It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like...

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

 

 

Christmas? 

Ok, no, no it's not really. (BUT HOW RIDICULOUS IS THAT DOGGY SWEATSHIRT/DOG COMBO? AND THEIR HAIR!)

STILL, We have many fine holidays yet to celebrate this autumn before Christmas rolls around, but a little advance planning never hurt.
So, I want to know if you guys are interested in participating in a


 

The way I understand it works from other comms (since I'm not above copying from them!) is that either here in a comment thread or in a separate comm, we have signups for involvement where we list what we're able to give (if you're great at icons, but can't vid to save your life, if you can beta read/edit, but don't write fic, etc.)  and then we post Christmas wishlists (Maybe they pertain strictly to pilots, maybe just to bsg, maybe to any fandom) of things we'd like: icons, vids, fics, picspams, graphics, fanmixes, poems, songs, etc. Once all the wishlists are in/posted, the mods will assign secret santas, and you have the month of December to create your goodies. Posting happens from Dec 24 through Jan 5. 

That's one option. Another might be to run signups now and assign the matches soonish, then have people post their goodies all through the month of December, maybe small gifts, like an icon or a drabble, leading up to a larger  big gift, like a sizeable fic or a whole vid or a bunch of graphics at once that Christmas/Post-Christmas week.

What do you think? Should we do it? Here or in a separate comm? I'm not going to do a poll since it would only have the one "are you in" question, but please respond in the comments if you would be interested and also if you have suggestions for how the exchange should be run/timeline, etc.  OH and if anyone would like to mod (or co-mod with me) that's cool too! :)

Comments

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

Awesome. How does the Star Wars one usually work if you don't mind sharing?

[amidala-thrace.livejournal.com]

No problem. :) The Star Wars one is called jedi_mistletoe, and while the comm itself is somewhat small, the particular method used seems to work well. Usually in late September-early October the moderator will put up a post asking how many folks are interested participation-wise - much as you've done here - followed by a separate sign-up post later in October. All comments to the sign-up post are screened, and commenters are asked to include some basic information (name, email address, which pairings they'd prefer to write for and receive - obviously not an issue here - and one or two prompts as well as kinks they don't want to write or receive in their gift fic). The mod then matches up participants based on common preferences and emails them their assignments. A due date is stated, and participants are asked to confirm receipt of the assignment email by replying to it.

Depending on how many people have signed up, the deadline can be anywhere from early December to mid-December, with a grace period of about a week for extensions and the like. Participants submit their assignments via email with HTML code already inserted so all the mod basically has to do is give the fic a final read-over and post it. Fics are posted under a general moderator's account (as are all reminders and notices to the comm), usually in the days leading up to Christmas, though sometimes after the holiday as well. A master/reveal list with names of participants and links to fics, so giftees and gifters can thank each other, goes up around New Year's.

Obviously the above would have to be adapted/discarded according to the needs of a ship-specific Secret Santa, but it has seemed to work quite well over the years - not too many hiccups along the way. :)

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

Cool. Seems pretty straightforward like a regular fic exchange. Since we might have graphics and icons and different elements all in one post, ours would be slightly different I guess. And I guess there wouldn't really be a need for secrecy if you were to just make the one post with all gifts in it. But if we were to do it as an ongoing thing, then secrecy would be fun for a final big gift-related reveal at the end.