Mod Post: Happier Times Remembered - Old School in the Here and Now

[seagull2eagle.livejournal.com]

{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]

Comments

[orlidepp.livejournal.com]

I'd love to see some more fic challenges. I really enjoyed the Clexman Valentine's celebration. However, I'm a bit confused by the way it was proposed on the post. I don't think it would be fair not to allow the writers and artists to share their work with other comms. The actual challenges, no, but the challenge results, even if just after the challenge closes, yes!

[seagull2eagle.livejournal.com]

I meant we wouldn't overlap our challenges if another one was already going on in another clex comm. So no valentines challenges that would take away from clexmas, no themes similar to what clff has out at the moment, etc. We don't want to take away resources from another comm - there aren't enough writers to go around in our fandom.

The reason I made this clarification was because last Christmas there were four separate Christmas challenges all going on at the same time. A few people were able to do more than one... but most of us just picked one and the other three didn't get any Clex fics.

Most certainly the results can be posted and promoted elsewhere!

[orlidepp.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I forgot to say that that makes total sense. I'm all for it and surely wouldn't want to distract fans from any other inspiring avenue. Thanks again for clarifying, and also for taking the reins and steering us to more great Clex!