Nominations are live!

[chocolateboxmod]

Nominations are now open for this year's exchange and will remain open until 11:59pm EST on 29 December 2015! The tag set is here.

A reminder, this is a relationship based exchange! This means that you are matching on both medium source (aka fic or art) and the type of story you want.

• If you want shipfic, nominate your relationship as Character A/Character B.
• If you want genfic, nominate the relationship as Character A&Character B.

There are no restrictions on what you can nominate. The only restrictions are that you can nominate up to 5 fandoms and up to 20 relationships.

Any issues, such as possible duplication of fandoms, I'll post them here, so please keep an eye out for them.

Otherwise I look forward to seeing what you nominate!

Comments

[merryghoul]

Question about nominating a certain fandom!

How should I submit my Doctor Who (and extended universe) nominations? I want to nominate pairings for the first (classic) run of Doctor Who, the second (current) run of Doctor Who, and Torchwood. I ask because different exchanges tend to treat Doctor Who differently, depending on the needs of the exchange.

[chocolateboxmod]

I'm not in the Whoverse fandom, so how does your fandom treat the extended universe?

[hm_f]

I hope I correctly nominated my Crossover ships, since I haven't seen rules about it?

[chocolateboxmod]

I hadn't thought about crossover ships until I saw your nominations! That said, they look clear as to what you want, so I'm fine with it.

[minebyrights]

Thanks for this! I'm starting to get together noms now but had a question: are relationships limited to just 2 people, or can we request (sexual or otherwise) other number combinations as well?

Thank you!

[chocolateboxmod]

You can request other combinations as well! The restriction is really "how many characters can you fit into the text box". Other than that, it's open to anything.

[ghiaccio]

Hello mod, thanks for doing this. I've noticed the same fandom got nominated twice, with different names, could you merge it into one? It's "DC Animated Universe" and "Justice League & Justice League Unlimited (Cartoons)"

Two ships are duplicated, so one copy would need to be erased: "Clark Kent/Bruce Wayne" and "Shayera Hol/John Stewart".

[chocolateboxmod]

No problem! I'll get right on that.

[prettysophist]

I have listed "Buffy the Vampire Slayer & Angel the Series" as one fandom, I hope that is ok. AtS is a spin-off of BtVS, and five out of the seven characters in the relationships I have nominated appear in both shows at various points and for various lengths of time.

[hm_f]

Since there's no guidelines I wondered the same though for a different universe (Star Trek), I eventually nominated pairings from two shows under Crossovers, instead of nominating them under an all encompassing Star Trek Prime Universe.

But I noticed some other people nominating crossover ships for interlinked fandoms (DC TV shows) under one or the other fandom instead of one merged TV show universe.

[chocolateboxmod]

I will put this up with the other larger fandoms in a post for discussion!

[sathinfection]

Is this only open to writers, or is it open to art as well, like in Trick or Treat?

[chocolateboxmod]

It is open to art as well!

Book vs. Show?

[misspinkman]

I'm nominating Theon Greyjoy and Sansa Stark as Game of Thrones, since from what I gather (working my way through the books right now, but only done the first so far), they don't have the same level of interaction in the books as they do in the show (s5 specifically). Is this going to be an issue since everybody else seems to be nominated under ASOIF?

Re: Book vs. Show?

[chocolateboxmod]

I would recommend nominating them from the source canon that you wish to offer or receive a gift work from. If that means you're nominating GoT rather than ASoIaF, then that's how it goes!

[lah_mrh]

I think there's something wrong with the Star Trek TOS and AOS noms - AOS only relationships are listed under TOS as well as AOS.

Actually, looking, there's Stargate Atlantis relationships listed under Stargate SG-1 and vice versa as well.

[anon001]

All the multifandoms have this problem of ships going all over the place, that is why it's advisable to add the fandom tag in brackets at the end of every ship. :/

[chocolateboxmod]

Aw man, I wasn't aware that there was a lot of crossover between those fandoms. I can disambiguate them, if someone is able to identify which ships go where.

[we_protect_each_other]

I have a similar question to the Whoniverse question, but for the Fate visual novel/anime series. It has multiple series within this umbrella, and some of them are effectively alternate universes of each other, while others have very little or not overlap. For yuletide and other similar exchanges, it seems that those that are alternate universes of each other get nominated under one category while the prequel (Fate/Zero) and similar disconnected things get their own category. Should I follow this pattern for nominating this/these fandom(s)?

(If I need to clarify this question I will, just trying to keep it short.)

[chocolateboxmod]

I'm not sure what you mean by "alternate universes" of each other. Do you mean the Fate/Stay Night VN versus the anime, or Fate/Stay Night versus Fate/Extra, for example?

[schlitzie_ramone]

Sorry for the newbie question, but I can't seem to find the nominations form. Could you give me a link? (sorry if I missed it and can't see for looking!)

[anon001]

Here http://archiveofourown.org/tag_sets/1055

[schlitzie_ramone]

I've nominated characters from both American Horror Story: Asylum and American Horror Story: Freak Show under the one fandom of American Horror Story. Is this the right direction to take? I can edit my nominations if need be! :)

[chocolateboxmod]

To tell the truth, I don't know as I am unfamiliar with this fandom! I am going to toss it up onto a new post to open it up for discussion by others, and won't touch your nominations at this stage.

[ghiaccio]

Are original ship nominations permitted?

[chocolateboxmod]

Sure, why not! I haven't thought about how they should be nominated, but happy to take suggestions.

[afrozenflower]

Regarding genfics, can I nominate everyone & everyone?

[chocolateboxmod]

Sure, why not! I have no idea how the tag will work in practice, but I have no problems with it.

Persona Tag Migration

[sirvalkyrie]

You have a lot of tag migration between Persona 3 & 4

Persona 3
Aigis/Arisato Minako
Aragaki Shinjiro/Kirijo Mitsuru/Sanada Akihiko
Aragaki Shinjiro/Sanada Akihiko
Aragaki Shinjiro/Yamagishi Fuuka
Arisato Minako/Aragaki Shinjiro
Arisato Minako/Elizabeth/Theodore
Arisato Minako/Kirijo Mitsuru
Arisato Minako/Mochizuki Ryoji
Arisato Minako/Sanada Akihiko
Arisato Minako/Takeba Yukari
Arisato Minako/Theodore
Arisato Minato/Yamagishi Fuuka
Iori Junpei/Kirijo Mitsuru
Iori Junpei/Takeba Yukari
Kirijo Mitsuru/Sanada Akihiko
Kirijo Mitsuru/Yamagishi Fuuka
Moriyama Natsuki/Yamagishi Fuuka
Sanada Akihiko/Takeba Yukari
Sanada Akihiko/Yamagishi Fuuka

Persona 4
Amagi Yukiko/Kujikawa Rise
Amagi Yukiko/Satonaka Chie
Amagi Yukiko/Shirogane Naoto/Tatsumi Kanji
Amagi Yukiko/Tatsumi Kanji
Dojima Ryotaro/Narukami Yu
Hanamura Yosuke/Narukami Yu
Hanamura Yosuke/Shirogane Naoto
Kujikawa Rise/Satonaka Chie
Kujikawa Rise/Shadow Kujikawa Rise
Kujikawa Rise/Shirogane Naoto
Kujikawa Rise/Shirogane Naoto/Tatsumi Kanji
Kujikawa Rise/Tatsumi Kanji
Narukami Yu/Satonaka Chie
Narukami Yu/Tatsumi Kanji
Satonaka Chie/Shirogane Naoto
Shadow Amagi Yukiko/Shadow Satonaka Chie
Shirogane Naoto/Tatsumi Kanji

I also have a question. In the games of Persona 3 & 4 the main characters are named by the player. The main character of Persona 4 is called Seta Souji in the manga, but all later media have called him Narukami Yu. The male Persona 3 main character is named Arisato Minato in the manga, Sakuya Shiomi in the musicals, and Makoto Yuki in the anime movies with no name ever reused. The female Persona 3 main character is only named Kotone Shiomi in the musical but is popularly nicknamed Arisato Minako by fandom. My question is: If a character is nominated under a particular name is that name locked in or if we prefer a different one should we nominate the relationship with the preferred name?

Re: Persona Tag Migration

[chocolateboxmod]

I can fix those up; thanks for identifying what was going on there!

As for the MC names, is there any difference between the characters apart from name? Such as personality traits and so forth.

[redleaderfic]

Hi! I have two open slots for one of my fandoms but when I try to add I get this error: "You have already submitted nominations for that tag set. Try editing them instead." But I am editing!

Thank you!

[chocolateboxmod]

Hi yourself! You've run into a known AO3 bug. If you can link me your nomination and tell me what you would like to include in your last two fandom slots, I will nominate them for you.