Nominations are open, and they'll stay open through 11:59pm EDT on 23 October. You're allowed to nominate up to 10 fandoms, with up to 10 relationships per fandom.
The tag set is located here:
https://archiveofourown.org/tag_sets/3485If you have any questions, or if you're nominating something that you think might be confusing, please either post a comment to this post or send an e-mail if you'd rather keep it private.
Thank you for all of the feedback regarding how to combine and/or split up various megafandoms. For many of them, nothing is changing from last year. There are some minor changes/clarifications related to the various Power Rangers and Tolkien fandoms, and some details have been added when it comes to various fandoms based on DC Comics titles. Additional clarification has also been added for The Arrowverse (mostly based around certain major crossover events that are happening).
I'm aware than any decision won't make everyone happy, but I went with the ones that seemed to have the most support from participants based on comments and emails sent over the last few days.
Please nominate original works under
Original Work for the fandom.
Please nominate crossovers under
Crossover - Fandom for the fandom. List the characters with their fandom after the character name. For example: Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins)/Ms. Frizzle (Magic School Bus)/Thirteenth Doctor (Doctor Who), or F!Shepard (Mass Effect)/Garrus Vakarian (Mass Effect)/M!Hawke (Dragon Age), or Hal Jordan (Green Lantern 2011)/Ryan Reynolds (RPF)/Wade Wilson (Deadpool).
Please nominate all relationships involving characters from the MCU movies,
Agents of SHIELD,
Agent Carter, Hulu Netflix series, and/or Netflix Marvel series under
Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Please nominate all of the
X-Men movies under
X-Men (Original Timeline Movies),
X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies), and
Deadpool (Movieverse). The
Wolverine movies go in Original Timeline. Any relationships featuring characters from movies that fall under different categories should be nominated as a Crossover.
Please nominate Marvel comics under the universe they belong to:
Marvel 616,
Marvel Adventures,
MC2, etc. If you feel the specific title they're from is complicated enough that it should be listed separately, please either leave a comment or send an e-mail with more information.
Please nominate standalone Marvel movies/TV shows such as
Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes or
X-Men Evolution separately under the name of the specific movie/show.
Please nominate DC films set in the current movie universe (
Man of Steel,
Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice,
Suicide Squad,
Wonder Woman,
Justice League,
Aquaman, and
Shazam!) under
DC Extended Universe.
Please nominate relationships from various DC comics under
DCU (Comics). If you feel the specific title they're from is complicated enough that it should be listed separately, please either leave a comment or send an e-mail with more information.
Please nominate the various DC shows on The CW (
Arrow,
The Flash,
Supergirl,
Legends of Tomorrow, and
Batwoman) under
DC's Arrowverse. Relationships including characters from The Arrowverse as well as from other DC shows like
Birds of Prey or
Smallville who appear due to crossover events can be nominated under this umbrella fandom, while relationships solely from
Birds of Prey,
Smallville, and the like should be nominated separately under the name of the show they're from. Crossover relationships featuring characters from other DC shows who do not canonically appear in The Arrowverse, even if other characters from that show do, should still be nominated under Crossovers.
Please nominate the various cartoons considered part of the DCAU (
Batman: The Animated Series,
Superman: The Animated Series,
The New Batman Adventures,
Batman Beyond,
Static Shock,
The Zeta Project,
Justice League, and
Justice League Unlimited) under
DC Animated Universe (Timmverse).
Please nominate standalone DC movies/TV shows such as
Birds of Prey,
Gotham, and
Smallville separately as individual fandoms.
Please nominate everything set in the
Doctor Who universe under
Doctor Who (including Big Finish Audios,
Class,
Sarah Jane Adventures, and
Torchwood).
Please nominate Tolkien fandoms under
Middle Earth – J.R.R. Tolkien or
Middle Earth (Movies), depending on whether you want bookverse or movieverse.
The Silmarillion would fall under the books. Any relationships featuring a mixture of movie and book canon (which would include anything set in the movies but with characters who aren't in them, such as Elladan, Elrohir, Glorfindel, etc.) should be nominated as a Crossover; please specific which characterization you want for any characters who are in both the books and the movies, ie. Aragorn (movies)/Elladan/Elrohir.
Please nominate the
Star Trek TV shows under
Star Trek: Classic Timeline and AOS under
Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies). Any relationships featuring characters from both the original timeline and AOS (other than those who canonically are in both of them like Spock) should be nominated as a Crossover.
Please nominate
Stargate SG-1,
Stargate: Atlantis, and
Stargate Universe under
Stargate - All Media Types.
Please nominate
Buffy the Vampire Slayer,
Angel: The Series, and the assorted spinoffs (including the comics) under
Buffy the Vampire Slayer & Related Fandoms.
Please nominate all of the
Dragon Age video games and books under
Dragon Age - All Media Types.
Please nominate all of the
Mass Effect video games and books under
Mass Affect - All Media Types.
Please nominate anything
Star Wars related under
Star Wars - All Media Types.
Please nominate
Game of Thrones (TV) and
A Song of Ice and Fire as separate fandoms.
Please nominate anything related to
Once Upon a Time or
Once Upon a Time in Wonderland under
Once Upon a Time (TV).
Please separate anything related to the
Power Rangers television shows under
Power Rangers (TV), the comics under
Power Rangers (Comics), and the recent(ish) movie under
Power Rangers (2017).
Please note that while
[Specific Character]/[Specific Group of Characters] is acceptable as a nomination,
[Specific Character]/Everyone is too broad.
For example:
Lex Luthor/Lionel Luthor's Board Members is acceptable because "Lionel Luthor's Board Members" involves a finite group of people. The same goes for
Voldemort/Death Eaters,
Shipwrecked Sailor/Mermaids, and
Peter Pan/Lost Boys. While
Carol Danvers/Anyone and Everyone is understandable, it's too broad because it could essentially involve an infinite number of people.
If you have any questions about a relationship you want to nominate that might potentially be too broad, leave a comment or send an e-mail.
RPF characters must be 18+ at the time of nomination. Significant others/children/etc. of public figures are not permitted unless they are public figures in their own right.
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.