Hey everyone?

[seabroth]

Hi, I'm completely new to the series/fandom, and I haven't finished watching it yet either... but can this comm be revived? I know people are still writing fic, and ds_slash seems to be fairly active, plus I bet there are fans on Tumblr that we can coerce into participating. It would just require some advertisement and maybe a flashier layout, but what do

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[desireearmfeldt]

I'm not sure how to figure out the answer to this question... In the two-years-and-a-bit I've been in the fandom, the impression I've gotten is that we're maintaining a small core of reasonably active writers, with a somewhat larger group of occasional writers, but we've run into trouble when we've tried to float more than a couple of challenges/events throughout the year -- right now, a lot of people are working on the Due South/Canadian 6 Degrees Big Bang (ds-c6d-bigbang), and there's Due South Seekrit Santa in December, and this year we've been experimenting with mini-fests for various actors' birthdays, all of which seems to have kept people pretty busy. And I think a lot of the currently-active folks are squashed enough by their Real Life commitments to be able to regularly participate in a challenge that occurs monthly or whatever it was ds-flashfic used to do

[seabroth]

Thanks, I joined it

[desireearmfeldt]

Interesting perspective on Tumblr and Tumblr/LJ interaction. We have a couple of LJ-to-Tumblr ambassadors in the fandom at the moment, which is helpful -- a lot of people also use Archive of Our Own to store fanworks and host challenges, and there have been a bunch of Tumblr folks who have joined up over there. (AO3 is not useful for communities, but is very useful as a centralized posting/reading place, and there's some sense of community/communication via comments, at least. Weirdly, I managed to enter online fandom via AO3, because people were proactive about reaching out to me in comments and pointing me at relevant LJ comms.)

By the way, for < 300-word fics, there's already ds-snippets, which is still active.

There's also the newish Due South/Canadian 6 Degrees Prompt Meme on Archive of Our Own, which has not gotten rolling as much as I'd like, but I live in hope -- that's just prompts, no specific deadlines.

[seabroth]

I'll join both of them! I didn't even know AO3 had these kinds of things (now I feel a bit pathetic, haha). I might not write anything for a while though, it's embarrassing to say but I'm currently on the last ep of the first season and I've just been going around spoiling myself by reading fic.

I can't really remember how I found online fandom. I know I was on FF.net before I was on LJ, but I was reading fanfic starting from when I was around 10-11 years old... Well, I certainly remember when AO3 popped up and I can't believe they're still in beta. It took me a while but I like AO3 more now since it's a lot easier to edit/post fics there. But I am a bit sad sometimes since I deleted all my old fic, I should have saved the very first one I ever wrote at least.

[skieswideopen]

More activity would be wonderful, but I know I don't have the time to participate regularly here.

If can't get this off the ground and you're interested in writing flash fic, there's also fan_flashworks, which is multi-fandom and currently active. Of course, that won't help much if your main goal is generating more Due South flash fic to read.

[seabroth]

Haha, I think there's plenty out there to read so far! Except in the case of all my crack pairings... Well, lately I've been in fandoms that only have like 30 fics or less so I was really shocked when I saw there were thousands here.

I've never joined a multi-fandom comm before, it seems a bit weird, but in this day and age it might be necessary ;_;

[desireearmfeldt]

It's a 20-year-old fandom and was quite big in its heyday! :)

[seabroth]

Speaking of that, I thought I saw something that said some episodes were censored when it showed on American tv, is that true...? (Sorry that I'm sort of spamming the post but I don't have anyone to talk to about this series!)