I misunderstood the point of this ride

Hey, just in case anyone's wondering--particularly the other fandom_of_one mods--I'm a bit behind on fannish things right now, but I'm trying to catch up.

I've just been hired for a great job, after a miserable six months of intermittent temping and searching. It's making things extra-crazy, though . . . on top of my holiday exchanges, family stuff, and current stressful temp position, I have to find someplace to live in Boston by the end of the month. So yeah. It's a lot to do.

I will be trying to get fandom_of_one up and running this week, though, so that even if I have to vanish a little, that'll be set. Sorry for the delay!

Just to get all this onto one page . . .

I had an idea yesterday (in the comments of this post), and a few people seemed to like it: I thought it would be neat to create a community in which people could pimp out small fandoms. (I was specifically thinking of the fandoms nominated for yuletide, though any tiny fandom could work.)

Posts in the community would work a bit like overview posts on crack_van, or like posts on ship_manifesto. One person would write a post for the fandom, summarizing the canon, introducing the major characters, and talking a bit about it from a fannish perspective (the sorts of fic she writes/wants, the pairings that appeal and why, etc).

I think we'd allow other people to continue to add to the post in the comments (for as long as they liked): other opinions, pairings, points, and even fic recs and resources. There would be a post with a masterlist of all fandoms so far, permanently at the top. Possibly organized by medium? (As in yuletide: movies, tv, books, comics, video games, etc.)

franzeska suggested the name fandom_of_one, which I thought was cute. liviapenn pointed out that there are other comms we could affiliate with besides yuletide (I hadn't heard of smallfandomfest before, check it out).

Now, I think it might be a good idea to get this thing set up and then sit on it until after December 25 at least. Right now, people are busy stressing out over their holiday exchanges (I know I am). Once the crunchtime is over, though, and the fic starts flowing, I think there will be a lot more energy and enthusiasm to be had (goodness knows, yuletide people are always bubbling over with ideas and excitement once the archive opens). So the last week of December (or even the first week of January?), I could start advertising the comm on yuletide and anywhere else folks might think of.

I'm going to need some help, though. I've never really done anything like this before. ^^; Maybe I should post on yuletide looking for interested people? There were several enthusiastic-seeming people in the comment thread, but my flist doesn't have a high fandom-active content (I'm such a lurker myself, normally).

Here's something I'm stuck on, also: how would people be assigned/claim fandoms to write up? I think it's best to keep each fandom to one post, so it won't get confusing. Since the sky's the limit when it comes to small fandoms, it's not as though I/the comm can create a list in advance. I guess I'd have to open up a period for people to email me with fandoms they want to write, first come first serve? Something like that?

Thoughts, input, willingness to collaborate . . . all would be welcome.

[ETA:] I've started to set up fandom_of_one. It looks very thrown-together right now, but it's a start. There's a brainstorming post, and I really need some contribution and discussion, if you'd be willing. :)