reccers in upcoming months and promotion ideas

[ratcreature]

There is still a week left in November, but it's time to look ahead. So far we have seven volunteer reccers who signed up for December with these fandoms:

*Dresden Files (sholio)
*Fake News (erinptah)
*Fullmetal Alchemist (astridv)
*Harry Potter (werewolfsfan)
*Hetalia: Axis Powers(snowynight)
*Homestuck (alias_sqbr)
*Star Trek: Reboot (davincis_girl)

So we already have a nice mix of recs to look forward to next month (and a big thanks to all you reccers signing up), but of course there is still plenty of room for you to jump in and volunteer to rec in December.

However, if you are swamped with fannish commitments in December, January could be right for you, and you'd reap the befits of a rich bounty of fest and exchange art being posted in December.

So far six reccers have volunteered for January. So please, consider reccing in a fandom of your choice, whether small or huge, and comment on the sign-up post and volunteer for December, January or even further ahead if you are so well organized.

I'd also like to encourage anyone to promote the comm when a good opportunity presents itself (for example mentioning that you will or have posted recs here in your journal, or maybe on a noticeboard or community for the fandom you are reccing if they allow that), to help the comm grow both in audience and potential reccers.

And maybe someone has ideas which other fanart or reccing communities might be interested in mutual affiliate linking? I haven't asked many yet, but I know I discover interesting comms through those.

Other promotion ideas are welcome too.

Comments

[ratcreature]

I'm looking forward to your recs. And those are good ideas to try for affiliation, though the laptop that was my main computer died a few days ago, so currently all my online activity is somewhat hampered, and it'll probably be a while until I get back to the promotion efforts.

[werewolfsfan]

Actually, I have a question. I see that Vids" aren't included here. However, I have several art bookmarks where an artist drew several pictures and then set them up to run one after another. I believe it's a form of flash. So those could be included, can't they?

Also, soft sculpture, play-do and dioramas are all eligible if I want to include them aren't they?

[ratcreature]

Sculpture and dioramas are perfectly fine, and drawn art arranged as flash animation is fine too. Just regular vids where the source material is cut to music are not (because those tend to have their own infrastructure also with rec comms and such).

[werewolfsfan]

I thought that I understood but didn't want to offer even a hand drawn "vid" without asking because I wanted to be on firm ground if someone questions my recs.

I don't have a big friends list, but I'll mention this community. There are people on my friends lists that make recs regularly.