Nominations are Open

[pumpkinkingmod]

Nominations are now open.

 

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.

Comments

Tolkien Discussion

[pumpkinkingmod]

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?

Marvel Comics Discussion

[pumpkinkingmod]

Reply to this for discussing how to handle Marvel Comics.

I'm not combining you guys with MCU. Will the canon helpers be enough for establishing particular universes/series or do you require further subdivision?

DC Comics Discussion

[pumpkinkingmod]

Reply to this for discussing how to handle DC Comics.

Will the canon helpers be enough for establishing particular universes/series or do you require further subdivision?

[anaraine]

Just checking - is Star Wars being lumped wholesale into AMT, or are we splitting between "canon"/"legends"/(video games), or some other OT/PT/ST/TCW/Comics configuration?

[(Anonymous)]

I've nominated CH: Guardians of the Galaxy under the wrong slot and it was approved. I've denominated it under relationships now.

[doranwen]

Do we need to nominate canon helpers for canons where there is only one version of the canon? (For instance, a book series with no film/TV adaptations, an original TV show...) If so, how do we format it? Just CH: fandom name? I just want to make sure I'm doing this right before I click submit...

Star Trek

[shopfront]

Umbrella fandom? I've nominated assuming yes given how many kinds of Trek there are, but it won't let me include Jadzia Dax or Tora Ziyal as they've already been nominated (unapproved as far as I can see) by someone else under Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as a non-umbrella fandom.

If you don't decide to umbrella Trek, just let me know and I can edit my nominations accordingly so you don't need to tweak them.

[dreamiflame]

I nommed Hera under the canonical AO3 tag, with the Greek, but somehow it got changed to Here when she got approved.

[(Anonymous)]

I have two questions, please bear with me.

Can we nominate 'canon character & original character' groups under non-original canons?

Ovipository tentacle creatures or monsters count as female characters?

[(Anonymous)]

I think either CH: Original or CH: Original Work under Original Work fandom should be deleted. This comment sounds funny.

[(Anonymous)]

There's a reason that Killer Frost wasn't accepted yet? Do you need some evidence notes about her?

[(Anonymous)]

There's Kasidy Yates twice under Star Trek.

[gehayi]

I don't see any place to put the canon helper thing. I see eight character slots and four relationship slots. There are no canon helper slots.

Girl Genius

[rosewithallherthorns]

Group: Agatha Heterodyne & Lucrezia Mongfish, CH: Agatha H books, and CH: Girl Genius (comics) all belong under Girl Genius in the comics section. The Agatha H books are a canonical tie-in that slightly retcon some of the beginning and add more details to the worldbuilding. The Girl Genius comics are the original canon and currently a webcomic.

[zdenka]

Will it be possible to repeat fandoms when requesting or offering? (I'm thinking if someone wants to request/offer some characters with canon helper 1 and other characters with canon helper 2.)

Transformers?

[raininshadows]

Transformers has the odd position of having a lot of characters who share names across continuities. I wouldn't particularly mind a mix-and-match approach - request canon helper Animated, canon helper IDW, and character Arcee, and my writer can pick which version of her they want to write - but it seems like it could be confusing, and other people in the fandom or the mod may want a full split or character labeling (so I'd nominate "Arcee (TFA)" or "Arcee (IDW)" depending on which one I wanted). Advice?

[(Anonymous)]

The Dragon Age canon helpers have some repeats.

CH: Dragon Age II
CH: Dragon Age II (video game)

CH: Dragon Age Inquisition (video game)
CH: Dragon Age: Inquisition (Video Game)

[doranwen]

It occurs to me that I goofed when I nominated one of the crossover tags - I didn't make it clear which fandom the character was from. You can see here under Crossover Fandoms that I nominated "Group: Jane Rizzoli (R&I) & Lindsay Boxer (WMC TV)". It should've been "Group: Jane Rizzoli (R&I TV) & Lindsay Boxer (WMC TV)", since R&I is *also* a series of books - with VERY different canon events, different characterization, etc. (I don't know much about the books so I wouldn't want to match on someone who thought I was requesting fic about book!Jane, for instance, and it didn't appear that canon helpers would be practical for crossovers so the fandoms did need to be clearly specified for each character.) I don't know if that's fixable, but I thought I should ask.