rhythmsextion: ([u2 - bono] queer as)
mentally motorboating jutdae ([personal profile] rhythmsextion) wrote in [community profile] u2slash2006-01-28 05:11 am

attention: admin post!

Hey everyone. Just your friendly neighborhood co-mod sticking a nose in for a moment. Please bear with me.

First thing: I've been doing my best to keep up-to-date on the memorifying of fics posted here, but I'm well aware of the fact that I can make mistakes. And frequently do. If you notice anything memorified incorrectly and/or missing, etc. please let me know (e-mail: rhythmsextion@gmail.com) and I'll take care of it as soon as I can. Seriously, I'm an anal completist when it comes to this sort of thing and I know I miss things and it bugs the hell out of me, so give me a nice poking or something and I'll love you forever. Oh yes.

Secondly: I've been contemplating starting up a challenge community that's similiar to [livejournal.com profile] anothergrape except that it'd be operated bi-weekly, open to anyone and everyone in the community who's willing to participate and would not be judged, but instead merely stand as a way to get people inspired into writing the hot gay Irish man action. I brought this idea up with a few people recently and was pretty much persuaded into bringing it straight (heh) into [livejournal.com profile] u2slash instead of creating a whole new community.

However, before deciding on whether or not to go through with this, I'd like to see if anyone is really interested or not. I mean, I don't want to start up something that no one's gonna give a damn about, right?

So. My question to you all is...

[Poll #661620]


Please feel free to add a comment to this post if you have anything to add or input regarding this. I'm open to any and all suggestions and opinions.

Thanks, everyone!

[identity profile] lardencelover.livejournal.com 2006-01-28 06:36 am (UTC)(link)
Because none of us have that. It's just you.

[identity profile] shihadchick.livejournal.com 2006-01-28 06:42 am (UTC)(link)
I'm so glad you know where we all stand on these things. :D

[identity profile] lardencelover.livejournal.com 2006-01-28 06:44 am (UTC)(link)
Also a nice one, but for entirely different reasons. And how is it I only have one A/L icon? This is embarrassing.

[identity profile] shihadchick.livejournal.com 2006-01-28 06:46 am (UTC)(link)
Being abused by Izzy and abasing yourself before me--- wait, that just sounds dirty. :D

[identity profile] lardencelover.livejournal.com 2006-01-28 06:55 am (UTC)(link)
And yet, I have five B/L ones. I have the same number of A/L ones and I do A/B.

*opens photoshop* Thanks for the indirect A/L nudge, then.

[identity profile] shihadchick.livejournal.com 2006-01-28 06:59 am (UTC)(link)
Aww, naw, it's not that bad, is it? ...well, unless you LIKE it that way. ;)

*pets*

verbing weirds language!

[identity profile] shihadchick.livejournal.com 2006-01-28 07:02 am (UTC)(link)
Oh baby, oh baby. /10 Things...

*giggle*

*snuggles you* Anytime. ;)

...don't you love how any serious post ever made in this community ends up being, like, an eight way injoke session between half of us?

[identity profile] lardencelover.livejournal.com 2006-01-28 07:04 am (UTC)(link)
One whore breeds another. :)

Re: verbing weirds language!

[identity profile] shihadchick.livejournal.com 2006-01-28 07:15 am (UTC)(link)
I love or something. :D

...how long do you reckon we can keep this up before we get hung, drawn and quartered for blasphemy? :D

[identity profile] eyesmakeacircle.livejournal.com 2006-01-28 07:26 am (UTC)(link)
Would love to see another challenge set up get going. I think it really would benefit everyone.

*cheers*

[identity profile] bonoffee.livejournal.com 2006-01-28 11:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Yup, sounds good to me, can't promise regular writing myself because well, I suck at the moment, but I'm always open to trying out new stuff and of course reading all the amazing stuff here! I just wish my writer's block would hurry up and bloody move.

[identity profile] rummyjoe.livejournal.com 2006-01-29 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
Back in the day, I was on an X-Files mailing list, and we'd do periodic challenges. They weren't regularly scheduled or anything, but the Mod would give a few elements (ended up being spoilers taken out of context, but a lot of people didn't realize. heh), and anybody who wanted to play would play. It turned out really well, and we'd get some touching stories and some screamingly hilarious bits from the same "assignments".

my .02: You could have specific pairings for some challenges, and for others you can just assign specific objects or places or themes or whathaveyou and they can write whomever they want. Just mix them up and don't have them necessarily all be the same format, is what I'm saying. It would probably keep more people interested over time.

And for some reason I'm picturing you doling out the challenges like so:

Professor Plum Bono in the Billiard Room with a double-ended dildo

I have no idea why.

[identity profile] rummyjoe.livejournal.com 2006-01-29 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
I blame Queer!Bono's plum colored shirt. ;)

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