Question For My Lovelies...

[daxcat79.livejournal.com]

So I noticed the other day that another community did awards, like fanfic awards, and best art awards, and stuff like that. It seemed like a great way to celebrate some of the amazing stuff that's posted on this community. I was just curious if there's something similar here, and if not, was it something people would be interested in?

EDIT: Maybe we could do like an epic bookmark thing instead? Everyone goes through favorite fics till we have like the biggest rec list ever from every category, including art. Then it's not a competition?

Comments

[anuna-81.livejournal.com]

YES PLEASE.

Valentines day smuthaton? :D

*hides*

[hiddencait.livejournal.com]

Yeah it was a few months back now. My sense of time is screwed thanks so my job so I'd have to look up when it actually was lol.

And it was only a few... but it still put a bad taste in my mouth ya know?

[frea-o.livejournal.com]

I'd vote for "Mikey" to be included in any kidfic category name, as I have an obsession with Life cereals and commercials from the 80s. :)

[daxcat79.livejournal.com]

No hey, it's cool. Was just curious. :-)

[purely-distel.livejournal.com]

Yup and yup *nods* definitely sounds good. And depending on how "big" we'd want it, we could do it monthly, quarter annually, yearly etc etc. Though I would lean towards like ... quarter-yearly. a) gives time for new fic to be written in between, b) means enough time to READ all the recs but c) still often enough that everyone can have a go that want's to ...

[daxcat79.livejournal.com]

It's true! Lol

[hufflepuffsneak.livejournal.com]

Yeah, so like your idea of mass reccing as an optional add-on for whoever is hosting the Friday post, and then if you want to organize an event, do something around "events." You could even do a May the Fourth Star Wars (or science-fiction) crossover, fusion or AUs... IDK.

[daxcat79.livejournal.com]

Good ideas! I likes them.

[shenshen77.livejournal.com]

I sure could contribute to that ;)

[purely-distel.livejournal.com]

oh you ... speaking my mind ... I, personally, totally not connected to this discussion, really REALLY want something like this to happen around valentines:

http://freemurmurs.livejournal.com/33551.html

IT WOULD BE SO MUCH FUN ;___;

but obviously, no idea what the mods might have in store ...

we COULD, of course, make into like a really big valentines/spring fling thing ... with a lot of different activities to happen over the space of an entire month ....

OMG THE IDEAS, IT IS KILLING ME! *flails*

[purely-distel.livejournal.com]

GAWD YES! ;___;

Something like this:
http://freemurmurs.livejournal.com/33551.html

[hufflepuffsneak.livejournal.com]

I don't know what that means, so I'm just going to smile and wave. :P

It looks like we won't be doing awards, so maybe when you're hosting a Friday? I would love a Virginia "Pepper" Potts Snarky Banter themed Friday post.

[sugar-fey.livejournal.com]

I think a newbie list is a great idea. :)

[daxcat79.livejournal.com]

Lol, I only think of it cause my time is so tiny, and recs are my way of keeping up, but I really like the unknown, more creative stories.

[hufflepuffsneak.livejournal.com]

Bwhahahahaha. Good premise/ idea, and I'm not even in the Merlin fandom.

Spring Fling, ideas? Tell me more.

[shenshen77.livejournal.com]

Totally :D

[frea-o.livejournal.com]

ahahaahaha, I'd be too worried about offending people on the community with my sense of humor to host a Friday, sorry.

[purely-distel.livejournal.com]

the possibilities, they iz killing me x.x

[purely-distel.livejournal.com]

Yup, I can see why it would ... :/ Oh well, there's some problems in every family ;)

[hufflepuffsneak.livejournal.com]

We have to finagle someone into it then. Maybe with a Maria Hill add-on.

[inkvoices]

I've only skimmed the comments that kick off each thread and this is me speaking just as me, not for all of the mods: I don't like the word 'best' unless it's followed by 'bar'. I love that we have a community where everyone who contributes in any and all ways is celebrated, even if just be being here. By all means, lets rec the things we love. There are, after all, LOTS of amazing and wonderful things here to be loved!

There's a lot of mention of rec lists. I myself tend to consider the 'fanwork' tags as themed rec lists, the all the things fridays, and the whole bar as recs list :) I understand that can be overwhelming and I know there's often focus on what's posted here and not elsewhere, so: when the bar kicked off I tried to do rec posts of things that I'd seen in places outside of this bar, from AO3 and tumblr and pinterest and all over the show. I haven't had so much time to do that lately, but everyone is always welcome to post recs and rec lists and to ask for recs and to share the things that they've found, on here or elsewhere.

All the things friday was originally set up as a 'pick a theme for recs' day, where we said things like let there be AUs and lo, all things AU were recced and discussed and new things were written, and all things friday can still be that and anyone can sign up for it. Ask workerbee73 if you can host a friday - she usually manages sign ups.

Us mods are always open to ideas and suggestions, and I'm just going to email the rest a heads up about this thread, and maybe doing another all the things sign up sheet or something, but my intial reaction is that we already have celebration happening and I don't think we're exhausted it just yet :)

[ashen_key]

As long as people remember that not all of us live in the northern hemisphere...*g*

[workerbee73.livejournal.com]

daxcat79, I love you and I love this bar, and I love all the enthusiasm here and how we're always thinking up new and fantastic adventures in fandom-- let me just say that right up front..

But my vote is a very respectful (and loving) no. I want us to keep on celebrating difference and I worry that a competition might hamper that. I want everyone to continue to feel free to pursue their own creative visions and not be discouraged by thinking "omg no one is going to was to look at/read this because I think about the characters in a different way than other people do" (And dude, I think this all the time in regard to my own crap. ALL the damn time.)

I'm all for recs and for sharing our excitement over something we love and enjoy. (Self-recs not so much but that's just my deal, but heck, it's all free speech and these are free internets and if that's your thing well that's cool too.) It's truly all good.

[frea-o.livejournal.com]

All the Banter Friday would be awesome, but I would seriously need a co-host because no way, not posting here alone unless it's to say I've got a story up. And even then, I'm liking that there's an "Author chooses not to use warnings" tag.

[daxcat79.livejournal.com]

Naw, I'm not gonna be doing anything award like. Just an idea, but we're doing alternatives, mostly. I do feel like some of the newbies deserve some love for writing their first fics in the fandom, stuff like that. Some people have great fic that no one knows about....