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Hi y'all! So, what I really want, even more than a lifetime supply of dark chocolate, a Buffy/Northanger Abbey crossover and a pony, is a widgety, login-and-customizable website equivalent of this comm. Where you could log in to add things to the master calendar for everybody to see, and then toggle over to your own personal calendar, marked with everything you've specified as important to you -- say, for instance, everything that's been tagged as "stargate" or "multifandom", with a note-to-self that your Big Bang draft deadline is April 20th.

I am not a programmer, so this is my best solution. What I hope is that this will become very large -- that it'll become habit for everyone hosting some sort of fandom event to hop over here and cross-post the announcement, as soon as they know their hard dates.

Dreamwidth, I believe, is working on making it possible to add communities to your reading list and then specify that only certain tags show up there, so you could add

fandomcalendar and not be bombarded by a zillion announcements you don't care about. That'll be pretty cool.

Here's the text I've dumped into the community profile for now:

A hub for the dazed and confused who always notice that More Joy Day (or International Blog Against Racism Week, or Yuletide sign-ups...) happened two days ago while you were napping.

Use it to note and promote your ficathons, fests and other events fannish or of interest to the fan community. Use it to keep track of what's going on.

Suggested (but not hard and fast) posting format:

Please check out the tag page, and tag liberally. The Yuletide obscure fandom fic exchange, for example, gets seven of them:
event:yuletide
fandom:multifandom
format:exchange
frequency:annual
medium:fanfiction
sign-up:2010 dec
due:2010 dec
(whew.)

Got questions, suggestions or concerns? I want them! Here's the welcome post, or reach me, Stulti, at stultiloquentia@yahoo.ca.

Please, if you have any thoughts, suggestions, enthusiasms, anything, let me know. How should we tag-wrangle? Should I shoot for a monthly compilation post? I've never run a comm before, so I'm eager for help and advice. Pimp like whoa. Post your ficathon. W00t.

- Stulti

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I wonder if it might be worth also setting up a GoogleCalendar related to the comm? I don't know how difficult that would be.

Ooh. I've never used GoogleCalendar before, but it definitely sounds like something to investigate. Thank you!

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wanderlustlover - 2013-04-14 04:04 (UTC) - Expand

I was just coming here to see if this had been suggested! Stulti, may I take a stab at it?

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stultiloquentia - 2019-02-16 16:54 (UTC) - Expand

You should add this comm to

newbieguide and http://wiki.dwscoalition.org/notes/Community_List, and promote it at

dw_community_promo

Already done! :)

Very easy to set up gCal - you can make it public and there's even an RSS feed provided. As the tagger and coder for SG1_Debrief, may I just say it's about bloody time!!

*g*

FYI, I have a list of all the SG-1 convention dates here and, considering I'm already coding in the SG-1 ficathon/etc. dates weekly, I'd be happy to help out over here!!

Edited 2009-04-14 00:07 (UTC)

Oh, you are a useful person to know! I've set up a gCal account (looks very nifty), but probably won't really get to dig in until the weekend. May I pester you with questions, if I need to?

Cons! Yay! SG-1 dates yay! Help yay!

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bluemeridian - 2009-04-14 01:11 (UTC) - Expand

a Buffy/Northanger Abbey crossover

*adds to wish list*

Would it not be a joy forever?

Two questions: is it ok to post about ficathons one is not organizing or even participating in? In other words, is it ok for readers to mention ficathons?

I'm sure you've thought about tagging posts by fandom so I'd like to know why you decided against it (if you don't mind answering, of course).

Finally, thanks for setting this community up. It's great!

1. Yes! Provided the ficathon is open participation (I have seen invitation-only ficathons once in a blue moon), anybody can announce them here.

2. The tagging system is kind of higglety-pigglety, which is my fault -- I should have been more anal about setting up a clear system at the outset. There *are* some fandom tags in the sidebar; feel free to add more as you need them. Or are you suggesting using colons to organize, i.e.

fandom: harry potter
fandom: multifandom

and

genre: porn
genre: remix

etc. Hm. That would be nice, wouldn't it. Any particular suggestions?

Thank you for piping up.

Edited 2010-01-16 22:28 (UTC)

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ninetydegrees - 2010-01-17 10:59 (UTC) - Expand

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stultiloquentia - 2010-01-17 16:04 (UTC) - Expand

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ninetydegrees - 2010-01-17 16:12 (UTC) - Expand

Would it be ok to post about ficathons whose sign-ups are already closed? As a fanfic reader, I'm interested in challenges I haven't heard of yet and don't care about sign-ups (I care more about posting dates) but I'm not sure whom this community is targeted to.

Yeah, sure. Better late than never, and I do like your point about being a reader's comm as well as a writer's.

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ninetydegrees - 2010-02-17 13:25 (UTC) - Expand

Hi! I've got a comm (

promptmemes) where people can start,well, prompt memes. I've got a few started that I'd like to advertise here and I was wondering if you'd prefer if I did them all in one post, did them separately (I'd space them out over a few days if I did this) or if it'd be alright to just advertise the comm itself?

Thanks, and thanks for the comm especially, I follow it religiously.

I don't know what stulti'll say but I think it'd be great to have a post to promote the comm itself, but with links to each meme. (and the list you compiled is fabulous!)

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stultiloquentia - 2011-10-09 18:49 (UTC) - Expand

question. I was wondering if there was an LJ version of this comm and fandom newsletters? Or maybe an rss feed for both that I could see on LJ? ty

We didn't make any LJ versions of these but I can't say whether somebody else did. I know there are fandom-specific calendar comms but I don't think there's a multifandom one. Maybe Stulti knows more about that than I do. :)
As for feeds I tried to see if somebody had made any but free accounts aren't allowed to do that over on LJ and that's all I have. If you have a paid LJ account you can do it or even create the feeds if they don't exist. I think it's at http://www.livejournal.com/syn/.

Edited 2011-11-29 12:06 (UTC)

Dear Mods,

I realize you mostly take posts about fanfiction events, but can we post about fan conventions?

Thank you,
LA

Yes, please! :)

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dameange - 2012-03-03 14:08 (UTC) - Expand

Good evening,

I just wanted to pop over (from China Shop's Fandom Appreciation 2013, specifically) just leave this note for all the moderators on this community. I discovered this community back in 2012, during the Fandom Snowflake Challenge (that seriously brought this and so much else about Transformative Works into my life), and it's been a god send ever since. Today we're supposed to send positive feedback to fannish community moderators, challenge organisers, newsletter compilers or archivists.

I want to thank all of you, so much. Because of this community I've gotten to know so much more about whats going on in every corner of fandom I can in most given times. Where to find fandom-specific, and fandom-wide, everything's. I'm so endlessly grateful to all of you, and I just wanted to take this moment to let you all know. Your community is awesome, You are awesome, and it fills my world with starts and hearts.

Wow! Thank *you* so much. This was lovely to hear. I mean it. You're awesome too and I'm really, really glad you find the community useful. Thank you so much again. *mwah*

(Edit: oh sweet Kaylee! I miss you!)

Edited 2013-04-15 16:27 (UTC)

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stultiloquentia - 2013-04-17 00:46 (UTC) - Expand

Hi there. The latest post is by some Australian group called Smash. i don't know anything about this group but I want to know one thing. if this group is at all commercial, I do not believe they should be allowed to post to this comm. Can you please investigate this group? Thank you.

Hi Elizabeth! Thanks a lot for the heads-up. I mean it. RL has been kicking my butt lately and I haven't been able to keep an eye on FC.
Info on their site says that "SMASH! Sydney Manga and Anime Show is organised by SMASH Inc, an incorporated non-profit organisation whose aim is to create an open and affordable event for fans which encourages art, creativity and community involvement." It seems to me smash 15 is a pretty standard convention and, looking at the rules of the fanfic competition, it doesn't look like it's tied to attending the comm or any other direct commercial thing. Does that seem fair to you?

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ninetydegrees - 2015-06-08 16:05 (UTC) - Expand

Hi! I started a fandom calendar comm over on Imzy (Fandom Calendar) and I'm wondering if I can link it here? So that people who use

fandomcalendar know there's another place to promote their fandom things.

Hi!

Sure, no problem! The more, the merrier! Might want to say this has been posted with permission so people know it's not spam or anything like that.

Best,
90d

P.S. And thank you for asking first. You're awesome!

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st_aurafina - 2016-08-18 23:38 (UTC) - Expand

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ninetydegrees - 2016-08-19 01:19 (UTC) - Expand

Honestly it looks like the #1 offender for posting text with extraneous markup is copypasta from Tumblr.

Hey! Is it okay to post about the friending meme going on at my journal? I'm uncertain - it's not technically a fandom event. (I have a banner, though! That makes it seem officialish?)

Yep! You do mention fandom in your description so maybe add something like inspired by but not limited to fandom folks in your promo post. What do you think? (also make sure to mention "posted with the admins' permission" or something similar so you don't get any comments about this; I don't expect any but who knows?)

Hello! I wanted to ask if it's acceptable to post here about zines? (Specifically, currently, one that's in the preorder phase, not signups/creation - I'm a participant, not one of those running it.)

Thank you for all your work running this comm, I love it!

Yes please, that sounds great!

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kalira - 2020-08-22 22:06 (UTC) - Expand

Hello, I'm one of the mods for

potterfests, a community for promoting fests and challenges in the Harry Potter fandom. It's similar to

fandomcalendar except its focus is on the HP fandom. Would it be all right for me to advertise

potterfests on here? I totally understand if you prefer that

fandomcalendar be used for fest and challenge announcements only.

Thank you very much for providing this space for everyone to promote their fests and challenges. It's a great place for finding out what's happening in the fandom!

Hi! Yes, of course, go right ahead. We have a tag for community promos I believe.

I was wondering if there was a tumblr version of this community? If not, I'm keen to create one -- would it be okay to put a post here letting people know about it?

Hi, I have no idea if there is one :) Sure, no problem!

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anr - 2023-05-05 12:09 (UTC) - Expand

I think I made a mistake by posting the sign-up announcement for my comm during the 4th of July weekend here in the US. Would y'all mind if I deleted my post and gave it another shot this week? I have had only 2 people sign up since and LOL one of them was a friend who has known about the comm.

Thanks!

My post here: https://fandomcalendar.dreamwidth.org/1207709.html

Sure, go ahead. Thanks for asking!

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innitmarvelous_og - 2025-07-08 13:09 (UTC) - Expand

Hi there!

mific and I have started a comm for meta about writing:

fan_writers. It's not a sign-ups kind of thing or a challenge kind of thing -- more a noticeboard/discussion space. Is it okay to promote it here? (No worries at all if it isn't appropriate!)

Yes, please do!

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china_shop - 2025-08-04 00:49 (UTC) - Expand

Hi! I have a quick question:
Would it be okay to post promo for an interest form for a fandom event that is still in the hypothetical/planning stages? I've got an event in the works and recently posted an interest form on Tumblr, but would like to get feelers out beyond just that site. If not that's totally fine!

Sure, no problem!

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