Temporary Sign-Up Discussion Post!

[hso_mods]

Hey shippers!
So, we were completely blown away by the sheer volume of sign-ups (374 at the time of this writing); as a sort of stop-gap measure while we try to get the team lists up, feel free to comment here and tell others what team(s) you signed up for!

Comments

[rex]

Gamzee<>Karkat
Aradia<>Sollux
Roxy<3Sollux

I don't know if Roxy<3Sollux will get enough crew to sail, but I had to try. The nerd snark and flirting would be glorious.

[heartfeltdisease]

Man, it wasn't on my list but Roxy<3Sollux is definitely something I could sail on.

what a cute icon

[rex]

The good ship Hard Lemonade contains something for everyone, as long as they enjoy involve cross-universe drinking games of online battleships, programming flamewars, and narky teenagers flashing each other over webcam. d(._.)b

[haydaviebby]

Damn, I didn't even think of Roxy<3Sollux.
That would be amaaaaazinging.

[rex]

Adorable nerd with a laser rifle + adorable nerd with brain lasers = good times!

[haydaviebby]

Good times would be had for all!

[novatoast]

+1 to Gamzee<>Karkat here

[rex]

/bunp

[novatoast]

Unless there's any shifting going on it looks like we've got our team now. /b♦np

I don't think we have any place to gather just yet to say hello, so I made this post to my journal that I'm going to pass around to the other listed team members:

http://novatoast.dreamwidth.org/621.html

[everlight]

OH. MY. GOODNESS??? I would switch to Roxy<3Sollux in a second. I didn't think anyone else shipped it so I plunked myself down on Team English but for that ship I would join a proper team. I just want them to talk about which coding language is better and send each other computer viruses and be l33t haxx0rz together.

[rex]

Haha, I didn't expect anyone else to be interested. If it looks like it'll make it as a proper team, I'll totally let you know!

[everlight]

Oh, yes, do! I mean, I do hope you get your first two choices (also good ships!) but if you get bumped down to third choice, I will be there with bells on to join you.

[crabbygreymalkin]

Woot, more GamKar shippers!

[rex]

'sup, ship buddy? /bunp

To be honest, I'm pretty surprised that it's not overfull already. I definitely would have pegged it for one of the bigger ships.

[crabbygreymalkin]

*bunp* I'm not entirely surprised, it didn't even manage a team last year, so I wasn't sure what to expect this time. Plus there are still lots of people who want Kanaya to kill Gamzee...

I'm waiting hopefully for a couple more people, because this is my OTP and I badly want it to sail. (Wow, that's a weird thing to say about a ship that's already canon, but you know what I mean.)

[rex]

Oh, really? I wasn't in fandom for the last HSO, so I didn't know that. Huh! On the plus side, this means that the HMS G<>K gets to represent for the first time, I guess?

[crabbygreymalkin]

It got some representation from Team Ectobiology, but yeah, they couldn't get a full team up for it (I think they'd already fallen apart before I knew HSO was happening).

[novatoast]

I thought it might overfull early too, since it does get a fair amount of fanart on tumblr. But I guess it's fine that it's not, we have plenty of time to nab a few more people into the shipping olympics.

Did any of you choose for palhoncho? I said maybe, but I'm not sure about it and mostly just wanted to name the Karkat<>Gamzee community my silly ship name for them if I could. (Miracrails)

[crabbygreymalkin]

Well, last I looked it was confirmed, but I don't know if we're just scraping in or if we've got enough if people move, or what. We've got nearly a month, though, so we should be okay. I guess my concern was that... yeah, it does get a lot of fanart, but I don't see a whole lot of fic? And most of what I do see is by people I'd pick as more likely to join another team if they signed up at all. So would it follow the art trend or the fic trend, I couldn't tell...

I didn't go for palhoncho because I'm not good with chasing people up, and if anyone else is willing, I'd prefer not to. Except for the fact that I've had a name picked out for ages too (Invertebrothers, from their first log).

[novatoast]

Yeah it looks like we have enough people, just not completely full unless we are and they just haven't updated the list in a while.

Haha, I guess whenever we get a full list of names for the team we should discuss somewhere what to name the community so everyone is happy. Or whenever palhonchos are announced I guess would make more sense. I wonder what everyone else has in mind. :) (I really like the Equius<>Nepeta ship name Meowrails so that's where I got the idea for mine from)

[crabbygreymalkin]

Well, the mods have gone to bed before being able to finish going through stuff, so they don't even know what else is full yet. (700 signups. In the first day. Whoa.)

Yeah, I'm hoping once the first-day mess is sorted out they might put up a post for teams to stake out their own threads on and decide this kind of thing. (I do think yours is cute, and echoing the other canon paleship might be fun, but I'm really attached to mine too.)

[novatoast]

Okay, the announcement tumblr said they would make a post in a day or so for teams to get together, but I made a post in my journal for those of us currently listed on team Gam♦Kar to meet so we don't have to wait on that. http://novatoast.dreamwidth.org/621.html