Boo! Nominations are open for 2024!

[pumpkinkingmod]

Welcome back to Trick or Treat! Nominations are open until September 8 at 7:59 PM EDT/23:59 UTC. Please read this post before nominating!

Countdown until nominations end.

Here is this year's tag set! You may nominate up to 8 fandoms with 8 characters or relationships in each.

You can also check last year's tag set to see how fandoms were approved last year.


Nominations format

You can nominate characters and/or relationships under each fandom you nominate. For AO3 matching algorithm reasons, both characters and relationships are nominated under the “Characters” slot in the tag set, and relationships should be specified by including “Ship:” in front of the pairing, whether romantic/sexual or platonic.

All fandoms in the tag set need to be nominated with at least one character or relationship tag under that fandom.

For all tags:
Please nominate original works under the fandom Original Work. If you don't specify a character's gender in the tag, you're leaving it up to the creator to choose.

Please avoid using pipes where possible and do not use diacritics/tone marks where unnecessary.

All character and ship nominations must be disambiguated. (See below for an explanation!)

Please use the name order as in the canon ("Given Name Family Name" for most western canons, "Family Name Given Name" for most Asian canons).

For relationship tags:
Relationships must include "Ship:" in front of the pairing.

You may nominate / or & relationships. "A/B" is a romantic or sexual relationship; "A & B" is a platonic relationship.

Please alphabetize ships by family name.

Please nominate crossovers under the fandom Crossover Fandom, with ships in the format:
Ship: Yuri Plisetsky (YOI) & Rajah (Aladdin).

You cannot nominate both / and & in a single tag. This means any nominations like "Ship: Aerith/Tifa & Cloud (FFVII)" will be rejected.

What is disambiguation?

This means adding the fandom in brackets after your nomination. Some examples:

Sakurayashiki Kaoru (SK8)
Leia Organa (SWOT)
Luke Skywalker (SWST)
Ship: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson (BBC Sherlock)
Ship: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson (Sherlock Holmes - ACD)
Ship: Mia Fey/Phoenix Wright (Ace Attorney)
Ship: Enoshima Junko/Tsumiki Mikan (DR Hope's Peak)
Ship: James "Bucky" Barnes & Steve Rogers (Marvel 616)

Before nominating, please check if your fandom is already in the tagset, and what disambiguations were used. Your nominations get approved faster if they are already in the correct format.

Specific Fandom Nomination Guidelines

NOTE: If something new has happened with your fandom's continuity over the past year (something that would impact nominations, that is) like the various comics TV shows going in and out of continuity with each other, please comment below to let me know!

MCU movies should be nominated together under Marvel Cinematic Universe.

The formerly-on-Netflix Marvel shows (Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, The Defenders, and The Punisher) should be nominated under The Defenders (Marvel TV). Other Marvel shows should be nominated separately.

Marvel Comics should be nominated by the characters' native universe, e.g. Marvel 616.

DC Comics should be nominated together under DCU (Comics). You may specify timeline (e.g. Pre-Flashpoint) in the disambiguation.

Arrowverse TV shows should be nominated together under DC's Arrowverse. Superman & Lois is separate.

All DCEU movies should be nominated together under DC Extended Universe.

Baldur's Gate games should be nominated together as Baldur's Gate (Video Games). "Tav" or "Dark Urge" are the main character of BG3. "Charname" is the main character of BG1 or 2. "Original Character(s)" are not player characters.

Buffyverse (TV) consists of the television shows for both Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV) and Angel: The Series.

Doctor Who is divided between 1963, 2005, and Torchwood.

Danganronpa has the original continuity ("Danganronpa - Hope’s Peak Arc") while Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony is separate.

Dragon Age should be nominated as Dragon Age - All Media Types.

If you've read this far down the post, please comment with your favorite candy. This doesn't mean anything, it's just for fun.

Star Trek should be divided by show, with Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies) separate.

Star Wars should be divided into Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars Original Trilogy, Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, the standalone movies, then the individual properties, e.g. The Mandalorian (TV).

Ace Attorney and The Great Ace Attorney are two separate fandoms. Please use localized names where applicable, i.e, "Miles Edgeworth" and "Herlock Sholmes."

FFVII should be nominated as Compilation of FFVII, including Final Fantasy VII Remake and Rebirth. (this is a change from last year's policy)

Comments

[fenellaevangela]

My favourite type of candy is probably swedish berries ;-)

[smallhobbit]

Not a fan of candy, but I do like chocolate!

[gybie]

Reeses Cups 😇

[quailfence]

Re: Ace Attorney - Investigations 2 is finally getting an official localization. It will be releasing on the 8th but we already know all of the official localized names. Should we nominate using the official names (ex. Eustace Winner), or the names from the unofficial fan localization that has been used in the fandom up until this point (ex. Sebastian Debeste)?

[pumpkinkingmod]

Thanks for asking! Please use the official localization. :)

candy

[taken_aback_by_tuesdays]

I like grapefruit jellybeans.

[minoanmiss]

This is a very useful post. Also I love caramels and maple candy.

[hearthouses]

My favorite candy is Sour Patch Kids :)

[scorpiod]

My favorite candy chocolate oranges.

[roselynnthornwood]

Chocolate covered raisins. Don’t judge me. 😝

[(Anonymous)]

Big fan of mini Kit Kats!!

[thatstupidrat]

My favorite candy (besides chocolates) is the controversial candy corn!

[(Anonymous)]

Hello! It's only giving me the option to nominate characters. Should I be adding ships in the characters fields? Thanks!

[pumpkinkingmod]

Thanks for checking! Yes, ships go in the character field, but please read the entire post above for instructions about formatting.

[punch_kicker15]

Please alphabetize ships by family name.

If a character has only a given name, should that given name be used in alphabetizing the ship?

Example: Ship: Willow Rosenberg/Spike (Buffyverse (TV))

Or should the character with no family name be listed first, and the character with a family name second?

Example: Ship: Spike/Willow Rosenberg (Buffyverse (TV))

[pumpkinkingmod]

Thanks for checking! Alphabetize with the given name if it's the only name, so Willow Rosenberg/Spike (Buffyverse (TV)) would be correct.

[musekicker]

A question, if a show or ship is already in last years nominations do I need to nominate them again this year?

[pumpkinkingmod]

Yes, we're using a new tag set this year!

[crantz]

Right now I'm super into OMGs.

[stefanyeah]

I'm thinking about nominating two specific Godzilla movies (Shin and -1.0). For both I'd ask for Godzilla and some humans specific to the movies. How to go best about it?

1) Nominate Godzilla All Media and specify which version of Godzilla I want in the sign-up and trust the creator to know where those human names belong to?

2) Nominate as two fandoms, with a disambigued Godzilla in each? (Apart from the Big G, there'd be five and four charas/ships under each fandom.)

[pumpkinkingmod]

Are those two specific Godzilla movies standalones/reboots, or are they in series with other Godzilla movies? If they're separate standalones, nominate them separately.

[schwertlilie]

I see the change to the FFVII guidelines this year, and I ask that you consider separating Compilation & Remake/Rebirth again. When Rebirth came out this year it pushed the new games a lot further into AU than Remake alone did. Some characters are really different (e.g. Cid Highwind is kinder to the party and no longer verbally abuses his staff), and the new plot elements are present throughout the game in a way that goes beyond inserting "missing" scenes.

Thanks either way! As for candy, I love cinnamon-chocolate "Chicken Bones."

[pumpkinkingmod]

I appreciate you asking -- I know nominating preferences vary here! This is a fandom I'm very familiar with, and I consider them in continuity with each other, so I'm keeping the new guidelines this year.

[(Anonymous)]

Hi! I'm deeply chagrined to say I entered the wrong title for The Last Days of May - Blue Oyster Cult (Song). It should be Then Came The Last Days of May - Blue Oyster Cult (Song).

[pumpkinkingmod]

Thanks! Unless there's a different song called The Last Days of May by Blue Oyster Cult, I'm going to keep this -- it still seems clear.

[zabbers]

Right now, I'm eyeing some chocolate-filled strawberry marshmallows!

[carabas]

It's Reese's Cups for me also. Thank you for running this!

[hogwartstoalexandria]

All the candy is good candy? I'm the weirdo who ate the licorice even as a child 💙

[autobotscoutriella]

My favorite type of candy is anything chocolate. :)

How would you like Transformers nominated? I'd personally like the option to match on specific continuities, but understand completely if All Media Types is easier given the standard Transformers canon weirdness!

[pumpkinkingmod]

Specific continuities are fine! Thanks for checking.

[daxs10thhost]

Favorite candy is anything sour & gummy :)

[rovermaelstrom]

How would we nominate a fandom that doesn't have a tag in the dropdown fandoms tag? I want to nominate Superstition by Superstition_hockey, which is a work on Ao3 that's part-way between RPF and Original Work. It's got a few pieces of fanfic written about it already, but the fandoms tag for it redirects to Original Work if you click on it, so I'm not sure how to do the tag in the nominations form.

Thanks!

Edit: Forgot to put a favorite candy! It's entirely too difficult to choose one favorite, but I do very much enjoy Reese's Pieces!

[pumpkinkingmod]

Great question - definitely avoid the tag that redirects to Original Work. The best course will be to use a clear tag that hasn't been synned. Something like "Superstition (Superstition_hockey 2016)" would work.

[(Anonymous)]

Just wanted to give you a heads up that “Seragaki Aoba (Dmmd)” and “Seragaki Aoba (DRAMAtical Murder)” are both currently in the “DRAMAtical Murder (Visual Novel)” tag set — they’re referring to the same character, so they should be merged if possible. Thanks for all that you do!

[pumpkinkingmod]

Thanks! I've removed Seragaki Aoba (Dmmd).