Random ponder of the day

[samincittagazze]

It was actually such_heights that brought this up, and now I can't stop thinking about it. Why doesn't His Dark Materials have an active online fanbase? They are very well known books and are about to become a huge film franchise, so you'd think there would be huge communities squeeing, but there isn't. Is it because, Harry Potter phenomenon aside, fandom

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[such_heights]

*jumps up and down excitedly* Pick me, oh pick me! :D HDM deserves to be freakin' huge. Well, my contribution to the cause will hopefully go up later this evening as I write a pimping post for smallfandomfest contemplating this very phenomenon. I propose gathering people together for some kind of challenge or exchange, maybe? To remind people that this is a hella awesome fandom to write for/icon/draw for etc.

[samincittagazze]

That sounds good. We could have a comm with fic contests, icon contests, news, stuff like that? Want to do it together?

[such_heights]

Sounds fabulous; I'd love to!

[samincittagazze]

byanroping. If you join I'll add you as a maintainer. Sorry this is taking me forever - it's Joey's 1st Birthday on Monday and we're having a party tomorrow, so it's beyond manic around here.

[such_heights]

*beams* Great name! And not to worry, we've got plenty of time - how exciting!

[samincittagazze]

I'm so sorry for being so rubbish about this - what I was thinking was we could alternate having fic contests and icon contests? I have no clue how to run fic contests but I've done a fair few icon ones, so maybe I could take those and you could sort out the fic? And I'll sort out a proper userinfo in the next couple of days and we can get promoting and stuff, does that sound OK to you? Anything I missed? :)