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You get four fandom slots, eight “character” slots, and four canon helpers.

Fandoms

This should be rather self-explanatory. Any fandom is eligible. This includes RPF, original works, and crossovers. Fandoms based on fan based works will be allowed in on a case by case basis. For this section you should try and go for the more umbrella level of the fandom such as MCU, DCAU, or Dangan Ronpa – All Media Types. Fandoms will be further subdivided using Canon Helpers, which is covered in a later section of this guide.

Characters

You may nominate any female character or group of female characters under the character field. If a character’s status as female is uncertain then comment. I will normally accept it if you make a case where I can reasonably see why you interpret this character as female. I will also accept non-specific original female characters. So original mad scientist is fine, Dr. Mean your OC is not. If a character is confirmed to exist but doesn’t have a canonical gender, for example a wizard that is mentioned but never showed up, they can be nominated.

You may also nominate groups. This should be in the form of Group: Alice & Sally. Groups do not imply a specific relationship. They just mean that the person creating for that tag has to include all the characters. You may add as many characters as you want to the tag. All characters in the group must be eligible for that fandom on their own. Groups must be a clearly defined list of characters. Don’t nominate Group: Female Avengers, instead nominate Group: Natasha Romanoff & Wanda Maximoff. Groups should only be nominated in character slots. Do not put them in relationships.

RPF nominations should not include anybody under the age of 18. I will not accept non-famous family and friends. Any RPF nominations can be removed at the request of that individual. I reserve the rights to reject any RPF on reasons of bad taste.

Canon Helpers

Canon helpers should be nominated under the relationship field. The format is CH: Guardians of the Galaxy, CH: Madoka Magica anime series, or CH: Final Fantasy X. Canon helpers will be used to make sure that you only match on parts of a fandom that you are familiar with. These will be used for things such as adaptations versus original or what part of a large fandom do you want. In order for someone to match to you both of you must be offering and requesting at least one canon helper in common in addition to the normal fandom, character, and medium requirements. Only canon helpers go in relationships, nothing else.

The advantages of this system is that fewer groups will have to go under crossovers. It allows both the people that want their fandoms grouped together and the ones that want them to be split apart to be accommodated. So if you are say only interested in the Agents of SHIELD part of the MCU then you’d select MCU as your fandom, the relevant characters/groups, and then CH: Agents of SHIELD. Only somebody interested in writing/arting that part of the MCU would be matched to you. While someone else that wants everybody and everything could also be accommodated.

If I choose to fold your fandom under an umbrella fandom I will add the canon helper myself. If you require more canon helpers than what I’ve allowed then comment and I will manually add them in.

If you feel your fandom needs to be split up further than what canon helpers would allow then contact me and explain why.

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Reply to this for discussing how to handle Tolkien.

Tolkien is one of those fandoms that I'm not sure if it is too complicated for the canon helpers. I don't want to separate every single little thing out, but I'm also unsure how much to group things together and then use canon helpers for specificity.

I'd like suggestions on how to subdivide you guys and what canon helpers would go with each. Would putting The Hobbit & Lord of the Rings (with canon helpers specifying movie and book) together and then putting everything else under The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien work?

Edited 2017-04-30 12:51 (UTC)

Yes, please! There are so many possible characters if everything is kept together that nominations/requests could be quite restrictive.

Silm and other histories is a good category since it is fairly separate from Hobbit and LotR. I could see CHs for Children of Húrin and the Akallabêth, but those might not even strictly be necessary, since CoH can be subsumed in "other histories" and is contained in the Silm in a less detailed version, and the Akallabêth (the part of the story dealing with Númenor and its fall) is self-contained by definition.

For LotR and the Hobbit, there should definitely be options to separate out books and movies, since those are the big dividing lines, so CH: LotR (book), LotR (movies) (or CH: LotR Jackson Movies if anyone wants to make sure they end up with Bakshi movie fic, but I doubt that's going to be a problem), CH: Hobbit (book) and CH: Hobbit (movies) would be good to have.

I'm thinking of allowing optional tags for characters this year so that people can request as many or as few as they want. I'm going to play around with AO3 settings in the moderator side first before definitively saying that we'll be doing that this year, but I know it worked well for Smut Swap.

What you are saying for LotR and Hobbit is exactly what I was thinking.

I would like to nominate a character from Born of Hope (2009) - the fan film prequel to LOTR that was done amazingly well (71 min, high production values). Now, some characters in that film are unique to the film alone and would not appear in LOTR at all, but some (such as Gilraen) would be shared. Should I nominate this as a separate fandom from LOTR? I could go either way when it comes to nominating/requesting groups (nominating/requesting only one character in the film, or nominating/requesting them in a group with other characters that are in LOTR only). It's not an *official* prequel but the story is almost completely canonical with the book (two minor details only) and would fit perfectly with the films. However, there are possibly fans of LOTR who may not even be aware that the film exists...

Since it is a fan film I'd like to keep it separate from the rest of the Lord of the Rings.

Understood. I've nominated it as Born of Hope (2009) (and disambiguated all the characters so hopefully they won't end up drifting into the wrong canons). AO3 seems to think the canonical should be Born of Hope (Fan Film), which actually contradicts their standard for proper canonicals of films, so I've put in a Support request to fix that. Given that IMDB has an entry for it (and it did have an official release date), my preference would be to accept it as Born of Hope (2009), but your call. :)

I would like to nominate some characters for The Lord of the Rings. How should I do that under the new system?

The current nominations for LOTR appear to be under Uncategorized Fandoms as The Hobbit/The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types (I had to poke around before finding them but then went "duh, self, of course it's not anywhere else due to the way they're being combined", lol); if the chars you want aren't there, I suspect that would be where to nominate them.

Thanks. :) Someone did let me know privately, but it's probably good to have the question answered publicly too in case other people are trying to find it.

Yeah, I totally stumbled onto it by accident - *now* that I think about it, it makes sense why it's where it is for this tagset, but it's not intuitive for someone who's used to finding it in the literature section (or films, perhaps). So here's to everyone finding it easily. :)

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