Nominations Guidelines - Summer 2024

[littlefics]

Nominations are now open for the summer 2024 round of Seasons of Drabbles!  Nominations will remain open until signups close on Sunday, June 30.

Important Reminders

• Please check first whether the character or fandom you're nominating is already in the tagset! This tagset is to be reused for all rounds in 2024.

• 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.

General Guidelines

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

• 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

[zabbers]

Hi! I'd like to nominate this fic again: My Name is John Sheppard: I'm a Mathematician as a recursive fandom. Here is thingswithwings' blanket transformative works permission statement.

I've submitted the nomination, like this:

Recursive: My Name is John Sheppard: I'm a Mathematician - thingswithwings

Character

John Sheppard (John Sheppard Mathematician)
Rodney McKay (John Sheppard Mathematician)

Thank you!

[littlefics]

Thank you so much! It's been approved.

recursive nomination

[embraidery]

Hello! I've nominated A Touch of Grey by Rhizophora; their blanket permission statement is on their profile. https://archiveofourown.org/users/Rhizophora/profile

Re: recursive nomination

[littlefics]

Thank you, it's been approved! :)

[(Anonymous)]

Hi! I've nominated the Roads That Forgot How To Speak series by author picnokinesis; their blanket permission statement is on their profile: https://archiveofourown.org/users/picnokinesis/profile

[littlefics]

Thank you very much; it's now in the tagset!

Recursive fic

[quihi]

Hi! I've nominated "storm in the quiet" by JustAlliHere. They gave permission here (their FAQ here to make it easier to find later), and there's confirmation that this is the author's tumblr in the A/N here.

Re: Recursive fic

[littlefics]

Thanks so much! It was approved.

[(Anonymous)]

The TV show Dark Matter has gotten doubled up in the tag set as Dark Matter (TV 2015) and Dark Matter (TV).

[littlefics]

Thanks for letting us know; fixing it now as well as other tag issues!

[eratoschild]

Hi, I nominated several characters from Daria that were rejected, wondering why?

[littlefics]

Hi, we do that when nominations are duplicates; i.e., the characters are already in the tagset. Could you let us know which tags you nominated? If we made a mistake, we're very sorry about that and will add them ASAP.

[eratoschild]

Hey thanks...ok, it looks like they're all there so it's good.

I did just notice that my ✖ Poeseichi (Another Eden) was also rejected- I checked the tags, he's not there

[littlefics]

Could you provide information about "Poeseichi"? Google turns up 0 results. Thank you!

[eratoschild]

He’s also known as Otohime, Poseidon and half naked guy, this link references all of those names

https://anothereden.wiki/w/NPCs_%26_Other_Lore/Antiquity#Glacial_Place-0

[(Anonymous)]

I’m not sure why Poseidon is more prominently used in the wiki, it’s only used once or twice in the game, whereas Poseichi, Otohime and half-naked guy are used much more,

(Otohime is a title of a few characters, so it’s better not to use that, sake of clarity)

[littlefics]

Thank you so much for the link, we will add the correct spelling "Poseichi" to the tagset now! We appreciate your patience.

[(Anonymous)]

It looks like Hades may be doubled in the tag set:

Hades (Supergiant Games Video Games)
Hades (Video Game 2018)

[littlefics]

Hi, I believe the former tag encompasses both the first and second games, while the latter tag is only about the first game.