Kaleidoscope 2012: Discussions, Links and Recs

[dark_administrator]

Hello doers of darkness, Kaleidoscope and Kaleidoscope Treats 2012 are live! We made an error and creators are revealed early (anonymity since restored), but this year, we have about 56 fanworks from about 43 participants, including those who signed up for Kaleidoscope and submitted fanwork(s), those who created fanworks for Kaleidoscope Treats and those who pinch-hit for us:

• ambyr
  
• ArisTGD
  
• Carmarthen
  
• chaila
  
• comixologist
  
• cordialcount
  
• dharmavati
  
• dhobikikutti
  
• DoubleCorncake
  
• Franzeska
  
• fresne
  
• Gramarye
  
• inner_v0ice
  
• innerbrat
  
• Izilen
  
• kyuuketsukirui
  
• lightningwaltz
  
• Lihai
  
• littledust
  
• maat_seshat
  
• mk_tortie
  
• Moontyger
  
• paperwar
  
• Qem
  
• reapingfolk
  
• Rhi
  
• ryfkah
  
• Ryuutchi
  
• s_k
  
• SailorPtah
  
• sanguinity
  
• seekingferret
  
• sinngrace
  
• springgreen
  
• sqbr
  
• starlady
  
• storiesfortravellers
  
• talibusorabat
  
• thesecondbatgirl
  
• troisroyaumes
  
• VampirePaladin
  
• viviolo
  
• wei

We are incredibly grateful for your work, doers of darkness!

When we finalized the schedule for Kaleidoscope this year, we chose October 26 as the date for Kaleidoscope to go live because your dear moderators thought it was Diwali. Unfortunately, your moderators made a mistake: Diwali is 13 November this year. However, Kaleidoscope 2012 Go Live is still dedicated to Diwali so happy early दीपावली, தீபாவளி, तिहार, दिवाली, દિવાળી, दिवाळी, ದೀಪಾವಳಿ, धाकली दिवाळी, ദീപാവലി, ଦୀପାବଳୀ, ਦਿਵਾਲੀ, దీపావళి, دیوالی and Diwali!

If you've made a post about Kaleidoscope, discussing, linking and/or reccing your received Kaleidoscope fanworks and/or other Kaleidoscope fanworks, please link them here and we'll compile the links! Feel free to flail or start a thread in the comments as well!

List of Discussions, Links and Recs

• alias_sqbr: recs [D.E.B.S., Lizzie Bennet Diaries, Gokusen, Twelve Kingdoms]
  
• carmarthen: Kaleidoscope 2012 recs! [Arctic Expeditions RPF, Ballad of Mulan, Chinese Mythology, D.E.B.S, Eighteen Songs of a Nomad Flute, House of Aunts, Paper Menagerie, and One Thousand and One Nights]
  
• chaila: Vid recs! And seriously, who wrote all this fic?! [Capital Scandal and Smoke Signals]
  
• innerbrat: Baby’s First Fic Exchange! [Capital Scandal, Chinese Mythology, D.E.B.S., Detective Dee, Kaze Hikaru, The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, Sungkyunkwan Scandal]
  
• moontyger: Kaleidoscope Fic Recs [A Certain Scientific Railgun, Mulan, Sun Sword, Ultra Maniac]
  
• sanguinity: Kaleidoscope! It is here! Lookit the lovely stories! [Arctic Expeditions RPF, Truth: Red White and Black]
  
• sara: In which I liveblog...er...liveemail my readthrough of Sanguinity's Kaleidoscope story. [Arctic Expeditions RPF]
  
• seekingferret: Kaleidoscope revealed! [Arctic Explorers RPF, Crescent Moon Kingdom, Paper Menagerie]
  
• skygiants: Kaleidoscope Recs [Capital Scandal, Detective Di, Gokusen, Lizzie Bennet Diaries, Smoke Signals, Sun Sword, Sungkyunkwan Scandal]
  
• viviolo: KALEIDOSCOPE 2012 what a doozy you were [Capital Scandal, Chinese Mythology, Gokusen, Keizoku 2: SPEC, The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, and Sungkyunkwan Scandal]

Last Updated: 2012 November 10.

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Comments

[alias_sqbr]

This was heaps of fun! My recs were posted along with other life stuff, so here they are separately:
I got two fics and they're both great! The writers gave me exactly what I asked for.

Seven Wishes for Charlotte Lu: Lizzie Bennet Diaries
and
General Studies of Division: D.E.B.S.

I also really liked
My Teacher Is A Gangster: Gokusen
and
Era of Red Happiness: Twelve Kingdoms

[dhobikikutti]

Well, the 27th of October was Bakr-Eid (at least in India), so you know, Eid Mubarak!

I'm so sorry about the anonymity thing happening. I suppose you have already trying contacting AO3 support and asking if there is any way of changing things back?

[wistfuljane]

Eid Mubarak! And thank you for making a post to the community to let everyone knows that anonymity has been restored!

We did contact AO3 support and I don't know if AO3 support/coders worked on restoring the anonymity (which thank you, AO3 team!) or if AO3 server was slow to catch up to collection settings, but I'm glad anonymity setting is back!

[innerbrat]

FYI, I live with someone involved in the technical side of the AO3, and I'm pretty sure one of the other tech people flicked the switch for us.

[wistfuljane]

We just received official words from AO3 in answering our support request and a coder with database access did officially restored anonymity to the challenge which we can't thank them enough. :D

[seekingferret]

I threw some recs here:

http://seekingferret.dreamwidth.org/82469.html

in Crescent Moon Kingdom, Paper Menagerie, and Arctic Explorers RPF.

[skygiants]

Here is my rec post! For Detective Di, Gokusen, Capital Scandal, Lizzie Bennet Diaries, Smoke Signals, Sun Sword, and Sungkyunkwan Scandal.

[carmarthen]

Recs here: http://carmarthen.dreamwidth.org/58387.html

Ballad of Mulan, Eighteen Songs of a Nomad Flute, Arctic Expeditions RPF, Chinese Mythology, D.E.B.S, House of Aunts, Paper Menagerie, and One Thousand and One Nights.

[innerbrat]

Here is my Recs Post!

For Capital Scandal, Chinese Mythology, D.E.B.S., Detective Dee, Kaze Hikaru, The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, Sungkyunkwan Scandal)

[sanguinity]

I haven't done a recs post yet, just a squee-about-my-gifts post. (Arctic Expeditions RPF, Truth: Red White and Black)

And a rec post from sara: in which i liveblog...er...liveemail my readthrough of sanguinity's kaleidoscope story. (Arctic Expeditions RPF)

[viviolo]

Here is my Rec Post!

Includes Capital Scandal, Chinese Mythology, Gokusen, Keizoku 2: SPEC, The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, and Sungkyunkwan Scandal.

[moontyger]

My rec post.

(Sun Sword, Mulan, A Certain Scientific Railgun, Ultra Maniac)

[chaila]

Vid recs here! Capital Scandal and Smoke Signals.