Schedule and Rules 2023

[thedevilchicken]

2023 Schedule:

(all times 20:59 British Summer Time - UTC+1)

Nominations Open: Friday 16 June
Nominations Close: Saturday 24 June
Signups Open: Wednesday 28 June
Signups Close: Sunday 9 July
Assignments Deadline: Saturday 26 August
Works Reveals: Saturday 2 September
Author Reveals: Saturday 9 September

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If you have any questions, please feel free to ask! You can either comment on this post (anon is on), or email thedevilchicken+auex@gmail.com.

Nominations Open!

[thedevilchicken]

Nominations are now open! You can find the tag set here.

The tag set will close for nominations at 20:59 BST on Saturday 24 June. View the countdown here.

If your nominations aren't approved immediately: don't panic! nominations are displayed to mods in a random unsortable order, not by date submitted, and yours may take some time to come up.


Notes on nominations:

Each participant may nominate up to 6 fandoms with 1-10 characters/relationships in each, plus 20 AUs as freeforms.


Fandoms:

Any fandom (except Original Work and Creator's Choice of Fandom) is eligible if it has already been released, or will have been released by the time signups open on Wednesday 28 June.

If the fandom has a canonical tag on AO3, please use it. (e.g. use "DC Extended Universe", not "DCEU".)

If your fandom does not have a canonical tag on AO3, that's fine - you can still nominate it.

All fandoms must have at least one character or relationship nominated. If you nominate a fandom without characters or relationships, these will be rejected.

Do not nominate 'All Media Types' or "& Related Fandoms" fandoms.

Please be as specific as possible to avoid confusion.

This means nominating specific versions, e.g. 'Les Misérables - Victor Hugo' not 'Les Misérables - All Media Types'.

If your fandom's most fitting tag is an 'All Media Types' or '& Related Fandoms' fandom, please comment here to discuss.

Exceptions: 'Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types' and 'Assassin's Creed - All Media Types'. Please use the All Media Types tag in these cases.

Character and Relationship Tags:

Characters and groups all go in the Relationship slots

Please avoid using pipes and diacritics wherever possible - if you nominate a character with a piped name, I'll choose a name myself!

Single character format: "Solo: Character Name" (e.g. Solo: Natasha Romanov)

Gen relationship format: "Character 1 & Character 2" (e.g. Brienne of Tarth & Sansa Stark)

Romantic/sexual relationship format: "Character 1/Character 2" (e.g. Amilyn Holdo/Leia Organa)

Do not nominate Creator's Choice of Ship or Solo: Creator's Choice of Character - be specific.

Do not nominate tags that would require a work to contain two relationships, e.g. Peter Parker/Tony Stark & Bruce Banner/Loki. These will be rejected. ("A/B & C" is fine, e.g. Peter Parker/Tony Stark & Bruce Banner.)

Group nominations need to be in / or & format, using character names where they exist; please do not nominate groups by group name only or "Character/Everyone" etc. (The reason for this is: if you nominate e.g. "The X-Men", technically your gift creator would be obliged to create a work featuring all possible members (and potentially guess if you want gen or ship). Please be specific so everyone understands which characters - and the nature of the relationship between them - should be included in your gift!)

Crossovers: nominate in 'Crossover Fandom' with the characters alphabetic by surname and a fandom name for each character in brackets (e.g. Tony Stark (MCU)/Bruce Wayne (DCEU))

Worldbuilding: if you want to request worldbuilding, please nominate "Other: Worldbuilding (fandom name)" (e.g. Other: Worldbuilding (Harry Potter)) - what you want the worldbuilding to be about should be specified in your AU tags, not the worldbuilding tag.

Please nominate your relationship tags with the characters in alphabetical order by surname/family name, with character names formatted according to the order used by the canon (e.g. if the canon uses "Family-Name Given-Name", use that)

Disambiguate your character and relationship nominations if you like, but this is not required. If you do and the fandom is already in the tagset, please make sure you use the same disambiguation as has already been used. If this step does not make sense to you: disregard it!

Original characters in non-original canons:

You may nominate Canon Character/Original Character, e.g. Steve Rogers & Original Male Character, Rey/Original Female Jedi, etc.

You can nominate wholly original ships or characters, e.g. Original Male Jedi/Original Male Sith (SW:TOR); Solo: Original Male Hobbit (LotR - Tolkien). If you do this, you must add the fandom or an abbreviation of it in brackets.

Bear in mind that this is not a mechanism by which to nominate your own pre-existing original character; please expect your writer/artist to create one!

AU Tags:

All go in the Freeform slots

Check what you want hasn't already been nominated.

If applicable to (almost) any fandom: ALL: AU here (e.g. ALL: Coffeeshop AU; ALL: Everyone Lives Nobody Dies)

If fandom-specific: "FANDOM ABBREVIATION: AU here" (e.g. HP: Harry is sorted into Hufflepuff; LotR: Boromir lives)

Note: all general AU tags have been imported from last year but not fandom-specific ones.

AU tags can only be a maximum of 100 characters in length. You can use the spreadsheet here to check tag length.

You can view the full rules post here.


( Nominating franchises (MCU, DCEU, Arrowverse, Marvel and DC comics, etc.) )

If you run out of freeform nomination slots, apologies - 20 is the max as determined by AO3. If you have a sock account, please feel free to use it to nominate more freeforms (please don't use it for characters/ships unless you plan to sign up twice), or comment here (or email me, DW message me, or message me on Discord) with extras you want.

Please ensure they're properly formatted and fit within the AO3 character limit so I can copy-paste (so 100 characters including spaces - you can use the spreadsheet here to check how many characters it is).


If any nominations require clarification, I'll ask questions in a separate post.

If you spot any duplicates, feel free to let me know! I'm not watching the freeforms super closely. My intention is to weed out obvious freeform duplicates once signups close.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask them here or email thedevilchicken+auex@gmail.com. Anon commenting is on.