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]

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.