Top 5 Things to Celebrate in 2007

[yourlibrarian]

New communities (that have already been recced) opened for discussion and news about the Buffy and Angel comics relaunch last year. There were also some other celebratory events.

1. adecadeofbuffy and 10yearsofbtvs were some of the communities started to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of BtVS this past year and included art and vids. There were also new ficathons such as:

2. Buffy is the Hero, Dammit, held to celebrate our titular hero in her anniversary year.

3. buffyversemeta held a metathon on the verse and its fandom, and opened as an ongoing meta community.

4. petzipellepingo began her Daily Link List last year to help pimp the many posts made daily around these parts.

5. Lastly the Whedonverse fandoms have raised an enormous amount of money for charities in the past year. The Can't Stop the Serenity Equality Now fundraisers pulled off over $114,000 last year alone, and the fandom has put together various other charity events over the year for different causes. The latest actions have been in support of the WGA strike.
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Although this is a multifandom effort, not specifically a Whedonverse one, I'd add that Sweet Charity has done a wonderful job of fandom fundraising this past year, with over $25,000 raised. Not only does fandom get to share the goodies produced, but this current drive in progress is being held for the WGA industry support fund which will provide emergency assistance to those in financial trouble due to the strike.

Comments

[lusciousxander.livejournal.com]

Great list, I wish we can do the Buffyversemeta again, that was fun. I'm actually still waiting for some promised essays that were never written.

[yourlibrarian]

It would, it seems to me that's one thing that I'm seeing less of these days is meta. I guess it makes sense in a way that in an older fandom there's less to explore there that hasn't already been said. On the other hand it makes it a particular plus that there's a place to go to for it since some older communities like mutant_allies seem to be comatose.

[shapinglight]

Good to know there are still people meta'ing away and otherwise finding inspiration from the Whedonverse and Petzi is a champ.

[yourlibrarian]

She is, that's a lot of work to be pulling those together every day.

[petzipellepingo.livejournal.com]

Eeep to No. 4.

There were also three communities (that I know of) to celebrate the 10th anniversary of School Hard - druturns10, decadeofspike and decade_of_spike.

[yourlibrarian]

::nods:: I knew there were others created this year too, thanks for adding them in.

It's always great when anyone does recs, but to have them every day is a real asset to the fandom :>