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

[inkvoices]

The promptathon was so huge and so much fun I'm sure it's on all our minds to play again. We wouldn't want too much epic awesome all the time though - tire us all out lol. I barely recovered from promptathon in time for Secret Santa, which I still haven't read everything from, and then there's all the little challanges like hometown that I haven't played in, and, and...

...which is to say I'm stalking this post and gathering intel and do let us know all ideas, but I don't know if we're gonna do something so huge every other month lol.

Depending on what you're thinking of depends on how much oragnisation it needs. An exchange, for instances, takes a lot of run-up preparation, time for writing, then posting has to happen, de-anoning, and masterlists. The promptathon was a a week to get prompts going, then masterlists, and allisnow, wonderfuly person, catalogued all the prompts. Challenges can just be issued and entries collected. Commentathons happen in one thread. So I guess I'm asking, what type of system is on your mind?

[daxcat79.livejournal.com]

Lol yeah, the promptathons are pretty exhausting and a lot of work. I thought maybe having grids with prompt words with smaller fics and people finish out their grid posting fic. It might be easier because it'd all be people who have agreed to participate and easier to keep track of, maybe? *shrug*

[inkvoices]

I'm not actually following, you mean like bingo cards? Or diving threads of a post up into groups of prompts? Or...?

it'd all be people who have agreed to participate and easier to keep track of, maybe? Sorry, but you made me laugh a lot just then because lol, like, oh, say, the small number of 54 who signed up to do Secret Santa? That turned into pinch hitters on top of that and a graphics gang and community treats? :D

[daxcat79.livejournal.com]

What you do is you have a grid, and in each box is a word associated with our spies. Like one could be hands, bow, fight... and so on. By the end of the month they would have to finish their grid of prompts and those who get through them get banners.

Haha, well this would be a lot easier because everyone would post their grids so keeping track of everyone would be just as simple as getting a link to their grid (a link to each fic embedded in each word. Understand better?

[inkvoices]

AH, you mean a bingo :) I've seen those, where everyone gets issued a table of prompts, posts it on their journal, writes or creates it for each one, and then posts when they've finished. It would still require tracking and, depending on numbers, a ton of banners...if individualised...hmmm, could be streamlined. I will add this to the suggestion box!

(I'm collecting a lot of things, so if they don't all happen at once, don't sue me ;) It'd be nice to have some things to spread out over the year/whenever and this one could definitely work.)

[daxcat79.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I just remember it was really fun. It was tough, but a great challenge, and something everyone looked forward to.

[purely-distel.livejournal.com]

oh, though I've been sort of throwing my ideas out there, I realise that we should/can't have them all the time *laughs* that would be mental!

I've managed ficathons, exchanges etc before, so that in general isn't the problem. I was thinking (but NOTHING is set into anything, not even sand) of it being mainly a commentathon, though obviously if someone is inspired to write a long story from the prompt then, by all means - they should go for it.

The whole "quarter annually" thing that I was talking about at some other point during the discussion (if you even saw that?) was about the rec list that we were talking about at some point, which obviously would not have been a HUGE thing for the comm. But I think we've moved passed that anyway?

[inkvoices]

Insanity happens, so it's always good to clarify *grins*.

Oh, if you email us with ideas and volunteer to help with them, we WILL draft you in, have no feear ;) but depending on what you do depends not only on the work for you, but the work for the mods, and how big it's gonna spread, and what work that'll create, and... y'see? So yeah, clarification and planning are our friends. A commentathon would probably be one of the easist options, especially since we're not that long off, but it does sound a lot like the promptathon and that got epic fast. Maybe we could set a general theme or give a shorter time limit for prompts or something, I don't know yet. What I do know is that the mods have been chatting about doing something for that time of year which may or may not be similiar or the same ;) But yeah, ALL YOUR IDEAS, rough sketch 'em, send 'em, we'll see what we can bring out to play!

I saw reference, but I've been trying to track the whole post, so... I'm not actually sure how the whole rec listing idea ended up, because we have a lot of similar things or things that could be tweaked anyway, apart from the idea of highlight new and underappreciated works, which is awesome. Again, sketch out what you were thinking of as a seasonal thing, by all means. All the ideas, and volunteer your little heart out, and then watch how instead of doing a couple of banners you end up organising a graphics tream *shakes head at self and laughs*.