Four More Days of Nominations! + Clarifications #4

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Reminder that nominations close on June 1, 11:59pm EDT.

• DC Extended Universe (DCEU): Tags were nominated that include Lex Luthor Jr. This seems to be a character who appears in the comics but not the films. Did you mean to nominate Lex Luthor Sr.?
• Avatar: The Last Airbender/Avatar: The Legend of Korra: As we are doing with other closely related sequel and companion series, we are inclined to approve these as a single fandom given the character overlap and continuity between them, and the pending "crossover" nominations from them. Is there a fandom tag that is generally used in the fandom to encompass both?
• Drawing Blood - Poppy Z. Brite: Our research suggests that this book is set in the same place as Lost Souls (which we have already approved) and contains some of the same characters. We're not otherwise familiar with it; is the presence of Lost Souls characters more of an easter-egg sort of reference, or is this more like a single fandom where different installments focus on different characters?
• Genjitsu mo Tama ni wa Uso wo Tsuku | Sometimes Reality Tells Lies Too (Manga): From what we can tell, this is the title of the first chapter of a manga called Hanging Out with a Gamer Girl. Nominator, can you clarify?
  

Thanks!

Comments

RE: Drawing Blood & Lost Souls

[(Anonymous)]

Hi! So, Lost Souls and Drawing Blood are two distinct novels with entirely separate main characters and plots. Each novel has some scenes that take place in New Orleans, and some scenes that take place in a fictional small town in North Carolina. There are background characters who are residents of Missing Mile, NC who are present in both novels, but the focus of each is on different storylines and has different lead characters.
If the question was could these fandoms be merged, the answer is: not really as they're not part of a series and there's no overarching canon on AO3 for all works by the author. I hope that helps!

Re: Drawing Blood & Lost Souls

[(Anonymous)]

I just double checked and none of the nominated characters are present in both books.

Re: Drawing Blood & Lost Souls

[(Anonymous)]

+1
I’ve only read Drawing Blood and Exquisite Corpse and I remember one of the characters from Drawing Blood being referenced in Exquisite Corpse. I believe references to his other work is just a feature of this author’s work. Another horror writer who does something similar is Stephen King. Brite’s references aren’t nearly as spread out as King’s because he was no where near as prolific as King so how could they be but I would consider Exquisite Corpse and Drawing Blood different canons despite the crossover elements in the same way I would consider The Shining and IT different canons despite a teenage version of the cook from The Shining showing up in the backstory of one of the main characters from IT’s father.

Re: Drawing Blood & Lost Souls

[(Anonymous)]

Yes! Thank you anon, I was trying to think of a comparable situation but couldn't and Stephen King's Easter egg character cameos across his oeuvre is an excellent one.