I have ... a cunning plan?

[sholio]

At Writercon, we talked about various ways of getting people more involved in SGA fandom now that there's no new canon. I'd tossed around several ideas for that, but once I got back home there were a number of things that interfered, including a resurgence of my own disillusionment and feeling of alienation from the fandom, and getting very busy with the first few weeks of school.

But! I have an idea! What about kicking off 2010 with "100 Days of Episode Tags"? (Actually it would be a little less than 100 since it would probably work best to group 2-part episodes together. But whatever.) I'm thinking low-pressure/no-pressure -- people sign up to take an episode and do (at their own discretion) a fic or art or vid, wallpaper, etc for it (with super-easy minimum word count on the fic, like 500 words or something). People post their offering on their scheduled day. No penalties if you're late or can't make it. First come first served on the episodes, with the option of taking multiple eps, and also the possibility of having more than one person sign up for an ep (but only after they're all gone, or we'll have like 10 people writing for some!). Any pairing, any rating. Just take an episode(s) and do something happy for that episode on your scheduled day(s).

And yes, I am volunteering to mod. *g*

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Comments

[friendshipper.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :)

On the recs thing, it'd probably be a neat thing to have, but I think there's too much overlap with both sga_rewind and sga_episodefic to make it worth the extra effort. (Also, I'm not planning on doing a post each day to open up the comm to a new episode. Every day for three months? NO WAY. The big advantage, for me, to a no-pressure ficathon is that I don't have to go hunting down people and hounding them for their fic. They'll either post it or they won't; it's low-stress for me too. Unless there are a bunch of people who want to co-mod, this is going to be pretty DIY without a lot of hands-on moderation.)

[abyssinia4077.livejournal.com]

*nods*

(ah! I think I understand better now. And apparently there are more resources than what I was aware of already)

Good luck with it! I'll keep an eye out for when/if you get up and running. Ficathons (heck, most fannish commitments) definitely work better when you can minimize modly pressure.

[friendshipper.livejournal.com]

*nods vigorously* I've overcommitted myself on mod duties before and it's not fun. I don't want this to turn into something that I'd hate and resent. Just something cheerful and low-pressure for everyone -- including me!