*rec, rec, rec*
May. 29th, 2011 12:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andrasteIt turns out that writing two hundred recs takes a freakin' long time. I'm now over half way through, but not as much over as I'd like. I was going to open with 150 fanfic recs and 100 art recs, but starting a new job on Monday is going to seriously curtail the hours I have available for the project. So a third of the fic is going to have to be held back for later on, since I'm keen to have something up next weekend when people are potentially looking for fic after the First Class première. This means I'll me missing a pile of stuff, especially the longer stories I don't have time to reread in the next week, but at least I'll have plenty of things to rec later.
I'm going to put up a tumblr where all the new recs will be crossposted, so people who aren't on Dreamwidth and aren't interested in messing around with RSS feeds can get them easily. (I'll probably make a delicious page too, when I get the time.) Only 'mutatismutandis.tumblr.com' is already taken, albeit never updated. (Stupid name squatters!) So now I'm torn between just going with 'mutatis_mutandis.tumblr.com' or choosing something completely different. I notice that 'greymalkinlane.tumblr.com' is unclaimed, and I'm trying to remember if the Brotherhood has ever had a motto of their own.
The other thing I'm undecided about is how to handle the fanart recs. A line of text containing a non-artists opinion of why she likes this picture of Nightcrawler followed by a link probably isn't the most compelling way of promoting artwork. So I'm wondering about what the fanart community's opinion on thumbnails is. Tumblr seems to be full of fans posting other people's fanart, but I have no idea if this is considered acceptable etiquette on DeviantArt. The obvious thing to do would be to ask each artist individually if they're OK with me using a thumbnail to link to their work, but then we're back at time constraints again. Maybe I should stick with text links for now and then ask them later?
Then there are the tags. I have tags for authors, artists, characters, pairings, word count and which movie(s) a story was written after. The content tags are harder to pin down. I've got the five traditional fanfiction genre tags - het, slash, femslash, ampersand and gen. (All right, so ampersand isn't as traditional as the others and may confuse some people. I need it anyway. There's a lot of ampersand in the fandom, and labelling it 'friendship' or something isn't going to cut it - Scott and Charles are not friends, but there's plenty of ampersand about their relationship.) I've also got tags for 'alternate universe', 'backstory', 'crossover' and 'ensemble cast' but I keep wondering if there are more things people might want to search on.
Not to mention that I'm still uncertain about some of the character tags. I'm mostly going with mutant names over civilian names, since the mutant names are shorter and it feels weird to write 'marie d'ancanto' or 'raven darkholme' when I mean 'rogue' and 'mystique.' (Also, if I used civilian names Wolverine would get confusing.) However, then there are the people who don't have codenames, I've got 'jean grey' and 'jason stryker' in there too. I'm not sure what to do with the people whose codenames are only given in out-of-universe publicity. Nobody ever uses the names 'lady deathstrike' or 'professor x' on screen, so maybe I should go with 'yuriko oyama' and 'charles xavier' instead.
I'm going to put up a tumblr where all the new recs will be crossposted, so people who aren't on Dreamwidth and aren't interested in messing around with RSS feeds can get them easily. (I'll probably make a delicious page too, when I get the time.) Only 'mutatismutandis.tumblr.com' is already taken, albeit never updated. (Stupid name squatters!) So now I'm torn between just going with 'mutatis_mutandis.tumblr.com' or choosing something completely different. I notice that 'greymalkinlane.tumblr.com' is unclaimed, and I'm trying to remember if the Brotherhood has ever had a motto of their own.
The other thing I'm undecided about is how to handle the fanart recs. A line of text containing a non-artists opinion of why she likes this picture of Nightcrawler followed by a link probably isn't the most compelling way of promoting artwork. So I'm wondering about what the fanart community's opinion on thumbnails is. Tumblr seems to be full of fans posting other people's fanart, but I have no idea if this is considered acceptable etiquette on DeviantArt. The obvious thing to do would be to ask each artist individually if they're OK with me using a thumbnail to link to their work, but then we're back at time constraints again. Maybe I should stick with text links for now and then ask them later?
Then there are the tags. I have tags for authors, artists, characters, pairings, word count and which movie(s) a story was written after. The content tags are harder to pin down. I've got the five traditional fanfiction genre tags - het, slash, femslash, ampersand and gen. (All right, so ampersand isn't as traditional as the others and may confuse some people. I need it anyway. There's a lot of ampersand in the fandom, and labelling it 'friendship' or something isn't going to cut it - Scott and Charles are not friends, but there's plenty of ampersand about their relationship.) I've also got tags for 'alternate universe', 'backstory', 'crossover' and 'ensemble cast' but I keep wondering if there are more things people might want to search on.
Not to mention that I'm still uncertain about some of the character tags. I'm mostly going with mutant names over civilian names, since the mutant names are shorter and it feels weird to write 'marie d'ancanto' or 'raven darkholme' when I mean 'rogue' and 'mystique.' (Also, if I used civilian names Wolverine would get confusing.) However, then there are the people who don't have codenames, I've got 'jean grey' and 'jason stryker' in there too. I'm not sure what to do with the people whose codenames are only given in out-of-universe publicity. Nobody ever uses the names 'lady deathstrike' or 'professor x' on screen, so maybe I should go with 'yuriko oyama' and 'charles xavier' instead.
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Date: 2011-06-01 07:03 am (UTC)I did not know that! I'll be sure to only post thumbnails, then. Do you know how fanartists feel about people posting thumbnails to journalling services like Dreamwidth, in general? (Obviously I should go and, y'know, ask some fanartists, but I have not yet had the time.)
I think greymalkinlane is a great Tumblr name!
Yeah, that's the way I'm leaning at the moment.
On AO3, the policy is to use real names where possible, but as one of the X-Men tag wranglers, I can tell you this gets rather confusing!
I can imagine. I see that it's still 'Deadpool' instead of 'Wade Wilson', for example, and some characters don't have civilian names. (Or more than one, like Wolverine.)