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Continuation of Current Thoughts (Re: Arthuriana Fandom)
I'm probably going to go with making a new community for Arthurian fic. I don't expect it to get a lot of traction/action, since its such a small fandom, and since its so spread out over different sites, however I think it'd be a good place to gather links together for some of the other things I want to talk about in this post.
I'm starting to keep a reclist in my ao3 bookmarks as I work through the ao3 tag for Arthurian Mythology, but after a cursory search of ffn there's a bunch of fics over there as well. So I find myself wondering how difficult it would be to try and create an archived list of old Arthurian fics on livejournal so that the older fic is preserved. The fandom is small enough that any fic I can archive and gather together is probably a boon. It's not like this is a fandom where there's a cornucopia of content on every website. This is one of those things that would probably fit into a new comm for Arthurian fic well. I've also found a couple of other interesting fandom artifacts in my little google searches; there's a fanfic plot generator, for example, that would be a good idea to preserve if I can.
Pivoting to a slightly different topic, I was poking around on my bookshelf and I wound up pulling out this deceptively thin little book that's a translation of a 12th century bestiary. It's "Richard de Fournival's Beastiare de Amor," and I couldn't help thinking that it would be a great challenge, since the whole premise of the manuscript is Fournival's discussion of different animals as representative of concepts relating to Fin Amors/chivalry/courtly love. I'm leaning towards a bingo, but I also think that it could work well as just a list of prompts. Either way, I'm going to putter around with the idea a bit since *I* find the idea fun at the very least.
Edit: While tagging this post I came up with the name. Beastiary Bingo. I have to do this now.
I'm starting to keep a reclist in my ao3 bookmarks as I work through the ao3 tag for Arthurian Mythology, but after a cursory search of ffn there's a bunch of fics over there as well. So I find myself wondering how difficult it would be to try and create an archived list of old Arthurian fics on livejournal so that the older fic is preserved. The fandom is small enough that any fic I can archive and gather together is probably a boon. It's not like this is a fandom where there's a cornucopia of content on every website. This is one of those things that would probably fit into a new comm for Arthurian fic well. I've also found a couple of other interesting fandom artifacts in my little google searches; there's a fanfic plot generator, for example, that would be a good idea to preserve if I can.
Pivoting to a slightly different topic, I was poking around on my bookshelf and I wound up pulling out this deceptively thin little book that's a translation of a 12th century bestiary. It's "Richard de Fournival's Beastiare de Amor," and I couldn't help thinking that it would be a great challenge, since the whole premise of the manuscript is Fournival's discussion of different animals as representative of concepts relating to Fin Amors/chivalry/courtly love. I'm leaning towards a bingo, but I also think that it could work well as just a list of prompts. Either way, I'm going to putter around with the idea a bit since *I* find the idea fun at the very least.
Edit: While tagging this post I came up with the name. Beastiary Bingo. I have to do this now.