Tag set open for nominations

[worldbuildingmod]

The tag set is now open for nominations, and will close at 0755 UTC on Monday 10th Jan (amended from original schedule to allow for AO3 issues). Countdown to close of nominations here.

The official guidelines on nominating are here and a detailed guide to nominating for new participants (made in 2021, but there are no changes for this year) can be found here.

Brief reminders:

• Fandom names should make clear what the scope of the intended source material is*
  
• Please disambiguate all character and worldbuilding tags with the name of their fandom in parentheses after them
  
• Worldbuilding tags go in the "Relationship" fields with "WB: " at the start - please do not nominate actual A/B, C&D, etc. relationships
  
• All fandoms need to have "Original Character(s) (Name of Fandom)", "Any or No Characters (Name of Fandom)" and at least one worldbuilding tag
  
• Other types of "Any" tags are allowed in the Character field to specify types of character, e.g. "Any Halfling(s)", "Any Space Marine(s)"
  
• AUs (except those which appear within canon, like Star Trek's Mirror Universe) and RPF are outside the scope of the exchange

*A quick note on fandom names for Original Works: the tag set seems to be more manageable for participants when these are split up by subgenre, so please do use fandom tags like "Original Work - Pulp SF" rather than just "Original Work". I will default to approving whatever participants choose to use, even if they seem similar to existing ones in the tag set, rather than try to act as an arbiter of genre boundaries. If, once the tag set starts to take shape, you end up feeling that your nominations could be folded into another category that has been nominated by someone else, let me know and I will do so behind the scenes.

Please feel free to use the comments of this post for queries, to help me understand anything that you think is potentially complicated about your nominations, and for co-ordination between participants to avoid unnecessary duplication.

Finally, please do be patient while waiting for your nominations to be dealt with - it is fairly likely that this year, I will be approving in larger batches but somewhat more infrequently than I have managed in some previous rounds.

Comments

[raininshadows]

Yes, that's me. I can try to explain, but I'm not sure I can do it much more coherently. It originally came out of a translation error, but current canon is the same across all languages.

Original!Nael is Eula's brother. He died about 20 years before the start of canon. Eula assumed his identity after his death. Every time "Nael" appears on screen, which was fairly frequently because he was the villain of 1.0, it's actually the person originally known as Eula. (Eula's ghost consistently identifies as Nael and refers to their life using male pronouns, but whether this indicates male identity or just getting really into the role is controversial in the fandom.)

So the distinction is that one died around 20 and never appears onscreen, and the other was the main villain of 1.0 and has been showing up occasionally ever since. But one of them is impersonating the other in all their actual appearances.

[worldbuildingmod]

Thanks; that makes sense to me now (or at least, enough sense that I'm happy to approve two separate tags).