Um, hi. *waves*

[kate]

So, we're still here - thanks to several lovely people who have been posting fic and other goodies. Please take a look around at those, and thank you! Also, thank you to master-mod fiercelydreamed who was on top of things with the DADT repeal and posted a Military challenge! There are several wonderful works for that too.

ETA: Also, thanks to the lovely anon donor who bought paid time for the comm! ♥♥♥</ETA>

Now, three_weeks_for_dw is coming around again, and if you recall (I do, with extreme clarity and burning shame), we had a contest last year. Well, part of the reason we never posted results was that we had ties in all of the categories! There was one moderately clear winner - majoline, who commented on the most 3W4DW works, so that's 100 DW points! (Many thanks to iadorespike who donated points for the prizes.)

The rest of the points prizes are going to be rolled over into something else; but let's talk about that. A few issues we'd love to get your input about:

-What do you think about the flashfic-style challenges? Do you like them? Should we get them rolling again? Would you rather see something else?

-Help! Anyone have free time available to help mod? Most of our mods have run into the real life busies and we need someone(s) who is(are) willing to help us out with keeping things on track (especially if we go with the flashfic challenges again). If you are that person(s), please comment here or email us at queerlygen (at) gmail (dot) com.

-How do you feel about another 3W4DW contest? We have prize points left over, and we did get a moderately nice turnout, and hopefully we will have another mod or two to help with the management of prizes, and... yes? Maybe?

-Any other thoughts or suggestions? All welcome, I really love this comm and I want to get it back on its feet.

Comments

[ilthit]

There's also an "rpf: other" tag that a couple of people used, I can go back and change those to specific names, too.

I just thought of using the ubertag in case people wanted to browse for all incarnations - all Sherlocks, all Star Trek series, and so on. But just using the specific one is probably quite enough, they can always check the tag list for the other subseries.

:D I had fun! This is the sort of thing that (ahem) keeps me from being bored at work.

[kate]

Oh, I see, so there'd be a Sherlock BBC tag and an overarching Sherlock Holmes tag, and it'd get both? That's like the AO3; I do sort of like that idea. I'm fine with it.

Oh - and that's why I goofed on the fandom: 1960s music rpf, because the person used fandom: other (which is useful as a sort of !needs tag tag), so yeah, rpf: other should also be switched over to the correct person(s), I think, as rpf: other was just to offer something to people whose tags weren't available yet.

Yay, not being bored at work! I've been having trouble with that myself lately. D:

[ilthit]

Hmm, but then should we call it "fandom: sherlock holmes - doyle" and so on?

[kate]

For the overarching tag, or for the specific version? I think simply fandom: sherlock holmes would be good for over arching and then fandom: sherlock (BBC) and fandom: sherlock holmes (2009)... I think we wait for any more beyond that; I think the one version is called the Granada version for some reason? And I know there are others; potentially we could call them by their year, if they're movies and their Sherlock, if they're TV. And then fandom: sherlock holmes (doyle) would be for the book fandom specifically.

[ilthit]

Yeah, the TV series with Jeremy Brett, based on Doyle's short stories, was a Granada production, but lordy, there are so many. I'm sure BBC's done a few as well, but everyone knows what Sherlock (BBC) means because it's just the first name. Movies marked by year sounds good, plus the full title (like 'The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes').