Jun. 20th, 2024 08:58 pm
Nominations are Open!
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littleblackdressexNominations for Little Black Dress 2024 are now officially 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:
Since multiple versions of canons are in the tagset, you may run into a case where synning changes the fandom you nominate without allowing you to edit or otherwise locks up your nominations page! If this happens please let me know and I will be able to help you get your nominations submitted with the intended fandom tag.
The 2024 Tagset can be found here. Nominations will remain open for one week, until 11:59PM EST June 27 2024 (click here for a countdown). They will then close for cleanup and re-open until the end of signups.
This year there have been some sitewide technical issues on the modding side of nominations. This may result in nominations being accepted slower than usual.
If you notice something that needs fixed in the tagset, including incorrect tags or wandering tags, please let me know here or on any query posts! Nomination queries will be posted here at the comm, so please check back if your nominations haven't been accepted.
Happy nomming!
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 request 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, NB!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.
Since multiple versions of canons are in the tagset, you may run into a case where synning changes the fandom you nominate without allowing you to edit or otherwise locks up your nominations page! If this happens please let me know and I will be able to help you get your nominations submitted with the intended fandom tag.
The 2024 Tagset can be found here. Nominations will remain open for one week, until 11:59PM EST June 27 2024 (click here for a countdown). They will then close for cleanup and re-open until the end of signups.
This year there have been some sitewide technical issues on the modding side of nominations. This may result in nominations being accepted slower than usual.
If you notice something that needs fixed in the tagset, including incorrect tags or wandering tags, please let me know here or on any query posts! Nomination queries will be posted here at the comm, so please check back if your nominations haven't been accepted.
Happy nomming!