he'p me!

[krickets]

I was just about to go to bed, but I remembered I have wanted to post this all week!

Has anybody reading this ever participated in, run, or even heard of, a fandom-specific slash-a-thon? I'd like to take a look and see how they've been done in the past to get an idea of how to stage one in the future.

cynthia_arrow and I are talking about putting one on for Battlestar Galactica due to the painful lack of m/m slash in that fandom and our quest to remedy that. (If only for a short while.) But neither of us have experience in holding fic-a-thons, let alone slash-a-thons.

Can anyone point me in any kind of direction?

Thanks!

Comments

[cynthia-arrow.livejournal.com]

Canon is, indeed, a huge problem, especially since in this fandom we seem to be the realistic sort, loving our canon so much we want to write in it...then finding that all our boys are emotionally unavailable or rather shockingly hetero (I can't slash Helo to save my life!). Perhaps there should be some playful element to a slashathon, freeing us from the canon-driven angst and things like, oh, 8s, 6s, and blonde pilots. Who we of course love but who are not conducive to the slash.

Thanks so much for your input! It's also good to know that somebody else is interested in this crazy idea of ours. :)

[lizardbeth-j.livejournal.com]

yeah, something to free us from those pesky chicks all the guys are in love with! :) Aside from the classics of getting drunk/drugged up or Aliens Made them Do it, it's hard to think of a semi-plausible way to get some pairs of guys together at all.

Maybe you could call it the "Everybody's Gay!" Slashathon. A lot of slash fic is based on that premise anyway, so you could just acknowledge it from the beginning as the AU for the ficathon. :)

[cynthia-arrow.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think we definitely need to not just encourage AUs but maybe even provide some for people to think about. And the "gay already" AU, in a widespread way or just with particular characters, is probably a lot nicer than the way I killed off Cally so I could slash Anders and Tyrol, LOL.