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Signups are Open!

Signups are now open!

This year, I have raised the possible number of requests, offers, and characters. Instructions are contained within the form. As always, please let me know if anything about the form looks weird or isn't working how you expected.

The request part of your signup will be publicly visible. This makes things easier for treat creators and encourages people to offer more fandoms. It's also keeps things fun while you're waiting for assignments to go out. (But anyone can edit their signup until signups close, so keep in mind that all of these requests are subject to change.)

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Nominations Closed

Nominations are now closed. Signups will open in the morning my time (I'm in California).

This year I have spotted zero fandoms that are not media from Asia and zero characters nominated in the wrong fandoms. That means that "rejected" tags are duplicates, tags where I approved a different spelling, or errors. AO3 is still in beta; I would not rule out the last possibility! Please double check the final tag set (not your nominations) to make sure everything that should be there is really there.

I will be adding any mysteriously missing tags back into the tag set before opening signups. Once signups open, there is nothing more I can do, so please double check now. If there are duplicate characters or other issues, this is also the time to get those corrected.

Also, are the following three zero-character nominations correct? Last chance to correct them if they're not.

Blood Lad (0)

Blue Nathanael (0)

Utahime: The Songstress (0)

The tag set can be found here.

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Nominations ending soon

(Oops. I updated DW/LJ without updating Tumblr. Sorry, guys.)

Nominations run through the end of the 15th. Signups will open on the 16th. (Exact timing will depend on my schedule that day and any lingering technical difficulties with the tag set or signup form.)

I have approved most nominations and made corrections I've seen. If I've missed yours, poke me again. If you spot duplicate characters, spelling errors, or other issues, please let me know. I've been attempting to spell check nominations and make sure that all approved characters get at least some google hits for show wikis/wikipedia articles/My Anime List character lists/etc., but some of you take your rare fandoms very seriously. :D (2chan fic, guys? Damn, that's hardcore!) My last step in the approvals process will be to just approve anything remaining that I couldn't find out more about. I'm going to trust you guys to know who appears in your fandoms.

If you spot a character who is definitely not from the canon they were nominated in or a fandom that is not media from Asia, please let me know.

Likewise, please double check to make sure everyone you wanted to nominate is in the tag set. Even though AO3 can normally handle a variety of tags, the nominations form seems to choke on anything but plain Latin alphabet (unless it's in a current canonical tag), so I've had to approve hideousness like "facade" in place of "façade" (oh the pain), and there have been mysterious issues with some other tags that included diacritics or non-Latin writing systems. Sorry Pietà fans and others. If anything is mysteriously missing, let me know and/or re-nominate a form of the tag with no diacritics/Asian writing systems. When you post your finished work to the archive, you are welcome to tag in another format, but we're going to go with what doesn't make the nominations form explode for now.