Holiday challenges: 12days & wish lists
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So last year I ran a Holiday Fest challenge borrowed from my other comm![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
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Simply it’s a challenge where every day for twelve consecutive days leading up to Christmas something Dark Angel is posted. The what is open to anything from a drabble, poem, ficlet, icons, pic spam, recs, an epic fic- really anything (including a ch from a wip piece) as long as its Dark Angel related.
Note: you can double dip – meaning if you’re signed up on another challenge and its DA related through a crossover, a bingo, an exchange on another comm. – if you can post during the 12days (btw, you are welcome to post it to the other comm first then post a link here – as long as it’s posted within the same day you’re good). Also if you were working on something from the earlier DA fest but didn’t have a chance to finish, you can apply it here.
Basically it’s a low key, low pressure, and hopefully a *fun* challenge.
On each day I hope someone will sign up to lead that day by posting something. There is no limit to the # of posts on any particular day, but we want a minimum of 1 post a day that’s DA related.
There were several that participated last year, I’m hoping there’s a few of you that’d like to again – so a poll will commence ;)
Onslashing_lorne we’re trying to shake things up a pinch by adding Wishes.
The idea was borrowed from a few wish communities. I've participated ininsmallpackages and Fall Fandom Free-For-All. My thought was I'd write up a wish post and people would respond in comments with their wishes - Now I can lock it so all wishes remain hidden then by a certain date create a post with just the wishes so the wisher would be anonymous. Why? So no one would know who they are granting a wish for, so the wish is granted because the giver is capable of granting that wish or that they were inspired by the prompt.
Or I can leave it open so everyone can see the wishes and fulfill a wish if they can.
In both cases, I can see that it’s possible some wishes may not be fulfilled. What I didn't want was to put pressure on people that all wishes have to be filled - I'd like this to be pressure free for everyone. So regardless of how we work it, please be aware if you make a wish be prepared it may or may not be fulfilled and that it’s not a reflection on you. Hopefully even if the wish granted isn’t yours that you'd appreciate and love all the (activity) wishes granted that's shared by ALL.
Other Questions:
Do you have to post a wish list in order to participate, fulfill a wish? No
Do you have to grant a wish if you posted a wish list? No
Do you have to claim a wish? No. I think if two or more people are excited and inspired by a wish they should just go for it—everyone’s going to have their own pov and personally I think its fun to see different sides of the same prompt. Though if you want, we can have people say they might be fulfilling the wish – will add this q to the poll.
If I grant a wish, how do I post- Simple any time during the 12days. It’s open to your preference: you can post and link back to your journal or if you prefer to remain anonymous, lmk and I’ll post it for you.
I think this is a great opportunity for all the lurkers to write a wish list. There is a core group of active writers/artists and that's great, but one thing I'm sure we all have in common: wanting to have see more activity and people interested in our work. This could be your time to say what you'd like to see (pairings/prompts, icons, vids, recs, other graphics... the sky's the limit as long as it's Dark Angel related =)
Note: If the vote is for the wishes to be open, but you’d rather remain anonymous then just email me your wishes and I’ll post them for you.
Example of wishes:
I'd love a couple of Renfro icons
An Alec (Jensen) wallpaper with ?? lyrics on it
Fic: with Alec/Max 1st Christmas in TC
A Joshua colorbar
Gen fic: someone throws and hits Max in the face with a snowball
A set of canon or stock icons all to do with painting
A set of icons with Alec quotes etc...
A 3some fic: established relationship with Alec/Max/Logan, but now Max/Logan can touch without the latex. Alec’s gift the virus has neutralized.
How do the wishes relate with 12days? The 12 days of Dark Angel is another pressure free challenge - simply post something DA related every day leading up to Christmas. Posting wishes - I'd like people to post the granted wishes during this time. Otherwise there are no official: assigned dates, exchanges, or claiming.
Again it’s pressure free and hopefully a fun challenge with the single goal to create more Dark Angel media.
Did I miss something? You have a better idea, have a concern, something isn't quite clear… Please ask and lmk.
The challenges on whether or not we have them will depend on poll responses. The majority will dictate – note there will be revisions if there is no response. Poll will close: Dec 1 (hopefully there's interest then I can make a post by Dec 2 for wishes and one for sign-ups on the lead people for 12 days so we'll all have time to create ;)
[Poll #1798650]
So last year I ran a Holiday Fest challenge borrowed from my other comm
slashing_lorne Simply it’s a challenge where every day for twelve consecutive days leading up to Christmas something Dark Angel is posted. The what is open to anything from a drabble, poem, ficlet, icons, pic spam, recs, an epic fic- really anything (including a ch from a wip piece) as long as its Dark Angel related.
Note: you can double dip – meaning if you’re signed up on another challenge and its DA related through a crossover, a bingo, an exchange on another comm. – if you can post during the 12days (btw, you are welcome to post it to the other comm first then post a link here – as long as it’s posted within the same day you’re good). Also if you were working on something from the earlier DA fest but didn’t have a chance to finish, you can apply it here.
Basically it’s a low key, low pressure, and hopefully a *fun* challenge.
On each day I hope someone will sign up to lead that day by posting something. There is no limit to the # of posts on any particular day, but we want a minimum of 1 post a day that’s DA related.
There were several that participated last year, I’m hoping there’s a few of you that’d like to again – so a poll will commence ;)
On
slashing_lorne we’re trying to shake things up a pinch by adding Wishes.The idea was borrowed from a few wish communities. I've participated in
insmallpackages and Fall Fandom Free-For-All. My thought was I'd write up a wish post and people would respond in comments with their wishes - Now I can lock it so all wishes remain hidden then by a certain date create a post with just the wishes so the wisher would be anonymous. Why? So no one would know who they are granting a wish for, so the wish is granted because the giver is capable of granting that wish or that they were inspired by the prompt. Or I can leave it open so everyone can see the wishes and fulfill a wish if they can.
In both cases, I can see that it’s possible some wishes may not be fulfilled. What I didn't want was to put pressure on people that all wishes have to be filled - I'd like this to be pressure free for everyone. So regardless of how we work it, please be aware if you make a wish be prepared it may or may not be fulfilled and that it’s not a reflection on you. Hopefully even if the wish granted isn’t yours that you'd appreciate and love all the (activity) wishes granted that's shared by ALL.
Other Questions:
Do you have to post a wish list in order to participate, fulfill a wish? No
Do you have to grant a wish if you posted a wish list? No
Do you have to claim a wish? No. I think if two or more people are excited and inspired by a wish they should just go for it—everyone’s going to have their own pov and personally I think its fun to see different sides of the same prompt. Though if you want, we can have people say they might be fulfilling the wish – will add this q to the poll.
If I grant a wish, how do I post- Simple any time during the 12days. It’s open to your preference: you can post and link back to your journal or if you prefer to remain anonymous, lmk and I’ll post it for you.
I think this is a great opportunity for all the lurkers to write a wish list. There is a core group of active writers/artists and that's great, but one thing I'm sure we all have in common: wanting to have see more activity and people interested in our work. This could be your time to say what you'd like to see (pairings/prompts, icons, vids, recs, other graphics... the sky's the limit as long as it's Dark Angel related =)
Note: If the vote is for the wishes to be open, but you’d rather remain anonymous then just email me your wishes and I’ll post them for you.
Example of wishes:
I'd love a couple of Renfro icons
An Alec (Jensen) wallpaper with ?? lyrics on it
Fic: with Alec/Max 1st Christmas in TC
A Joshua colorbar
Gen fic: someone throws and hits Max in the face with a snowball
A set of canon or stock icons all to do with painting
A set of icons with Alec quotes etc...
A 3some fic: established relationship with Alec/Max/Logan, but now Max/Logan can touch without the latex. Alec’s gift the virus has neutralized.
How do the wishes relate with 12days? The 12 days of Dark Angel is another pressure free challenge - simply post something DA related every day leading up to Christmas. Posting wishes - I'd like people to post the granted wishes during this time. Otherwise there are no official: assigned dates, exchanges, or claiming.
Again it’s pressure free and hopefully a fun challenge with the single goal to create more Dark Angel media.
Did I miss something? You have a better idea, have a concern, something isn't quite clear… Please ask and lmk.
The challenges on whether or not we have them will depend on poll responses. The majority will dictate – note there will be revisions if there is no response. Poll will close: Dec 1 (hopefully there's interest then I can make a post by Dec 2 for wishes and one for sign-ups on the lead people for 12 days so we'll all have time to create ;)
[Poll #1798650]
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Date: 2011-12-06 06:55 pm (UTC)Sorry, sorry, I'm being bothersome, I know. I'll stop helping any minute now. :P
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Date: 2011-12-07 06:08 am (UTC)I love the banners!!! Seriously and promoting is a great idea. I wanted to hit all the DA related comms anyways to *hopefully* get permission to post carte blanche any promos to raise some activity - instead of asking for permission each time. The only one I hit without asking was
I appreciate letting me code, but ha I'm worthless with that. And I didn't respond on the comment with the banners because I was nervous how much it'd unscreen. If its possible you can post the banners so everyone can see them and start passing them around- or I can (just let me know how to post the code box) I already tried a dry run, and only ended up posting the banner.
My schedules kinda crazy, but I'm only working a half day Friday & have the weekend. The muse has also been kicking me. I'm kinda all over the place: I finished 1 DA/SPN, am working on another DA, and today I was hit with a DA/Leverage bunny =)
Anyhoo lmk on the banners. I'll be home until about 8 PST tomorrow morning, otherwise I should be home between 4-5 tomorrow night. Also sending you a private pm message ;)