welcome, plus a template

[thalia]

Welcome to tpm_flashback! This is a TPM/prequel recs community; the plan is for it to start up on Tuesday, June 1. The first eight-week period will end on Monday, July 26. See the user info for a few more details.

If you're one of the first seven reccers, don't forget to join the community so I can give you posting access. Everyone else is welcome to join, or, if you'd prefer, just add the community to your friends list.

Also, if you're one of the first group, leave a comment here and let me know what days you'd be able to post--at least a first and second choice, please.

It looks like our first group is darthfox, ausmac, glasshouseslive, gloriana, the_emu, mrshamill, and splix. Thank you all for volunteering! I'll start looking for the next set of seven volunteers toward the end of July.

Don't forget, any stories about Star Wars prequel characters are acceptable--including characters like Bruck and Xanatos that come from the books. I suspect that most of the stories here will be Q/O, but it would be great to have a little variety.

Please try to post on your assigned day. But if something comes up and you miss one, just post when you have a chance, or post two recs the next time you're scheduled.

Here's a template to use for posting recs:

The subject line should state the title and author of the story being recced.

In the body of the post, include
Title:
Author:
Rating:
Pairing:
Warnings: Warnings are required for chan, rape/non-con and character death. In general, specify the warnings that the author used. If you want, you can put the warnings behind an LJ-cut if you think they might spoil the story.
Author's e-mail, web site and/or LJ id:
Link to story:
Reasons for recommending: A short, spoiler-free explanation of why this is a good story.

Quote from story: Include a blurb from the story that gives readers a feel for the story. Put this behind an LJ-cut.

Optionally, you can include some more detailed story discussion that includes spoilers. Put this behind a separate LJ-cut.

Comments

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

hi, hi, sorry i'm late --

1. any day of the week is fine for me, but i'll probably miss less frequently if i don't have friday or saturday. i really do get out of the house sometimes. (i know!)

2. i don't know about ts_flashback, but at ds_flashback there were nifty reccer-specific icons for each day of the week. are we going to get cute like that? i volunteer to make them for the first round, at least.

3. i'm with bant on the warning issue, and beyond her, even. i think we all know how i feel about warnings and spoilers. :-) can i respectfully request that instead of saying warnings can go behind a cut, we say warnings must go behind a cut? in fact i'd like the line to say "warnings, if any", and the actual warning information -- including, if appropriate, "none -- you're good" -- to go behind a cut. making, you see, a story with no warnings and a story with "goat necrophilia" warnings look precisely the same to those of us who would just as soon know as little as possible. because besides the warnings themselves, the fact that there are warnings can be a spoiler, if you think about it.

i know, i'm a pain in the ass. sorry.

4. i forget what the fourth thing was.

[thalia]

Did you actually join the community? I didn't see your name.

About the icons: I think ds_flashback did that because it's a normal journal, not a community, so all the posters have to have separate icons because their names don't show up. (Right now I think they all have Dief icons, and they're adorable.) That said, if you wanted to make icons for everyone, I think it would be great. Just not as necessary.

About the warnings: I take your point. Let me think about it. I really don't want to make this overly regimented.

Thanks for posting. I'm going to try to get a schedule put together before Emu leaves.

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

i think i didn't join it initially, because i clicked the wrong "yay this community" link and only watched it. but i believe i am a Member now.

icons: i don't quite get it, but -- oh, i see. in that case, and hmm, we probably don't get more than three icons for the comm, do we. suppose we have two different icons, one for recs and one for admin posts?

warnings: i sympathize with you, really i do. but it's bad enough we're going to be warning on stories where the writer might originally not have warned because the requirements were different then, she had different standards, etc. -- i'd be happy to put together a template complete with coding, where each reccer can just fill in the blanks labeled "your text here" so it wouldn't have to be something each of us would have to remember.

also: why can't we have weekends more often? waaah.

[thalia]

Icons: When each person posts, it's their icon that will show up, not the community's. (I've got the tpm_flashback icon saved as one of mine, too, which is why it's on this post.) Really, the only time the community icon is seen is when you read from the community page. So we could have coordinated icons, if each of the reccers had room for one more.

And I'm thinking a template might not be a bad idea. I made one myself for tsflashback. If you can put a useful one together, I'll cave on the warning thing. But please stick a note in there that warnings for chan, non-con/rape and character death *are* required behind the lj-cut.

Can't help with the weekends. At least you got to go to NYC--i'm very, very jealous.