A Community Update Part 2

[bottomdraco-mod.livejournal.com]

How's everyone doing so far? Guys still with us? xD

As promised, we're posting another update for the community!

Please take note of them~ :D

1. As requested by several members of the community as well as by the mods, Rule #8 in our rules list has been edited to apply only to dead links and MIA authors / artists who locked their posts. Changes have also been applied to our userinfo page.

2. Secondly, we encourage everyone to rec fics and art in the masterlist. If you click the specific rec lists asdjhk has posted an easy format that you can use to copy-paste your recs in! :D There is serious shortage of pairings with Draco that isn't HPDM! And HPDM could also use a variety of fics from different themes as well.

3. To protect the fictions and art coming in on October when the first bottom!Draco fest commences, we shall be raising the community's rating to "Explicit Adult Content" for 18+. However, the mods are not aware if doing so would lock the community for below-18 yrs of age members, and we do know that there are younger fans mature enough to enjoy and participate in the fest. Should this be a concern, please do comment in this post so we can opt for an alternative - such as an IJ account for the fest.

Based from the results of the previous poll on the fest, we have finalized some aspects:

As mentioned before, the fest will commence on October, while the sign-ups will be on June 5 to celebrate Draco's birthday. This will give the artists and authors 3 months to work on their prompts.

We have also decided for the first fest to be a showcase instead of a competition. Maybe in the future we can try for challenges like in hd_worldcup but for now we'd just like to showcase bottom!Draco talents.

Since we'll be using prompts for the fest, the mods have talked with one another and majority agreed that it would be nice to have a themed prompts list, as most other fests already do. For now we've come up with the theme, "Disney / Fairytale". Let's admit, High School Musical's "Breaking Free" can lovely apply to the HPDM pairing.

Some of the mods also thought of Disney / Fairytale remixes, like spin-offs of the real, Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm stories that were morbid but are decidedly gorgeous.

Still, everyone gets a voice in the community, so please do help us decide!

[Poll #1401112]

Please comment for any of your questions, point of considerations or suggestions!

Comments

[gypsyflame.livejournal.com]

As it is now, there will probably be one sign-up post for both artists and writers, but people will only be able to sign up for one or the other. If, as you say, there are still spots open, we'll consider allowing multiple works from the same individual.

However, you may definitely draw art to accompany a fic! That is both allowed and encouraged. :-)

Thanks for bearing with us; the official rules should be up in 2 or 3 days.

[dt8thd.livejournal.com]

Cool, thanks for clarifying! :D I've never participated in a fest before, and I'm really excited; I'm prone to bouts of writers'/artists' block, so I think it'll really help to have prompts and a deadline. Kudos to the mods for taking this on!