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[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]

about requests, I've in small ficathons where you have to offer to write and request at least three pairings, and are encouraged not to make your prompt too specific, to make the matching easier. You have to request and offer alternatives, in other words.

Like I couldn't just request Helo/Anders - I'd also have to request, say, Anders/Leoben and Tyrol/Lee. And you can also make a list of main characters and require that at least one pairing to be drawn from that list - so nobody tries to request only Crashdown/Hot Dog and Socinus/Fisk or something odd. Anyway there are ways to set it up to force writers to be a little more open to writing outside their comfort zone, if you want to.

Multiple requests and offers sounds like matching is complicated, but it's really just tedious. Can person A write for person B, yes or no? And go through the list. If someone has no match then you ask them if they can widen their requests or offers and try again. I think you're likely in a small ficathon to have people offer pretty broadly -- I usually offer to write things like Anders/Anyone (so I usually get the weird stuff that's harder to match, but that's what I like doing, so it works out).

[crickets.livejournal.com]

I am so embarrassed to say I have no idea who Fisk is. Haha. *hides behind a rock* So yeah I'd have to be pulling up Battlestar Wiki for that one!

Thanks again for your input. We're still working everything out. Just in brainstorming mode at the moment, so we need all the thoughts and advice we can get.

Thanks so much!