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

[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.