Fandom Spotlight: info and volunteering time!
Okay, so, how many of y'all got into a fandom because of this game? Hands up, now. Don't any of you be shy. *raises both hands and jumps around and points at Robin, specifically* I would never have gotten into HIMYM if not for suit_of_awesome, and her awesomeness.
Fandom Spotlight, though, is a chance to get even more exposure for your fandom! Given how many fandoms are represented in game, there's a good chance that at least half the people playing aren't familiar with yours. But the longer people play, the more that changes.
You innocently start playing with someone from a fandom you don't know and next thing you know you're infected intrigued. Unless you can get your hands on the source material, AND find time to devour it obsessively read/watch/play it, you'll only ever have that tiny taste. Coming from the other side, it can be hard when only a handful of people in the game know your canon. If you want to do plot with those who don't, there can be a heck of a lot of infodumping, and it means you have the constant, naggging knowledge that there are people in the world who don't know how AWESOME your fandom is!
But that's okay, 'cause there's Fandom Spotlight.
Each week, one or two players (or set of players) will get to pimp their fandom to the whole game. You can talk about any aspect you like: plot, your character, other characters you'd like to see in the game, the creators, history, future speculations. It can be as long as you like, from endless saga to brief overview.
These will be posted each Sunday, giving people a chance to squee, boggle, or ask lots of questions. One of the only provisos is that any major spoilers that haven't made it into the game: 1) Go behind a cut and 2) Be clearly labeled as such. If in doubt, cut and warn.
What I need from you
Volunteers! Sign up in this post if you want to do a Fandom Spotlight for your fandom (or fandoms, if you have more than one character). If you volunteered in the prior posts (found here and here) and/or you're on the list below, you do not need to re-volunteer!
If you share a fandom with another player/s, then there will need to be coordination between you to work out who will write/post what. You don't have to be involved if your canon-mate wants to do a spotlight and you don't, but you do have to at least sign off on being okay with them doing one.
To make things easier for my poor brain, please volunteer from the journal of the character whose fandom you're signing up to do.
When do I need it?
Every Sunday, the all powerful RNG will be consulted to make the call as to which two fandoms from the list of volunteers will be selected for the following week. A post will go up announcing them (and if you absolutely can't make it that week, just let me know on the post).
Except, of course, this week. If you can do a spotlight for this coming Sunday, let me know in the comments. If there are more than two volunteered fandoms, I'll RNG that too, and whoever misses out this week will be added into the pool for coming weeks.
Also, we have a list already of all the fandoms we've seen since the last time we started this up -- let me know if you did a spotlight that I didn't link to/nab. (Additionally, if there's a fandom represented and we no longer have characters from it, let me know. I think I got most of them but I'm flaky like a croissant.)
Already done:
Animorphs
Batman: The Animated Series
Birds of Prey
Blade: Trinity
Bleach
Blood/Smoke series
Cable and Deadpool
Charmed
Children of Dune
Corner Gas
The Dark Knight
The Dresden Files
Ella Enchanted
Ender's Game
Fight Club
Firekeeper Saga
G.I. Joe
Gilmore Girls
Gossip Girl
Grey's Anatomy
Hellboy
High School Musical
Jumper
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Lost
Merlin
Ocean's Trilogy
Pirates of the Caribbean
The Poisonwood Bible
Power Rangers: Time Force
Power Rangers: Zeo
Pushing Daisies
Romeo+Juliet
Roswell
Six Feet Under
Stargate Atlantis
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Wars: EU
Strangers in Paradise
Ten Inch Hero
Thundercats
The Westing Game
Witch Hunter Robin
To do:
Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll/American McGee)
Anansi Boys
The A-Team
The Authority
Babylon 5
The Baby-Sitters Club
Baldur's Gate
Big Trouble in Little China
Black Jewels Trilogy
Bordertown
Children of Dune
Chuck
Criminal Minds
The Darkest Powers
Dogma
due South
Eragon
Eureka SeveN
Firefly/Serenity
Genso Suikoden
Gnome Man's Land
Grey's Anatomy
Gunslinger Girl
How I Met Your Mother
Iron Man
James Bond
Joan of Arcadia
Jumper
Las Vegas
Law and Order: SVU
Lord of the Rings
The Middleman
Middlesex
Mortal Coils
Muppets
Narnia series
New Amsterdam
The OC
One Tree Hill
Powerpuff Girls Z
Pride and Prejudice
Princess of Thieves
Rogue Angel
A Salty Piece of Land
Sam and Max
She-Ra: Princess of Power
Skins
Star Trek: Deep Space 9
Supernatural
Teen Titans
Transformers
True Blood/Southern Vampire Novels
United States of Tara
Vampire Academy
Wicked/Son of a Witch
Wildfire
Women of the Otherworld
Xena: Warrior Princess
Waaaaait for the OCD, my darlings. IT IS UP. HAVE AT IT.
Fandom Spotlight, though, is a chance to get even more exposure for your fandom! Given how many fandoms are represented in game, there's a good chance that at least half the people playing aren't familiar with yours. But the longer people play, the more that changes.
You innocently start playing with someone from a fandom you don't know and next thing you know you're infected intrigued. Unless you can get your hands on the source material, AND find time to devour it obsessively read/watch/play it, you'll only ever have that tiny taste. Coming from the other side, it can be hard when only a handful of people in the game know your canon. If you want to do plot with those who don't, there can be a heck of a lot of infodumping, and it means you have the constant, naggging knowledge that there are people in the world who don't know how AWESOME your fandom is!
But that's okay, 'cause there's Fandom Spotlight.
Each week, one or two players (or set of players) will get to pimp their fandom to the whole game. You can talk about any aspect you like: plot, your character, other characters you'd like to see in the game, the creators, history, future speculations. It can be as long as you like, from endless saga to brief overview.
These will be posted each Sunday, giving people a chance to squee, boggle, or ask lots of questions. One of the only provisos is that any major spoilers that haven't made it into the game: 1) Go behind a cut and 2) Be clearly labeled as such. If in doubt, cut and warn.
What I need from you
Volunteers! Sign up in this post if you want to do a Fandom Spotlight for your fandom (or fandoms, if you have more than one character). If you volunteered in the prior posts (found here and here) and/or you're on the list below, you do not need to re-volunteer!
If you share a fandom with another player/s, then there will need to be coordination between you to work out who will write/post what. You don't have to be involved if your canon-mate wants to do a spotlight and you don't, but you do have to at least sign off on being okay with them doing one.
To make things easier for my poor brain, please volunteer from the journal of the character whose fandom you're signing up to do.
When do I need it?
Every Sunday, the all powerful RNG will be consulted to make the call as to which two fandoms from the list of volunteers will be selected for the following week. A post will go up announcing them (and if you absolutely can't make it that week, just let me know on the post).
Except, of course, this week. If you can do a spotlight for this coming Sunday, let me know in the comments. If there are more than two volunteered fandoms, I'll RNG that too, and whoever misses out this week will be added into the pool for coming weeks.
Also, we have a list already of all the fandoms we've seen since the last time we started this up -- let me know if you did a spotlight that I didn't link to/nab. (Additionally, if there's a fandom represented and we no longer have characters from it, let me know. I think I got most of them but I'm flaky like a croissant.)
Already done:
Animorphs
Batman: The Animated Series
Birds of Prey
Blade: Trinity
Bleach
Blood/Smoke series
Cable and Deadpool
Charmed
Children of Dune
Corner Gas
The Dark Knight
The Dresden Files
Ella Enchanted
Ender's Game
Fight Club
Firekeeper Saga
G.I. Joe
Gilmore Girls
Gossip Girl
Grey's Anatomy
Hellboy
High School Musical
Jumper
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Lost
Merlin
Ocean's Trilogy
Pirates of the Caribbean
The Poisonwood Bible
Power Rangers: Time Force
Power Rangers: Zeo
Pushing Daisies
Romeo+Juliet
Roswell
Six Feet Under
Stargate Atlantis
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Wars: EU
Strangers in Paradise
Ten Inch Hero
Thundercats
The Westing Game
Witch Hunter Robin
To do:
Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll/American McGee)
Anansi Boys
The A-Team
The Authority
Babylon 5
The Baby-Sitters Club
Baldur's Gate
Big Trouble in Little China
Black Jewels Trilogy
Bordertown
Children of Dune
Chuck
Criminal Minds
The Darkest Powers
Dogma
due South
Eragon
Eureka SeveN
Firefly/Serenity
Genso Suikoden
Gnome Man's Land
Grey's Anatomy
Gunslinger Girl
How I Met Your Mother
Iron Man
James Bond
Joan of Arcadia
Jumper
Las Vegas
Law and Order: SVU
Lord of the Rings
The Middleman
Middlesex
Mortal Coils
Muppets
Narnia series
New Amsterdam
The OC
One Tree Hill
Powerpuff Girls Z
Pride and Prejudice
Princess of Thieves
Rogue Angel
A Salty Piece of Land
Sam and Max
She-Ra: Princess of Power
Skins
Star Trek: Deep Space 9
Supernatural
Teen Titans
Transformers
True Blood/Southern Vampire Novels
United States of Tara
Vampire Academy
Wicked/Son of a Witch
Wildfire
Women of the Otherworld
Xena: Warrior Princess
Waaaaait for the OCD, my darlings. IT IS UP. HAVE AT IT.