littleblackdressex | Nominations are Open!

Nominations for Little Black Dress 2022 are now open! Please read the guidelines below, even if you regularly participate in exchanges.

1. All characters must be disambiguated, even if they wouldn't usually need to be. Disambiguation means putting the fandom name in parentheses next to the character e.g. Marta Cabrera (Knives Out). It's very possible several characters will be nominated in several different canon iterations, so please disambiguate as specifically as possible or characters will go wandering. If you nominate Leia Organa in Star Wars—All Media Types, disambiguate with (SW—AMT) and not just Star Wars.

2. For big sprawling canons, make sure you only nominate All Media Types if you are truly requesting that character within any media type. Note that you cannot DNW a subset of canon. For instance, if you would like Leia paired with any character in any Star Wars media except for the video games, you cannot request her in Star Wars—All Media Types and DNW video game pairings. You can, however, request her in the Original Trilogy and then opt-in for crossovers in any Star Wars media except for video games. If in doubt, nominate your character in a smaller piece of your canon and opt-in to the larger one.

3. As a general note, please bear in mind that the fandom you nominate a character under will determine the available set of characters to ship them with, so consider this carefully.

4. Participants may nominate 1-10 characters in 1-10 fandoms.

More specific guidelines:

For DC Comics and Marvel Comics, please nominate all main-continuity characters under the umbrella title (e.g. DC Comics), and all titles that take place outside of main continuity under their respective titles (e.g. Bombshells, Arkham Knight). Individual titles and era-specific runs may also be nominated (e.g. DC Comics New Earth). For alternate versions of characters that happen within the main continuity/storyline, nominate them with an informative designation under the main DC Comics/Marvel Comics tag (e.g. HYDRA!Steve Rogers).

For DC's Arrowverse, due to the complexity and intricacy of the crossovers, crossover episodes will be treated as episodes that are shared equally between the relevant shows. That is to say, all crossover episodes that one show participated in count as part of that show, even if they are technically part of a different series. For example, the Elseworld's crossover story is considered part of Arrow, Flash, and Supergirl, but not Legends of Tomorrow or Black Lightning. This does not apply to canons outside of Arrow, Flash, Supergirl, Batwoman, Legends of Tomorrow, and Black Lightning who participated in the crossovers.

For RPF, characters should be nominated in the fandom that you want to be considered the shared "canon" for purposes of offering/requesting. Anyone you offer can be paired with anyone who shares the canon. So if you nominate Socrates as "Philosophy RPF," he could be paired with anyone who is defined as a philosopher. But if you nominate him in "Classical Athens RPF," he could be paired with anyone who is defined as living in Classical Athens.

For characters with multiple gender paths in canon—usually but not exclusively video-games—you may nominate them as the gender you prefer (e.g. M!PC, F!PC)

You are welcome to nominate and then request rule!63 Little-Black-Dresses, monster versions of characters, etc. using the same designation as above.

The 2022 Tagset can be found here. Nominations will remain open for one week, until 9am UTC April 30 2022 (click here for a countdown). Nomination queries will be posted here at the comm, so please check back if your nominations haven't been accepted. If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to comment here.

Happy nomming!

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All of the relationship types available (F/F, F/F/F, F/F/M, F/M) involve female characters in some way, so are M/M ships not allowed in this event?

😅 nevermind

All good, they are displaying a little strangely in the tagset so it's hard to see. You can find the complete list here: https://littleblackdressex.dreamwidth.org/279.html#cutid4

Hi! Is it ok to DNW LBD/people older than (insert age) if it still leaves many other options to pair the LBD with?

Hi, this should be okay; it's up to each individual to use their best judgement here about whether or not the DNW is too restrictive, and excessively-restrictive DNWs may be queried during signups. But as you say, as long as there are plenty of options then it should be fine; I would recommend DNW'ing "age gaps of X+ years" rather than DNWing people over a certain age.

I have a weird question. Is it okay to do a crossover LBD? I still have enough distinct fandoms to meet the requirements even if this isn't okay. I was thinking of formatting it like G: Character A (Fandom 1)/Fandom 2.

For example:
G: Fujiwara Zakuro (TMM)/Sailor Moon Character

Hi, I'm not 100% sure what you mean. In your example, are you saying you'd like Fujiwara Zakuro shipped with any Sailor Moon Character? In that instance you would nominate Fujiwara Zakuro and opt into Sailor Moon crossovers in your ODs. Does that answer your question?

Note nominations are in character format only, so no Group: A/B nominations will be accepted.

Zakuro is in odd spot because I NoTP her with everyone in Tokyo Mew Mew, but she's my LBD in terms of crossover ships with every other magical girl fandom. Putting her under the fandom normally wouldn't be very fair to someone who got matched to me. So the gist of it was trying to come up with a good way to nominate her that wouldn't allow for a mismatch. I only used the group format there because it was a well known one for the example.

It's not a big deal if this isn't doable.

Thanks for clarifying. Based on what you've described, this request is better suited for LBD Madness. I'll update the rules for this round stating that you can request a LBD exclusively with crossover characters in LBD Madness and it won't count towards your 5 NOTP DNWs.

Can you DNW a particular version of a character, if there are multiple versions?

Yes, that's fine.

I have a question about the "All Media Types" thing - I was hoping to request Daniel Jackson of SG1, and he's currently nominated under "Stargate All Media Types" but I have never seen Stargate Universe which would qualify under than umbrella, though I have seen Atlantis and would welcome Atlantis character pairings. It looks like so far, only SG1 and Atlantis characters have been nominated under all Media types, but I'm still nervous about getting a character I know nothing about.

I'm going to go ahead and nominate him solely under SG1 just in case, but is there a way to clarify with the nominator and/or any offers that I don't want Universe characters if I did request all media types? I worry that I'd sorta be guaranteed NOT to get him if I nominate/request him under the more specific fandom type as opposed to the one that has a bunch of nominations so far.

Hi! Nominating him under SG1 is 100% fine. I understand your concern about not matching on him if you request him as part of a more specific fandom, but unfortunately you can't request the AMT and then DNW sections of canon. I think a lot of participants will be looking through requests to see who's offering their fandoms, and I'm sure Stargate fans would be happy to add a SG1-specific Daniel offer if they saw someone was requesting that. You are of course welcome to request SG1 Daniel and opt into Atlantis ships as well, but please only request SG-AMT Daniel if you're truly open to any media types, including SG Universe.

OK perfect - that definitely makes sense. I'll definitely opt in via my letter/optional details to Atlantis characters as well as other crossovers with requested characters/fandoms, so that should help there.

I see duplicate characters with different disambiguations in Arcane (Vi and Jinx)

Thanks for flagging this! I've removed the duplicates.

Hi! Earlier I tried to nominate some characters under Assassin's Creed - Valhalla, but I'm not sure what's happened as it seems to have gone through as Assassin's Creed - All Media Types instead (and I can't change it). The actual characters haven't been accepted yet, but they're all disambiguated with (Assassin's Creed - Valhalla). Would it be possible to change AMT to the specific game, Valhalla, please? If there's something I can do to fix it my end, please let me know. Thank you!

I think AO3 sometimes does this unfortunately, even when the nominator's put everything through correctly (iirc it has to do with the fact that Assassin's Creed - All Media Types is already accepted in the tagset). But thank you for flagging this, I will accept your nominations under Assassin's Creed - Valhalla when I come to them!

Ah fab, thank you. :D

This is not my nomination.

Under Arrow (TV 2012) I saw that there is Kara Danvers (Arrowverse (TV 2012)). This didn't wander over from Supergirl (TV 2015) as that Kara Danvers has a different disambiguation. I think the nominator might have nominated DC's Arrowverse as the fandom, but AO3 has it synned with the Arrow TV show and if the show is accepted it will automatically turn Arrowverse nominations into the show.

Also Bruce Wayne (DC Comics) had wandered into DC Extended Universe.

Thanks, I'll sort this out when I do the tagset cleanup.

Heads up, "Bruce Wayne (DC Comics)" is currently nominated under "The Batman (Movie 2022)."

Thanks, this has been amended.

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