Nominations open

[koraki]

Hello! Nominations are finally open for Multifandom Doodle 2023, round 2. The tagset can be found here.

Please read through the nominations & eligibility rules below before nominating.

Eligibility

• All fandoms, characters, and ships are eligible for this exchange.
• Original Work, Creator's Choice of Fandom, and RPF are eligible for this exchange.
  • Mods reserve the right to reject Original Work and RPF nominations deemed to be in bad taste (e.g. Nazi RPF, underage RPF).
• All participants must be the legal age of majority in their jurisdiction.

Nominations & Eligibility 

• Each participant can nominate up to 10 fandoms, with up to 20 characters/ships in each fandom. 
  
  • General, appearance-related AUs may be nominated as part of the character tag at mod discretion (e.g. "Female Roy Mustang", "Black Usagi Tsukino", "Desi Harry Potter", "Transfeminine Dudley Dursley", "Human Catra", "Galra Keith Kogane"). Any appearance-related AU that can't be clearly summed up in one or two words should be saved for the optional details of your request.
• Relationships between two or more characters are still nominated as individual "characters." To nominate a relationship, nominate them by putting "group: " before their names, in the following format:
  • group: Character A/Character B or group: Character A & Character B or group: Character A/Character B & Character C, etc.
• Romantic and/or sexual relationships are denoted by the / sign between the characters' names, and platonic and/or familial relationships are denoted by the & sign between the characters' names.
• You may nominate settings and/or objects as individual "characters" or as part of relationships (e.g. "place: Howl's Castle", "group: Nico di Angelo & the Lotus Hotel and Casino", "group: Dean Winchester/The Impala"). 
  • Please nominate individual places/settings with "Place:" or "Setting:" in front of them, to disambiguate them from characters and freeforms (e.g. "Place: The Moonpool", "Setting: the Hundred-Acre Wood").
• You may nominate "Any"/"Creator's Choice" characters and ships using the format: "Creator's Choice of [x]". For example, "Creator's Choice of Marcia Overstrand's Outfits", "Creator's Choice of Pokemon", "As Many Mythological Creatures As Creator Can Think Of", etc. 
• Please nominate crossover relationships under the fandom "Crossover Fandom." When nominating them, please use the format "group: Character A (Fandom 1)/Character B (Fandom 2)."
• Please nominate original characters and relationships under the fandom "Original Work." Descriptive character names are recommended. "Mermaid/Pirate" is pretty vague, while "Curvy Blue-haired Tattoo Artist Mermaid/Roguish Tattooed Butch Pirate" gives a better idea of what visuals and dynamics someone might be looking to request or draw. 
  • If you have a gender preference for an original ship (e.g. you want "Elf Paladin/Orc Druid" but only if they're both female), you must nominate the ship with genders included in the names (e.g. "Female Elf Paladin/Female Orc Druid"). 
  • This exchange was originally designed for the benefit of fandom artists and creators and shouldn't be treated as a space to request free commissions. If you have OCs in mind that are so specific they cannot be described within the character limit of an AO3 tag, please nominate and request the "Recipient's OC or TTRPG Character" tag in the fandom "Original Work".

Additional clarification for 2023 round 2 that may be added to the rules depending on how this round goes: Illustrations of a recipient's fic should be nominated under specific fandom(s), using a character tag for that fandom, and disambiguated, as something like "Creator's Choice of Scene from Recipient's AO3 Fic (Fandom)". For example, "Creator's Choice of Scene from Recip's AO3 Fic (SW:OT)", nominated under Star Wars: Original Trilogy.

Please comment here or email the mod account if there are any questions, concerns, etc.

Comments

[marquisguyun]

Hi! Would it be allowed to nominate a specific character design for a character that has multiple very different official designs? This is a book canon that has been illustrated for multiple different language editions, so they'd all fall under the book tag on AO3 but are distinct designs that would be easily distinguished in a nom.

I was thinking that would fall under the same rules as the general appearance related AUs, but this is my first time nominating for this exchange so I wanted to ask.

(I also have a collected document of all official reference art for this design to link for my artist later)

Thank you!

[koraki]

Hi! Good question! If the designs are distinct and unambiguous enough to be distinguished with one or two words in a nominated tag and would be easily accessible by anyone - for example, someone who isn't familiar with how Blorbina looks in the Klingon language edition could immediately find the right reference image by plugging your nominated tag into a search engine - it's OK to nominate just that design. If it's any more difficult to find than that or if it's ambiguous at all, please save it for the optional details of your request.

[ilthit]

I have to admit, I am the kind of participant who wants to offer drawing your OCs, so I hope people do request that! This is the perfect exchange for it too, because I put in just as much effort as I am capable at the time.

[koraki]

Hooray!

[mific]

Sorry to be thick, but how does one nominate a fandom? I can't see any way to do it at the tagset.
ETA: ignore me, hadn't noticed that clicking the tagset link had logged me out of AO3.

[koraki]

Haha, glad you figured it out!

[(Anonymous)]

If someone wanted to request art based on the official Hatsune Miku/Pokemon design collab what would be the best way to name the fandom?

[koraki]

Hi! Is this what you're referring to? https://www.serebii.net/music/projectvoltage/

If so I love it. As far as how to name the fandom in the tagset, I would recommend using what seems to be the official name and subtitle of the collab: "Project VOLTAGE (Pokémon feat. Hatsune Miku)".

[(Anonymous)]

That's it! Thank you. They're such cool designs.