Prompt 121-Dreamworld, Only Time, Part Eight, Brian/Justin AU

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banner by silentlywrecked

Brian/Justin
NC 17 (eventually)
In the future...
Written for the banner challenge at neverenough_bj
Includes the prompt "dreamworld" for tamingthemuse
Gif by rockgirl182
5/9

Memorable Entries for Only Time

Only Time, Part Eight

Congratulations Sparrow2000!

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We'll be getting the weekly standings posted soon, but I wanted to congratulate sparrow2000 on reaching 104 weeks with last weeks prompt! That is such an amazing achievement!   Muses can be such fickle things and you managed to drag yours back for two straight years.

Sparrow picked Circe for her award...Here you go, sweetie. I hope you like it.








Congratulations again! 

~tamingmods (calypso)

Awards and Standings!

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Sorry for the lateness of this; I hope my news makes it worth it!

This week, we welcome a new author, monogatarisan, and welcome back insideabox88!! Always happy to see more fics in the comm. ^_^

We did lose several authors this week: outandbeyond who wrote for 1 week, originalharmony who wrote for 3 weeks, and purplefeen, who wrote for 3 weeks. This nets them the Calliope award! Congratulations guys!!





Just for clarification purposes: the blue-texted award is for those who've won the Calliope award before. We like having shiny new things. ^_^

We hope to see you guys back soon!

~Nebula

Two Year Award goes to...

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sparrow2000 has reached the two year mark, the 104 week stretch. Congratulations!!! As is due to you, there are two awards earned for two years, not just one, and they're both well deserved for a fantastic author. ^_^



~Nebula

On Polls and Voting...

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Ok...so I've felt this way for a long time. I kind of let it go as this was one of the main features of the comm, but seeing as now that we're having trouble keeping up with the polls (not to mention how time consuming they are to assemble) I wanted to do some research.

I've gone back and checked the last 10 weeks, and my feeling is that the polls don't do much.

Here are the numbers. For the dates listed, I logged the max number of votes that any single story got and here they are: 

24-Aug	2
31-Aug	2
7-Sep	2
14-Sep	1
22-Sep	2
28-Sep	2
6-Oct	2
13-Oct	2
21-Oct	3
26-Oct	3
2-Nov	1

Every week there are quite a few stories (sometimes more than half) that don't get votes at all.

Based upon that, I don't feel that the polls are being that useful to our authors. I think, if this is a feature the members would like to keep, we should probably redefine their purpose.

Are we trying to help authors improve?
Are they for identifying writers that don't meet the minimum threshold?
Something else?

As members what would you like to get out of the polls? And what would make you vote?


~tamingmods (calypso)