Nominations questions & notes #3

[thedevilchicken]

The tagset is currently closed for nominations (but will reopen when signups open).

In the meantime, a few queries!

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Nominators, can you please respond by 22:00 tomorrow, Sunday 27 June. If no response, I'll reject.


- ALL: A/B/O - fake alpha-ing - rules require omega to have an alpha: nominator, I'm not sure I follow. Is this meant to be something like "ALL: A/B/O - rules require omega to have an alpha so omega pretends to be alpha"? - RESOLVED

- All: Crack treated as unserious as possible: nominator, could you explain how this is an AU? - RESOLVED

- All: Emojis as a valid language: nominator, could you explain how this is an AU? Would "ALL: Emojis are a separate language"? - RESOLVED

- ALL: Masquerade Ball AU: nominator, could you explain how this is an AU? - RESOLVED

- ALL: Non-Consensual Body Modification: nominator, could you explain how this is an AU? - RESOLVED

- All: Written by an AI: nominator, could you explain how this is an AU? Maybe "ALL: Like canon but as if written by an AI"? - RESOLVED

- Blacklist: Season 8 AU: nominator, I'm not sure what this is meant to indicate. An AU so season 8 happens differently? Could you please clarify. - RESOLVED

- BtVS: Season 7 AU: nominator, I'm not sure what this is meant to indicate. An AU so season 7 happens differently? Could you please clarify. - RESOLVED

- HP: Marriage Law AU: nominator, I'm not sure I follow. Could you explain what this is supposed to mean? - RESOLVED

Comments

Noms

[fandomisohana]

All: Crack treated as unserious as possible: nominator, could you explain how this is an AU?
All: A crackfic version of Canon maybe

- All: Emojis as a valid language: nominator, could you explain how this is an AU? Would "ALL: Emojis are a separate language"?
Thats fine

- All: Written by an AI: nominator, could you explain how this is an AU? Maybe "ALL: Like canon but as if written by an AI"?

Thats fine

[primeideal]

Not the nominator, but "Marriage Law" in Harry Potter is usually something like "Ministry law requires Muggle-borns and purebloods to marry."

[(Anonymous)]

Not the nominator but the marriage law AU is a pretty common HP trope based on a 2003 challenge: https://fanlore.org/wiki/Marriage_Law_Challenge

[thedevilchicken]

Thank you but alas I suspect that if I, as a person who sometimes reads HP fic and occasionally ponders requesting it, doesn't know what this is referring to from the tag, it might need clarifying in the tag!

[thedevilchicken]

Thanks - it probably is that, but I'd like to hear directly from the nominator.

Re: Noms

[thedevilchicken]

I'm still not sure the first one is an AU so much as a writing style. How about "ALL: Like canon but events unfold as if in a crackfic"?

I've approved the other two as I suggested, thanks!

Re: Noms

[fandomisohana]

Yes that is fine by me

Re: Noms

[thedevilchicken]

Awesome! I've approved the tag like that.

[essayofthoughts]

ALL: Non-Consensual Body Modification - that was me! I changed it from something else after a fit of ideas. Simply, the prompts I have in mind would add that to the canon where it didn't happen to those characters before. If it's unfeasible could I change it back to what it was before? "HP: Percy Weasley is a Spy"?

[thedevilchicken]

How does "ALL: Like canon but requested characters underwent/undergo non-consensual body modification" grab you?

("HP: Percy Weasley is a spy for the Order of the Phoenix during the war" is already in the tagset, if that's relevant for you?)

[essayofthoughts]

That replacement tag works fine for me! and wonderful to know re: the Percy tag, thank you.

[thedevilchicken]

Excellent! I've approved the tag as suggested.

[sweetsorcery]

Re: Masquerade Ball AU - I have no valid reasoning for nominating this as an AU, I'm afraid, outside of having had quite a week and sleep deprivation. It's obviously not an AU. lol

I know I was going to suggest a kind of AU where masquerade balls are held to find a partner based purely on attraction and conversation, rather than based on social standing or "suitability", but I could think of no better way to abbreviate all that. I quite agree it should just be dropped. *facepalm*

[(Anonymous)]

Not the nominator but my first thought was that "fake alpha-ing" is a play on "fake dating," meaning the omega asks a friend who is an alpha to pretend to be "their" alpha in public.

[melacka]

Hey, I'm the nominator for the following:

Blacklist: Season 8 AU; BtVS: Season 7 AU; HP: Marriage Law AU

Sorry, I was nominating in a hurry and should have clarified these. For the Blacklist Season 8, I specifically kept it vague because it has only just finished airing and I didn't want to accidentally spoil anyone. Having said that, would the following amendments be appropriate?

Blacklist: Season 8 AU - No Liz Keen revenge plot.

BtVS: Season 7 AU - No Potentials or threat from The First.

HP: Marriage Law AU - Ministry of Magic imposes a law requiring marriage between Muggle-borns and Purebloods.

[thedevilchicken]

Does "ALL: Masquerade balls are the normal way of finding a partner" work for you?

[thedevilchicken]

Thanks - it could be, but I'd like to hear from the nominator about what exactly they mean!

[thedevilchicken]

Thanks! I've approved the Blacklist and BtVS tags but the HP one is 108 characters long (and the AO3 limit is 100). Would "HP: Marriage Law AU - Ministry of Magic law requires marriage between Muggle-borns and Purebloods" work for you?

[melacka]

Yep, that's great. Thanks!

[thedevilchicken]

Great! I've approved that version now. :D

[dirty_diana]

Nominator here and fake alpha-ing like fake dating, where the alpha and omega pretend to have an intimate relationship for convience reasons. It's a not uncommon paperwork leads to feeling trope in a/b/o (and d/s-verse before it).

[dirty_diana]

You nailed it.

[sweetsorcery]

You know what? I think that covers it. Yes, please. :)

[thedevilchicken]

Thanks - I understand the trope but I'm just not quite getting there from the tag. Would something like "ALL: A/B/O - rules require omega to have an alpha; characters fake relationship" work for you?

[thedevilchicken]

Wonderful! I've approved it like that. :D

[dirty_diana]

I think my original phrasing is because I don't think pretending to be someone's alpha and pretending to be in a romance are always portrayed with total equivalency. Maybe ALL: A/B/O - rules require omega to have an alpha; alpha and omega pretend

[thedevilchicken]

Works for me, thanks! I've approved it as that.

[(Anonymous)]

I found some duplicates while going through the freeforms:

ALL: Ancient Greece
ALL: Ancient Greece AU

All: canon character death didn't happen AU
ALL: Canon Character Death Evaded
ALL: Canonically Dead Character Survives

ALL: Cultivation AU
All: Cultivator AU

ALL: Everybody Lives/Nobody Dies
ALL: Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies

ALL: Formula 1 AU
ALL: Formula One AU

ALL: Hades & Persephone AU
All: Hades/Persephone AU

ALL: Harry Potter AU - Hogwarts Setting
ALL: Hogwarts AU
ALL: Hogwarts Fusion

ALL: Magical Horticulturalists
ALL: Magical horticulturists

All: Paleolithic AU
ALL: Paleolithic Era AU

ALL: Peggy-Sue
ALL: Main character goes back in time to the body of their younger self and changes what happened

ALL: Power Swap
ALL: Power Swap AU

ALL: Role reversal
ALL: Role Swap AU
ALL: Roleswap

ALL: Soulmate AU - Soulmate-Identifying Marks
ALL: Soulmate-identifying marks

ALL: Soulmate AU - Pain-Based Bonds
ALL: Soulmates share a pain bond

ALL: Soulmates - Scars appear on each other's skin
ALL: Soulmates Share Scars

ALL: Soulmates share a telepathic bond
ALL: Telepathic Soulbond AU

ALL: Vampire AU
ALL: Vampires

ALL: Vampyr (Video Game) Fusion
ALL: Vampyr Fusion

HP: Alternate Sorting AU
HP: Alternate Sortings

Also a few spelling errors:
All: Charecters in Progressive Commerical
All: Charecters in Sketchy Comedy Group
ALL: Sentinal/Guide
ALL: Negotiations Abt Which Family Member Will Enter The Promise Arranged Marriage

[thedevilchicken]

Thanks! I was halfway through checking these myself and picked up on a few of the same ones, but what I've done with these is:

ALL: Ancient Greece - removed this
ALL: Ancient Greece AU

All: canon character death didn't happen AU - removed this (I think there's a subtle distinction between the other two)
ALL: Canon Character Death Evaded
ALL: Canonically Dead Character Survives

ALL: Cultivation AU
All: Cultivator AU
- kept both of these; technically there could be a cultivation setting without the characters being cultivators themselves, so I'm leaving them both

ALL: Everybody Lives/Nobody Dies - removed this
ALL: Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies

ALL: Formula 1 AU
ALL: Formula One AU - removed this

ALL: Hades & Persephone AU
All: Hades/Persephone AU
- removed them both and added "ALL: Hades and Persephone AU" instead

ALL: Harry Potter AU - Hogwarts Setting
ALL: Hogwarts AU
ALL: Hogwarts Fusion
- left them all, I think there's...well, at least a bit of a distinction

ALL: Magical Horticulturalists
ALL: Magical horticulturists - removed this

All: Paleolithic AU
ALL: Paleolithic Era AU - removed this

ALL: Peggy-Sue
ALL: Main character goes back in time to the body of their younger self and changes what happened
- left them both; I know it's basically the same thing, but there are specifics to the Peggy Sue that don't necessarily have to be present in the other

ALL: Power Swap - removed this
ALL: Power Swap AU

ALL: Role reversal
ALL: Role Swap AU - removed this
ALL: Roleswap

ALL: Soulmate AU - Soulmate-Identifying Marks
ALL: Soulmate-identifying marks - removed this

ALL: Soulmate AU - Pain-Based Bonds
ALL: Soulmates share a pain bond
- left them both; they imply the same thing but a bond being based on pain and a bond being a "pain bond" could be viewed as different

ALL: Soulmates - Scars appear on each other's skin
ALL: Soulmates Share Scars
- left them both, technically they could be slightly different things

ALL: Soulmates share a telepathic bond
ALL: Telepathic Soulbond AU
- left them both, the second doesn't have to be soulmates

ALL: Vampire AU
ALL: Vampires
- left them both

ALL: Vampyr (Video Game) Fusion
ALL: Vampyr Fusion - removed this

HP: Alternate Sorting AU
HP: Alternate Sortings - removed this

Spelling errors:
All: Charecters in Progressive Commerical - fixed
All: Charecters in Sketchy Comedy Group - fixed
ALL: Sentinal/Guide - removed as we already have Sentinel AU
ALL: Negotiations Abt Which Family Member Will Enter The Promise Arranged Marriage - fixed