Nominations Open!

[justmarriedmod]

Nominations for Just Married 2022 are open (a little early)! Find the tagset here: https://archiveofourown.org/tag_sets/11277.

Nominations will close 11:59pm UTC on the 27th of May. To convert UTC to your time zone, click here, adjust the date as necessary, and click “add a city or time zone.”

Please disambiguate relationship nominations (add the fandom name in parentheses behind your nomination). This will help us approve your tags faster.

Last year's freeforms have been copied over to this year's tagset, and we will also be accepting new tags. Please add broad category prefixes when nominating!

Nomination Guidelines:

You may nominate up to 7 fandoms, 7 relationships per fandom, and 10 freeform tags. Mods will approve nominations throughout the time range, and clarification questions will be posted to this community.

For relationship tags, please nominate in the format 'Character A/Character B' for romantic relationships and use 'Character A & Character B' for non-romantic relationships. You may nominate more than two characters in a relationship.

Please disambiguate all relationship tags by adding "(Fandom Name)" at the end. Examples: Jake Peralta/Amy Santiago (Brooklyn Nine-Nine), Confused Male Demon & The Male Prime Minister He Accidentally Possessed (Original Work).

Freeform tags are for trope or situation matching. Examples include: arranged marriage, accidentally married, sedoretu, etc. Feel free to get creative but please aim for clarity. For example, “soulbond marriage” is ambiguous, “marriage with forced soulbonding” is clearer.

Please include a category when nominating freeforms! This is to help us keep the tagset organized. A list of categories can be found here (thank you to the sheet creator). To use it, please save or download a local editable copy. You can then browse the categories, or click into individual categories to see the freeforms within that category. The public spreadsheet will be updated from time to time as new freeform tags are accepted.

Please also nominate only marriage tropes and situations! Freeforms unrelated to marriage will be rejected.

Specific fandom notes:
All Dragon Age nominations go under Dragon Age: All Media Types.
All of the associated movies go under Marvel Cinematic Universe.
** Update: Please nominate Marvel TV shows on their own.
All of the associated movies go under DC Extended Universe.

Original Works are welcome. Please nominate under the Original Work fandom tag. If you have specific genders in mind, include those in your nomination. Example: “Female Soldier/Male Assassin (Original Work).”

Crossovers are welcome. Please nominate crossover relationships under the Crossover Fandom tag. List the character name followed by their canon. Example: “Tony Stark (MCU)/Bruce Wayne (DCU).” Crossover nominations that do not follow this format may be rejected.

Comments

[lurking_latinist]

This is exciting!

Can I ask for some advice on how to word a freeform tag? Basically, A and B are friends in canon (shipped in many fics) who mentor and essentially co-parent teenage character C. I would like to request a fic where having C in their lives gets A and B to formalize their relationship--whether through C Parent Trapping them, through outsiders assuming that since they're C's "mom and dad" they must be married and A and B realize they like that, or anything else. Would "Proposal - Informal Co-Parenting Leads to Proposal" make sense or should I try something wordier but more transparent?

Thank you!

[lurking_latinist]

Also, I'm thinking about requesting a (different) pairing where X and Y are fake-married and have to do marriage-y things, but it never becomes real--that is, I don't want them to get together at the end (even if one or both of them might be into it on some level). Is that a good fit for this exchange, and if so, should I request it as X/Y or X&Y?

Similarly, if I want to request widowed character D opening up about their late spouse to (non-romantically attached) character E, would the relationship to nominate be D/spouse, D&E, or both?

Thank you!

[justmarriedmod]

Hello!

1) "Proposal - Informal Co-Parenting Leads to Proposal" sounds good to me. If you'd like to add your ideas for how it might happen, there will be a space in the sign-up form for optional details.

2a) That definitely works for this exchange. If you want to guarantee that the ship does not end up together, I'd suggest either 1) request only X&Y, which will guarantee gen, or 2) request both X&Y and X/Y, but only with freeforms mentioning they do not end up together (e.g. "Fake Marriage Never Becomes Real").

2b) I'd nominate the relationship "D/Spouse & E" and include your scenario either in your freeform tags or optional details.

I hope that helps a little!

[lurking_latinist]

Thank you, that clears it up!

[crouchingbarty]

I'd like to nominate some Star Wars pairings, and I'm assuming based on the other specific fandom notes that you'd like us to use the "Star Wars - All Media Types" fandom, but what would you like the disambiguation to be?

[justmarriedmod]

Hello! For Star Wars, please nominate under the specific instalment (Clone Wars, KOtOR, Prequel Trilogy/Original Trilogy/Sequel Trilogy etc.), and please disambiguate with the specific instalment.

[(Anonymous)]

Someone nominated ships in "The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV)" which should be part of "Marvel Cinematic Universe"

[justmarriedmod]

Got it, thank you for the heads up - I'll move them and mention it in the next nominations clarification post.

[justmarriedmod]

Following up on this after feedback from the nominator: As this is a TV show, we'll keep it separate from the MCU.