Merlin big bang challenge

[the_muppet]

As a follow-on from this poll I have now heard from the mod over at boxofmagic and sadly it will not now be running this year.

I am in the process of trying to set something up - either taking over boxofmagic (awaiting mod permission) or setting up a different Big Bang comm - so if anyone is still interested please let me know! I don't have the time right now to cross-post this information and I want to get things running ASAP so feel free to spread the word and link to this post for now if anyone has any input they'd like to share.

Also feel free to leave any ideas & suggestions here, including a new community name in case we need to start from scratch; thank you ♥


EDIT: You new Merlin Big Bang challenge is being set up right now and will hopefully be launched on Friday; thank you ♥

Comments

[oconel]

Hi! I'm interested in a new Big-Bang and I was wondering if we could host it at Dreamwidth since the length limit (300,000 characters) will allow to host the complete fics there (without the need of an external website); it will also make the readability easier for those of us who read on mobile devices, I think.

And I'd be willing to help, too.

[the-muppet.livejournal.com]

The plan I've had in my head since I posted the original poll is that we wouldn't use an external website for this, but would archive links at the community itself allowing people to post their fics however and wherever they wanted. Those who needed/wanted webspace I could help them out with that, but otherwise the choice of where they ultimately post would be up to them.

The community will still be hosted at LJ and if you wanted to post your finished fics at DW, then that would be fine.

Not sure if I've explained that properly so feel free to ask if I haven't =)

[oconel]

Hehehe, you have, and I like that idea because the writers/artist/etc have control over their works.

[the-muppet.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I go off on one a bit so I'm glad I managed to get my point across! And yes, that's exactly what I want to happen, for the writers/artists to have that control but for everything posted to be linked to the community itself, making it the actual archive.

I know in my head how that will work but won't bore people with too much detail until (if) this is up and running =)

Please feel free to spread the word about this post so I can see if the interest is (hopefully) still out there for this to happen; thank you =)

[oconel]

*gets distracted by Merlin's hair in your icon*

I hope it will work, off to repost around!

[the-muppet.livejournal.com]

Thank you =)