Please read this post even if you have signed up before!

After reading this post, please look at the tag set to see what fandoms are available this year, and make a shortlist of what you plan to offer and request. (The same fandoms can be on both lists, if you want.)

Then sign up at the collection. We recommend you allow at least half an hour to sign up. While you can edit your sign-up over the next week, you will not be able to make any changes after sign-ups close at 9pm UTC 23 October.

If you would like to avoid matching to up to three other participants, with limitations discussed here, you may do so by filling out a Google Form from a link within the AO3 form. If you want to use this feature but cannot use Google Forms, please email the mods. Do Not Match requests will close 24 hours after signups.

Requests

• You can request 3-10 fandoms


• Each fandom must be different


• You can request 0*-4 characters in each fandom


• *Requesting 0 characters means "I am happy to receive any nominated character for this fandom. My author gets to choose which one(s)". That includes Worldbuilding for fandoms where Worldbuilding is nominated as a character tag. If no characters are nominated for the fandom, requesting 0 characters means “I am happy to receive any character or worldbuilding for this fandom.”


• "AND" matching means your writer must include every character you select. If you are happy with a subset of your selected characters, indicate this with Additional Tags, and clarify any exceptions in your optional details.


• You can only request characters from the tag set, though your optional prompts may mention other characters to appear too.


• In some fandoms, you can request Worldbuilding as a character. You can find guidance on that here.

AND matching and additional tags
Generally, when you select characters in your sign-up form, it means you want and expect your gift to include all of those characters. This is a key principle for matching and assignments. However, some people like to give their author further options. We are using the Additional Tags section of the form for this.

If you requested 0 characters, or you want all the characters you selected to appear, you will tick the first Additional Tag option, which says "My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)". If you think your situation might be different, please read this post about additional tags and select additional tags that are right for your requests. This information is also in the sign-up form.


Optional Details and Do Not Wants (DNWs)
"Optional details" = prompts, ideas, likes, explanations of how you see the canon. Optional details and DNWs can be recorded in the main text section of your requests.

Optional details are optional (ODAO)! Your writer doesn't have to follow your prompts, though they must avoid your DNWs. You don't have to give prompts here, either - though prompts and ideas may be a more inspiring first impression than a list of DNWs on its own. Prompts may be particularly useful if you are requesting a Worldbuilding tag.

See this 2020 post for some considerations when writing your DNWs. In 2024, we also clarified our rules and guidance about DNWs.

The Optional Details section of your AO3 requests is especially relevant if you have selected option two of the additional tags, "My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags; or it may use exceptions I explain in the form". In that case, please use this section of the form for explaining how and when your writer is allowed to leave out some of the characters you selected.

Please use minimal html in the optional details field. No images, please.

Please also note in the form if you're able to receive treats - or if you don't want them! Yuletide has a long-established culture of extra gifts, but if you created your account recently, you may have extra gifts turned off by default. Please check your AO3 preferences, and then state in your sign-up form whether you do or do not accept treats.


Letters
You can write prompts and preferences in another space, such as Dreamwidth, Livejournal, Google Docs, or Tumblr, and put a link in your sign-up. This is known as a "letter". Some people write letters; some don't. DNWs and character subsets that are listed in a letter but not in the Optional Details AO3 textbox cause confusion and difficulty for creators, and will not be enforced by the mods. Otherwise, your letter is an extension of your optional details and is treated the same way.

Important: You cannot add a letter after sign-ups close.

Offers

• You can offer 4-10 fandoms


• Each fandom must be different


• You can offer 2-20 specific characters in each


• If you want to offer a fandom that has 0-1 characters available, tick the "Any" box


• If you are willing to write any combination of nominated characters, including Worldbuilding for fandoms where it is nominated, tick the "Any" box


• "Worldbuilding" can also be selected as a character for many fandoms. Please check here to see how we're using it.


• Offers are secret! Please don't declare openly what you're offering.

If you have several fandoms in which you want to offer to write Any nominated characters, you can make your last offer a "Bucket Offer". You can read about bucket offers in the Sign-ups section of the AO3 FAQ. This older tutorial has pictures!

Signing up!

The sign-up form is here.

• Signups will remain open - and editable - until 9pm UTC 23 October.


• You may only sign up to Yuletide with one AO3 account. You must be aged 18 or over to sign up.


• You can find more sign-up information at the Yuletide 2026 FAQ


• There is also specific guidance about how to use Additional Tags

Please check the tag set or the app - to come! when signing up. The autocomplete drop-down list in the sign-up form may not show all available characters. If they're in the tag set, you can enter them manually.

Sign-Up Summary

The list of requested/offered fandoms will be available after five people have signed up. Bucket offers do not show up in the list. Checking the sign-up summary for people you may be able to write for is a good idea - although many people sign up at the last minute. The sign-up summary says it updates hourly; in practice it may update less frequently.

Fandoms at 1-1 on the sign-up summary may mean that the same person is offering and requesting the fandom, not that there is a match.

Welcome to Yuletide!

Feel free to ask us questions.

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Thank you very much for the corrections we've received so far to the tag set! Please keep them coming! The more errors you pick up now, the more confident we feel to open sign-ups, and the more smoothly sign-ups will go.

Tagset updates

We got a question about the character Zilch Alexander in 超探偵事件簿 レインコード | Master Detective Archives: RAIN CODE (Video Game). Nominator, could you please help us clarify this character tag?

We unfortunately approved Octopath Traveler II in error, as it is too large. Sorry to get your hopes up, nominator - while we have now removed it, we hope there are other things you'll enjoy in the tag set.

Pinch hits

Every year we need creators to help us by taking on extra assignments, called "pinch hits". More on AO3. Some of these assignments are created from quirks of initial matching. Others occur when creators need to drop out of the event. We post a batch of pinch hits just after sign-ups, and then in batches throughout the event, including some very large batches at deadline.

Pinch hit details are posted at yuletide_pinch_hits. To get notifications when new pinch hits are posted, you can subscribe to that community, sign up for notifications at a Google group, or assign yourself the "yulephs" role at the discord. We will shortly send a test message out to alert potential pinch hitters of oncoming sign-ups - so set yourself up with a notification message now & you'll be able to check if you're receiving alerts.

Do-Not-Match options

Last year we trialled the option for participants to avoid matching to specific other participants as assigned writers or creators. It seemed to work out OK, so we will proceed on the same basis this year: during and just after sign-ups, you will be able to tell us the names of up to 3 people you would prefer to avoid in initial matching.

More information about Do Not Match options

Limited Do-Not-Match option

Most of the time, the person assigned to create for you in an AO3-based gift exchange, and the person assigned to receive a gift from you, are determined by the tags you select in the sign-up form.

Some exchange moderators also offer participants the option to say "Please do not match me up with [ExampleUserName] or [ExampleUserName2]. I don't want to receive a gift from them or create for them." This feature makes it easier, for example, to offer a fandom requested by six different people including someone you'd prefer to avoid, and have peace of mind that you can still avoid that person.

Because of the large number of participants and the large number of people who have only one possible creator or recipient in Yuletide, we cannot offer this feature as flexibly as some exchanges can. However, we see a Do-Not-Match option as a valuable tool to reduce friction and make everyone happier, so, having trialled this option last year, we are continuing it this year. Please note that this is not an absolute guarantee you won’t receive a story from one of the people you list.

How it will work

When you sign up on AO3, the sign-up form will also link out to a Google form where you can list the AO3 names of up to 3 people you do not want to match to and can tell us if you want to avoid writing for a person, receiving an assigned gift from a person, or both. We will also ask for those people's AO3 ID numbers, which you can find on their AO3 profiles, and for the email associated with your AO3 name. We will not ask for the reason you wish to avoid a person.

After we run the matching process, we will check all matches against our master Do-Not-Match list. We will take the following actions:

• If your assigned recipient or creator is someone you asked to avoid, we will attempt to match you to someone else.


• If your only possible recipient is someone you asked to avoid, we will email you to recommend you expand your offers. However, we will leave the match in place if you do not respond in the first 24 hours following the close of sign-ups.


• If your only possible creator is someone you asked to avoid, we will send out your requests with initial pinch hits.


• If you are the only possible recipient for a creator you asked to avoid, we will leave the match in place, but will prioritize your requests for double-assignment to two creators. [Because of how matching works, there will always be Yuletide participants who start out with two assigned creators; generally we try to choose them at random.]

We will not take the following actions:

• We will not ask a creator to drop out or expand their offers if their only possible recipient is someone who would prefer to avoid them.


• We will not inform a participant that someone else has asked not to match to them. [This information will be restricted only to the core Yuletide mods and assistant mod, Isis, Morbane, pendrecarc, and Everett Grove, and will not be shared with the larger pool of Yuletide assistants.]


• We will not review treats for unwanted matches. Putting someone on your Do-Not-Match list will not prevent them from creating a treat for you (but please see FAQs below for other tools to achieve this).


• We will not prevent someone on your Do-Not-Match list from claiming you as a pinch hit. We will check our master Do-Not-Match list when assigning pinch hits, so if the first person to claim you is a person you prefer to avoid, we will leave a short amount of time to see if another claim comes in. But we will not hold your pinch hit indefinitely or tell the first creator they aren't allowed to claim you.


• We will not ask you why you wish to avoid a particular match.

FAQs (foreseeable/anticipated questions)

Who am I allowed to put on my Do-Not-Match list?
Any three AO3 accounts you would prefer to avoid matching to. This can be for any reason, serious or unserious. Do not tell us the reason, please. If the reason is harassment or similar, we recommend reaching out to the Policy & Abuse team separately. You may only give specific names, rather than a description like "anyone who mostly wants porn".

Can't I just block people I don't want to match to?
Blocking is a useful tool, but it doesn't prevent matching. Adding other users to your block list stops them from giving you a treat (see item AO3-6502 on this news post). It also stops them from being able to comment on your work. However, it does not affect challenge matching. A person you have blocked can be assigned to create for you, and you can be assigned to create for them.

Wait, am I allowed to block people in Yuletide?
Yes. Feel free to use the blocking feature to improve your AO3 experience. However, blocking someone and also matching to them could lead to unhappiness for both of you - so please consider using all the tools at your disposal to avoid matching to people you have blocked. This could mean choosing not to offer a fandom if you suspect it has been requested by a person you wish to avoid, or it could mean using the Do-Not-Match option for people you have blocked.

What other AO3 tools exist to manage my gift experience?
If you wish, you can choose to receive gifts only from assigned writers in a gift exchange or people who have claimed your prompts in a prompt meme. This is sometimes described as turning treats on and off. If you created your account after February 2022, please review this setting in your AO3 account preferences. If you select the setting "Allow anyone to gift me works", you can receive treats. If you do not select this setting, only an assigned author can give you a gift in Yuletide.

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As tagset cleanup continues, please give us your nominations page if telling us how to fix your own nomination.

The 2026 tag set is available here on AO3! Please browse and enjoy! We're excited to bring this to you! You can also browse it in a browser app.

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Fixes and Polishing

We, your mod and tagmod team, are ready to work on corrections. Please tell us what we need to fix! We may make posts with further queries, depending on the issues you raise. Please keep an eye out for those! Sign-ups are projected to start October 13. If nothing's wrong in your fandoms - or if you can multitask - take part in activity at yuletide or the discord!

If your fandom is the wrong category... (such as Books when it should be Celebrities & RPF - etc.)...

• first, please check if it is also in the right category. If it is also in the right category, we can't help.
• If it's only in the wrong category, please tell us what it is and what category it should be in.

(Please note that if it's a canonical fandom on AO3, we can't change it in the Yuletide tagset - however, we can notify the wranglers of the issue.)

Tell us about…

• if you nominated something, but you can't find it at all


• if you nominated characters in a particular fandom, but you can't find them there


• if the fandom or characters you nominated were changed to something incorrect


• if you see the precise, exact same character tag (including its disambiguation information in brackets) in multiple fandoms


• if a character or fandom name is mis-spelled (we don't care as much about disambiguations, so if the words in brackets entered after your fandom name are wrong (mis-spelled, misleading), feel free to tell us, but this may not be corrected.)


• if you see something that doesn't belong


• if you see two fandoms that are duplicates of each other


• if you see the same character twice under one fandom


• if your new fandom has been categorized in the wrong media category (and that is its only category).

For missing nominations and corrections to your nominations, please provide your nominations link.


DO NOT tell us:

• if your fandom is in the wrong media category (a book under movies, etc), unless that is the only category that it is in. Please check ALL the categories before you report a problem.


• if your fandom is in Uncategorized Fandoms. This is a work in progress, please be patient as we work through these fandoms.


• if the characters in your fandom all belong, but the disambiguation tags entered in brackets after their names aren't all the same. Sometimes we have to enter really long strings after a character name to keep the character where they're supposed to be. We only care if the information in brackets is wrong.

Suggested template for corrections requests:
<b>Fandom tag (current)</b>:
<b>Problem</b>:
If correcting a tag or tags:
<b>The correct fandom</b>:
<b>The current tag(s)</b>:
<b>The correct tag(s)</b>:

Some Stats

This year, we approved 4490 fandoms containing 17029 characters! That's Yuletide's largest-yet tagset on AO3.

The most nominated fandoms this year were:
- Slow Horses (TV) 15
- Coyote vs. Acme (Movie) 14
- Widow's Bay (TV 2026) 13
- Dungeon Crawler Carl Series - Matt Dinniman 13
- Super Supportive - Sleyca 12
- Ride or Die (TV 2026) 12
- Lord Peter Wimsey - Dorothy L. Sayers 12
- The Lost Boys - Hoch/Hornsby/The Rescues 11
- The Saint of Steel - T. Kingfisher 11 [some extras from nominations in other formats]
- The Goblin Emperor Series - Katherine Addison 10 [some extras from nominations in other formats]
- Shadow of the Leviathan | Ana and Din Mysteries Robert Jackson Bennett 10

Super Supportive - Sleyca, Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard, and Chronicles of Osreth Series - Katherine Addison have the most approved characters (44, 32, and 31 respectively). Worldbuilding was approved in 374 fandoms this year.

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What's Next

The letters post will go up on yuletide - but only once the tag set has been revised a bit.

It's also time to get ready for pinch hits (assignment hero squad)! You can set yourself up for pinch hit alerts by:

• subscribing to yuletide_pinch_hits on Dreamwidth or adding it to a feed


• giving yourself the "@ yulephs" role in the Discord


• subscribing to the Google group for pinch hit alerts!

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Last query post! Answer our questions and we'll give you the glorious tagset you've stuffed with exciting ideas! (More or less. We're still working on internal corrections.)

New queries

Batman vs Robin (2015) - nominator, we’re having difficulty finding Talia al Ghul’s appearances in this movie and it seems as though she is just briefly mentioned. We’d like to avoid a situation where someone would need to consume other canon to write her as a character in this movie. Could you please clarify, especially as we may have misread this? Another possible solution is treating this movie as half of a duology with Son of Batman (2014), as the prequel movie seems to give context to the events and relationship dynamics in Batman vs Robin, especially for Talia.

If we don’t hear from you we will approve the 2015 movie without Talia.

Unapproved RPF fandom - We have one podcast RPF nomination still unapproved. We foresee some difficulties with this nomination and would like to discuss it privately. Please email yuletideadmin@gmail.com if this is you!


Earlier queries

Book of Travels (Video Game) - the Malka Su appear to be an entire culture with distinct individuals; if so, we would not approve Malka Su as a single character here. Would you like to replace them with an individual Malka Su or perhaps Worldbuilding to prompt for their cultural impact on the world?

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? If we don’t hear from you we will reject Worldbuilding.

Leningrad Cowboys (Movies) - The character nomination “Leningrad Cowboys (Characters)” appears to refer to a group of individuals. As we don’t allow group nominations when it's possible to pick an individual, can the nominator please pick a cowboy?

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 cannot accept Other Trico Character(s) - would you like to choose another character nomination? If we don’t hear from you we will reject Other Trico Character(s).

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? If we don’t hear back, we will reject the fandom.

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. If we don’t hear from you we will reject Worldbuilding.

Neverwinter Nights (Video Games) nominator, we have heard from the Neverwinter Nights 2 nominator, who suggests you may want to keep your canons separate. So we are currently planning to update your nomination to Neverwinter Nights: Hordes of the Underdark. If you would rather combine fandoms, let us know.

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. If we don’t hear from you we will only accept Worldbuilding.

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

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.

その時、ハ—トは盗まれた | Sono toki Heartwa Nusumareta - nominator, we can’t find a Shiina Hiroko in this - did you mean Shiina Yuko? If we don’t hear from you, we’ll approve Shiina Yuko. [ETA: we found Hiroko after all! Never mind]

Sweet Valley High - Francine Pascal - we have approved the character of Jacob Ferrel as Jake Ferrel.

天地剑心 | Sword and Beloved (TV) - we're having trouble finding the name Li associated with Qingtong. Could we get more information about this character please?

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?)

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) - nominators, as per one suggestion, we plan to send through the various “Li Jie | Yuan Wuhuo” nominations as the following three characters: Li Jie, Original Yuan Wuhuo, and Butterfly Demon Yuan Wuhuo. Please let us know if you nominated Li Jie | Yuan Wuhuo and this does not cover the identity you nominated.

Viticulture World (Board Game) - we see you have nominated four colors representing the board game materials, but are unsure how they would function as characters; please let us know what you intended. We could also approve without characters.

Witch Detective - Can you please confirm the character of Lilo?

W.I.T.C.H. - as this query has been outstanding for some time, we have merged this nomination into W.I.T.C.H. (Comics) with characters Cornelia Hale, Hay Lin, Irma Lair, and Will Vandom. Nominator, if you wanted Cartoons instead, please share your nominations page.

花開時節 - Yang Shuang-zi - we're having trouble finding the personal name Kouzou for Kurota. Could we get more information about this character please? We also propose to approve this as 花開時節 | Seasons of Bloom - Yang Shuang-zi, but if someone thinks that is incorrect we'd be glad to improve it.

We are also still looking for corrections: 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.

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We are 196 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 63 fandom nominations still to sort.

SORTED: The Beating Heartland (Audio Drama)

- we’ve been unable to confirm the last name of Tucker Reese. Can the nominator please confirm that character for us?

Book of Travels (Video Game) - the Malka Su appear to be an entire culture with distinct individuals; if so, we would not approve them as a single character here. Would you like to replace them with an individual Malka Su or perhaps Worldbuilding to prompt for their cultural impact on the world?

SORTED: Cicero (Big Finish Audio)

- we're having a little difficulty finding the character Marcus Pupius Piso in this audio drama. Could we get more information about his appearance please?

SORTED: Dancing☆Starプリキュア The Stage | Dancing☆Star Precure The Stage

- this includes nominations for characters who only appear in the second musical. Nominators, do you want the second musical, both of the first two musicals, or something else?

SORTED: Every Day Except Christmas

- for the character “Cravat-wearing Man in Late-Night Cafe”, does the nominator mean the man in the cafe called Albert's who comes in at 17:40 and speaks to the four seated men?

SORTED: Galaxy Princess Zorana (Video Game)

- Tsirkony | Zolot are nominated as a single character, but as far as we can tell, they're separate characters. Could we get more information about this please?

Glaucomflecken Hospital (Web Series) - nominator, did you mean the animated web series Glaucomflecken General, or Dr. Glaucomflecken’s live-action YouTube videos? The characters you’ve nominated seem to come from the Jimothy Meets Rural Medicine short video - did you want that specifically, or a larger scope?

SORTED: Imperial Earth - Arthur C. Clarke

- perhaps predictably, we are puzzled by the nomination of 'mathematics puzzles' as a character. Could we get a bit more information about this please?

SORTED: Islander - Anderson/Melton

- we can identify two whales in this play: a whale calf called Arna and Arna’s mother, the whale cow. Nominator, please pick a whale.

SORTED: Kids In the Hall

- we see this is an anthology nomination for several sketches, and Worldbuilding is nominated for just one of the sketches. Could we check what you had in mind? We generally approve worldbuilding on the level of a whole canon.

Leningrad Cowboys (Movies) - the character nomination “Leningrad Cowboys (Characters)” appears to refer to a group of individuals. As we don’t allow group nominations when it's possible to pick an individual, can the nominator please pick a cowboy?

SORTED: Marathon (Video Games)

- from the characters nominated, it seems nominators are interested in both the classic games and the reboot from earlier this year. Could we please double-check you're happy with having them combined, or would you prefer the classic and reboot games are split out?

SORTED: Mickey 17 (2025)

- for the character of the Creeper, could we check please which particular creeper is meant?

SORTED: モノノ怪 | Mononoke (Anime & Manga)

- especially as a wide set of disambiguations have been chosen here, could we please check which version(s) of canon you are particularly interested in, nominator?

SORTED: 猫と竜 | Neko to Ryuu | The Cat and the Dragon (Anime)

- did you mean Mosha-mosha I or Mosha-mosha IV, please?

Neverwinter Nights (Video Games) and Neverwinter Nights 2 (Video Games) - nominators, we won’t approve both in this format as Neverwinter Nights (Video Games) encompasses both games, however, the characters nominated for the former are The Seer (Neverwinter Nights) and Valen Shadowbreath who are both from the DLC Neverwinter Nights: Hordes of the Underdark. We can either update Neverwinter Nights (Video Games) to the DLC name, or combine both under Neverwinter Nights (Video Games) - nominators, do you have a preference?

SORTED: Ogre Battle (Video Games)

- we have one nomination for the character Alphonse Loeher and another for Lanselot Tartaros. As far as we can tell, these are the same person–if that’s the case, we plan to combine the characters as Alphonse Loeher | Lanselot Tartaros. Please let us know if there is a difference between the two!

SORTED: Pact - Wildbow

- for the character nomination “Revenant (Pact)”, our understanding is that there are two different revenants with different nicknames and characterization. Could we please clarify which one you are looking for?

SORTED: Real InfoWars

- nominator, we can’t find where Bryan P Tetraheder or Nick Lutsko appear on-screen in the web series. Can you (or someone else) help, please?

SORTED: Sefer Yeshayahu | Book of Isaiah

- we also have a nomination for the Tanakh. We would like to include the Isaiah nominations within the Tanakh; please let us know if you have a problem with this. Could we also please clarify what you were looking for with Worldbuilding?

Slo-Pitch (TV 2026)

- nominator, based on what you entered, we think you are interested in the characters Leanne McCain, Boris Jagensdorf, Ashley Natasha, and Joanne (Arnolds or Pico depending on source; we can just send her through with a first name but if you have an ironclad source we're all ears). Please confirm this.

その時、ハ—トは盗まれた | Sono toki Heartwa Nusumareta - nominator, we can’t find a Shiina Hiroko in this - did you mean Shiina Yuko?

天地剑心 | Sword and Beloved (TV) - we're having trouble finding the name Li associated with Qingtong. Could we get more information about this character please?

SORTED: Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms - Mercedes Lackey

- we have nominations for Original Godmother Characters and The Tradition. We won’t approve Original Godmother Characters; meanwhile, we understand that The Tradition is a force that acts on peoples’ lives to make them live out fairy-tale narratives; we are not sure it works as a character for our purposes. Would Worldbuilding (Five Hundred Kingdoms), which could encompass prompts for both of these ideas, work for you instead?

SORTED: Todo Va a Estar Bien

- nominator, we can’t find any source for the last names for the characters you’ve nominated as Fausto Colmenares, Julia Perez Laborde, and Ruy Villegas. Can you or anyone else point us to something that verifies them? If not, we’re happy to approve with just their first names and a disambiguation.

SORTED: The Unmagical Life of Briar Jones - Lex Croucher

- we’re unable to find the character Richard Parker. Does the nominator mean Robert Parker, or can you help us identify this character?

SORTED: Valerius Mysteries - Jennifer Burke

- could we please get more information on Lucius Julius Atreus? We're having trouble confirming the first part of this name.

Viticulture World (Board Game) we see you have nominated four colors representing the board game materials, but are unsure how they would function as characters, please let us know what you intended. We could also approve without characters.

SORTED: 雨霖铃 | Zhan Zhao Adventures (TV)

- we can't find the character Hong Changbi, but we can find a Chang Hongbi. Nominator, could you confirm who you meant please?

花開時節 - Yang Shuang-zi - we're having trouble finding the personal name Kouzou for Kurota. Could we get more information about this character please? We also propose to approve this as 花開時節 | Seasons of Bloom - Yang Shuang-zi but if someone thinks that is incorrect we'd be glad to improve it.

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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:
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Ongoing queries

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