ext_12843 ([identity profile] mousapelli.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] writetomyheart2017-04-17 05:43 pm
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[Mod Post] Reshuffle and Poll

Hi, Shiritoreers! So it's finally spring here and we are probably due for a team shuffle, to the extent that any of you want to do that, lol. It usually takes us a couple weeks to sort this out anyway, so keep taking your turns as usual, but meanwhile comment here if you intend to keep playing, if you are/still want to be a team captain, if you want to join, etc. Feel free to link and send new people to this post!

also put in your comment if you have any special requests about which team, want to be on the same team as someone else, need a particular person to poke you, prefer Twitter or LJ pm or whatever, you know, whatever. If you aren't comfortable posting your request publicly, you can either DM me on twitter or email me at gmail (mousapelli) both places. If you would prefer to stay with your current captain, mention that too, it's totally fine. Honestly if your whole team wants to stay as is, greato, it's not like i'm mixing things up just to cause a drama.

I'm going to change the Sonic rules just slightly: anybody can post to Shiritori Sonic, so you don't have to sign up. But if you are interested in being a restarter, somebody who throws down a new Sonic starter when they notice it's gone dead, put that in your comment. I think having at least 3-4 of those would be good, and none of them should be me.

I also want to ask what you guys want to do about staying on LJ, in case some of you were deleting or thinking about quitting for that reason. To be real, I'm not deleting my own LJ, but I'm not opposed to finding out what you guys think or plan to do. I'll be backing up the comm to DW regardless anyway, in case you are worried about it being deleted suddenly. The way I see it there are several options:

1. Stay on LJ, nothing changes. This is my personal preference because I'm LJ permanent and am not going anywhere.
2. Move to DW entirely. I'm not opposed to this since it would work the same. After backing up the comm, we'd just start posting over there instead. I have no intention of deleting the LJ comm either way, I'd just let it sit here.
3. If people's feelings are strong and evenly split, some could stay on LJ and keep going, and some could make new teams on the DW comm instead, starting from the backup. The two comms would diverge at that point and be two different comms.

If we did #3, just to say, we'd need a new mod to take over on DW. There's no earthly way I can mod two separate comms when I'm barely managing this one.



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[identity profile] faded-lace.livejournal.com 2017-04-20 11:49 pm (UTC)(link)
That sounds good to me! I've never run an exchange before; is that period a little short, or is it normal? Like signups due by mid-May, assignments go out at the end of May, and then one month until the due date? I frankly haven't seen anything else running period since the holidays, so I think we're in the clear there XD; I don't think it should be a problem, but just in case this becomes relevant, I'm moving at the end of July, so it's probable that by the end of June, I'll be somewhat tied up seeing apartments and doing other move-related things. However, I really don't foresee myself not having any time for LJ even while doing that, so I don't think it should be a problem!

Hmmm, what about lyrics from some JE group song or something like that? I guess it could be difficult to find catchy ones in English. Do you have any ideas? XD

[identity profile] faded-lace.livejournal.com 2017-04-21 05:22 am (UTC)(link)
Oh OTL I forgot to reply to the top part in the other comment. I agree that giving too much time makes it such that people procrastinate, so idk, 4 weeks plus wiggle room to give people time for extensions seems ok? Or 6 weeks is also fine, but I can almost promise that I won't be available the last week of July and the first 2+ weeks of August because I'll literally be moving and starting a new job. So something like signups from May 1 to May 14, assignments go out May 20th, due date is June 24th (that's 5 weeks), and hopefully posting can start on June 30th? I can't even remember the timeline of like any of the exchanges I've done because I'm an idiot, so let me know if that sounds totally unreasonable. That also gives me time to help out with posting and what have you before my life becomes crazy, and then all that might be left to you is posting the reveals?

[identity profile] faded-lace.livejournal.com 2017-04-21 05:17 am (UTC)(link)
I too was thinking there must be a perfect KAT-TUN title, but I'm failing to think of anything off the top of my head (all I can come up with is Kiss Kiss Kiss, lol), OTL. I feel like Love Addiction or Zutto Love could be good, as long as it doesn't feel like it's limiting it to a certain group? I feel like something like "ai no katamari" or another senpai song that's been covered by a lot of groups over the ages might be good to have a more general, overall appeal, but I can't think of anything good and mostly English there, either. @_@;

[identity profile] faded-lace.livejournal.com 2017-04-21 05:41 am (UTC)(link)
Ahaha Ho! Summer is cracking me up, but I guess that limits the exchange to only ever run in the summer? But I'd be fine with that too XD Crazy Rainbow is also super cute, and I'm also totally fine with Love Addiction; I think it fits the content material well. So... up to you? I'm good with any of those!

[identity profile] faded-lace.livejournal.com 2017-04-21 06:00 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I mean, I know that about exchanges, but I know FQF sometimes did off-season filler prompts and stuff like that. But it makes sense that the "main" would be summer XD And I'm actually not totally sure about when I'll have the most free time since I'm about to change jobs, but it doesn't seem unlikely that I'll have free time in summer, so I think it's fine! I agree that that is excellent inspiration. |D;

Okay, that sounds good to me too! I'm also cool with asking around and tweaking. Using the same DW name is fine; my DW presence has been kind of a mess but I have faded_lace as a backup for this journal so at least for the moment that's good with me.

If it's okay, I feel like I'd feel better about it being anon? Sorry to be weird about it!

[identity profile] faded-lace.livejournal.com 2017-04-21 06:23 am (UTC)(link)
Great! Thank you so much.

Okay haha, sounds good. I think we should probably make a sock mod account? That's how FQF was run, right?

I'm happy to do the stuff like rules, timeline, and sign up form; I really enjoy working out that kind of thing in a really clear and unambiguous way, so I'll try to work on that. It's the weekend for me in about an hour, so... yay. XD;

I'm fine either way! I guess maybe a poll would be good? If we had other things we wanted to ask about we could put that in the poll too (like if there's anything we want to be different from FQF/anything we want to add?)

Good night! Hopefully I'll have some stuff for you in your email in the morning for you.