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

[yellowmagicalgirl]

If we are nominating a 3+ person crossover ship between two fandoms, should we nominate it as Person A (Fandom 1)/Person B (Fandom 1)/Person C (Fandom 2), or is it okay to nominate it as Person A/Person B (Fandom 1)/Person C (Fandom 2)?

In addition, I'm planning on nominating for the Tales of Arcadia fandom, which is comprised of three TV shows (as well as side novels and a sequel movie). AO3 does not disambiguate between all the various shows, but FFN does. In addition, there is a large amount of crossover between the three shows. Should I disambiguate the shows for my Tales of Arcadia nominations, or is it okay to just nominate everything under the Tales of Arcadia tag? And if I disambiguate, should I list characters by the show they first appear in or the show they're most prominent in?

EDIT: Similarly, should I disambiguate between the various series in the Dimension 20 franchise, even though AO3 doesn't disambiguate them?

[chocolateboxmod]

In answer to your questions, in turn:

1) It's okay to nominate Person A/Person B (Fandom 1)/Person C (Fandom 2), especially as we know that character limits become an issue for the larger fandoms.

2) Are the three shows etc. in continuity with one another? My take on what you've said is that they are, and so the group nomination would be fine, and disambiguation should be Tales of Arcadia.

3) There's actually nominations for the Dimension 20 individual campaigns and we're going to be doing a post about that and Critical Role very soon to open it up to the community, as neither of us are familiar with the canons.

[yellowmagicalgirl]

Okay, thank you!