writetomyheart | [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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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

hm, a couple weeks for signups isn't unusual, but maybe short for writing. I guess more like six weeks for writing might be about average? I guess I'm not sure how much of a window we'll need to sort pairs between sign-ups and people having their assignment. So yeah, idk. I feel like when you give people a long window, like 8+ weeks, they just put it off and don't start writing for ages anyway.

Yeah I'm trying to think of some stuff, but nothing seems dead on. Like Sadistic Love, Think u x, I Scream Night, Zig Zag Love, Rock Your World? Be Love? Zutto Love? idk why this seems so hard.

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?

Or what about Luv Sick or NextAction? Ai no Beat? I'm basically just scrolling my library at this point.

Or I guess there's the entirely obvious Love So Sweet or Love Addiction. do you like any of these? I feel like there just HAS to be the perfect KAT-TUN for this somewhere, damn.

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. @_@;

I'm leaning towards Love Addiction at the moment, yeah. I asked tlist quick if anybody had any genius (i'm going to bed as soon as the Sharks stop being in playoff overtime), so if nothing better turns up by the morning, are you okay with that?

Or else just some like super classic KAT-TUN like Wilds of My Heart? Or Real DX? tons of people cover Real DX but it's not exactly dead on.

....actually T&T have some pretty good titles. What about Crazy Rainbow or Ho! Summer? is ho summer too on the nose because loooool. But having an exchange named Crazy Rainbow would be kinda cute too XD

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!

the longer I think about it, the more I like Ho! Summer. And yeah, exchanges usually run the same time every year and summer's when I'm likely to have the most time, idk about you, but I'm okay with that. Eh, let's do it. I've been inspired by watching T&T's intensely gay music video this while we were at karaoke last week.

honestly, I like your timeline up above. I'd rather get it over with. I really think 5 weeks is enough? Idk, I guess we can ask around. I'll set up a comm. Is your DW name different?

One more thing: anon or not? I'm willing to go either way but personally everybody always guesses me so I'm like ehhhh about it.

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!

okay I created ho_summer and I'm inviting you to be mod as faded_lace right now.

nah, it's not weird, it's how most exchanges are, I don't care. It's just that I personally fail at it lol.

I'm totally up for doing some other stuff like prompt fill or idk what at other points in the year, totally.

I'm heading to bed, but totally feel free to do anything to the comm that you want in the meantime. Like we'll have to have rules and a timeline and idk what all else. I can make some icons and stuff. Should we make a sock account for posting? Is that a thing? Anyway I should be around this weekend to get stuff rolling but I have school tomorrow still.

Should we make a poll about timeline and stuff or should we just go for it and see who signs up?

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.

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