Round 20 is over!

[lolmac]

This was a really great round!  We had an entire parade of ninja animals to keep us on our toes and inspire crackiness.  We had new faces in addition to the usual round of suspects.  We celebrated sidlj's birthday!  And we wrote, revised, edited, posted, and did research.  And "Research", of course.

We even have crack to show for it!
The Rare Avis Affair, by idlewild_ (Man From UNCLE)
The Ark in Time and Space, by dbskyler (Doctor Who)
Punchline, by lolmac (MacGyver)

Be sure to watch the comm for the poll for next month's 'Rush weekend.
And please take a moment to thank your Mod Squad, especially isdon_isgood9, who did an extra shift, chibifukurou, who went on stand-by for extra modding and also found us lovely ninja art, lullabymoon, idlewild_, dbskyler, pitry, and lothithil! And I'm lolmac, for those who don't know me yet or are afraid I've been replaced with a ninja double.

To answer JTurtle's question about the fic gallery:  good question, and one I've been thinking about a lot.
There is a very, very out of date gallery for this comm, of fic written (or partly written) during various rounds of the 'Rush.  It was originally maintained by the comm's founder, studyofrunning, but she hasn't been able to keep it going in recent months.  In addition, this comm has grown a great deal in the last year, and I don't think the single 'fic gallery' post is a good format for handling the massive amount of fic that has been written here!

Accordingly, I'm thinking of setting up another sister comm as a fic gallery.  I'd welcome thoughts and feedback.

I'd also be interested to know where people archive their fic.  I'm about to create a poll to ask that; please stand by.

Comments

[justice-turtle.livejournal.com]

Thoughts and/or feedback on the fic gallery comm idea: I like it! How would it work - moderated open posting? Members-only posting? (I don't know much about how comms work behind-the-scenes.) Links only, or direct posting of shortfic welcome? Fandom tags? Author tags? Would the Old Guard *lol* repost fics already linked from the old fic-gallery post?

[lolmac]

I think members-only posting, unmoderated unless it gets invaded. Shortfic okay with lj cuts requested, links to longer fic.

Fandom tags and author tags, definitely. I think one of the reasons it would be really good to have the gallery is that, during the rush rounds, we get to know each other and end up wanting to check out each other's fic, even (or especially) if the fic is in a fandom that's outside our normal reading zones.

Especially since there's a wide range in output level, we'd need to be able to find a given author directly.

And yes, I think it would be good to include the older fic from the old gallery, rather than see it get lost in the change; including items from earlier participants. I don't intend to delete the old gallery, though.

[http://users.livejournal.com/idlewild_/]

I like the sound of this.