Chocolate Box Gift Exchange

Thank you for your patience everyone, and assignments are out! If there is an issue with your assignment, please email us at chocolateboxmod[at]gmail.com to discuss.

We also have our initial pinch hits! Please review them carefully and comment with your AO3 name and the pinch hit number if you can pick any of these up. All comments are screened.

CLAIMED - Pinch Hit #1: The Man from UNCLE (TV), The Man from UNCLE (2015), Suits, Bon Cop Bad Cop, Scarcrow and Mrs King, Crossover Fandom

CLAIMED - Pinch Hit #2: 44-Inch Chest, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, In Bruges, Aggretsuko, John Wick

CLAIMED - Pinch Hit #3: Tian Guan Ci Fu, Kuroko no Basuke, Akudama Drive, Chihayafuru, Hypnosis Mic

CLAIMED - Pinch Hit #4: twoset violin, The Prince of Tennis (TV 2019), Line Walker: Bull Fight

( Pinch Hit #5: Airwolf, Crossover Fandom, Boston Legal )

CLAIMED - Pinch Hit #6: Fairy Tail, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, Crossover Fandom, Ouran High School Club, Anne of Green Gables, Original Work

( Pinch Hit #7: Moulin Rouge! The Musical, Scary Stories To Tell in the Dark, The Alienist )

CLAIMED - Pinch Hit #8: Doctor Who (2005), Bridgerton, Crossover Fandom, The X-Files, House MD, Hannibal, The Queen's Gambit

( Pinch Hit #9: The Glass Key, Kiss Me Deadly, Mr Soft Touch, Briar Patch, Pit Stop, Winning )

CLAIMED - Pinch Hit #10: Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Dragonriders of Pern, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Firefly

CLAIMED - Pinch Hit #11: The Good Fight, Good Omens (TV) RPF, Staged, There's Something About Movies RPF

CLAIMED - Pinch Hit #12: Dragon Age, Mulan, Horizon: Zero Dawn, Game of Thrones, Harry Potter

CLAIMED - Pinch Hit #13: Blood and Treasure, Sharknado, Buffyverse, Fast & Furious, The Chronicles of Riddick

CLAIMED - Pinch Hit #14: Kamen Rider Decade, Kamen Rider Zi-O, Kamen Rider Zero-One

( Pinch Hit #15: Borgen, Jordskott, Marianne (TV 2019), Y Gwyll | Hinterland, Zone Blanche | Black Spot )

CLAIMED - Pinch Hit #16: DCU (Comics), The Locked Tomb Trilogy, Marvel (Comics), Sex Education, Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, Crossover Fandom

( Pinch Hit #17: American Gods, The Marvelous Mrs Maisel, Starred Up, Witchblade (TV), Besa )

CLAIMED - Pinch Hit #18: Critical Role, Black Sails, Westworld, Dimension 20, Grimm, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Marvel (Comics)

( Pinch Hit #19: Death end re;Quest, SMT: Devil Survivor 2, Star Stealing Prince, Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World, Tales of the Abyss )

CLAIMED - Pinch Hit #20: High Fidelity, Homicide: Life on the Street, Never Have I Ever

( Pinch Hit #21: 80 Days, Paradox Live, D4DJ Groovy Mix, Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch )

( Pinch Hit #22: Carnival Row, The Fall of the Gas-Lit Empire, My Secret Terrius, Warrior )

CLAIMED - Pinch Hit #23: Vulgar, Clerks, The Godfather, Breaking Bad, 13 Reasons Why, Animal Kingdom

CLAIMED - Pinch Hit #24: Captive Prince, Foreigner Series, Crossover Fandom

CLAIMED - Pinch Hit #25: The Hunt for Red October, Mission: Impossible, The Shadow, Crossover Fandom

CLAIMED - Pinch Hit #26: Emily of New Moon, The Hobbit, Realm of the Elderlings, Skuggserien

CLAIMED - Pinch Hit #27: Dickinson, Midsummer's Night Dream (Bridge Theatre), Sleep No More, Then She Fell

CLAIMED - Pinch Hit #28: Reign, The Crown, Political RPF - US 21st C

CLAIMED - Pinch Hit #29: Legal Mavericks RPF, Legal Mavericks, Al Cappuccino, Crossover Fandom

CLAIMED - Pinch Hit #30: Hannibal, The Queen's Gambit, Star Trek: Voyager, Killing Eve

CLAIMED - Pinch Hit #31: The Untamed, Modao Zushi, Harry Potter

CLAIMED - Pinch Hit #32: Chronicles of Narnia, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Whyborne and Griffin

The tagset is here and currently contains 1,930 fandoms with 14,409 relationships!

We have some queries:

• Kochou Shinobu/Tomioka Giyuu (Kimetsu no Yaiba) - nominator, did you nominate this in the anime or the manga? It's gone wandering and we don't know where it should go.
• Sonic the Hedgehog - All Media Types - nominator, please pick a version.
• The Hobbit - All Media Types - nominator, please pick a version.
• The nominator who put "Female Tabris/Morrigan (Dragon Age)" as a fandom - we will correct your fandom and send it through once you confirm which relationship you're dropping of the eight you've included in here.

There were a lot of tags approved over the last few days, and we know that there will be duplicates and errors. We very much want you to tell us about tagset corrections: typographical errors, duplicates, wandering tags etc. Please tell us about them and we'll fix them up!

Edit: Chocobox App v1.0 is live thanks to the work of karanguni! As we are still finalizing our tagset, the app is not final, but feel free to test it out and report bugs so that the app can be made stronger, faster, and more terrifying with each iteration. Bugs can be reported here

Greetings Chocolatiers!

Thank you for your patience while we navigated our real life commitments. We've approved over 7100 tags, and we hope to get through more once the nominators for these fandoms can address some queries.

Crossover Fandom

• If you have nominated a DC or Marvel character into this section, please specify media.
• Daenerys Targaryen (GOT)/Yennefer z Vengerbergu | Yennefer of Vengerberg (The Witcher) - which Yennefer do you want?

Deadpool (Movieverse)

• Please confirm that Loki, Peter Parker, Matt Murdoch, and Steve Rogers appear in the movies, or move these nominations to Crossover Fandom
• The Boxes & Wade Wilson (Deadpool) - do you mean the textboxes?

Fate/Grand Order

• Are Enkidu | Lancer/Gilgamesh | Caster (Fate/Grand Order) and Enkidu/Gilgamesh (F/GO) the same? We tried looking at the Fate wiki and that just made things more confusing.

Fire Emblem

• Please put the name of your game into the disambiguation, not just Fire Emblem.

Higurashi no Naku Koro ni | Higurashi When They Cry

• Please confirm that Bernkastel appears in Higurashi, or move into Crossover Fandom.

Legend of Zelda

• Please put the name of your game into the disambiguation, not just Legend of Zelda. They will migrate.
• Please also nominate specific games, and not the overarching franchise.

Nominator Who Puts Twin Peaks Characters Into Other Fandoms

• We love your choice of character crossovers, but please put these nominations into Crossover Fandom.

Rogue One

• Please confirm that Thrawn | Mitth'raw'nuruodo appears in this canon, or move into Crossover Fandom.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

• Please confirm that Seven of Nine appears in this canon, or move into Crossover Fandom.

Star Wars Original Trilogy

• Please confirm that Thrawn | Mitth'raw'nuruodo appears in this canon, or move into Crossover Fandom.

Star Wars Prequel Trilogy

• Please confirm that CC-2224 | Cody appears in this canon, or move into Crossover Fandom.
• Please confirm that Kit Fisto appears in this canon, or move into Crossover Fandom.

Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types

• Please confirm Luke Skywalker appears in this canon, or move into Crossover Fandom.

A reminder that relationship tags have to be arranged in alphabetical order, and the fandom at the end. Examples:
Thank you to everyone who has done this. Approving Dragon Age, Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Star Wars, and Star Trek was so much easier this time around, thanks to your work!

Finally, anonymous comments are automatically screened unless you include your AO3 name. Thank you and happy nominating!

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.
• 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!