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[esmenet]

How difficult is it to run a ficathon/fest/prompt meme thingie? School is starting in about a week, but I keep wanting to do that Everyone But The White Guys thing I talked about once. I've been noticing a lot lately how, for instance, the Teen Wolf fandom is aalllll about Sterek (the two white dudes who barely even interact) while ignoring or hating on the actual Latino protagonist and his kickass girlfriend. And I am really, really not here for that stuff, so I want to make a thing to counteract that trend just a little.

Living alone & taking classes in a foreign country is really attention-sucking, though, so I want to make sure this is something I could run while also doing that. Experience/opinions/advice?

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[littlebutfierce]

It depends how intensively you want to run/monitor things. Like, just putting up a prompt post for, say, a drabblefest or a general comment meme in your journal is easy; if you want to index the posts, that gets a bit more time-consuming, but you could ask for volunteers. If it's just the sort of thing where prompts go up & people can fill them whenever, then there's not much maintenance.

But if you want to do something where you assign prompts to ppl/make them sign up/have deadlines/etc. then that gets more complicated. From past experience, running fic fests on AO3 is not nearly as easy as perhaps they'd like it to sound; at least when I did it, their documentation for how to set up the collection & the sign-ups & how the matching should work was *awful* (incomplete, unclear, & sometimes blatantly text or screenshots didn't match what I was seeing); I had to contact Support numerous times & then ended up hand-matching anyway.

I think it depends partly on how much help you think you could get if you did want to do something more involved.