Right, a few things.

VividCon

svmadelyn posted here about the Trek and Merlin room parties on Saturday and Sunday nights respectively. There will be flyers with exact times for both, but Trek is tentatively between 9:30 and 10:00 and Merlin on Sunday at a somewhat earlier time.

Completely unofficial badfic reading will be at the usual place at the usual time on Sunday. You know. If we did that sort of thing.

DVD Commentary Challenge

It started! Go sign up! More information here for those who are unfamiliar with it.

Rec

porntestpilot totally owns me, as she has posted unholy Pinto hotness titled A Modern Prince Charming. Go there now, plz.

All I really need now is cookies to make my life complete, really.

So it's almost August, and general_jinjur and I are prepping (and by that, I mean, I am just re-reading the rules and she's off being innovative) for the Fourth Annual DVD Commentary Challenge.

Short version

The challenge runs from August 1st to October 1st, in which readers have the opportunity to write a DVD commentary on another writer's story. There will be two posts, author permission and commmentator sign-ups, both of which will go up on Saturday, along with the rules and regulations (of which there are few; I am a fan of minimizing).

All fandoms, FPF and RPF are welcome and wanted. The challenge is open to all fandoms. There are no limits to the number of stories you may write commentaries for. dvd_commentary is where commentaries will be posted; feel free to browse and see what this is all about. An index was created here by general_jinjur, along with links to significant posts.

We've had kind of epic responses the last three years, so we're both hoping this year will continue to top out.

ETA: Corrected the below. I swear I had a coherent thought here and then it went--wherever it was. Sorry, general_jinjur. I--really don't know what was going on with that one.

Author Permission

We require author permission for DVD Commentaries of their stories. If an author wants to be commentaried, please add your name to the author sign-up page. There will be a post for author sign-up, along with some small changes we're making to future procedures for this.

Commentator Sign-Up

See above--if you want to do a fic and the author hasn't given blanket permission, please contact the author.

General

More information will be posted on Saturday, August 1st. Feel free to browse the index, see waht people have done and are doing, and get an idea if this is something you want to do. I will say, these are incredible fun to read when completed, almost as much fun as writing them. The links to 2008's rules are in the index for reference.

So. Saturday August 1st, we'll get this thing going. If you have any questions, you can ask here or wait for Saturday for the complete announcement and rules.

Most importantly, have fun! This is pretty much my favorite challenge of the year. New to me fic, commentaries, and HTML. You really cannot beat that combination.

Carefully peering out to check for more Dow crashes. Suddenly, the story about the sky falling makes so very much sense.

Accomplishments

I wrote fic about a dangerously incompetent cat-nabbing ring.

I read Prison Break fic and try to keep some kind of sanity in the face of OMG HOT.

Much More Interesting Stuff

Oh! Fanlore Wiki is open!

Now, you, too, can document fannish history in wiki form. Which is actually weirdly fun, since me and general_jinjur emailed back and forth saying things like "Wait, when did DVD commentaries in general start?" and "Are you sure 2005?" and "OOho, but I saw one earlier I think!" So we can cite. Because this is happiness.

Um. Go, play, remember embarrassing things about fannish history to add. You totally know you want to!

And Last Stuff

2008 DVD Commentary Challenge closes at 11:59 PM tomorrow. You have all today and all tomorrow.

Now, this is where I also say, if you have started already and you know you are going to be delayed, email me or Jin ASAP. This is for indexing purposes--we don't shut down the community between challenge dates, but we don't like, check it either for indexing all that often. You can leave it here or in the latest entry at the community, but please do tell us. That way we'll both know to go look at it and add it to the master list.

And that's it for now. If today is like yesterday, perhaps we will have more Portraits of Stockbrokers in Distress.

Yay, it's announcement day!

Dead Letters Variations

First, The Dead Letters Challenge has been closed with a total of twenty-seven entries. My thanks to the participants, who all made me happy.

DVD Commentaries

We are now at month two of DVD Commentary Challenge being hosted at dvd_commentary. So far, participation is excellent and sign-ups continue apace.

general_jinjur and I would like to remind everyone of a few key points:

The due date is 10/1/2008, pre-midnight CST for posting. You can continue to sign up and post commentaries until that time.

To sign up to write a commentary, go here.

To give permission for your stories to be commentated, go here.

To read commentaries, a running list is kept here for 2008, and an index for 2007 and 2006 is here. All of this is courtesy of the ultra-organized general_jinjur.

Other Stuff

I--um, maybe later. Okay, the thing is, I am writing this thing and it turned into curtain fic, even though it's supposed to have at least one murder and you know, stuff, and I kinda feel sugarshocked by all the domestic goodness. Do you know why? Because I cannot make myself destroy their happiness.

I sicken myself sometimes.

Just to make sure I hit everyone....

Rule Change for dvd_commentary to simplify it a bit. Basically, the rule about multiple commentaries no longer exists. The same story can be done by as many people as want to do it. Sign up, however, is still required.

Also, email went out to volunteers. If you did not get one, please comment here. Thanks!

And lo, it comes again. Crossposted to dvd_commentary

general_jinjur and I would like to welcome everyone to the 2008 DVD Commentary Challenge.

Your missions, should you choose to accept it, is to pick another author's story and write a DVD commentary on it. Cutting and pasting the rules, since really, why reinvent the wheel?

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The Multifandom DVD Commentary Challenge!

The rules are slightly different from the normal DVD commentary. This is a commentary on another author's work.

The Rules

1.) Any fandom and any pairing or lack of pairing thereof is welcome.

2.) One DVD commentary per story per year--if you know what story you want to comment on, post with title and author. A dozen commentaries on The Greatest Fic Ever is nice, but let's go for variety and breadth.

3.) You must have author permission. I want this as fun, not as trauma. You can call a story first if you're worried about getting it before someone else does, but permission is a must for the challenge.

4.) Deadline for submissions is 10/1/2008, 11:59 PM CST. There is no deadline for sign-up.

5.) The minimum is one commentary. I mean, if you're taking on the five hundred thousand word epic of wonder in your commentary, I'm not asking more than that. No upper limit, however. Do as many as you like, in as many fandoms as you like.

6.) All commentaries are hosted (or at least linked to), dvd_commentary. I'd prefer posting directly to the community. If you want to post it to your lj as well, I only ask you wait until 10/7/2008 to give it a minimum of a week up at the comm.

7.) You can post your commentaries as soon as you wish.

The Community

dvd_commentary is where the magic is posted.

Sign Up

Story Sign-Ups - this is for commentators who wish to claim a story. Please leave your name, the title, author, and fandom of the story, and a link to the story.

Author Permission Sign-Ups - this is for authors who wish to give sweeping permission for commentary on their stories. Please leave your name and a link to your webpage/story archive.

Posting

All commentaries, or links to commentaries, should be posted to dvd_commentary. Please use the standard header in the body:

Title
Author
Fandom
Commentator

For the subject line of the post:

Title by author, commentary by {your name here}.

Ratings, warnings, and summaries are optional. If the commentary is taking more than one entry, remember to link them. Have fun. And trust me, these are serious fun. For examples of different styles of DVD commentaries, check out the community and browse to your heart's content.

A complete list of commentaries can be found here, organized and maintained by general_jinjur.

Any questions? Ask away either here or in dvd_commentary.

Have a great time!

Reminder!

The 2007 DVD Commentary Challenge closes as of the first of October, 11:59 PM CST.

Information on this year's challenge can be found here.

Authors giving permission of fic sign up at this link.

Commentators sign up here.

All commentaries are to be posted to dvd_commentary. And you can check out current offerings already being posted there.

There's still plenty of time to sign up or add another commentary. And don't forget to have fun!

DVD Commentary Challenge - Author Sign-Up

Please post here if you are an author that is okay with your stories being commentaried. If you really want to make everyone intensely happy? Also please link to your webpage/story location/memories/place of story residence.

( authors 0 through E )

( Authors F through K )

( Authors L through R )

( authors S through Z )

To figure out what this is all about, click here.

You can also check under the tag DVD Commentary Challenge.

All right! Have fun!

( update notes )

Annnnd--it's that time again!

The The Multifandom DVD Commentary Challenge! Moderated by yours truly and the charming general_jinjur who agreed to help set this up again. We should get a catchy name. Sepinjur DVD Challenge. Jinjeris DVD Challenge. Something catchy.

It's like puppies! And candy! And a way for me to stop thinking dark thoughts on high calibre weapons when the motrin? So does not work.

Pulled from last year, pretty much the same, some updates.

*****

The Multifandom DVD Commentary Challenge!

The rules are slightly different from the normal DVD commentary. This is a commentary on another author's work.

The Rules

1.) Any fandom and any pairing or lack of pairing thereof is welcome.

2.) One DVD commentary per story--if you know what story you want to comment on, post with title and author. A dozen commentaries on The Greatest Fic Ever is nice, but let's go for variety and breadth.

3.) You must have author permission. I want this as fun, not as trauma. You can call a story first if you're worried about getting it before someone else does, but permission is a must for the challenge.

4.) Deadline for submissions is 10/1/2007, 11:59 PM CST. There is no deadline for sign-up.

5.) The minimum is one commentary. I mean, if you're taking on the five hundred thousand word epic of wonder in your commentary, I'm not asking more than that. No upper limit, however. Do as many as you like, in as many fandoms as you like.

6.) All commentaries are hosted (or at least linked to), dvd_commentary. I'd prefer posting directly to the community. If you want to post it to your lj as well, I only ask you wait until October 7, 2007 to give it a minimum of a week up at the comm.

7.) You can post your commentaries as soon as you wish.

8.) Anything I've written or cowritten is disqualified from this challenge.

Okay! You're done! Choose your story and go at it! Or rather, use these links.

(I'm keeping this part in my lj to keep the comm itself just for actual commentaries and indexes to commentaries.)

Commentators

Sign up here with your name and the story and author you want to commentary. This is first-come, first-serve, though I will keep a running list in the post itself of chosen fics. You can sign up more than once.

Authors

Sign up here if you are an author that's fine with your story being commentaried. I have no idea if that is an actual word, no. Just roll with it.

Posting

All commentaries, or links to commentaries, should be posted to dvd_commentary. Please use the (newly!) standard header in the body:

Title
Author
Fandom
Commentator

For the subject line of the post:

Title by author, commentary by {your name here}.

Ratings, warnings, and summaries are optional. If the commentary is taking more than one entry, remember to link them. Have fun. And trust me, these are serious fun. For examples of different styles of DVD commentaries, check out the community and browse to your heart's content.

Any questions? Ask here. Everything else? Those two entries.

Have a great time!

Wow.

A total of 65 67 DVD commentaries in fifteen fandoms (I didn't even know there was a Beverly Hills 90210 fandom).

I'd like to thank all the commentators for doing such a wonderful job in explaining what made these stories so wonderful to them. This was amazing fun! And I hope everyone enjoyed themselves!

For a complete list of completed commentaries, please go here.

And finally, thank you to general_jinjur for taking over the called list for commentaries as well as tagging the entries. I'm very grateful for your work on this.

In summation: whee! Commentaries to read!

First and most important thing:

Here the lovely ltlj gave *hysterical* comment fic set in the Retrograde universe. Post-Vegas. Adorable. Wonderful. OMG JACK.

You can see why she's one of my measuring sticks of my own work in SGA, right? That's just *cool*.

DVD Commentary Challenge

Okay, I've sucked with keepingn up with the challenge responses and I got very lucky. general_jinjur has offered to help out, so we're splitting it between us and bringing it up to date. And I will not let this fall behind again.

I owe her, God, I don't know. Maybe I should hunt down her fandom of choice and write her something for it? But yes. Cookies for general_jinjur for being so awesome.

Dental Continuance

You know it's bad when your dentist comes in, opens your mouth, takes a look, and immediately offers you a stronger painkiller. My white-lipped silence must have said a lot. I don't even want to know what that tooth looks like. I mean, seriously. Not at all.

Anyway, he referred me to an oral surgeon, so I'm calling this afternoon to get that out of the way and scheduled while waiting for my script to be finished. I took two more vicadin when I got home from the dentist, since I hadn't been sure if it was okay to take them right before a dental visit. Expect more of the warm and cuddly jenn wandering around--seriously, if this didn't make me itch like an attack of hives, I could easily be a really functional junkie on this stuff. I sit around thinking how much I love everyone, am moved to tears of sheer joy and gratitude when svmadelyn chats with me, and offer up dirty weekends to amireal while telling her about my feelings. It's all very glossy and not a little creepy. But luckily, in the glossy place, I lose my line between friendly and scary. Or I'll be the one between doses who snaps short and that's very not of the good.

Um, so if you are the person I snapped at? I'll be apologizing tonight. It wasn't you at all--I just had to wait for the next dose and it was screwing with my mood. If I'd just stayed off for anotehr hour or so, I wouldn't have been like that.

Okay, the new dose has kicked in. Let's do some more comfort fic!

Comfort Fic Recs, Group Two

Quarks, Quantum Chromodynamics and Other Unproven Theories by amireal

I love this one for so many reasons this, too, will need numbers.

( fic spoilers ahead )

And one more, before I pass out in the pretty place. Or just lay in bed and stare at the ceiling feeling *way* too good.

Fearless, Mindless Fancy by giddygeek

I love this one just for being so freaking *fun*. A haunted house! John the psychic! Rodney as Scully! Evil supernatural thing! How could this not be the funnest, happiest, cutest thing *ever*? Made of love. One of the Harlequin Challenge responses that made me all "Awww" and "Mmm" and *pretty*. I want a sequel to this like no one's business on their next wild adventure. So. Much.

Link here for your reading pleasure.

To fulfill my New Year's Resolution. I said, I'd be more fannishly aware, fannishly active, fannishly participatory, and you know, *useful* to the community. So I host a challenge! Yes, that was my brilliant *one in the morning* idea.

here we go.

The Multifandom DVD Commentary Challenge!

The rules are slightly different from the normal DVD commentary. This is a commentary on another author's work. The rules are fairly simple.

The Rules

1.) Any fandom and any pairing or lack of pairing thereof is welcome.

2.) One DVD commentary per story--if you know what story you want to comment on, post here with title and author. A dozen commentaries on The Greatest Fic Ever is nice, but let's go for variety and breadth.

3.) You must have author permission. I want this as fun, not as trauma. You can call a story first if you're worried about getting it before someone else does, but permission is a must for the challenge. A convenient list of authors who gave pre-permission is here, done a while back. A few also gave open season on their stories here. If you are an author who has no problem with it, reply here with name and website. I'll put together a list out of this entry and the others, assuming the authors remain okay with it.

4.) Deadline for submissions is 9/30/2006, 12:00 AM CST.

5.) The minimum is one commentary. I mean, if you're taking on the five hundred thousand word epic of wonder in your commentary, I'm not asking more than that. No upper limit, however. Do as many as you like, in as many fandoms as you like.

If there's enough interest, I'll set up a community to hold them--kind of one-stop shopping, so to speak, of big fun. Watch here for that. Otherwise, I'll gather the posted commentaries into a memory folder for easy viewing.

Anything I've written or cowritten is disqualified from this challenge. This does not pull permission to do it outside of the challenge.

Okay! You're done! Choose your story and go at it!

Right. We're done. I have a horrible feeling that I should have run these rules by svmadelyn to see if I left anything out, but okay. We'll go with this. Please feel free to pimp this out if you like. I'll post to the communities I belong to tonight, but seriously, *multifandom*.

Now, really done.

Except for this:

ETA: A list of claimed stories is here. I'm just using that list to keep track. Continue claiming stories in this entry.

The community DVD Commentary was set up to post the challenge commentaries in. And some people already are! I'm kind of in awe here. Anyway, for the called stories list and to see posted commentaries, go there.

Updated community 8/17/2006 wiht claimed and completeed DVD commentaries up through 8/17/2006 at 9:39 AM.