To All Torchwood Fans On Dreamwidth

[badly_knitted]

The Hub, the general Torchwood community on Dreamwidth, appears to have vanished. This is not good. I know a lot of us who have Dreamwidth accounts regularly cross posted our fics there and its loss has left a big hole.

Therefore, I am hoping - if I can gather enough interest and some knowledgeable assistance - to set up a new Torchwood community on

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[iantojjackh]

I'd offer to help, but unfortunately dreamwidth doesn't get along well with my iPad, so I never got into using that site.

[badly_knitted]

That's a shame.

You could still help with ideas, though! The site needs a name, plus any suggestions on tags that should be included?

I feel like a project manager, gathering information and organising the skilled workers, lol!

[iantojjackh]

I think I might be able to help as long as it doesn't involve posting, that seems to be where I run into problems. Never really tried the behind the scenes stuff yet.

With a gen community you are going to need a crap load of tags so if you need help with tags and other stuff.

Hmm let me think own names I have a few idea percolating.

[badly_knitted]

Great because I have no ideas for names whatsoever at the moment! I'm working on a tags list - so far I have tags for the different seasons, for fic, fic recs, art, action figures, characters, cast, various pairings, fic lengths (drabble, one-shot, series) and for the different ratings. I need to find out how many tags I can have, got to investigate that! What am I missing that I need to have?

[iantojjackh]

Free account you can have 1000 tags, so I think you should be safe. There could also be author/artist tags, genre tags, episode tags, the sky's the limit.

Still pondering names.

[badly_knitted]

Episode tags for the first 2 series are on my to do list. Author/Artist tags will mostly have to be done on request as people join the community.

Genres... Any suggestions? Angst, h/c, humour, fluff, action/adventure, what else?

Also community rules and guidelines? *headdesk* What have I got myself into? *hides under bed*

[iantojjackh]

For genres maybe horror, AU, PWP, smut, crossover

Maybe a set of tags for warnings like non-con, dub-con, abuse and other stuff like that.

Maybe for a name: KeepingtheTorchAlive

If you want I can work on some rules nd guidelines and email over to you.

[badly_knitted]

AU poses a slight problem - there are different kinds of au. Torchwood au (with aliens etc) totally au (without aliens) =S

Aren't smut and pwp mostly the same thing?

Should we tag gor warnings or just let the authors warn in their headings?

star54kar is working on a draft of the rules and guidelines. If you do one as well I can look over both and try to combine them into something comprehensive. I'll email you her first draft when she sends it to me. arnica over on dreamwidth is also helping, and will hopefully be able to get a banner and icons etc. made and put in place.

I'm in two minds over author/artist tags. star54kar says they can make for a lot of work, but I still kinda like the idea. I guess it's my decision since I'll be primary moderator. When I get a list of tags, I'll email them to everyone involved for input, whether I've missed anything etc.

Can you remember Owen's fiancee's last name? It's bugging me.