2020 nominations clarifications #2

[koraki]

 Hi everyone! The tagset looks amazing. Make sure to get your final nominations in before the nominations period ends later today, and drop a comment in the promo post to hype your favorite films and rare fandoms!

 

To reiterate, due to the size of the tagset it is possible that duplicates or misspellings may slip through. Please comment on this post if you notice anything out of whack in one of your fandoms, and we will fix it. 

 

The mods have questions about several nominated tags which have not yet been approved: 

• Fandom: Bumblebee (2018) - This fandom tag is categorized under Transformers (Bay Movies) by AO3. The Transformers (Bay Movies) category currently contains 3306 works, putting it well outside the bounds of eligibility for this exchange. Can someone familiar with the fandom provide a compelling reason for why Bumblebee (2018) should be considered eligible? If not, it will be rejected.
• Group: f!Thomas Richardson/f!Malcolm Howe (Apostle) - Genderswap AU versions of canon characters are not eligible for the 2020 round of this exchange. Do genderswapped versions of the requested characters exist in the film? If not, the tag will be rejected. rule63exchange is currently in its signup period and would be a fantastic place to direct requests like this one!
• Fandom: Sleeping With Sirens, group: William "Rocky" Sullivan & Jerry Connolly (Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)), group: William "Rocky" Sullivan/Jerry Connolly (Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)), Jerry Connolly, William "Rocky" Sullivan - Sleeping With Sirens appears to be a band fandom, which would not be considered eligible for this exchange, but the included group and character tags were nominated under it, perhaps unintentionally. If you nominated this fandom or these characters, please check to make sure you didn't accidentally hit something you didn't intend to in the dropdown! If there is a different explanation for this group of nominations, please comment here to clarify. 
• Fandom: Road House (1989), Group: James Dalton/Jimmy (Point Break), Group: James Dalton/Wade Garrett (Point Break) - Were these groups intended to be nominated with this fandom? If so, please change the fandom disambiguation to reflect this. If not, please make sure you didn't accidentally hit something you didn't intend to in the dropdown. 
• Fandom: Object Lesson (Fictional Movie Trailer) - This nominated tag appears to be in reference to a fanvid. Fanvids, AMVs, and other derivative works do not fall under our definition of a "film fandom" for the 2020 round of this exchange. Can someone familiar with this work provide a compelling reason for why it should be considered eligible? 

An additional reminder:

• Please keep in mind that nominating in the requested format with the inclusion of a fandom disambiguation e.g. "Group: Character A & Character B (Movie X)" will allow us to approve and associate your character/group nominations much more quickly than if they are missing the disambiguation. If you notice one of your nominated tags lingering for multiple days, check to see if it includes a disambiguation; if it does not, that is most likely the reason for the slower turnaround. 

Comments

Apostle nomination

[corvusumbranox]

Hiya. I was the one who nominated the genderswap ship for Apostle, and no, there are no canonical gender swapped characters in the film. Never mind - please delete the nom, and thanks for all your work on the exchange.

Re: Apostle nomination

[koraki]

Hi! Thanks for the reply. I know we didn't say anything about AU versions of characters in the rules one way or another, so it was worth a shot. :D We can absolutely clarify that rule on our end next year.

[(Anonymous)]

Fandom: Sleeping With Sirens

Oops! That was me, and it looks like I did bork the dropdown somehow--the fandom is indeed meant to be Angels with Dirty Faces (1938). Apologies for the inconvenience!

[koraki]

No inconvenience at all, we figured it was something like that. :) Thanks for clarifying and fixing it.

[(Anonymous)]

Sorry about the Road House screw up. It's fixed now.

Caro Dee

[koraki]

Thanks! Appreciate the quick response.

[(Anonymous)]

Not the nominator for Bumblebee, but it’s considered a spin-off from the first five movies, with a different director and cast.

[koraki]

Thank you for the response! In your opinion, could Bumblebee be viewed as a standalone film by someone who had no familiarity with the first five movies or the rest of the Transformers franchise? If so, is there also clear evidence that a vast majority of works in the Transformers category are related to the first five movies and have nothing to do with the characters/story in Bumblebee?

[(Anonymous)]

Hey there! I was the one who nominated Zenon. IIRC it was an "all medias types" category? So thank you for changing the nom to something film-specific (it's Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century (1999) in the tagset now, under Uncategorized Fandoms). But if it's not much of a bother, do you think you could change that to Zenon (Movies) or something like that? It's a trilogy, not just a single movie.

Thanks for organizing this exchange! It looks really fun so far. <3

[(Anonymous)]

Hi mod. If there's a movie that belongs to a movie series, is it possible to nominate the first movie alone instead of as the whole series? I see that my Olympus Has Fallen ship got moved to the movie series tag, when I've originally nominated it under the first movie instead.

[(Anonymous)]

(Dang, sorry, my comment wasn't meant as a reply to the comment above.)

[koraki]

Hi! Thanks for asking.

For the 2020 round, the mods have decided that requests for characterization/plot events/worldbuilding based on only one movie out of a series can't be enforced through nominated tags. If you don't want reference to certain plot events, characters, worldbuilding, etc. that feature in a later movie in the Olympus Has Fallen series we ask that you include those preferences in the optional details of your signup.

In future, if you have a special request involving a movie that is part of a series, we ask that you comment on the eligibility post before submitting your nomination since this gives us a little more leeway to consider the request.

Let me know if you have any followup questions!

[koraki]

Hi! Thank you for letting us know. We will change the fandom name.