Sorry for being behind on noms approvals – I spent all of Sunday evening and Monday down with a stomach bug/food poisoning/digestive unpleasantness. I'm going through the noms right now, and I've decided that everyone gets an extra 3h of noms (until 20:00 Finland) as a celebration of me being able to keep food down. There will be at least one more full clarification post. In the meanwhile, while I'm approving, I have requests for the following nominators:

The Excalibur Alternative - David Weber
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Star Wars: The Original Trilogy
Please nominate according to the instructions. Thank you! If you do not, your fandom/remaining noms will be rejected.

Machineries of Empire Series - Yoon Ha Lee
Star Wars Crossovers
Alliance-Union - C. J. Cherryh
Chanur Series - C. J. Cherryh
Please disambiguate your nominations! This means adding the fandom in (brackets) to the end, e.g. Character: Ben Pollard (Alliance-Union)

Hyperion Cantos - Dan Simmons
Stellaris (Video Game)
You don't currently have any character, relationship, or worldbuilding tags nominated. You might want to add some!

Warhammer 40.000: Rogue Trader (Video Game) – is this distinct from the other Warhammer 40.000 stuff? Should this be kept separate or merged into Warhammer 40.000?

Superman (Animated) – I might have borked your noms by accident. Also, which animated Superman?

Nominations end in less than 72h! Tue 4 Feb 17:00 EET (in your timezone | countdown)

Please read the instructions

The Excalibur Alternative - David Weber – Please nominate according to the instructions. Thank you! If you do not, this will be rejected.

Is there space in this?

A quick google did not bring up anything useful for the following fandoms. Could the nominator or a bystander please explain the space content?
魔法つかいプリキュア！ | Mahou Tsukai Pretty Cure! | Mahou Girls PreCure!

Fandom tags

I wish to hear from the Mass Effect Trilogy nominator – are you OK with having your nominations merged into Mass Effect - All Media Types? If you do not get back to me by the time nominations close, I will merge.

Worldbuilding tags

(multiple fandoms)
Worldbuilding: Clones have their own sign language – this is a prompt, not worldbuilding. I will be rejecting this in ~24h if you do not edit it.

(multiple fandoms)
Worldbuilding: Childrearing – please edit to Worldbuilding: Childrearing practices if you want this to be accepted
Worldbuilding: Religion – please edit to Worldbuilding: Religions (plural) if you want this to be accepted
(While it is simple for the nominator to edit their noms with a simple double click, it's significantly more annoying to do so as the mod.)

For All Mankind (TV 2019)
Worldbuilding: What's happening in China (FAM) – Can you rephrase this? "State of Chinese Space Program" or whatnot? (Sorry if that's not what you're going after; I haven't started s3 yet.)

Please read the instructions

The Excalibur Alternative - David Weber – Please nominate according to the instructions. Thank you!

Is there space in this?

A quick google did not bring up anything useful for the following fandoms. Could the nominator or a bystander please explain the space content?
Relic Master Series - Catherine Fisher
내가 키운 S급들 - 근서 | S-Classes that I Raised - Geunseo

Fandom tags

We have nominations for both Mass Effect Trilogy and Mass Effect - All Media Types. Nominators, which do you prefer? Do you want Andromeda lumped in or separated out?

We have nominations for both Warhammer 40.000 and Warhammer 40k (Novels) - Various Authors. Are these the same fandom? How do the nominators want this franchise handled?

Worldbuilding tags

Worldbuilding tags cannot be used as plot prompts. Please replace the following:
Worldbuilding: Post-Canon (DS9)
Worldbuilding: Tech lives (SW TBB)

Please be more specific about the worldbuilding or explain to me why this is the best/only way to nominate:
Farscape
Worldbuilding: Childrearing (Farscape) – Childrearing where and of which children? Peacekeepers? Among Chiana's people? Elsewhere? Would you truly be satisfied with anything?
Worldbuilding: Religion (Farscape) – Which religion? A space religion? Christianity in the canon context? Religions plural?

For All Mankind
Worldbuilding: What's happening in China (FAM) – Can you rephrase this? "State of Chinese Space Program" or whatnot? (Sorry if that's not what you're going after; I haven't started s3 yet.)

Jupiter Ascending
Worldbuilding: Childrearing (Jupiter Ascending) – Childrearing where and of which children?
Worldbuilding: Religion (Jupiter Ascending) – Which religion? A fictional space religion? A RL religion in the canon context? Religions plural?

On a Sunbeam
Worldbuilding: Restoration (On a Sunbeam) – Restoration of what? Or is this a game mechanic?

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Worldbuilding: Religion (DS9) – Which religion? A fictional space religion? A RL religion in the canon context? Religions plural?

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Worldbuilding: Illyrian discrimination (STSNW) – Anti-Illyrian discrimination?
Worldbuilding: Noonien-Singh descendants discrimination (STSNW) – Discrimination against Noonien-Singh descendants?
Worldbuilding: Religion (STSNW) – Which religion? A fictional space religion? A RL religion in the canon context? Religions plural?
Worldbuilding: therapy (STSNW) – Therapy where, done by whom to whom? Starfleet? Elsewhere? Is there some canonical therapy setting you want worldbuilding about?

Stargate Atlantis
Worldbuilding: Sentient Atlantis (SGA) – Is this already a thing or a plot prompt?

Other

Star Wars Crossovers
Worldbuilding: Force Hounds (Any Era) – Force Hounds only seem to appear in Dawn of the Jedi, set around 25,793 BBY. Wookieepedia doesn't have any other mentions. Star Wars Crossovers doesn't look like the best place for this, especially as this is a single era thing.
Worldbuilding: Jedi Temple Guardians (Any Era) – Nominator, I would like to remind you that you are being incredibly ambitious and opting in to both Disney Canon and Legends, from before 5000 BBY to 19 BBY for Temple Guardians. I will let this in in ~48 hours even if you don't reply, but I first wanted to warn you just in case.

Noms are OPEN and run until Tue 4 Feb 17:00 EET (in your timezone | countdown)

Tags that do not conform to these instructions will not be approved.

Please disregard everything AO3 says on the "nominate" page. Do NOT choose the canonical versions (offered by the dropdown) of whatever tag you're nominating. Tags are NOT restricted to characters only. Thank you. (AO3 doesn't let mods adjust what's on the nominations page.) If you have questions, please ask!


Please check what was agreed for your fandom on the franchise wrangling post. Write the fandom's name based on what was decided there. If your fandom has not been discussed on the franchise wrangling post, use the AO3 canonical. Please do not use "- All Media Types" tags unless decided on the franchise wrangling post. Please add the fandom name (or easily understandable abbreviation thereof) in (brackets) after the tag you are nominating. If nominating a crossover between two space canons, that is allowed; nom it under Crossover Fandom. (Allowed kinds of crossover tags for 2024: Relationship: Shmi Skywalker (SWPT) & Aeryn Sun (Farscape), Character: Jean-Luc Picard (TNG) in Mass Effect: Andromeda)

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Just one question this time!

Captain Future (German Anime Version)
Nominator, what is this? I have discovered Captain Future and it would be eligible.

Duplicates?
If you see any duplicate tags (e.g. Character: James T Kirk (TOS) and Character: James T. Kirk (TOS)) under one fandom, or things somewhere they don't belong, then please comment on this post.

Franchise stuff

Nominator of Mass Effect - Various Authors (previously Mass Effect - All Media Types) The nominator for Mass Effect Trilogy is happy merging into the All Media Types tag. Do you also want to go back to using the All Media Types tag, or is there a specific reason you switched to the tie-in novel tag? Please reply to this post. Anon commenting is on.

Reread the instructions section

Nominator of:
Silo (TV)
The correct prefix for relationships is Relationship:, not Pairing.

Nominator of:
Stargate SG-1
Do not nominate canonical character tags. Please read the instructions post and nominate accordingly. This means you need to nominate Character: Svetlana Markov (Stargate), not Svetlana Markov (Stargate).

Nominators of:
Ocean's Echo - Everina Maxwell
Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon)
崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
Please disambiguate your nominations. This means that instead of nominating e.g. Character: Blade or Worldbuilding: Clone Culture, you nominate Character: Blade (HSR) or Worldbuilding: Clone Culture (SW:TBB).

Reread the instructions section

Nominators of:
Silo (TV)
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (TV)
The correct prefix for relationships is Relationship:, not Pairing.

Nominator of:
Stargate SG-1
Do not nominate canonical character tags. Please read the instructions post and nominate accordingly. This means you need to nominate Character: Svetlana Markov (Stargate), not Svetlana Markov (Stargate).

Nominators of:
Ocean's Echo - Everina Maxwell
崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
Please disambiguate your nominations. This means that instead of nominating e.g. Character: Blade, you nominate Character: Blade (HSR).

Nominators of:
Crossover Fandom
We are not taking Worldbuilding: noms under Crossover Fandom this year.

Franchise stuff

There are nominations for both Mass Effect - All Media Types (with trilogy & Andromeda characters) and Mass Effect Trilogy. Would the latter nominator be happy being merged, or the former nominator with splitting their noms between Mass Effect Trilogy and Mass Effect: Andromeda?

Is there space in this?

Bionicle (Generation 1)
Leif & Thorn (Webcomic)

Read the instructions section

Nominators of:
Silo (TV)
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (TV)
The correct prefix for relationships is Relationship:, not Pairing.

Nominator of:
Stargate SG-1
Do not nominate canonical character tags. Please read the instructions post and nominate accordingly.

Nominator of:
The Mandalorian (TV)
The tag we're using this year is The Mandalorian & TBoBF, as per the franchise wrangling post.

Nominator of:
崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
Please disambiguate your nominations. This means that instead of nominating e.g. Character: Kafka, you nominate Character: Kafka (HSR).

Is there space in this?

Welcome to Night Vale
The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
Loki (TV 2021)

Noms will start today 26 Jan at 21:00 IST (in your timezone) and run until 4 Feb 21:00 IST (in your timezone | countdown). – NOW OPEN!

Tags that do not conform to these instructions will not be approved.

Please disregard everything AO3 says on the "nominate" page. Do NOT choose the canonical versions (offered by the dropdown) of whatever tag you're nominating. Tags are NOT restricted to characters only. Thank you. (AO3 doesn't let mods adjust what's on the nominations page.) If you have questions, please ask!


Please check what was agreed for your fandom on the franchise wrangling post. Write the fandom's name based on what was decided there. If your fandom has not been discussed on the franchise wrangling post, use the AO3 canonical. Please do not use "- All Media Types" tags unless decided on the franchise wrangling post. Please add the fandom name (or easily understandable abbreviation thereof) in (brackets) after the tag you are nominating. If nominating a crossover between two space canons, that is allowed; nom it under Crossover Fandom. (Allowed kinds of crossover tags for 2024: Relationship: Shmi Skywalker (SWPT) & Aeryn Sun (Farscape), Character: Jean-Luc Picard (TNG) in Mass Effect: Andromeda)

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Nominations are over, and we now have a nice and shiny tag set, stuffed with fandoms!

Sign-ups will open on Friday. In the meanwhile, please take a look at the tag set and see if there's anything that's misspelled, misplaced, or rules-violating. The fandom promotion post will go up shortly.

A bit over 24h remain until nominations end at 5 Feb 21:00 IST (in your timezone | countdown)

Nominator of
Character: Lena (The 100)
Relationship: Clarke Griffin & Lena (The 100)
Relationship: Clarke Griffin/Lena (The 100)
– I have been informed there is no character called Lena in The 100 (TV). Do you mean Lexa or Luna? Please link your nominations page (https://archiveofourown.org/tag_sets/14059/nominations/NUMBERS) and tell me what you meant, or provide proof there is a character called Lena.

Additionally, if you see any misspelled, unclear, rule-violating, or misplaced (e.g. a hypothetical Relationship: Beverley Crusher/T'Pol nominated under Star Trek AOS), please comment here with the tag and the issue with it, and I'll fix it.

If these are not changed by the end of nominations, they will be rejected.

Is there space in this?
Horizon: Zero Dawn (Video Game) – is there space (space travel, aliens, etc) in this?
Final Fantasy XIV – is there space (space travel, aliens, etc) in this?
Live A Live – is there space (space travel, aliens, etc) in this?
This Is How You Lose the Time War – is there space (space travel, aliens, etc) in this?

Please format according to instructions:
Nebula (Guardians of the Galaxy movies)
Peter Quill (Guardians of the Galaxy movies)
I have additionally rejected an improperly formatted Din Djarin from noms, as he is already present in the tagset correctly formatted. (Uncategorized Fandoms > The Mandalorian & TBOBF (TV))

Is this worldbuilding?
Worldbuilding: Companion support group (Doctor Who) – is the companion support group a thing in canon? If not, this would be better as a prompt for an & relationship between companions.

Crossover Fandom
Worldbuilding: The Distance of the Moon (Italo Calvino)/Doctor Who (2005) – what do you wish to request?

Please read the franchise wrangling post
Star Wars: Shattered Empire – this should probably be Star Wars New EU - All Media Types. Please also read the nominations instructions on tag formatting.

If these are not changed by the end of nominations, they will be rejected.

Is there space in this?

Horizon: Zero Dawn (Video Game) – is there space (space travel, aliens, etc) in this?

Please format according to instructions:

Nebula (Guardians of the Galaxy movies)
Peter Quill (Guardians of the Galaxy movies)
Din Djarin (The Mandalorian TV)

This is a plot prompt:

– rephrase into a worldbuild-y thing, or remove the nom and use it as a prompt
Worldbuilding: Other adventures of the Christa (Space Cases)
Worldbuilding: Adventures of the Galaxy Quest crew (Galaxy Quest TV)

Crossover Fandom & Star Trek Crossovers:

Worldbuilding: The Distance of the Moon (Italo Calvino)/Doctor Who (2005) – please nominate characters as a relationship
Character: Beverly Crusher (ST:PIC/TNG) – do you want to nominate her under TNG or Picard?
Character: Deanna Troi (ST:PIC/TNG) – do you want to nominate her under TNG or Picard?

Please read the franchise wrangling post:

Star Wars: Shattered Empire – this should probably be Star Wars New EU - All Media Types. Please also read the nominations instructions on tag formatting.

Noms will start today 27 Jan at 21:00 IST (in your timezone) or a few minutes earlier and run until 5 Feb 21:00 IST (in your timezone | countdown). – NOW OPEN!

Tags that do not conform to these instructions will not be approved.

Please disregard everything AO3 says on the "nominate" page. Do NOT choose the canonical versions (offered by the dropdown) of whatever tag you're nominating. Tags are NOT restricted to characters only. Thank you. (AO3 doesn't let mods adjust what's on the nominations page.) If you have questions, please ask!


Please check what was agreed for your fandom on the franchise wrangling post. Write the fandom's name based on what was decided there. If your fandom has not been discussed on the franchise wrangling post, use the AO3 canonical. Please do not use "- All Media Types" tags unless decided on the franchise wrangling post. Please add the fandom name (or easily understandable abbreviation thereof) in (brackets) after the tag you are nominating. If nominating a crossover between two space canons, that is allowed; nom it under Crossover Fandom.

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Nominators of:
Imperial Radch Series - Ann Leckie
Questionable Content (Webcomic)
Space Force (TV)
Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
Teixcalaan Series - Arkady Martine
...please read the nominations instructions and edit your nominations to comply. Solo characters are to be nominated in the format Character: River Song, NOT River Song (which AO3 will suggest to you). These nominations will be rejected at the end of the nominations period unless changed.

Nominators of:
Worldbuilding: EVERYBODY LIVES (Rogue One)
Worldbuilding: An AU in Which Oola Survives (Star Wars OT)
...those are AUs, not worldbuilding, and thus best left as prompts and/or requested in auexchange. These nominations will be rejected at the end of the nominations period unless changed.

Doctor Strange (2016) – is there space in this?

These nominations will be rejected at the end of the nominations period unless changed.

Nominators of:
Doctor Who (2005)
Loki (TV 2021)
Space Force (TV)
Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
Thor (Movies)
Annihilation (2018 Garland)
Arrival (2016)
...please read the nominations instructions and edit your nominations to comply. Solo characters are to be nominated in the format Character: River Song, NOT River Song (which AO3 will suggest to you).

Nominators of:
Worldbuilding: EVERYBODY LIVES (Rogue One)
Worldbuilding: An AU in Which Oola Survives (Star Wars OT)
...those are AUs, not worldbuilding, and thus best left as prompts and/or requested in auexchange.

Worldbuilding: First Season Auditions (Galaxy Quest) – this does not quite seem like a worldbuilding tag. Could you either rephrase into something more worldbuild-y or use this as a prompt with another tag?

Worldbuilding: Tatooine and Alderaan in the Firefly Universe (Crossover Fandom) – unfortunately, this sort of crossover isn't permitted.

Doctor Who & Related Fandoms – please don't use "& Related Fandoms" tags and instead pick one fandom to nominate under.

Nominators of:
Doctor Who (2005)
Loki (TV 2021)
Space Force (TV)
Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
The Outer Worlds (Video Game)
Thor (Movies)
Annihilation (2018 Garland)
Arrival (2016)
...please read the nominations instructions and edit your nominations to comply. Solo characters are to be nominated in the format Character: River Song, NOT River Song (which AO3 will suggest to you).

Nominators of:
FTL: Faster Than Light (Video Game)
Stellar Firma (Podcast)
Wayfarers Series - Becky Chambers
...if you nominated any characters, relationships, or worldbuilding tags under your fandoms, they did not go through to AO3. If you have any preferences whatsoever as to the content you'd like to receive, please nominate something.

Nominators of:
Worldbuilding: EVERYBODY LIVES (Rogue One)
Worldbuilding: An AU in Which Oola Survives (Star Wars OT)
...those are AUs, not worldbuilding, and thus best left as prompts and/or requested in auexchange

Worldbuilding: Thanos' change of mind (What If...?) – I am not familiar with the canon, but this seems to be more of a characterization thing than a worldbuilding tag. Does canon make me wrong, or could you rephrase it?

Ancient Greek Religion & Lore – I do not think there is space in this.

Kingdom Hearts (Video Games) – is there space in this? Google results are inconclusive.

Nominator(s) of:

• Doctor Who (2005)
• The Outer Worlds (Video Game)
• Thos (Movies)
• Annihilation (2018 Garland)
• Arrival (2016)
• Loki (TV 2021)

...please read the Nominations Instructions post. Character noms must NOT be the tag AO3 suggests you.

Noms will start today 28 Jan at 19:00 EET (in your timezone) or a few minutes earlier and run until 6 Feb 19:00 EET (in your timezone | countdown). – NOMS OPEN!

Tags that do not conform to these instructions will not be approved.

Please disregard everything AO3 says on the "nominate" page. Do NOT choose the canonical versions (offered by the dropdown) of whatever tag you're nominating. Tags are NOT restricted to characters only. Thank you. (AO3 doesn't let mods adjust what's on the nominations page.) If you have questions, please ask!


Please check what was agreed for your fandom on the franchise wrangling post. Write the fandom's name based on what was decided there. If your fandom has not been discussed on the franchise wrangling post, use the AO3 canonical. Please do not use "- All Media Types" tags unless decided on the franchise wrangling post. If you're nominating a character who's found in many canons (eg. Superman), has many versions, or who has a very common name, or a relationship with such a character, please add the fandom name in (brackets) after the name(s). If nominating a crossover between two space canons, that is allowed; nom it under Crossover Fandom.

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