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how to create an active community (i hope)
Sep. 9th, 2010 08:23 pmI'm just going to keep talking about Vlad until people talk back.
Valabar's!
Sep. 7th, 2010 12:47 amLongtime readers of my journal may recall that I once ran a fic exchange for the Vlad Taltos and Paarfi novels about Dragaera by Steven Brust, and relatedly, an lj community named ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
valabars. I am now attempting to kickstart the community on dreamwidth: ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
valabars; and to get the ficathon fic archived on AO3 (if you wrote fic for that ficathon back in 2005, you can read how to post to the Valabar's collection on AO3 here).
But! This community is not just for the oldtime members who survived my first travesty of an attempt at running a fic exchange! It is also for anyone who thinks they might enjoy participating in a fic exchange for the Dragaera books in the future! Because AO3 automates so much that I might actually make the damn thing annual! If there is interest! I promise to use fewer exclamation points in the future. Really. I'm slightly drunk right now, is my only excuse.
Also, for anyone who wants to talk about the Dragaera books!. I myself just finished reading Iorich. ( spoiler? )
Who's with me?
valabars. I am now attempting to kickstart the community on dreamwidth: valabars; and to get the ficathon fic archived on AO3 (if you wrote fic for that ficathon back in 2005, you can read how to post to the Valabar's collection on AO3 here). But! This community is not just for the oldtime members who survived my first travesty of an attempt at running a fic exchange! It is also for anyone who thinks they might enjoy participating in a fic exchange for the Dragaera books in the future! Because AO3 automates so much that I might actually make the damn thing annual! If there is interest! I promise to use fewer exclamation points in the future. Really. I'm slightly drunk right now, is my only excuse.
Also, for anyone who wants to talk about the Dragaera books
Who's with me?
am i a giraffe? (don't answer that)
May. 9th, 2010 10:18 pmSo I seem to remember something about a way for an archivist to request to upload a pre-existing collection to AO3, and I can't find anything about it in AO3's FAQ, which says that only the author of a work can add a work to a collection. I wanted to put up the valabars archive, which held the Dragaera ficathon from... 2005-6, and hasn't been on the actual internets in a couple of years, but which I have all the fic from. But I can't figure out if there's a way for me as an archivist to do that, as I thought there was, or if I would need to create a collection on AO3 and then email all the participants to ask them to post, which would be... not ideal.
(I am also giving consideration to whether I want to put up amilitarydogs collection. Given the inauspicious circumstances under which that game went belly up.)
valabars archive, which held the Dragaera ficathon from... 2005-6, and hasn't been on the actual internets in a couple of years, but which I have all the fic from. But I can't figure out if there's a way for me as an archivist to do that, as I thought there was, or if I would need to create a collection on AO3 and then email all the participants to ask them to post, which would be... not ideal.(I am also giving consideration to whether I want to put up a
militarydogs collection. Given the inauspicious circumstances under which that game went belly up.)
