Would you like to take part?

[yourlibrarian]

Hello everyone!

As we all know, buffyversetop5 is a recs community, and each fall we have Classic Recs over Halloween for older material that others have missed over the years, or newcomers may not have seen. Part of Top 5's purpose is also to celebrate all the talent we have in our fandom, in its many expressions.

This year is the ten-year anniversary of "Angel." I got to thinking that it might be nice to have an essays project on the topic of "who/what in the fandom has inspired you?" This would likely include nods to writers/artists/vidders, etc. that would be a bit of a general rec for their work, but it might also be about fandom projects, someone who got you to start writing or vidding, or other things fellow fans have done that have inspired you to be in the Whedonverse fandoms. These don't have to be enormously complex posts. I was thinking of something around 800-1500 words.

We could have them posting between the end of May (U.S. Memorial Day weekend) until Halloween, when Classic Recs would open, 1 or more per week, depending on how many contributions we get.

If you like the idea, please comment and tell us. If you have questions, please ask. And, most importantly, if you'd be willing to write a post yourself, please tell us that too. We'd like to make sure that if we launch this, we'll have enough contributors to keep the project running until fall.

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/woman_of_/]

I'ld be interested, but not sure I would make it up to 800 words.

[yourlibrarian]

I know I don't plan to be doing any word counts, but I did want to give people the idea of what we were going for. I think some of the rec posts we get during Top 5's sessions are so detailed they'd probably qualify!

[gillo]

Sounds interesting - and yes, I might have a go at writing something.

[yourlibrarian]

Excellent! I'm keeping a count to see if we'll have enough volunteers to go forward.

[deird1]

I might be interested in doing a post...

[yourlibrarian]

Great! ::Adds a hash mark::

[shapinglight]

I'm in.

[yourlibrarian]

Thanks for the support!

[lavastar.livejournal.com]

That sounds very interesting - I like the idea, and I'd definitely do some recs. I think it's especially cool that you could do like a regular rec for a specific work or pimp a comm/writer/whatever.

[yourlibrarian]

Yup, it's pretty flexible/

[dawnofme.livejournal.com]

I really like this idea and I'd be willing to write one of the posts.

[yourlibrarian]

One more, great!

[annegables.livejournal.com]

I would be honored to write about the reasons and, most of all, the person who encouraged me into the fandom!

[yourlibrarian]

Great! ::Adds to list::

[rebcake.livejournal.com]

I'd probably weigh in. I wonder how many of our posts will read the same:

When I discovered (herself insert excellent writer here) I had to find more...

[yourlibrarian]

LOL! I wouldn't be surprised. It's pretty interesting to think about how patterns like that hold true for so many people.

[sockmonkeyhere.livejournal.com]

I like this idea, and I could contribute a post. :)

[yourlibrarian]

Thanks for letting us know!

[ms-scarletibis.livejournal.com]

I really like this idea.

I'd like to contribute a post, but I don't know for sure just yet. But either way, I still like the idea, and hope you go through with it :D

[yourlibrarian]

That's ok, general commenta yea or nay are also welcome :>

[ms-scarletibis.livejournal.com]

Oh, I have a question--

There is one author who inspired me to write for Ats and Spangel, but she has taken those two specific fics down...could I still (hypothetically, cause I'm not sure if I'd actually write a post just yet) write a post about the author, even if those stories are unavailable?

[ms-scarletibis.livejournal.com]

Wait, nevermind. I have an artist I'd like to rec and therefore, write about.

Technically, it's two artists...is it okay to write and pimp two people in the same post? At any rate, it would help with the word count :P

[yourlibrarian]

To answer your first question, sure you could. It's a shame the fics are gone but you would still be reccing her work, and it's also important what you had to say about them. And yes, the essays wouldn't have to focus on just one person or thing.