Your picks for everything fannish

I think in the past two years I have taken part in just about every single seasonal community there is. This is a very personal list in sense of overall enjoyment with a community. Communities where there is cross-pollination and exposure and exchange between members who freely comment on one another's work, mods who try to comment on most or all of the work in their communities--these are the things that can make a community have a special feel for me. In 2007, I'm cutting back on the time I have to give to seasonal communities, but all of these would make my list for those reasons. In short, some communities really party.

( 5 Seasonal Communities that rocked over 2006 )

shapinglight

There were lots of great Meta posts in 2006. This is a selection I particularly enjoyed. This being me, they do have a strong Spike-centric bias.

School Hard Re-examined, by

peasant_. In this essay, the author makes what is to me a very convincing argument confounding the widely held fanon belief that Spike was bad at planning.

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shapinglight

There were lots of great Meta posts in 2006. This is a selection I particularly enjoyed. This being me, they do have a strong Spike-centric bias.

School Hard Re-examined, by

peasant_. In this essay, the author makes what is to me a very convincing argument confounding the widely held fanon belief that Spike was bad at planning.

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1. Strange Rebirth by

escritoireazul - 14+ - Turns out Cordelia is not quite so dead after all and she might be getting a run for her money considering who’s there when she wakes up. Firefly crossover.
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Current Music: "Personal Jesus" by Depeche Mode

1. Strange Rebirth by

Current Music: "Personal Jesus" by Depeche Mode

xlivvielockex.livejournal.com

I figured that this might be something that people weren't familiar with and when I saw the RPG tag in the tag list, it inspired me. (I use the tag list...a lot.) Not sure how many people are familiar with RPGs (Role playing games) but the 'verse has some of the most active and longest running games, especially on Yahoo. These are PBeM (Play By E-Mail) more so than a message board, chat, or communities settings.

So I picked out five great ones that I play in that have strong characterization, great voices, fabulous plots, and just really fun people. They are great to join if you are into RPing or if you just want to lurk to see great stories unfold.

I am starting off with the big momma of them all...

( Let's Play Pretend )

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hesadevil.livejournal.com

I'm not certain of the date of some of these, but I discovered them all in 2006. They illustrate the essence of Spike's character that we watched develop through 7 seasons.

1. Sexy Spike: - Joss may have used smoking as a metaphor for evil but some of us viewed Spike 'lighting up' very differently.

_prophecygirl I love the timing in this animation.
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_prophecygirl I love the timing in this animation.
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I love Spawn - Here are my top 5 Spawn fics that were completed in 2006.

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I love Spawn - Here are my top 5 Spawn fics that were completed in 2006.

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1. LOL by

scarymime - All – #32, Ah, those poor Scoobies. Just one of a set of hilarious icons.
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Current Music: "The Way You Move" by Bodyrockers

1. LOL by

scarymime - All – #32, Ah, those poor Scoobies. Just one of a set of hilarious icons.
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Current Music: "The Way You Move" by Bodyrockers

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( Five of my favorite personal slash icons )