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Fannish Netiquette:

Sidebar--what wouldn't I give for a Miss Manners of fandom. I mean, for reference and also for hysteria. Can you see the questions that come in?

Dear Miss Fanmanners,
My cowriter and I have had an artistic difference in our latest wip. She says lube is optional and I said lube is necessary. We referenced minotaur and still can't agree! What do I do?
--Sleepless in SGA

Anyway. What's the etiquette on dead(or comatose) challenges? Let's say a hundred years ago someone did this awesome challenge. Do you appropriate with credit or try to track them down and ask if they are still in some kind of fandom-related activity? I'm mostly thinking of Kate Bolin's(?) Dead Letters and the ASCEML Getting to Know You. No, I don't actually want to organize them myself (though I would, seriously; Dead Letters are deeply awesome and I loved those). I kind of wish both had taken off as genres like the Five Things, to be honest. There is always a population for Dead Letters.

I was thinking that it would be nice to bring Dead Letters back, except that we actually kind of had a whole canon episode of it.

*grits teeth* I am still pretending it was a Michael plot until canon forces otherwise. And I? Have a lot of denial. Smallville was *good* at teaching that.

Yes, i really want Dead Letters. I used to read those over tons of fandoms when that took off.

Actually, I was merely thinking of "Letters from Pegasus!"

I don't think anyone can own the idea of a kind of challenge. It might be nice to give Kate Bolin (I do think it was her, at least she ran the challenge if she didn't come up with it) a heads-up, but you don't control the general idea of a story prompt.

(She still has an LJ, I'm pretty sure, but I can't remember what it is.)

You and your *logical episodes*. (My frustration with the season ender, let me show you it).

I'd feel a lot better getting permission first, honestly, if I can. It feels wrong to appropriate a challenge that specific.

I will say it's been used other places--I know

hp100 did a Dead Letters Home challenge, for example, because I wrote for it. (That was, oh, five years ago? Six? GOD I HAVE BEEN HERE TOO LONG.)

I would think at least some sort of token effort to contact the orignator would be appropriate. At least through whatever contact information was easily available. :)

Hmm. I may see if I can track her down. I could swear she had an lj at one time.

I'm pretty sure Kate Bolin is still kicking around - she just moved the Silverlake archive to a new address, so. The Dead Letters thing was awesome. I also liked Challenge in a Can.

Oh, I remmber challenge in a can! Okay, going to track now. Thanks!

She's

katemonkey on LJ. :)

Got it! Thank you! Email sent!

*nodnods* If nothing else, you could always include a disclaimer or something in the challenge info/faq/whichever that explains where the idea came from?

And on an entirely separate note, I now want to start a 'Dear Ms. Fanmanners' project... >.>

Please God someone should. Teh combination of useful information and lulz could *not be beat*.

oh... God. I want to. I really do. I want to see the letters and I want to do weekly guest spots to bring in writers to answer questions and there could be character challenges and...and..

Damn it. I'm doomed.

And! You could offer up a poll to see if LJ-at-large agrees with Miss Manners' answer. Then open the floor to let other people take a whack and see if they can do it any better.

Much potential for awesome.

exaaaactly. It's so sad that I have a notepad file open with half a screen full of brainstorming ideas already.

Doooooo it. *GLEE*

oh god. the shame. the lulz. the flighty voice in my head that is already taking shape.

the lack of capitalization.

You are already in the spirit! Tell me when you open for business so I can pimp, pimp, pimp our way to glee!

er.. It's in the works, YOU madam are an enabler.

*blushes* Aww, shucks.

My glee cannot be textually rendered.

*sneaks in quietly*

fandom_manners

*runs off giggling hysterically*

YES, PLEASE!!

I tracked down the stories, etc., for one of

liviapenn's old SV challenges, and I started by asking her. So I say, try to find the originator/compiler first.

*crosses fingers* Do you know if the Getting to Know You was person specific by any chance? You were on ASCEML when it went around, do yu remmber? Iv'e done small groups of it before for XMM and SV, but an updated panfandom version would be deeply, deeply awesome.

...

No memory. Search the archives?

Isn't it kid of a problem though that the characters you'd like to see dead letters off, your really wouldn't want to think about being dead? Maybe it's just me.

It was, at the time, an awesome idea of the character writing a letter that's supposed to be read after their death.

Oh, I haven't thought of Dead Letters in ages, and they were wonderful -- good luck with the hunt!

*crosses fingers*

*thinks of Dead Letters in re: SPN*

*thinks of aaaaaaaalllllll the characters who could canonically write them*

*hed asplodes*

Also, I once had a strong urge to write a Dead Letter for Blake in QAF but then! Not dead :D

The bastard. WE COULD HAVE HAD MORE QAF FIC FROM YOU!

I say Viva La Revival (what? I just took a Spanish final, I know no french)! I'd love a link to the Dead Letters thing, it sounds cool and I have no idea what it is, and given the propensity of this fandom to be AWESOME, I figure it's even cooler than I'm picturing.

I totally think you should create a fandom Dear Abby for questions like these, if only for the lulz.

WOULD IT NOT BE AWESOME TO HAVE A FANNISH MISS MANNERS? GLEE!

WE SHOULD HAVE A FANNISH MS MANNERS OMG.

also, the dead letters thing would be awesome!

pee.ess if you didn't want to organise them yourself, i'm really v.v interested in the dead letters thing :>

I emailed her, so waiting on permission. *fingers crossed*

Not sure what you're talking about, but maybe you could always say, "Inspired by [insert url here]"

???

Can I be the one to tackle that question please?

I'm pretty sure if there was a fannish Miss Manners? There would totally not be a lack of people asking for help. Seriously.

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