Are you ready to work like a slave reading fiction for the Touhou community? Are you prepared to dive into the depths of our unorganized bookshelves to track down elusive summaries? Are you willing to
not save 15% off your car insurance by switching to PSL?
If so, then this project is for people like you!
The MotK Fanworks Listing, version 2.0: The Bookshelf Menace
Depicted: An artist's rendition of Sakana's reaction when he sees disorganized bookshelves. For srs.The PerspectiveAbout a year and a half ago, we decided that the fanworks section needed some serious tidying up-- a listing of works, with summaries and genres attached, to stir up interest in reading from people who would otherwise read, but didn't have time to sort through the mess. That project came to fruition as the PSL Library Catalogue, which stands proud to this day.
Well, mostly.
Y'see, the original plan was to have three Librarians (now four) tasked with keeping the catalogue up to date. However, in the months following the completion of the catalogue, something curious happened as an unforeseen side effect. We suddenly started getting a lot more fanfiction in PSL. Enough that the Librarians, limited as they were by time and IRL priorities, haven't been able to keep up.
The PlanSo we are launching another incentive to fight back against the forces of chaos and disorder! I hereby announce that we are going to overhaul our original plan, and move to a new system where we will try to have a big "cleanup" every few months (either once every four months, or once every six months), where we sort through all unsummarized works and file them into the Fanworks Listing.
And for that, we will take any volunteers that want to help out; old regulars as well as new people are all invited to take part.
We are hoping for a few volunteers, but no more than ten, since that makes work distribution terribly unwieldy and gives my moe-moe Sakana headaches.
So for those who would like to help, please post here or PM me or Sakana. After we get ourselves more organized, the work that needs to be done will get organized into preliminary lists and sent to the volunteers, who will then send back summaries in the style of
the current listing. Or, like this:
[b]Name: [url=web address of the fic goes here]title of fic goes here[/url][/b]
[b]Author:[/b] author goes here
[b]Status:[/b] is it ongoing, on hiatus, or what?
[b]Genre:[/b] Primary genre, ##secondary genre-- use your best judgment on this
[b]Summary:[/b] Summary goes hereCurrently we have as main genres Action, Adventure, Drama (includes Tragedy), Romance, Slice of Life, Comedy, Parody, Crossover, Mystery and Suspense, Poetry, Short Story Collections, and Miscellaneous and Other. Try to use those main genres as the primary genres, if you can.
The PleaUnless you want to see me and Sakana turn into undead literary zombies (again!), you are welcome to help any way you can, as this is a rather daunting task and we really need the help.
Current list of project members for easy PM spam accessSakura Rurouni Sakuramochi~ (that's me!)
Sakana~n (that is Thunfisch)
Iced Iced Fairy (not to be confused with 'Ice Ice Baby')
Roukan, Rou nyan, ni hao nyan~
Chaowabbit (be vewy, vewy quiet!)
Squawkermaru Aya (the early squawker catches the bookworm)
K-Polaris (I do not need a new nickname for you :3c)
Sectretary (you can blame Matsuri for getting this awful pun stuck in my head)
Roark Desmond Jaffar (I am never going to stop loving this name
)
Tic-TAC-Toe (once again, blame Matsy)
JoveusMolaiMr. RabiLogosOfJ
List of tasks so far:Recruitment postSign up some poor schmucks to do workStart organizing lists of work (We are here!)
All right, I think that's it. Do join us, if you have any interest in helping out.
