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

[mahmfic]

Can there be more clarification on: All nominations must contain at the end, inside parentheses (), the name of the canon (or a truncated version as necessary).

[chocolateboxmod]

Sure! Most canons have short names, but some canons have very long titles which would take up a significant portion of the 100 character limit. If you can't fit the canon name and the relationship because of the character limit, you can use a truncated version of the canon name so long as there is enough information for me to recognize what it is.

[(Anonymous)]

Sorry forgot to include name:

Can you please give an example set of the new rules with a fandom? I don't understand.

~Kameiko

Thanks!

[chocolateboxmod]

Not a problem! We've approved about 49 tags, but by way of example:
Aerith Gainsborough/Leslie Kyle (Final Fantasy VII Remake)

Aerith goes first because her name begins with A, while Leslie begins with L. The fandom is Final Fantasy VII Remake, so that goes into the disambiguation tags.

Another example:
Futagawa Fumi/Hitotsuyanagi Riri (Assault Lily)

Fumi goes first because her family name begins with F, while Riri goes second because her family name begins with H.

Doing it this way will mean that duplicates are found much faster as they'll be right next to one another.

[(Anonymous)]

Aw! Ok! Thank you so much! The second half set of rules I thought was over thinking things, so I wanted clarifications! This makes total sense!

~Kameiko

[mahmfic]

But we have to list all fandoms now in the relationship tags even if there's only one medium? For example there's only one show called Prodigal Son-- there's no other mediums or reboots or whatnot. Just Prodigal Son. I'd nominate it as a fandom. Would I then have to format my nominations like: Gil Arroyo (Prodigal Son)/Malcolm Bright (Prodigal Son)?

[(Anonymous)]

looks like two of my noms ended up on the oopsie doubling end thanks to Ao3:

Lucifer (Supernatural)/Lucifer Morningstar (Lucifer TV) ended up in Supernatural section instead of sticking to the crossover fandom.

Lucifer (Supernatural)/Lucifer Morningstar (Lucifer TV) ended up in the Lucifer TV section instead of sticking to the crossover fandom.

~Kameiko

PS: Sorry if it's too early to report tag wondering. I thought to point it out asap. They're in the right spots just they ended up duplicated themselves elsewhere.

[yuuago]

Looks like there's something odd going on with my noms. One of my Hetalia pairs was accepted twice. And now the nomination form won't let me edit/add anything else because one of the pairings is duplicated. Since it was accepted, I can't remove the duplicate.

Fandom is Hetalia, pairing is Netherlands/Romania. Here is the direct to my noms page if that'll help.

[cypher]

If AO3's canonical tag for a character or ship is piped, do you prefer that we use the piping in our nominations or omit it?

[habenaria_radiata]

Is there a particular way you'd like for us to treat nominations for characters who can be male or female? For example, for Fire Emblem Three Houses, would 'Male Byleth' by alphabetized by Male or by Byleth?

[chocolateboxmod]

It will be alphabetised by Male, because that's how AO3 will order them in the tagset once approved.

[habenaria_radiata]

Ah, understood. Thank you so much!

[chocolateboxmod]

That's bizarre! I can edit the A Redtail's Dream nomination on my end, but if you want to let me know what other fandoms/relationships you were intending to nominate as well, I can manually insert them.

[chocolateboxmod]

Please keep the piping unless it's something like Alucard from the Castlevania Netflix series where the first piped name for him is wrong.

[nowrunalong]

Hi! I want to nom a couple ships from Archie Comics, but I think there are several different titles synned under that umbrella. I just want the old 1942 comics (ie I'm specifically trying to avoid my noms being merged with Riverdale TV somehow xD). Do you have a preference if I nominate as "Archie Comics", as "Archie Comics - 1942", or something else?

[chocolateboxmod]

Either Archie Comics (1942) or Archie Comics - 1942 would work for us. We won't merge it with Riverdale!

[nowrunalong]

OK perfect, thanks so much!! I felt silly asking but - paranoia, haha. Appreciate the quick reply! <3

[chocolateboxmod]

No, the fandom goes at the end of the entire relationship tag, so it would be "Gil Arroyo/Malcolm Bright (Prodigal Son)".

[chocolateboxmod]

That should be fixed up now!

[wiccanslyr]

I would like to nominate "Original Hutt Character/Original Twi'lek Character" for Star Wars. Is that something that is okay to nominate and if so, is it okay to nominate it under Star Wars All Media Types if I don't care which era the story is set in?

[chocolatepot]

Just to clarify - so if I nominate a pairing that drops down and is selectable in the "relationship" box, I need to disregard it and type my own version that ends in "([canon])"?

[seerofrage]

Question about piped tags: I want to nominate Fukawa Touko/Genocider Syo | Genocide Jack/Togami Byakuya; is the tag fine as is or should the piped names be switched, since Genocide Jack would come before Genocider Syo alphabetically?

And just to double check, is Dangan Ronpa being split between Hope's Peak Arc and NDRV3 again?

[evilmuffins]

Hi! I can't remember from last year, how do you like us to separate Dangan Ronpa. Was it by 'Hope's Peak arc' and 'V3', or all media types? I still prefer all media types if that's an option.

[yuuago]

Always interesting to encounter a bug I didn't know about. ;)

If you could add these, that would be great, thanks so much:

in A Redtail's Dream, these pairs:
Jouko Kuikka & Åsa Skårsholm (aRTD)
Jouko Kuikka & Hannu Viitanen (aRTD)
Hannu Viitanen & Ville (aRTD)

in Stand Still Stay Silent, these:
Emil Västerström/Lalli Hotakainen (SSSS)
Emil Västerström & Lalli Hotakainen (SSSS)
Mikkel Madsen & Sigrun Eide (SSSS)

[mollyamory]

So, even if we're nominating an existing relationship tag within an existing fandom tag, we should still put the fandom at the end?

For instance for MCU, would I nominate Marvel Cinematic Universe as fandom, then type in the relationship tag and still add the (fandom name) again at the end - even if the relationship already pops up as a tag choice?

Just want to make sure I"m doing it right. :) Under the fandom Marvel Cinematic Universe, for a relationship I would still type out "Steve Rogers/Tony Stark (Marvel Cinematic Universe)"?