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old_school_clex2011-02-16 09:36 pm
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Mod Post: Happier Times Remembered - Old School in the Here and Now
{waves hi to everybody}
Smallville might be on it's 10th and final season on tv, but to many of us, the first few seasons were really the best. Clark was young and learning, Lex wanted to be good and reject his father's learnings, and the Clex made us sit up and take notice. ^^
When the awesome and wonderful Hils first started this comm six years ago, it was an interactive comm based around the early seasons of Smallville, and the Clexiness there within. There were episode discussions, fiction contests, comment fics, and more, in addition to being open to the community to post announcements about any Old School fic, icons, or such.
We're going to hopefully return to some of that early interactiveness, if you all want to. :) I do know that not everybody likes meta, or writes fic, or makes art, but we do all like the Clex, so I want to try and find things that we can all do together, and have fun with it. To that end, a poll! What would you like to do?
[Poll #1705959]
Smallville might be on it's 10th and final season on tv, but to many of us, the first few seasons were really the best. Clark was young and learning, Lex wanted to be good and reject his father's learnings, and the Clex made us sit up and take notice. ^^
When the awesome and wonderful Hils first started this comm six years ago, it was an interactive comm based around the early seasons of Smallville, and the Clexiness there within. There were episode discussions, fiction contests, comment fics, and more, in addition to being open to the community to post announcements about any Old School fic, icons, or such.
We're going to hopefully return to some of that early interactiveness, if you all want to. :) I do know that not everybody likes meta, or writes fic, or makes art, but we do all like the Clex, so I want to try and find things that we can all do together, and have fun with it. To that end, a poll! What would you like to do?
[Poll #1705959]
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Episode discussions
- Put an episode up with summary, caps, and a poll, and let people discuss it. Not necessarily in order shown.
Character celebrations
- Put up a post about a character, some caps, a poll, and let people fandom to the character - fic, art, discussion, general glee
Meta posts
- Discussions about the show and thoughts upon the show, characters, plots, etc. Meta posts will have specific topics and a set of thinking bullets to get us started.
Challenges (fic, art, ... other - not to overlap with other comms!)
- Challenges can be done in different ways, but generally they're where a topic or set of topics is chosen and people are sent off within a proscribed time frame to create fandom pieces around the topic (fic, art, etc). In some challenges, such as icon challenges, voting is then held afterwards for prizes for the winners (banners). ((No, we won't be doing voting on any fic challenges! o.o))
Caption contests
- A screenshot is posted and people get to make up what the characters are saying in it. Usually a vote is held afterwards for the best caption.
Fandom Recs (around themes)
- Post a theme and people will then comment with their favorite fanworks based around that theme ("socks" "romance" "coffee")
Puzzles (jigsaw, hangman, crossword... etc)
- There are places online where we can submit our own versions of pictures and items to make clexy games. Like the mod puts in a screenshot or a photomanip to a puzzle place, the online breaks it up, and then people can reassemble it. Silly fun items. :) Possibly with rewards for people who finish them.
Comment memes
- A comment fic set where people submit prompts to the post and authors pick prompts and respond with short comment fics on them.
Drabble Trees
- A fic post where one person starts the story in 100-500 words, the next person replies with a continuation of the story, somebody replies to that one... and pretty soon there's a big tree of a story that rambles and changes from what it started as and hopefully everybody had fun.
Bunny Farms
- I just invented that. ;p It's a place where bunnies can be dropped off, petted, fed, given mutating vitamins, and otherwise kept happy until somebody adopts them. In a way, it's a little like a comment meme, but bunnies can be bigger than comments if they get adopted as such. Also, bunnies duplicate, so more than one person can take a bunny home.
Clex Bingo Cards
- a bingo card set based on old school prompts. People fic/art/other based on each of the prompts in the squares. No time limit, just plain fun. ^^ Rewards for bingos (five stories in a line on the bingo card).
Fan Interviews
- sets of questions to fans about why you like clex, what brought you into the fandom, what's your favorite fic, your favorite episode, etc. Can either be done to specific BNF, or put out as general question for all (which can also be a friending meme) - there's different ways it can go.
Random Polls
- pretty much exactly what it says. ;D Periodic polls with clexy questions (who tops?) that all can participate in with a click of the button. Sometimes serious, sometimes silly.