bottom_draco

I know Haryella isn't, I've no idea about the rest.

Proceed with caution...?

idk I guess i should specify bottom!draco but I just assumed that that would be understood as this is a b!d community.

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You really shouldn't have to specify b!Draco. I've noticed that on a lot of the themed searches on this community lately, people have been reccing whatever fics fit the theme regardless of whether it's b!Draco or not. It's kind of frustrating to have to ask whether or not a fic is bottom!Draco on the bottom!Draco community. :-/

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I've sort of noticed that too. Personally, I think it should be either purely bottom!Draco or mostly bottom!Draco. I hate having to read a story wherein Draco bottoms briefly without mention and 90% of the fic contains detailed bottom!Harry.

I mean, I know it's permissible to have Draco topping several times but really, there should be a mention of such when reccing. I don't know if that's just me but I don't want to peruse a story thinking it's bottom!Draco when it's not.

Kind of defeats the purpose of the comm.

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I agree.

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Somebody seriously needs to strengthen this LJ community.. IDK, make it more strict and lively.. Our main page could do with a serious revamp. I've seen the bottom_Harry community look so well-done.. ours.. meh. It isn't even considering how many amazing artists bottom_Draco fandom has...

*tries to PM the sole maintainer of the comm* Considering she's been posting in her LJ lately, let's hope for a positive reply about a revamp ♥

I mean, we have 1340 members in this comm! xD

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Man, if I knew the codes well, I'd volunteer. I'm just not used to the codes but I can design it and coordinate with someone who can fix me the codes. Lol.

Also, I agree with the strengthening of the LJ community, we need the mod to set out house rules up again. And have people patrol?

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LOL that's my problem with my own LJ too.. html codes are.. @__@ I can only just about get the part about the header info.. Our comm would look so good with a new layout..

Maybe if a lot of us will PM

simmysim she will take more notice? Haha xD Definiely patrol better.. and probably have like what other hp fanfic sites do, have contests or something to encourage people to write and draw bottom_Draco!~ There's just about a lot of writers who I think we can interest if ever...

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Let me figure out the codes. I'm a mac user so things are a bit wonky on my end--I can offer to design shit.

Yeah, I mean, she can assign people to patrol, get a co-mod who's quite active, assign positions? I don't know, there's this awesome bottom!Draco reccer,

a_queen_bee, and maybe she can help man the site?

Yes, we can have fests and shit. *u*

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ngl I really want to change the mods ~~and give myself complete control~~.

We need proper lj-tags to make the searches easier, and to organize everything better. I tried adding tags before but it didn't work.

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Yes, I was thinking about the tags yesterday! We need tags! And we need like a masterlist of all the fic searches because really, we've been getting the same thing over and over again for the past few months. XD

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I've tried making tags like this:

fic search: possesive!harry

& the like but for some reason it doesn't seem to let me add tags (to other people's entries)

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edit: the tags I put don't show up on my entries either. Methinks we need a new layout.

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yes, we should have !contests!, and tags like someone else mentioned, and a mod who makes sure there are no bottom!harry postings. and the first contest we should do is Beauxbatons!Draco... because there is not enough Beauxbatons!Draco and this needs to be rectified.

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I've been thinking the same thing! This community needs active modding.

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i agree. just make sure anonymous can still post. (i have a thing against LJ ever since that whole banning BS they did a few years back.) i'd like to see some http://lillithium.livejournal.com/ art up on the com and site though, her work is so pretty.

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Ditto!

No luck for a reply yet from

simmysim though, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed..

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Anon always seems to deliver so keeping the option of anonymous posting is good.

What we need it:
proper organizing
proper tags
index for b!draco rec lists

I've made a list of the above and put it in a backdated (may have gotten the term wrong) entry in the community so it would always be at the top but deleted it. Besides, it would look much better on the info page.

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Hello! I doubt if you still remember me from this (http://community.livejournal.com/bottom_draco/496099.html) particular post at

bottom_draco but

westkitsune and I have taken it upon ourselves to contact

simmysim to at least ask if we can help revamp the entire community seeing as there are a lot of rules to re-establish, a lot of stories and art to organize via the tagging system, and hell, just total overhaul.

Unfortunately, our attempts are futile as

simmysim hasn't responded to any of

westkitsune's notes and emails. The only solution we could come up with was to build a new community that would provide the same avenue for bottom!Draco fans except, this time, we can add a few zing to it by making it more, I don't

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I think your comment may have gotten cut off! But I would definitely be interested in a new b!Draco community.

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ARRGGHHH!!! FAIL COMMENT IS FAIL!

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"Unfortunately, our attempts are futile as [info]simmysim hasn't responded to any of [info]westkitsune's notes and emails. The only solution we could come up with was to build a new community that would provide the same avenue for bottom!Draco fans except, this time, we can add a few zing to it by making it more, I don't know, homey perhaps?

On that note, we planned to kick start the new comm (we're still in the process of asking several artists if we can borrow their works to use in the layout) with a 30-themed bottom!Draco fest in line with the upcoming summer season via invitation (seeing talents form the current [info]hd_worldcup and the [info]hp_10k_showcase.

That's not final yet though.

Anyway, I don't know if you'll be interested or if it's too much of me to ask but would you want to jump aboard? :> No pressure though, I just recall the post and decided to contact a few people who I thought might be interested. You were on top of my list. Of course, I'd totally understand if you haven't the time. :)"

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Absolutely! I definitely have the time, and this is something I'm very interested in. Here's my email so we don't have to talk through comments: silverflame4761@yahoo.com.

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Lovely! Will email you tomorrow, the moment I'm up! <3

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I've seen the bottom_Harry community look so well-done

lol have you been spying?

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