Updated Nomination Guidelines

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Changes from last year will be bolded and underlined like this.

Basic info:

You can nominate up to

10 Fandoms

10 Pairings per fandom

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Where applicable, please use the canonical tag (so whatever shows from the drop-down menu on ao3)

Only "&" relationships will be accepted

So nominations signifying platonic and gen relationships, i.e. "Chucky E. Cheese (Chuck E. Cheese's Animatronic Shows) & Ronald McDonald (Burger King "The Burger King" Commercials)"

Solo nominations (only one character) will not be accepted at this time.

Crossovers are eligible
Nominations should go under Crossover Fandom with the character's fandom indicated
Ex. "Batman (DCU) & Bilbo Baggins (Hobbit)"
OR if you want to nominate a character/characters in another universe: “Batman (DCU) in Amestris (FMA:B)”

 

Original Works are allowed
For Original Works, please specify the gender of the characters you're requesting, i.e. CHANGE FROM LAST YEAR "Accountant & Journalist (F&NB)" 
If you would like to leave it up to your match, use (Any&Any)
Please check already-approved tags before you start nominating.
For Female - use F;
For Male - use M;
For Non-binary - use NB;
For Other - use Oth;
For Any - use Any;

When nominating Original Work, please make sure your entry is clear and easy to understand. You might be asked to clarify your nomination.

Nominations of Character & Group are allowed
But any member(s) of said group will be considered to be fulfilling the requirements, i.e. "Bilbo Baggins & Thorin's Company" - Creator can include all/any members of Thorin's Company.

RPF is allowed
But nominated people have to be 18+ and famous in their own right. Government officials and politicians, as well as world leaders, will not be accepted. If the proof of age cannot be easily found, the nomination will be rejected. We reserve the right to reject any nomination that could be distressing to other participants.
Relatives/significant others are not allowed unless they are also public figures.

“Creator’s Choice of Fandom” will not be allowed at this time.

We do not allow Reader&Canon Character or You&Canon Character to be nominated in any form.
CHANGE FROM LAST YEAR
We will now accept Main Characters from video games where you create your own character, such as Tav from Baldur's Gate 3, provided they have their own distinct storyline. The specifics on how the PC should look etc will be left to the requester’s discretion (i.e. put as many or as little details in your sign-up form as you want).

Original Characters
Please disambiguate the gender of your OC, ex. "Original Male Character & Edward Elric"
CHANGE FROM LAST YEAR: If you want to leave the character's gender up to your creator, put “Any Original Character(s)” in your sign-up
We allow Original Character(s) & Original Character(s) as a possible entry.

No "/" relationships are allowed
Even in the format "Prompto Argentum & Ignis Scientia/Gladiolus Amicitia"

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Recursive fanfiction is allowed at this time, but there must be a proof (link to creator's statement, post, ao3) that the author agrees to it.

Ao3 account is required to participate

You can nominate more characters which means your creator will be required to use all of them. CHANGE FROM LAST YEAR: You can include a maximum of 4 characters in that way. 
Ex. Geralt of Rivia & Yennefer of Vengerberg & Jaskier & Ciri
If you want any characters from the group, nominate “Character A & Group”.


Fandom specific nominations

• Original Work should be nominated as Original Work
• Crossover Fandom should be nominated as Crossover Fandom and should be formatted as: "Chucky E. Cheese (Chuck E. Cheese's Animatronic Shows) & Ronald McDonald (Burger King "The Burger King" Commercials)"
• Marvel comics: Please nominate by universe, eg Marvel 616, Marvel Adventures
• MCU nominations should be nominated under their appropriate movie/franchise. If nominating in a subfranchise (for example, Thor (Movies)), all characters in the nom should have appeared in a movie from that subfranchise. Agents of SHIELD, Agent Carter, and the Marvel Netflix universe of shows are also all separate fandoms
• Star Wars nominations should be nominated under the appropriate movie, trilogy, TV show, etc (Andor, Rogue One, Star Wars Legends), "crossovers" should be put in CHANGE FROM LAST YEAR Crossovers 
• Boruto and Naruto should be separate nominations
• Nominate Star Trek characters by their series/book/movie, Alternate Original Series should be its own thing
• DC Comics: Main-continuity DC comics, including pre-Flashpoint and New 52, will be under "DCU (Comics)". Other DC universes will be separate by universe
• Arrowverse: Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, Constantine, Batwoman, Black Lightning, and Legends of Tomorrow tv shows can be nominated together as "DC's Arrowverse"
• Dragon Age: Please nominate under "Dragon Age (Video Games)"
• Stargate - please use their separate frenchises (ex. Stargate - Atlantis, Stargate SG1)
• The Witcher - please nominate the games under "Wiedźmin | The Witcher (Video Game)", the books under their own tag, etc
   

Rules subject to change.