Nominations are open!

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If you haven't already please read the rules before you start nominating. The nomination guidelines are the same as last year but there have been other small changes to the rules and guidelines for this round.

In short:

• You may nominate up to ten fandoms with up to ten relationships in each.


• All nominated characters must be female or genderqueer characters you'd be comfortable writing about in a femslash challenge

• Please nominate crossovers as under the fandom: Crossovers - Fandom, and list the characters with their fandom after the character name (Example: Pepper Potts (MCU)/Seven of Nine (Star Trek: Voyager)


• [Canonical Character]/Original Female Character is allowed. [Canonical Character]/Any is not allowed. The Character(s) version of OFC tags will no longer be used and any canonical nominations using this format will be approved without the plural. If nominating poly ships with original characters, please indicate the specific number of characters you would like included, eg. [Canonical Character]/Original Female Character/Original Female Character.


• [Canonical Character]/[Unnamed Character] is allowed in cases where they were most likely a woman or genderqueer character, but we don't know exactly who they were, for example: Galadriel/Legolas' Mother in The Hobbit fandom.


• There will be one category for Original Work, in which you may nominate things such as Princess/Handmaiden, Mermaid/Ship Captain, or Starship Captain/Chief Engineer.


• You may wish to drop down into the comments below to see what fandoms and pairings others are nominating, and how to nominate large/complicated fandoms. We will be continuing to wrangle most shared universe fandoms in the same manner as previous years, please check the list below before nominating.

Please nominate shared universe fandoms using the following fandom tags:

Arrowverse
Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, Constantine, and Legends of Tomorrow tv shows will be nominated together as "DC's Arrowverse"

Buffy
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel: The Series and assorted spinoffs will go together under "Buffy the Vampire Slayer & Related Fandoms"

Dangan
Combine all nominations under "Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types"

DC Comics
Main-continuity DC comics, including pre-Flashpoint and New 52, will be under "DCU (Comics)". Other DC universes such as Bombshells will be separate by universe

DC Movies
"DC Extended Universe" includes Man of Steel, Batman vs Superman, Wonder Woman, Justice League, Aquaman, and Suicide Squad

Doctor Who
Everything set in the Doctor Who universe can be nominated under "Doctor Who" (including Sarah Jane Adventures and Torchwood)

Disney
Disney Descendents, Maleficent (2014), and Ducktales (2017) should be nominated separately. "Disney - All Media Types" is to be used for all other Disney pairings, including Disney Princesses and pre-2017 Ducktales.

Dragon Age
All of Dragon Age goes together under "Dragon Age - All Media Types"

Neon Genesis Evangelion
"Rebuild of Evangelion | Evangelion: New Theatrical Edition" should be nominated separately to Neon Genesis Evangelion. If nominating other parts of the franchise with significant story or character differences to the original canon, please comment first to discuss whether to split or combine fandom tags.

Fallen London
Fallon London should be combined with Sunless Sea and Sunless Skies nominations under "Fallen London | Echo Bazaar"

Fallout
All games should be combined under "Fallout (Video Games)", including Fallout: New Vegas

Fate/stay night Fandoms
Fate/Zero and Fate/stay night should be nominated under "Fate/stay night - All Media Types"

Final Fantasy
FF X and FF X-2 will be nominated as "Final Fantasy X & Final Fantasy X-2"

Game of Thrones
Game of Thrones (TV) and A Song of Ice and Fire should be treated as separate fandoms

Harry Potter
Both the Harry Potter books and movies and Fantastic Beasts should be combined under "Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling". All associated tie-in media including games should be included under this tag.

Kamen Rider
Kamen Rider variations go together under "Kamen Rider - All Media Types"

Law and Order
Law and Order series will be nominated separately by series name.

Les Miserables
The Les Mis tag will be "Les Miserables (All Media Types)"

Life on Mars
Ashes to Ashes and Life on Mars go together under "Life on Mars & Related Fandoms"

Madoka Magica
The Magia Record side game should be nominated separately to Madoka Magia.

Marvel Cinematic Universe
All of the MCU movies, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and Agent Carter will be listed under "Marvel Cinematic Universe"

Marvel Comics
Marvel Comics will be nominated by universe, for example: Marvel 616, Marvel Adventures, etc.

Marvel Netflix TV shows
Jessica Jones, Daredevil, Luke Cage, The Punisher, and Iron Fist will be listed together under "The Defenders (Marvel TV)"

Mass Effect
Mass Effect will be "Mass Affect - All Media Types" and will include Mass Effect Andromeda

Once Upon A Time
Once Upon a Time in Wonderland will be included with Once Upon A Time (TV)

Pokemon
Pokemon Games should be combined under "Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Main Video Game Series)", while "Pocket Monsters SPECIAL | Pokemon Adventures" should be nominated separately.

Power Rangers
Power Rangers will be split into the movie tag "Power Rangers (2017)", and all shows will be combined under "Power Rangers (TV)"

Pretty Cure
All Pretty Cure series will be nominated together

Rune Factory
All Rune Factory series will be nominated together

Sailor Moon
Sailor Moon should nominated under:
Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon | Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon (Manga/Crystal)
Sailor Moon (1992 Anime)
Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon | Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon (Live Action TV)

She-Ra
Nominate the original series and the 2018 reboot separately.

Star Trek
"Star Trek: Classic Timeline (All Series)" should be used to nominate all original continuity Star Trek properties including books and other media, Mirror Universe characters, and Star Trek: Discovery. The 2009 movies and any associated media should be nominated under "Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies)‎". AOS characters can be inferred to also exist in the Classic universe or vice versa even if they don't appear in canon, nominate as Prime [Character] under AOS or AOS [Character] under Classic as needed. Mirror Universe characters should be listed as Mirror [Character]. Classic/AOS crossover ships should be nominated under Crossovers - Fandom

Star Wars
Star Wars will go under "Star Wars - All Media Types"

Stargate
Stargate fandoms will all be grouped together under "Stargate - All Series"

Super Sentai
Various Sentai properties go together under "Super Sentai Series"

Tolkien Fandoms
Tolkien nominations should be split into Silmarillion, books, or movies, as follows::
The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings & The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
Middle Earth - Peter Jackson Movies

Tomb Raider
Tomb Raider nominations should be split into the following tags. Any books, comics, and other media should be nominated under the appropriate timeline, and the Angelina Jolie movies should be combined under Original Timeline:
Tomb Raider - Original Timeline
Tomb Raider - Legend Timeline
Tomb Raider - 2013 Timeline
Tomb Raider (Movie 2018)

Vampire Diaries
The Vampire Diaries, The Originals, and Legacies go together as "The Vampire Diaries & Related Fandoms". The Vampire Diaries books should be nominated separately as "The Vampire Diaries - L. J. Smith (books)"

Worst Witch
The Worst Witch (1998 TV), The Worst Witch (TV 2017), and the books should be nominated separately

X-Men Movies
X-Men (Movies) will now be divided into X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies), X-Men (Original Timeline Movies) and Deadpool (2016). Wolverine movies go in Original Timeline






If you believe the best fandom tag to combine a shared universe under has changed or there are other new developments in your fandom we should be aware of that might affect the shared universe list, please let us know! Or if you spot any doubles, misfiled fandoms, random pairings popping up under other fandoms or pairings that don't qualify, comment here. We're going to do our best to wrangle as we go.

Click here to nominate some femslash.

Nominations will remain open until 9pm EDT, 11 September, 2019.

Comments

[cat_i_th_adage]

Hi - just wanted to clarify my picks for Good Omens (TV).

While all the supernatural entities are canonically agender ( https://neil-gaiman.tumblr.com/post/185890709621/critical-gemini-hero-you-know-what-good-omens ), some skew more to the feminine or the androgynous than others: pronouns (eg. Pollution), female-bodied actor (eg. Michael, Uriel), or presentation (eg. Crowley), which is why I nominated them in particular.

[(Anonymous)]

Crowley is a canonically male character in drag. He's played by a male actor and referred to with "he" pronouns.

[withinadream]

Thank you and everyone else for your clarifications and discussion! We are going to approve Crowley ships for this round (assuming the other characters in the ship qualify for femslashex as well, of course). Given Crowley's presentation at various points in the show, there's a strong argument that ships including him and other characters could be read as femslash-adjacent. (Because Crowley is somewhat of an edge case, I'd like to clarify that we're considering the characters he's shipped with as well, and won't be approving any ships such as Aziraphale/Crowley where the other party has an exclusively masculine presentation/etc.)

One note on some of the discussion below - we don't consider fandom presence and trends in our approval or rejection of tags, just canonical gender and/or presentation (and occasionally Word of God as supplementary information if canon is vague).

Thanks again for the discussion, all of you were very helpful! We will be opening a discussion at the end of the round regarding our current ship and character eligibility if anyone would like to make a case for changing the rules as they stand now, so please hold onto your comments on that until after the round concludes.

[jain]

A tiny bit of clarification: I nominated the pairing Fenella Carruth/Patricia Merton under the fandom Think of England Series - K. J. Charles. That isn't the canonical fandom tag. (That would be "Think of England - K. J. Charles", after the book published in 2014.)

Fen and Pat were supporting characters in Think of England, and the main characters in a prequel published just this year, Proper English. AO3's tags haven't been updated yet in response to the new book, and I'm not sure they ever will be--even sites like Goodreads and Amazon are treating the two books as though they were standalones. But since I particularly wanted to request/offer fic about Fen and Pat at various points in their relationship, and to use prompts drawn from both books, I thought it best to make clear in my nomination that it's not just the 2014 book that I'm nominating.

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That sounds clear to me, thanks for the heads up! It's definitely not required to use the canonical tag(s) in our tagset if another tag is more accurate.

[(Anonymous)]

My nominations: https://archiveofourown.org/tag_sets/3355/nominations/120521
Because it’s a small fandom with no canonical tags.

Another Life (TV 2019) is https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8369840/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast
Cas Isakovic and Niko Breckinridge have ambiguous/normally male names but they are female characters played by Elizabeth Faith Ludlow and Katee Sackhoff respectively.

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Awesome, thank you that's helpful to know!

[shadaras]

I'm nominating a fandom that I've written the only fanfic for: On a Sunbeam - Tillie Walden. It's a webcomic turned into a print comic. While none of the tags are canonized, all characters mentioned are canonically female. Here's my noms page:
https://archiveofourown.org/tag_sets/3355/nominations/120872

I've also nominated a bunch of other not-previously-used tags (all female characters), but that's a bit less confusing/more normal for everyone involved. Please let me know if you would prefer I use more disambiguation for any nominations!

[withinadream]

Your nominations look good at first glance, thank you!

Question

[ladyjax]

Is it possible to nominate something that doesn't exist in A03 yet? One of the fandoms I want to nominate is Hannah Templar's Cosmoknights. The webcomic is ongoing and updates twice a week and volume 1 in comic form is slated to come out in September.

The description:

"For this ragtag band of space gays, liberation means beating the patriarchy at its own game.

Pan’s life used to be very small. Work in her dad’s body shop, sneak out with her friend Tara to go dancing, and watch the skies for freighter ships. It didn’t even matter that Tara was a princess… until one day it very much did matter, and Pan had to say goodbye forever. Years later, when a charismatic pair of off-world gladiators show up on her doorstep, she finds that life may not be as small as she thought. On the run and off the galactic grid, Pan discovers the astonishing secrets of her neo-medieval world… and the intoxicating possibility of burning it all down."

Thanks for your consideration.

Re: Question

[withinadream]

You can definitely nominate something that doesn't exist on AO3 yet! It can help to look over AO3's guide to tag wrangling for the format of your nominated fandoms and characters, so they're easy for everyone to read, but as long as it's clear which fandom it is by googling the name (and since you've left a comment here, we're set on knowing which fandom it is) you are good!

Re: Question

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Hi, I just wanted to check in because it doesn't look like we have Cosmoknights in the final tagset. You might just have decided to nominate other things this year or skipped nominations, but if you did nominate Cosmoknights and something's gone horribly wrong during approvals feel free to give us a heads up within the first 48 hours of sign-ups and I think we can correct it/add it in for you late without causing any issues.

[(Anonymous)]

Would the television show "Legacies", which is a spin off/continuation of "The Originals" be on its own or should that also be under "The Vampire Diaries & Related Fandoms"?

[withinadream]

I'm inclined to say it should go in the Related Fandoms tag, but which do you think would make more sense? Is there a lot of crossover between characters present in the Originals and characters present in Legacies? Any other Legacies fans are also welcome to chime in.

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I've not seen Legacies but I am familiar with the Originals and it appears to be a clearcut case of shared universe spin-off to me. Unless someone disagrees and wants to discuss this one further Legacies should be nominated under "The Vampire Diaries & Related Fandoms"

[(Anonymous)]

My nominations: https://archiveofourown.org/tag_sets/3355/nominations/120521

The Strange Case of the Starship Iris, Krejjh is a Dwarnian and Dwarnian’s don’t have any concept of gender (https://starshipiris.fandom.com/wiki/Krejjh - not an official link but easier to read then combing the official tumblr and transcripts). It’s explicitly stated in one of the episodes but canon the rarely gives Dwarnian characters a third person pronoun normally referring to them by name or as the Dwarnian when discussed in third person. When answering questions about Krejjh on Tumblr the creator refers to Krejjh as they and explicitly says Krejjh uses they/them/their (https://iriscasefiles.tumblr.com/post/174338578260/im-not-sure-if-anyones-asked-or-if-theres-an , https://iriscasefiles.tumblr.com/post/158704584365/would-krejjh-like-cake-has-she-ever-had-some).

[withinadream]

Those look fine, and thank you for clarifying about Krejjh!

[decorate]

Hi! This is my very first time nominating, so I want to be sure that I did it correctly: https://archiveofourown.org/tag_sets/3355/nominations/121118 Can you please let me know if I made any errors?

Thank you!! ♥

[withinadream]

Those look good, thank you!

[(Anonymous)]

The Baby-sitters Club - Ann M. Martin doubles: Kristy Thomas/Mary Anne Spier, Mary Anne Spier/Kristy Thomas

Kim Sejeong/Liu Xiening | Sally (from Unassociated Characters & Relationships) belongs to Gugudan (band).

Thanks for organizing this! :)

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You're welcome! And thanks for the heads up, both of these issues should now be fixed.

Fallout: New Vegas and Fallout (Video Games)

[chocochipbiscuit]

Hi, I currently see nominations under Fallout: New Vegas but as it inhabits the same world as the other Fallout games, I think it should be combined with Fallout (Video Games), especially because Fallout (Video Games) already contains ships for characters from Fallout: New Vegas.

Re: Fallout: New Vegas and Fallout (Video Games)

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Thank you! I've included it on the clarification post just in case someone wants to discuss it, but it seems like it should indeed be combined so that's now been corrected.

Final Fantasy

[commoncomitatus]

Hi again!

Not my noms, but just to (hopefully) help wrangle: 'Final Fantasy X' and 'Final Fantasy X & Final Fantasy X-2' are currently showing as two different fandoms -- presumably they should both be grouped together under the second tag?

Re: Final Fantasy

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That is very helpful, thank you! We indeed approved X in error, it should be fixed now and all four nominations under the & X2 fandom tag.

[(Anonymous)]

Hi! I was wondering about nominations for Fire Emblem. Are they to be submitted under the 'fire emblem series' tag, or for the individual games (sacred stones, three houses, path of radiance etc)?

[withinadream]

We typically separate the Fire Emblem noms by individual game

Magia Record

[sirvalkyrie]

Magia Record is a spinoff gatcha game to Madoka Magica. It includes characters from Madoka Magica, Tart Magica, Oriko Magica, Kazumi Magica, and Suzune Magica. However, the main characters are new ones created for the game.

The game itself takes place in a parallel universe to the main Madoka Magica anime and isn't set in a time loop of the original series.

If you decide to combine it with Madoka Magica, I am fine with that. I just wanted to give some clarification.

Re: Magia Record

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Thanks for that! Is this the same as "Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story" - and is that a better fandom tag, or will most people know what Magia Record is on its own?

It sounds like a potential case for splitting if it's a different universe. Are the characters from the other Magica's also different/parallel versions, or are they crossing universes to appear in Magia Record like the characters do in Arrowverse?

[argentconflagration]

Just wanted to clarify a pick of mine -- Tedd Verres from El Goonish Shive goes by he/him more often than she/her (and, if memory serves me, exclusively used male pronouns prior to realizing they were genderfluid in a comic posted in 2014, twelve years into the comic's run), so there might be some sources that gender them as male, but they are canonically genderfluid and currently alternate between he/him and she/her pronouns.

Also I assume God from Good Omens is fine, Davepetasprite from Homestuck is fine ... uhhh just generally speaking I'm interested in genderqueer characters and I hope it doesn't come across as 'loophole abuse'?

[withinadream]

Those are all fine! Thanks for clarifying