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

[suede-scripture.livejournal.com]

Please understand that I don't intend to shut you out, but simply that I don't think you are going to find your target readership for het in this community. I went through the entire comm from 2001-2007 last night and it has always been 99% same sex pairings. If a lot of people here don't want het posted (and some have far stronger opinions on it than me), it seems best for het stories to be posted in het or all fic communities and save this one for same sex. That way you'll get your readers and not be skipped. :)

Besides, I think all the LOTR comms should get a little more life, not just this one. lotr_het needs regular posters, as does Catherine's new general fic one. This fandom isn't dead, and the way to keep it that way is for all these places to be paid attention to again.

[unstealthy.livejournal.com]

I'll never understand the 'ew, het' mentality, particularly coming from heterosexual people. Just don't get it. I feel the same way about Viggorli (or Orlando and anyone, actually), but I just don't click on stories with that pairing. *shrugs*

I've posted slash here before; it's just a bit irksome that the first time I post het here is the day it's banned.