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chocolateboxmod ([personal profile] chocolateboxmod) wrote in [community profile] chocolateboxcomm2021-12-19 04:14 am

Tagset Open!

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!
learnedfoot: Spider-Man (Default)

[personal profile] learnedfoot 2021-12-19 04:02 pm (UTC)(link)
For MCU -- if we're nominating based on an MCU movie, can we/should we be treating anyone who shows up in an MCU movie as falling under this umbrella, even if the character is primarily associated with another fandom/franchise?

I'm thinking particularly of how to deal with the *waves hands* everything of Spider-Man: No Way Home. (I don't want to get into too much detail because spoilers, but I can in another comment with big spoiler warning if the mod wants).
learnedfoot: Spider-Man (Default)

[personal profile] learnedfoot 2021-12-19 08:57 pm (UTC)(link)
SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME SPOILERS

So, in No Way Home a bunch of characters from the former Tobey Maguire (Rami) and Andrew Garfield (Sony) Spider-Men movies were sucked into the MCU via multiverse shenanigans, including the other spideys themselves. There are a number of potential ships coming out of that between characters from those movies that would be influenced by what happened in No Way Home.

For example, I might now be interested in Garfield!Spider-Man/Maxwell Dillon, both of which are characters from the Sony-verse films, but I am only interested when taking into account what happens in No Way Home. Or I might be interested in crossover pairings out of this -- like Toby!Spidy/Garfield!Spidy. I *think* it makes most sense to just nominate all of this under MCU, but I want to be sure because it is kind of a weird situation, since it's basically a movie length version of a crossover episode.
Edited 2021-12-19 20:58 (UTC)