Nominations are open!

[crookedspoon]

Go here to nominate!

Like last year, you can nominate up to 6 fandoms with up to 15 characters.


As a reminder: Eligible characters have no more than 250 complete English-language fanworks on AO3 with 1000 words or more. OR, for bigger fandoms, eligible characters feature in no more than 5% of complete English fics above 1000 words.

Example: The Sherlock (TV) fandom has (at the time of writing) 28,438 complete English-language fanworks with 1000 words or above. To be eligible, a character in that fandom must be featured in less than 1422 works to be eligible.


To speed up the Reviewing process, you can post your search results here, if your fandoms have more than 250 works on AO3. Go forth and nominate! :D

Comments

[elizabeth_rice]

Hello mods. I've submitted my nominations. Characters should be acceptable as far as I know. But if not, please talk to me before you delete or reject.

[rc_mod]

Thank you for your nominations! Unfortunately, we cannot see who nominated what. But if you tell us who they are, we can get back to you on them.

[elizabeth_rice]

Oh, I thought the username shows up.

I'll just mention the ones that may appear misleadingly popular. But on second thought, I think Kakashi and Iruka are very popular so it's okay if you reject those two.

(1) Teen Wolf (TV): Noshiko Yukimura, Jennifer Blake, Kali (Teen Wolf), Marin Morrell, Talia Hale and Melissa McCall.

(2) Naruto: Rock Lee, Gaara, Sai, Hatake Kakashi, Umino Iruka, Might Guy, Mizuki.

[rc_mod]

So, I've checked the numbers, and as you said Iruka and Kakashi are still very popular. The Naruto fandom has 3762 complete English-language 1000+ words fics. Kakashi throws 1232 fics with the same parameters, Iruka 603.

Teen Wolf has 23173 fics after filtering, which means a character needs less than 1159 fics to be eligible. Melissa McCall, unfortunately, has 1754. The rest is all good.

[elizabeth_rice]

Yeah, I thought those two would be popular.

But Melissa McCall does not appear as a main character in majority of those fanworks, especially fanfics. That makes her a rare character.

[straightforwardly]

I just made some nominations for Return of the Guardians, and I wanted to make a case for the characters I nominated, as at first glance they might seem to not qualify.

When sorting for complete, English-language fics, North (which is "Nicholas St. North" in the tags) has 637 fics on AO3, while Toothiana has 661. However, both characters often show up as minor/side characters in stories, and I think that accounts for quite a few of those hits.

To make sure, I went through the first 100 complete, English-language fics for each of them, and read through the pairing tags and summaries in order to get an estimate of how many of those fics actually focused on them.

With North, the result I got was that only around two of the first 100 stories seemed to feature him as more than a side character in any way. (Which was around the result I expected, as I was 100% sure that he was a rare character in that fandom. ) That's about 2% of the stories he's tagged in, and 2% of 637 is 12.4, meaning that he should definitely qualify.

I was a bit less sure about Toothiana, but after looking through the results, I'm fairly confident that she also qualifies. Between seven to nine (the difference comes from my not being sure whether or not I should count the fics where she's only a main character in the sense that she's working on getting the main pairing together) of the first 100 complete, English-languages fics seem to focus on her. If only 7-9% of the stories she's tagged in are actually about her, then in total, there should be approximately between 46.27 and 59.49 fics that feature her.

I also checked on the number of fics there are for what I believe is the most popular pairing featuring her (Jack Frost/Toothiana), just in case. For that pairing, there are 69 fics in total, of which there are 44 that are complete, English-language fics. Judging by all of this, I think she should also qualify.

[crookedspoon]

Oh, dear. I'm very sorry we never got back to you on this. The thing is, I missed the notification email I got for this comment, because I was crazy-busy during the nomination phase, and thus didn't forward it.

So, Toothiana was dismissed on numbers-grounds alone, because my co-checkers didn't know about this comment. But since you obviously went to all that trouble to confirm that your character is indeed rare, we can still add her manually if you're still interested.

Again, I am very, very sorry for the slip-up.

Edit: To make matters go faster, we approved them both. We hope to see you participate :)