New Admin

[suede-scripture.livejournal.com]

So hey. moony has graciously given me this community to moderate. A few people seemed worried, so let me make my intentions in doing this clear.

Nothing much will change. fellow_shippers was, is, and always will be a LOTR RPS fanfiction community for all related slash pairings, M/M or F/F, M/M/F, F/F/M, and so on. As long as your fic contains slash with one or more LOTR actors, it's cool with me. If you write LOTR Het, there is a novel little community for that called lotr_het.

Rules will be enforced. There are only four of them, and two are really easy. I'm a non-confrontational person, but the rules are there for all of our sakes. You're all usually good about this, but if you're not, I poke.

I've changed the layout to a temporary very boring default. Eventually, I'll design something fellowshippy and fun.

At some point soon, I would like to organize fic posts into tags and memories so it is easier to find what type of story and/or pairings you want to read. To do this, I'll add appropriate tags to your entries. I think it will be easiest if I do this myself so we don't have several differently spelled tags for the same category (which is what seems to happen when members tag their own, and that just gets messy). Nothing you need worry about there, just post as you normally do, and I'll do the tagging.

Other than that, it's all the same old Fellowshippers. Unless I see a reason to be bossy, you'll rarely see me except when I post my own fic ( which is sporadic at best).

Alrighty? Have fun. Feel free to ask questions and make suggestions.

Comments

[beizy.livejournal.com]

*beams!* You'll do awesome, babe. Am very happy you are at the helm of this slashy ship.

[bunniewabbit.livejournal.com]

Excellent. Nice to have an active mod again. :) Congrats!

[azewewish.livejournal.com]

Awesome!! So glad moony gave you the thumbs up. :) And I'm SO in love with the idea of tagging the entries. *g*

[kissing-athelas.livejournal.com]

Seconded! I think tagging is an awesome idea. I wish it had been in force when I first got into lotrips!

[foxrafer.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I understand why het stories aren't allowed here. I don't write it and rarely read it, but every definition of slash I've ever found seems to imply that it includes any kind of pairing. I know I'm not a slash veteran, but if the rules in the comm profile don't explicitly say "no het" why can't people just skip those stories they don't want to read (like I skip those pairings or types of stories that don't appeal to me)?

[suede-scripture.livejournal.com]

My understanding is that the community was begun by members of an old Yahoo group that was very much homoerotic, and primarily m/m only. I'm looking into it, trying to find the first instances of femmeslash or a het posting (and especially to see the response, but I'm already two years in and I've yet to even see a woman in any pairing header!). Wow, the bowels of this comm are... interesting. Perhaps older members could clue us in? I've only been around since 2004, and the comm was born in 2001.

My reservation is that I don't want to change the comm from it's original purpose. Definitions do change of course, I have always assumed 'slash' to refer to same sex pairings. If that is the primarily way the majority of members use this comm, it seems in the best interest of het writers to post in lotr_het, as they'd reach their target audience better and not be skipped over.

[beizy.livejournal.com]

We could argue the history and meaning of the word "slash" probably until we were blue in the face and never reach a conclusion.

My impression of this fandom, though, has always been that slash is m/m pairings. That's why it's called RPS (real person slash) instead of RPF (real person fiction, which covers slash and het).

If this were just a LotR fic community, it wouldn't be called a slash community.

That's the way I've always seen it, at any rate.

[wicked-lady82.livejournal.com]

"Slash fiction is a genre of fan fiction. The term refers to a sexual or romantic relationship between two same-sex (originally only male) characters in fan fiction. These pairings are often described in detail as the pairing is likely to be the focus of the story (though this depends on what genre of fan fiction one is reading – ex. gen or ship). Slash tends to occur outside the canon universe but does not necessarily oppose canon. "Slash" once referred to fan fiction in which one or more media characters were involved in an explicit adult relationship as a primary plot element. Now it is simply the term used to refer to any pairing between characters of the same sex. Femslash is a sub genre of slash where the a romantic or sexual relationship occurs between two female characters from canon."

I nicked the definition from Wikipedia, not the most completely reliable of sources, but it had a good definition. Here's the link if you wanted to read up more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slash_fiction

[slashfairy.livejournal.com]

mm now that it's easier to look at again, i may very well be hanging out here again. hmm. change can be good. even for my old eyes.

[feelforfaith.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the new job :)

I have a question: If we are to enforce the "slash" aspect of the community, does it mean that gen stories will not be allowed either?

[azewewish.livejournal.com]

I can't think why gen wouldn't be allowed. Most hard-core slashers think of gen-fics as 'pre-slash' anyway. ;)

[blackbird-song.livejournal.com]

I'm very happy that you're at the helm, and thank you so much for the eye-friendly layout!

As for the question of what does or does not constitute slash, I have to agree with foxrafer that all the definitions I've seen from anyone who's been at all formal about it have been along the lines of pairing two or more characters sexually who simply wouldn't be paired that way in canon. (In RPF, of course, 'canon' is an interesting term to try to apply. ;) ) I would suggest making a post asking the members for their thoughts on the matter. For myself, I'd tolerate such stories being posted here, as I can skip past them, but I wouldn't write or usually read them.

Catherine

[foxrafer.livejournal.com]

I just wanted to thank you for providing another point of view. I really don't get why het is considered the evil, ugly step-sister in this world. Everything written here is fiction, and honestly these guys would probably be more put off by what we do here than any of the ladies, but I can see that it won't be allowed here. There's really no where else for these writers to go, though, and that makes me sad.

[ladysunrope.livejournal.com]

congratulations -looking forward to your modly changes and thank you in advance for the tagging.

[silentdescant.livejournal.com]

seconded! yay for tags, and congrats on your new job. :)

[strongplacebo.livejournal.com]

Brilliant; I think it's going to be good to have some fresh blood.

Quick question: where do you stand on gen fic posted here? I've always sort of seen this community as a general Lotrips comm, as in one for all stories about all cast members (though I would tend to use lotr_het for het stories). I assumed the reason that slash was so dominant was that there are so few girls in the films.

[suede-scripture.livejournal.com]

I will allow gen and single character stories. They are so often character studies and fellowshippy friendship types, or even pre-slash. My understanding is that that type of thing has always been allowed.

[celtprincess13.livejournal.com]

Thank god that horrid green layout is gone! *kisses your feet*

Glad to see you at the helm.

[rainbowcobweb.livejournal.com]

Thank god that horrid green layout is gone!

Omg agreed. It hurt my brain.

New mod! And it's you! Woohoo! *Hugs*

[stormatdusk.livejournal.com]

yay! i can read at the site without 3D glasses now! ;)

[rifleman-s.livejournal.com]

Thank you for volunteering and all your ideas sound great!

Look forward to the shiny new look - and, of course, some great fiction!!

Your commitment and hard work much appreciated.

Howdy

[ghostinthemist.livejournal.com]

New here, really, but want to say hi...

[divinemadam.livejournal.com]

Oooh! Look at the pretty new layout! Very nice! Good luck and thanks for taking on the responsibility!

[verangel.livejournal.com]

WOW..I love the change. This is great, but most especially that gorgeous icon you have up now of Dom and Elijah...it looks real. :)v

[verangel.livejournal.com]

on second look..its Dom and Viggo? still love it (even though I am a Elijahpersuasionianything person)

[http://users.livejournal.com/tweedle_/]

Very impressive. What a lot of difference you've made in a short time. You've made fellowshippers even more of a pleasure to peruse. Your work is appreciated. Thank you. :)

[msilverstar]

Just checking: here it says M/M/F is OK, but it doesn't include that in the user info -- could you please clarify it either way and add it to the info? Many thanks!

[suede-scripture.livejournal.com]

Yes! Het content is allowed providing there is some slash content as well. Even for chapter fics in which some chapters are slash and some are het, I'm not overly particular. I will clarify that on the info page.

This isn't and will never be an "Ew, Het is gross!" comm. : )

[http://users.livejournal.com/tweedle_/]

Hi. I've just posted here for the first time and in my nervousness, after disabling comments, I noticed a mistake on my post. Nothing major but is there anyway I can get to it now to fix? Sorry to be a bother. Thanks.

[suede-scripture.livejournal.com]

Here (http://community.livejournal.com/fellow_shippers/3758625.html) is the direct link to your post on the default page. You can edit from there using the tags at the top of the entry.

The way around this in the future is to click on the fellow_shippers Calender, scroll down to the month of your entry, and click "View Subjects" at the top right of the month. That way you can find your entry and get to the default page to edit. What a hassle, right? Yet another thing I wish LJ would fix.