Nominations open!

[koraki]

Nominations are now open for Multifandom Doodle! 

Eligibility

• All fandoms, characters, and ships are eligible for this exchange.
• Original Works and RPF are eligible for this exchange.
  • Mods reserve the right to reject nominations deemed to be in bad taste (e.g. Nazi RPF). 

How to Nominate

• Each participant can nominate up to 10 fandoms, with up to 20 characters/ships in each fandom. 
• 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: Fawkes & the Room of Requirement", "group: Dean Winchester/The Impala"). 
  • Please nominate individual places/settings with "Place:" or "Setting:" in front of them, to disambiguate them from freeforms (e.g. "Place: Howl's Castle", "Setting: the Hundred-Acre Wood").
• 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"). You won't be allowed to use likes or DNWs to enforce a gender preference for an original ship where the nominated tag is gender neutral. 

Please note that because of the number of character nominations allowed per fandom, and in the interest of avoiding ambiguity, the tagset will not accept "Any [Category]" character/ship nominations for the inaugural round of this exchange. 

If there are any questions, or nomination clarifications you would like to provide, please comment below. 

Comments

[koraki]

Hi!! Thank you, I'm excited too and very grateful for everybody who said they would like an AO3 art exchange because that was my inspiration to run it.

To be honest, my reason for disallowing Any nominations this round was to avoid ambiguous moderating situations in fandoms I am not familiar with. ("Any" requests/offers are going to be allowed because they are confined to the nominated tagset and therefore a lot less ambiguous to moderate.) If the tag is nominated as "Creator's Choice" rather than "Any" I am happy to approve it.

Nominating "Object: the Contents of [Character]'s Backpack" under any fandom, or "Object: the Contents of Creator's Choice of Character's Bag" under Creator's Choice of Fandom would be fine and I have been approving nominations like that.

With that being said I would not be inclined to approve any variation on "Any Fandom I've Requested Before" ("Creator's Choice of Any Fandom I've Requested Before", etc...) because that puts a lot of work on the creator to go looking through old requests and letters, and on the mod to enforce which fandoms "count", so while it's a fun idea, I feel like right now it's really beyond the scope of this particular exchange.