sholio | Meta fest (poll)

trobadora and I were talking at her journal just recently about the demise of Metafandom and the general lack of meta-type conversations lately - and this spawned, as such things do, the idea of putting together a month-long meta fest in March. The rules would be simple:

Beginning mid-February, we'd ask people to sign up for posting meta – either general meta or fandom-specific meta - during the month of March.

In March, on your designated date you'd post your meta or a link to it in the fest community on LJ and/or on DW, and we’d all descend upon your post to enjoy and discuss!

Additional meta you didn't sign up with would of course be very welcome, including follow-ups to previous discussions.

Interested?

Poll #9075

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Meta Month of March?

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I'd be interested in posting meta for the fest!
14 (28.0%)

I probably wouldn't post meta myself, but I'd love to participate in discussions!
11 (22.0%)

I don't know how much I'd participate, but I'd love to read along.
25 (50.0%)

If you'd prefer to vote on LJ (since the above is a DW poll), Trobadora has a poll going on her LJ too. This fest would be on both DW and LJ; you could post your meta wherever you prefer, at either or both sites.

And please spread the word; the more responses we get to the poll, the better we can gauge interest in such a thing! Don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions, comments or suggestions. We're still at the early planning stages, so feedback is important!

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I have no idea if I'd participate, but it would be great if it would happen. :)

Thank you! :D I'm glad to see there's interest.

Not volunteering, but I really think the shift to LJ killed the meta. Instead of getting emails and being able to think and send out long, thoughtful posts, it became a comment fest, and hard to follow and...gah.

Can you tell I'm still oldhat? Missing email lists, forgodssakes! ;-)

*grin* Conversations are definitely more splintered and scattered now. On the other hand, in the olden days you really had to find the right group of people to even have those conversations in the first place. I have very fond memories of a sci-fi worldbuilding mailing list that I belonged to in the mid-90s -- we had awesome conversations about pretty much everything -- but I checked back in on the group in the early 00s and it was completely different: different group of people and totally different, much less welcoming vibe. These days, conversations aren't in as much depth and they're more self-conscious for being open to the public, but I think it's easier to surf around and find a group of people talking about the thing you want to talk about.

Suggestion: Finding meta is sometimes not easy, so how about a post (a little bit earlier) where people can ask "is there meta about X somewhere"/"where can I find meta about Y" etc.? It could help when writing own posts, too. A brainstorming post like lunabee34 suggested would also be great.

Oh, that's not a bad idea! I'm not sure how to handle this, exactly, because there is just SO MUCH out there on the wide wide Internet ... I like the idea of having a place where people could ask "Hey, can you link me to anything you know about that's already been written on xyz?" though.

Do you know for how long you'll keep this poll open? I ask for listing the poll (or not) on my monthly recap of FK-eligible things. :-)

I don't know that I'd be interested in posting analysis outside my own journal -- sorry! -- but if anyone contributed FK, I'd definitely read it. For myself, my dearest fandoms are long canceled, and most (not all! granted!) of the common interpretation/discussion issues were tooth-and-claw fought to resolution to my personal satisfaction many years ago, so disinterring them can be... gory? Or just moot. "Here's the story of how I thought this interpretation was right, but the entire fandom beat me over the head until I acknowledged I was wrong." :-)

I'm not planning on closing the poll at all, and we won't be doing signups 'til the middle of February anyhow, so yes, absolutely, link away! And thank you! :D

I hope that we do get some meta for older fandoms - new fandoms have an embarrassment of riches in terms of meta-analysis, new episode squee and so forth, but not only are fans of older fandoms shortchanged, but lots of interesting things can be said about a show from the perspective of looking back on it 10 or 20 years later. So, yes, I do hope that we get some, and I would love to extend our search for meta writers into as many fandoms as possible!

Do you have a comm you were thinking about running this on that we could join?

Also, do you mean meta about a tv show or meta about fandom? Because I don't think very much of the meta I post would qualify for a metafandom-style fest. I mostly write meta about specific shows and what goes on wrt what we see on screen, rather than something about fandom itself.

Ack, I'm so sorry I didn't reply to you sooner! I completely missed this comment for some reason.

We now have a community with rules and deadlines and such (mirrored on LJ and DW - all admin posts and meta roundups will be in both places:

month_of_meta/

month_of_meta.

We accept any kind of meta - specific to a particular show, or about fandom in general. So if you had a post that was, oh, talking about science!fail on Stargate, say, that would be perfectly fine. (At least I'm pretty sure - I'll need to check with my co-mod, but my understanding is that we'll be going for as much inclusiveness as possible, rather than less.)

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