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We are 143 hours into tag approving! We began with 4563 nominated fandoms (though two different spellings of the same fandom are treated as two different fandoms for that total). We have 567 fandom nominations still to sort.

SORTED: 15th Century CE Hungarian RPF

- nominator, as well as this nomination for Szapolyai Imre, we have a number of characters (Henry VII of England, Richard III of England, Ulrich von Jungingen, Margrete Valdemarsdatter | Margaret I of Denmark, Jeanne d'Arc | Joan of Arc, Anne Neville Queen of England, Isabel Neville, Richard III of England) nominated under 15th Century CE RPF. As we prefer not to approve both the general century and a more specific version, we propose approving Szapolyai Imre under the overall 15th Century CE – please let us know if that’s a problem! Alternately, 15th Century CE nominators, is there a narrower label you think might suit?

SORTED: 28 Days Later (Movies)

- we have one nomination for this fandom label, including Jim, Kellie | Jimmy Ink, Selena, Spike; from this character set, it looks as though you were interested in all four movies (Days, Weeks, Years, Bone Temple). We also have a nomination for 28 Years Later (Movies), for Cathy, Ian Kelson, Jimmy Ink | Kellie, Samson, Sir Jimmy Crystal, and Worldbuilding. Should we combine these movies into a set of four, or keep the first pair and second pair separate? It seems as though the majority of nominators are interested in 28 Years Later and Temple and Bone, but we're interested in hearing how splitting or merging would affect your plans to offer and request.

SORTED: British Writer RPF

- this is a relatively broad category. As the nominated characters are all in the right time period, we would like to merge it with 19th Century CE RPF (also quite broad) to create 19th Century CE Writer RPF. Please let us know if there are concerns! Characters are: Anne Brontë, Branwell Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Walt Whitman, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Simone Weil, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, John Keats, Lord Byron.

Bronze Age RPF - We also have nominations for the more specific Mesopotamian RPF, and all the Bronze Age characters (Hammurabi, Kiru daughter of Zimri-Lim, Šibtu, Zimri-Lim) seem to fit that description too. We plan to approve the Bronze Age people under Mesopotamian RPF, which currently contains Ea-Nasir, Hammurabi, Nanni, and Enheduanna.

Champignon Witch- Nominator, were you hoping to write or request the Anime or the Manga, or are they similar enough that it won’t make a difference? Please link your nominations page.

SORTED: The Chronicles of Chrestomanci - Diana Wynne Jones

has been approved with Conrad, Christopher, and Millie - apologies that we hadn't noticed Witch Week - Diana Wynne Jones is also nominated with Charles, Nirupam, Nan, and Estelle. We propose to merge Witch Week into Chrestomanci.

Cycling RPF - this fandom is too large for Yuletide. Nominator of Alex Baudin, Enric Mas, Felix Gall, and Paul Seixas, can you suggest an appropriate fandom label that contains some or all of these people? Please note we separately have a nomination for Bahrain Merida Pro Cycling Team 2018 so would prefer not to approve another Cycling label that is an umbrella label for that one.

SORTED: A Day in the Life of an Enshittificator — YouTube Video and The life of death and the enshittificator by Forbrukerrådet

- the second of these commercials appears to be a direct continuation of the first. Nominators, do you have any concerns with combining them, perhaps as something like Enshittificator Commercials - Forbrukerrådet?

Die My Love nominator, we’re not sure what was intended by the worldbuilding character nomination, can you let us know more about what you are looking for?

Edge of Tomorrow (2014) - we understand that J-squad includes named individuals such as Griff and Nance, so we will not accept this group tag. Could you please pick a J-squad member?

Embassytown - China Miéville - could we get more information about the character ez/ra please? This potentially seems like two characters together.

GMMTV Actor RPF & GMMTV RPF - we've approved this fandom in earlier years, but it is now difficult to establish clearly that it is a rare fandom. We would like to discuss whether there are smaller subsets of these actors that would work for you. Nominated: Hong Pichetpong Chiradatesakunvong, Keen Suvijak Piyanopharoj, Nut Thanat Danjesda, Sea Dechchart Tasilp,
Film Rachanun Mahawan, Gun Atthaphan Phunsawat, Namtan Tipnaree Weerawatnodom, Off Jumpol Adulkittiporn. We note that Project Alpha (Thai TV) RPF and Burnout Syndrome RPF would combine some of these actors; or perhaps you could suggest an awards or similar event that might allow a different grouping. Phuwin Tangsakyuen and Pond Naravit Lertratkosum were also nominated, but are too popular on AO3 for any Yuletide RPF fandom. See also a query below for Thai Actor RPF.

Golden Age Hollywood RPF and Mid-20th Century Celebrity RPF - Due to the overlap in theme here, we think it would make sense to approve all characters under Mid-20th Century Celebrity RPF. We’re also open to another name suggestion, though we’d like to choose something that gives sufficient weight to Ella Fitzgerald’s sphere of influence. Character slates are Golden Age Hollywood RPF: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, Randolph Scott; Mid-20th Century Celebrity RPF: Ella Fitzgerald, Marilyn Monroe

SORTED: Heineken "Pride and Prejudice" Commercial

- If this is the advertisement in question, we’re not sure who the character “Maid (PAP Heineken Commercial)” is. There is a woman offering tea who may also be intended to be Mrs. Bennet - was that the character you had in mind?

SORTED: Hot or Cold? (De'Longhi Commercial 2026)

- Some dogs are named (there are Lawrence and Kyle) so please, nominator, choose a dog?

В Стране невыученных уроков - Лиа Гераскина | In the Land of Unlearned Lessons - Lia Geraskina - nominator, as some of your character nominations are in Cyrillic/Russian, we’d like to verify you’re nominating Vitya Perestukin, Katya - we believe this is Katya Pyatyorikina, can you confirm? - Liucya Karandashkina, and “textbooks”. While we’re fine with nominating textbooks as characters here since they come to life, at least three textbooks are specified - geography, grammar, and arithmetic - so could you please choose one?

The Last Guardian (Video Game) - Nominator, we won’t accept Other Trico Character(s) - would you like to choose another character nomination?

Lord Huron (Band) - this is nominated without characters. Nominator, could you clarify what you had in mind, please? RPF, something related to the band's songs, something else?

MacArthur Park - Richard Harris (Song) - nominated characters are Girl, Narrator, and the Cake, but we're dubious about the cake as a character. If you were concerned that nominating only the humans might give a request the wrong focus, we think it would make the most sense to send this through without characters - please let us know, otherwise we will approve the Narrator and the Girl and leave the cake out in the rain.

Men’s Basketball RPF - This fandom label is too large. We need a smaller fandom for these nominations. We propose renaming this fandom to 2026-2027 Men's Basketball Eastern Conference/Atlantic Division RPF. The nominated players under this fandom would be: Jalen Brunson, Jaylen Brown, Jayson Tatum, Jose Alvarado, Josh Hart, Karl-Anthony Towns, and LeBron James. If either nominator wishes to split these nominations into two smaller groups, please propose a fandom name for each.

The Moment (Movie 2026) - we’re not sure what was intended by the worldbuilding character nomination, as there doesn’t seem to be a clear speculative element to worldbuild around. Nominator, please let us know what you’re looking for.

SORTED: Outward Bound (1925)

- it looks like Outward Bound may refer to a 1923 play, a 1929 novel, or the 1930 movie. Nominator, which of these are you looking for?

Oxygen Not Included (Video Game) - we have a character nomination for Duplicant(s), however, there are multiple named and specific Duplicants in this game as per https://oxygennotincluded.fandom.com/wiki/Duplicant#Established_Duplicants. Nominator, would you like to choose 3 of these to add to your Worldbuilding character nomination? Please include your nominations link.

SORTED: The Prisoner (1967)

- we have character nominations for Number Two (Leo McKern), Number Two (Rachel Herbert), and Number Two (The Prisoner). Nominator of the generic Number Two, could you let us know if you had a specific portrayal in mind, since other nominators are looking for individual versions of the character?

SORTED: Record Player - Daisy the Great and AJR

- nominator, did you want the song or the music video? The only character nomination is Worldbuilding, however nominating without characters might also suit your purposes here.

Re-Education (Through Labor) -- Rise Against nominator, did you want the song or the music video?

Scanner Cop (1994) - our understanding is that the nominated character Rachel Staziak doesn’t appear until the sequel. With this in mind, we plan to approve the fandom as Scanner Cop (Movies).

The Scarlet Pimpernel Series - Baroness Orczy - this nomination includes The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel as a character; we will not accept this as the group contains distinct characters. Nominator, please pick a League member. Ffoulkes and Dewhurst are already nominated.

Tennis RPF - this fandom is too large. Nominator, can you suggest a more specific fandom name for these people? One suggestion from our tagmods would be "2026 Top 10 Men's Tennis RPF". Characters are: Ben Shelton, Flavio Cobolli, Frances Tiafoe, Taylor Fritz.

Terminator (Movies) - we have a separate nomination for Terminator Genisys, so would prefer not to approve the (Movies) umbrella label. Nominator of Terminator (Movies), is there a specific movie or series of movies that would work for your nominations of John Connor, Sarah Connor, Kyle Reese, and Marcus Wright (T1-3 & Salvation, possibly?)

Thai Actor RPF - This fandom is too large. Nominator, can you suggest a more specific fandom name for these people? Characters are: Gawin Caskey, Jimmy Jitaraphol Potiwihok, Joss Way-Ar Sangngern, Sea Tawinan Anukoolprasert. See also query above for GMMTV.

ふつつかな悪女ではございますが ~雛宮蝶鼠とりかえ伝~ | Though I Am an Inept Villainess - we also have a nomination specifically for the Anime version and won’t approve both the general and the specific fandom. Nominator, which version are you interested in?

Tokyo Mew Mew - nominator, we won’t approve Tokyo Mew Mew Ensemble as that’s a group of named characters. Would you like to select another character?

月鳞绮纪 | Veil of Shadows (TV) - we have nominations for Li Jie, Li Jie | Yuan Wuhuo, and Yuan Wuhuo. Could we check please: are all three of these tags meant as nominations for the same character? Or are nominators variously interested in the original Yuan Wuhao, the human part of Yuan Wuhao who splinters off, and/or the Yuan Wuhao who is part butterfly demon? Possibly all of the above, or perhaps something else entirely? In addition to these tags Bai Ze, Lu Wuyi, and Wu Wangyan were also nominated.

SORTED: The White North Has Thy Bones - Dorian Ravenscroft

- we haven’t been able to access a copy or many details of this book, so we’re having trouble confirming the character Lawrence Hutchings. We did see a Lieutenant Hutchings at one place in the text we were able to find, and other information suggested Harry has a childhood friend named Lawrence but we are unsure these were both the same character. Can the nominator please confirm?

Witch Detectives - we will approve this fandom as Witch Detectives (Cartoon) to distinguish it from other media by that name. However, we’re having some trouble finding the character Lilo. Can the nominator help us confirm?

雨穴シリーズ Nominator, we want to confirm we have found the right canon for your nomination. Your nominated characters Kurihara Fuminobu, Uketsu seem to belong to 変なシリーズ | Strange Series - Uketsu, a series of novels written by Uketsu where he also appears as a character. Can you confirm if we have the right canon, and if not can you point us to what you intended to nominate?

Corrections

As we have now approved a large number of nominations, it's inevitable we may have introduced errors - sorry about that! If you notice a spelling or other error, please let us know:
-What the fandom is
-(If different) What the fandom should be
-What the characters are
-(If different) What the characters should be.

Ongoing queries

Please also see lingering queries on:

• Query Post 1


• Query Post 2

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We are 34 hours into tag approving! We began with 4563 nominated fandoms (though two different spellings of the same fandom are treated as two different fandoms for that total). We have 3766 fandom nominations still to sort.

Please help us with the following queries. For many questions, we need to hear from the nominator, so please only reply if you were the nominator, and please give us a link to your personal nominations page, which will look like https://archiveofourown.org/tag_sets/31411/nominations/4##### [substitute your own number at the end]. In other cases we welcome information from anyone who knows the fandom.

SORTED: Agnes - Glass Animals (Music Video)

- We don’t see an Agnes physically appearing in the music video, just a mannequin, and Dave Bayley, who is singing. To ensure we are approving the music video with characters who appear in it, we propose to either approve this with characters of Man Singing (Agnes MV) and Mannequin (Agnes MV) - or we could approve this as the song with characters Narrator (Agnes - Song) and Agnes (Agnes - Song). What would you prefer? (See also next query.)

Relatedly, Glass Animals (Band) - Agnes (Glass Animals) is nominated in this fandom. We are aware of Agnes in a Glass Animals song. Could we get more information on how Agnes works in a RPF nomination please - is Agnes a real person, who is publicly known, associated with the band beyond being in this song, over 18, and famous in their own right?

Alliance-Union - C. J. Cherryh and Cyteen Series - C. J. Cherryh - these are overlapping series. The first is nominated with Ariane Emory I, Jen Neihart, Ross Monahan, and Worldbuilding. The second is nominated with Florian AF-9979 II, Grant ALX-972, Justin Warrick, and Worldbuilding. Nominators, should we combine these under Alliance-Union, or approve Cyteen and split Alliance-Union into Cyteen and Hinder Stars? Please let us know what sorts of requests and offer options you were hoping for.

SORTED: Arm Joe

- could we please check the character Justice? We're wondering if Judgment was meant.

SORTED: Empire Records (1995)

- nominator of Freddie, did you mean Eddie?

SORTED: The Goblin Emperor Series - Katherine Addison

- we also have separate nominations for The Cemeteries of Amalo, and two nominations for The Cemeteries of Amalo characters under The Goblin Emperor series. We can either approve The Goblin Emperor and The Cemeteries of Amalo separately, or combine them under The Goblin Emperor Series; nominators, please let us know which you prefer, and link your nominations page.

SORTED: History Boys - All Media Types

- we will not approve this as All Media Types. Nominator, please supply your nominations page and let us know if you want the play or the movie - otherwise we will reject this.

Imaginary Friend - ITZY (Music Video) - you've nominated characters based on the names of performers Hwang Yeji, Shin Ryujin, and Shin Yuna; please could we instead get suggestions (from either you or from other viewers) of characters who are distinguished by how they appear or their specific actions in the music video? Additionally, one nominated character is 'Original Killer Character(s) (Dead by Daylight)'. That seems like a misclick - nominator, what were you looking for here?

SORTED: Imperial Radch Series - Ann Leckie

- we have a nomination for Ancillary Trilogy and several nominations for Radiant Star. We also have multiple nominations for the Imperial Radch Series. One of the Imperial Radch Series nominations appears to be a slate of only Radiant Star characters. We'd like to approve those characters under with Radiant Star - Ann Leckie, and combine the others with Ancillary Trilogy - Ann Leckie. There is also a nomination for Translation State, which won’t be affected. If you’re a nominator and have opinions on this proposal, please let us know. Note that we won’t approve the Imperial Radch Series and also the other series separately - only one grouping or the other.

SORTED: カラオケ行こ！ | Karaoke Iko! | Let's Go Karaoke! & Related Fandoms

- we will not approve the "& Related Fandoms" label. We separately have a nomination for Anime & Manga. Nominator, do you want that, or a different specific medium?

SORTED: La Langue des Vipères by Juliette Brocal

- nominator, you gave up a heads up on Evidence about this graphic novel - thanks! - and we agree it's a perfectly fine Yuletide canon. However, could we please get more information about the character of Maxime?

Little Witch in the Woods (Video Game) - this includes nominations for Arin, Ellie, Diana, and also 'Ship: Arin/Ellie'. Nominator, we don't approve ships, only characters; you can request a story that focuses on both Arin and Ellie if you want but cannot require your author to write a particular ship. We hope that is clearer. Did you want a different fourth character? Additionally, could you or someone else confirm Diana please? We can only find Diane.

SORTED: Magic School Bus & Magic School Bus Rides Again (Cartoons 1994-2018)

- nominator, since we have a separate nomination for the 1994 cartoon, could we confirm you are interested in both the 1994 cartoon and the later reboot combined, or would splitting the canons also allow you to request and offer what you intended?

SORTED: Mercury Company Stories - Eleanor M. Ingram

- we have separate nominations for The Flying Mercury, Stanton Wins, and From the Car Behind, as well as a nomination for Mercury Company Stories - Eleanor M. Ingram (which is how we approved this last year) with characters from all three plus one of the short stories. Do nominators want to merge again under Mercury Company Stories, or prefer separate fandoms? Please link your nominations page and help us sort out the following:

• The Flying Mercury - David "Darling" Lestrange | David Ffrench, Emily Ffrench, Jack Rupert, Mr. Bailey
• From the Car Behind - Allan Gerard, Corrie Rose
• Stanton Wins - Jes Floyd, Ralph Stanton
• Mercury Company Stories - Corrie Rose [From the Car Behind], Jack Rupert [The Flying Mercury], Jes Floyd [Stanton Wins], Louis Delmar [The Duel]

SORTED: Midsomer Murders - All Media Types

- we will not approve this as All Media Types. Nominator, please supply your nominations page and let us know which media you want - otherwise we will reject this.

SORTED: Moon Observatory (Batensan Visual Novels)

- for the character "Reqieu Morgan (Moon Observatory)", could we get more information please? This appears to be the names for two different characters who are siblings - nominator, if that's correct, could you pick one, please?

SORTED: Northwoods Baseball Sleep Radio (Podcast)

- this is nominated with worldbuilding only. Since the setting seems to be mundane, could we please check what you had in mind, nominator?

SORTED: Operation Mincemeat (2021)

- nominator, did you want the musical? This is a nomination for the movie, but you've nominated Spilsbury and Steve, who don't seem to appear there. If we don't hear back from you, we will approve this within Operation Mincemeat - SpitLip.

SORTED: Temple of the White Rat Universe - T. Kingfisher

- we have nominations for Clocktaur War series and for the Saint of Steel series, which we will approve as those series respectively. We also have nominations for Swordheart (as a single book and series) and Daggerbound, which is its sequel, with character overlap; and a nomination for Temple of the White Rat Universe, with (only) characters from Swordheart/Daggerbound. We plan to merge the nominations for Temple of the White Rat Universe, Daggerbound, Swordheart, and Swordheart Trilogy into Swordheart Series - T. Kingfisher, as all characters nominated under these are for the two books (so far) in this series. If you’re a nominator and have opinions on this proposal, please let us know. Note that we won’t approve both Temple of the White Rat Universe and all these series separately, only one or the other.

W.I.T.C.H. - we have a nomination for this fandom, which usually covers the cartoon and the comics, and we also have a nomination for the comics separately. In the past, we've kept them separate. Nominator of W.I.T.C.H., with characters Cornelia Hale, Hay Lin, Irma Lair, and Will Vandom, could you pick comics or cartoon please? Alternately, if the nominator of the comics would prefer to merge them, we'll take that under consideration.

Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century - All Media Types - we do not accept All Media Types nominations. Nominator, please could you supply your nominations page and let us know what media type you had in mind? We accepted the movies in 2011 and 2018.

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Thank you for your nominations! Nominations are now closed. We have 4563 fandom nominations to sort through. We can't directly compare this year's stats at the close of nominations to previous years' stats, as the sorting interface has changed - but we are excited about the change, because this may help us sort faster!

So, what happens next?
First there's a pause. We review the information we have already and get our ducks in a row. Then, gradually, you'll see the nominations on your nominations page show green ticks for approval (with a few merges and rejections).

Help us get through approvals faster - please keep an eye on this community for questions about nominations we find confusing. In turn, if you are confused by how we've approved your nomination, you can ask us about it. If you submitted evidence in the second half of nominations, we may also have follow-up comments for you.

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