Nominations Clarifications #5

[worldbuildingmod]

There are almost exactly three days left from the time of this post until the close of nominations (countdown).

Fandoms with missing tags

To be approved, all fandoms need to have the "Any or No Characters" and "Original Character(s)" character tags nominated, and at least one worldbuilding tag.

At present, the following five fandoms are missing at least one of the two character tags: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Dark is Rising Sequence - Susan Cooper, Fallout: New Vegas, Midsummer Night's Dream - William Shakespeare, White Collar

And two fandoms have no worldbuilding tags: White Collar, X-Men - All Media Types

Queries about new tags in already approved fandoms

• Chrono Trigger - WB: Janus' early life especially with his magic differing (Chrono Trigger), WB: post-game quest to rescue Crono's mother and/or the cats (Chrono Trigger) - I am willing to be convinced (particularly on the first of these two), but these seem more like character/plot prompts than specifically worldbuilding related.
  
• Kingsman (Movies) - WB: Kingsman spies but set in Victorian London - the backstory has the Kingsman organisation being founded post-WWI, so this seems like a prompt for a non-canon AU; this tag will be rejected after 48 hours unless a pretty spectacular counterargument appears

Not-yet-approved fandoms

• Jean Robertson Series - Janet Sandison - this seems to be a very-close-to-real-world canon (e.g. it's described as "semiautobiographical"), so I'm not sure that the worldbuilding tags nominated ("Country vs Town", "Honour vs Rules", "The Depression", "Women's Roles") constitute prompts for extrapolation of the fictional world, as opposed to historical research. I am not completely closed to being persuaded otherwise, but at present am leaning towards rejecting this fandom; I will do this after 48 hours.
  
• The Reluctant Widow - Georgette Heyer - the only nominated worldbuilding tag is "How Francis saves the day as hinted onscreen in the book but not shown" - this seems to me to be filling in gaps in canon but not necessarily in a "worldbuilding" way

Previous queries

• Supergirl (TV 2015) - WB: the Xenosexual Scene and Maggie's Bildungsroman - I have adjusted this tag to just "WB: the Xenosexual Scene" but am willing to change it back if a good argument is presented
  
• Original Work - WB: Hallmark Channel Small Town Gothic - I still feel as though this is a setting in which more specific worldbuilding tags could be nominated, rather than a worldbuilding tag in and of itself. At present, I am leaning towards rejecting this, but I have the feeling I may be misunderstanding the intent.
  
• End of Eternity | Resonance of Fate - WB: Massacre Cult details - I still can't find any evidence for the existence of this (e.g. searching for the word "cult" on the fandom's wiki gets no returns), so am leaning towards rejection. This is currently the only worldbuilding tag nominated for this fandom; I will not reject the whole fandom at this stage, but it will not be approved without worldbuilding tags

(I have decided to give it a bit longer before rejecting the last two tags mentioned above, either to allow the nominator to explain or use the slot for something else.)

Comments

End of Eternity | Resonance of Fate - WB: Massacre Cult details

[sirvalkyrie]

This isn't my nomination and I haven't beaten the game in question yet, but it might refer to the shooting that Zephyr was in before the game started.

http://resonanceoffate.wikia.com/wiki/Zephyr

You can see the after effects of it in the opening of the game.

https://youtu.be/H6xFQ9dGfPY

Jean Robertson series

[greerwatson]

This isn't my nomination, but I think I'm the only one who's written in the fandom. Jane Duncan is best known for the "My Friends" series, which is indeed semi-autobiographical. Its heroine, like the author, lived part of her childhood in the Scottish Highlands, works in a factory during the war, marries an engineer who emigrates to Jamaica, and returns a widow to become an author.

However, under the name Janet Sandison, Jane Duncan also wrote the "Jean Robertson" series . It is a completely different series and not semi-autobiographical.

The setting is a fictional commuter suburb of Glasgow. The first book is about the childhood of the main protagonist, "wee Jeanie", who comes from the slums. In later volumes, she's housekeeper for an upper middle-class family. However, the series interweaves the lives of various people from other parts of the town, all of whom are affected in one way or another by knowing her.

Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic

[(Anonymous)]

(Not about the issues in the post, a new nom.)

I've nominated KotOR under the AO3 canonical "Star Wars Legends: Knights of the Old Republic (Video Games)" to mean the first and second games (single player RPGs from the '00s), but not the newer MMORPG, The Old Republic. I've tried to make sure that the disambiguation tags make the scope clear, but if you want to change the fandom tag as well, that's OK by me.

[(Anonymous)]

Re Resonance of Fate. That was my nomination. If the player talks to NPCs throughout the game, they give some information that there's a group of people who worship the guy who committed a massacre, they dress like him, and so on. I didn't take into account that there wouldn't be any info on it online and I won't have time to replay the game before nominations end to grab screenshots to prove any of that so I've deleted those tags. Sorry about not getting back to you about that sooner.

Another scope clarification

[(Anonymous)]

(KotOR nominator again)

I've just put in some nominations for "Doctor Who & Related Fandoms" - in terms of canon scope, I'm using "& Related Fandoms" because I really do mean everything even tangentially Doctor Who related, whether officially licensed or not. (So, for example, Big Finish Benny Summerfield, Faction Paradox, BBV audios, Obverse's Iris line, etc.)

Hope that's OK.

[silveradept]

On the Crono Trigger fronts, "Janus's early life" might be appropriately recast as "WB: Life in Zeal" and/or "WB: Natural/Elemental magic VS. Lavos-derived magic", which might get the original nominator the idea they want, with Janus as a possible character to explore those ideas.

On "Post-game quest," that one might be cast as "WB: Ripple effects from the defeat of Lavos" and the original nominator could use the quest for Crono's mom (and cat) as the frame for that?

[ashling]

Hi! I'm Original Work / WB: Hallmark Channel Small Town Gothic
I wasn't sure exactly how to word it, so I'll try to re-word it, but basically what I'm interested in is a mildly creepy or meta take on the way that Hallmark Channel style romantic movies have extremely strict archetypes for their characters in a way that makes it feel like everything is predestined and the character's actual personalities have nothing to do with it. I was this close to putting "horror" in, but then I figured that'd be too gory and I don't really want to write or receive a ton of gore.

Mainly, I was looking for something like "A Cabin in the Woods", except for Hallmark romcoms instead of horror movies. Something genre deconstructing, and a little creepy, possibly with supernatural elements.

I'll try "WB: Hallmark Channel-style Small Town Gothic/Romcom Tropes as Predestination" and see if that works