Changing Fandoms and Freeforms

[pumpkinkingmod]

Do any participants with fandoms whose AO3 canonical titles don't start with Latin characters want their fandoms changed so that they start with either the transliteration or the English title so that they appear in the proper place on the AO3 requests page?

Fic/Art and Tricks/Treats are now all in the relationship section.  They have been combined so that you could theoretically do something like request Trick - Fic and Treat - Art without having to worry about getting the other two.

You may notice that there are now five freeform tags:
-I am interested in extra gifts for the community challenge that don't fit my requests.
-I am not interested in extra gifts for the community challenge that don't fit my requests.
-I am not interested in receiving extra gifts.
-You may ignore my Art/Fic preferences for extra gifts.
-You may ignore my Trick/Treat preferences for extra gifts.

These tags are not going to be used for matching and are an easy way to opt in and out of certain parts of Trick or Treat so that those interested in giving extra gifts know if you are interested in getting them.

"I am interested in extra gifts for the community challenge that don't fit my requests."
This means you are interested in getting extra gifts that fit the community challenge that don't perfectly fit your requests.  It does not give someone permission to ignore your Do Not Wants.

"I am not interested in extra gifts for the community challenge that don't fit my requests."
This means you are only interested in extra gifts that fit what you have in your requests.

"I am not interested in receiving extra gifts."
-This means that you aren't interested in receiving any extra gifts.  You will not be counted towards any goals of getting x number of gifts per participant.  You may still end up getting multiple gifts if multiple participants are assigned to you.

"You may ignore my Art/Fic preferences for extra gifts."
If you requested only one, you are interested in the other for extra gifts as well.  These extra gifts can not be counted as your main gift if your giver defaults.

"You may ignore my Trick/Treat preferences for extra gifts."
If you requested only one, you are interested in the other for extra gifts as well.  These extra gifts can not be counted as your main gift if your giver defaults.

Comments

[marsdragon]

I'm cool with specifically the Castlevania games being sorted under C. They all only have one English title and the Castlevania name started migrating back into Japanese in the 00s anyway, plus how AO3 handles the entire mess is inconsistent in the first place. (Harmony of Dissonance gets to be sorted right...but Lament of Innocence gets an 悪魔城ドラキュラ it didn't even have in Japanese added on because ???)

Shin Megami Tensei's another one where the non-English characters could get dropped, but it's not nearly as inconsistent about it as Castlevania.

[pumpkinkingmod]

Thank you for your feedback.

To clarify, it is not an across the board change I would be making to every fandom. It would only be done to specific fandoms at the request of participants in those fandoms.