now that the nominations have already started.
But the nomination period began today. There's plenty of time to re-nominate fandoms/characters/ships right now. If you have the list of fandoms/characters/ships you rejected, you could post that list to the communities and ask people to re-nominate them. That's how I knew all of my nominations were rejected; the mod posted a list of ships she'd rejected.

and hope the numbers aren't against them.
All of my nominations had been rejected. I got one ship re-nominated but I had nominated a lot of ships. And I couldn't go through the same process of convincing her that all of my rare ships were in fact rare.

So, I want to nominate characters but what do I do if they're rejected again?