The Early Bird Gets The Word Exchange

Hello! We are having a fabulous time seeing all the nominations come in and reading your fandom promos! Some have been such a welcome surprise – wow! This old and incredibly active fandom is now sleepy enough to qualify! Let’s wake it up!!! And so on.

First a slight rule clarification:

We are not accepting original character nominations in this round. If you have nominated OCs, you can reuse your relationship nomination slot. Otherwise these nominations will get rejected once nominations close.  (We will make exceptions for things like Player characters without canon names.)

We apologize for not including this in the original guidelines post, and will make the update there as well.
 

Additionally, we have a few questions about the following nominations:

• Dune Series - Frank Herbert

            We are unsure how this is a stand alone from the other parts of the fandom. As a whole, Dune is ineligible. Can you clarify this for us?

• Fawx & Stallion (Podcast)

            We couldn’t find the character Charlotte Watson. Can you clarify this for us?

• North of North (TV 2025)

            Does OFC stand for 'Original Female Character'? We are not accepting original characters at this time. If you’d like to change this, you can reuse your relationship nomination slot.

• 선의의 경쟁 | Friendly Rivalry (TV)

            We found over 100+ qualifying works after applying the relevant filters. Can you provide some clarification?

•  Inglourious Basterds (2009)

            We are not accepting original characters at this time. If you’d like to change this, you can reuse your relationship nomination slot. Could you please also disambiguate your nominations.

• Method (2017)

            We are not accepting original characters at this time. If you’d like to change this, you can reuse your relationship nomination slot. Could you please also disambiguate your nominations.

• He-Man and the Masters of the Universe

            For the nomination of Huntara (She-Ra)/Teela (He-Man), we are unable to determine if Huntara is a character who appears in the nominated He-Man series. If they are a She-Ra exclusive character, can you please nominate this ship under Crossover Fandom (if the She-Ra fandom also qualifies)?

• She-Ra: Princess Of Power (1985)

            Similarly, for the  Adora (She-Ra)/Kittrina (He-Man), can you please confirm if Kittrina appears in the nominated She-Ra verse? If they are a He-Man exclusive character, please nominate under Crossover Fandom

 

We have received many nominations without disambiguations. Please disambiguate your nominations. It prevents wandering tags and helps speed up the review process a lot.

Please reply to this comment if you have nominated any of the above fandoms or can help us out with regards to their eligibility. Please write the fandom in question as your reply subject. Alternatively, you can also use our evidence post here.

Additionally, please let us know if you catch any dupes or wandering tags or other oddities in the tag set. We'll fix that asap!