Last Call for RP Mods

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In case you missed it over the weekend, we need RP mods! More info here: http://community.livejournal.com/best_enemies/419012.html .

I've had some PMs and emails, but could stand to consider a few more! I'll give it another 24 hours before I get back to everyone. In that time period, please consider asking me for more info or dropping me an 'I'm interested,' as per the post.

Weekly Drabble Challenge 53

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As always I ask you: Why not recommend in early 2011?

More genres:

This week's prompts are:

Chick lit

and/or

Children's fiction

(no subject)

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Title:Two
Author:Witchway
Art by:Von Gelmini
Pairing:Doctor/Master
Rating:NC17



From Cavedrawings, Amazon
Carbondated 900,000 BCE

Three

Mine to touch, to tease.( Read more... )

Fanfic Headers

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B_E doesn't necessarily police things like Standardizing Fanfic Headers because we're not that sort of com, but here are some helpful things to think about when posting fic here:

1. A standard header goes something like:

Title: My Tragical Story (<--possibly link to fic here)
Author: x_los
Pairing: Three/Cheetah!Master, Jo, Brax (This is the standard, most universal, and easiest to understand way of telling people the pairing and other characters in your story. You could make a case for your brave new style, or campaign against the admittedly problematic semantic conflation of Masters with their Actors, which doesn't happen with the Doctor and Romana numbers, but if you want boilerplate, at the moment, this is it.)
Rating: NC-17 (You can use whatever rating system you prefer, but G to NC-17 is, again, standard, most universal, and easiest to understand.)
Word Count: 200,653 (optional)
Summary: The Doctor sleeps with Cheetah!Master, and Brax pops in with a bowler hat to laugh at him some more. Meanwhile, Jo eats a delicious trifle.
Warnings/Spoilers: (a matter of personal discretion)
A/N: (optional--if what you're posting isn't in a standard format or is mixed media, perhaps consider a note)

"Oh god, this trifle is more appealing to me even than Welshmen!" (<--possibly link to fic here)



Something like the above format will make it easy for who_daily to pick up your fic, and may make the fic more appealing to readers.


2. THINK HARD ABOUT PEOPLE'S FLISTS

Long ago, I tried to post like ten kink meme responses in a big DIGEST with tons of extra lines between things making the post far longer than it needed to be. It was unsightly, a burden on others' flists, and the sort of thing one does when one has not really thought about how people use lj.

In general: space economy is important.

3. Graphics:

Graphics can give a post visual interest, but they can also be over-used and visually irritating.

The *only* firm rule is that NOTHING visual above a cut can be non-worksafe. The eye is drawn to pictures in a way it isn't to standard text. Please think, 'Could having this site up, with my post on it, get delgados_gurl97 fired from TasteeBurger Corp for looking at it on her coffee break if her boss walks by?' WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF DELGADOS_GURL97?!

As far as graphics-on-fic: irritating or pleasant, it's a matter of personal taste again. Just think about others flists, and it's probably going to be cool.

4. Tags

We have an open tagging system, meaning you can create your own tags! BUT with great tagging power comes great responsibility! Please take a glance at the tags we have before creating your own? It saves the tag mods a lot of eye-rolling over the eighteenth attempt to make a 'doctor/master' tag. Guys, it's a doctor/master com. Chances are, /we know/.

These are ONLY GUIDELINES: we're not going to ban you for your uncut luxuriant depictions of the Master pelting a naked Doctor with soft fruit. We'll talk to you about the magic of lj cuts, but it's no big. You know, just--be excellent to each other.