Evidence Post

[fgemods]

Nominations open here!

Are you nominating a fandom, character or relationship that may appear ineligible? Please use this post to submit evidence that it qualifies under our rules. It would be a good idea to post here if your fandom, character or relationship has more than 10 works (complete, in English) but:

• They have been written by five authors or fewer
• They contain crossovers
• Your nominated character/relationship is not the main character/relationship in some of those works.

Evidence that will not be considered for eligibility is word count or archive-locking of tagged fics.

For more information on what fandoms, characters and relationships are eligible, please see the rules post.

A suggested template for your post:
<strong>Fandom:</strong> [Fandom name here]<br /><strong>Character/Relationship:</strong> [Character or relationship here, if applicable]<br /><strong>Evidence of Eligibility:</strong> <br />[Give evidence, links, whatever you need here]


If something you've nominated has already been rejected, please leave a comment on the Rejected Nominations Post (now up).

Comments

[shadaras]

I think this should be fine, but just in case...

Fandom: Nirvana in Fire (TV)
Character/Relationship: Lin Shu | Mei Changsu | Su Zhe/Meng Zhi
Evidence of Eligibility: While the ao3 tag shows 13 works, two of those works are podfic and another two are art. This brings the total of complete English-language fics to 9, leaving this relationship eligible.

[fgemods]

Thank you, it's been accepted.

[(Anonymous)]

Fandom: A Song of Ice & Fire


Character/Relationship: Rhaegar Targaryen/Arthur Dayne


Evidence of Eligibility:

There are 15 complete English language non-crossover works in the AO3, but the following works don't appear to have the ship as the main ship:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/25607731 (the ship doesn't appear at all despite being tagged; it's supposed to appear later but the author has said the fic will never be updated)
https://archiveofourown.org/works/26092231 (poly with multiple ships)
https://archiveofourown.org/works/6258145 (Rhaegar/Arthur appears only as passing mentions)
https://archiveofourown.org/works/13002921 (main ship is Arthur/Aurane)
https://archiveofourown.org/works/6278047 this is the one fic where I'm not sure; the ship appears for less than a third of the fic but it is plot important and emotionally significant (although there are no endgame ships IIRC and the focus is the main character), without this the ship would be eligible, but I'm not sure excluding it is in the spirit of the exchange

[fgemods]

Thanks for going into detail on this. We've decided that it's eligible and have accepted it.

[larissabernstein]

Fandom: Dance of the Vampires (Broadway version 2002/2003)
Character/Relationship: any
Evidence of Eligibility:
AO3’s tag does not differentiate between the musical “Tanz der Vampire” (original German language version plus other European versions which were translated but stayed true to the original) and the Broadway version “Dance of the Vampires” which was substantially changed in plot and characterisations. The Tanz fandom actually shuns the Dance version! For the Dance version, there are currently 12 fics on AO3, all written by a single author (me).
Edited to add: I actually submitted a support ticket to AO3 today, because Dance should really have its own tag. It is misleading for fans of either show to have Tanz and Dance mixed up in one fandom tag.

[fgemods]

Thank you for clarifying the difference between the two. It's been accepted in this form:
Giovanni von Krolock/Sarah Chagal - Dance of the Vampires (Broadway 2002/2003)

[reeby10]

Fandom: Buzzfeed: Worth It
Character/Relationship: Andrew Ilnyckyj/Adam Bianchi
Evidence of Eligibility: This one may look like it's over because it gets tagged in a lot of poly and as a background/side ship. There's only two where it's the main, solo ship https://archiveofourown.org/works?utf8=%E2%9C%93&work_search%5Bsort_column%5D=revised_at&include_work_search%5Brelationship_ids%5D%5B%5D=19354792&work_search%5Bother_tag_names%5D=&work_search%5Bexcluded_tag_names%5D=&work_search%5Bcrossover%5D=F&work_search%5Bcomplete%5D=T&work_search%5Bwords_from%5D=&work_search%5Bwords_to%5D=&work_search%5Bdate_from%5D=&work_search%5Bdate_to%5D=&work_search%5Bquery%5D=otp%3Atrue&work_search%5Blanguage_id%5D=en&commit=Sort+and+Filter&tag_id=Buzzfeed%3A+Worth+It+%28Web+Series%29

[fgemods]

Thank you, it's been approved.

[chacusha]

Fandom: 新約聖剣伝説 | Shinyaku Seiken Densetsu | Sword of Mana (Video Game)
Evidence of Eligibility:
Has 11 works on AO3 but written by 4 authors.

[fgemods]

Thank you, it's been approved.

[(Anonymous)]

Fandom: Bleach
Ship: Kuchiki Byakuya/Ukitake Juushirou
Evidence of Eligibility: Only has 9 completed works in English by four authors.

https://archiveofourown.org/works?utf8=%E2%9C%93&work_search%5Bsort_column%5D=revised_at&work_search%5Bother_tag_names%5D=&work_search%5Bexcluded_tag_names%5D=&work_search%5Bcrossover%5D=&work_search%5Bcomplete%5D=T&work_search%5Bwords_from%5D=&work_search%5Bwords_to%5D=&work_search%5Bdate_from%5D=&work_search%5Bdate_to%5D=&work_search%5Bquery%5D=&work_search%5Blanguage_id%5D=en&commit=Sort+and+Filter&tag_id=Kuchiki+Byakuya*s*Ukitake+Juushirou

[(Anonymous)]

Oops, sorry for not using the template!

[fgemods]

Thank you, it's been approved.

[ziskandra]

Fandom: Come From Away - Sankoff & Hein
Relationship: Diane Gray/Nick Marson
Evidence of Eligibility: There's 69 works but only 4 authors.

[fgemods]

Thank you, it's been accepted.

[sumilong]

Fandom:
Horizon Zero Dawn
Character/Relationship: Avad/Ersa
Evidence of Eligibility:
There are 11 completed fics in English for this pairing as you can see here, but one of these fics here has Ersa/Avad listed as a second pairing, the main pairing being Aloy/Avad. It literally says there are just past references to this couple in the tags.

I am thinking it might be eligible since if you don't count this fic is knocks it down to 10 but I just wanted to be sure.

[fgemods]

Thank you, it's been accepted.

[flowersforgraves]

Fandom: Composers' Dubstep Nightmares - MusicalBasics & Lone-R

Evidence of Eligibility:
Since this isn't on AO3 yet, I'm sure there may be questions about this fandom. I'm referring to the series of classical dubstep remixes on MusicalBasics' YouTube channel and the accompanying historical RPF here: one, two, three.

Fandom: The Boondock Saints (Movies)

Character/Relationship:
Romeo (Boondock Saints) & None

Evidence of Eligibility:
While the tag has 26 works in it, and filtering out crossovers and incomplete works gives 11 works, there are a few works that don't focus on Romeo (he's a background character) -- I can link them if needed.

[fgemods]

Thanks for explaining so clearly; both of these are in. (The summaries of some of the Boondock Saints fics definitely looked as though Romeo was only in a minor role.)