer & Related Fandoms seems to work for the Buffyverse.

Comics

[sirvalkyrie]

Arrowverse
Arrowverse got a lot more complicated since last year. It now includes the traditional Arrow, Flash, Supergirl, Legends of Tomorrow, and Batwoman, but in the past few weeks they've also added the 60s Batman show, Birds of Prey Show, Smallville, Lucifer, Burton/Schumacher Batman movies, the Superman movie series, 90s Flash show, Titans, and Black Lightning. By extension the Green Hornet show is now Arrowverse as well since it's on the same Earth as the 60s Batman show.

I broke down everything with how much overlap there is.
https://sirvalkyrie.dreamwidth.org/38322.html

Marvel (Comics)
As long as I can disambiguate by universe of origin I'm fine with merged.

DCU (Comics
As long as I can specify in my nominations I'm fine with merged. Just to give an example there are three completely different Kara Zor-Els just on the main Earth due to continuity shenanigans.

[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!)

Re: Comics

[chicago_ruth]

I would say that Arrowverse should only include the "traditional" shows-- Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, Legends of Tomorrow, and Batwoman. The other shows should continue to be their own thing as they have very little interaction with the core Arrowverse shows.

[smallhobbit]

Apologies, I'm confused. If I'm nominating a pairing which autocompletes, do you still want me to add the fandom?

[tigerlily]

I’d prefer something a little more specific, since there’s the movie and now the reboot comics, as well as the old official continuation comics. People usually request and write for the show, but there’s the odd exception.

Nominating the shows separately works, and I’ve also seen them combined as Buffyverse (TV) a few times.

[klutzygirl]

Combining them as Buffyverse (TV) is definitely best then!

Re: Comics

[sirvalkyrie]

I both agree and disagree. I think anyone who has appeared or was mentioned should be allowed under both. Otherwise you get awkward situations like Smallville Clark and his daughters counting as a crossover because they were introduced in an episode of Batwoman. Allowing them in both would also allow people to that want to fic involving the developments shown in their Arrowverse appearances can request them under Arrowverse, like the attack on the Daily Planet.

The really tricky one is Black Lightning as his mid season finale was all about Jen seeing the lives of her Earth 1 and 2 counterparts before the Black Lightning Earth was destroyed with only Jefferson surviving and explicitly saying “to be continued on Crisis on Infinite Earths”.

[elrhiarhodan]

Can you confirm that the nominations for ITV's Endeavour, Inspector Morse, and (Inspector) Lewis should be consolidated under "Inspector Morse & Related Fandoms" even though each fandom has its own entry in the AO3 tagset? It's how I made my nominations.

[rachelmanija]

Marvel Comics - I'd really prefer doing it by individual titles, i.e. "X-Men (Comics)." The tag set gets really giant and hard to read otherwise.

[chocolateboxmod]

Yes, please. A pairing that autocompletes may be associated with multiple fandoms including some where the characters may not have appeared.

[sholio]

Nominating as Defenders (TV) works great for me! That's how I've seen it done in the past couple of exchanges that had it grouped under an umbrella fandom (e.g. Trick or Treat) and it seemed to work well.

I would prefer separate titles for the comics because characterization and relationships can be so different between different titles.

[rachelmanija]

How are you handling Star Trek? I want to nominate some original characters from the original series books and also some canon TV characters, also original series.

I've seen those put together as Star Trek - Classic Timeline - All Series but I want to wait till we have a ruling on this before I nominate.

[sheliak]

I would also prefer this approach.

[chocolateboxmod]

In the past we've accepted them as individual series. We can open that up to discussion for the community at large if you're interested in nominating the Classic Timeline as a group nomination.

[sheliak]

I'm also wondering how to handle this! (I'd been considering nominating characters from the Rihannsu books and maybe The Entropy Effect, including relationships between TOS characters who appear in those books and book-only characters.)

Using the Classic Timeline umbrella fandom seems likely to get unwieldy a la Marvel Comics. The canonical book catchall, Star Trek - Various Authors, could work? Or grouping books with the series they're set in (e.g. TOS books with TOS show), but I don't like that idea very much. (Or nom books/book series separately?)

[zdenka]

Whoops, we have a duplicate:

陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)

Jiang Cheng/Wen Qing (The Untamed)
Wen Qing/Jiang Cheng (The Untamed)

[rachelmanija]

I also like the idea of Star Trek - Various Authors as a catchall for the books.

[klutzygirl]

There's a duplicate in Supernatural

Rowena MacLeod/Sam Winchester (SPN)
Rowena MacLeod/Sam Winchester (Supernatural)

[neosaiyanangel]

Heya! I’m having trouble with my nominations. The system had an error and seems to have decided I submitted two of the same ship. It was already approved, so now I am completely unable to add anything else to my nominations because it has the duplicate error. Would it be possible to message you my additions to my nominations?

[yuuago]

It looks like the rules/FAQ haven't been added to this year's collection profile yet. Is that intentional?

[chocolateboxmod]

Could I ask you to link your nominations page here?

[chocolateboxmod]

I haven't gotten around to it yet as I'm still recovering from an illness. It'll be up by the time signups open.