I mainly think a challenge would be worthwhile because I suspect they rejected it while basically thinking 'everybody should know that this wouldn't get accepted after last year' and imo that's some bullshit thinking on their part! If they can keep querying about which of the fucking seven dwarves some nominator wants instead of all of them, they can work from the assumption that somebody nominating under a not obviously banned RPF fandom name is doing so in good faith and ask if there's an alternate fandom name/some more acceptable way of expressing the way the characters are linked! Like, the tagset may be vast, and a shit-ton of work to compile, but if the characters are obviously eligible in their own right they shouldn't get tossed out of hand. Not everybody does Yuletide every year and/or follows every wrinkle of every rules discussion avidly, and that shouldn't be a barrier to entry!
Re: TAGSET
I mainly think a challenge would be worthwhile because I suspect they rejected it while basically thinking 'everybody should know that this wouldn't get accepted after last year' and imo that's some bullshit thinking on their part! If they can keep querying about which of the fucking seven dwarves some nominator wants instead of all of them, they can work from the assumption that somebody nominating under a not obviously banned RPF fandom name is doing so in good faith and ask if there's an alternate fandom name/some more acceptable way of expressing the way the characters are linked! Like, the tagset may be vast, and a shit-ton of work to compile, but if the characters are obviously eligible in their own right they shouldn't get tossed out of hand. Not everybody does Yuletide every year and/or follows every wrinkle of every rules discussion avidly, and that shouldn't be a barrier to entry!