Kaleidoscope!

[eruthros]

I'm considering doing Kaleidoscope this year - I've seen it linked around a lot, but just in case here are the basics:

Kaleidoscope Fanwork Exchange (AO3 collection)
A multimedia fanwork exchange hosted by dark_agenda for rare chromatic source fandoms.
Official Announcement, Policies and Procedures | Frequently Asked Questions
Nomination Form | Current List of Nominations | Nomination Example

It's a fanwork exchange for fandoms by chromatic creators featuring chromatic characters/people - there's more info in the official announcement post. And it's for all kinds of fanworks, vids and fic and art and icons and picspams and etc.

The good: I love a fanwork exchange! I love making something especially for someone else and getting something made especially for me. And I love the mods and the concept behind the exchange. And I really do need external pressure of some sort to actually post anything.

The bad: The schedule overlaps a lot with kink_bingo's schedule - all of the busiest KB modding times are also the important kaleidoscope times. But that won't mean I'll have no free time! But it probably will mean that I'm cranky and kind of tired of fannish things. It might feel more irritating than fun when I'm looking at an assignment next month. So I don't know.

The difficult: Nominations! People only get to nominate three fandoms, and there are so many cool things not currently on the list, and how would I decide what I want to nominate. I haven't been thinking about doing any multi-fandom exchanges, so I don't have a ticky-able list of Cool Things I Would Nominate For X. It's all just exclamation marks. Sleep Dealer! I want fanworks in that universe so much! Especially if they contain cool speculative fiction or threesomes! Janelle Monáe's Metropolis/Archandroid universe! All the Samuel Delany, all of it! (Except I still haven't read Dhalgren, whoops.) Game fandoms! Whale Rider, which I asked for for yuletide one year, but maybe glass_icarus is going to nominate it! Etc.

Decisions are hard.

Comments

[aris_tgd]

I nominated Sleep Dealer, so it should show up on the list. So you should sign up and make me something! ;)

[eruthros]

Yay, I'm so glad you nominated it! It's one of the best scifi films I've seen in years and I want it to have a million fanworks :)

[glass_icarus]

HEE, yeah, reasons I'm stalking the current noms list! >.> Need to hammer out some more wheeling & dealing, definitely.

[eruthros]

Yes! Too much to nominate, and it's so hard to choose!

[torachan]

I am waiting til the very last minute to nominate so that hopefully other people's nominations will help me narrow down my list. XD

[eruthros]

That does often help! But sometimes it just gives me more ideas - oh, I should nominate a different book by X than the one already nominated, oh, that reminds me of how much I wanted fic for that TV series, etc.

[gloss]

I actually had half a moment where I thought, "Well, I could try to finish Dhalgren by the time assignments go out..." and then I realized I was being VERY SILLY.

I share your nominating-angst!

[eruthros]

Ha! I had half a moment where I thought, "I should try to read Dhalgren by the time nominations are over," about a week ago, and then I realized I was being very silly. Everyone says it's so great, but I just somehow kept missing it!

Nominating things is hard.

[terajk]

I nominated things and still stalk the noms list.

[eruthros]

That is what the nominations list is for! :)