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reikah ([personal profile] reikah) wrote in [community profile] kurofai2012-12-10 11:11 pm
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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 [community profile] 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 [community profile] 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 [personal profile] 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!

(///\(;;,,;;)/\\\ SPIDER PRIDE)
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[personal profile] little_echo 2012-12-10 11:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Spiders? Why not octopusses (or is it octopi)?
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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[personal profile] cloverfield 2012-12-10 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, you put your hand up and say you would like to participate and say which team you would like to be on, and it usually ends up that we have a few people who don't mind which side, and they might get shuffled around to even out the numbers. But it's all volunteering, and you can ask to be a understudy if you like as well :)
Edited 2012-12-10 23:50 (UTC)
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[personal profile] kittenkin 2012-12-10 11:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Tentacles vs. Tarantulas, GO!

Side Note: Understudies are like back-up authors who are available to step in and write if an author has to drop out of the Olympics or cannot make their deadline for some reason.
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[personal profile] little_echo 2012-12-11 12:06 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, thank you for the explanation. That would have been my next question.

Is it okay that I'm a bit afraid of that theme because usually there is at least one fic with smut and why am I thinking of tentacle erotica right now? WHY?

Also, quite random but...
CTHULHU!
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[personal profile] little_echo 2012-12-11 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
Nice! Thank you.

I'm looking forward to that. I guess whatever the theme will be, I'll probably find one team that suits my writing tendencies best. :3
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[personal profile] cloverfield 2012-12-11 12:04 am (UTC)(link)
I was an understudy for Team Fluff in the first olympics, and it was great fun :) Even if I didn't participate because everybody had their fics and such ready on time, I still wrote something from one of the suggested prompts :D

(I forgot to mention, we get prompts as well, so like, one set of prompts for both teams to compete on, e.g. one of the prompts for Canon v.s. AU "festival of light", which both Kitten (Team Canon) and Eijentu (Team AU) wrote for, and both fics were lovely~)
Edited 2012-12-11 00:05 (UTC)
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[personal profile] zelinxia 2012-12-11 12:09 am (UTC)(link)
I was the understudy for the recent one in April/May, and I actually filled in for one a week before entries was due. It was shoddy writing and totally unoriginal. Actually I had filled in for a total of two people (the other a ficlet).

The pressure was intense...but I actually had fun writing. Understudy is great if you're unsure which team/prompt you want to be on. :D