Nominations Guidelines - Fall 2023

[littlefics]

Nominations are now open for the Fall 2023 round of Seasons of Drabbles!

Guidelines

• The tagset is here. Nominations will remain open until signups close on October 15.

• You may nominate up to 10 fandoms with up to 10 characters each.

• All character nominations should be disambiguated, for example: Steve Rogers (Captain America (Movies)). Not doing this slows the approval process significantly, so please disambiguate! Characters may be nominated in any/every fandom in which they appear.

• The tagset will be re-used through the end of 2023. Nominations will be wiped ahead of each new round to allow you to nominate new fandoms/characters for that round.

• With some exceptions, both umbrella fandoms and sub-fandoms are allowed. For instance, you may nominate under Marvel Cinematic Universe or Star Wars - All Media Types. You may also nominate under sub-fandoms such as Thor (Movies) or Star Wars Original Trilogy. (Please remember that if you request Any for an umbrella fandom, you will be requesting any character who appears in any of the fandoms below the umbrella - NOT just characters in the tagset. So if you plan to request Any, you may want to request under a specific sub-fandom rather than the umbrella.) Please check the fandom notes section for exceptions prior to nominating!

• RPF is allowed. Nominated RPF characters must be famous in their own right, and must be 18+ for modern RPF.

• Crossovers are allowed. Crossover fandoms should be nominated as Fandom A/Fandom B. Character nominations for crossovers should be nominated as Character's Name (Fandom A/Fandom B). For example, if nominating Luke Skywalker for a Narnia/Star Wars crossover, the fandom would be nominated as Chronicles of Narnia/Star Wars, while the character would be nominated as Luke Skywalker (Narnia/Star Wars).

• Recursive fandoms are allowed. The required format is Recursive: Fic/Series title - Creator. Recursive fandoms may be nominated under two circumstances: 1. the creator has posted a blanket permission statement, 2. you are the creator. In either case, please contact us when nominating so that we have the pertinent permissions. Characters nominated under recursive fandoms should be disambiguated with the title of the recursive fandom.

• Since we will be re-using the tagset all year, recursive fandoms will be removed on an as-needed basis between rounds (only if a blanket permission statement comes down, or the creator asks for it to be removed).

• Original Works are allowed. When nominating characters, please disambiguate with (Original Work). If an original character's gender is important to you, please specify it in your nomination.

• Original characters may also be nominated in existing fandoms. When nominating an original character within an existing fandom, please disambiguate with the name of the fandom. If an original character's gender is important to you, please specify it in your nomination.

• Objects/concepts/etc may be nominated in the character slot for any canon in which they appear. For Original Works, you can make some up if you would like.

Comments

[lurking_latinist]

Hi - this post says "Nominations will remain open until signups close on October 8" but the schedule post says signups *open* October 8 and close October 15 - I assume the latter schedule is correct because they don't seem to be open right now, but does that mean nominations close on October 8 (when signups open) or October 15 (when signups close)? Thank you!

[littlefics]

Sorry, that should have said October 15! Nominations and signups will both close on that day. Thank you for catching that.

[lurking_latinist]

No problem, thank you!

Uncleared Nominations

[angswin]

Hi!
I wasn't sure if you were aware of this...or if they somehow fell through the cracks...or if there is some sort of problems with the nominations themselves. However, at the very beginning of the nomination period I requested the fandom of
聖女の魔力は万能です | Seijo no Maryoku wa Bannou Desu | The Saint's Magic Power is Omnipotent (Anime)
After all, the second season is premiering now on Crunchyroll, so I thought other fans besides myself might be interested. However, after all this time, only one of the 10 charater nominations was actually approved and is visible in the current tagset. (It just happened to be the one that had a canonical tag that was already disambiguated.) Unfortunately, though, the other nine character nominations are still showing as ?!
Since sign ups have now started, I just wanted to ask about it since I would like to both request and offer this particular fandom and its characters...and others might as well.
Thank you for your help.
I'm ANGSWIN on AO3.

Re: Uncleared Nominations

[littlefics]

Those have all been approved now! Really sorry about how long it took; they got buried in the interface. Thank you for bringing it to our attention.

Re: Uncleared Nominations

[angswin]

THANK YOU! :)

[polyalice]

https://archiveofourown.org/tag_sets/13351/nominations/308509

Hi, almost all of my Shining Nikki requests were rejected and while signing up only a few popped up. I was just curious as to why they were rejected.

[littlefics]

Hello, they were rejected because they were already in the tagset! If they don't show up in the sign-up, please copy-paste directly from the tagset and see if that works.

[polyalice]

Awesome! It's working now. Thank you for the reply! :)