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[pumpkinkingmod]

I'm bored. Nominations are open now. They will close at the normal time.

Nominations are open!

You can nominate eight fandoms and eight characters from each. Nominations will be open until Tuesday September 8, 23:59 Zulu time.

All traditional fandoms are eligible. RPF has a few special rules that you can read about in the faq. Fanworks as fandoms will be determined on a case by case basis.

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Comments

[jordannamorgan]

Just so you know, I tried to nominate "Fullmetal Alchemist" under the "all media types" tag, but AO3 wouldn't let me. I had to do it instead under the tag of "2003 anime" (which I prefer... but most other people don't). Bizarrely, the error I got was telling me to use the tag I had used, but it didn't accept the submission until I changed it!

...Mind you, I always have difficulties with AO3, so. *shrug*

[pumpkinkingmod]

Would you prefer I manually change it to all media types or would you prefer to keep it as the 2003 anime? I am fine either way.

[jordannamorgan]

I don't know what's best. Like I said, I'm probably the only one playing who prefers and would choose the 2003 anime, so I don't know if just one person using that category would skew matchups or anything. (That said, I really don't like and can't write the other canons.) So I'll leave that up to your judgment.

(Oddly, AO3 also claims a tag for one character is canon to the fandom, but not the 2003 anime specifically--even though she only appears there. I don't get it.)

[pumpkinkingmod]

Well if you only want the 2003 version then I will accept that version. Someone else can always nominate the manga or Brotherhood separately if they really want that version.

[jordannamorgan]

That's certainly fine with me, then. :)

[sprocket]

I'm able to nominate the fandom FMA - Brotherhood & Manga, but when I nominate characters for this fandom, I got an error message like this:

"Sorry! We couldn't save this tag set nomination because:

Someone else has already nominated the tag Edward Elric for this set but in fandom Fullmetal Alchemist (Anime 2003). (All nominations have to be unique for the approval process to work.) Try making your nomination more specific, for instance tacking on (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga)."

I can get around this by typing something like "Edward Elric (manga)" but it breaks the common tag. I don't know how this will affect things for the approval process and matching. Mods, help?

Definitely want to make sure anyone who really wants the 2003 anime version of canon gets to nominate that separately.

[pumpkinkingmod]

Disambiguating makes it easier and faster for me to accept. In fact the thing slowing down nominations the most is that I have to manually disambiguate everything.

[banah]

Huh, I wonder if that happened because I *did* specify 2003? /only knows one version, not too sure on how AO3 noms work.

[jordannamorgan]

That's the funny thing--it made me use the 2003 anime tag after telling me I couldn't because it had already been used! I totally don't get AO3 and their buggy tagging system at all. :Þ

Anyway, since the first anime is the only FMA in my world (which usually leaves me out of luck in fic exchanges dominated by manga fans), I'm thrilled to know another fan of it is playing. :D