Nominations are open!

[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!

This year, we are changing how nominations are to be formatted! This is to hopefully reduce duplicate nominations, reduce tag migration, and make the nomination process smoother for everyone. It is as follows:

• Characters in any given relationship are to be ordered in alphabetical order with reference to the first part of each character's name being used, as you read left to right. That is, if the family name goes first, then by family name. If the given name comes first, by given name.
• All nominations must contain at the end, inside parentheses (), the name of the canon (or a truncated version as necessary).

A nomination that does not meet this criteria will not be approved.

In terms of nominations generally:

• just about any fandom is eligible;
• You must nominate relationship(s) inside a fandom;
• The characters must appear in the fandom nominated;
• 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 involving Character C;
• 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.
• 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 - please nominated as "Defenders (TV)".
• 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 - please nominate into "Buffyverse (TV)"
• Stargate - please nominate as "Stargate - All Media Types"
• Marvel and DC Comics - please nominate main continuity into Marvel (Comics) and DCU (Comics), and you can put specific runs into the parentheses instead of the fandom for these nominations only. Titles that are explicit alternate realities such as Age of Apocalypse, Marvel 1602 etc. can be nominated as specific titles.
• Pokemon - please nominate the main games under "Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Main Video Game Series)", the anime under "Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Anime)", and everything else under specific titles.

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

Tagset approval may be slow until 25 December due to real life work commitments.

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

Comments

[nowrunalong]

Another question, sorry, but I'm wracking my brain over this one, so -

Canonical relationship tag is "Mr. Gray | Dean Allen/Maura Sargent" (fandom is Raven Cycle - Maggie Stiefvater). Should I be alphabetizing "Maura" before "Mr"? Am I expected to nom with the piping? It's kind of a weird one.

As a note, 'Dean Allen' is the character's previous name and not one that he actively uses in canon (ie if I was to remove the piping, "Mr. Gray" is the name I'd keep), so my personal preference would be not to alphabetize using that, but I'm ultimately OK with listing it in whatever way is easiest to approve.

[chocolateboxmod]

You should alphabetize Maura before Mr, and we don't mind if you don't pipe this specific name.

[nowrunalong]

OK great, thank you so much!!

[sirvalkyrie]

Would it be possible to add some examples to the post itself to show people who are confused what you want?

[aurilly]

I found a duplicate under "James Bond (Craig movies)"

Eve Moneypenny/Q (Bond movies)
Eve Moneypenny/Q (James Bond)

Most of the other pairings use the "James Bond" parentheses, so you can delete the first one.

[chocolateboxmod]

That should be fixed now!

MCU brothers on a road trip.

[sirvalkyrie]

Loki/Thor (MCU) have wandered into Marvel comics.

Re: MCU brothers on a road trip.

[chocolateboxmod]

That should be fixed up now!

[copacet]

Found a duplicate under Parahumans Series - Wildbow:

Lisa Wilbourn & Taylor Hebert (Parahumans)
Lisa Wilbourn | Tattletale & Taylor Hebert | Skitter | Weaver (Parahumans)

You can keep either one; it's just a matter of how many of their aliases are piped together.

[thecatmod]

Should be fixed up now!

[doxian]

hallo, i hope this is the right place to ask questions!

i’d just like to know if reader insert or character/OC ships are allowed and, if so, how would one go about nominating that? would it be a crossover of the fandom in question and original work? or just the fandom?

thank you!!

[doxian]

i was also wondering if solo characters were allowed - say if you were interested in gen or character study of a character without them being shipped or associated with anyone else in particular.

[chomiji]

Simple question not related directly to nominations.

Where are the rules?

Thank you!!

[maharetr]

Seconding this question, and also is there a timeline for 202..uh, 2021's, I guess--schedule? The 2016 sticky is useful for a ballpark figure, but knowing the specific window for 2021 signups etc would be really useful.

[chocolateboxmod]

There is, and it is on the sticky. We don't change our dates, because Valentines Day doesn't change!

[chocolateboxmod]

Rules are up on the collection now! We just needed some breathing space before we could get into that side of the exchange.

[aearis]

I'd like to nominate some relationships for Dragon Age involving characters that only appear in the comics. Would you like them under Dragon Age (Comics), Dragon Age (Video Games), or something else?

[chocolateboxmod]

Dragon Age (Comics), please!

[7os]

Hi!

As I am not yet sure which dw and ao3 I will choose to sign up with I have nominated from both AO3 accounts just in case. Just wanted to explain. Thanks!