Crack Van - Fanlore

Overview

Crack Van is a multifandom recs community on LJ with the goal to pimp the featured fandoms to new fans through recs of fanfic and vids. It recruits members of a given fandom to create primers about a given fandom (typically, these describe the source and characters, popular pairings, and story types, and include recommendations for fanworks and gathering spaces for the fandom) and to post regular recommendations.

Thus, the first time a fandom is featured in the community it is introduced with an overview post intended to raise interest and help fans unfamiliar with canon to follow the recced fanworks. Some fandoms have a regular presence with monthly changing volunteers, other smaller fandoms are only featured for a limited time.

It recruits members of a given fandom to create primers about a given fandom (typically, these describe the source and characters, popular pairings and story types, and include recommendations for fanworks and gathering spaces for the fandom) and to post regular recommendations.

Crack Van is notable among reccing communities for being highly organized, high volume, and wide in scope.

Special Events

The 15th of every month is Crack Van Collision day, when reccers are encouraged to post a crossover fic from their fandom. The last Friday of every month is Friday Night Drive-In, a.k.a. fanvid day.

Crack Van inspired communities

Crack Van also inspired the creation of fandom specific rec comms modelled after it, that for example may pimp different pairings and genres:

• Crack Broom for HP^[1]
• Crack Impala for SPN^[2]

External Links

• Crack Van posting guidelines

References

1. ↑ The Crack Broom, founded 18 November 2004. (Accessed 12 November 2008)
2. ↑ The Crack Impala, founded 24 January 2007. (Accessed 12 November 2008)