un_love_you has a new layout to start the brand new season!

This summer has been incredibly busy and my fellow mod casper_san has been absolutely amazing in putting your claims on the list, answering questions, etc. So let's all give her lots and lots of love because she definitely deserves it!

Just a couple of things I wanted to mention, now that we have over 250 members!

♥ Please make sure that when tagging your fiction, you tag only the prompts that were given to you by casper_san or myself, or superduperkc. I've noticed some of you have started tagging your author names and while I would love to do that, eventually we'd run out of tags if we had a tag for every single author. I'm looking into creating a Delicious account for un_love_you but that will take time!

♥ If you have not received a completed table banner yet, we have not forgotten about you, I promise! Those will be given out in the next month or so!

♥ When posting your entries to the community please make sure that you are using the default font and type size. It really throws off the whole aesthetic style of the community if there is one post whose font is MUCH larger than all the other entries!

♥ If anyone has questions, comments, suggestions, etc please please please give them to us. This community can only become better by letting us mods know what the members enjoy/dislike. I can't promise everything will be accomplished, but we'll do our best to make sure that this community is running as efficiently as it could!

♥ ♥ ♥

Very rarely will you see mod posts around here, unless its to do with administrative changes, however, with the LiveJournal User-Representative Election in our midst, I thought it would be a good idea for those of you who maybe don't really know what it is, or what's been happening.

I know that I personally want someone who will be there to represent fandom, and I can only imagine that most of you, if not all, would want the same thing. You can check out information on each of the candidates here.

bookshop has summed it up very well in this post:

Right now, LJ user jameth is mounting his campaign based directly on attacking and undermining fandom's two leading candidates. Moreover, Jameth has shown an overall disrespect for fandom as a core part of livejournal's userbase - both for its attempts to mobilize for itself during this election and for its actual presence on LJ. icarusancalion has compiled a comprehensive list of ways in which Jameth has based his campaign upon attacking fandom's place on livejournal in this post.

Most recently Jameth has enlisted the moderator of ohnotheydidnt, one of the largest comms on livejournal, to make an endorsement post that explicitly calls the current fandom frontrunner "SOME LAME ASS HARRY POTTER FANDOM DORK... The weird Harry Potter nerd."

If fandom can generate 35,000 members for fandom_counts in 3 days, we can do this. But we all need to send the same, clear message: Jameth is not going to win this election on a campaign that slanders fandom without fandom fighting back.

Please help us fight back. To be honest, many of us don't know whether LJ will be taking this elected position seriously - but we need to do our part in case they actually do.

Thank you so very much for considering this request. Fandom counts. Let's use our voice.

It has come to my attention that although I do TRY to be superwoman I am sadly failing at keeping up with un_love_you and my RL commitments. I love this community and I am so proud of the writers who continually provide us with amazing pieces of work.

As of today we have 195 members!

When superduperkc and I started this comm we NEVER imagined it would attract this much attention!

Therefore I believe that it is time to open up another administrative position here at un_love_you. The duties of this mod would not be many, simply you just need to approve the claims, add them to the table and make sure that tags are created for the claims you approve. I don't expect you to spend HOURS every day here, just little time every week, and between the two of us, we should be able to stay on top of things.

If you are interested in applying for the role of mod, please email me at purestvixen @ gmail . com

In the email please tell me about yourself, what kind of online presence you have, and your availability!

If you have questions please respond to this post! Comments will be screened!!

It's been an interesting experience creating this community and running it for a short while with the help of purestvixen. Now with school and various other responsibilities I'm leaving it in her hands. Thank you all for being so enthusiastic about the idea behind this comm. It was really nice to see.

Good luck to you all!

Congratulations to mistojen who is the very first so successfully complete the un_love_you challenge with her claim of Lost/Supernatural General Crossover!

The list of authors who have completed their tables will now be listed here at this post.



( COMPLETED TABLES )

- Please check here before making your claim. We allow up to 3 authors to have the same claim (if Susie Q and Billy Jo already have claimed your desired character/ship/show - you can still claim it!) No more than three.

- Comment here when you have finished all your prompts and we'll add you to the completed table list!

- Finally, if you need to make any changes to your claim (your table link, for instance) or you need to drop out. Drop us a line here and we'll help you out with that.

Thank you!

( CLAIMS LIST: N-Z )

- Please check here before making your claim. We allow up to 3 authors to have the same claim (if Susie Q and Billy Jo already have claimed your desired character/ship/show - you can still claim it!) No more than three.

- Comment here when you have finished all your prompts and we'll add you to the completed table list!

- Finally, if you need to make any changes to your claim (your table link, for instance) or you need to drop out. Drop us a line here and we'll help you out with that.

Thank you!

( CLAIMS LIST: A - M )

01. Check the claims lists first. (Links are in the sidebar.) We allow up to 3 authors to have the same claim (if Susie Q and Billy Joe already have claimed your desired character/ship/show - you can still claim it!) No more than three.

02. You may claim an individual character, a general series/movie/book/etc., or an individual pairing. (Yes, pairings can contain more than two people - just remember that if you claim more than one person, each of those people have to be included or at least mentioned in the fic.) Crossovers and RPF are okay.

03. You may have two claims at a time.

04. Please apply for each claim in separate comments.

05. Comment below with the following information:
<b>Username</b>: <b>Fandom</b>: <b>Characters/Pairings</b>: <b>Table Link</b>:

06. Once your claim is approved by one of the maintainers, you will be given a list of tags to use, and you may begin posting!

07. Once you have been added to the table and given your tags, you may begin posting to the community.

08. You must use the tags I have given you when posting for that claim exactly as I have given them to you.

08.5 When you post, do not alter the default text. E.g., Color, style, and size. You may bold, italicize, etc. etc. But leave the other defaults in place.

09. When you comment for a claim, put the words "cellar door" in the subject line so that I know you've read all of the rules.

10. Once you have finished with the table, please comment to the claims list post and you will be added to the completed list and given a banner.

I just want to apologize on the delay in updating/approving claims. This comm has been the furthest thing from my mind lately. Everything will be fixed and/or updated by Christmas. If you're waiting for approval, etc.

So sorry!

KC

Just wanted to give a quick update.

I was a little caught up in the holiday, visiting family the weekend before and having company the week of, so I was a little behind on adding people to the claims list.

Everbody should be added by now, and let me know if you have any problems.

Welcome to the comm! :D

ETA: We have 103 members! Neat!

There may have been some slight data loss when I recently updated the CLAIMS POST. (Either that or I just accidentally duped the same entry twice, making me needlessly paranoid about it.) So if you could pop on over to that post to check to see if you're still where you're supposed to be, that'd be great. Just drop a comment here at this post if I need to re-add you.

Howdy ya'll!

I've got a couple of things on the agenda for today:

001. There is a spankin' new layout with a pretty header and all that. I never much liked the old one so keeping it around was just pure laziness. (You heard it here first.) You will notice that the tags are no longer in the sidebar. No worries! There is a link to the tags page above, as well as to the right!

002. In addition to that, the ugly green userinfo is finally gone! Huzzah! It's all spiffified with a matching little header and some pretty little hearts.

003. You'll notice on the user-info that there is now a F.A.Q. There is one major change. Authors are now permitted to have two claims at once. So if any of you have been dying to claim another show/pairing/whatever, now is your chance!

004. I have noticed that some of you post your fic directly into the community. While this is not discouraged I want to be sure that this is not the only place that you are posting it. I know some of you are new to fanfic protocol/livejournal/prompt communities in general, so I want to stress that we highly encourage crossposting (that is posting your fic at a central location, and then linking back to that location on various other communities.)

This community is still relatively small and diverse. Many of you are the only representatives of your fandom at this community. In other words, your audience is not here it is out there. Part of writing fic, and part of being motivated to write fic is getting feedback. And I just want to make sure you guys are getting the encouragement you need to keep writing for the prompt table. This may have been a completely unnecessary bullet point, but I just wanted to be absolutely sure.

005. Um, there is no five. But lists look cooler when they have five things on them instead of four. Just keep reading. Act natural. No one will ever know that this is an entirely pointless... erm... point. No pun intended.

Okay, so it's been brought to my attention that there's not really a place around here to ask questions if you're confused or have a particular concern about the prompts or how you're allowed to use them.

So, voila. I have come to save the day!

So post any questions you might have in the comment section of this post. And don't be shy. Just say no to shyness. We aren't having any of that monkey business around here!

*points to self*

This is my "dead serious" face.

ETA: Please take the time to in the very least skim through these other questions to make sure yours has not already been covered by a similar query.

01. Check the claims list first. We allow up to 3 authors to have the same claim (if Susie Q and Billy Joe already have claimed your desired character/ship/show - you can still claim it!) No more than three.

02. You may claim an individual character, a general series/movie/book/etc., or an individual pairing. (Yes, pairings can contain more than two people - just remember that if you claim more than one person, each of those people have to be included or at least mentioned in the fic.) Crossovers and RPF are okay.

03. You may have two claims at a time.

04. Please apply for each claim in separate comments.

05. Comment below with the following information:
<b>Username</b>: <b>Fandom</b>: <b>Characters/Pairings</b>: <b>Table Link</b>:

06. Once your claim is approved by one of the maintainers, you will be given a list of tags to use, and you may begin posting!

07. Once you have been added to the table and given your tags, you may begin posting to the community.

08. You must use the tags I have given you when posting for that claim exactly as I have given them to you.

08.5 When you post, do not alter the default text. E.g., Color, style, and size. You may bold, italicize, etc. etc. But leave the other defaults in place.

09. When you comment for a claim, put the words "cellar door" in the subject line so that I know you've read all of the rules.

10. Once you have finished with the table, please comment here and you will be added to the completed list and given a banner.

REMINDER

Now that people are starting to post fics (yay!) I just thought I'd put out a general reminder to everyone to tag your entries with your assigned tags when you're posting your fic.

I just added all the tags to the claims table this morning so you have a quick reference in case you ever forget your assigned tags. If you've been given two tags, please use them both! :D

Thanks to everyone for your cooperation with this. It only takes two seconds and it'll help us keep organized so that people can find their fics of interest without having to page through one by one.

Hello everyone! I just wanted to say that I am very excited about the participation thus far! Especially since we've been open less than a day! So in honor of that I made a very "unloving" Sawyer/Jack fanmix. It started out as a general un_love_you "inspirational" mix and just inadvertantly took a back road into a Jack/Sawyer-ville.

So, welcome authors! I hope you have a lot of fun at this community!



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( ever so, ever so, satisfying )

This community was born out of this post over at my journal. The idea is that fanfiction which uses the words "I love you," as a climax, usually at the end of a one-shot PWP, come across as false, more often than not. Here's an excerpt:

"I simply find stories that end that way... boring and unrealistic. Stories never end that way. I mean, they just don't. I love you is not a climax. It's not. Usually if your characters are in love, we probably already know that. There's no real revelation in it, you see? It's just... stating the obvious."

&

"To me, what is the most powerful is what goes unsaid. The things we learn from the characters by their actions and not their words. "

And these are the ideas from which this community sprang. There are many other reasons for people to be together, or not to be together, many of which you'll find in the prompt box below. Some came from the afformentioned rant, and some came after. So check the CLAIMS LIST, post the table at your journal, stake your CLAIM, and get writing!

( THE PROMPTS )

- Please check here before making your claim. We allow up to 3 authors to have the same claim (if Susie Q and Billy Jo already have claimed your desired character/ship/show - you can still claim it!) No more than three.

- Comment here when you have finished all your prompts and we'll add you to the completed table list!

- Finally, if you need to make any changes to your claim (your table link, for instance) or you need to drop out. Drop us a line here and we'll help you out with that.

Thank you!

( CLAIMS LIST )