Community Notice

[katsuko]

I'm fairly sure most of you have already made it known that you are participating, but I wanted to drop a line to let you know to please inform us if you are entering a piece for the yaoi/shounen-ai side or the het side of the challenge. We need to know so that (a)when it's time for us to start the voting and judging process we know which judge to

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[apollymi]

In fact, I'd suggest doing it ASAP. I will be closing the category by Wednesday at the latest.

And may I reiterate, no OCs with series characters. I don't want to read some fangirl's wishful thinking.

[sabakunotenshi]

Uhm... if I could just say something?

Because I am an obsessive Lj addict, I heard about this challenge almost as soon as it opened. What attracted me was that it was for Shounen ai and Yaoi.

When someone requested het be included I sort of arched a brow. This was doubled when you were nice enough to change the challenge to cater to them.

I feel that if that person wanted it so badly, and felt that there would be enough of a following, they should have instead requested permission to mirror your challenge and then formed a comm/site/challenge of their own.

It's not that I am entirely against het, it's more like I am against catering to people. Eh.. that came out wrong. I'm bad with words, for a writer.

Still, you were nice enough to include a person as a judge without knowing if they would hold to your same standards.

I feel that this is your challenge, for your enjoyment, and that as such you should do as you please.

[apollymi]

Sadly, they caught me in one of my rare "nice" moments. I'm feeling better now though.

Sweet and I are discussing her setting up a separate challenge for gen/het and have the two be affliates.

I might be generalizing a bit when I say this, but I'm going to say it anyway: it seems to me that the gen/het community seems to want to whine about an "overpopulation" of yaoi in the YGO fandom, but they don't want to have do anything (like try to write good fanfiction or host their own contest) about it. They just want to whinge about it.

However, it did give me an excuse to add Rule #12... in which I got to be a bitch.

I really need to work on this "nice" streak. It bites me in the ass every time it shows up.

[vilify]

As someone who writes mainly gen, I'd like to point out that I've never whined about the massive amounts of yaoi. If something bothers me, I just leave it to the people who like it. And I've got nothing against yaoi, truth be told I like it a lot, but I do think that gen/het is underappreciated. I liked having that genre opened up because this contest looks like a lot of fun, and it would be a good chance to mingle het and yaoi.

My two cents.

[vilify]

It won't let me send, and I can't screen this comment or else I would, but pleasepleaseplease don't close the gen/het category. My fic has yaoi and het, but the het is the focus. I have no interest in joining a yaoi-only contest; the only reason I signed up here was because that second genre opened. I think it's an excellent idea even if I'm one of the only people who does.

So, there you have it...thanks.

Pachelbel

Re: My two cents.

[apollymi]

So far you are competing against yourself then.

Should Sweet and I separate the challenge into two separate ones, I'll make sure your story gets in over there.

Re: My two cents.

[vilify]

Well damn now I don't know who to cheer on....

Ok. If not, uhm...good luck with this one ^^

On an entirely unrelated note -

[raventide]

My Hotmail totally fails at letting me send entry email. 8] D'you have an alternative address I could try, or would a comment suffice?

Re: On an entirely unrelated note -

[katsuko]

Heh, fun fun. Sure, shoot off an email to jou@darkmagick.net and I'll make sure it gets to Li.
...and if it didn't, that would be a really neat trick as she lives in the same house as me ^_^;