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]

I'm thinking of adding Yu-Gi-Oh! to my offers for easier matching, since the sign-up summary shows Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (Anime & Manga) at 1 request 1 offer and those may well be the same person. It occurs to me I should check this, because I have twelve works that show up when filtering to just that canonical. Two are under 100 words. Three are my safe series. Four I tagged Yu-Gi-Oh! Season 0 for good reason†. Of the remaining three, only one is over 500 words.

So if we go strictly by the AO3 canonical, I qualify in Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (Anime & Manga). Problem is the AO3 canonical is full of shit, and if we separate Season 0 from what people are much more likely to be familiar with, I qualify in neither.

Modly opinion on whether I should add Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (Anime & Manga) to my sign-up?


† The first seven volumes of the Yu-Gi-Oh! manga were adapted into the anime that gets referred to as Season 0 or Series 0. Subsequent volumes were adapted into the anime that exists in English dub. One character who has very little presence in the manga and does not exist in the second anime is a major character in Season 0. A lot of character arcs in the second anime make sense if and only if certain character arcs in the first anime never happened; those character arcs do parallel character arcs in the manga, but not in a way that makes for incoherent characterization if only looking at the manga. And there are plot arcs in each anime that aren't related to the manga at all. So we have three distinct continuities under this one canonical tag.

[ficmod]

I'm sorry, are you asking if you should add it to your offers? Because if so, it doesn't matter how many works you have written - that's a fandom you're willing to write for someone else.

[alexseanchai]

Why would I try to get a modly opinion on whether I qualify to sign up to be remixed in a fandom I'm offering to remix?

[ficmod]

That's...why I was asking for clarification? You said in your comment you were thinking of adding it to your offers, specifically.

If you want to request it, and the canonical tag isn't specific enough, I would advise you to follow the spirit of the rules and not include it. If those are two separate fandoms, then I would treat them as such regardless of whether AO3 has a separate tag for them or not.

[alexseanchai]

oh. so I did. that is not the word I meant, sorry.

*nod* thanks