When I want cheering up, I make comms...

[thisbluespirit]

I was reminded about these when talking about a possible other comm recently and thought it was about time I made a post. You see, when I'm really ill and bored, I sometimes make comms. And then never get well enough to post about them.

Firstly, and most importantly, in about Feb/March, I made a home for all the cake fic: cakefic! (And, yes, I did let clocketpatch know. (She's been secret co-mod of the secret comm since March. We are dead stealthy.)

Anyway, made since when I did the 15 characters meme and, as ever, someone on my flist prompted for 10, naked except for 3's cloak and covered in cake, all the fault of [random number], everyone else started going "That should be a thing!". Well, it is a thing. It has been since about 2009, or whenever it actually was. And now it is a thing with a comm!

You should all go and join and post cakefic, fannish cake recipes, recs, art, everything fannish and cake-related, for reasons of there being one more cheering thing in the universe. Its origins lie in Doctor Who, but all fandoms are welcome. It is time the meme spread and took its cakey goodness elsewhere! One day, it should probably have a ficathon hosted on it so that actually happens, but I shall start with unveiling it. (No, Ten, the comm, not you! Three, throw him that cape again. Thank you.)


Also when I was ill in the summer, I thought there should be a Poldark comm, because. There was apparently, but it was members only. I poked it and it did not respond. So I made another: poldarks. Now it is live, I'll try and at least post news of the upcoming 2015 version and so on. (Liadt, I seem to have cheekily already affiliated it with oldbrit_tvicons. I trust that's okay?)

There is another I made about two years ago when I was ill and bored, but I'm still working on that. I suspect I might still be working on it when LJ dies, but we'll see.


Anyway, please remind me: when really ill and bored - don't make any more comms... Still, at least I retain enough sense to only make low-maintenance comms. (Well, except for the invisible one, obviously.)

Comments

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Can't help feeling that, what with Eleven showing up inside Rory's cake, that cakefic is definitely canonical as far as Who is concerned!

[thisbluespirit]

:lol: True! And he did say that wasn't the first cake he'd been in, too, I seem to recall.

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

He did indeed!

Talking of Rory, I saw on Tumblr earlier that Arthur went to a fundraising dinner for his old drama school - which Alex Kingston also went to - and he was late arriving. When he did arrive, he found a note at his place with 'Hello Dad' on it - and there was Alex waving at him. I confess to giggling a lot over that one.

[thisbluespirit]

Heh, that is pretty fun. :-)

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Considering she's nearly old enough to be HIS mum!

[taiyou_to_tsuki.livejournal.com]

I was laughing at this post and then I realised I've actually written cakefic already. Terrible.

[thisbluespirit]

It's not terrible, it's great. Everybody should write cakefic at least once! ;-)

[akashasheiress.livejournal.com]

I'd be terrible at cake-fic because I've got no range whatsoever in my writing. :P

[thisbluespirit]

I see no reason why there shouldn't be Doctor/Romana angst with incidental chocolate cake in the middle. ;-)

♥

[akashasheiress.livejournal.com]

I think I did read one where Eight proposed to Romana in the middle of war strategising, and there was cake. And then he ''never got his answer''. :(

[dimity-blue.livejournal.com]

Yay, a Poldark comm! I've joined, though I don't know how active I'll be. I have bought the 2nd half of series 1 though...or did I already tell you that?

And Cakefic! You're right in that there isn't enough cakefic in the world. Cake (usually) makes everything better. Especially if there's cream.

I hope you're feeling better now. ::sends hugs and cake::

[thisbluespirit]

Well, I don't know how active the comm will be, but why not? No harm in trying... :-)

Thank you! And, yes, it was quite a while ago I made both of these.

[honeynoir.livejournal.com]

Hee, that's great! (When I discovered cakefic, I knew this was a cool fandom. :D)

[thisbluespirit]

Heh, absolutely! :-)

[swordznsorcery.livejournal.com]

Cakefic! A whole new genre I never suspected existed. I don't think I've ever written anything that would suit, although there is definite potential in cakes and swords.

I also rather like the idea of secret comms. I have one myself, although I can't claim illness as an excuse. They're far easier to run than public ones, let's be honest. ;)

[thisbluespirit]

We are very accommodating about what counts as cake fic, really. It just needs... cake. I can't remember whether there have already been any swords in the genre. Possibly. Certainly, there has been thievery, dastardly cooking, time travel, giant lobsters and a massacre already, so there might be. :-)

Secret comms are very little work, but on the other hand they don't actually do anything, either.

[swordznsorcery.livejournal.com]

They're a subversion of everything that LJ is supposed to be about. Think of yourself as a daring rebel.

[thisbluespirit]

I think it's only the non-daring rebels that make secret comms; the daring ones are out there making visible and controversial ones. ;-D

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

I wrote a B7 cakefic once, as I recall....

[thisbluespirit]

Yay, cakefic! ;-)

[pitry.livejournal.com]

Cakefic comm?

EXCELLENT!

[thisbluespirit]

:-)

I KNOW. \o/

[liadt]

I have a comm?(!) Yes, feel free to affiliate with me.

Is there much tea with the cake!fic? Cake+tea=OTP. *Feels need for tea drinking icons*

[thisbluespirit]

Hurrah!

I don't think there has been much tea-drinking cake fic yet, but it's DW, that's a shocking omission! Someone should do something about that right away. :-)

[liadt]

Not me: I'm slapping all my characters, in fanfic, at the moment, rather worryingly!

[thisbluespirit]

You should never slap characters; not all of them like it. ;-)

[liadt]

Lol, but they still get slapped regardless:p

On the positive front, due to Doc Martin being v. dull, I've written Callan cake!fic with Ten in Hunter's office and nobody gets shot or duffed up!

[thisbluespirit]

YAY. Cakefic. \o/