Nominations open

[koraki]

Hello! Nominations are now open for Multifandom Doodle 2024, Round 1. The tagset can be viewed here and you can submit your nominations here.

I will be AFK May 25-May 27 so any nominations submitted on the 25th or 26th could take 48+ hours to be approved even if no additional clarifications are needed - rest assured they will make it through eventually!

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/Sam 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".

Illustrations of a recipient's fic should be nominated under specific fandom(s), using a character tag for that fandom, and disambiguated, using the format "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.

If you think there may be confusion about a tag you're planning to nominate, feel free to ask or give a heads up about it first - this lessens the chance of it getting held up for a clarification post.

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

Comments

oops

[rugessnome]

Hey, I'm handschuhmaus and I keep accidentally submitting my nomination when I hit enter when trying to enter tags that don't canonically exist; can you please wait, say, 24 hours+ to vet my nomination so that I can edit it into a finished state?

Re: oops

[minoanmiss]

That is a difficulty. Try adding a space after the tag before hitting "enter" -- it seems to encourage the form to accept the newly created submitted tag rather than choking on it and submitting the entirety of the form as a finished nomination.

Re: oops

[rugessnome]

I'll keep that in mind. It isn't every time that it happens; I think it has to do with taking the focus partially away from the textbox, probably due to switching tabs.

Re: oops

[facethestrange]

[Not a mod.] Have you tried typing a comma instead of hitting enter? (I had no idea you could also use enter for this until reading your comment, and I've been nominating for years. I've always used a comma, but maybe it doesn't work for others.)

Re: oops

[rugessnome]

It does work for me on the computer; thanks for the reminder. I think I had fallen out of the habit during a period when I was using AO3 mostly on my phone, due to commas separating tags working somehow inconsistently or strangely on mobile browser. (iirc, the problem might have been that they weren't automatically made into a tag in some context and so choosing a canonical tag from the dropdown for a subsequent tag would obliterate them)

Re: oops

[facethestrange]

Oh, yep, after I made the comment I realized it's probably a mobile thing - I've only ever done it on the phone once and it indeed didn't work properly. I'm glad it's working on the computer. :)

Re: oops

[koraki]

Hi! Nominations are anonymous, they all come in as one big batch and mods can't see who nominated what. Can you let me know what fandoms you're nominating tags for and I will hold off on those for a few days?

Re: oops

[rugessnome]

oh sorry, I didn't know that! At this point I think I'm as finished now as I am apt to be in the near future, so don't worry about it. :)

[javert]

Hi, I have a question! You mention that appearance-related AUs are allowed to be nominated, but what about specifying a (canonical) outfit for a character? For example, if I'm requesting a character in a video game that you can unlock a chef outfit for, can I nominate "Chef Character" or "Chef Outfit Character" or, assuming the outfit has a canonical name, "Super Cook Character"?

[koraki]

This would be fine! Please use the canonical name for the outfit if it exists.

[javert]

Perfect! Thank you so much :D!

[javert]

Just to let you know I ended up nominating them in the format "(Canonical name of outfit) Costume (Character name)" since apparently "costume" is what they're referred as officially. Let me know if there's an issue with that!

[koraki]

Thanks, that works for me!

[jaclynhyde]

Hi! If a character has two separate identities with different names and appearances, should we nominate them separately? For example, if Star Wars wasn't separated into trilogies, should Group: Anakin Skywalker/Obi-Wan Kenobi and Group: Darth Vader/Obi-Wan Kenobi be separate noms? Does it make a difference if the identities/looks exist at the same time, like Bruce Wayne vs. Batman?

[koraki]

Good question! I’m not going to police nominations either way, but since this is an art exchange, I’d recommend nominating the tags in your example (and any similar ones) separately to give a better idea of what you’re looking for visually.

Duplicates in Star Wars - All Media Types

[tabitabi]

Hello! Just found a couple duplicates in Star Wars - All Media Types: Leia Organa (SW AMT) and Leia Organa (SW), as well as Luke Skywalker (SW AMT) and Luke Skywalker (SW)!

Re: Duplicates in Star Wars - All Media Types

[koraki]

Thank you!