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The Fandom Growth Exchange is a multi-fandom rare relationships exchange for relationships which have fewer than ten complete fics (or fewer than five contributing authors) on AO3. Check out our tagset!

Nominations close: August 7th at 11:55 PM UTC
Sign-ups open: August 10th at 11:55 PM UTC
Sign-ups close: August 23rd at 11:55 PM UTC
Assignments sent: August 29th at 11:55 PM UTC
Assignments due: October 31st at 11:55 PM UTC
Works revealed: November 6th at [TO BE DECIDED]
Authors revealed: November 11th at 11:55 PM UTC

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I didn't realise Hikaru no Go was eligible otherwise I'd have posted this here earlier, but there are a couple of Ogata pairings which have been included in the tag set. :)

Not Ready For Prime Time (Fandoms), or otherwise known as Not Prime Time, is a gen, het, femslash, and slash multifandom secret fiction exchange for medium sized fandoms. The name was taken from the nickname of the SNL cast who were called "Not ready for prime time players" when the show first began. Basically? This is for the fandoms that are medium sized and are not megafandoms.

They're currently doing nominations, more information here: http://npt-admin.dreamwidth.org/45922.html

Hikaru no Go is already an approved fandom, but I thought I'd mention it here, and there's no guarantee getting Hikaru no Go if you sign up as an assigned fandom. But the more Hikaru no Go fans who participate the more likely there will be Hikaru no Go fic! And I know in the past there's been people who missed out as they didn't have 3 different fandoms that they were willing to both request and write for.

Heyo

I haven't had a chance to read all the works, but just thought it might be of interest to people that the Hikaru no Go rare pairing fest is now live and you can read the works here:

http://archiveofourown.org/collections/hikagorarepair2014/works

Additionally Not Prime Time has wrapped up and there were some excellent Hikaru no Go works produced which you can see here:

http://archiveofourown.org/collections/notprimetime2014/tags/Hikaru%20no%20Go/works

:)

Hi All,

Yesterday was Star Wars day (May the Fourth Be With You)... which means... today is the day after?

That's right, it's

HIKAGO DAY!!!

As suggested by the talented author Hotta Yumi herself, and first executed by Aja, today is a day to delight in all things Hikago!!!

Want to see what we've done in previous years? Look no farther!
2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013



Five ways you can celebrate Hikaru no Go:

1. Go read and enjoy the epic works written for this round of Blind Go!
2. Sit down to enjoy the greatness of the manga, or snuggle up on the couch to rewatch the anime!
3. Start thinking about rair pairings you'd like to see written!
4. Come hang out in the community chatroom! Ochibot would be happy to see you! (As much as he ever is to see anyone at least. XD)
5. Join in with your own set of five below!

How to play:

It's very simple, simply do the following:

• Comment on this post with a list topic!
  e.g., "Five foods that aren't Hikaru's favorite", "Five handles Waya used online", "Five cigarettes Ogata shared", "Five games Akira lost" and "Five Rumours Kuwabara Had Absolutely Nothing To Do With".
• Reply to a topic with your responses!

Don't worry if someone else answered it first; the more answers the better. Feel free to do them as hard and as often as you like! ^______________^

Let's Five!

So now that we’ve gone back to our glorious beginnings – for those who have read later on, some starting questions (no need to rot13 in this post, spoil away!)

- Did this start lead to what you were expecting later on?
- How do you feel the art compares to later on.

Hikaru no Go Layout Competiton!

For the new Hikaru no Go Chat room, I would like to hold a competition for creating some new themes!

I've implemented a tool in Layout for the chat room - that lets us have a set up where users can select their own theme to be active, and I'd love to be able to implement quite a few!

The chat room is quite easily customisable by CSS - even the green dots that appear on the side of message can be controlled by CSS, and it's also possible to embed images in the layout box etc. (http://chat.gogohikago.com/demo5.php example demo test chat [will be deleted later])

To see what CSS is capable, please check out the CSS Zen gardens - a great way of demonstrating how powerful CSS can be. http://www.csszengarden.com/



Things that your layout should do:
- Keep the sidebar easily viewable, if needed (it doesn't need to stay a sidebar).
- Keep the pastebox below functional.
- Since we intend to have a variety of themes, it's ok for it to be optimised for a larger screen or a smaller screen - we want to have a variety of themes for different purposes.


Each person entering can submit multiple themes - so feel free to share that special WAYA/KAGA theme for that little something in your life, or a utilitarian ultra mobile-friendly style that's customised for being on the go. <3 Some layout's may want to prioritise our new pastebox so that it's bigger and more easily viewable on a large screen.

Submission Process:

You will need to submit a copy of the code, any relevant images and a screencap of the implementation as it works ideally. :)

Entries can be emailed to: queenie.eiz@care2.com

Due Date: May 25th!

On May 27th (AEST) I will be posting a poll for the community to vote on who should get first place.

Prizes:

1st Prize, as voted by the comm = 30 Dreamwidth points

Each entrant will receive at least 5 DW points - there is no cap on number of entrants.

Seperate from this - for each person who has a theme that is chosen to be incorporated into one of the selections available from the sidebar by the moderators (based on criteria we haven't quite discussed yet) will be awared a bonus 10 DW points.

FAQ:

Will this change the default theme?

The default theme will be selected by moderators to be one that we see as cross browser flexible, and is considered to be entirely separate from the competition.

Can you post an example of the current CSS for me to work form?

Yes!


Examples of the current CSS
http://chat.gogohikago.com/style/common.css <- this is the common file

http://chat.gogohikago.com/style/default.css <- this is the default theme, and what will be swapped around with the new themes.

On April 25th, I posted a cryptic banner, with a request for trivia questions....

Now some people have guessed what I would be posting today, and why, exactly would I need those questions. (P.s. me and very have been boosting that list. you won't automatically have all the answers. We have over 200 questions! *g*)



Well. You see. What I am going to be announcing today, has less to do with hikago day in a week, and more to do with our planned comm activities for the next year.

Today I am incredibly proud to announce, the NEW HIKAGO CHAT, and additionally that sign ups for the Manga Reread will be starting today!


http://chat.gogohikago.com/chat.php


Aja has been amazingly kind with letting us use her campfire account, but we've really grown into needing our own chat. The chat room we will have going forward is a customised one using the open source PHPfreechat code.

Customised? You might say. How so?
... well why don't you come in and /nigiri {odd/even} to find out? :D :D :D

There are some things that campfire does better out of the box, but we've tried to come up with as close approximations for the things that campfire does well, and we've also implemented some very fun things that you can't do in campfire.

Such as the ability to invoke the healing power of /fistbump and /hug. :D

Very has written up a detailed document comparing the two, but here's a quick list of features.

Worried that you might be boring everyone while gushing about Kuroko? Pop into the Go Go Offtopic to talk on the side!
Or tired of only coming into a chatroom while it's empty?
No worries! QUIZBOT LOVES YOU.

QUIZBOT EVEN HAS A SUPER SPECIAL GENERATED LIST OF HIKAGO TRIVIA QUESTIONS. Being by yourself just means, that all the points are yours!

(Quizbot does have some flexibility with what it will accept as an answer, but we haven't fully tested for it's flexibility.)

I've also implemented functionality to make it easier for us to install multiple themes which are controlled by CSS. We don't have anything but the default theme live at this point, but more information on this will be coming in the near future.


Please note, for some of the approximations:

- all logs are public, with the exception of Private Messages /privmsg {nick} (a new and exciting feature for us!), - hikagomods can erase the logs if something gets in there by accident, but it's best to be careful with confidential information online. (Campfire for reference also took logs, but they were restricted to campfire accounts.)

- We've also set up a basic forum - but this is only for purposes of being able to quickly upload documents/images for purposes of temporary sharing in the chat. Like campfire, it's not meant for long term storage!

- Because it doesn't autocrop long pastes to pop out into a new window, our work around is to paste in a side room and then have people pop into that sideroom to read the paste.

So now that, that's all out of the way, come on in and have a play!


http://chat.gogohikago.com/chat.php

The purpose of this post is to help track down particular points in canon.

Start a comment with a question, and people will respond with an answer.


Of course some questions may have multiple answers or require scientific analysis to answer fully.