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[thecatmod]

Happy new year, dear Chocolatiers! Welcome to signups!

 

You can find the signup form here. You need a minimum of 3 fandoms to request and 4 to offer, at least one relationship for each fandom to request and two to offer, and up to twenty for requests and offers. Each request must be an unique fandom.

You also need to choose whether you want fanfic, fanart, or you would like either of them. Here is the tagset. If you cannot find your fandom, please look in "Uncategorized Fandoms". If you are offering a fandom with only one ship nominated, you need to tick the "Any" checkbox for that fandom.

 

If we had to default you at deadline you are required to complete your assignment before you can sign up again. When you do this, please email (chocolateboxmod[at]gmail[dot]com) us so that we can tick you off. If you sign up while you are still banned, we will delete your signup at the end of signups. Please feel free to contact us if you want to confirm whether you are banned or not.

 

A reminder also that you are only allowed to sign up with one account.

 

Requests are currently visible but you are free to edit your signup until 11:59pm EST on 7 January 2022.

 

A reminder:

Character A & Character B = genfic

Character A/Character B = shipfic.

 

Please do not mix these two up!

As always, anonymous comments are screened, however you can sign with your AO3 name.

Happy signups!

Comments

[suspiriia]

at least one relationship for each fandom to request and two to offer quick question: what do we do if there's only one relationship listed for a fandom we want to do offers for? tyia!

[thecatmod]

If you are offering a fandom with only one ship nominated, you need to tick the "Any" checkbox for that fandom.

[suspiriia]

got it, thank you!

[facethestrange]

Right now when I sign up I can choose any relationship from the entire tagset, no matter which fandom I'm choosing it for (it's not limited to only relationships from that fandom). I'm not sure if it's something that should be happening, I just know that it normally doesn't happen in exchanges, so I thought I'd let you know.

[chocolateboxmod]

Is that still happening? We've made some changes to the back end, so hopefully that should stop.

[facethestrange]

It works perfectly now, thank you for fixing it! :)

[sweetsorcery]

I haven't taken part in this exchange before, so I don't know if this is usual, but I've nominated a fandom and relationship both on its own and under Crossover Fandom involving a character from another fandom as well. When I go to nominate under the single fandom, the crossover option comes up as well. Am I allowed to request it there, or is that something that's happening by mistake?

[chocolateboxmod]

It's a bug - if you refresh your signup page that should stop happening.

[sweetsorcery]

Ah, I thought that might be the case. Thanks!

[chocolateboxmod]

Not a problem! It wouldn't be 2022 without something going wrong!

[vriddy]

When I select "僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia" as a fandom, I can't select any relationship, it immediately says "No suggestions found" even though the names are in the tag set. If I pick another fandom, the auto-complete appears to work correctly. This happens for both requests and offers. Is there something I should be doing differently? Thank you!

[chocolateboxmod]

That's a very common bug, though I'm not sure what triggers it. If you copy the tag exactly as it appears in the tagset into the relationship field, it should work. I just tried it myself just now.

[vriddy]

Thank you for the tip!! I will try that. This is my first exchange and I couldn't believe I was already thwarted at step 2 of many 😂💙

[chocolateboxmod]

Not a problem! I hope your first exchange is a lot of fun!

[theladyscribe]

Hello, there's an error/duplicate in the tagset (not sure if it's too late to fix?):

Lan Qiren (The Untamed)/Ning Yan (MCU)
Lan Qiren (The Untamed)/Ying Nan (MCU)

"Ning Yan" does not exist. This appears to be a typo for "Ying Nan."

[chocolateboxmod]

Unfortunately, it is too late, but thank you for bringing it to our attention!

[rodo]

Can someone please remind me how to go about signing up with a pairing that is in the tagset, but that doesn't show up in the drop down menu?

[lionessvalenti]

Copy the pairing exactly from the tag set and paste into the relationships field on the sign-up.

[rodo]

Thank you!

For some reason, the bug affected all three Korean fandoms I requested but none of the others.

[silver_queen]

Noob question: Relationships are OR matching, right? If I request 3 relationships for a single fandom, I'm only guaranteed to match with somebody who offered one of those relationships?

[chocolateboxmod]

That's correct! You only match on one relationship and one media.

[millepertuis]

I noticed there were two Daniel LaRusso/Johnny Lawrence in the tagset, one correctly labelled (Cobra Kai) and one (Cobrai Kai)..... and after shame-facedly checking my nominations I'm not only responsible for the typo but also copy-pasted it in all my nominations for the fandom..... Sorry about that!

[thecatmod]

Unfortunately, it is too late, but thank you for bringing it to our attention!

[evewithanapple]

There seems to be an issue with Anastasia (1997) - there's no relationship listed, but I know it got nominated and went through because I'm the one who nominated it. It DOES show up under Anastasia - Flaherty/Ahrens/McNally, but because that adaptation has some pretty significant differences from the movie, it doesn't work as an interchangeable nomination. And because it doesn't show up in the tagset, it's not requestable.

[thecatmod]

Can you link to your nominations? I can only see one relationship under Anastasia - Flaherty/Ahrens/McNally and it looks like it belongs there. Yours may have gone 'missing.'

[evewithanapple]

I'm not 100% sure this will work, but the nominations show up for me here.

[thecatmod]

That's exactly what I needed! It should be added now.

[kimmu]

I am getting the issue with there being no available pairings for any media selected, and I have tried copying and pasting the tag from the tagset. That's not working either.

Also, for Tian Guan Ci Fu/Heaven Official's Blessing, the Hua Cheng/Xie Lian ship was deleted entirely for some reason when it was definitely nominated before

[chocolateboxmod]

The relationship should be back in!

In terms of the unavailable relationship, which fandom are you talking about?

[brokenhighways]

I nominated Superman & Lois (TV 2021) and it was approved but it's nowhere in the tagset...did something happen to it?

[brokenhighways]

Oh, I just saw that it was merged with the Arrowverse.

[this_is_my_sock]

I don't know if this is something that can be fixed at this point or not, but I've just noticed that there are still 3 Critical Role RPF tags that have wandered off and settled in under Critical Role Web Series:

Dani Carr/Taliesin Jaffe (Critical Role RPF)
Erika Ishii/Taliesin Jaffe (Critical Role RPF)
Laura Bailey/Sam Riegel (Critical Role RPF)

[chocolateboxmod]

Sorry, it's too late for us to do anything about that now. Next time!

[doxian]

hi there, for Twisted-Wonderland, it looks like Jade Leech/Trey Clover and Trey Clover/Jade Leech are both approved ships?

[chocolateboxmod]

Sorry, it's too late for us to do anything about that now!

[doxian]

OK, no worries!

[gdgdbaby]

AO3's giving me a weird error about having an invalid signup - when I go to the request summary it looks like my requests are listed twice. I believe somehow my sign-up was double submitted? Is that something the mods could help with (i.e. just deleting one of the signups so I can go in and make modifications to the other one)? Thanks so much in advance! :D

[gdgdbaby]

Ah, never mind, I found the duplicate in my sign-ups and deleted it myself!

[hitorisakurindou]

Hi! My signup was rejected because I don’t seem to be able to request or offer any of the relationships for Hypnosis Mic I was planning on. I got this message — “Sorry! We couldn't save this challenge signup because:

These relationship tags in your request are not allowed in this challenge: Izanami Hifumi/Jinguji Jakurai/Kannonzaka Doppo, Izanami Hifumi/Kannonzaka Doppo, Izanami Hifumi/Jinguji Jakurai, Jinguji Jakurai/Kannonzaka Doppo, Amemura Ramuda/Jinguji Jakurai
These relationship tags in your offer are not allowed in this challenge: Izanami Hifumi/Jinguji Jakurai/Kannonzaka Doppo, Izanami Hifumi/Jinguji Jakurai, Izanami Hifumi/Kannonzaka Doppo, Jinguji Jakurai/Kannonzaka Doppo, Amemura Ramuda/Jinguji Jakurai”

All of these relationship tags were successfully nominated, so I’m afraid I’m not sure what the issue could be.

[karios]

Did you include the disambig, the (Hypnosis Mic) part?

[hitorisakurindou]

I tried copying and pasting the HypMic relationship tags from the chocboxex tagset, fandom included, and that seems to have worked just fine! Thank you!

[dreaminghour]

Hi I realize this is a LATE comment on tag sets, but it seems that "The Wheel of Time (TV)" fandom and "Wheel of Time - Robert Jordan" was combined. Since I nominated ships for both that are different from each other, is there a way I can still sign up with those? Thanks in advance.