Group Rewatch S2P2: Nancy Drew UltraHardcore S1 Episodes 3-5

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And what will happen now to our hapless, silly crew?

Episode 3: Guude | Baj | Pause | Beef

Episode 4: Guude | Baj | Pause | Beef

Episode 5: Guude | Baj seems to have only four episodes, crazy Brit. | Pause | Beef

Again, I will be out this weekend with relatively limited Internet access. Feel free to keep posting whatever you're thinking and feeling, though, and if someone could spot me for Sunday's chat post that'd be excellent!

Season 2.5 of Group Rewatch - which will be Season 2 of Nancy Drew UHC - will go up Monday. Start thinking about what you guys want to watch next!

Isi's Mindcrack Mod Adventures, Part 5

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(No post yesterday because yesterday was a terrible day and I felt awful. Maybe I'll make this one extra long to make up)

Previously on Isi's Mindcrack Mod Adventures:



I dub this place the Forest of Injustice! Because, it's Just Defy. Get it?

( This map was a great idea. )

Next time: pushing beyond the edges of the map

In Beef's video today...

[crystalllized]

Right at the beginning of today's Beef video (linked here for posterity - it's at 0:20, right after the intro):

<generikb> I'm naked and next to Etho's bed...don't remember what happened :)

Anyone have any ideas on what might possibly have happened to bring one of the B-Team members to be naked in Etho's place? I have a few that could see print, but they all involve dom!Etho and I have such a hard time writing him. I may leave this one to damnreddit!

A wild moderator appears! Time for some meta: Mindcrack on the AO3 and Yuletide talk

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I wasn't anticipating an extended period of actual-computer time while on my trip, but it has happened and I am not complaining, so I've worked on something. :P But not the co-op list? Quiet, you.

I've posted a journey taken together, my little contribution to Altverse, at the Archive of our Own, a site much like Fanfiction.net. (From here on out, the Archive of our Own shall be referred to as the AO3.) I prefer the AO3 over FF.net for two big reasons:

1. there is a large exchange for rare fandoms later this year known as yuletide which is run through the AO3 and I'd really like to participate with Mindcrack; more on Yuletide in a moment
   
2. the AO3 is much more tolerant of real person fiction, and with the paper-thin boundary between fictional and real people in Mindcrack I figured it was more appropriate for us

Please note the following:

• I'm using the "Mindcrack" (which should be shuffled into "Other Media", just like Yogscast) and "Minecraft (video game)" fandoms. If you write fic that is purely real world based (say, OOG makeouts at Minecon), don't use the Minecraft tag because it doesn't take place in Minecraft; if you write fic that takes place in another game (say, Nebris and Millbee derping around together in Guild Wars 2), use that game's fandom tag instead. I don't think this needs the "Youtube and Vlogger" fandom tag, because generally LPing as a community is distinct from vlogging; what do you think?
  
• I'm using full Youtube names for character tags for clarity; I think it's least ambiguous this way. Obviously in your own works you can use whatever tags you want (including relationship tags, which wasn't relevant for this fic), but nevertheless, I think this is the option I'm taking and I hope others agree. (I may talk to a tag wrangler in the future about that, too...)
  
• I've made a "Mindcrack Altverse" series, since it's fairly cohesive and there's three of us writing in it. :P I know that my fic is not actually part 1 chronologically, but we'll fix that if/when "Perceptions" gets added to the AO3.

If you guys have written fanfiction for this fandom and have accounts on the AO3, I highly encourage you to upload your fanfics to the AO3. If you're nervous about the connection between your username and Mindcrack fanfiction, you can use a new pseudonym or orphan (anonymize) your work immediately after upload, whichever you prefer.

If you have written fanfiction for this fandom and do not want to get an account at the AO3 for any reason, let me know. I am willing to upload and then orphan your works, if you'd like.

If you do not have an account at the AO3 and would like one, unfortunately it's currently invite only. Still, you have two options.

Firstly, you could post now that you need one. As the community's moderator attempting to archive fanfiction, I could possibly request extra invites for those who need them. Of course, if others here have invites they're willing to offer, that's also an attractive and much easier option. :)

Secondly, if you're willing to participate, it's generally not difficult to get an account during Yuletide.

About Yuletide: basically rare fandoms and characters from those rare fandoms will be nominated starting this Monday (and I hope to get as many Mindcrackers on that list as I can), and then from that nomination list everyone will pick characters from three or four fandoms to request fanfiction for, and a whole bunch of fandoms they're willing to write. Everyone gets matched accordingly, and then you're given about a month and a half to write a thousand words for the person you've been assigned. If you're feeling daring, you can surf through other people's prompts and write for more folks as well. All the fics are revealed anonymously Christmas morning, and all the authors are revealed on New Year's Day.

So if you're willing to participate - it is a lot of fun, though it can be stressful, and you're not guaranteed by any means to be assigned to write Mindcrack fic - you can request an AO3 account while signups are going on, participate, and then stick all of your Mindcrack fic on afterwards.

I for one will be requesting Mindcrack for sure; not sure which characters yet. "Any character" is an option as well, which I just may take. Hmm. I hope others participate in the madness that is Yuletide with me, and maybe we'll even attract a few more folks to this crazy little place this way! :D

MAJOR EDIT REGARDING YULETIDE: So by not checking my other LJ, I was caught completely unawares by the fact that it is in fact nominations season starting Monday! OH MY GOD, GUYS. If you are participating and have room for Mindcrack on your nomination list, let's coordinate characters! I'll probably nominate Guude, Bdubs, MC, and Nebris; I'll let others cover other characters so we can get a nice and wide variety. :D