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.


Franchises:

If in doubt, please comment to query or email thedevilchicken+auex@gmail.com.


Arrowverse

Please nominate the Arrowverse shows together under DC's Arrowverse.

DC Comics

Nominate all main continuity under DCU (Comics).

DCEU

Please nominate the movies together under DC Extended Universe. You can nominate Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021) separately if you wish to.

Marvel Comics

Nominate by universe, e.g. Marvel 616, Marvel Ultimates, etc..

MCU, movies and shows - As we've split MCU for the past few years and it seemed to work...

PLEASE READ CAREFULLY - ASK IF YOU'RE UNSURE

Please nominate the movie franchises separately (e.g. Thor (Movies); Iron Man (Movies)); each of the shows should also be nominated separately. DO NOT NOMINATE The Avengers (Marvel Movies)

Single characters should be nominated in their home franchise (e.g. Tony Stark in Iron Man (Movies); Jane Foster in Thor (Movies)).

Single characters who only appear in the Avengers movies: use Marvel Cinematic Universe

Ships who only appear in the same movie via Avengers movies (e.g. Carol Danvers/Natasha Romanov): use Marvel Cinematic Universe

In-universe movie/movie or movie/show crossovers (e.g. Steve Rogers/Robbie Reyes or Yon-Rogg/Yondu Udonta, not Steve Rogers/Mace Windu) - use Marvel Cinematic Universe.
(Yes, this might be a mess; no, I don't think it will be a problem! AU tags should be enough to make this work. However, I reserve the right to collapse everything back into MCU if it goes pear-shaped.)

Star Wars

Star Wars should be split into Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars Original Trilogy, Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, and then individual properties (e.g. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016), Star Wars: Rebels, etc.). If in doubt, please ask!

TCW: please nominate as "Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types" (please do not use All Media Types for anything else)

In-universe SW crossovers (e.g. Mace Windu/Darth Bane, not Mace Windu/Steve Rogers): I'm happy for you to nominate those under whichever SW canon you think fits best, or under Crossover Fandom.

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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.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Logged out mod here: fixed! It won't show up on your nominations page but it's fixed in the tagset.