Best Enemies

The Anonmemeabration was to have ended the 22nd, but I'd like to extend that to the 30th for a few reasons:

1. I'd forgotten about the double-birthday and its challenge, and didn't know about the distracting sad Sladen news. I think people's attention was captured by both, and as such the Anonmemeabration hasn't quite gotten its fair shot yet.

2. I fear perhaps people haven't written quite enough fic yet to satisfy the horrific beast which lurks within the meme. Better safe than sorry. CONSTANT VIGILANCE!!


People sure have prompted, however, to the extent where perhaps it's time to talk about Top-Heavy Memes And You. The Anonmemeabration is, of course, a very good time to get prompts out there, but as with Sizeofthatthing, the number of prompts is now perhaps too much in excess of the amount of fic being written. Over-dosing on prompts makes the meme difficult to navigate and burries old prompts too quickly.

* I'm not saying don't prompt, or that you MUST fill in order to request, just--think hard about whether you can give back in the form of quick responses to languishing old unfilled prompts. Also consider doubled-up responses (these are always appreciated, there is NO NEED for a one prompt-one fill ratio), sketch responses, and comments on responses. Rather than simply asking what your Community can do for you, please try and give as good as you get. <3 You'd be surprised at how easy writing a meme response can be, and no one--ESPECIALLY no one whose prompt has gone unanswered for aeons--is going to get judgy. The Anon Meme is the *ideal* place for shy or budding writers to flex their muscles.

* Also: I review the prompts as they get added just to check that no one's asking for C'rizz masturbating into a jar of peanut butter (actually Frobisher) again (YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE--THAT WAS OFF TOPIC, AND JUST GROSS, BUTTERLUVER09. (Man, now I almost wish that had actually happened)), and I'm seeing a lot of near-repeats of late. Please take a second to check the current page and/or the one before, or the filled/unfilled list(s), and see if you're not the sixteenth person asking for a prompt that's already been written (in which case, go read the fic!) or that no one wanted to write the first three times? There's no inflexible rule here re: Similar Prompts, you CAN just ask for something again if you'd like more of it, I suppose, but if the other responses didn't satisfy you, try and think about why and write your prompt differently enough to provoke the different fic you'd like to see in the world. If your prompt has basically recently been requested by someone else, give it time. If your prompt was requested a bit ago and no one wanted to write it, consider

1) why, and re-imagining the prompt accordingly, or
2) giving it a go yourself before recapitulating that prompt.

* Also, what we're looking for is not 'sort of maybe D/M, the Doctor is mentioned/lightly thought of/in the room', it's primarily D/M. D/M at heart. That's flexible, but don't take the piss. Police yoselves accordingly. You have the ENTIRETY of Sizeofthatthing for the Only Technically D/M to Not At All D/M spectrum, and it is GREAT for Other Things. If you want Other Things, or Mostly Other Things, it is THE place to go. This is the b_e meme, it does D/M things.

Thanks!

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