Cam Mitchell ficathon?

[bluflamingo]

So, because I have the will-power of a weak willed newt, I've sort of agreed to run a Cam Mitchell ficathon (blame kazbaby, she suggested it). The idea being that, having come late to SG1, there's a lack of 'trope' fic for Mitchell (aliens make them do it, slavery, amnesia, gender swap, mpreg etc), and that this is a terrible travesty which must be rectified.

Which, you know, it's not like we need *less* fic about the guy.

So, my questions are:
-Dreamwidth, livejournal, or both?
-Got any more suggestions for tropes, other than this list
-Would you prefer it to be an exchange, where people list pairings and tropes and I match you, or a prompt-based thing, where people pick their trope and then write whatever pairing/gen appeals to them?

I'm thinking sign-ups would open end of next week for about a week, and the deadline would be end of September, maybe?

Thoughts? Suggestions? Enthusiastic declarations of intent to write epic Cam Mitchell wing fic (you know you want to! If only so I don't end up doing it)

Comments

[sid]

I think we overlooked jammies!fic. ;-)

I would suggest a prompt-based thingy, just because there's less pressure that way.

Perhaps for the SECOND Annual Cam Mitchell-a-thon... but I digress. :-D

Maybe on DW with lots of pimping on LJ?

[ivorygates]

Hah I just added Jammies totally without seeing your post!

[sid]

Great twisted minds think alike?

Scary.

(I actually wrote jammies!commentfic. I put Jack in them, just to be different.)

[ivorygates]

Oh, that was *lovely*. I adore Jack. Also your icon.

[sid]

Icon is by magnavox_23.

[ivorygates]

I think on DW because of the longer comment length, but we should totally not abandon LJ; we can set up a mirror comm there with general information, and as the stories are done, post the information about them there with a link to where they are on DW. If the DW comm is set up to permit anonymous posting, i'm fairly sure people won't even need to use an OpenID account to comment, although in that case it would be very shiny if they sign their comments.

[sid]

I didn't think it was going to be comment fic. Is that really what you meant?

Is it possible to set up a comm for anonymous posting (as opposed to commenting)?

Is Paul Davis ever going to get a promotion?

[bluflamingo]

I don't think anonymous posting is possible, in the sense of posting without having a username, but I suppose people could email their fic and have someone else (ie me) post it for them, if we stuck to dw and they didn't have/want an account. Dunno-I like life simple :o)

[bluflamingo]

I'm thinking most fic would be longer than comment length, so that wouldn't be such an issue (I'm thinking minimum word count 1000) - unless people wanted to ramble on at exceptional length in their feedback :o)

General consensus seems to be there are more people who are on lj but not dw than vice versa, so maybe posting needs to be there with mirroring on dw. Or people can post their fic to either, and have an identical masterlist on both. But that seems kind of unecessarily complicated

[bluflamingo]

I would suggest a prompt-based thingy, just because there's less pressure that way.

And also because the thought of trying to match people kind of fills me with dread :o)

[skieswideopen]

Excellent! I was hoping you'd be talked into this! (I can probably help, if you need it.)

I'm rather fond of prompt-based ficathons along the lines of apocalypse_kree, but I know they tend to have higher dropout rates than exchange ficathons, which is obviously a disadvantage. (On the plus side, this format would mean less work for you.)

Are you thinking of soliciting prompts (scenarios, etc.) to be combined with the tropes, or just giving writers a trope (and possibly a pairing) and setting them loose?

I have no preference on the Dreamwidth vs. LiveJournal question.

[bluflamingo]

Are you thinking of soliciting prompts (scenarios, etc.) to be combined with the tropes, or just giving writers a trope (and possibly a pairing) and setting them loose?

If it's prompt based rather than an exchange, I'm thinking they'll sign up for a particular trope of their choice and then they can write whatever pairing/scenario they like, as long as the pairing has Cam in it. If it's an exchange, it'll have to be more detailed, people would need to at least offer pairings/characters they'd like to see/write about, or people would end up with a trope they liked and a pairing they hated. Which makes me think prompt based, cos that just souds so much easier!

[skieswideopen]

I haven't seen anyone express a strong preference for an exchange-based ficathon yet, so I think you're safe in making it prompt-based. And mirroring the masterlist on both sites probably makes sense. I don't know how you'd do the trope-claiming post, though, if you plan on limiting the number of people who can writ each trope. (Which, I suppose, you don't necessarily have to do. There are lots of ways to write most of those tropes.)

[bluflamingo]

I don't know how you'd do the trope-claiming post, though, if you plan on limiting the number of people who can writ each trope.

No, I don't either. Maybe I can wait until happy fest put their's up and steal their idea, if they have prompt claiming. Though, I mean, people can comment anonymously at either site, so there could be one claims post, and people claim and give their dw and/or lj name in their claim. Which might be the solution.

[skieswideopen]

Last year, Happy Fest let multiple people write the same prompt, so I don't think it matters so much to them. Of course, there's no rule against you taking the same approach.

But yeah, if you want to limit it to one person per trope, then having just one claims post probably makes sense. People can comment anonymously, as you said, or with OpenID.

[kazbaby]

I think it'd work to do it like vid_commentary is running things. They're basically mirroring everything from one journal to the other.

I also vote for listing all of the tropes and letting people claim them.

I'll shift items from the comments up to the main post so they're easy to check out once I get done with dinner and family stuff.

Oh, and Yay!Cam Ficathon!

(list has now been updated in main post.)

[bluflamingo]

Mirroring everything makes sense, I guess. Well, other than the fic posts, since not everyone is on both sites. Mirror master list, maybe.

I'll shift items from the comments up to the main post so they're easy to check out once I get done with dinner and family stuff.

Thank you!

[princessofgeeks]

i have no preferences as to LJ or DW, and I certainly can't write to deadline any more, but I am cheering you on and will certainly read and FB.

GO YOU!

[bluflamingo]

Cheering and feedback is always very welcome :o) And you might see something you feel inspired to write, even if you don't do so to deadline for the challenge.

[slybrarian]

Personally, I'd go for prompt-based, but it's not a huge deal either way. Same with DW vs LJ - DW is what I'd prefer, but LJ is fine as well.

[bluflamingo]

Cool, thanks.

[sid]

Another trope suggestion (from the woman who is streaming Burn Notice): it's a new trope, but it's a honey: Cam/Victor.

[bluflamingo]

Okay, explain it for those of us in the audience who don't watch Burn Notice please...? *is curious*

[sid]

Victor is the character that Michael Shanks played on Burn Notice.

There've been a flock of fics and commentfics featuring Jack and Victor (aka Daniel's twisted look-alike.)

[bluflamingo]

Ah, thank you! So the sort of flipside to 'Cam meets someone else played by Ben Browder.'

[scrollgirl]

Prompts would be good. I wish Big Bang wasn't eating my brains, but I doubt I'd do a good job with a fic exchange. I think you should host the ficathon on DW but mirror it on LJ. Is there an existing Cam community on LJ? You could probably ask to mirror there?

[kazbaby]

There's mitchells_sg1, but I don't know how they feel about that.

[slybrarian]

I think they're just an announcement comm.

[bluflamingo]

I'm inclined to make it a separate community completely, but yeah, mirroring it seems like a good idea.

[gigerisgod]

ooh, i'm in.

i say DW and LJ.

and hey, whatever is easiest for you, matching pairings and/or tropes or exchange/pick and write.

[bluflamingo]

Cool, thanks

[forestgreen]

This is an awesome idea. I personally prefer DW.

The deadline is going to be a problem for me, because I'm participating in SGA Bigbang which has a deadline for end of September, too. I don't know how many people will be affected by this.

Then again, my SGA Bigbang story is John/Cam so, even if I can't make it to this ficathon due to conflicting deadlines, I'll still be contributing something to the awesomeness that is Cameron Mitchell.

[scrollgirl]

Oh, wow, you're writing John/Cam too?? That's terrific! I think you, me, kyizi, and slybrarian are the only ones writing John/Cam for SGA Big Bang. (And I think Sly is only writing them as a background pairing.)

Yay for contributing to the awesomeness that is Cam Mitchell!

[forestgreen]

I was writing Ba'al/John/Rodney first and then Cam sort of butted in and next thing I know I had to drop my story at around 5k and start writing Cam/John.

It's going so much better now that I stopped fighting him. Damn, but he can whine and then there's the puppy eyed earnest look. I never stood a chance.

[bluflamingo]

The deadline is going to be a problem for me, because I'm participating in SGA Bigbang which has a deadline for end of September, too.

Yeah, okay, that's a problem, since I think two of the other three John/Cam big bang people have said they might sign up. Maybe it needs to be pushed back to late October.

[scrollgirl]

If that would be okay with everyone else? That'd be great :) The BB deadline is Oct 14, final copy submitted to story database, no exceptions.

ETA: Or what femgenficathon does is have a posting period, a start and end date for submitting fic.

[cesy]

I'd prefer DW because it's easier for me to follow things.

[bluflamingo]

Most people seem to prefer one or the other, but since there isn't a majority preference, I guess there'll be an lj and a dw comm and I'll mirror them.