Ship Wars: Registration Reopened

[lymanalpha]

I'm only going to say this the one time, and I hope not to annoy any of you, but: registration has been reopened at st_respect's Ship Wars. If you or anyone you know would like to join Team Crackship, we'd love to have you.


How Ship Wars works:

Ship Wars is a fic, art, and vid challenge series for the Star Trek: TOS and Star Trek: AOS (XI, Reboot) fandoms. Here's how it goes:

1. Each participant in the wars selects a single team, representing a pairing (or, in our case, a...pairing theme).
2. At regular intervals, the Ship Wars admiralty assigns a prompt and a length.
3. Members of each team produce art, vids, or fic in response to the prompt and submit them to the team comm.
4. Team members choose the entry that will represent them at st_respect.
5. Each team's entry is posted on st_respect. Ship Wars participants read and comment on the entries.
6. A battle post is opened wherein people create explosions of sparkletext, macros, commentfic, and other eye-scorching beasts.
7. All Ship Wars participants vote on the entries.
8. Prizes are awarded for the votes, and for particularly impressive battle post shenanigans.
9. New prompt assigned. Repeat.

More detail is given in the sign-up post.

Three short prompts have been completed already. Remaining are three longer prompts, plus at least one lightning round. Calendars are here for February, March, and April.


A little about Ship Wars:

First: the Wars are not Wars. They're lighthearted and goofy and while it's nice to win, it's nicer to make people happy.

Despite the name, this thing is a unifying force. It'll get you to consider ships you'd not have, otherwise. It'll let you interact with exciting new subsets of strangers. And the entries tend to be extraordinary things, beautifully executed and really just a complete pleasure.

What am I doing here? Well, I wouldn't call myself a writer, not really. I wouldn't call myself an artist, either. But I'm an inveterate dabbler and I like a challenge. I like set prompts and hard deadlines and the freedom to be ridiculous, and I love being part of a team.

Also? Guaranteed feedback. There's nothing so addictive.


A little about Crackship:

I joined my team on a whim. I joined because I didn't think I could actually produce anything for the pairings I usually read, but figured I had a fighting chance at crack. And by crack I mean just that: any pairing that gives you pause. Scotty/Sandwiches. Kirk/Kirk. Chekov/Enterprise. Zombie!Pike/Braaains.

Crackship's about the weirdness of love, and trying to explore just how it can blossom between the unlikeliest of beings. Because, you know, IDIC and all. It's about surprising people and shaking things up and finding the beauty in the strange and unexpected.

Sometimes we'll get it just right and people will say, hey, this is messed up but I believe in Scotty/Keenser now. Or, hey, what you just did was something I've never seen before - and I liked it. And there's really nothing like that feeling.

And sometimes it is about making them scream. And laugh, and scream.

Finally, and most importantly: my teammates, they are incredible. Absolutely incredible. They are also few, and we would like them to be less few.

If you're curious, you're welcome to browse team_crackship (and to join in any discussions, if you so wish).


How to join mine or any team:

1. Read this post.

2. In the comments to that post, find the thread started by the Captain of your desired team. Reply in that thread. Team Crackship's is here.

3. Sign the Crew-Wide Announcement.

4. Sign the Anti-Wank Post.

5. Join the relevant team's community. Crackship's is team_crackship.


Registration is open until Thursday, February 11. Zank you for your time.