Fading into obscurity?

[laurenthemself]

Discovering that RD is apparently a valid fandom for Yuletide, where the requirement is that 'fandoms should generally be fairly small, relatively inactive, or very new', is making me wonder: We're not that inactive, are we? I mean, I know that the Yahoo ML has slowed down a hell of a lot, but that's because people tend to post here, right?

I dunno, it's just a bit mind-boggling (and, I'll admit, a tad upsetting) to think that RD qualifies as 'small' or 'inactive'. Sure, we're no Harry Potter, but thank Cloister for that, because frankly I don't think I could deal with that amount of shite -- HP's produced some great stuff but also some howlingly bad stuff, whereas I like to think that we do fairly well at producing consistently good-quality fic (and by 'we' I mean 'you guys who actually still, y'know, post fic, as opposed to maudlin whinges like this').

After all the effort we put into the fic exchange over at 20yearsofdwarf, and all the fics that keep getting posted here, I just felt the need to mention this. I'll admit I feel a little guilty over the forsaken_fandom awards thing, mainly because I think I still have the RDSS Awards nominations list, half-finished, kicking around my hard drive from, like, 2005 or 2004 or something, and the whole awards-in-the-fandom thing kind of died, so yeah. I will start brainstorming after exams and try to do something involving polls and pretty banners so's people don't have to go elsewhere for their poll-and-pretty-banner fix.

Also, there are apparently two RD fic requests still outstanding from last year's Yuletide, and this one made my mind boggle: 'Cat/David Lister/Kristine Kochanski/Kryten'. Please tell me that the slashes in that instance don't mean what they mean to us!

Comments

[hazeltea.livejournal.com]

Maybe if I got really, really drunk I could fulfill that person's wishes, provided that they like vacuum cleaners.

[laurenthemself]

Over the years I have written a ton of pairings. I've written skutter/toaster for heaven's sake. But that particular foursome = DO NOT WANT.

[hazeltea.livejournal.com]

You are made of so much awesome in that respect ;)

[laurenthemself]

*blushes* no, seriously, I can feel my face going red.

I love this fandom, purely because we can have exchanges like this and it's NORMAL. Also because our fandom has so many awesome writers.

[kahvi.livejournal.com]

It's not a pairing (foursome?!). Be glad you learned this now, and not when you got your assignment! :D

[hazeltea.livejournal.com]

I work well under pressure LOL. Still that's good news.