Nominations are open!

[battleshipmod]

Nominate fandoms and ships at our AO3 tagset. Nominations will continue through the sign-up period. After sign-ups and nominations end, if you really need a fandom added so you can create a late prompt, message the mods and we'll add it.

This year's mods have a "tagset anarchy" policy. If you nominate a fandom, we assume you want it to be in the tagset the way you nominated it.

Fandoms

All fandoms may be nominated, including All Media Types, Original Work (including subtypes such as Original F/F as their own fandoms), Creator's Choice of Fandom (which includes original work and any fandom at all, not just nominated fandoms), and Any Fandom I've Requested Before. If a fandom has multiple formats, please make sure you nominate the particular format you want.

Nominate all crossovers under Crossover Fandom. The instructions on the nomination page say to do something different; ignore those instructions.

Ships, characters, groups, and worldbuilding

Use the format A & B to nominate ships that are non-romantic and non-sexual. Use the format A/B for ships that are romantic or sexual. If your ship doesn't fall clearly into either category, use your best judgment or nominate it in both & and / forms. Combined ships such as A/B & C are permitted, but be aware they may be interpreted differently by different people (are both A and B friends with C, or is only B friends with C?). Other ship formats, such as "Werewolf!A/Vampire!B" or "A xcons B", are not permitted.

Please put characters in alphabetical order by family name (like Lan Zhan/Wei Ying) or only name (like Jay-Z & Alicia Keys). You don't need to use the AO3 canonical form of a name or a ship. Feel free to omit piping, special characters, etc. if it makes your ship easier to read.

All solo characters and non-shipped groups may be nominated in the relationship field in the format 1: Character or 1: Group. Groups should be finite and clearly defined. The mods will not arbitrate disputes about who is or isn't in a group.

Significant objects and places can be nominated with the 1: prefix: 1: The Shire (The Hobbit), 1: Daniel da Silva's Nipple Ring (England Series - KJ Charles). This can be useful for art and worldbuilding prompts. 1: Worldbuilding may be nominated in any fandom.

You may nominate OCs, solo and in relationships, with or without specification (Original Character, Original Nonbinary Character, Original Elf Character, etc.); "Any" with or without specification (Any Character, Any Female Character, Any Villain, etc.); and "Reader" with or without specification (Character/Reader, Character/Non-Op Trans Male Reader, etc.).

Disambiguation

Please put the fandom name in parentheses after the ship or character. This is called disambiguating and helps us reassociate ships with their fandoms if they get separated. If the fandom has multiple formats, the disambiguation should reflect the format you want. For example, Dorothy Gale & The Scarecrow (Oz) is not a useful disambiguation because there are multiple Oz works featuring those characters. Dorothy Gale & The Scarecrow (Oz Books - Baum) is clearer and will help us put the ship where it goes.

Limitations

RPF: No non-famous family members of 20th/21st-century famous people. No living people under 18. No 20th/21st-century Nazis, fascists, or white supremacists.

Recursive fanwork: Nominations must have the original creator's approval in writing. Please provide approval evidence to the mods before nominating.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Does Battleship have a policy about nominating defined/pre-existing OCs? I spotted a ship earlier that has a non-canon character nominated by name in a ship, rather than as "Original Female Character" or similar.

[battleshipmod]

The only relevant policy we have is:

If you're requesting original work or original characters, please note that these will be created by the work's creator. To request work with your OCs, nominate your original work as a fandom.

What's the character in question? Are they from a preexisting fanwork?

Wandering Tags: this is The MCYT Problem, sorry.

[antimony_medusa]

Hi!

MCYT/Minecraft as a fandom has some idiosyncrasies with their tags which make them the enemy of exchange tagsets, and they are working their evil in battleship already. The short version of the problem is that there will be different characters for different fandoms/servers, but they will all be synned together under the same creator's name tag across however many servers/fandoms the creator has ever been on. So if you have the same people on multiple servers/fandoms and they interact at all (common when people rp with their friends), the same relationship tag for different servers/fandoms will be synned together, making exchange tags wander. This gets worse when people start writing crossovers, and my fandom loves crossovers. So there are a bunch of tags wandering. The current list is:

Scott Major | Smajor1995/Milo (WitchCraft SMP) is showing up in 3rd Life | Double Life SMP, and also SMPEarth, and also Origins SMP
Philza & Ranboo & Technoblade (Dream SMP) is showing up in QSMP
Technoblade & TommyInnit (Origins SMP) is showing up in QSMP
Chayanne & Philza & Tallulah (QSMP) is showing up in SMPEarth, and also Dream SMP, and also Origins SMP
Etoiles & Philza (QSMP) is showing up in SMPEarth, and also Dream SMP, and also Origins SMP
Etoiles/Philza (QSMP) is showing up in SMPEarth, and also Dream SMP, and also Origins SMP
Niki Nihachu & Philza & Ranboo & Technoblade (Dream SMP) is showing up in SMPEarth, and also Origins SMP
Philza & Ranboo & Technoblade (Dream SMP) is showing up in SMPEarth, and also Origins SMP
Philza & Sneegsnag (Origins SMP) is showing up in SMPEarth, and also Dream SMP
Philza & Technoblade (Dream SMP) is showing up in SMPEarth, and also Origins SMP
Philza & Technoblade (SMPEarth), is showing up in Dream SMP, and also Origins SMP
Technoblade & TommyInnit (Origins SMP), is showing up in Dream SMP

I am sorry my fandom comes bearing curses with it! If you do not want to smack them out of the fandoms we can make it work, but if you want to pin them to the correct fandom— those are the current list of cursed tags.

[(Anonymous)]

The character in question is Ekka Asmat, who is nominated in Warhammer 40.000 in the ship Ekka Asmat/Mortarion. She's an OC for 40k canon developed in FFA threads and who I think has been written in a few stories posted to AO3.

Re: Wandering Tags: this is The MCYT Problem, sorry.

[antimony_medusa]

Update: I went through the tags after I saw some responses in the discord and all of those tags are ALSO showing up in the fandom that they're supposed to be in, so actually, because there's no matching to be done, I'm pretty sure there's no issue. Crisis averted. Sorry for the false alarm!

[bluedreaming]

If a fandom doesn’t have an “all media types” tag, can you nominate it as all media types anyway or should you do all three separately? I notice the instructions on the nominations form says “Please choose the canonical version of your tag if there is one.” but here is says “All fandoms may be nominated, including All Media Types”

[battleshipmod]

If there isn't a canonical AMT fandom, it's fine to nominate it anyway. We just want people to use canonicals where they exist.

[bluedreaming]

That makes sense! Thanks for the response.