I'm the nominator for Surge Concerto (which is Ciel nosurge and Ar nosurge). The story for Ar nosurge actually takes place in the Soreil, which is a spaceship that the last surviving inhabitants of Ra Ciela (which blew up during Ciel nosurge) live in while they look for a new planet to inhabit.

Edited (words are hard.) 2014-12-02 09:45 pm (UTC)

No problem! I hadn't realised that the wiki was so direly bad. I personally like how the word "spaceship" or variations thereof never appears in the wiki page! Nice work, whoever did that one.

Justice League Cartoon and DCU nominations are mine so I'll answer.

About the JL cartoon, some episodes see the characters travelling into the space or visiting other planets, fighting along aliens or against aliens, etc. Much similarly to Marvel stories. Some characters within this fandom, like Green Lanterns in particular (whom I nominated btw), are space travelers (in short guardians gifted with rings protecting many planets' around the galaxy).

About DCU I'm unsure if it's too general as designation. Should I rename it DC comics or DCAU etc instead?

Anyway, basically the Justice League above mentioned is a branch of the DCU, the animated series inspired on the Justice League comic books. Also, DCU have many similarities with Marvel, that you've approved. :)

Edited 2014-12-02 10:07 pm (UTC)

Oh, I thought I had re-nominated the ones about the cartoon in "John Stewart (JL&JLU)" and "Wally West (JL&JLU)" to prevent AO3 from reject them during the sign up, clearly I didn't.

I suppose "John Doe" was auto-correct. *giggle*

ETA: Could re-nominate one John Stewart in John Stewart (JL&JLU) or something different anyway, to avoid it being rejected during sign ups? Sorry about this.




Edited 2014-12-02 10:31 pm (UTC)

I'm particularly fond of the cartoon version of the characters, that is why I nominated that first.

But I also like other versions of the same characters, that are quite different actually from the ones on the cartoon, that is why I decided to add that to my nominations. However it was so hard to choose just one fandom more when there are so many continuities, that is why I just settled for "DCU" eventually.

Besides I also like the current Green Lantern and The Flash alter egos Hal Jordan and Barry Allen (that are the main characters of in the New 52 books for example) that can't be nominated on the cartoon tag - one isn't in the cartoon, the other is just a background character.

My doubt about using 'DCU' as fandom tag, however, is that people wanting request/offer it could be paired up to other person who requests or offers for continuities they aren't familiar with or don't care for (for example, character personalities, backgrounds and storylines underwent a big restyling on the last continuity).

And about the ETA, thinking of it, it depends on how you handle the settings for the sign ups: if you set the sign ups in order that there are or aren't duplicate character tags.

It happened to me that while I was signing up to an old gift exchange I couldn't select an approved character tag falling under two fandom umbrellas (something like "Steve Rogers" for comics and "Steve Rogers" for movies, probably) and I had eventually to choose either.

Edited 2014-12-02 11:31 pm (UTC)

So sorry that I didn't get back to you earlier!

I'm unsure how to reply to your question. In a way they are the same characters, and in another way they aren't. Characters' personalities, dynamics, and settings are sometimes so much different for same characters associated with different Universes. Still, they keep some basic elements that make them recognizable.

I'm OK if you prefer not to keep the characters from two different Continuities, don't worry. In this case, though, I'd like to keep Wally West and John Stewart from Justice League cartoon, and Hal Jordan and Barry Allen from 'New 52 (DC comics)' (I don't think there's a tag for this canon yet though, strangely enough, I tried to check for it in the past too, and never got a result).I don't really care for Hal from before the New 52 reboot, so that's why I'd prefer the specific Continuity.

Yep, that's the one. :)

Since you ask me, I still think it would make it clearer to use the unofficial temporary fandom tag 'New 52 (DC Comics)' or even better 'DCU (New 52 comics)' (there's no need to put in a request to the wrangler team and make it official: I've just checked and it appears New 52 fanworks got the Fandom Tag 'DCU (Comics)' and the Continuity tag 'New 52' is in the additional tags list instead - that enables the works to be findable with the search system, but it's of no use on exchange matches).

But, I understand if you prefer to let it like it is now, DCU.

Thanks, and sorry for the uber-long thread. ^^;

Sorry to jump in here!

One of the problems that the tag system has on AO3 is that one character may be associated with multiple titles (either because they're in them or because of really awesome crossovers) and when setting up a tag set for a fic exchange you might have wandering tags. The way you get around this is to disambiguate -- that is, John Stewart (JL&JLU) and John Stewart (DCU), for example -- to make it clear that for the tag set for this exchange , there are meant to be two John Stewarts and they are meant to be associated with particular series. The tags created for a tag set in a fic exchange aren't kept on AO3 and are literally just used for matching purposes. When you upload a story, definitely use the canonical tags on AO3! But when creating a tag set for a fic exchange, disambiguation is the way to go!

I didn't nominate Homestuck (not Homestruck ;)) but it is absolutely set in space. Something like half the cast are aliens from an intergalactic empire, and the plot involves travelling between different planets and an asteroid after the Earth was destroyed. See the second sentence of the plot description on wikipedia "Installing and running the game on his computer triggers a meteor attack on his real-life house, which he survives only by being transported to another planet". People literally fly through space itself, too.

Ahhh! Yeah there's a LOT going on in Homestuck, it's easy to miss aspects.

I'm confused on why AO3 says Mirror Tuvok character tag belongs to Voyager fandom when in fact it's a Deep Space Nine character. I think the tag wranglers mistaken that for its non-mirror version?

Anyway, I've put in my nominations and I thought to warn for this, in case you're unsure why I listed it on DS9. Here a link:
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Tuvok_(mirror)

Rebuild of Evangelion | Evangelion: New Theatrical Edition: Evangelion is rather metaphorical, so where things take place can be hard to pin down, but some of it is definitely in space! One of the series' major characters is a sort-of-alien who comes from not-Earth; here's him and the series protagonist's titular Evangelion on the moon, and here's him hanging out without a space suit. In film 3, most of the characters have gone on the run in a ship in high orbit.

Not my nomination, but they might have been referring to the Gummi Ship and how they travel between worlds.

http://kingdomhearts.wikia.com/wiki/Gummi_Ship

Players use the Gummi Ship to travel between different worlds. The worlds are depicted as being round like planets.