1st stop: recruiting fandoms

[twigged.livejournal.com]

Sign up here to claim your fandom for 1 month - beginning October November 2003. Sign-up sheets for subsequent volunteers will be put up when I know a fandom has representation. Posting rights will be given during your volunteer period.

Volunteers are asked to post a minimum of 1 fic per week in the following format:

Subject: Title by Author (Rating)

Fandom: YOUR FANDOM
Pairing: (no abbreviations, please)
Author on LJ: (if applicable)
Author Website: (author's fics, if available)
Why this must be read:

Emphasis should be on fics that you feel are especially outstanding and accessible examples of your fandom, e.g. it plays on a repeated theme in the show, it's a fandom or a personal favourite, it was a controversial fic, it's good smut. Whatever.

Warnings are not required beyond what the author has posted on their own stories.

Initial volunteers are also asked to post a synopsis of the characters in their fandom. Examples can be found HERE. A brief overview of all the major players with thumbnail pics (don't you hate reading porn without knowing what the guys look like?!) and links to your fandom archives.

Some fandoms are too small to warrant year-round inclusion. If that's the case, go HERE to sign up for a one-month feature!

Those are my demands. *g*

Comments

[celli]

*raises hand* Alias.

[twigged.livejournal.com]

Fantastic! I can take you off my list for a personal plea, Ms. 17-Fandoms. *g*

[alee-gothphyle.livejournal.com]

I will volunteer for The Sentinel, unless some other, better-able fen steps to the fore ;)

[twigged.livejournal.com]

Great! Thanks, alee!

[mei-x.livejournal.com]

*raises hand*

due South

[twigged.livejournal.com]

Thank you!! I can't wait to read some dS ficcage!

I saw you were a member at ds_flashback, which this community is styled on. Yay! Go pimp it to your dS fen, sweetie!

[icalynn.livejournal.com]

i'll help out. i can do roswell and/or lotr.

[twigged.livejournal.com]

Great - I'll make an executive decision and assign you Roswell. Thank so much for your help!!

[sparky77.livejournal.com]

Firefly and if no one else claims it, I can do Pirates of the Caribbean too (though the badfic there is scary and I might never return).

[twigged.livejournal.com]

Thanks!! I have a few other PotC fen on my friends list, so they may step up. I'm psyched you're taking Firefly, though!!

[ilexa.livejournal.com]

Dude, 17 comments and *no* Smallville!?!? WTF!!?!?

Dana, I am *SO* glad you went ahead and did this!! Great idea!!

[twigged.livejournal.com]

Dude, 17 comments and *no* Smallville!?!? WTF!!?!?

I know! So... are you volunteering? *snort* You don't have to, but I'd love it if you did!

[stone-princess.livejournal.com]

Yeppers, I'll volunteer for Boondock Saints.

[twigged.livejournal.com]

Fantastic! Thanks for playing!!

[zaneetas.livejournal.com]

If you're still interested, I'm still up for doing popslash.

[twigged.livejournal.com]

That would kick ass. Spread the word!!

[svmadelyn.livejournal.com]

I'm sure if Ilexa doesn't take Smallville, someone else definitely will. (And if they somehow don't, I'm more than willing, or can do it a second time, whatever. Just let me know. *g*)

So I'll take the plunge and put together several "Witchblade" recs, because...no one on my friendslist recs them. *grins* And I'd like the chance to try and hook them to another cancelled show. *evil*

[twigged.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think everyone's just being polite at the moment, but someone with snag it eventually. ;)

I'm very happy to add Witchblade to the community's interests. ::hugs::

[endless-fever.livejournal.com]

1) this community just rocks.
2) if you want i can do recs for S.W.A.T. it's not a big fandom, it's up to you. or, if that's too small, i can do Sports Night

[twigged.livejournal.com]

1) this community just rocks.

Yay! I'm glad heard about it!

2) if you want i can do recs for S.W.A.T. it's not a big fandom, it's up to you. or, if that's too small, i can do Sports Night

Either one would be fantastic. I've added S.W.A.T. to the journal interests so if that's the one you want, take it (and of course volunteer for Sports Night in another month!).

[ruedifference.livejournal.com]

*raises hand*

I'll take Harry Potter if that's okay?

[twigged.livejournal.com]

Of course it's okay - it's great!! Thank you!

[sugarrush2003.livejournal.com]

Well, since it looks like Smallville hasn't been claimed yet, I'd be happy to do that fandom. ;)

[twigged.livejournal.com]

Yay, I'm excited! I can't wait to see what fic you start us off with!! Tough decision. ;)

And, did I say YAY!?

[stopawhile.livejournal.com]

At your service, sweets. Er. I think I could probably do... due South? Harry Potter? Hmm. Smallville? Heh. Fastlane (<-- very, very small fandom. There are only a few stories).

Right. I think that's it for me. *g*

[twigged.livejournal.com]

LOL! I have initial volunteers for all the fandoms you list except Fastlane. You wanna do it? And of course I'll expect you to take turns on the others down the road. *eg*

[alejandradd.livejournal.com]

Oh, excellent! I'll be doing the reading, not the reccing. Isn't this awesome? :-D

[twigged.livejournal.com]

LOL. Glad you're excited!

[autumnyte.livejournal.com]

*looks around*

Well since no one else has stepped up to the bat, I guess I'd like to do The OC.

Great idea for a community, btw. Love it.

[twigged.livejournal.com]

Thanks!! I'm thrilled you're doing The OC!

[rhiannonhero.livejournal.com]

I don't know that I should volunteer for Highlander since I'm so new to that fandom...but, if you don't have anyone else before the 'deadline', I'll do it.

I really hope that you get someone better than me, though, because I'm really, really new to the fandom and might not make great choices as recs.

[twigged.livejournal.com]

I'd love to have you do Highlander! I think I can even guess which of the fics you'll rec first, lol!

If anyone doesn't like your recs, screw 'em, and hopefully they'll sign up for future shifts, anyway.

Thanks!

[fourteenlines.livejournal.com]

*cough* Farscape. Yeah, baby.

Also, I'll be pimping this all over the place. Great idea - thanks for inviting us over at farscapefriday

[twigged.livejournal.com]

Sweet! I'm personally looking forward to some Burns/Smithers leash action, but I'll understand if you want to start of with something different. *g*

Thanks for the pimpage, too!

Dude!

[kimberlyfdr.livejournal.com]

Umm, maybe there's not any other Starsky/Hutch fans out on the list

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Umm, maybe there's not any other Starsky/Hutch fans out on the list <hellooooooo!> I'll take my boys since no one else has claimed them:)

Re: Dude!

[twigged.livejournal.com]

great! I've added Starsky & Hutch to the community interests and I'll send you an email shortly.

Hope you'll pimp this out to your S/H friends so they'll take a turn!!

I'd be up for

[hyperfocused.livejournal.com]

Everwood (which doesn't seem to be listed), or Sports Night.

Re: I'd be up for

[twigged.livejournal.com]

You can have whichever you like, sweets. Just let me know and I'll get everything updated tomorrow night. Thanks!!

[dameange.livejournal.com]

*tentatively raises hand* uhm, if no one's taken it, i can rec Stargate: SG1 for you, D.

[twigged.livejournal.com]

That would be fantastic, Angel!!

[stopawhile.livejournal.com]

OMG!!! DANAAAAAAA!! Why is there no Buffy/AtS?!?!!!! That is so WRONG!!!! :) (On that note, I've read like a handful of fics in Buffy/AtS so I am unfortunately ill equiped to rec)

Uhm. So should I wait for the next round to do Fastlane? I can easily whip up a primer. *g*

[twigged.livejournal.com]

Have no fear! I am cold calling on some of the Buffy sites and I'm sure we'll have representation.

In the meantime, to sign up for Fastlane go here: http://www.livejournal.com/community/crack_van/6006.html

I've already got someone for October (and I think November too) to do small fandoms. Yay!!

[isagel.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'm volunteering to do The X-Files. This is going to be so much fun, and I'm going to go insane trying to do a synopsis of a show with a plot that no one ever understood. But hey, there's a lot of good fic to share in this fandom.

I suspect that I'm going to need help figuring out how to get the pictures of the characters into my write-up, but I'll force someone to teach me when I get there. *g*

[twigged.livejournal.com]

I'm giving this fandom to you grudgingly, knowing as I do that it will distract you from Captured.

I don't know whether to squee or sob!

[wunderwesen.livejournal.com]

Oh-oh, there's no TPM (Phantom Menace)...

... and no Deep Space Nine... *sighs*

I could do both, but I'd need some time to get back into DS9, I'm just starting there again.

[twigged.livejournal.com]

Why don't I sign you up for Phantom Menace and if you want to do DS9 in a later month you can. Might even save you from having to do 2 overviews if someone else wants to grab it sooner.

Sound good?

[ethrosdemon.livejournal.com]

I know you want me to do Eminem in popslash, but maybe I should do Buffy/Angel? I was in that fandom for years. I have read so much fic there.

Eminem fic would be easy, since there hardly is any, I could give you a list in one mail lol Let me have Buffy/Angel. Then explain what I'm supposed to do.

[twigged.livejournal.com]

Of course you can do Buffy/Angel! I'm happy you're playing. So, is it appropriate to lump them together like that? Or would it be better to have 2 separate categories?

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Um. *raises hand gingerly* I would be willing to do Everwood.

[twigged.livejournal.com]

Everwood is yours! Thanks for playing!!