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2017 KuroFai Olympics: Moderator Team!

Guys, gals and nonbinary pals, please put your hands together for the 2017 KuroFai Olympics Moderator Team:

flowerspeaks ,

animangod ,

blue_phoenix_tears ,

aquarius_galuxy , and

mikkeneko !

Now, these lovely folks have volunteered to be our team of friendly moderators and get this fantastic fic event off and running. I'm going to sign off and leave you all in the capable hands of our brave mods here, so please direct any enquiries towards them - either by leaving a comment on this post with your question, or sending them a message - and I am sure they'll get back to you as soon as possible!

Just please keep in mind it may take a little while for our mods to get themselves organised; they need time to plan before the event can get started, and I'm sure we all know that patience is a virtue.

Mods, if you would be so kind to do a quick little intro about yourselves in the comments down below, I'm sure that would be really appreciated!

Thanks everyone who volunteered, and thank you all for being so excited about the 2017 KuroFai Olympics!

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Heya guys! You probably know me. If you don't, I'm going to shake my fist and ask WHY. Kidding ;D

I've been writing kurofai fic for the past 2-3 years (since 2015 maybe?).... so ... you should've seen me around on FFN/AO3/tumblr (invisible-as-i-run). I also wrote a super-long fic for the olympics last year (and check it out if you haven't!), and am currently publishing Actual Books with covers and blurbs and all that jazz.

@ MODS - first thing: how are we going to communicate with each other? Group chat? (fb/ slack chat?) private dreamwidth community? Just this post?

second thing: what are our plans for the olympics? and does anyone have things they would rather do/ rather not do?
(I would prefer to do the logistical things like number-crunching, setting up google forms, contacting participants, etc, but will write public-facing announcements if no one else wants to)

Here is a list of things I imagine needs doing, but I probably have left something out
- decide on a theme
-- decide on prompts
-- look for willing fanartists to do banners based on theme (otherwise kidnap and ransom)
- decide on dates for contest (please share your preferred/available/ not-available dates)
-- decide on a tentative timeline
- come up with a coach system thing if you want to bring that back
- also how to gauge fandom writer interest?
- come up with rules (and/or steal from previous years)
- write posts for writers/coaches/pinch hitters to join
- write prompt posts
- decide how to order participant submissions (I suggested queuing them to submit entries by shortest fics first (bearing in mind prompt date), but this will probably require a google-form input by writers)
- ...

... okay I have run out of brain power. someone help.

Aquarius-Mod

Oh thank god you want to do the communication part -that was the one part that I was a little more queasy about. I could do it but I rather not and just cheer on everyone instead. I'd be a lot happier doing writing stuff. Last year I figured some of the coding for this site so I'd be glad to make posts and stuff like that.

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Oooh I didn't think about coding, but that will come in handy! :D

I can write most of the public facing posts. Honestly at this point I can probably do most of them from memory.

The immediate things we need to decide are dates, team themes and prompt themeing.

My recommendation for the dates remains late July-through August. I am ambivalent so far on team themes. None of the suggestions made in the previous thread especially jump out at me. We want to be careful to avoid over-specialization.

As for chatting: we can do it here, or my next recommendation would be to set up a Discord channel, that being all the rage these days.

Thank you!

I feel like dates could be a mod- and writer- dependent thing, like... will any mod be unavailable for a specific time? (I'm traveling 6-22nd oct)

Late jul-aug works for me.

I feel like with themes, we'd have to go wayyyy vague (but I also haven't been keeping up with the suggestions)... maybe Hot VS Cold, or Good VS Evil, or Red VS Blue (White VS Black), Open VS Close, Wrong VS Right.. (repubs vs democrats HA)

ETA more suggestions: pen VS sword, fire VS ice, human VS beast ... uhh.

discussions on DW might be the best option for now

Edited 2017-07-01 06:18 (UTC)

Just reading the prompts suggested, there seemed to be a bit of (more than one) interest in things like Kurogane vs Fai, Dragons vs Phoenix, Nature vs Machine and Sky vs Sea.

The first two are also similar to the Red vs. Blue, Fire vs. Ice or others like Water vs Air, Sky vs Sea etc. Fai and Kurogane have so many mirrored themes so my question is wouldn't it be a good idea to use them for a theme? It would ony be a matter or finding the most vague theme out of these so the writers will have as much room for interpretation as possible, but also one that that doesn't pigeon-hole the writers to write about one character's POV.
Like, suppposing we use the Red vs Blue theme, the writers of the Red team can focus on Kurogane in third person omniscient, or from Kurogane's POV (second person, third person limited, first person) or Fai focusing on Kurogane. And that's just for the perspectives of these two. It could be from anyone's perspective, (Kuro-mama for exaple or Ashura-oh).

I hope I'm conveying what I mean properly (I'm not 100% confident in my knowledge and use of technical terms) but my point is that it looks like the Fai vs. Kurogane theme has been shot down before because it was assumed that it would be from their POV exclusively, which really narrows down the interpretation room. But it doesn't have to be. If you take the above wiggle room (which is just my own thoughts, I'm sure many more ideas could be added to it) and also assign good vague prompts there's quite a lot of room for interpretation. What do you think?

Like not FROM the character's POV and not even just ABOUT THE character, but about all the themes ASSOCIATED with the characters, (which is why I think the Red vs Blue is the best) I hope this makes sense! :)

i think this is a great interpretation! I like it!

In summary: Theme must be able to span multiple genres, like contemporary AUs, fantasy AUs, canon. It must also be able to span both Kurogane and Fai's POVs (so that a writer can include both characters if they want). As well as a large time period, if possible.

this is so we can have participants who want to write about end-of-the-world pirate fic, as well as participants who want to write about modern-day childcare schmooop, etc etc.

The theme will have to be broad. The prompts can go into more specific categories, like apocalypse stuff, or mythical beasts, or scifi, or whatever. But the theme itself needs to cover all these categories.

All right, so here's a new suggestion: how about Virtues and Vices? Team Vice vs. Team Virtue? With the daily prompts being the seven deadly sins. >.>

if everyone agrees on this, it would make life so much easier (crying-laughing face)

I'd be good with this... And thanks to a character development document I already have all seven vices and virtues at my disposal

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Sounds great!! So if the theme and prompts are decided what else do we need, additional ideas for each prompt to give the writers? Theme wise I mean not about the dates etc.

Also is the mod team going to be just us, because I think maybe it hasn't been confirmed about one person who volunteered whether they can help out in the end.

so... prompt expansion/elaboration... (I assume we're having 14 participants this year then, if we stick to 7 sins)

how much elaboration do we give each prompt? Like.. 2-3 ideas? quotes? eg.

1. lust (bloodlust, fashion shows, my lips on your throat)
2. gluttony ("Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.")
3. greed (bank robberies, evil corporations, Scrooge McDuck)
4. sloth
5. wrath
6. envy
7. pride

... and so on? Ideas? Suggestions? etc etc??? ...... ok I just realized that all these lend to angst and not as much fluff......

CONCERN: are these good enough for team virtue to work with? should there be a set of opposite prompts for Virtue? (humility, kindness, chasity, etc etc) Or can team virtue write about wrath as a virtue? Or whatever?

p.s. so sorry for the comment updates

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hmm I don't think virtue vs vices will create distinct enough teams. I think it is important that the theme should clearly inspire distinct teams that they are writing opposite to each other.

I hope I am making sense!

One that jumps out to me from the other post was "love at first sight vs slow burn" i feel like that would create 2 distinct competing teams. Or "Adventure vs Domestic" which was what I was trying to say when I suggested 'Adventure vs Slice of Life' in the last post.

But also AG's Human vs Beast sounds great! That could create great teams!

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mikkeneko - 2017-07-03 03:38 (UTC) - Expand

As for dates, the only dates I know Absolutely about is Sept 1-3, which is NDK. But I can always do mod stuff when I come home. And while there's the Renaissance one weekend before August 31, and two trips (one to NM and one with an out of state friend) that have yet to be planned and given calendar dates, and again, I'll do mod checking in when I can those days anyway. So my schedule shouldn't be a problem.

All right gang, I think we as mods need to come to a consensus on team themeing before we go much further.

Since the suggestions are a bit all over at the moment (both here and on other posts,) how about we have a round up and vote off? Gather all the suggestions into one post, and have each of the mods vote their first and second choices.

I kind of have bad news (good news?) - will have to drop out as a mod due to time constraints. I'm sorry I can't be of more help, everyone! :(

We understand... we will cheer you on in your time-consuming endeavors.

You were a great mod while you lasted! Hopefully you will be still able to participate in other ways!

We understand!:) Best of luck!

I could do a round up in approximately 11-13 hours (about to go to bed and then pulling weeds while it's still cool) unless someone wants to do it sooner. . .

If you could, that would be helpful!

The roundup post is now live

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