Nominations

[pumpkinkingmod]

Nominations are now open!

 

Some fandoms have specific guidelines.  Check them out here.  For fandoms that are split up I did not list every single possible subcategory for every one of those fandoms. 

 

You can nominate six fandoms with six characters each.

 

You may nominate generic original characters such as Original Male Elf, Original Sailor Senshi, Original Tag Wrangler, etc.  We will not be accepting specific original characters.

 

Do not use any fan nicknames when nominating characters.  Describe the character instead. 

 

We will not be accepting group or relationship nominations. If there is a character that is a special case in that they could sort of count as one individual or many then leave a comment to explain it to me.

 

The category of Original Works is allowed.  Crossover Fandoms is not.  All crossovers should be limited to your optional details.

 

If you participated in EveryWoman and want to know if canon helpers will be used in this exchange the answer is: no.  As long as Trick or Treat matches on just characters I won’t be using canon helpers here.

 

There are three rules for RPF:

1. For contemporary RPF the individuals must be over the age of 18.

2. Non-famous friends and family are not eligible

3. The person in question can be removed from the tagset at the request of the individual

 

I will be prioritizing fandoms that are easy for me to accept.  If you want to get your nominations accepted faster then here is how to help:

1.      Check the fandom guidelines to see if your fandom should be done a specific way.

2.       Disambiguate your characters.  It makes it less likely for me to make mistakes and is faster.  Disambiguating never hurts.

3.       Make sure you are spelling the character’s name correctly, especially if the character’s name is spelt differently in different canons. 

4.       Link me info!  If you want to link me to something like the fandom wiki page for each character then that is great!  TVtropes character list page?  That could work.  IMDB? Wikipedia?  If I don’t know a fandom I have to look it up and this will speed things up especially for small fandoms, Transformers, Tolkien, and comics.

Comments

[pumpkinkingmod]

I had accepted it as John Munch (SVU) but the tag was wandering into Homicide: Life in the Street. So I had to delete it and replace it with something else. The "bad tag" was me getting frustrated with AO3. For the sake of the exchange just pretend it says "SVU".

[sidewinder]

Haha, no problem! And here I'd specifically tried to tag Munch different for HLOTS and SVU to avoid that problem, but he is a sneaky bugger straying around constantly. Thanks!

[snowynight]

Two of my nomination are quite rare, so here are link to the information

Affairs of the Court: Til Death Do Us Part - Episode 3 of the Affairs of the Court series; TV Trope Character page: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/AffairsOfTheCourt

Cannonfire Concerto: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.choiceofgames.cannonfireconcerto. I'm sorry, but I'm afraid I can't find a list with character full name online. What can I do to make your job easier?

The Reward (2013): the character: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2697868/

[straightforwardly]

Under my Kalevala noms, there's a couple of characters that might be confusing. I've nominated both "Louhi's Daughter" and "Louhi's Second Daughter". Neither of them have names, but they do have distinct roles in the Kalevala.

"Louhi's Daughter" is meant to refer to the daughter who appears first and most often, and eventually marries Ilmarinen . Some of her appearances can be found here, here, and here.

"Louhi's Second Daughter" is meant to refer to the daughter that Ilmarinen tries to marry after the first one dies, and only appears here.

[rachelmanija]

I get logged out every time I hit submit for my nominations. Is there any way to tell if they were actually submitted? I'm submitting as Edonohana.

[elwinfortuna]

So I'm nominating some interesting things in LOTR book fandom, specifically:

The Elm Tree that Doesn't Exist on the North Downs
A Fox Passing Through the Wood on Business of His Own
Unnamed Southron

These are all specific, individual characters in the books, and the Unnamed Southron even appears in the Extended Edition of the Two Towers movie. The way I've done it is the best way I know how of specifically nominating these particular characters, and indeed, I accepted the Elm Tree and the Unnamed Southron into the Innumerable Stars tagset exactly as I've done them here.

[elwinfortuna]

I'm not the mod, obviously, but from the tag set controller's perspective there's no way to tell who nominated what -- names aren't attached to nominations in any way. The only thing I can suggest is to check 'My Nominations' once you've logged back in -- has the form cleared, or are your nominations there?

[rachelmanija]

Hmm. I don't see "my nominations." And for some reason I keep getting logged out the instant I hit "submit."

ETA: Never mind. Fifth time was the charm.

[rachelmanija]

I love those characters. ;)

[elwinfortuna]

Yay!

[plaid_slytherin]

Posting for a friend without a DW account:

She nominated Astronaut Academy, which is a comic book. The characters are listed here.

[zdenka]

Another LOTR fan chiming in just to confirm that I would know what is meant by those characters!

[hearteating]

I nominated Lightless - C.A. Higgins

There isn't a character wiki, but there is this interview with the author where she talks about character names: http://www.unboundworlds.com/2017/05/lightless-author-c-a-higgins-naming/

I used Ivan's first and last name- Leontios Ivanov- in my nomination.

[evil_plotbunny]

Three of my fandoms are canonical in the archive.

For Computer Detectives and Morgan Swift, I could submit photos of the appropriate pages where the character names are mentioned. I tried searching for full names on the internet and eventually had to get the books down.

For Ethel Morton
All six books can be found on Project Gutenberg. Note that the series is a little inconsistent in formating the Ethel "Blue" & Ethel "Brown" nicknames but the other names should be findable by using search in the html version.

[kmfillz]

When I refreshed my nominations, AO3 decided to make three copies of my fifth fandom nomination, and I can't delete them or edit the form at all because no matter what I do it's convinced I'm trying to nominate seven fandoms.

[pumpkinkingmod]

Congrats, you've managed to encounter a variation of a bug that I've never seen before. I've seen AO3 duplicate fandoms like that before, but never to the point that it went to seven fandoms.

Bad news: There is no way for me to fix your nominations. Good news: Send me an email at halloweenmod@gmail.com with a link to your nominations and what you want for your other spots and I will manually add them in. Just get the email to me before sign-ups close but once I add them in you can't change them.

[pumpkinkingmod]

Gah, I mean before nominations close.

[ephemeralblossom]

I think I must have edited my noms right as you approved them, and that made a duplication happen. I originally nommed "The Ruby in the Smoke (2006)", with characters Frederick Garland (Ruby in the Smoke), Jim (Ruby in the Smoke), Nicholas Bedwell (Ruby in the Smoke), Rosa Garland (Ruby in the Smoke), and Sally Lockhart (Ruby in the Smoke). Then I realized there was a second movie in the series, so I shouldn't just nominate the one movie, I should nominate the series. So I changed the fandom to "Sally Lockhart - TV Movies" and the character disambiguations to match.

But like I said, I think you must have approved the original noms right as I was changing them, because now both sets are in the tagset. (All the Ruby in the Smoke characters are in the "Unassociated Characters & Relationships" section.)

If you could go ahead and delete the Ruby in the Smoke fandom and the associated characters, leaving "Sally Lockhart - TV Movies" and characters as is, I think that would clear it right up! Thanks. Sorry about that.

[azaleaknight]

Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold is a series of science fiction novels. There's a fan wiki for the site.

The characters I nominated were:
- Aral Vorkosigan

- Aral Vorkosigan's First Wife (the AO3 canonical for her)
Annoyingly, the canon does not ever give the lady a name. We know that she was a Vor from the Vorruyter family. The article on Aral Vorkosigan sums up what we know of her from the first book, Shards of Honor (also found as part of the omnibus Cordelia's Honor, which is how it's in print today):

When he was twenty, he was married to a woman two years younger of the Vorrutyer family. The marriage was arranged by his father, and the bride was the sister of his friend and fellow lieutenant Ges Vorrutyer. Vorkosigan was often away from home, and his wife took two lovers. When informed about her lovers by his friend Ges, Vorkosigan challenged both of them to duels to avenge his honor.[6]

Vorkosigan killed them both, but it was assumed that they had killed each other and he escaped penalty. Shortly afterward his wife apparently committed suicide with a plasma arc, though it was rumored at the time that he had killed her for infidelity.

- Ges Vorrutyer

- Cordelia Naismith Vorkosigan

- Oliver Jole

[capsized]

Not sure if you're cleaning up nominations as you go or at some later point, but in case it's the former, I thought I'd point out an error I spotted in the Wolf 359 (Radio) set.

"Anne's Mother (Wolf 359)" - She actually has a canonical name: Kate García. Here is her creator confirming as much. If you'd prefer tags to stick with what's in the actual canon (as opposed to what's confirmed outside of it), she's named in the podcast proper as Kate, at least, and she is regularly tagged with that name on AO3.

[pumpkinkingmod]

I'll fix it when I go through and do corrections.

[exchangebench]

Almost all of my nominations are some degree of obscure, so I apologize in advance...

All of the characters I nominated for Haze (Video Game) are mentioned on its wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haze_(video_game)#Plot

Both characters I nominated for Middens (Video Game) have pages at the game's wiki:

http://middens.wikia.com/wiki/Genie
http://middens.wikia.com/wiki/Nomad

For Subject 13 (Video Game), both Sophie and Franklin Fargo are mentioned on the game's official website:

http://www.subject13.microids.com/EN/game/story

Ah Cizin is not, as his name is something of a spoiler, but I can link gameplay footage for evidence if needed.

Anatomy (Video Game) is an indie horror game. It stars a sapient house as its primary narrator, as mentioned on its TV Tropes page, hence the nomination for The House:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/Anatomy

[primeideal]

Night's King (ASoIaF) has been duplicated in the Game of Thrones (TV) section due to undead creeping magic!

[kay_obsessive]

I nominated "Rusty Lake (Video Games)", which a series of point-and-click web games that can all be found here: http://www.rustylake.com/

Here is a link to the wiki page listing the major characters: http://rusty-lake.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Characters

[yuuago]

For when you go through to do cleanup - I've noticed a duplicate under the accepted Year in Hereafter nominations:

Mikael Lapintaival (Year in Hereafter)
Mikael Lapintaival (YiH)