Red Dwarf Slash

I was just over on the Yahoo Group doing some maintenance (cleaned out some bouncing members, hee hee), and realised that we are less than a month away from our tenth birthday.

The Red Dwarf Slash Society started out as four people back in July 2001, founded by yours truly under whatever name it was I was using at the time. The Y!G has quietened down significantly since its heyday, but thanks to fiareynne made the jump to LJ. So basically it will have its tenth birthday on July 6th.

Should we commemorate this by having some sort of fic challenge? Greatest hits fic recs? Gratuitous kink meme link?

I love you all so so so much, seriously, this fandom is my baby and I can't believe I've been in it for so long!

♥ Lauren

(aka Seagull Laridae, Lynx Pardina, Princess Pardy, Lauren Greenleaf, Lauren Scavenger, Princess Lauren... shut up, you down the back, I can see you snickering.)

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!

Maybe I've been RPing too much lately (capeandcowl, superhero AU, we have a Rimmer and a Lister but could use other RD characters if anyone's up for it), but I had this mad idea on the way to the train station this morning and wondered what people thought.

Basically, we could have an RD RP on LJ. 'But Lauren!' I hear you say. 'There are only five really main-main characters! This would be no fun for those people who don't call dibs and get stuck being Hollister or Ackerman?'

Ah ah. Wait.

Here's the idea: a multiAU. Meaning set on the Dwarf (exactly when IDK, but probably post-BTE), but with alternate versions of the characters from different times, dimensions and seasons.

What the smeg?

Let me give an example. If I put my hand up and said 'I'll play season six Lister' (which I so will be if this goes ahead), and someone else wants to play Lister, they don't have to pick someone else altogether. Instead, they can pick up Lister from one of the other seven seasons, or from an alternate dimension. So basically there'd be a minimum of eight versions of each character available -- Kryten and Kochanski would be seven and three respectively (I think) due to being in fewer seasons. You pick your character and season, and then it's up to you exactly when in that season they come from, and you give details in your app (which would be by comment to the community).

Does this make any sense, and is anyone interested? Let me know! Call me insane! If I get enough expressions of interest (i.e. more than just me), I'll start nutting it out, but ideas in comments would also be nifty.

Y'all are already doing a great job of cutting spoilers, so I guess all I can say as we get to the final countdown is keep it up! I've always loved how much respect this fandom has for each other when it comes to, well, pretty much everything, and it's great that people are being so good about keeping spoilers behind cuts, especially because we have a lot of members from a lot of different countries and we're not all necessarily going to be able to see the new eps straight away (I don't even know if/when they're going to be airing in Australia *grinds teeth*).

So, if everyone can keep cutting spoilers and when the fics start rolling out with new ep spoilers, cutting and marking those as well would be splendid. Thank you all muchly!