ART: For 'Gratitude' by steals_thyme

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Two pieces drawn for steals_thyme  for their fic 'Gratitude' which is all kinds of freaking awesome and is located here: Click on me DO IT NOW

ART NUMBER ONE what is done with prismacolor markers and pencils, old skool style.

ART NUMBER TWO what is all-graphite and is gonna stay that way. D:

Trying to suck less. Hopefully succeeding at that at least.

Comments

Re: also, web development

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Hmmmmmm. Maybe I should remedy this. Though everyone would probably be all 'who the hell are you' and it'd never get used XD Though I dono, this is probably the most active and hands-on and enthusiastic fan community I've ever seen. What do you think? Worthwhile venture?

Re: also, web development

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AMG YES OF COURSE

Here's how it will be challenging:
- Who gets to post recs? Everyone? What if a stupid person wants to post a stupid rec (not kidding, not everyone agrees on the quality of art right?)
- How strict will you be about the format of the recs? Are posts like "lol i lieked this" ok?
- How will you ensure the comm is actually populated by enough recs to capture the best of the fandom? Maybe everyone's too busy/lazy/distracted to write up recs for all their favourites (I would try to do my own memories, though!)

"who the hell are you" isn't a problem at all (has nothing to do with the above point), I promise. Not only because what you know and what you can do are so much more important, but also because I'm sure I'm not the only one who considers you a big name author. So "who the hell" is not only an irrelevant question, but it's one you'd have a satisfactory answer to even if it were relevant ;)

Re: also, web development

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Well, as far as formatting I would say it's best to have certain fields that HAVE to be included, like rating and genre and so on, and a 'reason' where you explain why you're reccing it, and a selected snippet from it? I'm basing that off of the one I was involved with because as formats go it worked well and made sure that people got across why a particular thing was being recced so that people would actually click on it. XD

I would say probably just have it be moderated, and as long as the fic being recced meets some basic standards of grammar and quality it goes through buuuuut moderation gets hairy sometimes. Some comms like this have an application to become a reccer and those selected people can post whatever they like. I'm not sure which would be the best way to do it.

It would be more of a realtime thing I think; ie, the intent isn't to fill it archivally immediately but have recs coming in at a regular rate so that people can always pull it up to find something new to read. So rather than dump ten in at once, people would ideally post stuff as they find it, after the initial bit where we all cram stuff in heh. I think the other site has an actual schedule where their selected people post a set number of recs per day or whatever but they're also working with a *trememdous* centralized archive and I don't think it needs to be/could be that formal in this case.

It seems worth a shot, though.

go for it ;)

[tuff-ghost.livejournal.com]

Your solutions make good sense; I think you are set, honestly. As long as you are up for approving all those moderated posts.

I like "basic standards of grammar and quality" in a poster's reason for reccing as the determiner for whether or not a post is approved. Reccer applications could be very good and fruitful too, but also could be much more of a headache. Turning people down isn't easy, right? And then the alternative is just to be nice and let everyone in, in which case the whole process is meaningless.

Re: go for it ;)

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Yeah no completely public and open would defeat the purpose. XD

Now I just have to figure out what to call it. And possibly beg bribe convince someone to help with the look because I'm completely useless with that sort of thing.

Names, names, names...

Re: go for it ;)

[tuff-ghost.livejournal.com]

watchfic_recs, to match mine :P

You know I'll do the layout for you as soon as I can get my own ridiculous project sorted (weeks, not months, I hope). Just pick one of the defaults that's functional to start out with.

btw, does your layout appear a wretched hospital green to you? I was talking to you from work earlier today and my monitor/gfx card/everything there is kind of ghetto...looked horrid, not cool.

Re: go for it ;)

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Haha well I was trying to see if I could come up with something clever but that'll likely be it. Gonna go paw through the GN later and see if anything jumps out at me.

The layout has a *super* faint, desaturated greenish tinge to it, but I mean... really really faint. Certainly not 'hospital green'. It was probably just the gpu or possibly a monitor calibration issue. And I was not trying to snag you into doing the layout haha, just thinking out loud mostly. If you want to that'd be awesome, but no pressure.

Anyway it won't be able to happen until after finals anyway. After that I'll be home for the summer so plenty of time to get it off the ground and approve posts. :D I'm excited though!