Nominations Guidelines - Winter 2026

[littlefics]

Nominations are now open for the Winter 2026 round of Seasons of Drabbles! Nominations will remain open until signups close on Sunday, January 18 @ 11:59pm Eastern Standard time (Countdown).

Important Reminders

• 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.

• We will not approve broad writer's-choice character nominations (e.g., "Creator's Choice of Demon" or "Any Star Trek Captain"). This is because it requires the mods to have fandom-specific knowledge when checking that gifts are for a requested character during approvals. Instead, please nominate specific characters.
  
  For example, we would not approve "Creator's Choice of Jedi" under Star Wars because it'd require the mods to know/find out which individual characters in a gift are Jedi or not. Instead, we'd ask you to nominate specific Jedi characters. The only fandoms where such broad nominations are permitted are the "Creator's Choice" fandoms (e.g., "Female Character"), since by their nature, character nominations cannot be specific.

General Guidelines

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

• 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.

• 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. An example nomination: Original Nonbinary Character (Original Work)

• 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. An example nomination: Original Anbu Character (Naruto)

• 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. Some example nominations: Cursed Hat (What We Do in the Shadows (TV)), Magic Mirror (Original Work)

Comments

[embraidery]

Hello! It’s me again. Same Billy Collins noms and new ones for MBMBaM where there are no canonical individuals (employees/visitors of Plato’s Rave).

[littlefics]

Thank you, they should all be approved!

[sodomhipped]

Thank you for all your work, mods!

Under books, one character (Mark Jennings (This was Then This is Now)) is showing up under both That Was Then, This Is Now and The Outsiders when it should just be TWTTIN.

[littlefics]

Thank you, should be fixed now!

[ambiguouslydisordered]

Hello, I noticed there's some characters under Dragon Age (Video Games) that have their names enclosed in parentheses and not just the disambiguation. I imagine this is an error, so I'm just letting you know!

[littlefics]

Thank you, that's now fixed!

[nyanko_sensei]

Hi! On the actual AO3 page for nominating, it says, [The autocomplete lists canonical tags for you. Please choose the canonical version of your tag if there is one.]. I ended up going with that as it was the last thing I saw before filling it out and it overrode the other instructions in my pea-sized brain (and it made the most sense for Loulan/Shishui from Kusuriya No Hitorigoto, since people often refer to her by both names), but, now I'm wondering if I didn't mess up after all... If I did, I'm really sorry. ^^;

[littlefics]

Hi, no problem, all the tags under that fandom are now through! We understand the nominations interface can be confusing.

[box_of_doom]

Hi! I noticed that all but four of my And Another Lovely Day nominations went through (nomination page in case you want/need it) and I thought I'd add some information here, in case the issue was "whomst?"

Bran Alba, Ursula Browne, Coral Shaw, and Melanie Gallo are student council members at the school where Nora and Elliot teach. You can find them in this cast list or in Episode 6 (though the Canvas version may disappear as this comic is going to become a Webtoon Original, so if the second link breaks, that's probably why.)

Hope that helps!

[littlefics]

Thank you, that is very helpful! (We were waiting for more nominations to come bin before putting together a query post.) Is it Ursula Browne, or Ursula Bowie? It seems to be the latter in the links you shared.

[box_of_doom]

Good catch! It's Bowie.

Thanks!

[(Anonymous)]

Hi, could Kali (Stranger Things) be changed to her canonical full name, Kali Prasad (Stranger Things)?

[littlefics]

Just updated!

[(Anonymous)]

Hello

I’ve caught a wandering tag:

Stacey (Zenkaiger) has wandered into the Avataro Sentai Donbrothers

[littlefics]

Thanks, this has been fixed.

[(Anonymous)]

Hello! There are various duplicate tags for Ace Attorney:

Athena Cykes (AA)
Athena Cykes (Ace Attorney)

Miles Edgeworth (AA)
Miles Edgeworth (Ace Attorney)

Phoenix Wright (AA)
Phoenix Wright (逆転裁判 | Ace Attorney)

Simon Blackquill (AA)
Simon Blackquill (Ace Attorney)

[littlefics]

Thanks for the catch, should be fixed now!

[zabbers]

Back again! (Hope springs eternal.) I'd like to nominate this recursive fandom: My Name is John Sheppard: I'm a Mathematician. 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, this is approved now!