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marguerite_26) wrote2010-07-29 06:39 pm
marguerite_26) wrote2010-07-29 06:39 pm
Crack Broom changes
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crack_broom made a pretty cool announcement today (well... from my perspective, at least*) details of the changes hereStuff I'm extra pleased about:
Albus Severus/Scorpius, Rose/Scopius have been moved to 'permanent' status. That means they get their own reccer each month, and the reccer of Next Gen will now concentrate on all the other lovely NG pairings. It's a big change, tbh!
The other things is an increase in the number of rare pair reccers (which is where you ask to rec a particular rare pair for an entire month) and rarest reccer (which is where you have a month to rec ANY rare pair for that month). I've been sitting in the rarest reccer queue since april, 2009! I think I should my add my name to the end of that queue just to hold my spot for 2011. lol.
As someone who is an utter pairing whore, I just adore
crack_broom. It takes time and research and a bit of balls to stand up there for a month and pick 4-8 recs of a pairing and declare to quite a huge comm that you're reccing them a fic or art. But you know what? it works. People look at crack_broom recs. They notice recs that interest them and are often willing to try something new (either pairing or genre or author) based on a rec. I love that. It's a bit of a bridge across pairings and corners of fandom. If you are interested in reccing, here are the Gate-way sign-ups. You can rec by pairing (just add you name to the queue and you'll get a comment when your time comes up).
As an aside: I am up for Harry/Draco in August! woot!
On a completely different topic, if you've got a fic about to post for One Plot, Many Pairings, please note my Friday wrap up is going up first thing tomorrow if you want to be on it.
*Yes, I know I'm totally ignoring the firestorm of comments on that CB post, but I've fought my own battles for my own pairings. This time I am staying well out of it. :D
In other news, I finally broke down and changed my setting to default to ?style=mine. It's amazing how happy this has made me. I love of my large font and black on white.
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Very excited for what it means for next gen though :)
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As I'm totally uninvested in the stuff that's causing the unhappiness, I'll just spread the word about the good. It really has the potential to change the reccing that we see. It'll be interesting to see how it all looks in the coming months.
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*poke* *poke* *poke*
LOL.
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The simplest solution is for the flyer to check the queue at the end of their turn and report back to their ship com if more sign ups are needed.
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I am pretty sure Snarry will be up as a permanent pairing in no time. :)
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and *meep* yes. it got icky pretty quick. :(
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Also! I hadn't considered that having Scorpius/Rose and ASS as regular pairings will mean different pairings from the next-gen reccers - hurrah! *roots for more Teddy & James recs*
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Last week's fic - the one that didn't get posted - wanted to become a 20K novella. *headdesk* Round 2 ... yawn. Went off in a direction I hated. Scrapped it. Round 3 ... wrote it. Finished all 3500 words of it. Read it. *facepalm* Am still editing it. Hope to post tonight, depending on how cringe-worthy Alaana thinks it is. *sigh*
Please to be explaining to me how, after this long in fandom, I seem to have forgotten the basic no-Apparating-in-Hogwarts rule? And that is but a mere sample of the excellence this story has unleashed. *cries*
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I cannot wait to read it!!! I have it on my MUST READ list for after my Travel Fair fic gets written. *cries*
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It was apparently not as cringe-worthy as I thought. All hail the mighty beta! *g*
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I just hope you never have to see H/D relegated in a similar way.
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H/D was really low in reccers (like almost empty!) a few months ago and was at risk of being made a rare pair so a bunch of us had to throw our names in. I wouldn't want to see it happen to H/D or to Next Gen or the the new AS/S - but frankly I wouldn't be surprised ... it's hard to keep queues filled consistantly.
I imagine that Snarry will be easily be back in December. *hugs*
(and thanks for scrapping the earlier comments. ILU ♥)
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For a split second I considered signing up to rec there but then sanity took over again. It always stresses me out to rec, and really, I'm primarily a writer, so I think I'll stick with that (lest people start talking about how Snarry is dead again - I swear, we really can't win).
I hope you're right about December, but I dunno. Apparently the mods don't especially appreciate Snape, and since the rules seem to be fairly arbitrary, who's to say they won't change the criteria again then? *shrug*
Now I'm just waiting for Harry/Squid to be promoted to permanent status. LOL.
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In other news, I finally broke down and changed my setting to default to ?style=mine. It's amazing how happy this has made me. I love of my large font and black on white. It's a whole different LJ experience!!!!! I can't believe how long I squinted at tiny unreadable font.
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*nods nod*
Innit great? I have been doing that for months now and I LOVE it. :)
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