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ante_up_losersQuick note!: This post will be open for discussion and idea bouncing all through sign ups :)
This is the brainstorming post for folks to get all those great ideas out in the open before official signups. We'll form teams later; for now, let's hear about those awesome ideas for Losers bang-size works or complements--or for prompts you'd love to foist on somebody else!
A few items before we get started:
1. Please take a look at the rules, particularly the size requirements for bang-sized fanworks. If you have any questions, please comment over there or Contact A Mod.
2. Items to address in your top-level comment:
--Type and size of fanwork you're creating (if you know).
--Subject matter, genre, general idea, other details about your fanwork (if you know).
--Type(s) of and size(s) of other fanworks you're looking for (if you have a preference).
--Types of team members (besides bang and complement creators) you might like on your team (see #3 below).
--Type of team interaction you're looking for and what level of involvement you'd like (see #4 below).
--Anything else you feel like including!
3. The bang is open to fanwork creators of any stripe and ability, and to works of any size. If you don't feel you can create a bang-sized work, you can create a complement-sized work. If you don't think you can create a complement-sized work, you can create something of any size during the Scramble. It is also open to people who don't have the time to create anything, but who want to be involved in the process and help all these great fanworks come to fruition! If you want to help a team, try one of these vital roles:
--Cheerleader - someone to keep the team's spirits up through the long slogging middle
--Whipcracker - someone to insist on daily/weekly/semi-monthly word counts/sketches/macaroni sculptures.
--Alpha - sometimes known as "first audience" - a person who gets the first look at a fanwork and enthusiastically asks for more (and sometimes provides gentle guidance - but not editing, that's next up).
--Beta - that editor who is a second (or third or seventeenth) set of eyes - eagle eyes, to catch any coloring outside the lines or stray unglued macaroni or typos and offer constructive criticism.
--Omega - ...just kidding. We don't actually know what an Omega would be on a team, but if you want one or want to sign up as one, go for it!
--Time manager/nagger/mother hen/random capslock squee person... any way you can bring organization, time management, nagging, random knowledge, enthusiasm, inspiration, motivation, squee, or just plain silliness to a team, please come and join the fun!
4. Use the comment space to work out how your team will work together. Do you want a hands off team? Take the idea and run with it, check in on the comm weekly and not really talk again until go time? Or do you want more involvement, maybe a weekly or semi-monthly chat session? Maybe you want to create a community for your team. Maybe having a daily email reminder is the way to go. Be specific - the teams need to keep each other on track and enthusiastic about their works and they should work together in a way that makes it fun and exciting for everyone - but not stressful. Basically, teams are one of the best ways to keep each other going so we have lots of awesome fanworks on the bang go-live date.
5. Please use the subject lines. Put as much or as little information you have about your team, complement offering, bang-sized work, or type of cheerleading/whipcracking/alpha/beta/etc in the subject line, and then include details and questions and brainstorming in the body of the comment itself. Examples:
--Comics Bang: Artist looking for an author, dark and gory. Would like fanmix or graphics complements and a whipcracker that will keep on the team at least twice a week.
--Knitting Complements: 1-2 items for up to two bang-sized fanworks. Cheerleader that can read knitting patterns would be welcome.
--Alpha for bang or complement vids: willing to cheer on vids in all stages of completion.
--Fic Bang: Crack AU where The Losers are all snowmen, looking for wacky complements and a Beta that has detailed knowledge of clown school.
--Podfic Complement: Willing to do a podfic complement for a bang; either a section of a fic bang or a related story to some other type of fanwork.
--Professional Prodder: will coordinate team chats, check-in emails, and monitor progress of team.
--Fanmix Bang: set of six albums for all the main characters based on individual arcs, want an art complement (covers) and a cheerleader to soundboard ideas with (broad musical tastes preferred).
--Haiku Complements: Offering sets of haiku complements to up to four art bangs.
--Spreadsheet Designer offering time management for writers: will create spreadsheet indicating words per day to meet the goal for each writing team member.
--Art Bang: several panels featuring Jensen base jumping and Cougar watching through his scope. Any complement(s) or additional bang(s) would be great as well as an Alpha willing to look in at the art every few days and add gentle comments.
--Macaroni sculpture complement: willing to create sculptures to complement any type of bang but unwilling to use rigatoni or fettuccini.
--Beta for any fanworks including aspects of horse riding or ownership, informal, competition, ranching, etc.
--Meta Bang: want to write a bang-sized meta but need help brainstorming in the comments.
--Team Rock and Roll: 2 bangs and 3 complements on a rock band AU; willing to take on more fanworks of either size, Alphas for the writers and Betas for the podficcer and artist, cheerleaders, and an office manager to wrangle the whole team.
--Unknown: Want to create an unusual bang in tandem with one or more complement creators. (Include more details about what you might want to do in the comment itself).
--Unknown: Looking for a team to do pirates vs. ninjas in many formats.
--Plot bunny up for grabs: Losers as a professional baseball team (feel free to drop prompts or plot bunnies for others to pick up, but please make it obvious in the subject line you do not intend to do the fanwork yourself).
6. This year, we’re staging our sign ups slightly differently: we’re asking for bang sign ups first (May 11-18, 2013), and then opening the floor to complement creators and others to form teams (May 18-25, 2013). This is so we can be sure that everyone has a chance to look at all the possible teams at once to decide where they can best put their enthusiasm. We don't want anyone to miss out being on a great team because they forgot to look at sign-ups after the first day and someone put up a magnificent macaroni sculpture bang on day four.
7. Have a great time! *turns on the disco ball*
This is the brainstorming post for folks to get all those great ideas out in the open before official signups. We'll form teams later; for now, let's hear about those awesome ideas for Losers bang-size works or complements--or for prompts you'd love to foist on somebody else!
A few items before we get started:
1. Please take a look at the rules, particularly the size requirements for bang-sized fanworks. If you have any questions, please comment over there or Contact A Mod.
2. Items to address in your top-level comment:
--Type and size of fanwork you're creating (if you know).
--Subject matter, genre, general idea, other details about your fanwork (if you know).
--Type(s) of and size(s) of other fanworks you're looking for (if you have a preference).
--Types of team members (besides bang and complement creators) you might like on your team (see #3 below).
--Type of team interaction you're looking for and what level of involvement you'd like (see #4 below).
--Anything else you feel like including!
3. The bang is open to fanwork creators of any stripe and ability, and to works of any size. If you don't feel you can create a bang-sized work, you can create a complement-sized work. If you don't think you can create a complement-sized work, you can create something of any size during the Scramble. It is also open to people who don't have the time to create anything, but who want to be involved in the process and help all these great fanworks come to fruition! If you want to help a team, try one of these vital roles:
--Cheerleader - someone to keep the team's spirits up through the long slogging middle
--Whipcracker - someone to insist on daily/weekly/semi-monthly word counts/sketches/macaroni sculptures.
--Alpha - sometimes known as "first audience" - a person who gets the first look at a fanwork and enthusiastically asks for more (and sometimes provides gentle guidance - but not editing, that's next up).
--Beta - that editor who is a second (or third or seventeenth) set of eyes - eagle eyes, to catch any coloring outside the lines or stray unglued macaroni or typos and offer constructive criticism.
--Omega - ...just kidding. We don't actually know what an Omega would be on a team, but if you want one or want to sign up as one, go for it!
--Time manager/nagger/mother hen/random capslock squee person... any way you can bring organization, time management, nagging, random knowledge, enthusiasm, inspiration, motivation, squee, or just plain silliness to a team, please come and join the fun!
4. Use the comment space to work out how your team will work together. Do you want a hands off team? Take the idea and run with it, check in on the comm weekly and not really talk again until go time? Or do you want more involvement, maybe a weekly or semi-monthly chat session? Maybe you want to create a community for your team. Maybe having a daily email reminder is the way to go. Be specific - the teams need to keep each other on track and enthusiastic about their works and they should work together in a way that makes it fun and exciting for everyone - but not stressful. Basically, teams are one of the best ways to keep each other going so we have lots of awesome fanworks on the bang go-live date.
5. Please use the subject lines. Put as much or as little information you have about your team, complement offering, bang-sized work, or type of cheerleading/whipcracking/alpha/beta/etc in the subject line, and then include details and questions and brainstorming in the body of the comment itself. Examples:
--Comics Bang: Artist looking for an author, dark and gory. Would like fanmix or graphics complements and a whipcracker that will keep on the team at least twice a week.
--Knitting Complements: 1-2 items for up to two bang-sized fanworks. Cheerleader that can read knitting patterns would be welcome.
--Alpha for bang or complement vids: willing to cheer on vids in all stages of completion.
--Fic Bang: Crack AU where The Losers are all snowmen, looking for wacky complements and a Beta that has detailed knowledge of clown school.
--Podfic Complement: Willing to do a podfic complement for a bang; either a section of a fic bang or a related story to some other type of fanwork.
--Professional Prodder: will coordinate team chats, check-in emails, and monitor progress of team.
--Fanmix Bang: set of six albums for all the main characters based on individual arcs, want an art complement (covers) and a cheerleader to soundboard ideas with (broad musical tastes preferred).
--Haiku Complements: Offering sets of haiku complements to up to four art bangs.
--Spreadsheet Designer offering time management for writers: will create spreadsheet indicating words per day to meet the goal for each writing team member.
--Art Bang: several panels featuring Jensen base jumping and Cougar watching through his scope. Any complement(s) or additional bang(s) would be great as well as an Alpha willing to look in at the art every few days and add gentle comments.
--Macaroni sculpture complement: willing to create sculptures to complement any type of bang but unwilling to use rigatoni or fettuccini.
--Beta for any fanworks including aspects of horse riding or ownership, informal, competition, ranching, etc.
--Meta Bang: want to write a bang-sized meta but need help brainstorming in the comments.
--Team Rock and Roll: 2 bangs and 3 complements on a rock band AU; willing to take on more fanworks of either size, Alphas for the writers and Betas for the podficcer and artist, cheerleaders, and an office manager to wrangle the whole team.
--Unknown: Want to create an unusual bang in tandem with one or more complement creators. (Include more details about what you might want to do in the comment itself).
--Unknown: Looking for a team to do pirates vs. ninjas in many formats.
--Plot bunny up for grabs: Losers as a professional baseball team (feel free to drop prompts or plot bunnies for others to pick up, but please make it obvious in the subject line you do not intend to do the fanwork yourself).
6. This year, we’re staging our sign ups slightly differently: we’re asking for bang sign ups first (May 11-18, 2013), and then opening the floor to complement creators and others to form teams (May 18-25, 2013). This is so we can be sure that everyone has a chance to look at all the possible teams at once to decide where they can best put their enthusiasm. We don't want anyone to miss out being on a great team because they forgot to look at sign-ups after the first day and someone put up a magnificent macaroni sculpture bang on day four.
7. Have a great time! *turns on the disco ball*
Team Podfic II: podfic bang looking for other podfics of any size; also graphics complements
Date: 2013-05-04 03:58 am (UTC)I'm fine with podfic being the team theme, or we can do something more specific (the first fic is werewolves, that'd make a great collection of Losers podfic). I'd prefer a fairly hands-off team; I don't think we need more than weekly check-ins, and while I'd be happy to trade of betas with other podficcers, I'm pretty busy and don't have a super lot of time to do much else. If the rest of the team wants Alphas, cheerleaders, whipcrackers, or whatnot, though, I wouldn't complain. :)
I'd love covers as complements, too - my ability at that is pretty limited and I love art and graphics of all sorts. :|
Poetry/Haiku and cheerleading/nagging Complements for up to five Big Bangs
Date: 2013-05-04 06:10 am (UTC)I'm also willing to offer cheerleading and/or "I want you to email me X thumbnail sketches or Y number of words by Sunday..." momentum types of support, either to my poetry-complement teams, or if I ended up with three hands-off teams, say, I'd be delighted to branch out to non-poetry teams to provide support and cheering.
You can sample my works at the AO3 here.
In sum: Losers! YAY!
Comics-centric team
Date: 2013-05-04 06:43 am (UTC)But here's one to start with: I've been meaning to experiment more with comics vidding, and--being the unimaginative literalist that I am--I cannot resist doing a comics vid about Aisha to Khaled's version of Aicha. (Damn you, earwormy song!) I'd either do a second comics vid and make this a bang or do it as a complement by itself. It would be fun to have a team that's just doing comics-centric pieces (or Aisha-centric--that works too). I'd love to get someone on the team who wants to beta vids too. I like to wail at people in chat and have them critique in realtime.
Re: Comics-centric team
Date: 2013-05-04 11:52 am (UTC)Fic Bang: Team Hipster Reborn!
Date: 2013-05-04 12:14 pm (UTC)I actually started writing more on it again.
What do I need? Cheerleaders who will nag my lazy ass, beta readers, associated fanworks (christ, I would kill for fanart), mixtapes, recipes, whatever.
Dude, researchers. That's what I need. Researchers. I'll fall down the wiki hole if I have to keep on looking up things like "dairy farms in upstate New York" or "zoning laws for distance from schools".
And pictures of food porn.
But I think if I have people to nag me, then things get done. So it'll be semi-formal? I don't know.
Knitting Bang: Team Sheep Overlords
Date: 2013-05-04 12:34 pm (UTC)I'm looking for complements of whatever! I can post pictures in progress to anyone making complements as soon as they're available, and/or point you towards the patterns I'm using if relevant.
1. Lacy cowl for Jolene (orange and grey, cool weather but not frigidly cold, so think Autumn)
2. Half-finger gloves for Cougar (black and sniper-appropriate)
3. Half-mitts for Jensen's niece (brightly obnoxious pre-teen colors like pink and purple and so on).
4. ??? (Maybe hat and scarf set for Clay, except the patterns that seem suitable wouldn't make the item "medium complexity." Except it's two items so maybe that'd be fine?
If you want to do a complement and you have an idea of what I could knit - no sweaters or socks because that takes forever - then fire away!
Re: Fic Bang: Team Hipster Reborn!
Date: 2013-05-04 12:39 pm (UTC)(frozen) Fic Bang: Team Transgenic Losers
Date: 2013-05-04 12:53 pm (UTC)The story kinda follows them as they figure out what to do and where to go once what they called home is gone. I don't think it will fall squarely in comic or movie verse. I would love as much cheerleading and brainstorming partners as possible. I'd probably need a bit of help with small unit tactics and strategy. Especially when it comes to military training and weapons. I can only surmise so much from personal experience and what I've learned otherwise.
Assorted Complements
Date: 2013-05-04 01:13 pm (UTC)Re: Knitting Bang: Team Sheep Overlords
Date: 2013-05-04 01:23 pm (UTC)For a fourth project, how about a balaclava?
Re: Fic Bang: Team Hipster Reborn!
Date: 2013-05-04 01:32 pm (UTC)Re: Knitting Bang: Team Sheep Overlords
Date: 2013-05-04 01:32 pm (UTC)Drive-by-comment to say OH MY GOD, our fandom is the BEST. I am so proud of our big bang right now <3 <3 \o/
Also, James, I'm not sure if you're designing the patterns or not, but if you are and want a test knit help cheerlead etc... raises needles :D
Re: Fic Bang: Team Hipster Reborn!
Date: 2013-05-04 01:58 pm (UTC)I sneaked back to last year's party post to see your idea, and eeeeeee, I would read the crap out of that! *gleeful fistbump of support*
Re: Fic Bang: Team Hipster Reborn!
Date: 2013-05-04 02:56 pm (UTC)But wait! I have moved to the Bay Area, which is much, much worse about food (if slightly less rife with bad indie bands that all live in the same neighborhood).
(frozen) Re: Fic Bang: Team Transgenic Losers
Date: 2013-05-04 03:08 pm (UTC)Oh man, young!Losers on the run from Manticore and figuring out the outside world FTW! \o/
The other half of my plot from last year - fic bang
Date: 2013-05-04 03:23 pm (UTC)http://archiveofourown.org/works/475384/chapters/824599
Re: Knitting Bang: Team Sheep Overlords
Date: 2013-05-04 03:44 pm (UTC)Re: The other half of my plot from last year - fic bang
Date: 2013-05-04 03:49 pm (UTC)I am good with formal timekeeping (spreadsheets and email reminders) so I could maybe wrangle you and your cheerleader(s) and complement makers?
Re: Assorted Complements
Date: 2013-05-04 03:51 pm (UTC)ETA: And omg there's already a team title, arg, I think I need more sleep before I join in this party.
Re: Comics-centric team
Date: 2013-05-04 03:51 pm (UTC)Re: Poetry/Haiku and cheerleading/nagging Complements for up to five Big Bangs
Date: 2013-05-04 03:53 pm (UTC)Re: Comics-centric team
Date: 2013-05-04 03:53 pm (UTC)Re: Fic Bang: Team Hipster Reborn!
Date: 2013-05-04 03:56 pm (UTC)willwould definitely be professional nagger/organizer for you and your gaggle of cheerleaders/researchers, if you would like/want that.ETA: Sorry, meant to offer my services, not demand you take them. <3
(frozen) Re: Fic Bang: Team Transgenic Losers
Date: 2013-05-04 04:01 pm (UTC)Research monkey, decoupage/fic compliments
Date: 2013-05-04 04:04 pm (UTC)I really want to do some decoupage with the comics and I don't think I'd be able to manage a bang out of it, so I'm looking to compliment. (Although if someone has an idea for a decoupage bang and wants to share I'm willing to change my mind.)
I'm also willing to write some compliments, especially if crossovers are on your mind.
And I'm willing to devote some time to being a research monkey. Tell me what you want researched and I'll do my best to come up with some information.