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

[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.

[sirvalkyrie]

Not a mod.

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

[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.

[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!