Tagset 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. This does not apply to Original Works or Crossovers.
• 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

[chocolateboxmod]

"F" or "M", please. I know it sounds strange, but it's easier for us to check for duplicates as we approve.

[chocolateboxmod]

Our initial thought is no, but we're willing to be persuaded otherwise.

[chocolateboxmod]

We'd prefer "Female Player/Haley (Stardew)". The disambiguation isn't super important, it's just that if a tag's associations get broken (which can happen sometimes) we know where it goes or if it wanders we know where to put it back. Stardew is fine, because it's the first word of the name.

[chocolateboxmod]

Is there a tag for the Legends books? I'm conscious that we have nominations for Knights of the Old Republic and I'm not sure how that sits with Legends.

In terms of Star Wars crossovers, they go into the Crossover Fandom nomination please!

[edelgay]

Two tags for the same ship seem to have been approved--
Dave Starsky/Ken Hutchinson (Starsky & Hutch)
David Starsky/Ken Hutchinson (Starsky & Hutch TV)

[lielac]

Okay, I'll correct my noms.

[ancslove]

“ In terms of Star Wars crossovers, they go into the Crossover Fandom nomination please!”

Ok, thank you!

For Legends, often in other exchanges KOTOR is a separate entity, even if there’s a Legends AMT for the Bantam/Del Ray books. I can nominate individual book units, it’s just that a lot of characters, like Luke, Han, Wedge, and Mara show up in multiple books by multiple authors. I’m good with either decision, it’ll just affect how many fandom nomination slots I end up using.

Thanks again!

[zdenka]

There are some duplicate under 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù:

Fēng Xìn/Mù Qíng (TGCF)
Feng Xin/Mu Qing (Tiān Guān Cì Fú)

Hè Xuán/Shī Qīngxuán (TGCF)
He Xuan/Shi Qingxuan

Ban Yue/Pei Su (TGCF)
Bàn Yuè/Péi Sù (Tiān Guān Cì Fú)

Also under Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies):

James T. Kirk/Spock (ST: AOS)
James T. Kirk/Spock (Star Trek: AOS)

Under 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018):

Shěn Wēi/Zhào Yúnlán (Guardian TV)
Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan (Guardian)

Thanks for all your hard work!

[klutzygirl]

There's a duplicate under The Baby-Sitters Club (TV 2020):

Ashley Wyeth/Janine Kishi (BSC 2020)
Ashley Wyeth/Janine Kishi (BSC TV 2020)

[corvidology]

Painted Skin: The Guo Jingming edition (2020) is in the uncategorized section and should be under film.

I see other fandoms in that section that have their medium clearly listed so I'm not sure if it's just that they aren't canonical.

The other problem with the Painted Skin nomination is it's also not listing its requested relationships, unlike the other canons in that section.

[yellowmagicalgirl]

Okay, thank you!

[(Anonymous)]

AO3 name: Maddiegascar

WuXin is in the no category tag when it should be under TV and one of my four nominations is missing from it: Gu Xuan Wu/Wu Xin (Wuxin: The Monster Killer 2015 TV)

[sirvalkyrie]

Not a mod.

Exchange mods can't control what section a fandom appears under.

[lostboywriting]

Got it, thank you!

[corvidology]

Thanks for the info. As there are TV and film canons in that section it's going to make them impossible to find during the sign-up process if someone is looking for them that way.

My main concern is that none of the nominated relationships are attached to it and they are there for all the other canons in the uncategorized section.

[chocolateboxmod]

In answer to your questions in turn:

1) Painted Skin: The Guo Jingming edition (2020) is not a canonical tag, and the only people who can wrangle non-canonical tags to make them canonical (including associating them with a medium) are AO3 tag wranglers. We're not tag wranglers, so non-canonical tags will have to remain in Uncategorized. We appreciate your concern that people won't know where to find non-canonical tags, but there's nothing we can do about it.

2) Are the nominated ships the ones sitting in the category "Unassociated Characters & Relationships"? If so, the association between fandom and relationship has been broken (this happens sometimes) and we will need to manually reassociate them. That'll be done sometime today.

[chocolateboxmod]

In answer to your questions:

1) Wuxin: The Monster Killer 2015 TV is not a canonical tag, and the only people who can wrangle non-canonical tags to make them canonical (including associating them with a medium) are AO3 tag wranglers. We're not tag wranglers, and so can't make it canonical.

2) We can see that your nomination is sitting in "Unassociated Characters & Relationships" at the bottom. This is because the association between fandom and relationship was broken (this happens sometimes) and we will need to manually reassociate them. That will happen.

[corvidology]

I really appreciate your quick response. :D

It's good to know about the non-canonical tags ending up in uncategorized fandoms anyway as I never knew that happened and now I at least know to look for things there too in future exchanges.

I can see the nominated ships sitting in the "Unassociated Characters & Relationships" tag. Thank you!

[gazikin]

If a character's name is "The Admiral", should I order it as though it starts with "T" or "A"?

[lailah_tov]

I'm a huge fan of CCOF as a recipient, and would love it in Chocolate Box specifically as a way to meet new fandoms in bite-size pieces!

[anneapocalypse]

Do you want the Fallout games nominated as one fandom or as separate ones?

[mswhich]

It looks like a lot of people are disambiguating original works by putting the genders (e.g. F/F, F/M, etc.) and (OW) at the end of the tag. Is that the preferred way to do original works tags, or does it matter?

[mesotablar]

oh, I have the same question (different character, same problem).

[jaclynhyde]

Is Character/any allowed?

[chocolateboxmod]

Yes!