Fan flashworks
| Journal Community | |
|---|---|
| Name: | fan_flashworks |
| Date(s): | 2011- |
| Moderator: | cherryice, china_shop, sprat, teaotter |
| Founder: | ? |
| Type: | Challenge |
| Fandom: | Multifandom |
| URL: | Livejournal, Dreamwidth |
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fan_flashworks is a multifandom challenge community for flashworks. It ran on LiveJournal until 2017, and then moved to a Dreamwidth community of the same name. As of 2023, there were 3,132 entries and 11,591 comments recorded in the LiveJournal version, and 10,621 entries/29,375 comments in the Dreamwidth version, which imported all the old content.
fan_flashworks is open to fills in any format, including creating new Fanlore entries. Many of the guidelines are credited to jerakeen of kradamadness.
About
The goal of this challenge is to produce all kinds of new fanwork, to encourage play, practice and experimentation.By fanwork, we don't mean just fanfiction, though we love and appreciate that (so much!). We want to provide a venue for all fannish creativity, be it vids, art, podfic, icons, bento, flowcharts, arts and crafts, baking or anything else you can think of.
So if we're so relaxed, then what's with the tonnes of rules?
We don’t really have that many rules. Here’s a rundown of what it all basically says: Have fun. Flail. Squee. Love. Be nice. Draw, manip, write, vid, meta, bake, graph, poll or otherwise create your works to the current prompt within the challenge period. Follow mods’ cues and requests. Post your work to the comm (no fake cuts!) and do not post it anywhere else until we close the round. (Crossposting by linking back to the comm is totally cool though!) Use cut tags, hide NSFW images, rate NC-17 content and include content notes (warnings, kinks, etc) when relevant. Keep the file size of uncut images below 100kb. Use thumbnails where appropriate. Post only completed works to the comm. Don’t lock your posts. Be proud of your achievements, be they creative or feedbacky.
We welcome newbies and lurkers, so we wanted to have a thorough guide for them. It’s basically here to help people who have never participated in flashfic comms or other challenge comms like this before and don't know how they’re supposed to work.