Admin Post: [mod post] new line ups

[bluedreaming]

Note: If you’re a new person who has stumbled across this post/community, please see the latest reshuffle/sign up post to sign up!

Welcome to everyone who's participating this round, and best wishes to those who are stepping out.

If you're new (or even if you're not) you can find the full rules (now updated and overhauled!) on the rules tag (always the most recent post). If you want a quick guide, the short version of the rules on the community profile is a handy reference.

Of course, if you have any questions, you are always welcome to ask Mousi (on the Discord server, remousapelli or email) or Ansa (on the Discord server or email). You can also reach the mods in general by email, or by tagging @mod on the Discord server. I'll also remind everyone that we do have the shiritori/sonic shiritori collections on Ao3. We also have a Twitter account writetomyheart that tweets all posts unless they're member-locked to the LiveJournal/Dreamwidth communities. I do try to monitor this Twitter, but the above contact methods are best. The Discord server also has a #shiritori-timeline channel, that unites all (unlocked) posts from LiveJournal, Dreamwidth, and Ao3.

The new line ups are already on the LiveJournal and Dreamwidth community sidebars, will be added to the #posting-order channel on Discord shortly.

Team 1
mousapelli ♔
green_eggs101
knittenkitten
oath_breaker
end_alls
managummi

Team 2
slow team
bluedreaming ♔
softboys
elindar
thesecretdoor
faded_lace regular
dusk037

Team 3
yrindor ♔
nonchalantdroid slow
alchemicink
meowmeg slow
shinysylver starting off on hiatus

Team Sonic
alchemicink
bluedreaming
dusk037
meowmeg
nonchalantdroid
thesecretdoor
yrindor

You'll notice that there are two slow team players on a regular team, and a regular player on the slow team. I had to balance team type, frequency, and platform, so I decided to prioritize platform. This means that Team 1 and Team 3 are all on Discord, and Team 2 is all on LiveJournal, with tagging mostly on Twitter. Since the previous Team 2 was dissolving, I also moved the previous slow team to Team 2, so as not to disturb Team 3 which is mostly the same.

Some quick reminders:

• For standard teams, the write or skip period is three days, except for the slow team (and slow players) which is five days.
• Anyone is allowed to jump in and play sonic, as long as you pay attention to the three-day expiry date for each sonic story. The team list is just a role (@teamsonic) on the Discord server that notifies you that there's a new post (depending on your discord notification settings, please use the tag if posting), and/or indicates your general interest in playing.
• For LiveJournal and Dreamwidth: new writer tags have been created and initialized (these are the love ranger: [username] tags). If you would like your tag to be changed, please let us know.
• For LiveJournal and Dreamwidth: quick reminder that we have specific fandom tags as well as general fandom tags. If there isn’t a specific fandom tag, but you expect to write it frequently, please let us know and we’ll be happy to make it. However, we prefer not to make a tag for every one-off fandom, since we do have the general fandom tags which work well. A general guideline is a new fandom tag at ~10 posts.

Other notes:

• For LiveJournal: the LiveJournal community (writetomyheart) continues to be exported (manually) to this Dreamwidth community as a back-up. (Temporarily not working, but it should work again soon.)
• For LiveJournal and Dreamwidth: a quick reminder/update about titles/headers: when posting, please title your post with the team name (i.e. [team one]) before the (optional) title. In the past, we've generally included the characters/fandom, rating, word count, and any potential warnings in the cut tag text. However, with more use of the RSS, let's try to include this information (a single line is fine) above the cut. An example would be: "Peter/Thomas (Rivers of London); PG; 450 words; violence".
• For posting directly to Discord, please post the link to the text (unless it's unposted) in your team channel, include the last sentence of your text, and @ the next person on your team.
• If you are posting to the LiveJournal or Dreamwidth communities but have your text elsewhere, post a link to your text (unless it's unposted), include the last sentence of your text, and include the username of the next person on your team, or their LiveJournal tag if they're on LiveJournal.
• If you're posting your text on Ao3, please include your fic in the shiritori or sonic shiritori collection and please remember to use the Community: write to my heart freeform tag.

Thank you to our captains! Please assume that everyone needs to be poked unless they tell you otherwise. Since we are now using an Airtable sign up form, we now have a different team contact information page. I'll share a link to this in the #captains channel on Discord.

I think that’s it, but if we’ve missed anything, please let us know. You’re welcome to comment here with any questions, other comments, and/or problems, or contact the mods directly. As a reminder, please contact the mods or your captain if any of your contact information has changed.

And with that, team captains mousapelli, bluedreaming, and yrindor, you are welcome to start your groups off with the words of your choosing. If someone would like to start sonic off, that would be great too.

This post was also cross-posted to LiveJournal.