Crack Broom changes

[marguerite_26]

crack_broom made a pretty cool announcement today (well... from my perspective, at least*) details of the changes here

Stuff 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.

Comments

[vaysh11.livejournal.com]

This! Yes.

[shiv5468.livejournal.com]

Non-participation is not cured by the mods doing more work. Ever.

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.

[vaysh11.livejournal.com]

*nods*
I am pretty sure Snarry will be up as a permanent pairing in no time. :)