General Discussion Thread

[Róisín]

Iceea, I like that idea. Especially a chance to have some of my stuff illustrated by the artists here, or to write about their pictures. Have you seen the Shoop/Sectoboss collaborations? They're great.

[Helia]

They all sound good to me! Also I don't see why you would need a mod for the middle one. You can PM people or post the assignments in the main thread if you choose to run it.

I guess Lazy8 didn't mean a forum moderator, just a person who volunteers to run the exchange.
But I like the exchange idea the best.

The Unlos/Roisín and Shoop/SctoBoss collaborations were awesome, it would be great to have more like those.

And yet another thought: what if we try to make an art/fic challenge or collaboration for the Summer solstice?

[viola]

I guess Lazy8 didn't mean a forum moderator, just a person who volunteers to run the exchange.
But I like the exchange idea the best.

Ah that makes more sense

[Lazy8]

I guess Lazy8 didn't mean a forum moderator, just a person who volunteers to run the exchange.

That is correct.

So it seems like most people who are interested are in favor of exchange? Okay then, I guess I'll try to set that up sometime this weekend, whichever way people ultimately vote. (Still open to suggestions, though.)

ahh, a small suggestion for a slight variation. Artist makes a drawing, painting, whatever, and requests a fic about the art or using the art as a scene setter. And the opposite, a writer writes a story, poem, song, etc and requests art relating to the written work.
And as  or in my case worse. 

I like this idea as well. I've done this exact thing spontaneously on a couple of occasions. And you know, the exchange would only be the first exchange, we can try different things on subsequent rounds...

[Kiraly]

I'm mostly in favor of the exchange idea too, though I wonder - does it need to be anonymous? I really like the idea of collaboration, and it would be cool to be able to get feedback from the person making the request (or to ask questions). Plus there would be less work on the organizer's end, once the collaborators have been assigned. I really like Iceea's suggestion too, because I definitely get inspired to write things by looking at art or inspired to draw things from reading fics. If we wanted to do something like that, people could maybe request an art or writing connected to something they've already made (instead of creating a brand-new work to have the collaborator work from) for the first go-round. (Not sure if that makes sense, right now the artist part of me is really wishing I had a minute to like draw up a diagram of what I'm thinking to explain better).

Also, it could maybe get a little hairy if we have different numbers of artists or writers, but I imagine there are a few people like me who are willing to do either, whichever side needs more.

Something for midsummer would be cool too.

[Ragnarok]

I'm mostly in favor of the exchange idea too, though I wonder - does it need to be anonymous? I really like the idea of collaboration, and it would be cool to be able to get feedback from the person making the request (or to ask questions). Plus there would be less work on the organizer's end, once the collaborators have been assigned. I really like Iceea's suggestion too, because I definitely get inspired to write things by looking at art or inspired to draw things from reading fics. If we wanted to do something like that, people could maybe request an art or writing connected to something they've already made (instead of creating a brand-new work to have the collaborator work from) for the first go-round. (Not sure if that makes sense, right now the artist part of me is really wishing I had a minute to like draw up a diagram of what I'm thinking to explain better).

Also, it could maybe get a little hairy if we have different numbers of artists or writers, but I imagine there are a few people like me who are willing to do either, whichever side needs more.

Something for midsummer would be cool too.

I would like to have the 'already made' option done, please.

[Keeper]

I'm mostly in favor of the exchange idea too, though I wonder - does it need to be anonymous? I really like the idea of collaboration, and it would be cool to be able to get feedback from the person making the request (or to ask questions). Plus there would be less work on the organizer's end, once the collaborators have been assigned. I really like Iceea's suggestion too, because I definitely get inspired to write things by looking at art or inspired to draw things from reading fics. If we wanted to do something like that, people could maybe request an art or writing connected to something they've already made (instead of creating a brand-new work to have the collaborator work from) for the first go-round. (Not sure if that makes sense, right now the artist part of me is really wishing I had a minute to like draw up a diagram of what I'm thinking to explain better).

Also, it could maybe get a little hairy if we have different numbers of artists or writers, but I imagine there are a few people like me who are willing to do either, whichever side needs more.

Something for midsummer would be cool too.

I think it would be cool to have it open- If we see a topic we like, we can just say "Hey, I'll do that one!" and then just like Kiraly said, there can be collaboration. Plus, it would make it slightly easier to know what's already taken. And then if there are more artists or writers, maybe there could be art-art or writing-writing pairs too? I think the whole idea's pretty cool.

[Iceea]

me thinks I need to put fingers to kbd to get a head start on this

[OwlsG0]

Iceea, I like that idea. Especially a chance to have some of my stuff illustrated by the artists here, or to write about their pictures. Have you seen the Shoop/Sectoboss collaborations? They're great.

My favourite pieces of Lalli art on the thread. I would love it if that kind of stuff got done more and more often around the forum.

[Sc0ut]

What are these Shoop/Sectoboss collaborations you're talking about? I've seen Shoop draw for Sectoboss's fics after they were published, but I don't think those were collaborations as in "writer and artist decide to work together from the start". So, am I missing something?

[urbicande]

Happy Cinco de Mayo

[viola]

Happy Cinco de Mayo

[urbicande]

*buffs nails*  My work here is done.

[Róisín]

Scout: you'd probably need to go back through Archive of Our Own or the Scriptorium, but if I recall correctly, Shoop did a drawing for SectoBoss's 1920s AU, then they coordinated on a few more? Don't remember the details.

Unlos and I both wanted to do Winter Solstice on the Forum Advent Calendar. She's an artist, I'm a poet, so we decided to share. That's my Solstice invocation, with her illustration of the team around the Midwinter fire. Then we did Spring Equinox (the one with Lalli playing a sallow flute while sitting in an old willow tree, and the poem about life growing from death).

[KicknRun]

Does anyone here know any websites that keep stocks recorded for an extended amount of time? (like a month or so)