Poll: original content?

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Poll #2536

This poll is closed.
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 43

Would you like ladiesbigbang to allow original content?

Yes.
24 (55.8%)

No.
16 (37.2%)

Explain in comments.
3 (7.0%)

To clarify: if this challenge is going to allow original content, ALL creators will be able to do original content, not just writers. That would mean: reccers could rec original fic, a photographer could sign up to do picspams and picspam pictures of women they've taken themselves, podficcers could podfic original fic, artists could draw original characters, icon makers could icon any women (not just those considered as "fannish" or celebrities), meta writers could discuss womanhood not just in relation to fannish sources but a broader spectrum, etc. etc.

This will also include allowing OFCs in fiction, because I think it'd be silly to allow original content creation without allowing for original female character creation.

All opinions and thoughts welcome in the comments.

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Creating work in a category outside of our primary ones has now been added to the Rules & Guidelines.

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ETA: Poll closed. The section for original creators is here and information about OFCs has been added to the Rules & Guidelines.

Comments

[dharma_slut]

Thank you for taking my request seriously that makes me so happy!

I think it would open the doors to a lot of awesome new female characters-- you know, the ones that don't exist in current popular entertainment but should be there...

[shopfront]

My instinctive reaction is no, but I also don't really want to say no, if that makes any sense? I think like the multi-media submission option it's at the very least something that should perhaps be discussed on a case by case basis or have some clear boundaries on it, for when someone queries how a submission is any different to someone just putting together a bunch of random stuff involving women. I think there's a transformative intention behind fanwork that makes it a smidgen easier to find a common thread, and also I guess with anything there's the question of when does including new options diminish the overall intent/impact of the wider project?

But then at the same time, women are awesome. I am loathe to say no to more women! So I guess I'm mostly undecided, and my personal opinion would probably depend on how the content was defined as allowable or otherwise.

One quick clarification though, would you allow people to mix original and fanwork focuses? Or would someone have to be doing all original/OFCs in canon verses or all canon women?

[sophinisba]

I would want to keep it to fandom universes but I would like to open it up to original characters. I think, in fic at least, they can be a really great way of opening up the canon, and in some fandoms (*cough*hobbits*cough*) it's really hard to focus on women without writing OFCs.

I don't have strong feelings one way or another though. There are plenty of canon characters who are awesome, and if the group wants to open it up completely that's cool too.

[ariestess]

While I do like the idea of using original female characters [as I have several that I like writing about], I think it would be easier in the long run to have this bang just use fannish female characters.