Valiant Barnes

Nominations

Nominate HERE at the tag set. Nominations close at 11:59pm EDT on July 24.

Everyone may nominate up to 8 fandoms and 6 characters or relationships per fandom. Limited further nominations can be added during sign-ups. (I recommend keeping a record of what you nominated.)

After you've nominated, please check this community again before nominations end. We may need more information about what you've nominated, and we will post questions here.

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FFFX uses the Fandom and the Relationship tag slots for nominations. You can nominate relationships, single characters, and a general worldbuilding option. Please read further for how to format each of these.

In the Fandom field, you can enter a canonical or non-canonical fandom (it's okay if there's no work for it yet on AO3). There are tips on labelling new fandoms here.


What to enter in the Relationships field
To nominate a relationship, please enter Character/Character (Fandom) (for romantic or sexual relationships) or Character & Character (Fandom) (for platonic relationships).

Do NOT put "Group" or another prefix in front of a relationship nomination.

The punctuation / and & is very important to indicate what sort of relationship it is.

Putting the fandom at the end of the nomination is really helpful to stop tag misbehaviour.

Multiple ship relationships in one tag are OK - ie, "Character/Character & Character/Character" means you're asking for two sets of pairings who are doing something together or otherwise relate to each other.

To nominate a character, enter them in the format "Char: Name (Fandom)" - that is, actually type out "Char: ", but swap in the appropriate name and fandom, such as Char: Lucy Pevensie (Narnia - Lewis).

All nominated characters should explicitly exist in the fandom where they're nominated. Original characters are also fine as long as you describe a character who could have existed in canon, such as Char: Original Force-sensitive Character (Star Wars Original Trilogy).

To nominate Worldbuilding for a canon, enter it in the format "Oth: Worldbuilding (Fandom)" (filling in the relevant fandom), e.g. Oth: Worldbuilding (Narnia - Lewis). Not "Other".

Group nominations (ie "The Marauders") should be formatted as follows:

• Nominations with a character and a group, like "Lily Evans & Marauders (HP JKR)" (where "Marauders" means four characters, namely Peter Pettigrew, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, and James Potter) means that at least two members of the group must feature prominently in the gift. which two is up to the creator.


• "Creator's Choice of [GROUP]" means that one member of the group must feature prominently in the gift - the creator, not the recipient, gets to decide which.


• "All: [GROUP]" means that all members of the group must feature.

If a group is quite large (10+), if it is subjective who belongs in the group, or if it is hard to know who belongs in the group without having canon knowledge, I am less likely to approve that group. For example - much as I can appreciate why you might want to nominate a set like "Canonical DILFs", I will not approve it, as it adds work and ambiguity.

I will post queries throughout nominations about who might appear in a particular group. If you want to speed up the approval of your nomination, please drop me a line when nominating to explain which characters are included in a group.


Some fandom notes
Please separate out Marvel movies and separate TV shows - ie, Iron Man (Movies) rather than MCU.

I will not approve "Star Wars (All Media Types)". Trilogies are fine. Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types is an allowed exception.

DC's Arrowverse includes (at least?): Arrow, Flash, Supergirl, Legends of Tomorrow, Black Lightning, and Batwoman.

"All Media Types" fandoms will probably be approved last, overall, because if someone else wants a more specific version of canon, we'd prefer to approve that. If you believe All Media Types is what's right for your fandom, please comment so we can discuss that. Assassin's Creed - All Media Types is fine.

Where possible, we will not approve a larger set of fandom and a subset that is covered by the larger set.

To nominate a relationship between characters who appear in different fandoms, please nominate them under Crossover Fandom and include the fandom for each. For example: Arya Stark (ASoIF)/Elsa (Frozen - Movies). Please be specific if the fandom name could refer to different versions and adaptations. You can ask for general crossovers between fandoms by nominating "Oth: Worldbuilding (Fandom 1 & Fandom 2)"

You can also nominate characters and groups under Original Work. Please indicate the genders of the characters if that is important to you. If someone requests Original Work characters or relationships with ambiguous genders, the preference of the person requesting takes precedence over the preference of the person offering. (But you can ask to add a more specific version to the tag set during sign-ups if that is an issue.)

When nominating recursive works, please also comment on a post here with the link & the link to a permission statement.


Sign-up requirements
The following information about sign-ups may help you plan your nominations:

-You need to request at least 4 separate fandoms with at least 1 relationship in each - so every nominated fandom needs at least one character, or one relationship, or the worldbuilding tag nominated underneath it

-Offer minimums are set as low as possible - you just have to be able to offer for someone else's request

-It's fine to request or offer a fandom more than once using different tags (so you can divide up your art/fic requests/offers with different tags)


Other
Please feel free to use the comments to ask questions or brainstorm with others.

If you find it helpful to keep a record of your own nominations, please save that information off AO3, because we will clear personal nominations during sign-ups to make it easier to add things at that time.

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Rules notes

Comments are required on previous gifts.

I am reviewing the rules on a minimum standard of gift quality (spelling, grammar, etc; polish on art) and will post clarification before sign-ups.

You may not use LLMs and similar "artificial intelligence" generative tools as part of your creation process in this event. I will post clarification of this existing rule before sign-ups.