I know continuity's hard to pin down, but...

[laurenthemself]

Anyone got any estimates as to how long the gang were in the brig in VIII? I know they were sentenced to two years; I'm trying to remember if there's ever any reference made to how long they've actually been in there. I don't think I ever even referred to it in Floor 13, because it wasn't strictly relevant, but with this new bunny I've got (another one, yes) it might well be.

RD Slash Awards 2009

[laurenthemself]

Dear everyone,

We haven't done awards in this fandom since 2004. This is a Bad Thing, and is largely my fault due to the fact that I keep looking at the volume of fic each year and going WAH I don't want to try and categorise that.

Do people fancy doing awards? What I can do is collate a list of fics from each year, starting with 2009 and working back, and I can sort them by categories and then put up a shedload of polls. In the past we've only had very broad categories for fics (like, I think the most diverse we got was splitting them into 'short' and 'long' fics), but now that we have a much higher volume of fics than back in the early 2000s, I think some more categories are in order.

My ideas:
* Best Angst
* Best Hurt/Comfort
* Best Fluff
* Best New Author (for an author whose first fic is posted during whatever year we're polling)
* Best Smut
* Best Gestalt (for authors who write in pairs/teams)

What I would like from you lovely people:

* An indication as to whether this is even a good idea
* Category ideas
* Someone to volunteer to do banners, because I used to do them and they were utterly shite
* Any ideas or input you have as to how to best run this, as again, I haven't done this since 2004 and the fandom was much smaller then

Love you guys!

Modpost: Tagging standards

[laurenthemself]

One of the other things I'm trying to do is make the tags consistent. We've never had rules about tagging, so some people do and some people don't and some people tag one way and some people tag another and the oldest posts aren't tagged because they were made prior to the existence of tags. So from now on, here's what'd be good for people to do for tags:

Author names: author: username OR preferred pen name
Artist names: artist: username OR preferred pen name
Art styles: art: icons OR banners OR wallpaper (or other art style we don't have a tag for yet)
Pairing: pairing: rimmer/lister or whosoever it might be. I recognise and bow to the inevitability that we will have both pairing: rimmer/lister and pairing: lister/rimmer as options. You get that. I just want to make it a bit more consistent than those two AND 'lister/rimmer' AND 'l/r' and whatever else.
Rating: rating: nc-17
For crossovers, add fandom: whatever the fandom name is

There are a lot of other things that need to be fiddled with tag-wise, but if we could bear those basic guidelines in mind and I'll work on putting together a full list of tags; at the moment there are a bunch of tags that need playing with to be useful, and a bunch of posts that need tagging, so it's going to take a while. I don't want to be all whipcracky, I just want to make the most of the tag system.

Edit: Following the suggestion from debris_k below, I am turning off new tag adding. If you need to add a new tag to your entry (e.g. an author tag if you don't have one already, a character tag for a character who's not listed, and so on), please tag your post with tag request and put the tags you're requesting at the bottom of your post, and I will create the tags for you.

Imperfect Circle (part 3/?)

[tsukinobun.livejournal.com]

Title: Imperfect Circle (Part 3/?)
Pairing: Hologram!Lister/ Our!Ace
Rating: PG
Warnings: Mpreg
Notes: This part is angsty, but hopefully it'll be one of only a few angsty moments in this fic, since it was SUPPOSED to be fluff. :) I know I haven't posted anything in awhile, but I'm going to try to finish the series I started.

Since I know it has been quite a while since I posted parts 1 and 2, here are the links:
Part 1
Part 2

 

( Imperfect Circle Part 3/? )