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Spotlights on Fandoms: info and volunteering time!

*just copies my post from this summer, la*

Okay, so, how many of y'all got into a fandom because of this game? Hands up, now. Don't any of you be shy. *raises both hands and jumps around and points at Robin, specifically* I would never have gotten into HIMYM if not for

suit_of_awesome, and her awesomeness.

Fandom Spotlight, though, is a chance to get even more exposure for your fandom! Given how many fandoms are represented in game, there's a good chance that at least half the people playing aren't familiar with yours. But the longer people play, the more that changes.

You innocently start playing with someone from a fandom you don't know and next thing you know you're infected intrigued. Unless you can get your hands on the source material, AND find time to devour it obsessively read/watch/play it, you'll only ever have that tiny taste. Coming from the other side, it can be hard when only a handful of people in the game know your canon. If you want to do plot with those who don't, there can be a heck of a lot of infodumping, and it means you have the constant, naggging knowledge that there are people in the world who don't know how AWESOME your fandom is!

But that's okay, 'cause there's Fandom Spotlight.

Each week, one or two players (or set of players) will get to pimp their fandom to the whole game. You can talk about any aspect you like: plot, your character, other characters you'd like to see in the game, the creators, history, future speculations. It can be as long as you like, from endless saga to brief overview.

These will be posted each Sunday, giving people a chance to squee, boggle, or ask lots of questions. One of the only provisos is that any major spoilers that haven't made it into the game: 1) Go behind a cut and 2) Be clearly labeled as such. If in doubt, cut and warn.

What I need from you

Volunteers! Sign up in this post if you want to do a Fandom Spotlight for your fandom (or fandoms, if you have more than one character). If you volunteered in the prior post (found here) and/or you're on the list below, you do not need to re-volunteer!

If you share a fandom with another player/s, then there will need to be coordination between you to work out who will write/post what. You don't have to be involved if your canon-mate wants to do a spotlight and you don't, but you do have to at least sign off on being okay with them doing one.

To make things easier for my poor brain, please volunteer from the journal of the character whose fandom you're signing up to do.

When do I need it?

Every Sunday, the all powerful RNG will be consulted to make the call as to which two fandoms from the list of volunteers will be selected for the following week. A post will go up announcing them (and if you absolutely can't make it that week, just let me know on the post).

Except, of course, this week. If you can do a spotlight for this coming Sunday, let me know in the comments. If there are more than two volunteered fandoms, I'll RNG that too, and whoever misses out this week will be added into the pool for coming weeks.

Also, we have a list already of all the fandoms we've seen since the last time we started this up -- let me know if you did a spotlight that I didn't link to/nab.

Already done:
Animorphs
Batman: The Animated Series
Blade: Trinity
Bleach
Blood/Smoke series
Cable and Deadpool
Charmed
Children of Dune
Corner Gas
The Dark Knight
The Dresden Files
Ella Enchanted
Ender's Game
Fight Club
Firekeeper Saga
Gilmore Girls
Gossip Girl
Hellboy
High School Musical
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Lost
Merlin
Ocean's Trilogy
Pirates of the Caribbean
Power Rangers: Time Force
Power Rangers: Zeo
Pushing Daisies
Romeo+Juliet
Roswell
Six Feet Under
Stargate Atlantis
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Wars: EU
Strangers in Paradise
Ten Inch Hero
Thundercats
Witch Hunter Robin

To do:

Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll/American McGee)
Anansi Boys
The A-Team
The Authority
Babylon 5
The Baby-Sitters Club
Baldur's Gate
Big Trouble in Little China
Birds of Prey
Children of Dune
Chuck
Coyote Blue
Dogma
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
due South
Eureka SeveN
Firefly/Serenity
Genso Suikoden
Gunslinger Girl
How I Met Your Mother
Iron Man
James Bond
Joan of Arcadia
Lord of the Rings
The Middleman
Middlesex
Narnia series
New Amsterdam
The OC
One Tree Hill
Power Rangers: Time Force
Princess of Thieves
Rogue Angel
Sam and Max
She-Ra: Princess of Power
Star Trek: Deep Space 9
Supernatural
Transformers
True Blood/Southern Vampire Novels
Warcraft
Wicked/Son of a Witch
Women of the Otherworld
Xanth

~~Waaaaaaaaaait for the OCD, please~~ OCD (not COD, like I wrote three times) is up!

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Can you be ready to post something for your fandom by this time next week?

I can do Power Rangers Time Force next week and then I'll be ALL DONE for my current kids! :D

Edited 2009-01-12 03:14 (UTC)

I've . . . totally already got a Ten Inch Hero spotlight half-written (though mostly in my head). And it'd be a lovely project for me to hit up on my random unusual free time this week!

Re: I can go this week!

weefeetbigboots.livejournal.com - 2009-01-12 03:59 (UTC) - Expand

Re: I can go this week!

lovemykilt - 2009-01-12 04:00 (UTC) - Expand

Please remember to comment with the journal belonging to the fandom you'll be spotlighting!

I CRAPPED OUT AND FORGOT MY LAST ONE, BUUUUUUUT....

Go ahead and add Baldur's Gate to the list, plz.

Re: I can go some other time!

weefeetbigboots.livejournal.com - 2009-01-12 04:00 (UTC) - Expand

Re: I can go some other time!

not-a-mused.livejournal.com - 2009-01-12 04:04 (UTC) - Expand

Re: I can go some other time!

weefeetbigboots.livejournal.com - 2009-01-12 04:05 (UTC) - Expand

...and Anansi Boys.

No, I'm still not signing up for SatC. IT SCARES ME. Worse than Negima! did.

I could do a Coyote Blue spot light at some point.

I am dying to do Lord of the Rings. :D

I can babble about Chuck.

Or try to do Six Feet Under, if you don't mind my summary of S5 will look like CAPSLOCKS OF RAGE.

Edited 2009-01-12 04:09 (UTC)

Re: I can go some other time!

weetuskenraider - 2009-01-12 04:10 (UTC) - Expand

Re: I can go some other time!

swipedthatfoot.livejournal.com - 2009-01-12 04:12 (UTC) - Expand

I shall be doing True Blood/the Sookie Stackhouse books someday, yes please.

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen would be... an interesting thing to write up.

And after consulting with my canonmate, there shall be Iron Man yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay.

Oh, bring on the Baby-Sitters Club.

Oh, I have a new one!

Dogma!

Can do Birds of Prey any time soon.

I never realized I hadn't signed up Alice, before. I can do American McGee's Alice (and the Lewis Carroll books, for that matter, since AMA styles itself as a sequel and not a retelling).