Affiliates

[longlongwaytogo]

I'm looking for affiliates for the comm. Anyone got any ideas? It can't be something that's too similar to our comm already, or it'll be pointless. But it probably should fit in with the theme somehow. It doesn't have to be Doctor Who related

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[lil_1337]

choc_fic since is it for characters of color. Not sure the name is right, but link is on my profile page. I'll see what else I can come up with after I've slept and the brain is working properly.

[longlongwaytogo]

Just commented to the maintainer of that comm but I'm not holding out much hope as she hardly has anything in the comm profile at all.

[lil_1337]

*crosses fingers* The only other one that springs to mind is _leftbehind which is a Mickey comm.

[longlongwaytogo]

I don't really want to do that. I don't like affiliating with comms that are too similar to each other, because then it starts feeling like you're competing, not helping each other out. But thanks anyway!

[mara_202]

Hi! A friend and I started a new community yesterday, and we were wondering if you'd like to affiliate with us?

It's called jake_in_tw, and it's for everyone who would love to see Jake in Torchwood. Anything related to Jake and Torchwood can be posted there. (I.e. parallel!Jake in parallel!Torchwood, parallel!Jake in this!Torchwood, this!Jake in this!Torchwood, ...)

Since it was only started yesterday, there isn't actually anything on it yet except a welcome post. It's also quite similar to your comm, I guess, so I'd completely understand if you don't want to affiliate. But I thought I'd ask anyway. :)

If you're looking for more affiliates, I also mod a Torchwood community, jantolution. It's mainly fanfic, with (more or less) monthly challenges and as added extra that depressing endings are not allowed, haha. I don't know if you'd be interested in affiliating with that comm?

Sorry for the rambling. I hope to hear from you soon! Love your community, by the way. Ricky and Jake are so awesome.

[longlongwaytogo]

hmn. I can see that it'll have a whooole lot of overlapping of fics and discussion and whatnot. Would that bother you? I'd prefer overlapping rather than people stopping posting things about Jake in torchwood on my comm, or people never posting their stuff about jake in parallel torchwood on your comm.

I'd be happy to affiliate with your torchwood community however! If you tell me what you'd like the short summary in my profile to say, I'll put it up soon, and I assume you'll do a similar thing for me. :) I'll also announce it as an affiliate in a new entry.

I'm glad you love the community!

[mara_202]

I personally don't mind the overlapping at all. Does it bother you? Your comm was there first, after all. :) We considered making jake_in_tw 'Jake in this world's Torchwood'-only, but thought the comm would die quite soon if we made it so specific. The communities still have their own specific areas, though, and people crosspost things all the time anyway. (Ha. jantolution and jackxianto are about 70% the same, I'd guess. Only the challenges and the happy-ending requirement distinguish the two.)

Awesome! jantolution's summary is basically 'The community for happy-ended Jack/Ianto'. (That probably sounds incredibly stupid/delusional, but it was created at a time when there was quite a lot of Janto angst going around. And sometimes you just want to read fic that leaves you with a happy feeling. Even if the pairing in question is most likely completely doomed, haha.) What's your summary?

I'll put your comm on the profile, and announce it as an affiliate in a mod post. :)

[longlongwaytogo]

It doesn't bother me hugely, as long as we actually encourage the overlapping, rather than being really isolationist. I wouldn't want either of our comms to die. So, I'll go and make your two comms affilates now. :)

My summary... um, I'm not sure. Any suggestions that would make it look different to your Jake one?