Expressions of interest

[kerravonsen]

I am considering whether I will run a gen_remix ficathon; like remix_redux but gen only. The rules would be similar to RemixRedux, but all the qualifying stories would have to be gen (and the remixes also).

It won't, however, be worth doing if there aren't enough folks interested. I know there's a huge number of folks who do Remix, but that doesn't mean that anyone would necessarily be interested in doing both, or in doing a gen remix instead.

ETA: By "What minimum story length?" I mean, the length of stories that have to be written, not the length of qualifying stories. I'm assuming that the stories-which-qualify rule would be as for RemixRedux (500 words).

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Comments

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

I might be interested, as I like remixes and I like gen, and, as we all know, I'm a big fat ficathon slut. :) But I'm hesitant because I really don't want to have to go to the work of going through all my stories and creating an index of the ones that would qualify as gen under the rules. If you count the drabbles and things, there are hundreds of them, and if that's needed, it's probably more work than I'm willing to do. I also don't think I'll participate if "gen" is defined in such a way that het romance is OK but slash isn't. I'm mildly uncomfortable with that even with your other ficathons, and, whether it's rational or not, there feels like a big difference in my mind between putting certain things off-limits in terms of what kind of stories are acceptable to write for a 'thon vs. asking me to categorize my own or other people's stories based on discriminatory standards, if that makes sense. I chose "PG" on the poll because I think "no pairings" is a bit difficult to define... There's a big difference between a fic which happens to mention a canon pairing in passing vs. one that's obviously All About the Romance, but I think there's a continuum there, and the boundary is pretty fuzzy. Then again, I suppose "PG" can be a bit difficult to define, too. Whatever you decide to go with, my only personal make-or-break objection would be if het and slash are treated differently.

Other than that, it'll probably just depend on what my scedule works out to be, and whether you'll have enough people who have stories in the fandoms I can actually write.

[kerravonsen]

But I'm hesitant because I really don't want to have to go to the work of going through all my stories and creating an index of the ones that would qualify as gen under the rules.

Why would you have to?

I'm assuming that what is required is
(a) to count up the number of stories that qualify (and I forgot to mention that drabbles wouldn't qualify -- I'm assuming that the "minumum length of a qualifying story is 500 words" rule would still be the same) in order to see what fandoms you can list in your sign-up
and
(b) make sure that the story you *write* is gen.

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

OK, that's not a problem for me, then, as long as the burden for figuring out which stories are acceptable is on the person remixing them.

and I forgot to mention that drabbles wouldn't qualify -- I'm assuming that the "minumum length of a qualifying story is 500 words" rule would still be the same

They wouldn't count towards qualifying someone in a fandom, but they'd still be acceptable to remix, right? At least, that's the way remixredux does it.

[kerravonsen]

They wouldn't count towards qualifying someone in a fandom, but they'd still be acceptable to remix, right?

Yep.