Nominations Glitches Causing Rejections + Nomination Clarifications #1

[purpleyin]

We're still busy going through nominations - a bit slower than usual as we get used to the process - but we've had a number of errors when submitting approvals of nominations on AO3, which we are contacting AO3 about. We weren't sure initially if those had caused any problems but we've had two people contact us today to ask about rejected nominations but we hadn't rejected those ourselves. At this stage we won't reject nominations - anything we're not certain about we would ask for clarifications first instead - so if you are seeing any rejections of either fandom or ships that is accidental and please let us know which they are so that we can correct that. We're also not sure if one of the errors might have resulted in fandom/ships getting approved but changed to a different fandom/ship by accident, so we recommend everyone checks their nominations and lets us know about anything you spot that's wrong.

The nominations open post has been updated to add clarifications about nominating House of the Dragon, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022) and The Good Wife/The Good Fight and what to do if crossover ships hit the 100 character tag length limit.


If you nominated Bewildered Older Brother/Older Brother's BF/Horny Younger Brother Wishing to be in a Sandwich (OW) under Original Work, please can you spell out what BF should mean.

If you nominated Empire/Her Emperor/Her Capital City (OW) under Original Work, please can you clarify whether you mean anthropomorphic versions of Empire and Her Capital City or another type of representation for those.

If you nominated Space traveler/Citizens of planet where free use is normalized (OW) under Original Work, please can you clarify what you mean by free use in this context.

If you nominated Neal Caffrey/Couple he's seducing under White Collar, please can you clarify whether you want literally any couple or something more specific, like original characters, or canon characters who are a couple.

If you nominated Chel (Road to El Dorado)/Kuzco (Disney) under Emperor's New Groove (2000), this isn't eligible because it's only a 2 person ship, and it's also a crossover ship nominated under only one of the fandoms. If you meant to nominate an OT3 but made a mistake entering it, please let us know the full ship tag with the relevant fandom in brackets after each character name.

If you nominated the fandom The Real Ghostbusters, do you mean the animated show that ran from 1986-1991, or the original movies, or something else?


We're also looking for input from fans of Critical Role (Web Series) and the new The Legend of Vox Machina animated TV show as to whether the canon is different enough it should be considered a separate canon to nominate or combined with the Critical Role nominations.


If you have any questions about what fandom to use when making nominations, or any other questions in general, please feel free to leave a comment on this post. You can also send an e-mail to holly.poly.exchange@gmail.com.

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Comments

[purpleyin]

Thanks for the clarification, we've approved it now as it is so it'll be left up to interpretation.

[minoanmiss]

woot woot! Thank you!