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Very early poll for the Spring 2013 Kurofai Olympics!
"But Spring 2013 is ages away," you probably thought to yourselves upon reading the title, right after you read this sentence about reading the title and went back and did just that. Haha! Got you again!
No but srsly the AU vs Canon Olympics were a blast & the olympics is one of our more popular events SO! The next Olympics will be Spring 2013, granting people enough time to get over the holidays/college exam bloodfest free-for-all (and for the college professors out there, the drunken winter break combined grading and kvetching about how much you hate your students). In order for the smoothest possible experience, and because I like to do things early under some kind of 100% mistaken belief that this makes things actually run smoother, your friendly
kurofai maintainers would like your help in picking a theme for our next olympics! Yes, you! No, not you, no offense.
We've had two Olympics so far in the Kurofai fandom! What started off as a regular Romance vs Angst became AU vs Canon for our move to dreamwidth, and so for our third we're torn between sticking with what works and trying out a new theme. Obviously the best way to solve this dilemma is to turn to the members of the
kurofai comm and say to you: what would *you* like to see, and/or write for? Would you like to see:
a) Romance vs Fluff
b) AU vs Canon
c) Something New (Surprise Me!)
d) Something New (I don't trust
reikah's idea of a surprise because it pretty much always involves spiders so I will leave my suggestion in the comments of this post).
As you lot are pretty creative and/or arachnophobic, we're very excited to see your suggestions! Throw us anything you have, excepting perhaps Australian wildlife because we're all on to you in the land down under and we're having none of your nonsense. This post will remain up and valid um, basically forever, so if you stumble upon it in January, we're still quite willing to take your suggestions!
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No but srsly the AU vs Canon Olympics were a blast & the olympics is one of our more popular events SO! The next Olympics will be Spring 2013, granting people enough time to get over the holidays/college exam bloodfest free-for-all (and for the college professors out there, the drunken winter break combined grading and kvetching about how much you hate your students). In order for the smoothest possible experience, and because I like to do things early under some kind of 100% mistaken belief that this makes things actually run smoother, your friendly
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We've had two Olympics so far in the Kurofai fandom! What started off as a regular Romance vs Angst became AU vs Canon for our move to dreamwidth, and so for our third we're torn between sticking with what works and trying out a new theme. Obviously the best way to solve this dilemma is to turn to the members of the
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a) Romance vs Fluff
b) AU vs Canon
c) Something New (Surprise Me!)
d) Something New (I don't trust
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As you lot are pretty creative and/or arachnophobic, we're very excited to see your suggestions! Throw us anything you have, excepting perhaps Australian wildlife because we're all on to you in the land down under and we're having none of your nonsense. This post will remain up and valid um, basically forever, so if you stumble upon it in January, we're still quite willing to take your suggestions!
(///\(;;,,;;)/\\\ SPIDER PRIDE)
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AU VS CANON
just sayin :3
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IT STAYED THERE FOR THREE DAYS EVEN AFTER IT WAS DEAD BECAUSE I WAS TOO SCARED TO TOUCH IT ;A;
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And I declare a COMPREHENSIVE BAN on spiders. :|
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YOU WERE ON TEAM ANGST AND I WILL NEVER FORGET
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by which I of course mean, YESSSSSS OLYMPICSSSSSS \o/ This is pretty much one of my favourite events, ngl. It's so fun! I mean, Fluff v.s. Angst was so fun except for when it hurt aiiiieeeee (still crying forever over 50 Ways to Kill Your Lover, ngl), and Canon v.s. AU gave us some jaw-droppingly amazing fics to read. So of course I wanna be in on this~
As for what we could do with it, while I absolutely agree that the two topics we've had were basically the most amazing thing ever and would probably still be just as amazing on repeat, I would like to see something new, even if it was just a twist on a previous theme. Like, if we did something Canon, we could have Pre/During Series v.s. Post Series, or whatever. IDEK. That idea sounded better in my head before I wrote it down, honestly.
BUT YEAH, I would like to participate all up in this, and I vote for d) something new (minus the obligatory spiders)
\o/
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I'd like to see something new, but I need some time to think of a few suggestions that don't involve eight-legged creatures.
I would be fine with canon vs. AU as well, but the angst vs. fluff bugs me because I'm the kind of person who's aiming for fluff and ends up writing angst.
But as someone who has so far only read the lovely fics that came out of the Olympics... how is that working? I mean, do the mods decide who is participating which team or can one choose?
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And no, this is not my way of shamelessly begging for some more KuroFai steampunk fics, no, never...
>_<
edit: by the way, it's awesome that there are so many of you online. For me it's 1 am in the morning.
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How about Team Fai vs. Team Kurogane? Team Fai participants must write from Fai's POV; and same for Team Kurogane with Kurogane.
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YAAAAYY OLYMPICS!!
Really liking the suggestions so far, probably TRC vs Holitsuba the most. I liked the ideas for the previous Olympics, but I've also been pretty stoked for whatever new themes there could be for the upcoming one. I got a few ideas, I guess... Let me just have an uncensored brainstorm for a bit.
- Fai-centric/PoV vs Kuro-centric/PoV
- Plot vs Personal (personal essentially meaning the fic'd be character-driven, or centered around character or relationship development, rather than kicked into gear by a plot like Wizards of Ceres or similar)
- Vanilla vs Inversion (swap their personalities, backstories, gender, occupations, ages, or even just colour scheme if you'd like and just see what happens)
- ANY GENRE vs ANY OTHER GENRE (besides the fanfic staples angst and fluff we have drama, mystery, horror, romance, fantasy, action, comedy... the list just goes on, take a pick on which would complement each other the best)
That's all I can come up with in concrete enough terms to put down in text for now, but basically I think the possibilities may be endless, so I don't think we have to "resort" to recycling any of the old themes? Of course I've never been involved with this before, and I don't write fic, so I don't know what works best in practice and what doesn't, these are just what I came up with on a whim. //implying I haven't hyped for this event since the day the last one ended
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I don't know. I felt so open and liberated with the Kurofai fandom that I felt open to suggest anything.
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Maybe something like, Canon v.s. AU crossovers, where Canon is the TRC cast literally dropped into that universe as they are, and AU is the TRC cast as characters from that universe, if that makes sense?
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I AM YOUR TYRANT! I AM THE MAN AND I HAVE THE VOTE MWAHAHAHA
no but srsly voting isn't necessary. I'll be keeping an eye out for which ideas seem more popular and which I think can be done, mechanically speaking, with themes and everything. Then mikke and I will draw up a shortlist,
arguedebate which one we think people will get along with and will draw more writers to participate, and then choose one. :O(no subject)
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MY INBOX HATES YOU ALL
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(And what about retro-futurism, then?)
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♥ Will love anything ~ last year's olympic fics were fantastic ♥
When the fics go up for voting, please cross-post to lj onegai onegai! It's hard to keep up with both lj and dreamwidth ^^;; and last time I think I ran out of time to read them all, despite all the extensions *fail* ...
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Kinks: comedy vs. drama
I would also be really okay with TRC vs Holitsuba, but I'd want to know what the prompts were first. :/
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I claim this as my waifu voting for TEAM LOL v.s. TEAM SRS~
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I know I already posted earlier.... somewhere in this jumble of posts but just a side note I don't think we should eliminate the AU writer's by picking specific universe oriented teams. I would just hate to not have certain authors participate because they don't feel comfortable writing canon.
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Keysmash vs. Table flip ? 8'D *tossed into a foxhole*
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