20 September 2021 @ 06:06 pm
Nomination Clarifications #1  
A note on Character/Reader ships - they're eligible for the exchange, but please specify gender of the reader in your nomination. We've been changing any nominated */Reader ships to */Female Reader.

The following fandom tags do not match the shared universe rules. These will not be approved until the fandoms are corrected, so please double check the nomination guidelines for the shared universe list and alter your nominations:
  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)

  • Dragon Age (Video Games)

  • Marvel

  • Persona 5

  • Pocket Monsters: Sword & Shield | Pokemon Sword & Shield Versions (we believe this should be included as part of the main games, but please comment if we’ve got that wrong)

  • Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

  • Star Trek: Discovery

  • Supergirl (TV 2015)


We will be approving all crossover nominations this year without clarifying non-specific franchise fandoms. Please be aware that if you use a broad fandom tag like Character (Tomb Raider) or Character (Marvel), any optional details you give on which parts of the franchise you’d like to see in your gift will remain entirely optional for your creator. If anyone would like to make a broad approved nomination more specific, drop us a comment.

Baby-Sitters Club & California Diaries
The California Diaries appears to be a spinoff series of The Baby-Sitters Club. Do the two take place in the same universe, or should they be kept as separate fandoms?

Critical Role
Exandria Unlimited (Webseries) has been nominated separately, but it takes place in the same universe as Critical Role. Does the nominator/s have a reason why they should be kept separate? Otherwise we'll be combining them.

Doctor Who
Thirteenth Doctor/Clara Oswald was rejected when Thirteenth Doctor/Clara Oswin Oswald was approved. If the nominator of the first was intending to nominate a specific Clara fragment, drop us a comment.

The DoctorDonna has been approved as a separate character to Donna Noble. We dropped the ‘Donna Noble component of the character tag to avoid confusion with Donna Noble (the original all human version), but if this is unclear or confusing to anyone please let us know.

Fire Emblem Awakening
We have approved My Unit | Reflet | Robin/Sallya | Tharja, and rejected Female Robin/Tharja as a duplicate. If we’ve misunderstood and these are actually different characters, please let us know.

Naruto
Emporio Ivanakov is listed on the wiki as a man, and the mods are both unfamiliar with the canon. Could the nominator or anyone else clarify that this character is female or genderqueer?
 
 
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stanleyuris[personal profile] stanleyuris on September 21st, 2021 01:12 am (UTC)
Re: Ivankov
Not the nominator, but as someone familiar with the One Piece canon I would say that Ivankov is canonically genderqueer or genderfluid -- the character changes appearance to reflect their complex gender and seems to consider themself to have a 'female form'. The wiki listing them as a man is definitely an oversimplification and the OP wiki has a history of not treating canon trans characters very well.

It's all a bit fantastical and there is the language barrier of the original text being Japanese, but essentially Ivankov has the power to manipulate their physical form using hormones (in a way pretty clearly meant to reference RL gender transition) and just feels like being a woman sometimes; is sometimes referred to as the 'queen' of their kingdom, etc. (I'm using they/them for clarity here but the original text, in Japanese, essentially doesn't have gendered pronouns -- I think it would appropriate to use he/him or she/her for Ivankov depending on how they are presenting!)

TL;DR Ivankov's gender is definitely not just 'man', I think the closest English word would be 'genderfluid', she is a woman sometimes, basically!
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withinadream[personal profile] withinadream on September 21st, 2021 02:06 am (UTC)
Re: Ivankov
Perfect, thank you! I was wondering if that was the case re: the wiki. I'll go ahead and approve the ship including them!
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