In honor of our second anniversary: some statistics and a mini ficathon

[ruuger]

I just noticed that another year has passed, and last month gen_storyteller celebrated its second anniversary. Hurray for us!

First, let's have some statistics again:

We currently have 140 members and 161 watchers, and there are currently about 600 stories or chapters posted in the community by 70 writers.

The most popular story length is one-shot, 1000+ words (103 stories), and the most popular genre is humor (67 stories).

The most popular Buffy season is S7 (31 stories), and the most popular Angel season is S5 (27 stories), though post-Chosen (72 stories) and post-NFA (40 stories) are more popular.

The top 5 most popular characters are:

Spike (82 stories)
Buffy (66 stories)
Giles (52 stories)
Xander (51 stories)
Angel (42 stories)

Second, I hope that my fellow mods don't mind me running a little impromptu fic challenge in honor of our anniversary:

THE gen_storyteller VALENTINE'S DAY RARELY WRITTEN CHARACTER GEN MINI-FICATHON

This challenge was inspired by two things:

1) Valentine's Day is in a couple of weeks, and will quite likely inspire a lot of shippy fic, so it would be nice to counter it with a bit of extra gen.
2) One of my favourite things about this community is the variety of characters being written, however, there are still some characters who are not getting as much love as the others.

In other words, pick one of the following characters who have less than ten fics written about them on gen_storyteller (or any character not on the tag list at all), and write a gen story about them (anything from a drabble to an epic) and then post it in the community on the Valentine's Day weekend.

The characters:

Amy, Andrew, Anne/Chantarelle, Caleb, Carlos, Cecily, Clem, Connor, D'hoffryn, Dalton, Dana, Darla, Doyle, Drogyn, Ethan, Eve, First Evil, First Slayer, Fred, Glory, Gunn, Gwendolyn Post, Halfrek, Hamilton, Hank Summers, Harmony, Holtz, Jasmine, Jenny Calendar, Jesse, Jonathan, Joyce, Justine, Kendra, Kennedy, Kit, Larry, Lilah, Lindsey, Lorne, Lydia, Mayor Wilkins, Merrick, Mister Trick, Mr. Gordo, Nikki Wood, Numero Cinco, Oz, Phantom Dennis, Pike, Puppet Angel, Quentin Travers, Rack, Riley, Robin Wood, Rona, Sam Finn, Skip, Snyder, Spike's mother, The Annointed One, The Immortal, The Master, Tucker, Vi, Warren, Wesley, William, Willy the Snitch

Although new stories are preferred, if you have a gen story centering around any of the aforementioned characters that you have not yet posted on gen_storyteller, that's fine too :)

Comments

[shinodabear.livejournal.com]

Two years? Wow. Where has the time gone?

I've been a horrible mod as of late, and Buffy fics have fallen off the wayside for me. Such is the way of New Fandoms. Thank you for all your work here with this. I love the idea of the Valentine's challenge! I hope it inspires lots of new fic. :)

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the anniversary!