Nominations are now closed

[rarepair-mod.livejournal.com]

As the subject says, nominations for this round are now closed. Thank you to everyone who has nominated. We are currently sitting at 360 fandoms and 2395 relationships. That's four times the amount we have last year (wow!). Though that number will drop slightly when we go through in the morning and remove fandoms with one or zero nominations.

Now is the time to contest pairings that are too large or pairings that were erroneously rejected. Also please use this time to let us know if you see any problems with the tags (spelling issues, fandoms crossing over into the wrong category, crossovers that slipped through, missing tags, etc.). Once signups open, no changes will be made to the tagset.

Also to note, due to the increase this year, depending on how much there is to fix, signups may start a day late.

Comments

[muccamukk]

Doctor Who Big finish Audio has "Martha Jones/The Master (Doctor Who)" listed, which shouldn't be there.

Doctor Who has "Jack Harkness/Owen Harper/Ianto Jones" which should be under Torchwood.

Thanks so much for all your work in organising this. You really have done a wonderful job with a very frustrating process.

[rarepair-mod.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Mods are going to bed now, but we'll get it fixed in the morning.

It's totally worth it.

[merryghoul]

Another for you in the morning:

Suits (TV) has this tag: Harvey Specer/Travis Tanner/Mike Ross.

It should be Harvey Specter/Travis Tanner/Mike Ross.

[rarepair-mod.livejournal.com]

Fixed. Thank you!

[vialethe]

Under the Firefly and Andromeda fandoms - Trance Gemini/River Tam is a crossover pairing.

[rarepair-mod.livejournal.com]

We've removed it. Thanks!

[cosmicdancer.livejournal.com]

Theon Greyjoy/Ros is listed as a pairing in A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin. Ros is a character created specially for the Game of Thrones adaptation and doesn't appear in the books.

[rarepair-mod.livejournal.com]

We merged the handful of nominations that we had for the Game of Thrones with the A Song of Ice and Fire category since they are so similar and there is no canonical fandom tag that contains them both.

[cosmicdancer.livejournal.com]

Ah okay, thanks for the clarification!

[wildlinggirl.livejournal.com]

In the fandom "The Mentalist", there's Madeline Hightower/Teresa Lisbon and Madeline Hightower/Patrick Jane, which actually should be Madeleine Hightower/Teresa Lisbon and Madeleine Hightower/Patrick Jane.

[rarepair-mod.livejournal.com]

Fixed.

Persona 4

[sirvalkyrie.livejournal.com]

Okay, this is going to sound stupid, but it is a semi-question.

In Persona 4 the main character is unnamed. In a manga adaptation he is named Seta Souji. In the anime adaptation and the fighting game sequel he is named Narukami Yu. In the different ships involving the main character there doesn't seem to be any outright duplicates, but are they being considered interchangeable or not? Example: If I request/offer Seta Souji/Shirogane Naoto, does that means it has to be manga version Seta Souji, or can it be either Narukami Yu or Seta Souji?

Re: Persona 4

[madame-oryx.livejournal.com]

well, i'm obviously not a mod, but speaking as the person who nominated souji/naoto...

i used that name because it's the one i'm most familiar with & like best, but i've never even read the P4 manga. :o so i'd have no problem with him being written as his anime-verse self or any other 'verse for that matter.

... maybe i should've just used "persona 4 protagonist," but that sounds so bland 8(

Re: Persona 4

[rarepair-mod.livejournal.com]

I think for the purpose of this fest that the names can be used interchangeably.

[muccamukk]

Sorry, I feel like I'm being a pest, but are you leaving Marvel Comics spread out over five categories?

I had thought you said you were going to amalgamate them all under Marvel Comics or Marvel 616.

[rarepair-mod.livejournal.com]

We decided to leave everything where they were nominated as it doesn't hurt anything to have the various divisions. We also had one person specify they didn't nominate under the Marvel 616 tag because they weren't after that version, and we figured that might be the same for others.

[muccamukk]

Okay. I can see an MA pair in there, for sure, so that makes sense.

You do have a duplication then, Kate/Cassie is nominated under both YA and 616 (and honestly most of the YA pairings are under 616, and there are no other versions of those characters).

ETA: if I were offering, say,
Carol Danvers/Wanda Maximoff (Marvel 616)
Faiza Hussain/Dane Whitman (Marvel 616)
Luke Cage/Danny Rand (Marvel 616)
Luke Cage/Jessica Jones/Danny Rand (Marvel 616)
Matt Murdock/Franklin "Foggy" Nelson (Marvel Comics)
Misty Knight/Colleen Wing (Marvel 616)
Misty Knight/Danny Rand/Colleen Wing (Marvel 616)
Monica Rambeau/Steve Rogers (Marvel 616)
Sharon Carter/Sam Wilson (Marvel Comics)

I would be spending two slots on one fandom, and if I weren't that hot on Matt/Foggy, I wouldn't have enough "Marvel Comics" offers to offer Sharon/Sam, despite having eight other offers in the same fandom.

[rarepair-mod.livejournal.com]

We merged YA in, but as signups are now open, we aren't willing to do anymore changes.

[muccamukk]

That seems fair. Thank you for all your work.

[rarepair-mod.livejournal.com]

Thank you for all your help finding issues with tags. We've learned that comic fandoms can be a bit unwieldy due to their scope and the various universes, and while we know a bit, we're far from experts and are open to suggestions. We decided that most people likely nominated the way they did for a reason, and that it would make sense to the fans. We also wondered that maybe the Marvel 616/Marvel comics categories were too broad, and might consider enforcing a separation next year.

[muccamukk]

I REALLY LIKE SPREADSHEETS! (I also realise that I must look completely obsessed, but looking at lists of things just makes me happy, so...)

Overall, you guys have been champs about tagging things. I'm really impressed.

I don't know how breaking it up would work, as there's SO many different crossovers, and everyone is in each others titles being shippy. I mean, Deadpool alone, dude. Some titles like X-Factor and YA are a little more isolated, but the Avengers are in everything.

Yuletide does do it that way, though they're going by character, and just put up with Clint Barton being nominated in 14 different categories.

I'd be pretty happy with things divided by universe, and that be the only category. Just lumped under Marvel Comics might be a little awkward, as I ship Sam/Sharon in 616, but don't really see it in Ults, and as it stands, I have no idea what the person requesting it wants until after I'm matched. At which point I might be out of luck, or reading Mark Millar, which is more or less the same thing.

If any of that makes any sense.

ETA: As to the category being too big, all lumped together, it's about the same size as some of the larger movie fandoms like MCU or Star Trek.

[rarepair-mod.livejournal.com]

Spreadsheets *are* great things. :)

It was Yuletide that got us thinking, but also then we realize we could end up with 14 different nominations for Clint/Natasha, and we have to ask ourselves if they are that different. I'd guess, probably not. So there's the dilemma. I'm sure there's some happy medium out there; we just have to find it.

Oh, we don't mean that the category is too big in terms of numbers, but in terms of scope: the Marvel universe is huge and made up of a ton of different storylines and versions of itself.

[cosmicdancer.livejournal.com]

*sigh* I just realized I misspelled a character's name in my nominations. In Questionable Content, Wil's name has only one L. I see that it says no changes after signups open but I'm posting this here just in case something that small is changeable. Otherwise, no worries. :)

[rarepair-mod.livejournal.com]

We can't change it, but it shouldn't be a problem since everyone will be using that tag.