I have no doubt that was the intent of the OP, but as I said, it came off very differently. I am very in favor of coordinating nominations, for those who wish to do it!


YMMV here. But I think there’s a difference between telling chat/the nomination post I have extra slots and I’ll nom a couple characters (some of which may be queer/POC/women/disabled), and nomming queer characters/POC/women/disabled characters because you feel like there won’t be enough in the tagset. One is being helpful to your fellow fans; the other feels judgmental. I have a knee-jerk reaction to nominating/writing/praising characters just because of their identities. There are characters I identify with because I’m a woman and because I’m a lesbian. But I’ve seen people outright say that they just write those characters because they feel that’s what they’re supposed to do. It’s like they want social justice brownie points, and that’s what this post felt like to me (and apparently to others), even though that doesn’t seem to be what Aunt_Zelda was going for.

In the end: this is fandom. It’s a fun hobby, but that’s all it is.