An introduction, and some news on 2019!

[ficmod]

Hello! Some good news: after speaking with slightweasel, I've offered to take over modding this exchange, so that means Remix Revival will be running in 2019. Nice to meet you!

I'm planning on running the 2019 round over the same general time period, and I've put together a tentative schedule below, but I'm open to feedback on it from anyone who would be interested in participating. Any general feedback about last year's round is very welcome as well - what went particularly well for you? Is there anything you would like to see changed?

Two important housekeeping notes:

- The Dreamwidth account, Tumblr, and parent collection on AO3 will stay the same, as slightweasel has passed them all down to me. However, the email address to reach me is now mod4remixrevival@gmail.com. Blame gmail and their weird notifications.

- Deadlines are now in Mountain Standard Time (because that's where your new mod lives).

And finally, my (again, very tentative) schedule for 2019:

Signups begin: July 1
Signups end: July 20 11:59 PM MST
Assignments out by: July 27
Assignments due: September 1, 11:59 PM MST
Collection opens: September 16
Remixers revealed: September 23

Feel free to reach out to me via email, or leave your comments directly on this post. Thanks, and here's to a fun remix round in 2019! 🥂

Comments

[alexseanchai]

So Miraculous Ladybug is premised on, exactly three characters beside Marinette canonically know Marinette is Ladybug (Adrien is not among them), and exactly three characters beside Adrien canonically know Adrien is Chat Noir (Marinette is not among them). Thus, between these two characters there are four different ships assuming neither knows the other's identity, plus the ship where they both know they both know both identities, plus variations on those themes depending on who knows what. There are ship wars. AO3 used to have four / tags for these characters and now has one.

How might this play into "don't change the pairing"?

Because I can see convincing arguments for both "if it's Ladrien without Marichat, it needs to stay Ladrien without Marichat, because Ladrien and Marichat are totally different dynamics" and "it's the same two characters so the difference between Ladrien and Marichat is immaterial". Going with the former answer could impact remixes of esp the "happens before remixee" and "happens after remixee" varieties in ways the latter answer can't, because a favorite trope in ML fandom is Identity Reveal. If it's important that a remix of a pre-reveal Adrienette-only fic stay Adrienette-only, then the remix must also be pre-reveal.

I'm hoping for "it's the same AO3-canonical pairing tag regardless", but I don't know.

[ficmod]

If it's the same two people, then it's the same pairing. Whether or not their secret identities are revealed would be a plot detail, not a pairing change.

[alexseanchai]

Thanks