Having probably stupid ideas...
I was sort of thinking about having a comment ficathon for things I like, for my birthday, except that wouldn't really work. And then I started thinking what I could do that might just... and so, if I had a comment-a-thon for things that were old (pre-2000) and British and obscure, would that be a thing that might work? Or at least not just have me prompting by myself?
It includes a lot and the only big fandoms I can think of that aren't automatically excluded by those qualifiers anyway are LOTR, Harry Potter and Sherlock Holmes. And possibly Classic Who, but I'm reluctant to exclude Classic Who because a) people might actually join in and b) no one era is all that popular. (60s only?)
Anyway, how stupid an idea is that? It seems like fun to me, but then it would, wouldn't it? And if I do run it, I would need some help - I can make banners for it, but something I find very hard while I'm ill is promoting things. I can't even post the reminders for dw_straybunnies challenges on the comm itself because I find it so hard. So, if I did that and made banners, would people be willing to help post them about in relevant places? (I would do some myself, of course, too. It gets a bit easier if it's not just me - I think part of it is less about the effort and more about feeling stupid/a nuisance/going on about boring things somehow.)
It wouldn't do any harm, though - and it would be open to all fanworks as fills. And since I usually get overtired on my birthday, I would probably set it going before or after (next weekend?). And it'd just stay open with a link on my sticky, so people could always come back with fills whenever.
What do people think?
ETA: It's not the sort of thing where you could list fandoms, since anything that qualified would be okay, but here's some of mine that would be eligible: Blake's 7, Sapphire and Steel, Press Gang, Allo Allo, Miss Marple, Red Dwarf, Jonathan Creek, Ngaio Marsh, Shakespeare, Dickens, Austen, much other 19th C lit, children's/YA lit, Diana Wynne Jones, Chalet School, The Good Life, Duchess of Duke Street, Georgette Heyer, PG Wodehouse, Poldark, I Claudius, Elizabeth R, House of Eliott etc etc.
Also, it's not egocentric, really, I just can't have a party in rl (though I may manage lunch with my friend round the corner at some point in the week ♥), so I'm going for an online equivalent.
Crossposted from Dreamwidth -- Comments there:
It includes a lot and the only big fandoms I can think of that aren't automatically excluded by those qualifiers anyway are LOTR, Harry Potter and Sherlock Holmes. And possibly Classic Who, but I'm reluctant to exclude Classic Who because a) people might actually join in and b) no one era is all that popular. (60s only?)
Anyway, how stupid an idea is that? It seems like fun to me, but then it would, wouldn't it? And if I do run it, I would need some help - I can make banners for it, but something I find very hard while I'm ill is promoting things. I can't even post the reminders for dw_straybunnies challenges on the comm itself because I find it so hard. So, if I did that and made banners, would people be willing to help post them about in relevant places? (I would do some myself, of course, too. It gets a bit easier if it's not just me - I think part of it is less about the effort and more about feeling stupid/a nuisance/going on about boring things somehow.)
It wouldn't do any harm, though - and it would be open to all fanworks as fills. And since I usually get overtired on my birthday, I would probably set it going before or after (next weekend?). And it'd just stay open with a link on my sticky, so people could always come back with fills whenever.
What do people think?
ETA: It's not the sort of thing where you could list fandoms, since anything that qualified would be okay, but here's some of mine that would be eligible: Blake's 7, Sapphire and Steel, Press Gang, Allo Allo, Miss Marple, Red Dwarf, Jonathan Creek, Ngaio Marsh, Shakespeare, Dickens, Austen, much other 19th C lit, children's/YA lit, Diana Wynne Jones, Chalet School, The Good Life, Duchess of Duke Street, Georgette Heyer, PG Wodehouse, Poldark, I Claudius, Elizabeth R, House of Eliott etc etc.
Also, it's not egocentric, really, I just can't have a party in rl (though I may manage lunch with my friend round the corner at some point in the week ♥), so I'm going for an online equivalent.
Crossposted from Dreamwidth -- Comments there: